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Discussion in 'December 2012' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
unfortunately I am starting to agree with that. And scoring in 2 out of the last 3 drafts is not too bad. Dumars really needs to learn when to cut his losses and Knight may be one of them.
At PG. His 3 point shooting could make him a starter on a couple teams in the L.
Not on any good ones. He's a good kid, he has some skills, but he just doesn't have a feel for the PG position, nor does he have the size and scoring instinct to play SG. Carlos Arroyo and Luke Ridnour are upgrades over Knight IMO.
Did they?
He just doesn't have a feel for basketball it seems.
I agree that Knight is not an instant success. More troubling, is that his skill set is very uneven. He seems at his best when he receives a pass and hoists up a shot. He gets into the lane and can finish now and again but more often he gets nothing out of it. And, the result of his drives do not seem to be a set up a pass down low or kick out for others. His ball handling skills are poor--this worries me the most. He often drives into turnover situations. He doesn't make a lot of steals on the defensive end. I have seen him rebound some. And in his behalf, he plays on a unit without a lot of shooters. A likely scenario is that he improves his shot as young players do and improves the efficiency on his drives. Yes, he would have a place in the NBA. But the greater question is how likely will he pan out as the Piston point guard in a Piston revival? I don't know but the gamble of waiting to find out is too risky for this organization especially with the coming of Drummond. Drummond and Monroe are important pieces and the next draft or free agency can bring in a point guard. That way the team's forward movement will not revolve around Knight who is only the third most important player on the roster at present. My big concern is that Monroe's game also has not moved forward as much as I anticipated and that his present skill set does not seem that conducive to playing with Drummond. I would like to see Monroe get a reliable jump shot so that his offensive game is not always a drive to the hoop. Drummond will need some space down low and Monroe is a very valuable young player. I often wonder who is coaching the Piston youth. Andrew Bynum came into the league with no game but the Lakers coached him.
If we draft/acquire a point, we can move Brandon to the 2, and Stuckey can be our 3rd guard. I don't think Singler is cemented at the 2 by any means.
Once upon a time: Damon Jones at point. Jon Barry at shooting guard. Corliss Williamson at small forward. Cliff Robinson at power forward. Zelly Rebracca at center. The best bench in the league. And it often rocked against the other team's starters. Now, you can cut each of these players to pieces - save one. Zelly, at his best for us, was an excellent defender, the best ever we have had for boxing out, an excellent post up guy. Pretty much the ideal center. But Cliff, could not rebound. Barry, could not guard. Jones, really not a point guard. Corliss, no outside shot to speak of really, and way too slow on defense for a small forward. But the unit worked. Between the five, they possessed a lot of skills. Barry and Jones spread the floor for one, and also were adept at feeding the post - specifically, acting as a team of guards to find the entry pass at just the right time. Corliss slaughtered the opposing small forward with his post up game. Cliff added a third long ranger, and set picks good as gold and common as rain drops - and was the best post defender - outside Rebracca, that has come our way. (And no, forget it, Ben Wallace was nowhere near as good as Cliff at guarding top centers and power forwards in this league down in the post. Yes, Sheed was pretty good too.) Compare to what we got now for our bench. A couple of fine outside shooters, one of whom really can't defend much. Point guards who are not really point guards. Both units had an outstanding defender at center. When we add Singler, both units had 3 long range shooters. Our current center can't shoot the ball from the outside. But both guards can shoot a little so maybe, just maybe, they had not quite as good outside shooting back in 2001-2002. Both units used one starter. (Cliff, Singler) Damon Jones tried his utmost on defense, had some height to add a little to our interior D, but could not stop a drive ever. Really, just 2 good defenders in the 2001-2002 group. (Cliff, Zelly) Current group - just one poor defender really in CV. Hmm, just maybe this bench is better than the 2001 - 2002 bench. Hard to believe. I don't believe it for a second. Why - Corliss and Zelly were both extremely skilled in the post. The ability of the duo of Jones and Barry to feed the post was absolute tops. Analyzing things a bit. That is not the point though. The point is - what works, works. You do not have to be the prototypical anything. Just have skills that mesh with the guys you are playing on the floor with.
I was thinking about the Alternatorz earlier today and was trying to make the comparison, GREAT JOB LEE! But I was also trying to think about that starting unit that won 50 games. Chucky Atkins, Jerry Stackhouse, Michael Curry, Ben Wallace and Cliff Robinson. THAT Going to Work team won 50 games. All we need is a Jerry Stackhouse on this team and we're in position to compete again.
He's probably an asset that Joe is targeting.
You know, we have a guy, in Middleton, who just might be our new Jerry Stackhouse. If only the coach would play him so we can see. As for that team we had, the next year we added in Billups, Tay, and Hamilton - but still only won 50 games. Curry had become pretty much a statue by that point, but he continued to start at small forward over Tay - who a lot of fans on this type of board slammed all kinds of ways - even though really they had not seen him play all that much. Compare that situation to today. We fans mostly want Drummond to take over for JMAX. But JMAX is still in his prime, defends the pick and roll well, is making his shots, and gets offensive rebounds even though his defensive rebounding is poor. Not a zero, zero, zero like Curry so often was if not close. Still, the reluctance to put in the clearly better player, Drummond, just because he is a rookie, does parallel what happed with Tay / Curry. To Frank's credit - he has already put in Singler, a rookie, to replace Stuckey in the starting unit, even though he makes the mistake of recreating that horrid starting unit with no shooting guard seemingly whenever he can. To me, there is another similar situation. Tay. Tay is now getting older, and we have several younger options. Tay is no statue of course. But he may do us a whole lot better with reduced minutes off the bench. English and Middleton could get more minutes. Even JJ could get a shot at some small forward minutes. And also related to that, Singler is being asked to be both the starting shooting guard and backup small forward these dayes. Daye playing reduces that some, but adding Middleton, English, or JJ would maybe help Singler out a bit by letting him play in only one state - rested. Lets pretend its two years from now. Tay and JMAX have decided to retire. We find ourselves deep in the playoffs. We start Knight, Middleton, Daye, Monroe, Drummond. These guys play heavy minutes, so our bench is not a great factor. We lose in the East finals, partially because our starters are just on their first half season as a unit. Hey, I say if that is the unit that will be in the East finals in two years, lets find out now, and if they really do show that kind of potential, give them a couple years practice. Two, three years from now, that could spell 'Ship.
Lee, Kris Middleton may have a role on this team, but can we PLEASE NOT PRETEND that we have a guy on our bench, who was a 2nd round pick, that can compete for the league's scoring title like Stack did.
Why - because you have not seen him play? I only ask that he plays so we can see how good he is on that outside shot. I have already seen him enough to know he can slash to the basket plenty well. The alternative? Keep pairing up Stuckey and Knight at every opportunity. Now, how is that going to get us anywhere?
I am laughing and I haven't even resumed drinking yet.
It one of those times you have a post to make, shake your head and just know it would be pointless to even try...
I'm not betting against Khris Middleton. That dude can flat out ball.
Second highest PER (19.2) on the team....
I believe he is our 2nd best defender, behind only Drummond. That is why I want him to play the most. I hear a lot about his offensive skills. Sure would like to see them displayed out on the floor.
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Made some very good duck jerky the other day. Cut any duck into strips (Whatever size that u prefer your jerky) Marinade in soy sauce, woshishire (or however u spell it), a little bit of brown sugar, tabasco (if u like it spicy), and any terriyaki sauce. Let it soak for a couple of days so it takes out the gamy flavor then dehydrate for 6-8 hours at around 145 degrees. Is great for a snack or a meal!
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Oregon History: Statehood
Issues far from Oregon shaped affairs along the Pacific Coast in the 1850s. Sectional tensions heightened during the bumbling presidencies of Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan. The Compromise of 1850 gained a little time, but its concessions satisfied neither proslavery extremists in the South nor abolitionists in the North. The nation was on its course to the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, enraged slaveowners as it swept across the country in a powerful indictment of the "peculiar institution." Formation of the Republican Party in 1854, troubles in "Bleeding Kansas" in 1856, the Dred Scott decision in 1857, and John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859 confirmed the divisions and tensions. The Republicans had drawn the line--no further expansion of slavery. They nominated John C. Fremont, a popular western explorer, for the presidency. Although Fremont lost, within four years their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was headed to Washington, D.C., as the 16th president. Passions were high. Then came secession and war.
Three parties vied for political control in Oregon. The Democrats were an odd lot, including northerners opposed to slavery and southern diehards who supported an institution barred by the Organic Act of 1848. The Whigs held political patronage in the early 1850s but watched their party disintegrate nationally. The Know-Nothings were opposed to the political clique that had managed territorial government in Salem. These divisions confirmed the heavy hold of old persuasions and attitudes--the intellectual baggage carried by emigrants.
Without enabling legislation from Congress, Oregonians voted in June 1857 to hold a constitutional convention. The delegates assembled in Salem during the summer and drafted a governing document. It was modeled on those of Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan. The constitution limited public debt and placed tight controls on banks and corporations. An agricultural people, the convention delegates argued, had little use for frivolous expenditures or unnecessary institutions. In the fall voters faced three questions. Did they approve the constitution? They voted yes. Did they want slavery? They voted 7,727 no and 2,645 yes. Did they want freed African-Americans to live in Oregon? They voted eight to one against permitting their residency.
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The actions in 1857 were predictable. Oregonians hungered for control of their own government and an end to the patronage appointments produced by shifting administrations in Washington, D.C. They also affirmed they did not want slavery in Oregon. The question of driving free African-Americans from the new state revealed resoundingly racist attitudes. They did not see freed slaves, Indians, or women standing equally before the law. In this Oregonians differed little from Thomas Jefferson. Architect of the Declaration of Independence and its gracefully worded affirmations of natural rights, Jefferson was a slave-owner all his adult life. He could not rise to the noble philosophy of personal freedom he articulated in the 1770s. Oregonians in 1857 appeared to have drunk from the same well.
In June, 1858, residents of the territory elected officials as defined by their new constitution. For months the fate of Oregon statehood floated on shifting political coalitions distrustful of changing the fragile balance of power in Congress. It was known Oregon would be a free state, yet its newly elected senators--Joseph Lane and Delazon Smith--were proslavery Democrats. Finally Congress acted and on February 14, 1859, President Buchanan signed the bill. Oregon joined the federal union.


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Hello there,
I am new at this Forum and I am about to start my own Boba Fett ROTJ Project. I am very impressed about this site and the craftsmenship of many of you here.
I started with the following items:
Flak jacket: MoW
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Yesterday I finished the right gauntlet. I atteched some pics, so please tell me what you think if you like :) This is my first attempt in painting gauntlets.
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The funeral hall of the cemetery in Frankfurt/Höchst and its administrative building were assessed in terms of their static and structural condition. In an initial feasibility study comprehensive preliminary investigation has been conducted on the between 1923-1928 built historic building ensemble. Besides architectural inventory documents and explorations there will also be a structural design review of the building structure. Damages were described on the basis of comprehensive building recordings. Their possible causes were mentioned and recommendations were made regarding the necessity of the securing and restoration measures.
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Footbridge 2017 BerlinThe Paper "Intelligent Fabrication - Digital Bridges" was accepted for the Footbridge 2017 Berlin Conference.
Prepared by Klaas de Rycke, Louis Bergis, Ewa Jankowska-Kus, Dragos Naicu, Adam Orlinski and Matthew Tam.
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12 July 2017, 7:30 pm
Impuls 4: Überbaute UrbanitätLecture by Heiko Trumpf (B+G Munich) on the occasion of the POLIS KEYNOTES in Munich.
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Competition for Walkerhill Spa & Resort: 1st Prizefor the concept by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects with Bollinger + Grohmann. For this project located in Seoul, Korea, the spa features, among other things, the longest infinity pool in the world.
20 June 2017, 11 am
Géométrie - Topologie - Matériaux : Les paramètres structurels dans les processus de conception collaboratifsLecture by Klaas de Rycke, Ewa Jankowska-Kus and Louis Bergis (B+G Paris) in the course of the Rhino users meeting in France.
Location: E.N.S.A.P.L.V (École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette), 144 Avenue de Flandre, 75019 Paris.
31 May 2017
Competition for the extension of the Kunsthochschule Kassel: 2nd prizewith Kuehn Malvezzi, Berlin, Germany. The 1st prize goes to Innauer Matt Architekten from Benzau (Austria), the 3rd prize to TRU Architekten Part mbB, Berlin, Germany.
The submitted concepts will shortly be exhibitet in Kassel, Germany.
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KEPOS – c[pd]g collective post digital gardenThe MAK FUTURE LAB, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, invites to the presentation:
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KEPOS is an interactive sculpture for the urban space, realized by the Univeristy of Applied Arts in Vienna. The pavilion combines the built and natural environment with the digital world of the information exchange.
The sculpture will be presented from 6 - 22 June 2017 in front of the entrance of the MAK.
Apart from sponsoring, Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice and developed the parametric structural design for the pavilion.
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IGA Berlin 2017: Inside the FlowerBetween 13 April and 15 October 2017, the IGA Berlin 2017 is inviting to a festival of the most beautiful international garden design and green urban life culture under the motto "an ocean of colours".
In the "Horizons" area is located, among others, the pavilion "Inside the Flower" by the artist Janet Laurence. The project was implemented in cooperation with LAVA and Cityplot, Bollinger + Grohmann gave advice for static issues.
Opening of HYUNDAI Motorstudio Goyang in SeoulIn Seoul, Hyundai's largest adventure centre just opened. On a total of 14 levels are located the new exhibition-, office-, educational- and recreational spaces. The building has also 5 basement levels, housing parking-, service areas. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects from Vienna were responsible for the design and execution, Bollinger + Grohmann were charged with the structural and façade design in this project.
20 May - 20 September 2017
A "Paradiesgarten" for LutherThe contribution "Paradiesgarten" by students of the UdK Berlin within the framework of a students competition was awarded the first prize. The walk-in installation will be shown until September 20th in the "Stadtpark Wittenberg" opposite the meadow of the castle.
Bollinger + Grohmann provided the students during planning and implementation.
Art Biennale in Venice 2017The Austrian Pavilion presents in the course of the 57th Biennale again artistic installations. Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice to the artist Erwin Wurm for his Performance One Minute Sculpture "Stand quiet and look out over the Mediterranean Sea" as contribution for the Austrian Pavilion and acted as sponsor.
The Biennale runs from 17 May until 26 November 2017.
9 May 2017
Europa leuchtetOn the occasion of the Europe day and the 60th anniversary of the European Union, the EUROPE light installation will shine from the 9th of May for two weeks at the stage tower of the Komische Oper Berlin. The happening presented three artworks, music and talks that put forward a positive statement for Europe.
Bollinger + Grohmann was pleased to support this project and provided technical advice for the organisers.
New website online: IngenieurtalenteThe website is supported by the German Consulting Engineers Association VBI state associations and provides information about careers, training and contact persons in the fiel of engineering careers. The goal is to arouse interest among young people for the job of a structural engineer and the workspace in an engineering office.
26 April 2017, 7pm
AZC invite Bollinger + Grohmann au 15/17"De Re Aedificatoria"
Lecture by Klaas de Rycke (B+G Paris)
Location: AZC 15/17 rue Vulpian Paris 13ème
19 April 2017
Construction site of the Park Apartments Belvedere: Excursion of our Viennese teamA mixed-use building complex consisting of three residential and two hotel towers in close proximity of Vienna central station is rapidly progressing! The open ground floor space with the characteristic piles is clearly visible now. Expected completion is scheduled for autumn 2018.
February 2017
Won: "Typenhochhaus 2.0"First prize for the competition team of LIN Finn Geipel, Berlin, Germany + Giulia Andi, Paris, France. The aim of the non-open ideas competition was the design of a high-rise as modular system.
Bollinger+Grohmann provided technical advice for the architects.
30 March 2017
Competition "Mino": 1st prizein the invited competition for the young Norwegian architects from Transborder Studio, Oslo, Norway, together with Bollinger + Grohmann Ingeniører for the extension of the Holocaust Centre in Oslo.
27 March 2017
Competition Frankston Railway Station in Melbourne: 2nd prizefor the team Supermanouvre and Scott Carver from Sydney.
Bollinger + Grohmann Engineers supported the architects for the structural design of the timber roof.
Apprenticeship as draughtsperson in civil engineeringStarting on 01/09/2017 we offer again a training as a draftsman for civil engineering. There is the possibility to attend 2-3 test-days in our Frankfurt office.
March 2017
Currently at the construction site of FLOATThe structural work of the basement of the 220 m long and 60 m wide building is nearly completed.
February 2017
La salle de sport de CalaisProgress on the construction site: the steel structure of the roof is completely mounted now.
30 January 2017
Competition new Oscar-Paret school: 1st prizeIn the coure of the architectural design competition Bollinger + Grohmann supported the architects from mvm+starke, Cologne, for the structural design.
27 January 2017
Exhibition: DAM prize for architecture in Germany 2017The 24 best buildings from/in Germany.
Awarded were among other projects the "Grimmwelt" in Kassel, Germany (kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen, Germany), the extension of the "Europäsiche Schule" (NKBAK, Frankfurt, Germany) as well as the residential building at "Quai Henri IV" in Paris, France (LIN Architekten, Berlin, Germany).
The exhibition is running from January 28th until April 30th 2017 in the DAM in Frankfurt, the exibition opening was on January 27th.
17 January 2017
Pavilion at the Kochi-Muzuris BiennaleAn art pavilion by Eva Schlegel and Carl Pruscha has been recently completed in Kochi, India. The Biennale opened on 12/12/2016 runs until 29/03/17. Bollinger + Grohmann consulted on the steel structure.
21 November 2016
L'Equerre d'argent 2016 für "Lieu de vie"This year, the jury of the 34th edition of the architecural prize decided to opt for the project on the campus of the Université de Saclay.
Architect: Muoto, Paris
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text: here in south Louisiana the feral queens that i am finding are frequently very dark. i don't have any store bought queens and really don't plan on ever buying any. with the skills taught to me by JP i really have done well. i have gone from 2 hives last year at this time to over 30 now. all wild caught.i have lost 3 hives to swarming then attack by hive beetles and wax moths. i figure that if they don't make it without all the treatments for mites and other nasties then i didn't want those genes anyway!the other hives are doing quite well.my point is that i want the local tough bees in my apiary and those come from wild swarms and cutouts.the also happen to be darker than the Italians and even the Russians that my father in law has.the local bees also seem much smaller and most are quite gentle.Bailey


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After 25 years with the NIH, Dr. Jack M. Guralnik, Chief of the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry (LEDB) retired from his position on January 1, 2011.
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After 21 years of service Dr. Anna McCormick retired from NIA service on December 31, 2010. Dr. McCormick was Chief of the Genetics and Cell Biology Branch in DAB.
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If you feed them outside, don't do it with a bucket. I have found that if the bees have to climb up the side of the container after they load up with honey, large numbers die in the container. Even putting a super full of spun comb has this problem. I turn the super or bucket on it's side and now have almost no losses. I prop the buckets, full of drained cappings, up just a little.Jim
Open feeding of honey or sticky combs is an offense in Victoria :shock:
It's also a great way to spread AFB
G'day Bernsad,That depends. There might be a bit of drift. If one hive has a problem & the others rob it out then disease can spread. If one hive has AFB then they can all be exposed. AFB is the worst case scenario. Other diseases are manageable but still a pain in the arse.I'm speaking from experience. I lost all of my 8 hives to AFB in August. I didn't pick it up early enough in the autumn & it was right through them in the spring.Failing to identify it early was my fault. I am a lot wiser now.I don't know how they picked it up. Possibly from robbing out a hive in the scrub around my property. Looking back a lot of the practices that I used could have aided the spread eg putting extracted stickies back into any hive. Allowing bees free access to honey in the open is a bad practice & I have never done it.Unless you have more than one apiary you should try to minimise the intermingling of hive parts & material between those hives.Bernsad, with the greatest of respect to our American friends & particularly JP you should consult the several reliable sources available in OZ. In particular the QLD & NSW DPI websites. Forums should not be the only source of your information.Both of these sites have heaps of reliable info.http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/27_124.htmhttp://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/honey-beesThere may be info more relevant to Victoria however you can chase that up. I'm a cane toad living in NSW so I'l stick with those states.Good Luck Yanta


text: I probably went a little over board with some of my hive insulation systems :-D My bees are better insulated than I am. I've tried numerous foam insulation systems; here is one that I have used for over my wood hives. It's slices of foam that can be easily added or removed over a wood hive. Each slice is glued together with gorilla glue (Polyurethane glue) and fit snuggly on top of each other.


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For years I carried revolver, I own now a Ruger SP101, .38/.357, with 2.25" barrel.
Great gun, but I think is time to get more fire power.I was looking at a 9mm but my brother(he is a LEO)tells me to get a .40 because his dept went from 9mm to 40 because the liability.
I have the problem that I'm not young and I have a problem with the muscles in my right arm, and I want somebody with experience to tell me if a .40 caliper is similar to a.38+P in recoil or worse, taking in consideration that sub or compact guns the mayority are light with a short barrel.
My SP is built like a tank and heavy, eats the .38+P like nothing.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
2 comments:
- Cheryl said...
I think that the end justifies the means. There are so many more people, just like Tim, that people are just unaware of. This could help bring more awareness to the homeless.
I am also homeless, along with being disabled. I am in the process of filing for disability, but that in itself takes, typically 2-3 years to get, in the meantime there are no programs, that I am aware of, to help until then. Never in a million would I have ever thought this could happen to me.
Good luck to you Tim & may God bless you.
- March 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- Deborah said...
Don't let PIMPTHISBUM.COM fool you. they are not what they seem. Check out the real deal on www.JOURNEYWITHJOHN.COM John attempted to obtain help from this PIMPTHISBUM.COM, you will see what happened in his videos on JOURNEYWITHJOHN.COM ....also in the live chat they had, they ban people at random and the site owner Sean Dolan describes some of the donors and chatters as mentally ill, although he is not a dr. It is a sick site.
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First session of full sparring after 1 year and half off with injury and it was horrible and fantastic. Could barely breath during the last match and got choked out five times. It was great.
Can't believe how much i missed it.


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Microwave Hard Candy Recipe
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- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- LorAnn liquid food coloring (as desired)
- 1/2 dram (1/2 teaspoon) LorAnn flavoring oil (as desired)
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- Thoroughly mix sugar and light corn syrup in a 4-cup microwave-safe glass bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Remove from microwave and carefully remove plastic wrap.
- Quickly stir the sugar mixture and then cover with a new sheet of plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 2 minutes. Remove from microwave, carefully remove plastic wrap and stir.
- After boiling has ceased, stir in coloring and then flavoring. Pour syrup quickly but carefully onto a lightly greased baking sheet and score at once to mark squares. Break into pieces when cool and dust with confectioners' sugar if desired, to keep from sticking. Store in airtight containers. Yield: none.
Editor's Note: Mini-microwaves and commercial microwaves are not recommended.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested in a 1,100-watt microwave.
Originally published as Microwave Hard Candy in Country Extra March 2001, p37
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Discussion in 'January 2011' started by roscoe36, Oct 19, 2010.
Aye. That you will.
Oh yeah.
Well Tates depiction, one begets the other.
Thee - sometimes you're favorite person in the world. CB always did have a little princessyness about him.
Maybe if you had a second wife who liked to talk about the Pistons all hours of the day, you wouldn't need to come here.
He is an absolute winner and one of the classiest players of the last decade. He has no nastiness about him, but he's ultra competitive... sort of like JD was. He respected all of the coaches and kept the mutineers from getting out of line for many seasons.
I'd swap him for Bynum so he could be our back-up PG ....as soon as we find a starter...
Sure, all true. But in a princessy kind of way.
Being here is more of a hobby versus a passion. It might be different if I actually met a few of you rascals...
Just imagine riding a gondola, holding hands, hearing new rotation possibilities and comparing Bynum's last 10 road game +/- vs. Stuckey's at the SG spot.
Good stuff!
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Rinse rice in a bowl of water, then drain. Repeat until water is clear. Combine rice and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit for 15 more minutes. Serve hot.
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CHAPEL HILL - University of North Carolina Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham has issued the following statement:
"The athletic department compliance staff and I are fully aware of recent media accounts related to our men's basketball team. We take these matters very seriously and are looking into these reports and the inferences they contain with all due diligence. It is my practice not to comment on the individuals involved or the details surrounding these reports until we have sufficient understanding of the facts involved. We are still gathering information, learning information from other sources, and we will not comment until we have a strong grasp of each individual situation. Where the facts show mistakes in judgment and/or actions, Coach (Roy) Williams will take and I will support the appropriate disciplinary measures.
"The integrity of the University of North Carolina is of paramount concern to all of us and is the principle on which Coach Williams and the athletic department operate each and every day. The most responsible course of action, however, is to withhold judgment and comment until we are confident we have the facts to do so. I appreciate everyone's understanding of that and we will bring these matters to resolution as soon as possible."


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Why Morse makes sense for Boston
Adam LaRoche was one thing — the Boston Red Sox didn't want to sign him to a three-year free-agent contract and forfeit their second-round draft pick as compensation.
But, as the Red Sox enter Day 40 of their standoff with free-agent catcher/first baseman Mike Napoli, why wouldn't they want to trade for the Washington Nationals' Mike Morse?
The Sox, sources say, are one of the clubs in contact with the Nationals about Morse, who became expendable this week when the Nats re-signed LaRoche to a two-year, $24 million deal.
While the Sox's public position is that they continue to talk with Napoli, they can back off him the moment they add another first baseman. They are not obligated to Napoli because they have yet to finalize his three-year, $39 million agreement.
Morse, 30, would require less of a financial commitment than Napoli, 31 – he is under contract for $7 million next season before becoming eligible for free agency. He is resistant to becoming a DH, sources say, but that would not be a problem for the Sox, who would use him at first and David Ortiz as their full-time DH.
To get Morse, the Sox would need to part with young talent and possibly a left-handed reliever — perhaps a high price for a player who only once in his career has appeared in more than 102 games in a season. Then again, the payoff would include keeping Morse away from two interested division rivals — the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays.
The prospect of losing Napoli, on the other hand, would not be nearly as daunting to the Red Sox. Napoli remains a free agent, and no other club appears to have made a serious effort to sign him after Sox medical personnel detected an issue with one of his hips in his physical, according to sources.
The Sox, sources say, want to restructure Napoli's deal with protective language. The four-year, $40 million free-agent contract that the Detroit Tigers awarded catcher Ivan Rodriguez in 2004 could serve as one model.
Rodriguez's deal stated that if he was on the disabled list for 35 or more days in '04 or '05 because of his lower spine, the Tigers could void the rest of the contract by paying him a $5 million buyout. The same provision also existed in '06, but with a $4 million buyout.
The Sox likely want to rework Napoli's deal so that if a significant problem arose with his hip, they could escape with something less than a three-year guarantee.
As it turned out, Rodriguez completed his contract with the Tigers without once going on the DL for any condition, and the team even exercised his $13 million option for '08.
The Sox obviously would hope for a similar outcome with Napoli. But it might be less of a risk to just trade for Morse.
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Best. T. Rex. Short. Arm. Science. Shirt. Ever.
Really, it is!
He can finally reach stuff! And clap!
The dual visuals of little arms vs big arms are what tickle me! SO in for one.
For those who don't recognize Rosie the Riveter:
Congratulations obvian! Your first Derby and first print! Welcome to shirt.woot: cookies on the right, haters on left, the Reckoning straight ahead!
I think the double take factor on this shirt will be high. I know the first time I saw this design it took me a moment to realize what was going on with the arms.
Science + dinosaur weekend at shirt.woot! One of those 'natural' combinations.
Rex does have the requisite determined attitude + posture to sell this upgrade.
Damn. I totally want this...I wish it came in black though...it'd be cool if the artists/woot offered a second option.
Thank you everyone who voted, bought giggled, roared and such. This was my first derby, and I feel pretty darn chuffed to come away with second!
Thank you all!
I'm sorry but this is amazing. Even my girl said "no, no more shirts. you have so many already."
I then showed her the pic and she said. "Ok I see why you should have that." BOOM instant likability thats why i love woot shirts.
I have short arms for my height, and the T-Rex jokes just keep coming at my house.
I'd be in for one, but I'll probably get 2 or 3 for Xmas.
Nice pick, eds. Another instant classic! Will we be seeing more from you, obvian?
Bought this so frickin' hard.
First woot shirt I have bought in a long time, great job!
Don't mean to be that guy but in the write up shouldn't it be "catch prey" and not "pray" as written. Though I imagine giant robo arms would help a T-Rex pray more efficiently.
I love how the T-Rex inexplicably has the Rosie the Riveter expression. I mean how does that get translated onto a thing with such a big mouth of teeth? Seriously. Big kudos to the artist.
Oh, and Woot, you guys need to print posters from this derby. I mean need to, like the world will tilt off axis or something if you don't.
So happy with the results of this derby. I bought yesterday's tee and couldn't resist todays. And that the artist behind Rex the Riveter is a fellow Australian is a nice bonus!
Lemme just say, "D I N O M I T E!"
I'm not much of an all-blue-shirt kind of guy. Would be awesome of prints could come in a variety of shirt colors.
Where have I seen this before...
Oh, a comic from the writer of The Walking Dead!
I had a good feeling about this one. Congrats on your first derby and your first print, Obvian. Very well deserved print from such a talented artist!
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Where have I seen this before...
Oh, a comic from the writer of The Walking Dead!
Really? I haven't actually seen that comic before. I had no intention of ripping off his idea. I just thought, like many people do, that the poor T-Rex's tiny arms would be funny. And then with a muscled power gesture it grew a bit.
And orabbit: Hopefully more in the future. We'll see. I'll definitely enter more and I'll submit ideas for the daily shirts soon.
I know I'm in the minority, but I'm a bit disappointed with this derby. There's more to science than dinosaurs...says the chemist who is looking wistfully at all the anthropology-themed shirts...
I sat here for a minute trying to think of a forearms / four arms joke, but instead I'll just say congrats on your first print obvian!
Who'd have thought prehistoric creatures would dominate the science derby?
I was about to ask if this is where he got his inspiration because this is what I first thought of.
I don't think obvian has anything to worry about here. If somebody can't make the "Rex the Riveter" to "Rosie the Riveter" connection, I don't think you should be all that concerned about them shouting COMIC BOOK RIPOFF!
I think this is a step up from yesterday.
That is awesome.
Nearly bought yesterday's shirt, but I like this one more. I always loved the source material and how can I say no to a dinosaur with robotic augmentations? It's silly and well done.
More like "Engineering can do it!"
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Mine just came in the mail, I LOVE IT. Such a great shirt to wear in a fringe-Bible-Belt area!
leandrahime wrote:Mine just came in the mail, I LOVE IT. Such a great shirt to wear in a fringe-Bible-Belt area!
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Lawmaker Replaces Pledge with Poem
A Massachusetts lawmaker is under fire in Falmouth after she opened a town meeting with a poem instead of the traditional recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Melissa Freitag, the vice chair for the Falmouth Board of Selectmen, refused to say why she would not allow her fellow lawmakers or residents to recite the pledge.
"I would rather not tonight," she replied when Selectman Kevin Murphy questioned her about the omission.
Freitag, who is a part-time faculty member at the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, was filling in as the acting chair of the meeting.
Murphy told television station Fox 25 that to his knowledge the pledge has been recited before town meetings for more than two years.
"She took it on her own liberties to omit it," he said. "She did block the rest of us from actually saying the Pledge of Allegiance."
The move stunned some community members.
"I'm just furious," resident Robert Volosevich told the Cape Cod Times. "She's not in touch with the voters in Falmouth at all."
"It's the beginning of a slippery slope when you don't say the Pledge of Allegiance," one man told Fox 25.
Falmouth resident Brenda Scannell told the newspaper that Freitag's decision was baffling.
"I just don't get that at all," she said. "I know we certainly have our challenges (in this country), but this seems like a step backward."
Freitag did not return calls from Fox News seeking comment.
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Published Feb. 19, 2013
Springfield, Ohio – For Maggie McKune, class of 2014 from Louisville, Ky., becoming a part of the Wittenberg University community was as easy as connecting with Springfield, which is a bit more colorful today thanks to her efforts.
As a Community Engagement Scholar through Wittenberg's Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement, McKune volunteers regularly with the Rock of H.O.P.E., a local organization for middle and high school youth. She has gained as much from the experience as the children involved in the organization.
"Through the scholarship program, I was able to connect with the Rock of H.O.P.E. and really become a part of the Springfield community," McKune said. "It allowed me to get out of the 'Wittenberg Bubble' and not just enjoy life on Wittenberg's campus but also life in Springfield.
"Through spending time with the students and my peers in the scholarship program, I've been able to see both on and off campus how serving the community is an integral part of the Wittenberg experience."
McKune has served at the Rock of H.O.P.E. since her freshman year. The scholarship program and her resulting service experience have made her feel at home at Wittenberg since the start of her collegiate career.
"Service is such a huge part of the culture at Wittenberg," McKune said. "At the Rock of H.O.P.E., I was able to meet other Wittenberg students who shared a passion for service. Through the Community Engagement Scholarship Program, I am able to reflect on my service with other scholars, get to know them, and participate in events sponsored by the Community Service program."
As a part of the Community Engagement Scholarship Program, McKune has been challenged to think about how she could work with her service site to "go deeper" and create a lasting impact. McKune then came up with the idea of creating a mural at her service site.
"I had spent time with the kids at the Rock and I knew that I wanted to do something that would challenge all of us to become more intentional about the impact we make," she said.
McKune worked with students at her site to create the mural, which showcases two hands designed to symbolize service to others, the words "I serve God with these hands" and the Bible verse 1 Peter 4:10, which reads, "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace."
The mural was designed based on a sketch done by McKune and students at the Rock of H.O.P.E., which McKune then re-drew to transfer to a projector and then sketched. Students also assisted painting the mural, and they will use it as part of a devotional in the coming year.
"None of this would have been possible without the Community Service Scholarship program," McKune said. "They challenged me to really see how I could impact the community and supported me in following through in that challenge.
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This whole Occupy Wall Street movement has honestly got me perplexed. For those who have been living under a rock and don't know what Occupy Wall Street is, don't feel all that bad, as I'm becoming more of the mindset that many who actually are "occupying" Wall Street don't really know what it is.
My general impression of this "movement" that started about a month or so ago is this. A group of people have set up in a park in New York to protest the idea that 1% of our population supposedly makes more than the other 99% does altogether. From there movements have started across the country in various places including an "Occupy Sioux Falls" here locally.
From there, things get a little fuzzy for me. What is the overall purpose of the protests? Unclear. What do they hope to accomplish besides being a general nuisance? Not really sure.
These groups are protesting large corporate influences while basically feeding those very corporations the money they're upset that the corporations have. They do so by using their smart-phones (made by corporations) while they use social media (companies that earn huge profits) to protest. They go to Starbucks (another corporation) to get that warm drink to stay warm in their non home-made tents (made by corporations) that they've set up to live in while they fight "the man". Unless they make their own clothes, food and shelters, they are protesting every aspect of life that they personally use which makes them in my mind extremely hypocritical.
Their heroes? Steve Jobs. Michael Moore. Alec Baldwin. For a group that protests the rise of the "super-rich" and the effect they have on the down-trodden poor this is mind-boggling.
I watched my own Twitter feed on the day Jobs died and the very people who are all for this protest were almost in a state of mourning over a man who ran one of the biggest corporations out there. One whose sole purpose was to design products to convince you to give them your money.
And Alec Baldwin, there's one of the 99% for you. A super-rich movie/TV star who makes money off those evil credit cards this group wants to protest (he's a spokesperson for Capital One) and has a reputation for treating his own child like a piece of garbage. This is a person that these people look up to.
And don't even get me started on Michael Moore. Michael Moore has made an enormous amount of money through capitalistic means to espouse his hatred of capitalism. He also claims not to be one of the 1% which by any sane person's definition he should be at the top of the 1% list. There is no bigger hypocrite out in the world than Michael Moore.
Generally speaking, in some regards, the group has very similar complaints that the Tea Party have had. Whether you're a Tea Party member or an Occupy Wall Street person, neither group is thrilled by bailouts of companies that then in turn took that money and used it to simply reward people who caused the problems that they were being bailed out for.
But that's where the similarities end. What did the Tea Party do? They got people into office who hopefully will make a difference. It's not guaranteed but at least they're trying. Occupy Wall Street simply seems to want to hang out and protest. For how long? Again, not real clear.
And they seem to think they are above the law. They think that they have the right to stay in a place for weeks, go into restaurants and disrupt business because they don't like what the owner does, defecate on police cars and they think they can do so without consequence. And when the police do get involved they scream brutality and yell about how the police are supposedly not following the rules of civility when they themselves show no civility whatsoever.
It is so funny to me how this group is being portrayed. When the Tea Party group was formed, the media went berserk and started accusing the group of having racist overtones – without ONE ounce of proof. But like I've said before, when accusing one of racism in this country, you don't need proof anymore, the accusation enough is all it takes.
The Occupy Wall Street group has repeatedly showed disregard for other people's rights or the law in general and the media are trying to make this protest into some sort of positive liberal revolution and paint anyone who may have a concern with large groups of people trying to usurp the rights of others as being paranoid and unreasonable.
Do I think every person in these groups has a desire to cause problems for others? Absolutely not. But I think a lot do. Plus I think the number of people in this group who are hoping for something violent to happen are growing.
I try very hard to be open-minded about other people's points of view. I am a strong conservative but I have no problem with someone with a strong liberal point of view. But this group scares me to death. I am absolutely convinced that this group is going to cause a repeat of Kent State from Vietnam days. With the advent of social media and the internet I think that it will actually be much worse than Kent State ever could be and I think violence is going to erupt nationwide.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope that when winter hits a lot of these people will decide to stop this Occupy Wall Street nonsense and go back to "occupying" wherever it is they came from. But with each passing day my hope in being wrong is dwindling.


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Nicely done!!!! Great suit!!!
Fantastic! Your costume looks awesome!
the flowers add a nice touch
nice job man, looks great!
very well done. congrats on ur 501st acceptance
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btw, how bout parts list of ur costume ?
Copied from my progress thread:
- Helmet - FPH (#3 of 49) painted by Superjedi
- Armor: FPv3 - cut, prepped, and painted by me
- Jet Pack - Man of War, painted by me
- Jumpsuit, Flak vest, Neckseal, pouches, and spats - The lovely Ladysewforus
- Gauntlets -- built and painted by Wickedbeard
- EE-3 - built and painted by Sidewinder
- Ammo belt - 99centtaco
- Gloves - GBH
- Girth belt - sz34 Centaur Mohair dyed by me
- Boots -- CA boots with RussRep spikes
- Cape -- accurate tent shelter half per BraksBuddy tutorial, bought off eBay and cut and assembled by me
- Chest lights - Fettronics (deluxe version)
- Knee darts, JP beacon and stabilizer - Serenity
- Braids - Doll hair of forgotten origin
- Chest and shoulder decals - Lucksy31
- Shin tools and collar/cod blocks - Bobamaker
- Screen accurate jet pack hooks - Me!
- Screen accurate Boba Socks - Champion
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Your suit looks great! Welcome to the 501st!
Good work Chris! Great Fett!
Spectacular paint job on the armor!
Congrats on your new BH designation.
Nice looking armor...Great job on it.
Congrats, looks great!!
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great job! you really look the part!
Looking good dude
Congratulations, it's nice to see a recently completed costumes after all the hard work and money spent. I still have a long ways to go. I'm looking forward to the future and my own Boba costume and maybe joining the 501st some day.
Hey!! Such great news Congratulations Chris!
Congrats my friend!!! Your Boba looks awesome! Fantastic job man!
Hope my Boba will get as half as good as yours! ;-)
Very nice suit! Congratulations on your BH designation.
The only suggestions I can make are add toe spikes and hit the boots with a little gray primer to wash out the black a bit. Very nice suit though!
Oh and let's see the back of everything too. Rocketpack, etc.
I'll be popping the toe spikes on later this week, and the grey primer doesn't sound like a bad idea. You'd be surprised how much lighter the black is already, though. Camera flash really washes out the "dirt"....
Added a photo of the back at the top of the post. That braid that looks like I was playing "Pin the Tail on the Bounty Hunter" is now 6-8 inches shorter, so no risk of trapping it under the girth.
And, man! That thong makes my a55 look sweet!
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congrats!!!! very well done!!!!
I just sent my App, now I just have to send pics as well!!
Friggin sweet!
Congrats!!! All of your hard work has paid off.
Congratulations, Chris! That's great.
I'm sure you will be a proud representative of planet Koneck'tikut.
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With all the recent developments in research, theory, and practice, we have more treatment options to choose from than ever before. Why then do so many practitioners still find client "resistance" a regular companion in their consulting rooms?
In 1984, after it was rejected by several mainstream journals, the late Steve de Shazer, a pioneering brief therapist and an acerbic critic of therapeutic orthodoxy, published a now-legendary article titled "The Death of Resistance," declaring that psychotherapy had entered a new era. Rather than an objective phenomenon, de Shazer proclaimed that "resistance"—clients' seemingly illogical attempt to thwart the well-intentioned efforts of their therapists—in fact, existed only in the eye of the therapist-beholder. According to him, psychotherapy was moving into a more enlightened age of more effective treatment in which the concept of resistance would become obsolete.
So why then, if de Shazer was right, are you still struggling with so many of your cases three decades later?
If you're like most clinicians today, you have a toolbox crammed with even more therapeutic theories and techniques than de Shazer could have imagined. You can guide your clients in reframing their life story, enhance their experience of being intensely in the moment, reprocess their past traumas, time travel with them to redesign their future, locate and tend to their abused inner child, tap their body at strategic points—all of which, as we know, can sometimes lead to powerful moments of insight and healing. Nevertheless, that nasty, old resistance still gets the better of you more than you'd like to admit. When clients give weak excuses for missed appointments, stare blankly into space when you offer suggestions, and ask that you "fix" them without any effort on their part, in spite of all the techniques and approaches in which you've received training, you still feel prickly with frustration.
Many years ago, a particularly grueling session with a client left me feeling so beaten up and irritated that it pushed me to embark on a study of resistance that's continued for more than two decades. Through this journey, I've learned that rather than seeing our clients' frustrating reactions as obstacles that we need to overcome, we can use them as valuable information with which to steer the therapeutic conversation more skillfully. In fact, as de Shazer brilliantly pointed out, our clients can always be seen as cooperative, giving us clear signs of how they're experiencing the issues at hand. Without question, taking on this perception of client resistance has increased my understanding of the therapeutic process, as well as my job satisfaction, peace of mind, and, I believe, my clinical effectiveness.
The crucial shift comes in seeing situations you once labeled as resistance as marking critical junctures in the therapeutic dialogue providing crucial opportunities for you to make adjustments to your role in the conversation. Rather than becoming frustrated, you can use those moments to assess what's occurring—both for you and for the client—and change your own behavior. After all, aren't we always advocating that our clients make mindful changes? If you fail to recognize and respond effectively to the signals your client is sending moment by moment, it doesn't matter what kind of approach you're using—cognitive-behavioral, Gestalt, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Somatic Experiencing, or any other method—it just won't work.
A Brief History of Resistance
Sigmund Freud was the originator of the concept of resistance, along with so much else that's shaped the development of psychotherapy. Of course, given the challenging perspective he was offering clients about their unconscious desires to have sex with their parents, I assume he must have regularly felt compelled to account for his patients' reluctance to accept his theories. He wound up defining what he labeled resistance as the client's attempts to avoid anxiety-provoking, psychologically threatening information. In Freud's view, if the client wasn't "buying" what he was "selling," the client was being resistant. Resistance was something in the client and, for much of psychotherapy's history, therapists were not encouraged to look at their own contributions to it.
Fortunately, by the mid-20th century, several figures rose to prominence within the field who challenged this prevailing view, and new perspectives began to evolve. In 1951, humanistic pioneer Carl Rogers stated in Client-Centered Therapy that "Resistance to counseling and to the counselor is not an inevitable part of psychotherapy, nor a desirable part, but it grows primarily out of poor techniques of handling the client's expression of his problems and feelings . . . out of unwise attempts on the part of the counselor to short-cut the therapeutic process by bringing into discussion emotionalized attitudes which the client is not yet ready to face." With this, Rogers placed the problem squarely on therapists: if they move too far ahead of the client too quickly, they're sure to evoke resistance.


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