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Recently, Figures.com had the great pleasure to visit World Events Productions, the global license holder for "The Defender of the Universe": VOLTRON. We'll have a full report on that fantastic voyage in the days ahead, but until then enjoy a first packaged look at Mattel's upcoming Blue Lion in our photo gallery HERE. Part of MattyCollector's 2012 Club Lion Force subscription, the Blue Lion is the right leg of the fully formed Voltron (only Black and Green to go!). The Blue Lion includes a pilot action figure - the lovely Princess Allura - taking over the controls after the untimely passing of former pilot Sven (which will see release later this year as a solo-packed club exclusive figure). Look for the Blue Lion and Allura this August priced at $55, only at MattyCollector.com.
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Old Republic Title Co. in Los Altos received industry accolades Jan. 9, picking up the 2013 Affiliate of the Year award during the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors' Appreciation Awards presentation.
Old Republic Title Co. realtor Nancy Domich, pictured with 2013 SILVAR President Carolyn Miller, received the Realtor of the Year award in part for her charitable work, including organizing the Los Altos/Mountain View District's first Halloween pumpkin auction, which raised several thousand dollars.
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Its new owners plan to tear down the house across the street and build a new two-story house with a basement in its place. It is a perfectly good house, a 1950s three-bedroom, two-bath ranch style with the kitchen in front and the patio in back nestled in a deep backyard filled with fruit trees. These are only the third owners.
The first owners were airline pilots. During World War II, she ferried warplanes across the country and he flew B-29s over Japan. Then he piloted 707s for Pan Am. The house, part of the new San Antonio development, was built after the war.
At some point in the late '50s, the original owners built a two-story addition behind the garage, which included a bathroom, family room and fireplace downstairs, and a playroom and additional bedroom upstairs to accommodate their growing family. The owners did much of the work themselves – the staircase was narrow and lacked a banister. It would never pass code today.
The children grew up and moved away, and the wife became the dowager overseer of the street. From her strategically placed kitchen window, she could see anyone arriving or leaving up or down the street or coming around the corner. She made no secret of her vigilance. Once, when I was a teenager and my parents were planning to go out of town, our neighbor came over to ask my mother, "If I see a strange car parked overnight while you're gone and Allyson is home, do you want me to tell you or not?"
The first owners aged and moved to be closer to one of their children. They left the house empty for more than 30 years. Proposition 13 kept their taxes minuscule, so it was cheap storage, and convenient to stay in when they visited friends on the Peninsula. One day the grown children returned, cleared out the house and sold it.
The second owners were a young family, also with children. They loved the vintage ranch style of the house, the avocado and terra-cotta wallpaper in the kitchen, the rice paper on the walls of the living room, even the bead curtain in the kitchen window. They put on a new roof and installed new windows. They built an elaborate playhouse in the backyard for their children and hosted a guacamole party for the neighborhood when the avocado tree was in fruit.
But the enthusiasm didn't last. After only a couple of years, the wife found a vintage Craftsman fixer-upper in north Los Altos that was even more of a challenge. The house across the street went up for sale again. It sold to another young couple with children at roughly 1,000 times its original cost.
It was the deep backyard that had captivated the new owners. They came over to show us their plans for a new house on the lot.
"We'll have the family room and kitchen at the back overlooking the new swimming pool. The kids will play in the back – they won't bother you. In front there will be just a home office and bedrooms. We want to use as much of the backyard as we can. We'll plant trees in the front so that the house won't look so big."
The change makes me sad: sad to see the old house go; sad that the new family plans to be invisible in their backyard behind their two-stories-plus-basement; sad that there will be no eagle eye on the street, unless it's mine.
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On April 19, a coalition of 29 dairy organizations sent a letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee, urging inclusion of the Dairy Security Act in the next Farm Bill.
Their letter said federal policy should focus on the margins between milk prices and feed costs rather than just focusing on milk prices (as is the case with the current package of price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract program).
It wasn't until I saw the letter that I realized how sizeable the support is behind the Dairy Security Act. The organizations named in the letter include Dairy Farmers of America, Dairylea, Land O'Lakes, Agri-Mark and numerous other cooperatives and state dairy associations. It is not unanimous, but a solid majority nonetheless.
Now that Farm Bill discussions are under way, it is time to stand up and be counted.
Our magazine has stated its support for the Dairy Security Act for some time now. We have also stressed the need for unity if the dairy industry wants to get fundamental reform from Congress.
The current system is broken.
When the price of milk falls, there is still a substantial cost to produce that milk – especially as it relates to feed. So, when the margin gets squeezed, farmers have no other choice but to increase production to try to stay ahead. Yet, adding more milk to the market simply aggravates the supply-and- demand picture, causing milk prices to drop even further.
That is why it is important to focus on the dynamics between milk price and feed cost. The Dairy Security Act would set up a voluntary insurance program to help deal with negative price swings.
The Dairy Security Act represents the best chance of meaningful reform. While there are opponents, they simply have not galvanized enough support to come up with a viable alternative.
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The choppy action continues as the S&P (SPY) navigates this upper level range above 1495. After a potent move lower in the morning, the indices rebounded to pare losses in the afternoon. The S&P closed the day down 0.18%.
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The Fairmont Hotel's Pyramid restaurant — which I reviewed recently — is doing some great work, but there's apparently some friendly rivalry in the kitchen over there. Executive chef Andre Natera and exec sous chef Paul Peddle want to show who's tops right now, so they are demonstrating their talents in an Iron Chef-like face-off tonight in the legendary Venetian Room of the hotel. The four-course dinner with wine pairing from sommelier Hunter Hammett (one of the most astute wine guys in Dallas right now, if you ask me) costs a pretty reasonable $100, especially considering you have two chefs cookin' for ya.
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Solano Community Symphony continues its 26th season at 8 p.m. Feb. 9, when it holds its annual Salute to Youth concert, featuring the winners of the 2012 Young Artists Competition, in conjunction with the Solano County Youth Orchestra playing side by side with the symphony.
Music includes Anatoly Liadov's "The Enchanted Lake," Jacques Offenbach's "La Belle Helene" Overture and Ambroise Thomas' ballet music from "Francoise de Rimi."
The performance, conducted by Semyon Lohss, will be held in the Solano College Theatre, 4000 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield.
The concert will be repeated at 3 p.m. Feb. 10 in the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive.
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Echosmith's debut album "Talking Dreams" was released in October of last year, and select students at Quinnipiac were lucky to see these young music-hopefuls play this past January.
They've already been labeled as a Band You Need to Know by AP Magazine, and I can see why. From a live perspective, I commend them because they found a way to transform a small gymnasium and get the crowd going for an hour long set. This was my first exposure to this band, and it got me curious to hear how the band's first album sounds.


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Stay Sharp as an Adult
From the growing number of studies conducted in the last decade, researchers have discovered that exercise most positively affects what's known as executive function--mental processes that allow you to plan, organize, and multitask.
Interestingly, in your 20s and into middle age, these benefits can be seen both immediately after a workout and years later.
For example, in a 2006 German study, researchers found participants learned vocabulary words 20 percent faster immediately after an anaerobic sprint session. Scientists theorize these boosts occur because the brain, flowing with increased levels of blood and oxygen, can operate at its most efficient level.
The take-home lesson: "If you have an important afternoon brainstorming session scheduled, going for a short, intense run at lunch is a smart idea," says Ratey.
Beyond the immediate benefit exercise provides, working out regularly now can also help you years down the road. A 2002 study at University College London surveyed more than 1,900 people and found that those who participated in regular physical activities at age 36 showed significantly less decline in memory at ages 43 to 53 than their less active peers.
Although researchers aren't sure why, studies have found that regular aerobic exercise (lasting at least 30 minutes) combined with strength training offers the most cognitive benefits.
Active Aging
Two years ago, Group Health Cooperative and the University of Washington conducted a study that made front-page news around the world. "Exercise Cuts Alzheimer's Risk," read the headlines. Led by Dr. Eric Larson, the study followed more than 1,700 people ages 65 and older for six years.
At the end of the research, Larson found that those who exercised three or more times per week had a 30 to 40 percent lower chance of developing dementia, which often leads to Alzheimer's.
Dr. Jennifer Weuve, an epidemiologist at Harvard, and her colleagues observed something similar when they surveyed more than 18,000 women ages 70 to 81 involved in the long-running Nurses' Health Study. Weuve discovered the women with the highest levels of activity had a 20 percent lower chance of being cognitively impaired on memory tests.
"The neat thing," says Weuve, "is we started to see the effects at modest levels of activity--walking an hour and a half a week."
To determine why cognitive skills are related to physical activity, in 2006 Arthur Kramer, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, recruited 59 healthy volunteers, ages 60 to 79, and divided them into two groups. One group walked on the treadmill three times a week for six months, slowly increasing their speed. The other group did a stretching and toning routine on the same schedule.
Participants had MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) taken before and after the six-month test, and Kramer discovered something that had never been recorded before: The treadmill walkers showed an increase in brain volume at the end of the study. The stretching group showed no change.
"The results demonstrate, for the first time, that brain aging is not a one-way street," says Kramer. He found that fitness training increased the volume of both white matter, which provides the connections in the brain, and gray matter, the neurons and other cells that form the basis of computations.
Importantly, the increase in brain volume occurred most in regions of the brain that are often the first to decline with age.
In other words, exercise may help erase years of mental decline--as good a reason as any to go for a walk.
Kristin Harrison is the editor in chief of Her Sports + Fitness.
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What's up IGNer's, I hope you're all doing great! So I was just taking a break from revision when, for some reason, I started thinking: "what is the most important aspect in a video game?". To be honest, it's quite a difficult question. You see many gamers will have different thoughts about what aspects hold higher importance than others. Essentially, this set of criteria is what will make someone decide whether they enjoy a particular game or not. For example, some of you may feel that graphics or interactivity are the most important aspects within a video game in which case you may not enjoy a game like Slender: The Eight Pages. Whereas other gamers who rate the overall experience or enjoy the concept of vulnerability and bricking it (feeling scared), most probably will.
Slender man...why you always appear in toilets?
In a sense, this also governs what type of game you may enjoy. You see each category of game will have particular aspects which set it apart from the others, hence it's particular class (RPG, FPS, MMO etc.). However that being said, this is not always the case and of course sometimes we are surprised by a game we didn't think we'd like and vice versa. So although the aspects you rate as important will generally make you enjoy a particular game, they aren't set in stone (unlike Flia's hatred for Call of Duty).
Now understandably, some of us believe that a game should have a sprinkle of every element within it. We think that there should be standard for every game to have a blend of storyline, graphics, gameplay, sound, voice acting, choice, freedom, customizabiliationicity etc. but this is not always the case. Often a game will focus on particular elements, allowing other aspects to take a back seat. However, this route can often benefit a game as it can become more focussed and can develop into it's own category. So for example, the decision to focus on sound and graphics rather than action may help horror games such as Dead Space and Resident Evil. On the other hand, a focus on freedom and choice/karma would possibly favour RPG's such as Mass Effect and Fallout. So as I mentioned before, the aspects which take precedence within a video game can often (but not always) decide the category in which it falls into and can essentially govern whether it's worth your time and money checking out.
Now I appreciate that this is a HUGE topic and that there is so much more to talk about (I have barely scraped the surface!), but unfortunately I have very little time as project deadlines and exams are just around the corner. Hopefully in the future I will be able to expand this topic to a much more respectable depth. Also, I think it'd would be more interesting to hear what you guys have to say about aspects in video games.
So I ask you this, what aspects within a video game are the most important to you? Do you like a game to be focussed or do you prefer a game to have a little bit of everything? Can there be a single most important aspect and if so, what would it be?
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The Dane County Farmers Market is one of the features that drew me to Madison, Wisconsin, and one of the resources that keep me here.
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Hi, I'm Saravya. (It's actually my last name) from sunny Southern California. I'm a new member here (obviously. hehe) and happy to see that it's a small group. I came from e-Sanga, I joined there last month, but it's such a large group that it's sort of intimidating for me to join in on conversations. So, I'm very happy to see a small discussion forum for Theravada.
I'm also new to Buddhism. I've been reading up on the different traditions, and one of the reasons Theravada interests me is because it doesn't focus on rites and rituals. I do not believe in God...well, more accurately I cannot fathom the existence of a God. I have read through some of the Introductory resources in 'Discovering Theravada', however, that is a lot of text to read on a screen. It would be most appreciated if someone could suggest me some books on beginning Theravada, and anything else that anyone thinks would benefit me along the way. I'm very very new.
For a couple months now, I've made it a point to take into practice the 4 Noble Truth and Eight Fold Path along with Precepts. I even have it pinned up on my desktop as a reminder that I need to always be practicing this in everyday life. One thing I've left out is meditation. I haven't done it yet, I'm not sure how to do it. I suppose some more reading is in the works for me.
Wow, I just realized that most new members post are short, and mine is kind of long...Hehe, sorry about that.
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We have a local Auto Dealership, Naber Chrysler Dodge Jeep , that takes total advantage of their customers. I have a friend that went there to view a Dodge Challenger. He had a Mustang that was a special edition. The folks at Nabor told him that the Challenger was a sports car that would out perform the Mustang and talked him into trading for the Challenger. Within a day or so he knew that this was NOT the car it was purported to be and wanted to return the car. The finance company told him that they were willing to nullify the trade and just put things back the way they were if Naber would co-operate. He tried to cancel the contract within 3 business days of the original contract and Naber told him that he would have to pay an additional $5,000. to retrieve his Mustang. The finance company told him he was better off with his Mustang since it had actually appreciated in value and they said that the Dodge would depreciate and would never be really worth what he paid for it. So,,,,, he did get his Mustang back, paid the extra money and our good neighbors at Naber fleeced another Brunswick Co. citizen.
I would NEVER recommend a dealership that did this to someone after only a couple of days. And, I think that it is AWFUL that a dealership would treat ANYONE this way. I just think that the public should know that this is the type of business we have in our area.
I have always dealt with the Chevy dealership and the man I am talking about had always dealt with the Ford dealership and neither of us has any complaints about them or their practices. But, I hope everyone out there knows to beware of our 'good' neighbors at Nabor!
Suzanne Osborne
This may be the first time in my life that I've come to the defense of a car dealer. I've never dealt with Naber, but I am a lawyer and I coach consumers about effective car buying. Fairness requires a response in this case.
The consumer clearly had not done his pre-purchase homework. He should have been fully informed -- independently -- about the performance of the vehicles in question. He had new car fever, followed by buyer's regret. What car salesman could realistically be expected to say, "No, you're right, it really doesn't perform as well as the Mustang"? That is the consumer's responsibility. We are all responsible to be smart, informed consumers -- or pay the price if we aren't.
A car dealership is not a consumer protection agency -- it sells cars. I find it amazing that the consumer actually got out of his situation for a mere $5,000. Dealers aren't required by law to give car buyers a three-day (or any other) right to cancel.
The bottom line? 1) The lender lost money on the deal because it had to do the credit evaluation, and prepare, then cancel all the loan paperwork -- without making a cent.
2) The dealer lost money on the deal. The dealer's previously new car has now been turned into a demonstrator or a used (previously titled) car which cannot be sold as new. $5,000 won't come close to offsetting the loss in the vehicle's value.
Everybody in this transaction lost money. All in all, I'd say the lender and dealer should both be commended for their understanding and flexibility, rather than condemned for taking advantage.
In no way is "anyone" right in lying or withholding information to sell merchandise. Either is wrong, no matter who you are.
I bought a used car (from who doesn't matter)and when I went to register it I found out it had a salvaged title. When I went back to the dealership they said they didn't "know it was salvaged", and gave back "Half" of what we paid. It was a very good car, we had it for years.
That's how a business should run. Better to lose some money than consumer faith in your business.
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I'll be pulling for your Eagles in the Super Bowl!
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I'll be pulling for your Eagles in the Super Bowl!
Sorry, Jay...
Yeah, Congrats!
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Thanks, I was rooting for an Indy/Philly matchup because it would have been a no lose situation for me because even an Eagles loss would have meant you guys would be celebrating a Championship. Once Indy went down I was hoping Pitt would win for Jay and MSA. Poor Duce Staley 4 straight title game losses. The sports gods can be cruel.
Now the only thing that is left is for the Birds to go down to Jacksonville and get some revenge for you guys against the Pats.
I'll be rooting for the Pats. Sorry.
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CINEMA lovers could be going to the pictures in Northwich town centre before the end of the year, if a community project goes according to plan.
Gillian Edwards, from Northwich Cinema Trust, outlined the group's dreams to reopen the Plaza as a heritage cinema when she gave a talk at Northwich Community Forum on Thursday.
"Realistically we could be open in six months," she said.
"I'm hoping that by the end of the year we might be watching films in the Plaza."
The group was originally set up to try to reopen the former Regal cinema until the Plaza closed its doors as a bingo hall in 2011.
The Grade II listed Plaza was built in 1928.
"It's a beautiful building at the top of town, which was originally built as a cinema," Gillian said.
"We want to operate it as a community cinema, completely different to a multiplex cinema – I've stressed that point because many people think the Plaza and multiplex are at loggerheads and perhaps swords are drawn.
"That couldn't be further from the truth.
"The two can co-exist, the whole ethos of a community cinema is that it's owned by the community and we want to make it about the cinema experience."
Gillian explained that the Plaza would be run by volunteers, which would keep ticket prices low, and would operate on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, being available for community use at other times.
The trust has submitted its registration papers to be a community interest company and once that is set up it can open a bank account.
Projection equipment has been donated to the trust but the building itself still needs an expensive re-wire.
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P4E.....so whose on your list of Bigs, Wing Players and PGs that may drop to the 2nd round so far?
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P4E.....so whose on your list of Bigs, Wing Players and PGs that may drop to the 2nd round so far?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Even so with one of the last picks in the draft it is pretty hard to say... one thing that may be interesting is that there is a chance we grab a foreign guy and stash him overseas... and just sign some vet backup if need be.
Why so SERIOUS
I am sure of that....I assume that you have a list of Players that you are keeping an eye on that really catches your attention that you will be keeping track of. As mentioned before....I'm really interested in any 2nd round Big Man prospects that may fit our style and could fall to the 2nd round.
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Going back through tape of this weekend right now. **** Joel Embiid made my prediction of Nex Mexico winning look silly. He man handled the front line of New Mexico. The foot work he displayed on Saturday is better than any big in the NBA(of his size) it was David West esq. He even did a Dream Shake that left me rewinding the game at least five times. So Crazy that guy has only been playing for 3 years.
Also I may have short changed my projection for Marcus Smart last year. I projected he would be a a all star a time or two. The way he has vastly improved in just one year is really good. Add in his intangibles the kid is going to be a great one for a long time at the next level.
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Yeah P4, I was afraid that would happen to the Lobos. We're as good as anyone with Cam, Alex and Kendell, but have no other scorers. Close til the last five minutes then KU jumped into another gear. Cam Bairstow did show he belonged on the court though, think he might turn out to be a prospect and I never expected that before this summer.
on that note, any takers for smart being the #1 overall pick in the draft?
Why so SERIOUS
Here is an article talking about Smart's chances of going #1. http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/nba-draft/post?id=490
I don't really agree that his shot is that better. He is really just taking better shots this year. His outside shot selection was awful last year. It is better just not as drastic as this article makes it out to be. I liked his mechanics last year.Marcus Smart was an afterthought for the 2014 NBA draft's No. 1 pick. When Oklahoma State's point guard-in-training opted to remain in Stillwater this past offseason, there was a gasp among the college basketball community and also the NBA fraternity.
"Is he crazy?" one NBA general manager texted me moments after hearing the decision.
"He just cost himself a ton of money," another one told me at the time.
Smart would have earned in excess of $2.9 million this season if he had been selected in the top five picks this past June, but he has always bet on himself -- and it usually has worked in his favor.
Smart sat and watched, waited his turn as the freshmen -- Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker and Julius Randle -- received all the hype early in the season. The Champions Classic featured all three, and none disappointed. The 2013-14 college hoops campaign would be all about The Frosh.
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Duke's Jabari Parker and other heralded freshmen initially overshadowed the production of Marcus Smart.
But exactly one week after the trio (along with Arizona's Aaron Gordon) had created a national firestorm and quickly become the face of college basketball, Smart made a statement.
"Don't forget about me."
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound point guard scored a career-high 39 points against a ranked Memphis team that was supposed to boast the best backcourt in the nation. However, it was how he did it that had everyone in the NBA community talking about whether he had legitimately entered the equation for the No. 1 overall selection.
"Why not?" asked one high-ranking NBA executive. "If someone needs a point guard, why wouldn't you take him first?"
Smart has been widely regarded as a non-shooter throughout his career. When I watched him in the summer, he'd attack the basket and get whatever he wanted in the lane, almost thriving by finishing through contact. He rarely shot the ball from deep, because he rarely needed to do so.
Last season, though, Smart took plenty of deep jumpers (131 in total) -- and made only 29 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc.
"If he could just shoot," one NBA GM told me prior to Smart's announcement that he would return for his sophomore year. "I just don't know how good he'll be in the league because he's not a great athlete, and he can't shoot it."
However, Smart is a worker -- and he's also cognizant of what people say about him. He took the constructive criticism, worked all summer on his perimeter shot and his floor game and has come back with confidence that he can make shots from deep.
"My shot has definitely gotten better," Smart told me after an October practice in Stillwater. "That's one of the main reasons I came back, along with working on becoming a better point guard."
And leaving college on a higher note than an early NCAA tournament exit.
Smart is a winner. The NBA guys love his intangibles. Billy Donovan and Shaka Smart -- who have coached him in international competition the past couple of summers -- rave about Smart. Heck, everyone does. He's a rare breed in this day and age, someone who leads with both his words and his actions. He goes hard all the time, whether it's diving on the floor in practice or playing both ends of the court each and every game.
"He's the only guy in this draft that can dominate the game on both ends of the floor," said one NBA scout who was in attendance for Smart's elite performance against Memphis.
Smart made 5 of 10 shots from beyond the arc against Josh Pastner's Tigers. He didn't just make them, but it was how he took them that was different from in the past. There was no hesitation. The same confidence he displays with the rest of his game was apparent when he pulled up from long distance.
However, NBA types want to see more. Could the performance against Memphis be a fluke? Will he be a subpar shooter for the remainder of the season?
Smart played South Florida on Monday night and made just 1-of-5 shots from long range. He's shooting 36 percent from deep this season, but is just 6-of-21 in the four games besides the win over Memphis.
"If he shoots the ball like that and is making 3s, he becomes a guy that has to be in the equation for the No. 1 pick," Pastner told me.
"He firmly established himself in the equation," an NBA scout added.
Ironically, Smart has an outside shot to go No. 1.
Without a consistent perimeter shot, Smart is likely an average NBA point guard. He's powerful and can finish at and around the rim, but he's not ultra-explosive and doesn't possess terrific speed such as a Russell Westbrook or a healthy Derrick Rose.
The best guess here is that Smart makes a significant improvement in his perimeter shot because of his work ethic. His shot isn't broken. He's not Rajon Rondo from deep. He just needs reps and confidence.
"He's special," said South Florida assistant Mike Wells, who spent nearly two decades working in the NBA. "Loved his poise and the way he talks to his teammates. I think he's kind of like Dwyane Wade. He needs to work on his explosiveness off the bounce, get more separation from the defense, and also work on running pick-and-rolls on the sideline. He's strong in the air with the ball like all good pros that can score. He has great strength and his shot looks good."
"He's special," Bulls head coach Stan Heath added. "He's a great leader, is relentless and is a winner."
Right now, Smart isn't just the best player in college basketball. He's also showing NBA folks exactly why he returned to college for another season.
"I wanted to get better," he told me a few months back. "I don't think I was ready for the NBA last summer."
I can't believe I sat through that whole game. That was so ugly Pitt vs Cincy. I really like Justin Jackson I watched him practice a few weeks back and he is crazy intense all the time. He played fantastic tonight. Love that motor.
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Yeah, I thought that was the one thing missing for me last year, I think if he can consistently hit open 3's not even contested one e has a good shot at going #1, on the offensive end he kind of reminds me of the middle between Tyreke Evans and Deron Williams, but I love his defense and tenacity as well. It will be interesting to see how the rest of his season goes. I really have not saw much of Exum, but have heard good things about him. But going back to Smart I think seeing how he has developed during one offseason in college is really inspiring, makes me wonder where he can still go, granted he may be limited in some situations due to physical gifts, but he also has certain physical gifts that not all NB PGs have.
I think this years class can be special, atleast those with 1st round potential.
Why so SERIOUS
Embiid is one of my favorite players to watch. I came for Andrew Wiggins, but I stayed for Embiid.
Crazy hoe much better Kyle Anderson is this year. He is so much better skill wise. His lack of athleticism is still worrisome, but I now believe he is at least a nba player. I didn't see it last year. Levine is just so smooth reminds me a lot of Terrence Ross in college.
What a 1st half so far fast paced game. So much talebt on both sides. I love Hood for the NBA dont know how high he gets drafted, but he should be a good starter at the next level. Duke has a special combo in Hood and Parker.
Duke needs to attack the zone. They are to good to take all those 3s. Great job by Alford changing to zone.
TJ Warren was one of my favorite freshmen last year. He now has very little help, but produces I love his game, so smart and savvy. He reminds me so much of Tobias Harris not a great athlete but a good player. I love guys who are super versatile. He can score from anywhere on the floor.
Yeah, I wanted to see that game, the times I saw Kyle Anderson in HS I thought he had NBA potential, his game is slow, but it seems to work for him. How much PT did he get at the point during that game, I really like him there over any other position.
Why so SERIOUS
Side note I watched Okafor and Turner play in the past week. Okafor is my favorite High School C prospect I have ever watched. He is the most skilled C I have ever seen in HS. With that said Turner is a better NBA prospect right now. How he can move and his skill level is pretty crazy. In the game I watched he had 15 blocks. He is one of the quickest leapers I have watched. He is the new breed of C. The only thing is his body needs work. I am not concerned his frame is great and looks like he can put on the weight needed. He isnt the man child that Drummond was in HS, but he moves better than Drummond and is much more skilled.
I went to the Tech game last night. JaQuan Lyle is so lazy I swear so skilled and love his frame, but he scares me. I came away really impressed with 2015 prospect Montaque Gill-Caesar. Love his mechanics on his jumper. He is #24 on yahoo. I didn't know him going into the game, but doing research all the top midwest schools are after him. He would be a top target for me. I love his shot.
Going to watch Tech vs Marion Monday should be a great game. Blackmon Jr. is a man on a mission this year.
Wiggins is becoming underrated. He is the best defender I have watched(prospect wise that is saying a lot I love Gordon's defense at Zona)His skill level is just average, but he does some things that are insanley hard to do.
I was listening to a broadcast of a Kansas game, and the broadcaster said he reminded him of Paul George at Fresno. I agree with that in a big way. Wiggins situation is different he plays with a ton of talent. But in terms of flashing tremendous skill, but only currently playing with average skill I agree. He would be a top 5 defender in the NBA right now I believe I love how he plays defense. (He may not be that high simply due to his size he need to add strength)
He showed me a lot in the past few games(the Colorado game he impressed me). He keeps getting better which is expected, but he is playing with more heart and more intensity on offense lately.
Umass got screwed today. One of the worst calls I have ever seen in college basketball I would protest the game if I was Umass.
Jordan Clarkson is a pretty interesting prospect at Mizz he is owning the Illini early.
Marcus Smart is one of the lowest Bball IQ high IQ basketball players I have watched.
He plays so well most of the time, but the shot selection and silly fouls need to become a thing of the past and fast. Commits so many bad fouls.
Markell Brown has long been one of my favorite wings. I am glad he is undersized he may slip all the way to us in the 2nd rd. I think he will be a really good combo guard in the NBA he scores in so many ways I love his old school game(he is a great athlete as well terrific first step)
also I still don't like Lebryan Nash, but at least he is learning he needs to play like a PF. Slowly understand what he needs to be.
So many great big pgs this year in college ball. Pretty crazy how many talented pgs there are over 6'3.
I really like Clarkson's game for the NBA. He is terrific going right, and his pick and roll game is fantastic.
TJ Warren has been my man crush ever since he played his first game at NCST. It is crazy how good he is. He is the only returning guy from that team last year, and the team is much better. He was severely underrated coming out of HS kid is a stud. If he ever gets a 3pt shot I don't know how you can guard him he just has all the tools offensively.
You know the more I watch Randle the more I realize he is exactly what I wanted Bennett to be at UNLV. Bennett was a man child in college, but he was really soft and really lazy(he was at the 3pt line far to often and didn't get back on defense. I kind of gave him a pass due to how bad his team was at UNLV.). Randle has the same skill set the difference is Randle loves contact and loves to bang down low. Randle has that beast mode mentality that he will bully you (I LOVE IT). I really wish Bennett had that same motor.
I am still trying to figure the Harrison twins out. I actually like #2 a bit better. #5 has some terrible body language at times, but I am still in evaluation mode with them, I can't put a finger on them both lazy defenders.
I am in the same boat with Ennis. The kid is a stud college player, I am just trying to figure out how he translates.
I think Kyle Marshall from Butler will be a good off the bench player in the NBA. High FG% and defends and rebounds well.
Where do you see him playing in the pros? He has to be a 3 with his size, but his skill set won't allow for that. I just don't think he shoots the ball well enough to play in the league. His jumper IMO isn't easily fixed it is ugly.
His FG % is great. He defends well and is a scrapper. I think he has a place in the NBA off the bench. Seems to have very long arms. He gets it done against everyone he has faced. His outside shooting definitely needs to improve. That can be improved. Many have done it in the past coming into the NBA.


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Actavis: Caterpillar Becoming Butterfly; Time to Buy, Goldman Sachs Says
Yesterday, Actavis (ACT) wowed investors with its purchase of Forest Labs (FRX). Today, Actavis is heading higher again, as a Goldman Sachs upgrade highlights the transformative impact of the pending acquisition.
Goldman Sachs analyst Jami Rubin and team explain why they upgraded Actavis to Buy from Neutral:
Blurring the distinction between specialty/generics and large cap pharma, we see [Actavis] transforming from a specialty/generic business to a full-fledged pharma company with an equal balance of brands and generics...
If closed, we view the planned acquisition of [Forest Labs] (which had been our top spec pharma pick but which we lower to Neutral in a separate note) as providing substantial top and bottom line momentum for [Actavis] given its pharma business foundation. We believe the combined [Actavis/Forest Labs] would be well positioned with strong cash flow and balance sheet flexibility. Stand-alone [Forest Labs] has stability and favorable growth prospects (we estimate topline CAGR 14% and EPS 50% FY2014-2018) which were not fully recognized by the Street. We think the combined company could become one of the fastest growing companies in our coverage (~14-18% EPS growth through 2018E).
In fact, Actavis growth rate would put it near that of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), AbbVie (ABBV) and PerkinElmer (PKI), all of which command higher multiples.
Shares of Actavis have gained 4.7% to $210.97 today at 12 p.m., while Forest Labs has risen 3.3% to $94.01, Bristol-Myers Squibb has dropped 0.8% to $54.22, AbbVie has ticked up 0.2% to $51.56 and PerkinElmer has fallen 2.1% to $42.76.


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Every year, nitrogen used to fertilize corn fields in the Midwest leaches into the Mississippi River and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the fertilizer feeds a giant algae bloom, which eventually dies and settles to the Gulf floor, consuming oxygen and suffocating marine life. The area is known as a "dead zone," and some say the federal government's ethanol policies are to blame.
"There is a correlation between the increased acreage of corn being planted and fertilized in the Midwest and the size and persistence of areas of hypoxia off the Mississippi River, commonly known as the "dead zone," said Larry McKinney, Ph.D., executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico studies at Texas A& M University-Corpus Christi.
There is a false assumption that ethanol production is the reason that farmers in the Midwest are growing so much corn. It is much more complicated than that and all centers around economics. Corn production went high when crop prices soared, and corn was the best return on investment for farmers.
Those high prices weren't exclusively because of ethanol production plants needing more corn. Even with the recent drop in corn prices to about half of the peak prices paid for corn, forecasts aren't for corn acres to decline drastically. Therefore, no matter how much ethanol demand is built into the market, farmers are planting corn because of worldwide demand, not just ethanol demand.
So, don't blame the dead zone on government policy encouraging alternative fuels. It's sad to see a major agricultural university professor jumping into blaming ethanol by speaking at a Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) breakfast briefing in Washington, D.C., but McKinney did that today.
As noted in a news release, the breakfast briefing focused on potential reforms in the renewable fuel standard and its impacts on fish and wildlife habitat, water quality and marine fisheries. CSF contends the ethanol polices now in place have had unintended and negative consequences on the our valuable coastal resource, the Gulf of Mexico, as they have contributed to creation of a growing and ever more persistent area of hypoxia off the coast of Louisiana.
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The Colts aren't going to get Harbaugh. He might swing by while winning the Super Bowl next month, but he won't be sticking around.
And that's the biggest problem for the Colts now that they've fired Jim Caldwell after three years. The obvious ideal candidate doesn't exist.
It'll be up to Colts owner Jim Irsay and general manager Ryan Grigson to find the coach and explain why he's ideal.
Grigson said Tuesday he has a short list in his mind, as he should since he already decided Caldwell wasn't the man. He said he's looking for "a leader." That's good. Few teams thrive with a follower or an observer at the helm.
"I don't know many people in my position in personnel that don't have names in their head," Grigson said. "I would be lying to you if I said that you don't have people in the back of your mind that you know are darn good football coaches, darn good leaders and darn good teachers. Everybody is different, but you know in the back of your mind and a lot of times that reflects on your intuitiveness and your instincts about the game and who coaches it."
Names, please?
"There will be a time and a place for that," Grigson said.
Until Grigson reveals his choice – no one believes he'll supply an actual wish list for public consumption – we're left to guess what the next coach of the Colts will look like.
Here's my two cents: He'll be young, or relatively young, and charismatic, the type of coach who rallies his team, inspiring rookies and hardened professionals alike. He'll likely have an NFL background as a coordinator, probably on offense, but perhaps on defense. He'll be innovative and forward-thinking. Like Grigson, he'll be part of the next generation.
It's possible the Colts could turn to a college coach. But for every Harbaugh that works out, there are about a dozen that coach three years, fail and head back to campus.
Now, if the Colts could snare a not-too-young, not-too-old pro like former Steelers coach Bill Cowher, they'd be foolish not to give it a long look. But the longer coaches like Cowher and Jon Gruden are out of the coaching and into the analyst booth, the less likely they'll jump back into the 24-7 coaches lifestyle.
The guesses are out there, including Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin and even former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel.
Chances are it'll be none of the above but a name that doesn't immediately come to mind. After all, how many outside of extreme NFL insiders and his family knew Grigson's story a week ago?
"I don't mean to be vague, but I'm just telling you that we want to get the best guy for the job," Grigson said. "It's going to be me and Jim (Irsay) looking at that man eyeball-to-eyeball and getting a feel for what they are made of and whether this is the man to lead us in the new direction of the franchise. It sounds intense because it is. That is how much we care about this."
Grigson said he would ideally like to have the new coach in place before the Super Bowl, but also doesn't want to make a hasty decision. That deliberate style is the reason the Colts left Caldwell sitting in limbo for more than two weeks after Bill and Chris Polian were fired.
The Colts haven't been in this position since Irsay fired Jim Mora after the 2001 season. That year, he called Tony Dungy, who'd been fired by Tampa Bay, and essentially offered him the job on the spot.
There doesn't seem to be a coach of similar stature waiting for a call today. It's too bad Harbaugh just got started in San Francisco.


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Dairy Free Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla Ice Cream Cupcakes
It's that time of year again. When the suns shows it's bright face for long hours and the temperature starts rising. That means it's time for Ice Cream. Now I know some people enjoy ice cream year round. Heck, think of the lines you see at JP Licks or at Graeters during the winter. It's somewhat crazy. To me summertime means ice cream time.
As many of you know, I'm lactose intolerant. This makes ice cream time (I mean summertime) very hard on me. Before I found out I was LI, I was a regular ice cream eater. My dad loves ice cream too and I think that's where I got it from.
I will admit that there are some dairy free ice creams out there, but in all honesty, they're just not the same. They lack the smooth creaminess of a great ice cream. So sometimes I splurge a little and eat ice cream during the summer. My stomach reminds me how bad of an idea it was, but it's always worth it.
When I saw the announcement about the Ice Cream Cupcake Blogging event again this year (check out the ice cream cupcakes I made last year), I knew I wanted to do at least one dairy free version. I went with a classic flavor combo – chocolate + vanilla + strawberry. YUM!
I used my favorite vegan chocolate cupcake recipe for these guys. I made the full sized. Then I used the cone method to remove a large cone from the cupcakes. I put a small scoop of Tofutti vanilla ice cream into each cupcake and then dropped in a frozen strawberry. I threw the cupcakes back into the freezer for a while to let them set while I made some strawberry cream cheese frosting (I just added about 1/2 cup of strawberries to a classic cream cheese frosting).
I wanted to have it be more like a glaze, so I thinned it out quite a bit. Looking back, I think thick cream cheese frosting would have done better on these cupcakes. I'd also use fresh strawberries in the cupcakes because the frozen ones were hard! After a quick zap in the microwave, they were perfect!
I am submitting these cupcakes into the blogging event hosted by Cupcake Project and Scoopalicious. Be sure to check back to vote for their reader's choice cupcakes. Voting will be the first week in June.
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these look so fun! i, too, am LI, but i carry lactaid with me everywhere… and jp licks makes a lactose free flavor 🙂
Lactaid is my best friend. I have spare pills in the car, in Hubby's wallet, in my purse and desk. Can't ever be too prepared! I have had their lactose free flavors and they're quite tasty. I wish they had more than one a month though!
Ooooh. This looks too good. I'm gonna have to try that.
I love the idea of using the cone method for ice cream cupcakes. I hadn't thought of that. That strawberry down the middle of the cupcake is so perfect! I'm so glad you entered again!
I wouldn't be able to live without ice cream! Your cupcakes are beautiful. Good luck in the competition!!!
They look pretty! Love the photo of the cross section where you can see the strawberry.
Those cupcakes look scrumptious! Oh, and you've gotta try Purely Decadent made with Coconut Milk Ice Cream! It's rich and creamy, a lot like gelatto!
Thanks Vegiegail – I'll have to check that out.
So cute! These are so pretty with the strawberry in the middle and they look delicious.
voted for your strawberry one..good luck!
gorgeous. love the inset strawberry. love the Neapolitan theme.
I agree with you about the non-dairy ice creams available in stores. However, If you have an ice cream maker vegan chick-0-stick ice cream is unbelievably rich, creamy and delicious.
Here is the recipe http://couldntbeparve.blogspot.com/2008/09/chick-o-stick-ice-cream_04.html
Hey, these cupcakes sound awesome! I use to be Lactose Int., but I found the best cure ever & seriously have been L.I. cured for 7 years. I could not give up my dairy & use to take 3 Lactaid every time I ate.I heard about "Lactogen" on the radio on the way home from a trip. I would do anything to get rid of my L.I. so it was $90.00 at the time so I said what the heck I spent $200.00 a year on Lactaid. I was floored that it worked & 7 years later still no signs. I drink milk every morning, cheese everyday, & ice cream when ever. It retrains your body to except lactose, so for 42 days while you take it (a mix to drink with water) you have to stay away from all dairy & anything with dairy in it. I just went to the health food store during that time. I am sure you can find it on the web. Lactogen is the name
This is my second post, it erased my first. But for all you suffering with Lactose Int. try Lactogen it really works I have been cured for going on 7 years now. It was only $90.00 when I tried it & I was spending $200 a year on Lactaid at the time. I now can drink milk every morning, & eat cheese every day & ice cream when ever. It is not an on going thing you take it once for 43 days & that is it.


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NOOOOO! Christmas Day food being cooked, meat finished in the main oven, so it was taken out to leave space for the veg and otherbits like the pudding to cook and Bang! The microwave gives up the ghost. Now what! I was relying on it to reheat the meat for christmas lunch so everything would be nice and hot. Together. Not happy...
Anyway crisis was diverted by putting needed meat in a glass dish and reheating in main oven for a little longer, and we had to wait a little longer for dinner but everything went back to how we did things before microwaves you can imagine my day bit of a nuisance but we got round it.
Needless to say I now needed a new microwave and cheap as possible as I found myself with a broken arm and nerve damage without pay over christmas but that is another story.
Marching around the stores coming up empty we finally found one on Tesco of all places and as cheap as chips at around £30 sorry to be vague but was so happy with the replacement and getting pretty fed up by this stage I couldn't have cared what was paid. But with money being tight it was the lowest price I found.
It is white very basic, has a turntable with a glass disc, two basic dials one for the speed and defrost button and one for minutes of cook time needed. Plain simple cheap and works well. A bit noisy but no more than any other that I have purchased in the past. It works so I am very happy with that. It is 700w which is a bit slower than some but works reasonably quickly and heats the food properly if you follow the guidelines on most precooked foods, or microwave cook books.
Not much else to say about it really.
Going into a student accommodation is always a scary process. Not just for the obvious reasons of meeting new people you are expected to live with and get along with for the next 9 months but to see whether the flat itself is going to be able to handle 6 teenagers who mostly have no clue about independence. I'd like to say I am not one of these and have grown up maturely with little need for a microwave; however, the oven and the hob are still something I am not completely confident with so straight to the microwave I usually go. Laziness is probably a huge incentive too!
So with ready meals being the main choice of every meal, a well-made microwave is an essential. I didn't go out a buy this product, though I would have gone for something similar to this anyway. I never see the need for expensive kitchen appliances as they all seem to do a standard job anyway. This was already here when I arrived and I had no trouble with it at all.
To use the microwave, you just bung the ready meal, tea, rice, whatever on the glass dish inside, close the door turn the knob with the heating setting and then turn the knob onto the right time you want. I only ever use the maximum heating or defrost due to impatience and little understanding of the other options and they work perfectly fine. It's a shame that defrost has only one setting and can't choose what meal you are defrosting like most microwaves but it does the job just fine anyway.
The main problem and possibly only big issue I have with this product is the time dial. It is quite difficult to get it onto specific times, say if you only wanted it in there for 30 seconds and I usually just time this myself and pop it open when I think it's ready.
However, other than that, I think it's perfectly suitable for any kitchen.
Living in a small flat can be annoying, I don't have much space! I needed a cheap microwave so I could cook ready meals and reheat my food when needed. I really didn't want to spend a fortune on the microwave. My local Tesco extra has a section with Microwaves in it, so I had a look at them and instantly spotted this one, it was the ugliest but was also the cheapest. It looked like the perfect one! It has two dials on it, one for time and the other for power. Its the simplest microwave I have ever seen and it is also the most basic. It is plain white with black markings. I have been very impressed with this microwave.
I only paid £33 for this, that is very cheap compared to the others that you will find. I was hoping to get something a little more good looking, but this does the basic tasks that you would want. If you need something with all the buttons, then this isn't for you!
Does it work?:
for me it works very well. I can pop in a microwave meal such as a curry and it will cook it through quickly. I also use it to warm up take aways which were not all eaten. It makes a loud ping when it is finished and is so simple to use. There are very few bad points to this microwave. It has a 700w one so it does take a little longer than more expensive ones. If you don't mind waiting a little longer for it to cook then you will be fine. It is also not the largest one on the market and is a little small on the inside. You will have to pay more money for a bigger one if size is the issue. It fits nicely on the top in my kitchen and doesn't look too cheap, You wouldn't know that it is a Tesco value Microwave just from looking at it. This is a bargain Microwave, Im not sure what makes a good microwave as this is the first one I have owned, but I have no complaints about it.
I would recommend this to anyone on a budget or moving into there first home or flat. It works well and has lasted me almost a year without any issues. Its not too hard to clean and I have kept mine looking rather nice. Im not sure how long it will last me, BUt I would consider getting one again in the future. Tesco also do more upmarket microwaves, but this is the budget version and is perfect for me! Its really simple to use, Even a cooking novice will like it.
This gets 5 stars from me, it does exactly what it is meant to do, Im verry happy with this! Thanks for reading my review. I hope it helped you out a bit :)
This basic white microwave from Tesco is simple and very straight forward to operate. There are only 2 dials on the microwave. The top of which controls the power and can be set to either min, defrost, mid, high or max. The bottom dial controls the time and can be set to different 30 second intervals going up to ten minutes and then five minute intervals going up to 35 minutes. The microwave can be interrupted during heating simply by turning the timer dial to zero or by pushing the button at the bottom to open the door as the microwave automatically cuts off. The rotating glass plate inside can be easily removed for washing.
This microwave is 700watts which is relatively low so I always use it on full power as the lower setting does not seem to be effective at doing anything. The slightly annoying thing is that food packages usually only tell you heating times for microwaves with higher wattage so I often have to guess/approximate heating time for food like ready meals. I have found it to work well on the whole - the only thing I have trouble cooking properly in there is jacket potatoes as they tend to go too soggy and over cooked or on lower power settings/times they do not seem to cook that well in the middle. However I have recently tried McCain microwavable frozen jacket potatoes which turned out perfectly.
There is no clock or electronic display on the front of this microwave and no settings for cooking various different types of food so this is probably a good microwave for a work kitchen rather than the home. Next time I will probably choose something with more power and a few more settings but this is a good basic microwave if you are on a budget or only need one for occasional use so I will still rate it 4 stars.
My one complaint about the office where I work was always the lack of microwave. As somebody that likes to batch cook -- having a microwave in the office very handy. Plus, there's only so much salad you can eat in the winter months, before it becomes too much and you end up buying expensive food in each day!
After much discussion about the microwave situation, one of my colleagues managed to get permission for us to have a microwave through HR and we started a kitty to raise the funds to buy one. There are only 12 people in our office and people weren't keen on coughing up much. So we ended up with about £35 in the pot, which we needed to spend on the microwave and on delivery.
This Tesco Value microwave set us back £33. It is bright white in colour and it a rectangular shape. You can press the button on the right hand side of the microwave to open it the door and you can see your food cooking -- if you look closely -- through the black window within the microwave door.
You use two dials on the microwave to adjust for power and time. The three options for power are low, medium and high. I always use the 'high' option, which isn't that powerful to be honest, but it does cook your food eventually.
The microwave is a 700w one, which has less power than my model at home and I find that I have to put things like soup in there for a few minutes longer than I would when using my 900w microwave.
The maximum time you can heat your food for in one go is 35 minutes, which is fine for the purposes of our office, but it might not be long enough for personal purposes.
I think this microwave is ok, but you get what you may for and it doesn't have any additional features. If this is all you can afford, or you're looking for something as a temporary measure then I recommend it. However, if you want to do something other than the basics then I think you should probably invest in something a little more complex.
I am giving this four stars because there is nothing wrong with it as such -- it is what it says it is -- a Tesco Value microwave. However, I can't help but think that it could be a little more powerful.
When my microwave broke my mum was kind enough to give me her old one to use until I got around to buying myself a new one.
She told me not to expect anything fancy as it was only a Tesco value one but as a single man I rely far too much on my microwave so I was grateful to receive it no matter how ugly it might be in my kitchen.
When she brought it round it wasn't nearly as unattractive as I had thought it was going to be and although it isn't as nice as the microwave that I have now it is a lot cheaper to buy and would be perfectly presentable in most kitchens.
It is a rectangle shape like 99% of all microwaves and it is a nice compact size. It fit on my worktop and didn't look like it was dominating the space and taking up too much room. It is made of white plastic and has a black coloured glass door which was also opaque so that you can see the food cooking and check and make sure it isn't overcooking or boiling over.
The door is opened with a push button mechanism and this was smooth and didn't catch or need pressed hard to open.
The MM08 microwave by Tesco is quite basic as far as most modern microwaves go but as I only really use my microwave to defrost and heat food I didn't need or want all the bells and whistles that some microwaves comes with only to never be used.
It is really simple and straightforward to use and you don't need a degree in maths just to be able to heat up a frozen microwave meal.
Controls are simple and there are no LCD screens and instead everything is controlled from the two dials on the microwave which you need to adjust for power and time.
The microwave has 5 different power settings to choose from which again are pretty basic and only offer low, medium and maximum. I tended to stick with the one just before the maximum as this suited most of my needs and cooked and heated up foods to the right temperature without overcooking food and making it dry and inedible round the edges.
There is also a defrost setting which worked fantastically and would actually defrost food without also half cooking it so I could put in meat for example and set the microwave to defrost and it wouldn't half cook the meat on the outside which is something I hate about defrosting meat in a microwave. It did tend to take a long time to defrost meat in the microwave but this extra time was worth it for the even defrosting.
Although the microwave is only a 700w one I found that it was powerful enough for most day to day uses and in fact when I was following the instructions on packets I would set the microwave to slightly less time than stated as it seemed to not need as much time.
I did find the lack of an electric timer a bit of an issue. Not a major one but it was still a hassle when something needed to be cooked in anything less than minutes because the timer dial only went up in increments of 1 minute at a time. The maximum time on the timer was also only 35 minutes so you would need to stop and start a few times if you were going to be putting in anything that takes a long time.
I probably wouldn't have bought this microwave for myself solely as I would want something that is a little bit more stylish but as a freebie I was perfectly happy with it until I got around to buying a new one. When using it I didn't feel the need to rush out and buy a new one straight away as it done the job and wasn't awful to use. I would have liked the electronic LCD timer but other than that it reheated my food and cooked baked potatoes perfectly well.
I asked my mum how much she paid for the microwave and she is positive it was £29.99 and it is currently selling on Tesco direct for £32.96. This is a decent enough price for the microwave and I honestly think this would be absolutely fine for people who either don't have a lot of money for a fancy microwave or who want something easy to use and set up without having to refer to the manufacturer's instructions all the time.
When I moved into my fully furnished flat I assumed it came with your basic kitchen appliances (kettle, toaster, microwave), having seen those things in the kitchen when I viewed the flat, it wasn't a totally unlikely assumption. Unfortunately I was wrong and when I moved into the flat there was no kettle, toaster or microwave (not on the flat inventory either so it wasn't like the previous tennents had nicked them) so I decided to purchase these things for myself at the cheapest possible price.
My first port of call was tescos and a spied this tesco value microwave. It cost me under £30 as a recall and is still currently available on the tesco direct website for £28 (I assume its about the same price in store as well, but minus delivery costs). A bargain I thought, I didn't want to spend much on a microwave so I went ahead and bought it.
The microwave comes in a large cardboard box, marked in the usual tesco value style blue and white stripes. The box is not very heavy and I was able to lift it off the shelf and carry it up to my flat (2nd floor) very easily. The microwave is white (though it says on the tesco direct website it is also available in black) and has a 17L capacity. It is the usual micowave shape (rectangular) and has a see through door so you can see whats going on inside. The microwave controls are very basic, as you would expect for something so cheap and from the tesco value range, but they are very simple and easy to use. The controls are just 2 simple dials, one controls the microwave power level and one controls the timer. there is also a large button on the bottom right you press to open up the door.
The microwave has 5 power levels, including one that says its suitable for defrosting and the wattage of the microwave is 700. The timer can go up to a maximum of 35mins, it is a very simple timer and is not digital and the microwave does not have a clock on it at all. The microwave makes a loud "ping" noise when it is finished and when you open the door or turn the timer round to 0 it stops.
I find the microwave works very well and I have never had any major problems with it, the rotating plate from the inside can easily be removed to be cleaned and the inside of the microwave can be cleaned easily also. The only minor thing wrong with the microwave is that if you set the timer for less than 1 minute the it will just stop, it doesn't seem to like cooking anything for less than a minute! Set it for over a minute and there are no problems at all.
I would definatly recommend this microwave if you are looking for something simple, basic and cheap, it doesn't have many special features, but it heats up the food quickly and I have had it for over 2 years without it dying on me. A bargain at under £30 :)


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Historically, Cushing, Oklahoma has served as the midcontinent hub for distribution of both crude oil imported to the U.S. Gulf Coast and West Texas crude oil production. Pipelines were constructed and configured to move crude oil north to Cushing, and then on to refineries throughout the Midwest. However, as crude oil production has grown in the U.S. midcontinent and Canada, the Cushing hub has become over-supplied. As a result, market participants increasingly have been looking to relieve bottlenecks at Cushing by reconfiguring and expanding pipeline infrastructure to move crude oil south to the Gulf Coast refineries (Figure 1). Over the next two years, planned additions to pipeline takeaway capacity should be sufficient to ameliorate the current imbalance at the Cushing hub. Part of a supplement to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) February Short-Term Energy Outlook focuses on this changing infrastructure.
Figure 1. Pipeline infrastructure expansions in the Gulf Coast
Over the last three years, pipeline capacity for delivering crude oil to Cushing has increased by about 815,000 barrels per day (bbl/d). Key to this increase was the construction of the 590,000 bbl/d TransCanada Keystone pipeline that originates in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada. Phase 1 of the Keystone pipeline from Hardisty to Steele City, Nebraska, and on to Patoka, Illinois, was completed in June 2010. Phase 2 of the Keystone pipeline, which extended the pipeline from Steele City to Cushing, was completed in February 2011.
With added flows into Cushing from the north and west, and limited pipeline capacity to move crude from Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has traded at a substantial discount to crudes such as Louisiana Light Sweet and Brent. Until mid-2012, only one pipeline delivered crude oil from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast. The 96,000-bbl/d ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline between Patoka, Illinois and Nederland, Texas, which originally shipped crude oil northward, was reversed in 2006 in order to ship Canadian heavy oil to the Gulf Coast. In May 2012, the 150,000-bbl/d Seaway pipeline, which also shipped crude north to Cushing from the Gulf Coast, was also reversed in order to move crude oil to the higher-priced Gulf Coast market. Seaway capacity was expanded by an additional 250,000 bbl/d in early 2013. Further capacity expansions from Cushing to the Gulf Coast are planned, including a twinning of the Seaway pipeline that is expected online in early 2014, increasing its total capacity to 850,000 bbl/d, and the construction of TransCanada's 700,000-bbl/d Gulf Coast Express project that is expected online in fourth quarter 2013.
In anticipation of the new pipeline take-away capacity from Cushing, 1,225,000 to 1,315,000 bbl/d of new pipeline capacity to deliver crude oil into the Cushing hub is also planned. The largest among these projects is the 600,000 bbl/d Enbridge Flanagan South Project, which would parallel the company's existing Spearhead Pipeline running from Patoka, Illinois to Cushing. Flanagan South is currently scheduled to be online in mid-2014. Another prominent project is Tallgrass' planned Pony Express conversion. The project would convert existing natural gas pipelines into 230,000-320,000 bbl/d of crude oil delivery capability from the Bakken formation and Denver-Julesburg basin to Cushing and nearby refineries in third quarter 2014.
Crude oil produced in the Permian Basin faces the same transportation constraints as Canadian imports and producers in the midcontinent. Two pipelines currently transport crude oil from the Permian Basin to Cushing: the Plains All American Basin pipeline, which was expanded from 400,000 to 450,000 bbl/d in early 2012; and the 175,000 bbl/d Oxy Centurion pipeline. A third pipeline, the Sunoco Logistics West Texas Gulf pipeline, has the capacity to transport 300,000 bbl/d from the Permian Basin to Longview, Texas, where it connects with the Mid-Valley pipeline to Samaria, Michigan. Because the existing pipelines are nearly fully utilized and deliver crude into the over-supplied Cushing hub and Midwest market, six pipeline projects that include pipeline reversals, expansion, and new lines that are either under construction or planned would provide 355,000 bbl/d of new capacity to move crude oil from the Permian Basin directly to the Gulf Coast in 2013, and 478,000 bbl/d of new capacity in 2014.
In sum, over the past three years, 815,000 bbl/d of new pipeline capacity delivering crude oil to Cushing was added. Over the same period, only 400,000 bbl/d of new pipeline take-away capacity was added. During the next two years an additional 1,190,000 bbl/d of pipeline capacity for delivering crude oil from Canada and the midcontinent to Cushing is planned, but this is balanced by 1,150,000 bbl/d of planned pipeline capacity additions to deliver crude oil from Cushing to the Gulf Coast. In addition, about 830,000 bbl/d of new pipeline capacity is planned to move crude oil directly from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast, avoiding the congested Midwest. If this capacity is constructed and fully utilized, waterborne imports to the U.S. Gulf Coast, particularly of light sweet crude oil, could drop significantly.


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Antibiotic Treatment Trial for the PANDAS/PANS Phenotype (AZT)
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The purpose of this research study is to know if the antibiotic azithromycin, an antibiotic approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating infections, improves symptom severity in children with sudden and severe onset obsessive compulsive symptoms known as PANS, Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, and PANDAS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus. This study seeks to compare the effects of placebo vs. azithromycin on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptom severity as well as to assess immune risk factors in children with PANDAS/PANS. Obsessions are repetitive, unwanted thoughts or worries that may be unpleasant, silly, or embarrassing. Compulsions are repetitive or ritualistic actions that are performed to ease anxiety or worries. Doctors think these symptoms may be caused or exacerbated by certain infections such as Streptococcus pyogenes, Mycoplasma pneumonia, Borrelia burgordfi, etc. These infections commonly cause strep throat, walking pneumonia, and Lyme Disease, among others.
This study will involve a 4 week double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial of azithromycin (Double Blind Phase). At the end of this 4 week trial, the child will be assigned to azithromycin for 8 weeks (Open Label Phase). At the end of these 12 weeks, a Naturalistic Observation phase will assess the child's symptom characteristics for up to 40 weeks.
The study hypothesizes that children receiving antibiotic will show significantly greater overall improvement in severity compared with placebo, and that children with sudden onset of OCD and whose subsequent course shows dramatic fluctuations will have evidence of immune risk factors that predisposes to this presentation.
|PANS PANDAS Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
|Drug: Azithromycin Drug: Placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Antibiotic Treatment Trial for the PANDAS/PANS Phenotype
- Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) [ Time Frame: Every 2 weeks for 12 weeks ]
- Clinical Global Impressions [ Time Frame: Every 2 weeks for 12 weeks ]
- Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders [ Time Frame: Every week for 12 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Azithromycin
Antibiotic used to treat infections.
Drug: Azithromycin
Antibiotic used to treat infections
Other Names:
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Compound thickening agent with sugar and flavor additives.
Drug: Placebo
Thickening compound with sugar and flavoring
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|4 Years to 14 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages 4 -14 years.
Presence of OCD and at least two of the following:
- Anxieties e.g. new onset separation anxiety
- Sensory abnormalities (tactile/auditory/visual defensiveness or visual misperceptions)
- Behavioral Regression (e.g. new onset impulsivity, hyperactivity, meltdowns)
- Deterioration in school performance or in handwriting
- Emotional lability and/or depression
- Urinary symptoms (frequent urination or enuresis)
- Sleep disturbances Anorexia
- Current episode OCD of recent onset (less or equal to 6 months) associated with infection
- Symptom onset appears temporally related to infection or exposure
- Symptoms are of moderate severity with significant impairment (CGI of moderate or worse) and CY-BOCS of more or equal to 16.
- Parental willingness to accompany their child for multiple study visits and be responsible for medication compliance.
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of Rheumatic Fever including Sydenham's Chorea (heart murmur, frank chorea, EKG PR or QTc prolongation, abnormal reflexes (Gordon-Hey reflex)).
- Diagnosis of autism (moderate - severe), schizophrenia, mental retardation or chronic degenerative neurological disease.
- Any illness for which antibiotic treatment may be contraindicated (e.g. Liver disease).
- Personal history of adverse reaction or allergy to azithromycin.
- Recent or planned psychopharmacologic (4 weeks for most medications or 8 weeks for SSRIs) treatment changes.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis therapy or history of neuropsychiatric non-response to prior antibiotic trial.
- Currently participating in cognitive behavioral therapy or habit reversal therapy for OCD and/or tics.
- Weight less than 15 kilograms
- Concurrent therapy with medications that may increase adverse effects (eg. pimozide, citalopram, tricyclic antidepressants, etc).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01617083
|United States, Florida
|Rothman Center for Neuropsychiatry
|Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States, 33701
|Principal Investigator:
|Tanya Murphy, MD
|University of South Florida
|Responsible Party:
|University of South Florida
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01617083 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
270332 ( Other Grant/Funding Number: Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) )
|Study First Received:
|May 23, 2012
|Last Updated:
|February 3, 2015
Keywords provided by University of South Florida:
Antibiotic Treatment
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Compulsive Personality Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Personality Disorders
Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Anti-Infective Agents
Antitubercular Agents
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