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Near cruise terminal
Located in Manhattan's vibrant Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Kimpton Ink48 Hotel is a quarter-mile from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; a half-mile from the Manhattan Cruise Terminal; and near the Javits Center and Times Square.
Dine in style
PRINT. Restaurant and the rooftop PRESS Lounge are favorites among locals. A complimentary wine reception is held in the lobby each evening. The hotel also features an eco-friendly spa.
Smart, stylish rooms
Guestrooms include plush beds with pillowtop mattresses, flat-screen HDTVs with premium cable channels, complimentary Wi-Fi for Kimpton members, and bathrooms with stone tile and animal-print bathrobes. This New York hotel welcomes pets and is smoke-free.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Kimpton Ink48 Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
This Manhattan hotel is in a former printing house in the city's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Kimpton Ink48 Hotel has an on-site restaurant and a 16th-floor lounge, and the front desk is open 24-hours. Evening manager's receptions are held daily and provide complimentary wine for guests in the lobby living room, while coffee and tea are complimentary each morning.
The hotel has a full-service health spa and a 24-hour fitness center. The concierge staff offers assistance with copying and faxing, shipping, and secretarial services. Wireless Internet access is complimentary for Kimpton members. Overnight shoeshine is complimentary. Kimpton Ink48 Hotel has a concierge desk and offers tour assistance and dry cleaning.
- Total number of rooms - 222
- Number of floors - 17
- ATM/banking
- 24-hour front desk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Express check-in
- Luggage storage
- Concierge services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 4
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Conference space size (meters) - 279
- 24-hour business center
- Smoke-free property
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Rooftop terrace
- Restaurant
- Conference space size (feet) - 3000
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Free reception
- Conference center
- Year Built 2009
- Spa services on site
- Television in common areas
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 12.99 per night )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 12.99 per 24-hour period )
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Pillowtop mattress
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- iPod docking station
- Frette Italian sheets
Where to Eat
Coffee and tea are complimentary each morning in Kimpton Ink48 Hotel's lobby. In the evening, the hotel hosts a daily manager's reception with complimentary wine.
PRINT. - Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch. A full breakfast (surcharge) is served in the restaurant. Meals are made from locally sourced ingredients from area farms and local shops. Located on the first floor.
PRESS Lounge - Serving cocktails and light food. Glass-enclosed, with outdoor seating available. Open early evening to late night. Located on the 16th floor.
Nearby Things to Do
The 24-hour fitness center at Kimpton Ink48 Hotel, located on the second floor, offers free weights, weight benches, towels, and complimentary water and apples. Cardio equipment comes with individual TV screens.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
Spa Services
Ink Spa features three treatment rooms, including a room for couples. The spa's menu offers scrubs and facials, massages, and other beauty services. The Zen Garden features sculpture and multi-level layers of smooth stones.
- Hot stone massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Facial treatments
- Number of treatment rooms 3
- Couples treatment rooms
- Body treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Deposit: USD 100 per night
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 4 and USD 30 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.99 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 12.99 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 58.00 per day
- Late check-out fee: USD 150
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We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- This property is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) guests.


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A new tomato category manager, Stacy Holthaus, is on board at Market Fresh Produce LLC, Nixa, Mo.
Tyler Phipps, procurement director for Market Fresh, said in a news release that Holthaus has more than 25 years' experience in retail, much of it in produce departments. Most recently he was a store director for Ramey's Price Cutter.
"Tomatoes are one of our largest categories and to have a seasoned retail person like Stacy ensures we will continue to grow that category," Phipps said in the release.
Market Fresh offers full line procurement and category management in tomatoes, potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, peppers, avocadoes and kiwifruit. The company has a national network of distribution centers.

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ESPN fired Trev Alberts on Sunday after the college football analyst failed to show up for work at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn.
"He phoned and said that he wasn't going to show up," Mark Shapiro, ESPN's Vice President of Programming and Production, told SI.com on Tuesday night, "and when he didn't, he was in breach of his contract and we terminated him."
Alberts, a former All-American defensive end at Nebraska and member of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, was embarking on his fourth season as part of ESPN's popular College Football Scoreboard and College Football Gameday team. But on Sunday morning, in the midst of college football's first big weekend of the season, Alberts phoned ESPN's coordinating producer of college football, Ed Placey, and voiced his discontent.
"He phoned us and told us that he was unhappy with his role on College GameDay," said Shapiro. "He felt that he was playing second fiddle."
As the day wore on, according to both Shapiro and Alberts, there were several conversations between Alberts and ESPN senior vice presidents Jed Drake and Norby Williamson. Finally, Alberts announced that he would not be reporting for work that afternoon (ESPN and ESPN2 aired three college football games between 3:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.). Once Alberts failed to appear for his studio show assignment with host Rece Davis and fellow analyst Mark May, he was fired.
"They first wanted me to resign," Alberts said on Tuesday night from his Atlanta home. "Then they fired me. I obviously have a serious problem with the word 'breach', but that's something my attorney will work out."
Alberts joined ESPN's studio show in 2002 after five years of working in a similar capacity at CNN/SI. Cantankerous, passionate and opinionated, Alberts often feuded with May about issues relating to the sport, but the feud never turned (or even appeared to seem) personal. Davis played the role of genial arbitrator to a tee.
"We were just trying to be three guys in a frat house talking football," said Alberts.
As far as his discontent and the phone calls to management, Alberts said that both began long before Sunday.
"It wasn't just this weekend," he said. "There were conversations for awhile. I fully understood the privilege of the seat I sat in. And it was never about wanting to be part of the GameDay crew. But no matter what business you're in, if you're not respected internally, you're going to have a hard time being respected externally."
Alberts declined to elaborate. The GameDay crew, with Chris Fowler as host and sidekicks Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit, has evolved into a wildly popular cult phenomenon. Each Saturday the trio's visit to a college campus is cause for pre-game pandemonium among the tailgating set.
Alberts claims that he never aspired to that, nor does he begrudge Fowler, Corso and Herbstreit their widening popularity.
"The GameDay guys have earned that," Alberts said. "Mark, Rece and I, we had searched for something we could call ours. All we wanted was something we could take ownership of. We felt like the midnight wrap-up show was ours, but as the season began I could see that we'd be more of a support crew for [Fowler, Corso and Herbstreit].
"Never once did I say, Why aren't I on commercials? Why aren't I making more money? I'm a huge fan of all these people who work at ESPN, including Mark [Shapiro]. It's just a matter of not wanting to be marginalized."
Shapiro concurred that the ESPN stable may have had a few too many thoroughbreds.
"Over the years there's been some discomfort over how to integrate the two teams," he said on Tuesday. "But, it's like a coach who has a lot of good backs and receivers. Everyone has a role to play."
Everyone except Alberts. He has been dismissed from the team. Shapiro said that in the short term a replacement will come from in-house, but as for a full-time replacement for Alberts, "essentially, we're open for business."


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UPPER LAKE -- Scott Menan and Jason Bardelmeier combined on a four-hitter and Stevie Diaz went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs as the Upper Lake Cougars beat the Potter Valley Bearcats 12-2 in non-league varsity baseball action on Friday in Upper Lake.
Menan worked the first three innings for the victory, allowing both Potter Valley runs and three of the Bearcats' four hits. Bardelmeier blanked Potter Valley over the final three innings, striking out three and walking three.
Jared Wade had two of the Cougars' 10 hits and drove in a run. Bardelmeier, Menan, Jeremiah Swaney and Greg Gagnon all had RBIs for the Cougars.
"We're hitting the ball well," Upper Lake coach Martin Wade said. "We've been working real hard in practice to improve our hitting."
Upper Lake (2-2) also committed just one error.
"We're still making some mental mistakes that we need to address, but we are starting to get it going."
In other baseball action Friday:
Lower Lake 2, El Molino 0
At Forestville, Zef Roofener not only shut out the El Molino Lions on three hits, but the Lower Lake High School senior did it with 67 pitches, of which only 17 were balls.
"He was on fire and he was throwing bullets," Lower Lake coach Eric Hoefler said.
With the team's pitching coach, Ray Silva Jr., sitting out the game because of a one-game suspension for bumping an umpire in the Trojans' previous outing, Hoefler let catcher Ryan Dahneke call the pitches.
"He and Zef got into the zone and really went to work," Hoefler said. "Ryan called a great game."
Lower Lake (2-5) scored both of its runs in the top of the third inning, one more than Roofener would need as things turned out.
In a game that took only 80 minutes to complete, Roofener didn't allow an El Molino player to reach third base until the bottom of the seventh, stranding him there. He struck out eight and walked two.
Upper Lake 14, Potter Valley 4
At Upper Lake, LaShaye Taylor's bases-loaded double and two-run triple helped propel the Upper Lake Cougars to their first win of the season, a six-inning victory over the Potter Valley Bearcats.
The game was called after six innings because of the 10-run rule.
Taylor went 2-for-3 and finished with six RBIs as Upper Lake improved to 1-3. Her three-run double highlighted a five-run first innings for the Cougars and her two-run triple was the big hit during a four-run sixth.
Amber Crenshaw went 2-for-2 with a double and a RBI and Skyler Orozco went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for Upper Lake.
The Cougars had a 9-0 lead before the Bearcats reached the scoreboard with two runs in the top of the fifth.
Upper Lake won without three of its regulars in the starting lineup - they all had excused absences.
The Cougars return to action Tuesday in Lower Lake against the undefeated Trojans (6-0) at 4 p.m.


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Calne Tennis Club is closer to realising its plans of building four flood-lit courts at Beversbrook Sports Centre after a £50,000 grant from Viridor.
The project, which gained planning permission in October, will see the first tennis courts installed at Beversbrook at a cost of an estimated £197,000.
The club rents tennis courts at St Mary's School and uses the public courts at the Anchor Recreation Ground, but these are in poor condition.
Katherine West, secretary of the tennis club, said this meant the club was essentially homeless and it needed new tennis courts to encourage residents to take up the sport.
She also stressed that the new courts at Beversbrook would be available for members of the public to hire.
Ms West, 47, of Riverside, Calne, said: "We are trying to build up a club and we just need our own home. Even if we got two courts built we could always get more built when we get more money.
"At the moment a lot of people are put off because the courts at Anchor Road are in such a poor condition. I would like to think that having our own club we can provide adequate facilities.
"With Calne expanding, Beversbrook is probably the more desirable place because there's more sport up there."
Training at the club, which was set up in 1989, is provided by a self-employed coach. It has 45 young people and 35 adults signed up for various sessions.
The successful grant application is a big step forward for the club, as it will allow it to apply for more funding from other organisations.
Ms West, who is a health visitor's assistant, said: "We have put a grant application in to Sport England, but it wouldn't commit until someone else had committed.
"We are also in a position to go back to the Lawn Tennis Association because it is aware of the project and it may match the amount we have been given.
"We have worked so hard on the application and Viridor obviously thought that the project was going to benefit not just the club but the community, which is the main reason we are doing it."


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PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Two men convicted of murders in the Orlando area that escaped from a Florida prison have been arrested and taken into custody after being found at a motel Panama City.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, along with the U.S. Marshall's Service, said it arrested escaped inmates Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins without incident Saturday afternoon at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn, located at 9725 Front Beach Road in Panama City.
It was originally believed they were in the Orlando area, according to an Orange County sheriff.
However, members of the Bay County Sheriff's Office, the United States Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force, FDLE, the Florida Department of Corrections and the Panama City Police Department developed information two days ago the two men were staying on Panama City Beach.
Deputies said about 20 members of the task force surrounded the room and a message was sent using a PA system instructing Jenkins and Walker to come out. About a minute later, authorities said both men left the room with their hands in the air and were taken into custody without incident.
Walker, 34, was serving life without the possibility of parole on a second-degree murder conviction from Orange County. Authorities said he escaped from Franklin Correctional Institution on Oct. 8 after the Department of Corrections received fraudulent release documents from the Clerk of Court.
Jenkins, also 34, was serving a life without the possibility of parole on a first-degree murder conviction from Orange County. FDLE said on Sept. 27 he also escaped from Franklin Correctional Institution.
Family members of the convicted killers held a press conference on Saturday, imploring the men to turn themselves in.
The Corrections Department in Florida said it was changing its early release policy after the two men escaped with bogus documents. Belvin Perry's signature was among those forged in the mistaken prison release.
Walker and Jenkins were taken Saturday evening to the Bay County Jail. A press conference is scheduled for Sunday.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for updates on this story.
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As economic recoveries go, what most Americans have been experiencing has been as exciting as a hospital diet. This is the world of bland, where moderate growth plods along. If you want really exciting, you'll need to wander far off America's shores. But spicy economies can be notoriously volatile, providing cases of financial indigestion in recent months.
Recalling the experience of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, we don't want that kind of exciting for, well, maybe forever. Maybe we should just be happy with bland and moderate for a while. That might be a tall order for the unemployed, or people who would like to have a better-paying job.
Economic releases
- The Federal Reserve reports on consumer credit for July: 3 p.m. Monday (all times Eastern)
- The Commerce Department reports on retail sales for August: 8:30 a.m. Friday
- The Labor Department reports on the producer price index for August: 8:30 a.m. Friday
Jalopies drive retail sales
The August jobs report showed that the job market is expanding with less momentum than earlier this year. The unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent, but payrolls growth over the previous three months has averaged 148,000.
While wage gains have been limited, consumers appear to have been hanging in there. Car sales, as reported by manufacturers for August, were the best since May 2007.
Auto analyst Jeremy Acevedo with Edmunds.com says part of the reason is that "cars right now are some of the oldest on the road that we have ever seen." Average age: around 11 years. He says the housing recovery is also helping to power sales of new trucks.
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Overall, retail sales have been less than stellar for months, despite bright spots in housing and the auto sector. For example, last year's holiday shopping season advance fell short of modest expectations. There's not much reason to believe that the outlook for this year's season will be much better. In the August employment report, some 44,000 of the new jobs added were in the retail sector.
Lynn Reaser, chief economist for Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, notes: "Retail sales had edged up only slightly in July as big ticket items, including cars, furniture and electronics faltered." More recently, Reaser says, "August answered with a consumers snapping up new cars and auto manufacturers ramping up production of the most popular models."
The mix of economic crosswinds isn't producing enough to propel consumers much more. As Reaser puts it, "While stock prices stumbled in August -- and wage gains remained modest -- rising home prices, further job gains, and low inflation have kept the American consumer spending at least at a moderate pace."
Raises for workers in short supply
Home prices are on the rise and the stock market has been rallying this year. But with wages being held in check, the curse of moderate growth appears to be around for a while. In Chicago, David Nice, associate economist for Mesirow Financial says, "the numbers that have come in for wages have been flat for months and I don't really see that changing just yet. I mean the stagnation that you see in wages is just kind of putting a damper on people's disposable income and how much they could actually spend." Nice says he senses that the economy is "fighting for direction right now."
Growth, as measured by gross domestic product, has been estimated to have expanded at an annual pace of 2.5 percent. Many economists think it has since slipped to around 2 percent in the current quarter.
What's next for the Fed?
The Federal Reserve's next policy-setting meeting is slated for Sept. 17 and 18. There's been great debate, and volatility in financial markets, surrounding when the central bank will begin to pull back on economic stimulus. At issue is so-called tapering, or a reduction in the pace of $85 billion each month in asset purchases. This was another in the series of unusual measures taken by the Fed aimed at putting the economy on a better growth path with a target of 6.5 percent unemployment. Experts generally agree it isn't a question of whether the Fed tapers, but when it pulls back. Eventually, the Fed is also expected to raise short-term interest rates, but that isn't expected before 2015.
As the Fed's eventual decision to taper has been anticipated, interest rates, such as those involving mortgages have already risen. Economist Nice says he believes "rates have plateaued," at least for now.
This week in business history
With so much focus on the auto sector this week, we note something that happened Sept. 14, 1899. It is the date of the first known fatality in the Americas involving an automobile. The victim was Henry H. Bliss, who is remembered not for how he lived, but how he died. Bliss hopped off a New York City streetcar near Central Bank West and was hit by a taxi. According to The New York Times, Bliss was knocked to the ground and the car crushed him. Fortunately, most pedestrians would develop a better sense of traffic during the 20th century as automobiles proliferated.
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A new survey conducted by BioTrends Research Group finds that approximately one-third of lupus patients think many of the doctors/healthcare providers they consulted were not well-educated on how to diagnose and treat lupus and think it took too long to diagnose their condition. Two-thirds of lupus patients reported their doctor did not automatically connect their symptoms with lupus, and half were initially diagnosed with a different condition.
From the recent PatientTrends®: Lupus U.S.report of approximately 250 online patient surveys, these findings provide further affirmation of the need for the new federal program conceived by the Lupus Research Institute (LRI) in collaboration with the federal government. The Lupus Initiative is designed to provide healthcare professionals, particularly those in underserved communities, with the appropriate education and training to diagnose and treat lupus promptly.


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Today at Nintendo's E3 press conference, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon was confirmed for the 3DS. The game will utilize what the 3DS has to offerby being rendered in 3D and using the motion technology of the handheld.
This time Luigi will be traveling through multiple mansions, each with specific missions. Players from the original Luigi's Mansion will find the game slightly more difficult this time around due to new puzzles and a heavy emphasis on ghost-catching. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon will show off new types of ghosts that require special strategies to beat and capture.
Expect to see Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon available this holiday season for the 3DS.


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It was a dark and stormy night… but I'm going to cheat a little bit for this week's blogging prompt for 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Weather and do a link to a previous post I did on Disasters which included my recollection of the Columbus Day Storm when I was in junior high school.[intlink id="2131″ type="post"]iPentimento | 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Disasters[/intlink]
Week 18. Weather. Do you have any memorable weather memories from your childhood? How did your family cope and pass the time with adverse weather? When faced with bad weather in the present day, what do you do when you're stuck at home?
This challenge runs from Saturday, April 30, 2011 through Friday, May 6, 2011.
Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog (http://wetree.blogspot.com/) has yet another successful series on her hands: 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History (http://www.geneabloggers.com/52-weeks-personal-genealogy-history/).


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16 U.S. Code § 460 l –10e - Advisory Commission on water-based recreation
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(a) Appointment; report
The President shall appoint an advisory commission to review the opportunities for enhanced opportunities for water-based recreation which shall submit a report to the President and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives within one year from November 12, 1996.
(b) Members
The members of the Commission shall include—
(c) Chairman; vacancies; administration
The President shall appoint one member to serve as Chairman. Any vacancy on the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide all financial, administrative, and staffing requirements for the Commission, including office space, furnishings, and equipment. The heads of other Federal agencies are authorized, at the request of the Commission, to provide such information or personnel, to the extent permitted by law and within the limits of available funds, to the Commission as may be useful to accomplish the purposes of this section.
(d) Hearings
The Commission may hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, take such testimony, and receive such evidence as it deems advisable: Provided, That, to the maximum extent possible, the Commission shall use existing data and research. The Commission is authorized to use the United States mail in the same manner and upon the same conditions as other departments and agencies of the United States.
(e) Contents of report
The report shall review the extent of water-related recreation at Federal man-made lakes and reservoirs and shall develop alternatives to enhance the opportunities for such use by the public. In developing the report, the Commission shall—
(1)review the extent to which recreation components identified in specific authorizations associated with individual Federal man-made lakes and reservoirs have been accomplished;
(2)evaluate the feasibility of enhancing recreation opportunities at federally managed lakes and reservoirs under existing statutes;
(3)consider legislative changes that would enhance recreation opportunities consistent with and subject to the achievement of the authorized purposes of Federal water projects; and
(4)make recommendations on alternatives for enhanced recreation opportunities including, but not limited to, the establishment of a National Recreation Lake System under which specific lakes would receive national designation and which would be managed through innovative partnership-based agreements between Federal agencies, State and local units of government, and the private sector.
Any such alternatives shall be consistent with and subject to the authorized purposes for any man-made lakes and reservoirs and shall emphasize private sector initiatives in concert with State and local units of government.
Source(Pub. L. 88–578, title I, § 13, as added Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title X, § 1021(b),Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4210; amended Pub. L. 105–83, title V, § 505,Nov. 14, 1997, 111 Stat. 1617; Pub. L. 106–176, title I, § 123(b),Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 29.)
2000—Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 106–176, § 123(b)(1), substituted "recreation-related" for "recreation related".
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–176, § 123(b)(2)(A), (C), in introductory provisions, substituted "water-related" for "water related" and "man-made" for "manmade" and, in concluding provisions, substituted "man-made" for "manmade".
Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 106–176, § 123(b)(2)(C), substituted "man-made" for "manmade".
Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 106–176, § 123(b)(2)(B), substituted "federally managed" for "federally-managed".
1997—Pub. L. 105–83made technical amendment to directory language of Pub. L. 104–333, § 1021(b), which added this section.
Change of Name
Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.
Recreational Opportunities at Federally-Managed Manmade Lakes and Reservoirs
Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title X, § 1021(a),Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4210, as amended by Pub. L. 106–176, title I, § 123(a),Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 29, provided that: "The Congress finds that the Federal Government, under the authority of the Reclamation Act [probably means act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, see Short Title note under section 371 of Title 43, Public Lands] and other statutes, has developed man-made lakes and reservoirs that have become a powerful magnet for diverse recreational activities and that such activities contribute to the well-being of families and individuals and the economic viability of local communities. The Congress further finds that in order to further the purposes of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the President should appoint an advisory commission to review the current and anticipated demand for recreational opportunities at federally managed man-made lakes and reservoirs through creative partnerships involving Federal, State, and local governments and the private sector and to develop alternatives for enhanced recreational use of such facilities."
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I wasn't planning on printing Christmas stationery this year, but having it on hand to give away just makes me happy! And while I'm at it, I thought I'd offer you a chance to order, too!
Christmas Stationery + A Giveaway!
I wasn't planning on printing Christmas stationery this year, but having it on hand to give away just makes me happy! And while I'm at it, I thought I'd offer you a chance to order, too!
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I LOVE "May your Joy be full this Christmas" LOVE your blog, too! Merry Christmas!!ReplyDelete
I love them all!!! But, my favorite is "May your Joy be full this Christmas!"ReplyDelete
Lovely! Oh Happy Day stationery makes me happy!ReplyDelete
Peace, Love and Joy! All of them are just beautiful. Have a happy DayReplyDelete
They're all beautiful! If I have to choose, however, I'd say "May your Joy be full this Christmas." Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
I love the green "Peace. Love. Joy" notecard. scalloped edges...I swoon!ReplyDelete
They are all great looking. I call your work casually elegant. It's hard to pick a favorite. Maybe the "Peace.Love.Joy" notecard wins, but not by much!ReplyDelete
so pretty! i love the scalloped notecard with PEACE.LOVE.JOYReplyDelete
thanks for the giveaway!
I love the Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Love them all! The "Peace Love Joy" on the grey chevron background is my favourite!ReplyDelete
So hard to pick one favorite... they are all so sweet! I love the 'merry! merry!' with the little heart on the bottom. :)ReplyDelete
I love the gray Chevron ones. I love your stationery!ReplyDelete
They're all so beautiful but if I had to choose, it would be the gray chevron with peace, love, joy. Thank you for sharing your beautiful designs!ReplyDelete
They are lovely! My favorite is peace, love, joy!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Peace, Love, Joy chevron design.ReplyDelete
Peace, Love, Joy - Chevron! I love all your work - Awesome! Thanks for the opportunity to win :) Have a blessed Christmas season in your new town :) xoxoxReplyDelete
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What beautiful cards! I love the simplicity of the notecards with joy and the double garlands. Many thanks for offering this thoughtful and generous giveaway :)
Hi sweet Vandy friend! I have loved following your journey back to the Nashville area! Would love to see you on our next trip back!ReplyDelete
I love the green cards with peace.love.joy on top!
Hope your first country Christmas is magical!!!
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Love them all, but if I have to choose just one- I'd choose the peace love joy grey chevron. Thanks for a chance and I'm heading back to your shop to do some shopping!ReplyDelete
The notepad with "let your light shine" is my favorite. All of your designs are divine. What a gift you have!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Hard to choose a favorite, but I really like the JOY personalized gift tags. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Your designs are all so very lovely! You have a great talent in creating beautiful stationary! I hope that your first Christmas in Tennessee at your new home is full of many blessings. I live here in Tennessee too and have always loved celebrating at home for the holidays. I love all of your designs for Christmas but my favorite is the "Joy" gift cards. Have a wonderful start to your December!ReplyDelete
Love them all! Love the saying " may your joy be full!" super sweet!ReplyDelete
The red Merry Christmas...simply elegant!ReplyDelete
so hard to choose just one they are all so lovely! I think the Happy Day or Let your light shine notepads would be used the most and I could use them year round so even better ;)ReplyDelete
What lovely stationery! I am especially fond of the peace love joy gray chevron ~ so elegant.ReplyDelete
What a talented woman you are!
Cheers to a great weekend!
Love the chevron "peace. love. joy." stationery!ReplyDelete
So beautiful, and thoughtful of you to host a giveaway! I love the chevron notecards with "The _____ Family" across the top!ReplyDelete
Peace Love Joy with the chevron background and tiny single red heart is my favorite. Simple, elegant and says it all...ReplyDelete
Your designs are so lovely and elegant. I adore the Peace Joy Love bordered in red.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, tasteful designs! I'm wild about the note card with the chandelier and text that reads "Let Your Light Shine." We all need to remember to do that during the holidays, don't we! Let's shine, y'all!ReplyDelete
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Love them all. The green scalloped Peace Love Joy can be used throughout the year. I love multi-functional things, so this one is my favorite! Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Your stationery is just gorgeous! I love the Peace and Joy flat cards!ReplyDelete
I love the chevron enclosure cards! Everything looks great! I pass by CPA to take my boys to preschool and always look for you so I can wave :)! Enjoy your first farm Christmas!!ReplyDelete
Fabulous giveaway!! I love your designs..so sophisticated and beautiful. My favorite design is the joy with the greenery around it.ReplyDelete
They are all so pretty! I love the ones that say Joy! with the red. What a generous giveaway!! xoxoReplyDelete
I love the "merry merry" notepad! :)ReplyDelete
Your work is so beautiful - how wonderful that, besides seeing the beauty around you, you make it yourself!ReplyDelete
I love the "Let your light shine" notepad.
I am LOVING the Merry Christmas stationary, it is so festive! You are super duper talented Linsey.ReplyDelete
Love all your work! You are the ultimate beauty hunter! If I had to pick.. I would pick "Joy"... because there is nothing sweeter than the joy a sweet handwritten card brings!ReplyDelete
Let Your Light Shine. :) I tell my daughter that every morning when she gets out of the car for school.ReplyDelete
You are precious Linsey!
I love the simplicity of these lovely cards! My favorite is the Joy notecards.ReplyDelete
I love your designs!! My favorite is the "May your Joy be full this Christmas"!! Thanks fora chance to win!!ReplyDelete
sweet linsey...ALL of your work is beautiful.ReplyDelete
i do so love seeing you bloom where you have been planted.
I love the Merry Christmas notes! So festive! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
I love the Peace, Love and Joy notecards and gift tags! Love your blog too!!ReplyDelete
love all of your work....but the JOY notecards are a sweet reminder of the JOY we do have because of Jesus.ReplyDelete
LOVED seeing a sneak peak at your beautiful home.
Under the notecards, I love #7 and #8.... Peace, Love, and Joy. Your entire collection is just lovely. Also, your blog is truly one of my favorites. :-)ReplyDelete
I like Peace, Love, Joy the best. Thanks for the give away. Love your blog. Very inspiring.ReplyDelete
They are all amazing! I love the Chevron notecards with Peace, Love, and Joy. And #3 and #4 under the notepads are adorable!!ReplyDelete
Wow.. been out of dodge way too long.. taking care of My Darling, and just getting back to lookingReplyDelete
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I love your stationary- can't decide whether I like the note pad with { oh, happy day } or the Red
Merry Christmas note cards ! Both are beautiful.
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I love the Chevron but I love your post more. YOur home is beautiful as is your heart. Sending best wishes and Christmas prayers for a very blessed season sweet Linsey!ReplyDelete
I love the peace love and joy. Beautiful.ReplyDelete
I love "may your joy be full". :)ReplyDelete
I love all your chevron notecards. Too hard to pick just one!ReplyDelete
So hard to choose, Linsey! You are so talented. I love the "May Your Joy Be Full" cards!!ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas!! Natalie
I love the scallops with Peace Love and Joy.ReplyDelete
thanks for your generous giveaway!
So hard to decide. Peace,Love & Joy. Hugs!ReplyDelete
I've always loved "let your light shine" -- which you always do! Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
So many pretty options, but I think my favorite is the personalized gray chevron notecards!ReplyDelete
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Amos' home was Tekoa, in Judah, but God sent him to prophesy in Israel.
He had gone to the northern kingdom and preached with such power that the land was not "able to bear all his words" (Amos 7:10, NKJV). Certainly many Israelites looked at Amos with suspicion and rejected him as God's messenger. In spite of that rejection, he faithfully performed his prophetic ministry.
Read Amos 7:10-17. What familiar pattern is seen here? What other examples can you find in the Bible of the same thing happening? What should we learn from all these examples?
Among those who did not like Amos' preaching was Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, who accused Amos of conspiracy against Israel's king. Bethel was one of the two royal sanctuaries, the very centers of apostate worship. Amos had predicted in public that if Israel did not repent, its king would die by the sword and the people would be led away captive. Amaziah ordered Amos to go back to the land of Judah, where his messages against Israel would be more popular.
In his response to the priest, Amos affirmed that his prophetic call came from God. He claimed that he was not a professional prophet who May be hired for services. Amos distanced himself from professional prophets who prophesied for gain.
However, speaking the truth by no means guarantees acceptance, because the truth can at times be uncomfortable and—if it disturbs those in power—it can produce serious opposition. God's call compelled Amos to preach so openly and so boldly against the sins of the king and the nobility from the northern kingdom that he was accused of treason.
What is our attitude when told that our actions and/or lifestyles are sinful and will bring punishment upon us? What does our answer tell us about ourselves and about, perhaps, the need for a change of heart and attitude?


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Again, Area 55 are looking for some help with chants for opposing teams as well as expanding our repertoire, so we're looking for some outside help for tomorrow night's big game against the Hawks.
In particular, we're looking for team specific or chants directed at Joe Johnson, T-Mac, Smith, and Horford (although suggestions towards other players are always welcome as well). (Overpaid and 0 and 7 chants at JJ and McGrady are a little overdone though)
As always, put them here or send them over to @area55chants, @pacers_chants, @thesandman21 or @letstalkpacers on Twitter.
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He mentions a recent study which claims that swearing has an analgesic effect; it actually helps to increase pain tolerance.
For the study, Stephens asked the participants to submerge one hand in nearly freezing water for as long as they could while repeating a curse word. Later the participants submerged the same hand again, this time repeating a word they would use to describe a table. When people were cursing, they kept their hand in the water for 40 more seconds than they could otherwise.


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Dancing with MyselfBy Emily Stokes
In one of Robert Walser's Berlin Stories, "In The Electric Tram," the narrator describes the feeling of well-being that comes with sitting in a moving vehicle on a rainy afternoon: the joy of lighting a cigarette, the satisfaction of composing a tune in his head, the urge to strike up a conversation with the reticent conductor. His gaze takes in the other passengers: "the drooping mustaches, the face of a weary, elderly woman, a pair of youthfully mischievous eyes belonging to a girl," before happily settling on his footwear. "I must say," he confesses to his reader, "I have achieved a certain technical mastery in the art of staring straight ahead."
The German industrial city of Wuppertal still has a functioning electric tram, which hangs from long beams like an aerial camera and which travels through Wim Wender's new 3-D dance movie, Pina, an homage to the German choreographer Pina Bausch. It is a running joke, appearing during the movie's opening titles as the audience grapples with their 3-D glasses and cropping up in different scenes throughout the film—suspended above two dancers performing a duet on a roundabout, or situated below a dancer who, sitting on the tram's old fretwork, shoves his legs around as they pop up like disobedient wooden beams. Later, in the tram's car, a male dancer wearing cardboard cut-out Spock ears takes a seat in the back row and stares straight ahead, apparently oblivious to his appendages—and to the female dancer boarding the vehicle, whose dark hair is entirely hiding her face. She heaves along with her a white pillow as if it were a live thing, making squelching sound effects, before reassuming her anonymity and sitting down. This is Bausch's world—a little like ours, but stranger: perhaps more like Walser's Berlin of 1905, a city of would-be actors and artists, voyeurs and dilettantes, and elderly women with lipstick on their teeth. Pina reminds us of the ways we are all performing to one another and pretending to ignore others' performances, and it's one of the most blissful things I've ever seen on a rainy afternoon. Read More


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Gas Lamp Express: annual garden train show
"Gas Lamp Express," the annual garden train show, will open Sat., Jan. 18 at The Domes, 524 S. Layton Blvd. G-scale trains will wind their way along 600 feet of track, traveling through a Victorian landscape in celebration of the steam-powered age. A steampunk theme stretches the celebration to include the retro-futuristic ideas of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and others who envisioned a post-apocalyptic future in which steam power regains mainstream use.
Last year over 65,000 people attended the show, making it the most popular show of the year. Drawing on the cross-generational appeal of trains, The Domes welcomes visitors thrilled with Thomas the Tank Engine to those with years of experience creating their own layouts in the basement or garden.
Volunteers from three state-wide train clubs–WI Garden Railroad, Kenosha Railroad and Wisconsin Illinois Train Club–will run their collectible trains daily. Among the trains running will be Thomas the Tank Engine, his friends, and specialty trains that run on steam.
The show runs through March 30.
Related special events are planned during the show's run. "Gardens & Gears: Steampunk Faire," Sun., Feb. 16, will feature a gadget-filled garden party with creative artists and craftsmen, fashion designers, and entertainers—all having a vision of an alternate past. "Steam Engine Day," Sat., March 29, will highlight the age of steam with model steam engines puffing along the track.
Hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday evenings Music Under Glass concerts run from 6:30-9 p.m; and Saturdays and Sundays, hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m.


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Fundraisers to be held for TACCD
October 12, 2012
Five local restaurants will donate a portion of their profits to the Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled.
October was chosen for the annual fundraising events to highlight October as Disability Awareness and Employment month. In honor of TACCD's 31st anniversary, five restaurants and one local event will donate to the organization. Jalisco Grill, located at 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., kicked off the efforts Wednesday, Oct. 11. Upcoming events include breakfast and lunch at Ernie's Cafe, 1207 Emerald Bay Road, on Oct. 16; lunch and dinner at Passaretti's, 1181 Emerald Bay Road on Oct. 17; lunch, dinner and a City Council candidates meet and greet from 6-8 pm. at at Steamers, 2236 Lake Tahoe Blvd.; and Taqueria Jalisco, 3097 Harrison Ave., behind Rojo's, on Oct. 25. Each restaurant will donate a portion of its income. Members of the Kiwanis Club of Tahoe Sierra's Aktion Club will also assist TACCD in selling hot dogs to raise money during the annual Treat Street safe-Halloween, which will be held at the Pine Cone Motel at 735 Emerald Bay Road, on Oct. 31 from 5-8 p.m.
The contributions and money collected will increase TACCD's funding base to make sure important services such as these continue at the same high level: develop low-income housing, make the city more accessible, work with the city on its transition plan to become fully ADA compliant, and to continue efforts to encourage return of reliable transportation.
Any other businesses interested in participating can contact David Kelly at 530-544-1127.
Donations can be mailed to TACCD, 2572 Lake Tahoe Blvd., Suite 2, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 or be left, along with the donor's name and phone number, with the business owner at breakfast, lunch or dinner. Each $25 direct donation to TACCD in the amount of $25 will earn the donor an entry into a drawing for a helicopter flight for two from the South Lake Tahoe Airport and over Emerald Bay.
For more information, visit http://www.taccd.org.


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The Italian prime minister hopes to be let off some of Europe's fiscal austerity
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While Google is still doing groundwork in Kansas City, working gigabit networks are beginning to pop up here and there.
Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (BTES) has 1 Gigabit broadband service now available to all of its 33,000 residential and business electric customers, while RST Global Communications in North Carolina has completed the first phase of its fiber network that will eventually go up to 10 Gbps.
BTES's networks is built on Alcatel-Lucent's Gigabit passive optical network (GPON)
Technology, including the vendor's GPON-enabled 7342 ISAM FTTU optical line terminals (OLTs) and optical network terminals (ONTs). The network is able to provide voice, video and data services at rates up to 1 Gbps.
BTES's OLTs connect to a 10 Gigabit backbone via Alcatel-Lucent's 7450 ESS switches and are aggregated through a pair of 7750 BSR routers to 10 Gigabits of Internet capacity, the company said.
"You can download about two hours of video or upwards of 200 songs in just six seconds," said Michael Browder, CEO of BTES. "For our residential customers, that means one person in the household can download a movie, while another is playing an online game, while another is watching an HDTV program – all without slowing down any of the activities. For our business customers, it opens the way for transporting and accessing 'big data', which is critical for economic development of the area."
Separately, RST Global Communications, based in Shelby, N.C., has completed the first phase of its Real Fiber Network, an underground, 10 Gbps fiber optic network that includes backbone, middle and last mile installation.
The network currently serves North Carolina's Piedmont region, including Charlotte, west Mecklenburg, Gaston, Cleveland, and Rutherford counties. Customers and potential customers in the area include AT&T, Wipro, Google, Apple, Facebook, The Walt Disney Company and others.
RST said its next phase to expand its footprint has begun and will offer FTTP services to thousands of homes and businesses served by RST's existing routes. Future expansion includes all-fiber installations throughout the I-85 corridor of N.C. and S.C., which encompasses more than three million potential customers. The company is also exploring partnering to launch an LTE wireless service during 2013.


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If you could only use one disc for a round of disc golf what would it be? For driver, fairway, mid-range, approach and putting. What would your all around disc be?
I'm starting to go on business trips and am always around fields. I could sneak out into my suitcase.


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- Please note that any cancellations must be notified directly to the hostel at least 24 hours in advance of your scheduled arrival date, unless otherwise stated in the hostel's conditions.
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At SLU 101 summer orientation you'll meet future classmates and friends, walk the West Pine Mall, sleep in a residence hall and set your schedule for fall classes. Essentially, you'll be a Billiken.
SLU 101 Summer Orientation is your first opportunity to live life as a college student. It's a two-day, overnight campus visit that provides an honest look at life at SLU and sets you up for success from the start.
We've packed the experience with all the information you'll need to prepare for your return in the fall. As such, we expect all incoming students to attend. Specifically, through SLU 101 Summer Orientation you'll:
You'll feel welcome among your fellow freshmen. You'll get excited about what lies ahead. And most importantly, you'll kick off your life at SLU with confidence.
Register for SLU 101 by logging into MySLU, clicking on the tools tab and then clicking on the SLU 101 Registration icon. Registration for SLU 101 summer dates goes live on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. You must submit your enrollment deposit before registering for SLU 101.
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SLU 101 starts with a welcome session. There you will meet our SLU 101 leaders — upperclassmen who will be your guides during summer orientation at SLU. You will meet with an academic adviser, hear about about student life and what to expect from college, and make friends during evening events planned by SLU 101 leaders.
The rest of your schedule will be tailored to you, but the entire time is filled with opportunities to meet new friends.
One day you might hear from faculty about our academic expectations and learn how we keep SLU's campus safe. The second day might continue with discussions about how to get involved, as well as student panels and campus tours. Your family members, if they choose to join you, can also learn about how SLU helps students transition to college.
Be sure to bring your laptop if you have one. We'll have technical staff on hand to help configure your device to the University wireless and residential hall networks before lines form the first week of school.


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Ke$ha was paid $1.63 to write Miley Cyrus song
Pop star KE$HA was only paid $1.63 to write the title track for MILEY CYRUS' 2009 EP THE TIME OF OUR LIVES.
At the beginning of her career, the Tik Tok hitmaker penned a handful of songs for other artists, including Britney Spears and The Veronicas - and she was often shocked when she received pay cheques for her creative efforts.
She tells Seventeen magazine, "It was like $1.63 cents for a song I wrote - I think for Miley Cyrus. It was an embarrassingly tiny amount. But I never cashed it and it's on a bulletin board in my house."
It was a rewarding experience, however - because Ke$ha had a blast working with Cyrus.
She told MTV News, "Writing for Miley was fun 'cause I think she's funny. I met her and I liked her vibe, so I was like, 'OK, I'll write, like, a party song for a younger crowd.'"


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Christmas cards can be recycled at Trowbridge's Sainsbury's as part of the company's aim to raise money for the Forest Stewardship Council UK.
Customers can deposit their cards in a collection box, positioned at the front of the store, in British Row, until Tuesday, January 14.
The supermarket chain will recycle the cards and make a donation to the organisation which prompts responsible management of the world's forests.
Last year, Sainsbury's donated £9,000 to Forest Stewardship Council UK through a similar Christmas card collection scheme.
Val Atwill, Trowbridge store manager, said: "We had a really positive response from our customers last year and with their help we're hoping to make an even bigger contribution this time."
Some kinds of wrapping paper can also be left at the store's collection box while cards can also be given to Sainsbury's delivery staff dropping off goods ordered online.
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[size=18:0378324db0]Lots of teams can envision T-Mac wearing their uniform[/size]
By Jerry Brewer | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted June 20, 2004
So T-Mac is on the tarmac, pretty much, ready to flee to more fertile land.
The Orlando Magic are about to trade a superstar, and in all likelihood, some contender is about to gain the player it hopes can propel it to a championship.
For Tracy McGrady, the future seems delightful. But there's still the complicated little matter of which team snags him and whether McGrady, at 25 and having shown significant flaws, is truly prepared to win like he never has.
Plenty of teams are willing to take that chance. The Indiana Pacers, Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns are among the teams with the best chance to get McGrady. Even the Lakers are interested.
But knowing General Manager John Weisbrod, who is crafty and secretive, he is negotiating with more teams. Several NBA sources believe Portland, which asked about McGrady's availability in February, has tried its luck. The Blazers' roster is among the deepest in the NBA, and it will take a deep team to meet the Magic's asking price.
Since the possibility of dealing McGrady became a whisper, teams have bombarded the Magic with inquiries. Now that it is a certainty, Weisbrod has several deals to consider.
The Magic intend to trade McGrady, not toss him to a team of his choice. Weisbrod is determined to make as good a deal as possible. McGrady has considerable say in this -- he has the card of an opt-out clause in his contract after next season -- but it's not as simple as the Magic will trade McGrady wherever he wants to go.
Indiana is trying to consider how much it needs to change to go from an Eastern Conference finalist to a champion. The Pacers again are frustrated with defensive player of the year Ron Artest, according to The Indianapolis Star, and it's likely the Pacers would include the all-star in a deal with the Magic, which could be a deal-maker.
McGrady likes Houston because of the good weather and Yao Ming, but the Magic must wonder whether point guard Steve Francis, who'd be included in that deal, is too much of a headache. Phoenix has much good young talent, but it appears the Magic won't be able to get Amare Stoudemire or Joe Johnson.
Another NBA source said the Detroit Pistons could have some interest, though they wouldn't want to do too much to change a championship team. McGrady, who attended the Los Angeles leg of the NBA Finals, was spotted hanging out in Detroit's L.A. hotel.
Regardless of where McGrady goes, he will arrive there at a critical point in his career. He is 25 and close to entering his prime. He's done the wide-eyed high-schooler thing in Toronto. He's done the superstar, spread-your-wings thing in Orlando. If he wants to become one of the best players of all time, he must win at his next stop.
It's something he has talked about constantly the past three years. Yet after a year of frustration -- and after a year of being perceived as acting spoiled, disinterested and problematic -- there are questions about whether McGrady can complete a championship team.
"I think he can," said Boston Celtics Coach Doc Rivers, who tutored McGrady in Orlando for more than three years.
Rivers said he was aware of the belief that some think McGrady never will change and become a legendary player, just a very good one in this era. In fact, Rivers' Orlando staff used to debate it.
"If you polled a bunch of guys, including my staff, the vote would be split," Rivers said. "You know what I always say? I'd like to find out. I'd like to take that chance."
If McGrady goes to Houston or Indiana, or if the San Antonio Spurs choose to play this game and win, he would be playing for coaches notorious for not accepting nonsense. Could McGrady coexist with the likes of Jeff Van Gundy, Rick Carlisle or Gregg Popovich? It's a fair question.
The source of the feud between the Magic and McGrady involves how the organization went from coddling him to trying to punish him after Weisbrod took over as general manager. There is a sense that McGrady got everything he wanted, and then Weisbrod wanted him to fold into an all-together-now concept. Weisbrod was hard on him, as was Johnny Davis, the new coach. McGrady didn't understand why he was being singled out, and the relationship worsened.
Now the Magic publicly are questioning McGrady's work ethic. His appointment as team leader was a mistake. And people wonder about his game, whether he has become just a shooter instead of an all-around offensive treasure and whether he will learn to play with intensity on defense.
"The issues are legit," one source said. "I don't know if he'll ever change."
Rivers said a better team could cure some of McGrady's problems.
"You can get on Tracy," Rivers said. "What you can't do is get on him every day. It's very difficult to lose five games in a row and get on Tracy McGrady, and you know he scored 40 points the night before. A lot of times I would push Tracy to do something, and he would be like, 'What do you want me to do? I'm carrying the team.' To have to carry the offense and be the team's best defensive player is a load. I feel like if we would have had better talent, you would have seen a better Tracy McGrady."
Rivers recalled a time in 2002, when Grant Hill looked healthy and performed well, and McGrady played his best. This makes him believe that putting McGrady with another star, preferably a big man, will help.
"I've seen him when he plays with great intensity and energy in practice and games," Rivers said. "As good as we've seen in the NBA, you can count that times two. He's that good."
A trade could inspire McGrady to reach his full potential. As a rookie in Toronto, former Coach Darrell Walker once said that, if McGrady remained on the same lazy path, he'd be out of the league in three years. McGrady made Walker sound silly.
"The best thing about me is the unknown," McGrady once said. "You just never know what I'll do."
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[size=18:0378324db0]Source: McGrady expects trade but didn't ask for one[/size]
By Brian Schmitz | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted June 20, 2004
Tracy McGrady expects to be traded soon by the Orlando Magic, league sources said Saturday, despite the club's refusal to confirm a deal is imminent. They also say that it was the Magic who have wanted McGrady to leave the franchise, not that he wanted out.
A deal could be struck within days, but not announced until after the NBA draft on Thursday night.
Reached at his home in south Orlando, McGrady said he could not talk about the situation, "until it's official . . . after the draft.
"I can't let my tricks out of the bag. I don't have any comment."
Sources told the Sentinel on Friday that McGrady informed the Magic he wanted to leave as far back as December, and the club might trade him before the draft.
Neither the Magic nor McGrady is saying that the four-time all-star is staying in Orlando, though. Magic General Manager John Weisbrod was not upset by the reports, and McGrady did not sound surprised.
Weisbrod on Saturday said, "I certainly will not confirm that T-Mac is going to be traded.
"I'm going to continue to say on T-Mac what I have said for the last month, which is that Arn [Tellem, McGrady's agent] and I are in discussions, and we were in discussions late [Friday night] and we were in discussions early [Saturday] morning, and we'll be in discussions [Saturday] afternoon."
It is thought that what Weisbrod and Tellem are discussing -- and have been discussing for perhaps a month -- is how to work a trade that would benefit McGrady and the Magic.
Owner Rich DeVos met with McGrady on Friday, but, apparently, the owner simply wanted to meet with McGrady one last time and part professionally.
Weisbrod even called the meeting "sort of window dressing in the interest of doing things the right way." He said "while it was good the family and Tracy were able to get together, nothing came out of it that in any way affects the process that is going on with Arn."
McGrady had said that he would seek a trade if it didn't appear the Magic would make significant progress after finishing with the league's worst record last season. He has an escape clause in his seven-year deal that allows him to walk away after next season.
While it's open to debate just how the star and the team arrived at a divorce, it is clear that McGrady has been on the trading block.
Donnie Walsh, the Indiana Pacers' chief operating officer, said last week that he spoke with Orlando about trading for McGrady. A general manager in the Western Conference confirmed to the Sentinel that he also has talked with the Magic.
McGrady had said if he were to be traded that the Houston Rockets appeal to him. Other sources link him to the Pacers. But other teams have jumped into the bidding.
The Magic are looking to make a blockbuster deal, acquiring two or three players for McGrady or draft picks. A source said Friday that several other Magic players also could be traded before the draft.
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[size=18:0378324db0]It's time to bring back Shaq to Orlando[/size]
Published June 20, 2004
Bring back Shaq.
Do whatever it takes.
Make it happen.
If new GM John Weisbrod wants to be a hero, he will bring back Shaq.
If owner Rich DeVos wants that new arena, he will bring back Shaq.
If the Orlando Magic want to make this entire town forget about Tracy McGrady's imminent departure, they will bring back Shaq.
Seriously, if you bring back Shaq, do you realize what T-Mac becomes? He becomes T-Who.
In case you haven't heard, Phil Jackson has been dumped, the Lakers are breaking up, and Shaq says he wants to leave L.A. And, get this -- Weisbrod even admitted Saturday that he expects to hear from Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak about a possible deal for The Big Orlandoan.
And why do you think that is?
"I think when people talk about Shaq moving, they know in his mind and his heart that this would be the obvious place he'd want to go," Weisbrod said.
But when Weisbrod crunched the numbers in his head, he ultimately came to the conclusion that financially it would almost be "mathematically impossible" to bring Shaq Daddy back where he belongs.
Nothing's impossible when it comes to Shaq. You do what you have to do to bring The Big Isleworth home again. Weisbrod says he loves guys who want to be a part of a "team" concept. Well, you know what Shaq told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday about the Lakers?
He said, "The direction they're going in, if they're going to continue to go in the same direction, I don't want to be a part of this. This team, it ain't about me. It ain't about Phil. It's supposed to be about team.
"When I was brought here by [then-Laker executive] Jerry West, there was a team concept. It was something I wanted to be a part of. Now, no one cares."
We care, Big Teammate. We care so much, it hurts.
Things have been bad here since The Big Franchise Wrecker left us, but, finally, there may be some hope. Weisbrod, whether you agree with his tactics or not, at least is giving the organization some direction. The Magic won't have McGrady much longer, but at least they're going to get some compensation for him and at least they have some draft picks. Which means they have plenty to offer the Lakers.
At long last, the Magic have a chance to remove The Curse of the Shaquino. It's time to nix that proposed McGrady deal with the Indiana Pacers, Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns or whoever and ship T-Mac to L.A. for Shaq. And if that's not enough, Orlando should throw in Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue, Drew Gooden, Buddy Dyer and Carrot Top.
In all seriousness, here's how it could work: The Magic will have to ship enough of their salaries to L.A. to match the $27.7 million Shaq is slated to make next season. So here's the deal: The Magic send T-Mac ($14.4 million), Juwan Howard ($5.9 million), the No. 1 draft pick ($4 million) and Pat Garrity ($3 million) to the Lakers.
"We'd be fielding a roster with seven guys on it," Weisbrod said.
Details. Details.
John, babe, you have to work with me on this. Do you want a new building or not? Let me tell you something: You bring back Shaq and surround him with four guys named Mo and you have 41 sellouts next year. The Big Arena gets the Magic in the playoffs all by himself.
You don't believe me? When Shaq first joined the team as a rookie in 1993, the Magic went from a record of 21-61 to 41-41. That's a 20-game difference. Add 20 games to the Magic's pathetic 21-61 record last year and they would have been a No. 5 seed in the East. Put a healthy Grant Hill with Shaq, and the Magic are instant contenders.
And here's another reason the deal makes sense: The Lakers desperately need T-Mac so they will have a marquee superstar they can count on. If Shaq leaves, that means the Lakers have committed to building around Kobe Bryant next year. But what happens if Kobe is playing small forward for the skins team at Rocky Mountain State Penitentiary next year?
Put it on bumper stickers.
Paint it on buildings.
Write it in the sky.
Let me hear it one more time:
Bring back Shaq!
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Reloading (brass cleaning) question
I'm just starting to reload and have gathered all the equipment I need for the task.
I have a question on tumbling brass. I've a new Lyman 1200 tumbler. I've read on these forums that Kaytee Bird walnut shells are good for tumbling media. I also read addin a capful of Nu-finish car polish to the walnut media works well.
My question is does the car polish make the media useable for a shot time or does it (as I assume) dry out well and mis well in the media and the media is useable many times over?
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NuFinish is a polymer type of car polish. The reason many people use it is to impove cleaning in less time and to keep the brass brand new looking for a fairly long time. Is it needed? No. Does it help? Yes. I also like to use it with corncob media. You do need to put it in the media and run the tumbler for several minutes to get it to mix well before adding brass. You probably could skip one or two batches of brass before adding more. You do need to let it mix before adding brass.
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I use Lizard Litter and a shot of Flitz polish. Works as good as you can expect without going to wet, stainless pins or ultrasonic.
You add the polish and let it run until it mixes well. Add the brass and run a few hours. Doesn't clean innards or primer pockets.
Adding pieces of used fabric softener sheets picks up the dirt and helps keep the media useable longer.
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Don't forget to debur the flash hole,once is enough, also uniform primer pockets. I also clean the necks with 0000 steel wool,Clean inside necks with nylon brush same as caliber & your good to go. Be Safe Chris
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Walnut shell is a coarser polishing medium than corn cob. Think 100 grit sandpaper versus 220 grit. Your polish will be better with corn cob, but walnut will take off crud faster. Some people use both.
In my Lyman 1200, I find a 50/50 mix of corncob/walnut with a tablespoon of Flitz paste polish does a very good job. I've used Nufinish and like the Flitz better, although both work well. Flitz just seems to give my cases a brighter finish.
Only problem with Flitz paste is that it tends to "ball up" if added directly to your tumbler. To prevent this tendency, mix one tablespoon of Flitz paste with about one cup of tumbling media. Use a spoon to mash and mix the paste into the one cup of media until there are no balls or clumps left. Then add that cup of treated media to the rest of your media in the tumbler. The treated media will migrate the Flitz to all the other media as your tumbler operates. This is a little more trouble than Nufinish, but I consider the results worth it.
Finally, Flitz does make a liquid that should easily blend in just like Nufinish. However, according to the Flitz web site, the liquid does not contain a tarnish inhibitor while the paste does.
Treated media can be reused many times. Just depends on how dirty your cases were. You can refresh the old media with Nufinish or Flitz several times when the cleaning action slows. When it really slows down, it's time to replace the media.
For your reference, I find two hours in my Lyman 1200 gives the clean and polished results I'm looking for. I also clean with the primers left in the case so I don't have to worry about media in the flash hole (depriming punch removes when you knock out the primer). You will find many opinions on whether to leave primers in or out while tumbling; good luck on finding the correct answer
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Thanks for the great info guys.
The wife just got back from Petco and
brought my walnut media.
I'm off to tumble!!!!!
Appreciate ya'll
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The New Orleans Startup Fund (The Startup Fund) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) evergreen seed fund established by Greater New Orleans area business and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. The Startup Fund's mission is to create jobs and economic prosperity for the 10-parish region of Greater New Orleans by providing seed capital and business assistance to early-stage firms that demonstrate significant growth potential.
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The result will be a stronger, more diverse economy for the future of New Orleans.
What is the New Orleans Startup Fund?
The New Orleans Startup Fund ("The Startup Fund" or "NOSF") is a non-profit 501(c)(3) evergreen seed fund established by business and financial leaders in the Greater New Orleans area to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. The Startup Fund's mission is to create jobs and economic prosperity for the 10-parish Greater New Orleans region by providing seed capital and business assistance to early-stage firms that demonstrate significant growth potential.
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