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Ottawa Senators forward Dany Heatley suffered a separated shoulder in Saturday's 3-2 victory over Detroit and will be out of action for 4-6 weeks.
Heatley missed most of the third period when he crashed hard into the end boards with Red Wings winger Dallas Drake. Heatley was slouched over when he left the ice and was favouring his shoulder. He didn't return to the game.
"When you lose one of your better players partway through the game you're never happy about it, but you just can't think about it," Jason Spezza said following the game.
Heatley assisted on Daniel Alfredsson's first goal of the game while logging 16:04 of ice time before sustaining the injury.
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Newly released from prison, the Jewish tycoon was Russia's wealthiest oligarch – and the Kremlin's chief critic
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Instead of defending his innocence at the final day of his trial on nebulous charges in 2010, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and now imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp near a radioactive mine, read to the court a political manifesto that lambasted the stagnation and corruption into which contemporary Russia has sunk. "The obvious conclusion a thinking person can make is chilling in its stark simplicity," he intoned in the tiny courtroom packed with reporters and the pensioners who'd come to show their support. "The siloviki bureaucracy can do anything," he said, referring to the powerful faction in the Russian government whose roots are in the security forces. "A person who collides with 'the system' has no rights whatsoever." He added: "I am ashamed for my country." It was a moving speech that laid out, powerfully and clearly, everything that is wrong with Russia today; it made even my sober male Russian friends tear up.
When the judge handed down the guilty verdict just before the New Year, hundreds protested outside the courtroom. German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the ruling, as did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The White House issued a statement condemning "abuse of the legal system for improper ends."
The case still hasn't receded from Russian headlines. The press secretary of the court that heard Khodorkovsky's case revealed to an opposition newspaper that the judge in the case didn't write the verdict and that he was pressured from the outside. (She has since been made to take a lie detector test—she passed—and been forced out of her job.) Fifty-five "official" celebrities have signed a controversial open letter praising the verdict in the case, and 45 others signed one opposing it. When U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden gave a major policy address at Moscow State University in March, he cited Khodorkovsky's case as a blight on Russia's already troubled record. "Get your system right," he said. Foreign investors regularly cite the Khodorkovsky case as a metaphor of the risks of doing business in Russia: If you run afoul of the Kremlin, you can have it all taken away in a heartbeat, even if you are the richest, most powerful man in Russia.
When Khodorkovsky was arrested, many, especially in the Jewish press, saw it as an attack against a Jewish businessman, and thus as a reinforcement of pernicious old stereotypes in a country famous for its institutionalized anti-Semitism. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there were attempts to rile up the Russian public by harping on the image of the rapacious Jewish businessman, of which there were several. Surprisingly, the attempts fell flat, perhaps because Russians were at the time too preoccupied with mere survival. The Jewish oligarchs had all come of age in the Soviet Union where, unlike their Orthodox Christian countrymen, few Jews hung on to their religion. Khodorkovsky, whose father is Jewish, was no exception. His political ambitions, and his risky battle with Putin, made it even less likely that he would openly identify himself as a Jew, even as his cause was adopted by the American Jewish and Israeli press.
Khordokovsky's former deputy at Yukos Oil, Leonid Nevzlin, who fled to Israel (which has no extradition agreement with Russia) ahead of a similar battery of charges, including murder, told the reporter Gal Beckerman that he and his former boss and friend had made opposite and deliberate choices in the face of state persecution. "I always felt that I am first of all Jewish and then a Russian citizen," Nevzlin said. "For Khodorkovsky, it was the opposite. And the Yukos case made us face this specific question. What choice would we each make? Where would we like to live? And each of us made his own choice. I totally respect Khodorkovsky's choice, though it doesn't match mine."
Khodorkovsky's choice was Russia, a choice that landed him in some of the country's most notorious prisons. It has also meant taking on a vaguely Christian-tinged role, a just man laid low by Caesar's hand. In the nearly eight years since a team of commandos stormed his private plane at what appeared to be the behest of then-President Vladimir Putin, Khodorkovsky—every minority shareholder's worst nightmare—has reinvented himself as Russia's preeminent martyr. After his initial conviction, in 2005, for tax evasion, Khodorkovsky began to write liberal political screeds from his crowded prison cell. He wrote op-eds for Western publications, like the New York Times, and maintained a correspondence with Lyudmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia's most famous contemporary novelists. He has PR teams in Moscow, London, Paris, Washington, and New York. During Khodorkovsky's second, and even more politicized, trial, his cadre of lawyers is always available; every journalist in Moscow has their mobile numbers. Recently, his main PR team in London hired Washington-based Randy Scheunemann, Sen. John McCain's foreign policy adviser during his last presidential campaign. (Scheunemann also did a stint with Sarah Palin.)
But no amount of PR could have made Khodorkovsky into such a sympathetic figure without the Kremlin's unintentional help. Putin's relentless pursuit of Khodorkovsky, his apparently insatiable desire to see the man remain in prison, his flashes of seemingly genuine anger whenever Khodorkovsky's name is mentioned, the fact that Khodorkovsky was convicted in his second trial for something that directly contradicts the conviction in the first, the fact that, even before the 14-year sentence was handed down in December, rumors started to circulate about a third set of charges—all of this has shown Khodorkovsky as a victim of the Kremlin's selective, pettily vindictive justice. There was nothing, after all, that he did that the other oligarchs—many of them still flourishing—didn't do. "My personal opinion is that Khodorkovsky, without any doubt, was a horrible transgressor of the rights of minority shareholders, and was fraudulent and avoided taxes, but that's not why he's in jail," says Alexey Navalny, a young blogger who has made his name as an activist minority shareholder in state companies. "He's not in jail for this. My demand isn't so much to free Khodorkovsky but to jail everyone else."
Older generations of liberal Russians, who saw their friends jailed for their views in Soviet times, have a sort of knee-jerk empathy for Khodorkovsky: If the state has put him in prison, then he is a dissident. Indeed, last Tuesday, immediately following the Moscow City Court's rejection of Khodorkovsky's latest appeal, Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience. This is a strange development for a man with a soft, high-pitched voice who avoided the limelight in favor of the quiet search for loopholes and deals. "He's not a dissident, he's a victim of bad decisions, including his own," Alexi Golubovitch, who served in various high-ranking positions in the oligarch's companies, Yukos and Menatep, over 15 years, told me over lunch in his office in the historical center of Moscow. He left the company in 2001—it had become "too Soviet" in its mentality, he says.
"Khodorkovsky needs to be freed because his jailing is unjust, not because he's a real dissident," says Golubovich. "A dissident is selfless." And selfless Khodorkovsky is not. There are still untold millions at stake, and a case pending at the European Court of Human Rights, in which Khodorkovsky seeks damages from the Russian state to the tune of $98 billion, the largest in the court's history.
The Western investors who denounce the case against Khodorkovsky as politically biased were once his bitter enemies, trampled underfoot as he built up the biggest fortune in post-Soviet Russia. "He was uniquely ruthless, uniquely scheming," says David E. Hoffman, whose book The Oligarchs provides the definitive account of the period. At the turn of the millennium, Khordorkovsky and his fellow oligarchs were seen not as entrepreneurs moving Russia forward, but as a danger to its future development. These oligarchs "threaten Russia's transition to democracy and free markets," wrote Lee S. Wolosky, a former Clinton counter-terrorism official and a professor at Columbia, in a 2000 article in Foreign Affairs. He was not alone in his assessment.
Back then, Russia was in a precarious position. It was only nine years since the collapse of the Soviet Union had shoved Russia on the fast track to a free market; it was also by no means a sure bet that Russia wouldn't slide into the authoritarianism—both political and economic—that began to grip the other former Soviet Republics.
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The Phils had no answer for Jon Niese last night. Niese threw a complete-game shutout and drove in three runs as the Mets topped the Phils 5-0.
Kendrick pitched pretty well early, but allowed four unearned runs in the sixth with the help of a huge throwing error by Frandsen. New York plated their first run of the frame on a single, the error and a sac fly before loading the bases for Niese with two outs and a 2-0 lead. Niese split the gap in left-center with a double, clearing the bases and putting the Mets up to stay at 5-0.
The Phillie offense had three hits and a walk in the game. Niese retired 17 in a row between Michael Young hits that started the second and the eighth.
For the year, the Phillies are hitting 228/296/369 against left-handed pitching, which is the worst line of any NL team other than the Marlins. The Phillies have three active players OPSing .750 or better against left-handed pitching and two of them haven't hit very well against lefties. Mayberry is hitting 253/322/481 against them and Frandsen 255/361/392. Ruiz is the only active player on the team who has actually hit well against left-handed pitching this year, he's at 327/410/442.
The Phillies are 60-72 on the year after losing 5-0 to the New York Mets last night. The teams have split the first two games of a four-game set and are tied for third-place in the NL East, 19 1/2 games behind the first-place Braves. The Phils are 7-3 in their last ten games, but have scored just two runs in their last two games.
Kendrick got the start for the Phillies and went six innings, allowing five runs, only one of which was earned, on five hits and four walks. One of the hits went for extra-bases, a double. He struck out three.
Two of the four walks that Kendrick issued were intentional and both of the batters he walked intentionally in the sixth came around to score. Kendrick has a 6.15 ERA over his last 15 starts and opponents have hit .319 against him.
He set the Mets down in order in the bottom of the first. Juan Legares lined a single to right with two outs in the second, but Kendrick got Travis d'Arnaud on a ground ball to short to set the Mets down.
He walked the pitcher Niese with one out in the third. Eric Young was next and bunted up the first base line. Kratz made a very nice play, getting to the ball and throwing off-balance to nip Young at first for the second out as Niese took second. It brought Daniel Murphy to the plate and Murphy singled to right. Mayberry threw home, but his throw was up the third base line. Niese scored to put the Mets up 1-0 and Murphy took second as the throw came home. Murphy took third on an error on a pickoff attempt by Kendrick, but Kendrick retired Andrew Brown on a ground ball to third to end the inning.
You want to try to avoid walking the pitcher when you can. Kratz's play on the Young bunt kept the inning from being worse. Niese would have been out at the plate on a good throw by Mayberry, but the Phils didn't get one.
Kendrick threw a 1-2-3 fourth. Omar Quintanilla doubled to right with one out in the fifth. Kendrick retired Niese on a fly ball to left before walking Young. It put men on first and second with two down for Murphy. Murphy popped to Rollins to leave both runners stranded.
Brown led off the sixth with a single into center. Ike Davis was next and hit a ball that Frandsen gloved at first. Frandsen threw to second, but his throw was bad for an error that left Brown on third and Davis on second with nobody out for Wilmer Flores. Flores grounded to third with the runners holding for the first out. Legares was next and Kendrick walked him intentionally, loading the bases for d'Arnaud. d'Arnaud flew to center for the second out. All three runners tagged and moved up a base, making it 2-0 with two outs and men on second and third for Quintanilla. Quintanilla was walked intentionally and the bases were loaded for Niese. Niese delivered the big blow of the game, slicing a 3-2 pitch into the gap in left-center for a three-run double that extended the New York lead to 5-0. Young fouled out to Michael Young to leave Niese at second.
All four of the runs that the Mets score in the inning are unearned due to the Frandsen error, but Kendrick didn't really excel in the frame. He walked two batters intentionally and both came around to score. Set the inning up to get the pitcher out and didn't get the pitcher out.
Bernadina made a miserable throw on the d'Arnaud sac fly, but it didn't cost the Phillies a lot. d'Arnaud didn't hit the ball especially deep, but Bernadinda threw home and his throw was weak and off-line, which allowed the other runners to move up to second and third.
Zach Miner pitched a scoreless seventh, allowing a two-out walk before getting Flores on a ground ball to short.
Scoreless frame for Miner after allowing two runs on three hits and three walks over 1 1/3 innings against the Diamondbacks on Sunday. Opponents are hitting just .239 against him, but he's walked seven in 13 innings.
De Fratus set the Mets down in order in the eighth. He has a 1.89 ERA and a 1.32 ratio over 19 innings in his last 19 appearances. The righty has been really good against lefties for the year, but righties are hitting 311/383/417 against him.
Two scoreless innings for the pen in which they allow one walk and no hits. Miner threw 17 pitches and De Fratus eight.
The Phillie lineup against lefty Jon Niese went (1) Bernadina (2) Rollins (3) Utley (4) Kratz (5) Young (6) Ruf (7) Frandsen (8) Mayberry. Mayberry in right, Ruf in left and Brown sidelined with his heel. Frandsen plays first with Young at third and Asche on the bench against the lefty. Asche on the bench against the lefty after providing all the offense for the Phils in the series opener.
Rollins singled to right with one out in the top of the first, but Utley struck out swinging behind him and Kratz lined to short.
Young singled softly to right to start the second. Ruf followed and grounded into a double-play. Frandsen grounded to second for the third out.
The Phils went in order in the third. Down 1-0, they went in order again in the fourth, fifth and sixth. Quintanilla made a nice play behind second to retire Young for the first out in the fifth and Davis made a nice diving play at first on a ball hit by Kendrick for the second out in the sixth.
Niese got an enormous amount of ground ball outs between the second and sixth innings. Young singled softly to right to start the second and Niese got a ground ball double-play behind him and another ground out behind that. Two ground outs and a fly out in the third, two ground outs and a fly out in the fourth. Three ground outs in the fifth and three more in the sixth.
Niese got 14 batters out between Young's single to start the second and the end of the sixth on 12 grounds outs, including a double-play, and two fly balls.
They were down 5-0 when they hit in the seventh and went in order on two fly balls and a strikeout.
Young doubled to center to start the eighth. Ruf and Frandsen both struck out behind him and Mayberry flew to center.
17 in a row go down for the Phillies between Young's single to start the second and his double to start the eighth.
Rollins drew a walk off of Niese with two outs in the top of the ninth, but Utley flew to center to end the game.
Bernadina was 0-for-4 with a less than fantastic throw to the plate on d'Arnaud's sac fly. 4-for-25 with the Phillies (.160).
Rollins 1-for-3 with a walk. 1-for-his-last-10 with two walks. Isolated power for the year is at .091. Six extra-base hits against left-handed pitching for the year and an isolated power of .063, which is worse than is career mark of .149.
Utley 0-for-4 with a strikeout. 1-for-his-last-17 with a single. 205/297/411 against lefties for the year.
Kratz 0-for-3 with a strikeout. Made a nice play on Young's bunt in the third. 3-for-his-last-30 with four walks and a double. 088/225/206 against left-handed pitching for the year and 170/255/364 for his career, which makes it a little tough to understand why the Phils think they should be hitting him cleanup against lefties. Think eight-hitter, guys.
Michael Young 2-for-3 with a double. Phils had three hits and a walk in the game — Young had two hits and Rollins had a single and a walk. 246/307/368 over his last 365 plate appearances. 4-for-7 with a double in the first two games of this set.
Ruf 0-for-3 with a strikeout. 16-for-his-last-76 (.211) with 29 strikeouts, but also seven home runs and an isolated power of .289. The Phillies are miserable against left-handed pitching. Kratz, Young and Mayberry are part of the problem and so is Ruf. He's oddly hitting 163/234/372 against lefties in 47 plate appearances for the year.
Frandsen 0-for-3 with a strikeout and an error in the sixth that led to four unearned runs. 9-for-his-last-72 (.125) with a double and a .299 OPS over 75 plate appearances. His numbers against lefties are no longer outstanding — he's down to 255/361/392.
Mayberry also had a bad night against the lefty. Made a bad throw early and went 0-for-3 at the plate. 2-for-his-last-16 (.125).
Hamels (5-13, 3.62) faces righty Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-1, 9.00) tonight. Hamels has a 2.74 ERA and a 1.07 ratio over his last 15 starts. 1.89 ERA in five August starts, all five of which have been good, after throwing to a 2.57 ERA in five July outings. He's thrown at least seven innings in nine of his last ten starts. Dice-K made 20 starts in Triple-A for the Indians this year, going 5-8 with a 3.92 ERA and a 1.28 ratio before being released in mid-August. He was picked up by the Mets and made one start for New York, allowing five runs in five innings against the Tigers on Friday.


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Is TheBoat a good idea?
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Ferries have been tried on Oahu before. The difference with TheBoat is the provision of shuttle buses that provide a link from west Oahu to the ferry terminal in Kalaeloa. Downtown, shuttle buses provide links to the University of Hawaii and Waikiki. The shuttles are timed so the wait when arriving at the pier is less than 10 minutes.
TheBoat is fully integrated with TheBus. Fares are the same, transfers are free, and bus passes work on both. On a system-wide basis, the cost per passenger for TheBus system alone is $2.18. When TheBoat is added, it is $2.25 per passenger. Another way to look at it is to consider the fare-box return ratio. This is the proportion of the total operating expense covered by fares. The fare-box return ratio with TheBus system alone is 28.15 percent. With TheBoat added, the ratio is 27.26 percent. Both are within the city policy range of 27 percent to 31 percent.
TheBoat's function is to provide an independent route that is relatively unaffected by congestion. TheBoat provides consistent travel times between west Oahu and downtown. Other amenities are the ability to work, access the Internet, have breakfast and do other things that are not practical in an automobile or on a bus. TheBoat also provides relief to our already full buses on the congested H-1 Freeway.
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TheBoat makes TheBus look like a model of efficiency. Including capital and operating costs, the equivalent bus trip costs $12.32, or 80 percent less than TheBoat. While a Star-Bulletin trial demonstrated that a trip from Makakilo to downtown takes one hour and 43 minutes on TheBoat, the same commute by bus takes 37 minutes. Cars provide even greater efficiency, with a lower one-way cost ($11.70, including parking) and shorter commute time (28 minutes) than either TheBus or TheBoat. Cars also provide greater flexibility for commuters with unusual or unpredictable schedules.
What makes TheBoat so inefficient? High fixed costs and extremely low ridership — only 8.6 percent of capacity in August 2008 — combine for high per-passenger rates. Perhaps most frustrating is that city officials should have known better. In 1999 to 2000, the state attempted a nearly identical project. The Wiki Wiki Ferry carried commuters from Iroquois Point to Aloha Tower at a cost of $3 million. With four round-trips each day and only 35,000 riders, the Wiki Wiki Ferry was shut down after one year. Seven years later, city officials had little reason to expect TheBoat to exhibit better results.
Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said he hoped that TheBoat would remove 400 to 450 cars from the road each day. Unfortunately, these results never materialized. Existing TheBoat riders have likely come from the less expensive TheBus. Regarding TheBoat: We didn't need it. We can't afford it. Let's not maintain it!
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For those who want to jump on the wallpaper wagon but don't want to hang the next Woods Wallpaper, we'd like to share Wallpaper LAB. Based in New York, Wallpaper LAB creates limited edition artist wallpaper. Founded by Ron Keyson in 2006, Wallpaper LAB collaborates with contemporary artists to translate their studio works "into conceptually heroic wallpaper and wall stickers...[and] invited artists are challenged to pull the domestic world of wallpaper into their own aesthetic gravitational center."
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From left to right: Two Minutes; Playing Dead, 2006 by Douglas Gordon, Wood Wall, 2006 by Phoebe Washburn and Landscape Wallpaper, 2006 by Millree Hughes.
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Stripes!!! The stripes!!! I want!!!!
Where can I get the green sofa?
I love the stripes! Where could I put them, hmmmm?
This reminds me of Jill's stripes project. Anyone have the link?
The stripes are soooo gorgeous!
Here's Jill's stripes project, although I don't know if this was the final post on this:
I love the "Wavelength." It's expensive, but no more than an ocean view.
Don't dis on the "woods", man. I love that stuff. I would still put it up in a heartbeat, if it wasn't so expensive.
Yeah, forget the wallpaper. Where can I buy the sofa?
wow! i usually hate wallpaper, but those stripes ar gorgeous.
can someone id the green sofa? I love it ....


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How To Extend Height Of Dresser Turned Kitchen Island?
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Q: I have found the perfect dresser (soon to be island) to extend our storage challenged kitchen. My problem is that it is too short (by 6"). I am thinking I either need to extend the legs somehow more permanently than stacks of books or take off the top which is easy as it is just screwed on and add to the height. Problem is, I can't find anything that would be suitable for attaching to the legs and I have no idea what material to use to extend the height on top. Any suggestions?
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Put some castors on it
I would consider getting some legs from Ikea, or a home improvment store. Removing the original legs, and putting the new ones on, rather than trying to blend the old ones with something.
you could cut the legs off flush with the bottom and then attach new legs the right length.....of course, this is assuming you mean to paint/refinish the new island
Extend the top by making the current top open shelving underneath a new wood/stone counter top. Extending the legs or bottom would ruin the look of the piece.
cut the legs off and build a platform wood base basically a wood box under it and stain to match
...or a glass top would be even better. You could arrange pretty cookbooks underneath it to keep you inspired in the kitchen.
Locking 6" high casters would be my first choice (http://www.amazon.com/Casters-Total-Lock-Swivel-Plate-Mount/dp/B002MMSIXK). But second choice is @TWilliams suggestion - a raised top with the actual top as open storage. I suppose it depends on the look and functionality you want.
Either way, great find for use in a kitchen. I'd love something like that.
I would suggest you 2 solutions:
1 - Adding a shelf mounted onto four legs, atop the dresser.
2 - cutting the actual legs and replacing them by a higher set, matching the same style.
An elevated glass top. For the later, because you really don't want to drill anything into the wood dresser's top, I'd buy 4 glass blocks (the big-box home improvement stores have them) for the corners of the dresser, top them with a small beadline of silicone and put either a piece of glass atop it or look for an inexpensive piece of butcher block or a wood that is a close match to the dresser (Ikea would be my first stop for that).
Definitely locking castors! You can drill into the existing legs to connect them and then, not only do you have the height you desire, but also portability for things like cleaning or ease of rearranging when you have a bunch of people over, and it's in the way, etc.
depending on how you use your kitchen, I'd get a stainless wrapped on mdf top. Perhaps, you could you take the existing top off, fasten it to the underside of the existing legs, for a low shelf. then add casters. i'm partial to these
get 1 or 2 garden timbers from home depot. since this is going to be an island, i'm thinking you need a "chunkier" look for the legs. cut desired height for each corner and plane sides to fit corners. attach to chest - stain same color. could even use these feet in the middle for sturdiness. cheap and would look great.
Don't mess with the legs. They are not screwed on, but rather continuations of the wood that makes up the whole piece. Taking them off and trying to add new ones will make the piece unstable and invite collapse, as will trying to add to the current legs. (Taking the legs off and building a platform was suggested above would be stable, but that would ruin the while style of the thing.)
So, go with adding shelf above. Like the idea of doing it with glass. Using chrome or stainless steel supports for glass would look best.
But really, this piece of furniture has its own style as is, and it is not meant to be 6" higher. The best advice I can give you is to use this elsewhere, and find something that will look right at counter height for your counter. This doesn't look right raised as you have it. I realize you can't see that, though you will when your design sense has had more time to mature.
Some of them are saying that attaching casters to the legs directly??? I don't know how stable will be... You probably can find a similar and taller design of legs so cutting off the current one and install the taller one. http://www.osbornewood.com/34-and-one-half-inches.cfm?gclid=CJWkwoSWtqoCFYHb4Aodhw6j7A Or ask a vintage furniture shop for a recommendation. They might have some even better solutions.
I love the idea of a tempered glass top. That will give you more storage and a really unique island.
The people behind After Dinner Design just did this. They added a counter top and casters. Maybe you can ask them as well?
The photo isn't brilliantly clear, but I think removing the legs (um, well, sawing them off) and then replacing them with the right height of hairpin legs from www.hairpinlegs.com would be a lovely solution. They would suit.
I totally agree with twilliams' suggestions. The legs simply shouldn't be messed with, so adding a top shelf/countertop would be the best solution. I'd add a little extra length to all four sides for a slight overhang. You could match your existing countertops, pick a butcher block or other coordinating material, or go with a heavy tempered glass.
And it gives you even more storage with the additional narrow shelf underneath!
I'm with Textiles. This piece has the right geometry and proportions as it is, and the legs aren't simple little screw-on pieces - they're part of the furniture. I say find another bureau that's 6" taller, and go with that. Even casters won't look great on this - though I'm a big casters fan.
I like the glass top idea the best. I also think it would be the most professional looking. You can get 6" stainless standoffs that either glue or bolt through the top and elevate it 6" from the dresser. Then you have a space between the glass and the dresser to put cook books, conversation pieces, storage, etc... It would also preserve the dresser without making it look like you "added on" to it.
It is such a neat piece you don't want to ruin it by chopping off the legs. I second everyone who has said "add a top".
I think adding the additional cabinet, especially with a glass top, will create such a conversation piece.
I think cutting the legs would ruin this piece. Thus, I agree with the castor vote. And then, if that isn't high enough, I would add another piece or marble or butcher block directly on top. I'm not crazy about the open shelf at the top. Makes me think of 90s bathroom vanities.
I agree with textiles, but if you're set on using this as an island, I think casters are the best option. They'd attach directly to the existing legs and not completely ruin the design of the dresser in the way that adding some sort of "shelf" on top would. You can buy cup-style casters that don't screw into the leg but rather the leg sits inside of it - that might lend more stability if you're really worried about it. I wouldn't be.
You definitely need to protect the top somehow - and NOT with glass, which will crack easily. You could wrap the top with stainless or aluminum, or better yet make a removable mosaic tiled top (that way you can just take it off and use the dresser elswhere later on) with thin board cut to size.
Have fun!
I would remove the top and then build the sides and back up to create an open shelf you can access from the front of the piece...you could have a cabinet maker do this to make it look fairly seamless and match the stain exactly. Then just add the old top back on, or do another countertop surface.
I had a similar situation and got a piece of wood, cut it to the same size as the footprint of the piece (plus a little bit) and then put casters on the bottom of that. basically put the entire piece on a skateboard type of thing. locking casters of course though!
I don't think I'd cut off the legs. Maybe if you're using it as an island, you could put some wine racks (like these: http://www.crateandbarrel.com/dining-and-entertaining/bar-accessories/set-of-2-shesham-wall-mount-stacking-wine-racks/s676775) on top, then have a piece of marble or countertop cut to put on top? I recently had a marble remnant cut to put on top of a similar dresser, and will be using that as a pastry station. (I'm not tall, so I don't mind that it isn't counter height.)
I'm obsessed with wheels. I would definitely add castors. Then you can move it around as need be. Definitely a plus in a small space.
Finally, a few correct spellings of 'casters.'
Castor oil, once consumed, is never forgotten. But casters roll on forever.
I would go along with T Williams, but go a step further. I would like to see you integrate the dresser into a larger piece. Perhaps a square island with the back of the dresser being the underside of a countertop and stools to sit at, supported simply by a leg at each of the corners.
To do so, I would cut off the original legs of the dresser and replace them with ones in the same style as the legs to support the countertop corners. I wouldn't paint the dresser, just preserve the current staining and then go with a style for the 6 legs (Ikea being a great resource as has been mentioned) that may enable you to integrate the dresser into the style of the rest of the kitchen.
Doing so would further expand your prep area and give a nice place for quick meals or to work at. From the look of the surrounding area in your pictures, I think you may have enough space. It might also help you (if you're looking for it) to delineate the kitchen space from the dining space.
Add a 1/2" butcher block top and 4" casters, two with locks.
I'm sure others have shared that idea, but just in case!
Consider it the other way around -- make a sturdy platform at the location where you plan to have the new counter, and finish it to match your floor or your other counters. Stand the dresser on it. Maybe make it a couple of inches wider at the base for stability -- or just have indents where the legs will go, to prevent accidental shifting.
You could probably fit a drawer into this as well.
why worry about the height? Different heights, different finishes and surfaces make for a warm, nicely laid kitchen.
I was going to suggest cutting the legs off and setting the dresser onto some slate slabs, marble slabs, tile slabs.. would be a pain to move though.
Casters would look totally weird, like an afterthought (because they are!).
As unfortunate as it is, I say use it elsewhere or modify the top. It's a great piece on it's own and I'd hate to see it ruined by a failed modification job (not that you aren't capable - I was just thinking of my own abilities!).
Something I dont think has been suggested yet..
I would try and find an industrial (damaged/worn) heavy duty wire shelf that is the same width and length, that sits 6 inches off the ground on it's own legs. Then just rest this dresser on it. Store pots and pans between the gap and then it will tie into your AWESOME furniture/style in the office.
Something of a mix of the base/shelves on this bad boy: http://www.salvoweb.com/images/userimgs/35440/46717_1.jpg with your unit resting on top.
Add an extra inch or two inch by adding a wider top (attaching it to the existing one, don't need to remove it) Think, stone, butcher's block, stainless steel.
The rest could be added by casters (as someone already mentioned).
Why not just use it as a dresser and get another piece that's 36"-42" high for use in the kitchen?
It's not like they're not out there...
yet another vote for adding locking casters
ooooh, I love the top shelf idea! I would do a giant butcher's block.
maybe this type of little shelf would work: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40051196
Have you thought about using bed risers? They're cheap, easy and fairly stable way to do this, albeit not the prettiest. I used bed raisers on a make-shift kitchen island for a year and never had any stability issues and did no damage to the floors or the dresser. Hope that helps!
How about bed-risers? something like this http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Bed+Risers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=6854434001448544778&sa=X&ei=3QA7Ttm8CqbZiALel_zYCw&ved=0CFcQ8gIwAw
Then you could do a gold, silver or copper leafing process on the risers to make them look pretty :)
Flip the entire thing UPSIDE DOWN, including the drawers (you may have to re-align the drawer guides), put casters on what is now the bottom, and place either a tempered glass piece on top (of what were the legs) or a butcher block. That way you have an open shelf to store cutting boards, linens, mixing bowls, ...whatever.
I'm with team casters.
If you want casters, fine, but if the legs work for you aesthetically, I'd go with four cool 5" or 6" legs on TOP and either a piece of glass or wood, or whatever trips your trigger. Quite a number of people have hacks using this over at http://www.ikeahackers.net/
Like this: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/07/reception-counter-for-office.html
Bed risers seem the simplest way to go--they're meant to do exactly what you want, you don't risk doing damage to the piece by fooling around with the legs, and it's not permanent (important if you move to a place with an island and you want to take the dresser back to being a dresser).
Definitely add a new solid-state top above this, using legs to provide a gap between the new top and the existing top. In addition to the many benefits listed in other comments, this'll help to protect the dresser from spills and scuffs.
Call Bill at CastorCity.com. I emailed him a pic of a similar need last year and he helped me get set up. There are stability issues that need to be addressed and it makes a difference what side and type wood the legs are as well as what type of floor they are going on and the weight of the desk is also a factor.
No castors. No bed risers. Hire a carpenter to make you a base that you can sit the dresser on. Voila', intact dresser.
I'd love to have a counter top exactly this height in my kitchen. I'm only 5'1" and this would be perfect for kneading bread and myriad other activities. Just sayin'.
glass is not a practical surface for a kitchen piece that you plan on actually using. I do think that you should raise the top of it, and I love the idea of putting something like marble on the top to contrast the color of the wood, and instead of bracing it up with four corners, I would maybe suggest some other design on the ends or something...
Very easy and functional for a kitchen island - wheels - you can purchase them at a restaurant supply and they also lock, I did this to a table once and it worked perfectly! You will need to drill holes in the legs for the wheel prongs to fit in but that is about it.
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Five (common!) dysfunctional sales behaviours that could be costing you business …
2011-02-25 - Brent Burgoyne
Some ways of selling are so much more effective than others. In this post , I will outline five things that an incredible number of people do in trying to sell their products and services to customers – and they shoot themselves in the foot while doing it. And I will briefly mention the other side of the coin, outlining what we call "wise ways" of engaging the customer to get the deal done more quickly and reliably, so that we can help the customer get a solution that exactly meets their needs.
One: We direct our sales focus at the wrong person, often at the person in the organisation who has contacted us (or we have contacted them - or they have been our long-time "safe" contact in the organisation …) who wants a solution to a problem. What could be wrong with that? Plenty, as it happens. On average, the person who sources a solution will not have final decision-making authority and will not personally have access to a budget. That's just how things work. And you can't sell to someone who hasn't got any money - and you also can't sell to someone who doesn't have the authority to make a decision. Solution: You work the entire political network in the client organisation and engage with everyone who has an interest in the solution, where feasible - and certainly the final decision maker - and also the person who controls the purse strings.
Two: We write proposals and e-mail them to the person who asked us for a solution. And then we wait. Only one problem: Documents don't sell. People do. Solution: Co-create the solution with the client (meaning whoever is an influencer or decision-maker), take into account the thinking of all of these people, lobby the solution around the organisation, get agreement from this "complex client" before the final presentation, and make the final presentation a formality!
Three: We sit in meetings with our client and we talk about ourselves and our product and our company. But there is a problem here: People don't really care about your stuff – they care about their stuff. Solution: Seek first to understand, using a structured exploration process, and then seek to be understood, advocating on the basis of what you now know. Underlying principle: No guessing!
Four: We don't link our solution to the strategic intent of the client's business, and then we wonder why what we think is a really hot solution is not a high priority for our customer. Solution: First explore for strategic intent. What's the client trying to achieve, big picture? (There are effective, sophisticated ways of doing this.) If your solution is aligned to what your decision maker wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about, closing the deal is a whole lot easier.
Five: We don't explore enough for the client's business pain. On average, most organisations only spend money when pain exceeds joy. Solution: Explore systematically and systemically for business pain the client is experiencing in achieving strategic intent. Understand where the pain shows up, what impact it has on key metrics, who in the business is affected by the pain, what the client thinks will heal the pain. Then link your solution to that. Magic: You have their attention!
When we at North Star Virtual show our clients the actual mechanics of how to do these few things – and other simple but sophisticated sales practices that are relevant, they often tell us that these things are common sense. Our response: But common sense is very often not common practice! Getting these practices right is effectively a matter of operating in harmony with the laws of the universe. It's like running or cycling with the wind behind you.
Sometimes wisdom comes from unusual sources
2011-02-18 - Mike Burgoyne
Who would have thought that Will Smith could teach us something at the very core of sales competence? Take a look at this:
All of our sales success comes from the work we have done on ourselves:
- What clarity do we have on …
- Who we really are?
- What we really want?
- What principles we refuse to violate?
- How much we are willing to focus?
- What short-term sacrifices we are willing to make?
- How much we are willing to stretch ourselves to learn new skills we'll need in engaging with clients.
- To what extent we are willing to leave our ego at the door and engage with our client as one human being to another …
For me the message is: We can learn something from almost everyone, if we're just open to it. "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder …"
Documents don't sell, people do
We worked a couple of years ago with a client who saw sales as a kind of information-moving activity. You meet with someone in the client organisation who has a need, you listen carefully and then write a proposal based on your core competencies and core offering. You deliver the proposal, bound in the obligatory plastic cover, and then you wait. Sometimes for a long time …
There's only one thing wrong with this picture - Documents don't sell, people do.
Step One: Map the political structure of the organisation you're going to sell into.
Step Two: Talk to your guy or girl, but get access to all who have an interest in the solution, or are involved in any way in the decision-making. It's tedious, but its's essential.
Step Three: Co-create the proposal with your now "complex client." It's a painful process, with lots of going back-and-forth. But when you're done, you can have a solution that exactly meets the client's needs. And everyone who has a voice in the decision-making has had input. No guessing, and no surprises.
Documents don't sell, people do.


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Yesterday, the Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic was rated #1 in heart care by U.S. News & World Report for the 16th consecutive year. CDH President and CEO Luke McGuinness said, "This affiliation brings world-class heart surgery resources, research and practices to the patients of CDH. It is quite an honor that a top provider like Cleveland Clinic recognizes our drive for quality and top-tier performance and is interested in affiliating with us."
"This affiliation with Central DuPage Hospital will help address the complex need to treat patients with emerging new surgical techniques and technologies," said Bruce Lytle, M.D., chairman of Cleveland Clinic's Heart & Vascular Institute. "High-level collaboration between CDH, Cleveland Clinic's Heart Surgery Program and our cardiothoracic colleagues nationally is going to be a key driver in delivering patients the highest quality of care."
Once the program is fully implemented, CDH patients will enjoy greater access to heart surgery clinical trials, treatment protocols and additional research opportunities that are offered through the Cleveland Clinic that are not currently available in Chicago.
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Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a nationally recognized 313-bed facility located in Winfield, Ill., a suburb west of Chicago. CDH is a leading center for medical technology and one of the busiest surgical hospitals in Illinois. For the last four consecutive years, Thomson Reuters has listed CDH as a 100 Top Hospital in the U.S. Similarly, U.S. News & World Report has included CDH on their list of Best Hospitals in the orthopaedics category each year since 2007. The hospital is part of an interdependent network of health-care organizations and services, including convenient care centers, occupational health services, home health and hospice care. For more information or to find a doctor on the medical staff of CDH, visit www.cdh.org or call 630-933-4CDH (4234)/ TTY 630-933-4833 for the hearing impaired.
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Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. About 2,000 full-time salaried physicians and researchers and 7,600 nurses at Cleveland Clinic represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In addition to its main campus, Cleveland Clinic operates nine regional hospitals in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic Florida, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas and Cleveland Clinic Canada. In 2008, there were more than 4.2 million visits throughout the Cleveland Clinic health system and 165,000 hospital admissions. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 80 countries. Visit Cleveland Clinic at clevelandclinic.org.
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Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor at the ICC, asked judges in June for permission to open a case involving possible war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed in Ivory Coast since November.
A pretrial chamber at the ICC said Monday it granted the prosecutor's request to investigate crimes committed since the November election. The chamber also requested additional information about crimes possibly committed from 2002-10, when Ivory Coast descended into a civil war that divided the country.
Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil war following a political stalemate that lasted from November to April. The international community recognized Alassane Ouattara as the winner of a November election though incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo refused to stand down.
"After a preliminary examination, the ICC prosecutor concluded that there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court have been committed in Ivory Coast since Nov. 28, 2010," the court said in a statement.
The ICC estimates at least 3,000 people were killed in the ensuing violence. There were also 100 reported cases of rape and 520 people were arbitrarily arrested.
Ouattara requested the investigation in a letter to the ICC. Humanitarian groups and the ICC said there is cause to believe both sides of the conflict committed crimes that fall under the court's jurisdiction.
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The 2006 GMC pickup truck owned by the father of two boys kidnapped from their grandparents' house has been found abandoned in a Madeira Beach parking garage.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says detectives are processing the vehicle, found late Thursday. They're searching for clues to help them find 4-year-old Cole Hakken and his 2-year-old brother Chase.
According to FDLE, they were taken by their father, 35-year-old Joshua Michael Hakken, who tied up their grandmother.
Authorities in several states are searching for the boys, as tips have poured in. Authorities say Hakken and the children's mother, 34-year-old Sharyn Patricia Hakken, are prime suspects.
Officials with FDLE now say the family may be traveling in a 1972, 25-foot Morgan sailboat with the registration number - FL3717BK.
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TORONTO, ON, Canada — A former employee of Impact Cleaning Services has filed a complaint with the Ontario Ministry of Labour, claiming the cleaning contractor owes him over $16,000 in unpaid wages, according to Marketwire.
Naser-Eldine El-Sanadli was fired without notice after five years of working for the company, the story stated.
According to the story, despite working 55 hours a week, El-Sanadli never received vacation pay or overtime pay and has yet to receive his last week''s pay or severance pay.
El-Sanadli''s complaint is similar to that of another former Impact Cleaning Services employee, Eugenia Nagar, who claims the company failed to pay her $20,000 in wages, the story noted.
Last year the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) asked the Ontario Ministry of Labour to conduct an investigation of Impact Cleaning Services'' employment practices, claiming the cleaning contractor employs a subcontracting scheme designed to deny a large number of its employees their basic statutory rights, the story added.
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The field school program involves survey, excavation at several Maya sites, and laboratory experience working directly with excavated Maya artifacts. Field techniques, lectures on Maya culture history and instruction concerning artifact analysis are provided during each session. Learn archaeological techniques, visit ancient ruins and earn HSU units in these two courses:
- ANTH 306, 3 units: Cultures of Belize
This course examines Belizean cultures, history and development. Students will study the impacts of ethnicity, class and gender experiences in various cultural practices, and examine the concepts of cultural identity and ethnic diversity in Belize.
- ANTH 357, 3 units: Field Archaeology
The principal focus of the course will be instruction in techniques required for field research. Students will learn how to map using different techniques (i.e. tape and compass, Total Mapping Station, and Global Positioning System). Field training will be supplemented by lectures. Subjects vary but generally cover excavation objectives, lithic analysis, ceramic analysis, osteological analysis, Mesoamerican warfare, and Maya prehistory.
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The Costa Rica Primate Field Program provides an opportunity for students to study in a unique region of the world and to practice anthropological concepts and techniques. The program will take place at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. The three week intensive program will be offered to all qualified Humboldt State University students, as well as to qualifying students from other institutions.
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This is a special topics course, which will include travel to the Klamath/Salmon River area for a weekend to meet with and learn from members of the Karuk Indigenous Basket Weavers and California Indian Basket Weavers Association.
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The Medieval Forensic Anthropology Field Program in Poland is an excellent and unique opportunity to work side-by-side with Polish archaeologists and HSU instructors while excavating, analyzing and cataloging human remains in Poland . The field site where this work takes place is Bezławki, in north eastern Poland . This site contains between 40 and 50 human skeletons dating between 14 c. AD and 15/16 c. AD. This was a period of cultural and religious transition in Poland, and at this site you may see evidence of some very interesting burial rites.
You will receive training in archaeological and bioarchaeological field and laboratory methods by excavating and helping to analyze the remains found, under the supervision of program staff. You will also learn about Polish history and culture, as well as experience life in a country that has been a crossroads of central Europe for hundreds of years.
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Forget debit: Banks pushing credit cards
As debit cards become less appealing, banks are rolling out some of their best credit card offers.
This post comes from Annamaria Andriotis at partner site SmartMoney.
For customers angry about new debit card fees, banks are promoting an alternative that, they say, is just as convenient, but with lower fees and better rewards. They call it a "credit card."
Until recently, debit cards have been popular among consumers, offering convenience without the risk of going into debt and, often, generous rewards programs. But as banks have cut back on debit card rewards and, recently, started imposing fees, credit cards have begun to look attractive by comparison.
Several banks have actually sweetened their credit card rewards programs. And interest rates are low: The average fell to 12.28% in August, the lowest it's been since February 2009, according to the most recent data from the Federal Reserve.
At least one bank seems to be encouraging its customers to make the switch from debit to credit. Last month, Bank of America announced that it was discontinuing the rewards program on its Merrill Lynch debit card, which is used by its brokerage clients. Those cardholders have until May to redeem their rewards -- or they can transfer their rewards to the Merrill Visa Signature credit card. A Bank of America spokeswoman says the bank isn't steering clients to credit cards but only offering them the alternative. Post continues after video.
It's part of an overall push by banks to attract new credit card customers, says Bill Hardekopf, chief executive at LowCards.com, which tracks credit card offers. After taking losses on credit cards during and after the recession, banks are once again seeing potential in credit cards.
Just 3.5% of cardholders are a month or more behind on their payments, the lowest level since 1994, according to CardHub.com, a credit card comparison site. And banks are writing off about 5.6% of credit card debt that they don't expect will be repaid, compared with 11% a year ago.
Why banks like credit cards
At the same time, banks now receive less money when customers pay with debit cards, while credit card revenues remain unchanged.
For consumers who don't carry a balance and care about rewards, the right credit card may be a better option. After ending its debit card rewards program this year, Chase still offers at least 1% cash back on three of its credit cards -- twice what the now-defunct debit rewards program paid. Bank of America's debit cards still offer rewards for travel with Alaska or US Airways, but the bank recently improved its Bank of America Cash Rewards credit card to pay up to 3% cash back on purchases.
Not every card is as generous. In some cases, cardholders have to spend a lot to get the best rewards. For example, Chase recently enhanced the rewards program on its Sapphire credit card, which gives new cardholders 50,000 points -- good for $500 in cash or $625 in travel -- but only if they spend $3,000 in the first three months. (Chase says its rewards cards require a certain level of engagement before the full rewards are granted but that cardholders can earn regular rewards right away.) And many rewards credit cards can carry an annual fee or charge a higher interest rate than a plain vanilla card.
Regardless of rewards, some customers may not want to risk running up debt, but there are strategies to avoid this. Most credit card companies will allow cardholders to set up an alert when their balance hits a certain level, says Odysseas Papadimitriou, chief executive at Card Hub.
Consumers can also sign up for automatic monthly payments, allowing the credit card issuer to withdraw money from their checking account equal to the balance owed. That avoids interest charges, but does risk overdraft charges for consumers who cut it close.
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A few weeks ago I came up with an idea to develop a mobile app which will direct students in my university to the nearest printer availiable. The whole thing is part of my final project.
The Android based app will need to perform the following tasks:
- The user's location in the campus is sent to the server. Assume this part works just fine.
- The server sends an SNMP request to the printers in the user's vicinity. I'll probably use PHP or Python for that part.
- The data requested by SNMP is processed and sent back to the client
My question concerns the server. The university's IT manager offered me a designated server for development, which sounds great. Now I need to choose which OS I want installed on the server - Windows server or Linux (don't know which versions). I don't have any server programming/operating experince, but generally speaking I feel more comfortable in Windows enviroment (just because that has always been my OS).
I don't have much time for learning a new OS, but when does it make sense generally to host or develop server side applications on a Windows environment versus a Linux environment?


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