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J.J. Hickson wears a half smile when he's on the court so much it's almost a part of his uniform.
The reason is simple: He loves playing basketball, and he has ridded himself of the traps that bring down players, such as worrying about a starting role. Quietly, he has been one of the Nuggets' best players during the preseason.
"He's been good," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "We want to bring up the shooting percentage of all of the bigs, but I think he's doing the best job of taking the shots that the defense gives him. And when he has caught the ball, he's had a plan of how he's going to attack the basket."
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Through five preseason games, the 6-foot-9 Hickson leads the Nuggets in scoring (11.4 points per game) and field-goal accuracy (58.5 percent), is tied for the team lead in steals (1.2) and is third in rebounding (5.8). He has done a lot right to show his new bosses he deserves playing time.
"It's my sixth year in the league," Hickson said. "I want to peak toward the beginning of the season. I know my body better than I did the past few years. My individual performance thus far has been solid. I think Coach will tell you we have a lot of things to work on as a team. When I pick my play up individually, we'll get better as a team."
Think of the 242-pound Hickson as a semi "stretch four," a power forward with a shooting range out to 17 feet. That range helps spread the court for players such as Ty Lawson to get into the lane without much resistance in pick-and-roll situations because the defense has to respect Hickson's jump shot.
And if Shaw needs to, he can play Hickson in the post in a pinch. Shaw did so against the Los Angeles Clippers in a recent game, choosing to stay big when the Clippers went small late. Hickson had a smaller defender on him, and the Nuggets tried to exploit the mismatch by getting him the ball in the post.
By and large, Hickson, 25, has been as advertised when the Nuggets signed him as a free agent in July. He averaged a double-double (12.7 points, 10.4 rebounds) in Portland as an undersized starting center last season, and the Nuggets are happy they don't have to face him anymore. Hickson averaged 18.5 points and 13.5 rebounds and shot 53.1 percent from the field against them last season.
And best of all from the Nuggets' standpoint is his selfless attitude. He knows he's likely to back up Kenneth Faried.
"It's never about who starts. It's always about who finishes," Hickson said. "Human nature, we all have our insecurities about whatever is going on in life. As long as I'm getting minutes, I can only control what I can control on the court, and that's that. I'm going to let my play speak for itself."
And thanks to Shaw, who has told his team to play without fear of admonishment, Hickson's play has spoken volumes.
"I've been comfortable from Day One," Hickson said. "Coach made it possible for everyone to feel that way. He hasn't complained about a shot or our style of play individually yet. It's a big change. My confidence level is definitely high. I've got high expectations of myself and my team this season. It will work out."
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Rebounding machine
Nuggets coach Brian Shaw calls Hickson an elite rebounder at the defensive end. A look at Hickson's top five defensive rebounding games last season, with defensive and total rebounds listed:
Opp. Def/Total
Chicago 18 (21)
Sacramento 13 (15)
Denver 12 (18)
Indiana 12 (13)
Minnesota 12 (16)
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Morning Glory by Diane PeterfreundNovember 30, 2012
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Plucky young TV producer is fired from her gig at a local morning show in New Jersey-but vows to land on her feet. With an unfinished college education and suddenly out of a job, Becky Fuller finds herself at Daybreak, a floundering network morning news program in New York City thatrs"s sinking faster than the Titanic. Abysmal ratings are only the tip of the iceberg: The outdated cameras belong in the Smithsonian, and executive producers never stay beyond the next commercial break. To reverse the downward spiral, Becky hires legendary newscaster Mike Pomeroy as co-anchor-or rather, she makes him an offer he canrs"t contractually refuse. Mike abhors Daybreakrs"s fluff pieces (pet psychics?) and takes an instant dislike to Colleen, his equally vain co-anchor. The only bright side of Beckyrs"s career is Adam Bennett, the gorgeous producer of an actual hard news show, but Daybreakrs"s dysfunction spells trouble for their blossoming relationship. As Mike and Colleenrs"s on-air chemistry proves explosive, Becky must scramble to save her love life, her reputation, and Daybreak itself before the network pulls the plug.
Review: I am quite a fan of Diane Peterfreund's. Her Killer Unicorn series ranks pretty high on my favorites list. When I discovered that she had written a chick lit novel, I couldn't wait to read it. I was sadly disappointed with this book.
I found out after I read this book that it is an adaptation of the movie (not the other way around), so I am willing to place the blame for the less-than-stellar story on a crappy movie and not on Peterfreund.
My basic problem was that I just felt meh about the entire book. I couldn't really connect with Becky, the main character. The plot was way too familiar. I have read this same story a dozen times and there some nothing that made it stand out for me. The writing was good, I just don't think Peterfreund had much of substance to work with here.
I wouldn't recommend this book. I would recommend other works by this author with much glee. If you want to read this novel, definitely get it from the library.


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Equities at a Discount, or Market Valuation of Managed Funds?
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Closed end funds tend to trade at discounts to their Net Asset Value (NAV) in recent years. I've not only wondered why that is, but if it portends a discount bargain for equities. Or could it be a generic proxy market valuation for managed funds. I and my family have long held and traded an ancient closed end fund - TriContinental (NYSE: TY) - I mean for decades, since the 50's in fact. Some years it actually traded at a PREMIUM! but for the last two decades it's mostly been at a persistently distressing 10-15% discount to NAV.
Looked at one way, you can buy a basket of equities managed by professionals with a (sort of) long track record at a 10-15% discount. Sounds very attractive right? But if you ever plan to sell, you then sell at that same 10-15% discount. Maybe, though, if you have REALLY LONG horizons, you can be patient enough to buy at a discount and sell in one of those shinning moments when it sells at a premium..... Ah yes, the fools' errand (ha had to get that in). Because, what really matters is price and not the premium or discount to NAV. Then there is the constant change in equities.... well you have PROFESSIONALS managing that.... and they buy and sell relentlessly to get you the best deal don't they? Well, ummm maybe not every time.
So lets just dive into the details for TY, an unusual candidate that has been around since 1929. TY's current 1 year returns are 30.4% on NAV and 31.55% on Market value. That's a fairly attractive bump, see what a discount to NAV does for you? But they have quite a long track record since 1929, and the NAV return since 1929 is a stunning 3.56%. Hmmm possibly less than stellar.
So what is this telling us? Maybe that we can buy an equity basket at a 10-15% discount to its underlying value and manage it to infinity at a good return, like say 3.56%. Or, perhaps this whole discount thing is the market telling us, when its free to do so, that managed buying and selling can be good for a while, but in the long run mistakes will prevail. The collective market will "hedge" active trading by discounting the value. Note that open ended Mutual Funds are constrained to trade at NAV every day. Maybe you should consider 10-15% the average damage that average mutual fund managers can do to your portfolio.
Could it be just this one fund with numerous fund manager changes over the decades? How about another one of entirely different make up, from the Gabelli Family, GDL Fund (NYSE: GDL). A modern fund with a track record from 2007, now trading coincidentally at 13.5% discount to NAV, and commonly in the range of 11-14% in recent months. Long term return since inception in 2007? 2.17%. Return for 1 year on NAV, 5.18%, and on Market value 10.13%.... not so much different in the long haul.
There have been many theories floated as to why closed end funds like TY and GDL trade at discounts to NAV in the "Modern World." My personal belief is that the market, when not constrained by "open" Mutual Fund rules tells us that on .average, the penalty for active management by "professionals" in the long haul is 10-15%. You can't count on Peter Lynch running your fund forever, and you can't count on the genius that got you 50% return last year to be running the closed end fund you like this year. I like what Buffet had to say on the subject of management - "buy a business that any idiot can run because eventually, any idiot will."
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An activist for the far-right English Defence League who stood in the recent Rotherham byelection has been remanded in jail on burglary charges.
Brian Clint Bristow, usually known as Clint, came last in the 29 November byelection with just 29 votes. A little over two weeks later, on 16 December, the 39-year-old was charged by Humberside police with burglary. After being refused bail, he was remanded in custody and spent Christmas in jail.
He is accused of trespassing on private property and stealing toiletries, money and a mobile phone then making threats of violence. The alleged burglary took place in the coastal village of Bempton, near Bridlington.
Bristow was refused bail at Bridlington magistrates court and the case has been transferred to Hull crown court.
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The Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins defeated the Hershey Bears 4-3 at the Mohegan Sun Arena Friday night, in a battle for first place in the American Hockey League's East Division.
Hershey had a commanding lead heading into the third period with a 3-0 score. But the Penguins rallied by scoring three goals and chased starting Hershey goalie Braden Holtby by the time the first five minutes of the third were over.
The Penguins scored on a power play first by Jason Williams and less then two minutes later, Brandon DeFazio put a routine wrist shot past Holtby's glove for their second goal. Robert Bortuzzo banged home a Holtby rebound from the face off circle to tie the score. Paul Thompson netted the game winner with about five minutes remaining in the game.
Hershey went on the power play with little over a minute left in the game and pulled Dany Sabourin for a two man advantage but Brad Thiessen held his ground in the Penguins' net for the win.


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Posts tagged potatoes
Beef tips plate from Sheff's Seafood with peppers & onions, gravy, French fries, hush puppies and loaded salad with pasta and pineapples! Delish!!
Pulled BBQ sandwich, loaded baked potato au gratin and a slice of pumpkin pie!
Home Sweet Home &; Mama's meatloaf, mashed potatoes & gravy, Lima beans, black eyed peas, fresh corn and warm Dutch Apple pie with buttercream icecream! Delish 💘
Pork Ribeye with caramelized onions and apple roux, creamy mashed potatoes, broccoli & cheese and yeast rolls with honey butter! Delish!!
Tonight I baked a Spiral Ham with pineapples and brown sugar, potatoes Au gratin, field peas and Peach Cobbler Soufflé with cream cheese pastry for dessert! Nom nom nom 🍴😜
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For the potatoes: salt, pepper, paprika, parsley, butter
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Shredded cheddar cheese
Buttermilk pancakes
I LOVE cooking Shrimp Scampi! It's one of my av dishes and this time around I spiced it up with some buttered asparagus!
Last night I pan fried pork chops and served them with extra cheesy potatoes Au gratin and country style baked beans! Yummy!!
I just filmed a video "Piping hot Potatoes" on Viddy! Check it out, hit that like button and leave a comment :)
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I found an amazing recipe for Easy Breakfast Potatoes! They were so simple to make and came out wonderfully &;&;
2 large russet potatoes diced
2 tbsp olive oil (up to 3 tbsp)
1 tsp dried dill or parsley
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp pepper
2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
2 tsp salt
tip: you can make them spicy if you like by adding
1 tsp chile flakes
Preheat oven to 425 deg.
Peel and wash potatoes. Dice potatoes in small cubes (about 1/2 inch thick).
Place in a medium bowl. Add olive oil and toss to coat all potatoes. Add the rest of the ingredients and toss to mix.
Place potatoes in a single layer in a 13x9 pan. Use parchment paper for easy cleanup …and so that the potatoes do not stick to the bottom of the pan.
Bake for 30 -40 minutes or until nicely golden brown. Enjoy! :)
Baked barbecue chicken with roasted potatoes, sweet corn and buttered bread with grape jelly for dinner :) SoOo delish! I can not tell you how full I am…
Tonight I cooked baked chicken and an amazingly simple potato dish by the lovely food Queen Martha Stewart!
Here's the recipe: http://www.marthastewart.com/336976/crispy-potato-roast
For the baked chicken I cut the breast lengthwise and coated with salt, pepper, garlic powder and barbecue chicken rub seasonings! Place chicken in foiled dish. Add 1/2 cup of orange juice (I used pineapple-orange juice) and just enough chicken broth (or water) to barely top the chicken breast. Top with diced onions and barbecue sauce (I used sweet Baby Ray's) and cover with foil. Bake at 400* for 45 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in the center. Serve with potatoes…Bon appétit :)
I made an amazing chicken pot pie casserole…completely from scratch! Even the pastry puff crust! It was so delish :)
The recipe was from Paula Deen…you know that means yummy butter goodness! Or greatness for that matter!
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Sunday afternoon we decided to go eat at Golden Corral…we needed a wheel barrel to get us out of there. I ended up rocking a food baby for the rest of the evening! lol….this meal probably drives every Carb Counter crazy!
My grilled kickin' chicken sandwich witth bacon & provolone cheese ;)


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The balcony of this West Coast holiday home puts you right amongst the natural scenery as does the courtyard with it's open fireplace for outdoor leisure. The Cabbage Tree house is also fully self-contained, meaning it's all just yours for the duration of your stay.
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Is the 100 watts for the built in inverter RMS or peak? Kinda OT but i'm just curious.
I have an A7N8X-DLX mobo, 2000+ CPU, 512 DDR (dont remember what speed) and an 80 gig WD HDD.
My question: What PSU should I get to power this set up?
I will be running an AGP Video card. NO DVD or CD Drive. I have a built in inverter (100W) in my car (2004 Toyota Matrix XR). I plan on using a Xenarc 7" touch screen in the dash.
SO whats my best power option? I'm proficient in electronics. If anyone has a good schematic and PCB layout for something that would work for me, that would rock.
Is the 100 watts for the built in inverter RMS or peak? Kinda OT but i'm just curious.
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On the outlet it says 100W, 115V. THats all I know right now. I'll try to find some more info.
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I think you'll need the Opus 150W to power that setup. I'm pretty sure that setup uses more than 100W.
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Leaves of Life - July 9
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
—Francis Bacon.
When anyone provokes you, be assured it is your opinion which provokes you. Try therefore, in the first place, not to be hurried away with appearance. For if you once gain time and respite, you will more easily command yourself.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
—Colossians 4. 6.
My Father, help me to learn through kindness and tenderness the value of self-control. Help me in the moods of jealousy and impatience, that I may not cause others unhappiness by words or deeds. Teach me how to overcome the ways that keep me discontented, that I may have a brighter speech. Amen.
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Every year, this week, my thoughts turn to where I was October 20, 1991 the day of the Oakland Firestorm.
If you lived anywhere in the Bay Area at the time then you likely have that day etched in your memory, as well.
For those of us who lived in the Oakland and Berkeley hills and just below, it was a defining moment in our lives. Even if you did not lose your own home you likely knew a friend or neighbor who did. You may have known someone who died in the fire or lost family members. Those of us who were left behind to rebuild stand witness to the devastation of that day and its aftermath much as I imagine New Yorkers remember 9/11.
The day of the firestorm was to be an especially enjoyable one for us. My husband and I were celebrating a belated anniversary that day by going to eat at an outdoor cafe on College Avenue on the Oakland/Berkeley border.
We had left our one year-old son and eight-year-old daughter in the care of a responsible teenage babysitter and drove down the windy roads from our home near the top of Oakland's Montclair district. I remember remarking to my husband how dry the air felt and predicted it would be a scorcher that day.
Midway through our meal we spotted smoke up in the Berkeley hills, above the Caldecott Tunnel. We didn't think much of it, assuming it was a grass fire of some sort that would soon be extinguished. After finishing our meal we walked around a bit and returned to our car to head home.
By then, however, the fire had started to spread and traffic on Highway 880 heading South was backing up. Soon we could see flames and smoke pouring off the hillside. It was obvious to us that we were not going to get home to our children continuing the route we were on.
We somehow got off the freeway, turned around and headed towards Richmond, took San Pablo Dam Road through El Sobrante, headed through Moraga and took a two lane windy road over the backside of the Oakland hills and made it back to our neighborhood.
As we pulled into our driveway we could see smoke and flames lapping ever closer. The fire seemed far enough away that we did not feel in immediate danger, but given how fast the fire had spread already there was no telling when our chance of escape might be cut off. Our babysitter's father was at our home loading our kids and pets into his car and putting water on our roof with a hose.
We dashed inside long enough to retrieve the family photo albums, our computer hard drive and a box with important papers. Nothing, and I mean nothing, else besides our children, pets and those few things seemed worth taking in that moment. Quickly we loaded two kids, two basset hounds and a cage with two parakeets into the car with us and sped down the hill. Some of our neighbors fled with us. Others stayed behind saying we were overreacting. In hindsight, I am glad we left when we did because the neighborhood soon became filled with smoke making it hard to see anything or breathe.
For the next 24 hours we were glued to the television news camped out in the living room of our friends' home in Dublin. There were conflicting reports and we didn't know if our neighborhood was incinerated or not. Newscasters kept mentioning the street immediately below our home being on fire. (Later we learned that was an erroneous report, but we feared the worst.)
When we finally ventured back home, smoke still hung heavy in the air. Our neighborhood was thankfully spared, but a large swath of our community looked like a moonscape and a final count would ultimately reveal we personally knew 45 households that had lost their homes and all of their posessions.
I became involved in several organizations in the days immediately after the fire. In addition to serving along with others as a reporter (getting the word out in our neighborhood and in the local papers about the state of the damage and prospect for recovery), I also served as a community liaison, of sorts, with the national media that descended on our community in droves.
Later I helped owners reconnect with their pets and assisted with clothing collection and distribution for those who literally fled the fire with just what was on their back.
As in other natural disasters, people rose to the occasion and it felt good for those first few months afterwards to know the eyes of the world were upon us hoping and praying for our community's recovery. People were resilient, insurance companies paid up, houses were rebuilt and lives moved on.
But, things were changed in marked ways after the firestorm. All of us who had been there were made different by it. Even newcomers who moved in afterwards couldn't help but be touched by it - even if remotely.
For some years after the fire I continued to put all of our photo albums in the trunk of my car whenever fire danger was high, lest I be away from home when a fire should break out. We never left our children with anyone who didn't drive a car after that and in large ways and small we adjusted our lives differently. Goat herds were brought in to graze and keep weeds down in our neighborhood. We cut a 30 foot safety barrier around our property. Even the smell of someone having a barbecue in their backyard or burning wood in their fireplace would trigger memories for us.
We left that neighborhood in 1996 to live in the flatlands elsewhere. By then we had three children and high fire danger in our neighborhood of steep narrow roads factored into our consideration to move. I seldom venture to our old neighborhood today and most of our friends burned out moved elsewhere or we've lost touch with them 21 years later.
Still, when a certain dry wind kicks up some afternoons, I find myself looking towards those brown hillsides and remembering the day that changed the lives of so many of us in the Bay Area. I think about those who died and those who very narrowly escaped alive. I was but a mere bystander to it all.
But, I will remember it forever, as if it were yesterday.
(Patch contributing editor Carol Parker was a news and feature reporter for the Daily Review and has been a guest contributor for numerous publications over the years including the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Examiner.)


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Facts about Obesity #1 - Consuming too many calories: People are eating much more than they used to. This used to be the case just in developed nations - however, the trend has spread worldwide. Despite billions of dollars being spent on public awareness campaigns that attempt to encourage people to eat healthily, the majority of us continue to overeat. In 1980 14% of the adult population of the USA was obese; by 2000 the figure reached 31% (The Obesity Society).


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Womens' stories dominate 2013 Sundance film lineup
New York: The Sundance Film Festival, the top U.S. film festival for independent cinema, on Wednesday unveiled its lineup for 2013, with films centered on female characters dominating the American fiction film competition.
The 113 feature length movies, including both narrative films and documentaries, cover a range of topics, but more than half of those chosen for the U.S. dramatic competition focus on stories about women, including several about females exploring sexual relationships.
That includes 'May In The Summer', director Cherien Dabis's new film about a bride-to-be forced to re-evaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan that is one of 16 films in the U.S. dramatic competition.
It will kick off Sundance on January 17 as one of four first-night screenings that will comprise of one feature and one documentary from each of the U.S. films and world cinema sections - movies made outside the United States.
Overall, 4,044 feature films from around the world were submitted for the festival that is backed by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute for filmmaking and is the premiere U.S. event for movies made outside Hollywood's major studios.
Indie films from Sundance festivals that have gone on to critical success include last year's winner, 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', as well as 'The Sessions', and 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
Other features about female journeys include writer director Lynn Shelton's 'Touchy Feely', about a massage therapist unable to do her job when she suddenly has an aversion to bodily contact.
"There are a lot of women's stories, and interestingly enough, a lot of those stories exploring sexual relationships," the festival's program director Trevor Groth said in an interview, noting it was a natural extension of an increase in female directors.
"We have had some over the years that have been from a male gaze looking at sexual politics and sexual relationships, but this year we have got a wave of films doing that from a female perspective, which is intriguing and exciting," Groth added.
Those include 'Afternoon Delight', a dark comedy about a lost L.A. housewife who takes in a young stripper, 'Concussion', about a woman in a lesbian relationship who becomes a call girl, and 'The Lifeguard', about a reporter who quits her job in New York and moves back home to Connecticut.
Stories from the male perspective include 'C.O.G.', the first film adaptation of comic writer David Sedaris. Adapted from a short story from Sedaris' best-selling 1997 essay collection, 'Naked', Sedaris has co-written the screenplay about a cocky man traveling to Oregon to work on an apple farm.
Other Day One screenings include 'Crystal Fairy', about two strangers on a road trip in Chile, and the documentaries 'Twenty Feet From Stardom', about backup singers for some of the biggest bands in pop music and 'Who Is Dayani Cristal?', about the search for an anonymous body in the Arizona desert.
Nonfiction films from the world documentary section tackle subjects ranging from Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot in 'Pussy Riot -- A Punk Prayer', to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake 'Fallen City' to Google's quest to build a giant digital library 'Google and the World Brain'.
And returning to the United States, among American documentaries are an examination of the occupy Wall Street movement '99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film', 'Dirty Wars' about America's covert wars and 'Manhunt' that looks inside the CIA's conflict against Al Qaeda.
Festival director John Cooper noted the strength and "immediacy" of the documentary lineup and "the way these films explain and expose the issues of our time, like economic inequality, corporate corruption and greed, the problems and sometimes the solutions of living in this information age".
Movies in the Premieres section, which unlike the competition sections feature more established directors, will be announced on December 3.
Overall, this year's festival will feature movies from 32 countries and 51 first-time filmmakers. The festival begins on January 17, 2012 and runs through January 27.
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Pick Your Own Apples: For Suckers?
Slate says U-pick apples are for suckers. In this recently reprinted article from 2006, Daniel Gross says: Apple picking is a cherished rite of fall, a wholesome and fun family outing... It's also a wasteful scam.
He says that you end up with far more apples than you will ever use when you visit a u-pick operation, and that it's not much cheaper than buying apples at the store.
We say, perhaps. But we would still rather eat apples straight from the tree, and offer easy, quick recipes for using up what's left. In fact, as you read this, we're at the apple orchard up the street from our country friends, getting our pie apples for the fall!
But what do you think? Soured on u-pick child labor? Or looking forward to your own bag of fresh-picked Granny Smiths?
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I think few people do u-pick of any sort because it's cheap. Wandering among the apple trees as the fall colors just start to turn, munching on fresh-as-fresh-gets apples while you "shop"..does it get any better? My wife and I go apple picking every year and it's one of my most cherished rituals and we never have a problem using it all. This year, we devoured so many fresh apples and apple desserts, we didn't even have enough left over to can!
Apple-picking isn't meant to be economical or efficient. If we were trying to be as efficient and economical as possible we'd buy the waxy flavorless apples at the grocery store. Apple-picking is about getting the freshest, juiciest, tastiest apples possible, and so what if you get too many? Apples last for an eternity.
My boyfriend and I went apple picking in Michigan last weekend. Our idea of a romantic autumnal excursion turned out a bit hotter than we had expected (about 85 degrees) so we certainly got our excercise in for the day. Regardless of the temperatures, the activity was fun - and a wonderful day outside, in nature. We are making apple pie this weekend and made pumpkin apple bran muffins on Monday. Also - we scored four gallons of fresh pressed cider for $14.92 (Columbus Day special!) and have been devouring it! So in short, if you are an adventurist, a food lover and still have a bit of that innocent kid left in you - head to an apple orchard this weekend!!
Driving up to the apple farm for freshly harvested apples (I don't do my own picking) isn't intended to save barrels of money -- it's a little day-trip vacation where you take a pretty drive into the hills, and you smell the lovely fresh fruit, and maybe you go to a little antique store in the country, and then you make pie or apple sauce when you get home. You judge the cost-effectiveness compared to other day-trips you could have taken to entertain yourself on a Saturday afternoon, not compared to running to Fry's for the 10-for-$10 price on apples that deserve to be that cheap.
If you can come up with a cool-but-not-freezing storage area, Jim is absolutely right -- your barrel of apples will last the entire winter, just like on Little House on the Prairie.
Apple picking is about apple picking. The $1 a pound I spent on the apples was secondary.
And I am almost through the entire peck of apples, we picked.
The article was so poignant that they had to run it again. I scoff at them.
I hope their kids get apples instead of candy on Halloween. Not because I don't think they are a viable alternative to candy but because they can see first hand how the surplus of apples from their weekend trip to the country are being used. Then again, they probably don't let their kids get candy on Halloween because they would end up with too much and that too would shed some unflattering light on the American economy.
It's sad that Mr. Gross is barking up the wrong (apple) tree but it is not a surprise.
For me, going out to pick apples (or other fruits) is about more than saving money. It's about spending time with my dad, my sister, my fiance, whoever's there that day. It's about knowing exactly where my food is coming from. It's about getting just what I need to make a batch of apple butter or peach-blueberry jam. It's about getting to be outdoors.
It's what I'm going to be doing in about 3 hours. :)
And it's one of those little rituals where I am totally doing the happy dance because we have apple farms in Arizona! The closest one doesn't open for another month, though.
Supermarket apples are widely recognized to be shite; this obviates the argument that apple picking is inferior, from an obtaining-tasty-apples perspective, to buying store apples.
If you store them correctly then the apples will last for months. Personally I love apples, and have been eating 2 or 3 a day! I figure living in a climate that has a short growing season, and considering most fruit you buy at the store cannot be grown locally, I might as well do my part to eat local and fresh produce. Plus it's just damn fun.
Things to do with "tons" of apples:
Make some applesauce
Make an Apple Pancake
If you have a juicer, press some into juice - spike it for a sassy fall cocktail
Give some to the neighbors
Take some into the office
Happy harvesting!
If I am a sucker because would would rather skip out on the mechanized harvesting, sitting for weeks in inventory, packaging, and shipping, then I am happy to be one. I am a sucker because I value the closeness to both the food and the grower more than I value convenience and efficiency. I am a sucker because I am willing to pay more for the privilege of picking (in both senses) my own food. I am a sucker because I bought fresh picked apples that will keep in the cellar for 4 months, instead of the ones at the store that will only last a few weeks. I'll be eating local apples through winter that I picked myself. Local apples at Christmas in stockings? Only if you are a sucker like me.
I spent $3.50/lb. this summer for blueberries because I was could pick them myself. They were local, organic, and I picked the biggest, juiciest that I could find. I am such a sucker.
Cute how he implies Alice Waters bullied America into valuing fresh food. Oh, if only we could go back to the heady days of TV dinners and Sara Lee every night!
A question: do U-pick operations sell unpasteurized apple juice? I'd love to make some hard cider, but I don't have the time or money to make the grinders and presses necessary.
If you don't go overboard, it's not that hard to eat/cook all the apples you collect. :)
I managed to do just this after a trip to a U-pick Apple orchard. Baking involved. :)
Sounds like Slate has hacked its life so far that it forgot how to live. Not to mention their apparent lack of a freezer to put up apple pie filling in Ziplocks that last for years and years.
in mr. gross's defense, since i read his column all the time and quite like it,
1) he's an economist, so he's writing about economy and marketing, not the hard to measure qualitative value of pleasure (in picking your own apple).
2) he's not trying to get anyone to stop. he opens the article admitting he picks apples too. he must enjoy it like the rest of us, or he wouldn't do it.
3) everything he points out is reasonable and true in it's context. again, no reason to stop, he's just presenting us with food for thought. having grown up in a rural area where people often turned to "tourist farming" to make a living, i can wholeheartedly sympathize with him pointing out how consumerist people can be when they show up to ride their hayride, pick their apples and pumpkins, blow a wad on jams and pies, and then take off in their weighted down SUVs. he's right, they're not communing with nature, they're conquering and consuming it.
4) in the comments about people letting their excess produce rot, i believe he's speaking to the general public, not those of us who love food so much that we haunt kitchen-related blogs. outside of the sphere of foodies, people do indeed buy a bushel of apples they can't eat and won't can...and worse, they'll put them in the city garbage because they don't compost. not everyone is like us. a lot of people who go to tourist farms are buying the experience, and they don't give a flying flip about the apples once they bring them home.
4) it's never bad to be able to say, "yeah, when you look at it that way, you're right. but i'm still gonna pick my apples." without degrading the idea (or the person) you didn't agree with.
the unexamined life is not worth living...that includes examining the perhaps unintended consequences of driving out into the "country" and picking a peck of x,y,z.
Of course the apple trees are not the same as the ones that may or may not existed in the Garden of Eden. Those would have been inedible to us. Apples trees are one positive example of a genetically modified crop. It's human interest, farm tourist or grocery store shopper that keeps them in existence. But I digress...
It's just funny to me that what the author is part of the very situation he is essentially criticizing in a condescending way.
The message I get is that instead of rising above the hopelessness of the economic system exemplified by the apple orchard he just gives in and his family eats the 12 apples and lets the rest rot rather than finding a resourceful way to invest those apples for the future. Why bother when there is no hope anyways?
Maybe the article is not really about apples per se, but it is the author's diatribe worthy of criticism, especially if it gets run year after year.
gee, Daniel Gross sounds a bit sour.
We drove to NY to pick apples every year when I was a child -- and we used them all (ten or so bushels.) The minute we got home, production started -- baking apple cakes for the freezer, and canning dozens of quarts of applesauce.
It was quite cheap and efficient too, since we'd pick "the drops" for apples sauce. The farmer had professional pickers for the trees, and let the home cooks in for all the gorgeous apples knocked to the ground. Then when we were done, they'd scoop everything up and make cider
So, Jim, orchards are def. a place to go for the unpasteurized cider (that you can leave out to turn "hard"). Health food stores and farmers markets tend to carry it too, at least in NYC.
Love your comment on Alice Waters v Sara Lee. :)
I paid $9 for half a bushel of mixed apples this is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 apples. I bought one honeycrisp at the grocey store and it cost me a buck fifty. Seems like a deal to me. I think the problem is that a bag of red delicious does not equal a bag of your favorite variety from the u-pick. I also think the Slate author probably doesn't cook, thus the too many apples, I've already made two cakes, a dozen caramel apples and I the ones that are left are ear-marked for a tart.


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Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses
AbstractThe first half of the nineteenth century was a critical juncture regarding the emergence of female participation in the market economy, the increase in the wage of females relative to that of adult males, and the evolution of large scale firms in both mechanized and non-mechanized industries. We present the first systematic and comprehensive description of these events as they evolved in the states of the Northeast to 1850. Our sources are primarily samples taken from three early censuses and reports of manufacturing, 1820, 1832, and 1850. Our principal findings are: (1) that women and children composed a large share (over 40% in 1832) of the entire manufacturing labor force during the initial period of industrialization in the U.S., but that this share began a secular decline as early as 1840; (2) that the wage of females (and boys) relative to that of adult males rose wherever large scale manufacturing establishments spread and that by 1850 this ratio had risen to almost 90% its long-term level; (3) that the labor force participation of young unmarried women in the industrial counties of the Northeast was, in 1832, high by late nineteenth century standards; and (4) that the employment of females and boys was closely associated with production processes used by large-scale establishments. Women and children had been a previously under-utilized and large segment of the potential labor force, and their harnessing by manufacturing was a critical factor in the industrialization of the Northeast.
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Publication status: published as Goldin, Claudia and Kenneth Sokoloff. "Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses." Journal of Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 4, (December 1982), pp. 741-774.
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- Goldin, Claudia & Sokoloff, Kenneth, 1982. "Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, vol. 42(04), pages 741-774, December.
- Claudia Goldin & Kenneth Sokoloff, 1981. "Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses," UCLA Economics Working Papers, UCLA Department of Economics 220, UCLA Department of Economics.
- Goldin, Claudia & Sokoloff, Kenneth, 1982. "Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses," Scholarly Articles 2664292, Harvard University Department of Economics.
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It's Not Swinging If You're Committed!
For some, being polyamorous provides more love and support for the kids than does being in a monogamous household.
Ronda Kaysen: Most nights, Matt Bullen's 7-year-old son sleeps at home with his mom and dad, except for the nights when he sleeps at his dad's girlfriend's house. The arrangement works well because his mom's boyfriend lives there, too. Actually, his mom's boyfriend is married to his dad's girlfriend. Confused? Don't worry, that's just par for the course in polyamorist households.
Polyamory -- the notion that committed love relationships can involve more than two consenting adults -- is a bit like swinging, with one key difference: Love and commitment are the focus, not sexual hookups. For some, polyamorous relationships involve three or more adults, and no other new partners ever enter the equation. For others, polyamory becomes an even more fluid family dynamic.
Polyamory is relatively new terrain for Matt and Vera, who have been married for 14 years and live in Seattle. Three years ago, they decided to try having an open marriage wherein they allowed each other to have casual sexual relationships with other people. But when Matt met Terisa Greenan through Facebook, the situation quickly changed.
"It became clear to Vera that this was something more than just casual," says Matt. "This was polyamory.... Pretty obviously, I was falling in love with Terisa."
Soon enough, though, Vera was dating Terisa's husband, Larry. Terisa, the creator of a web series about polyamory called "Family," lives with two life partners: Larry and her longtime boyfriend, Scott. (To protect their identities, neither Scott nor Larry wished their last names to be used in this piece.) Terisa considers Matt and Vera to be extended family, and their son now has a room in her house.
Raising kids in a polyamorous household has its advantages, say polyamorists. After all, more adults means more hands to help with household chores such as doing laundry, making dinner, getting kids ready for bed and scheduling playdates. With more adults, there's also more money to go around. Kids enjoy the benefits of a large, extended family network. Polyamorous parents insist that their kids also learn valuable communication skills simply from watching their parents navigate the tricky terrain of managing more than one lover at a time.
"It's actually more natural than nuclear families, to tell you the truth," says Dossie Easton, a psychologist and author of The Ethical Slut, which is considered the polyamorists' bible. "The kids are startlingly able to discern between the different adults."
Easton, who found herself a single mother by choice in 1969, raised her daughter in an ever-changing polyamorous household in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a time, she lived with two other single mothers and hosted regular luncheons for all their various lovers, so everyone could get to know one another. Raising children, she says, was always at the center of the equation. If a lover didn't feel comfortable in a child-centered world, he didn't last long.
"I don't think it's any different than raising [kids] in a monogamous family," says Robyn Trask, Managing Director of Loving More, a polyamorous magazine and nonprofit organization based in Colorado. "You just have to really talk and communicate with your kids, which is important anyway." Trask raised three kids in a polyamorous household. When her oldest son was 10, she broke the news to him that she and his father had other lovers, expecting it to be a difficult conversation. To her surprise, he rolled with it.
"I explained that we had an open relationship, and that that didn't mean [his father and I] didn't love each other very much," she says. "I asked him how he felt about it, and he said, 'That's kind of cool.'" Now 22, her son identifies as poly and currently has two girlfriends.
For Trask's kids, growing up poly meant they had a large network of aunt- and uncle-like figures to call on. "We have more adults that we can lean on, who can be there for us," says Trask. "That kind of extended family, where there's an intimacy, is really nice."
The unusual family setup does have its drawbacks. Poly kids have to deal with judgmental peers, hiding their true family structure from friends, and the sudden absence of parental figures they have come to love and trust (if their biological parents break up with the boyfriend or girlfriend du jour).
"Kids have certainly talked about feeling sad when partners leave," says Elisabeth Sheff, a sociologist at George State University who is conducting a long-term study on children raised in polyamorous households. "That's a source of pain for them."
Although polyamorists are quick to point out that monogamy doesn't shield kids from breakups and abandonment, Sheff notes that the turnover in poly households tends to be higher simply because more adults are involved in the equation.
Extramarital hookups are nothing new. Free love dominated the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the 1970s brought the concept of swinging into the mainstream. Recently, actress Tilda Swinton raised eyebrows when she unabashedly admitted to having two male partners, one of whom is the father of her twins.
Biologist David Barash contends in his book The Myth of Monogomy that humans are a mildly polygamous species by nature, with a strong penchant for the occasional extramarital hookup. As for whether we're naturally inclined to be polyamorous, he doubts it.
"There is typically a biological payoff for both men and women in engaging in the occasional extra-pair copulation," says Barash. "But at the same time, there is a strong disinclination to have one's partner doing the same thing. So, just as a tendency for extra-pair copulation is 'natural,' so is a tendency for sexual jealousy."
There are no hard numbers on how many Americans identify themselves as polyamorous; however, Trask estimates that as many as 60,000 people are poly in the U.S. Her organization's database represents about 26,000 families.
There are large polyamorous communities in cities across the country that host poly potlucks, retreats and social outings. Online social networking sites like Facebook have played a major role in creating these poly communities.
Sheff found that the people who identify as polyamorous are overwhelmingly white, highly educated, middle and upper-middle class and politically liberal.
While poly families don't express concern about how living in a poly home will affect their children, they overwhelmingly worry about what would happen if a judge had a say in how they choose to raise their kids. In the handful of custody cases that have involved poly families, the polyamorous parent usually lost custody of his or her child, which indicates that kids in poly households may be vulnerable to a court system that is largely unsympathetic to non-monogamy.
"There's a little saying in the community: 'If you have kids, don't do publicity; don't do things in public,'" says Matt's girlfriend, Terisa. Although Matt and Terisa spoke to momlogic for this story, they did not want Matt's son's name to be used, in order to protect his identity. "We don't want our kids to be harassed," says Terisa. "We don't want our kids to be taken away."
|Ronda Kaysen is a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BusinessWeek.com, Architectural Record, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, Babble.com and AM New York. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Follow her on Twitter.
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Is the gut the key to disease?
There are more receptors in the gut that affect the brain than the entire body combined. Many researchers believe the entire immune system is affected more by gut health than all other systems in the body. They believe that all diseases, including autism, stroke, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, mental illness, and cancer could be dramatically reversed if more attention were paid to the gut. This would indicate that the leading cause of all disease lies in the damage to the gut. It is theorized by leading researchers that healing the gut will reverse the trend for most diseases. What are some of the damages that you think cause the most harm? How do you think the problem can be resolved? Do you believe this theory is an exaggeration? What do you believe is the core issue of healing?
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When the 2012 season concluded, I was sifting through my database of Cowboys plays and I noticed something interesting regarding
Six games into the 2012 season, Bryant had seen only four deep targets, three of which came against the Chicago Bears, a game in which the Cowboys got down early and were forced to throw. In four of his first six contests, Bryant didn't see one deep target. And take a look at Bryant's average stat lines:
- Games 1-6: 63.7 yards, 0.33 TDs per game
- Games 7-16: 100.4 yards, 1 TD per game
Bryant exploded when the Cowboys found ways to get him the ball downfield. It could just be a coincidence, but when you consider that Bryant is widely labeled as one of the NFL's premiere jump ball/deep threat wide receivers, there's reason to think that it probably isn't.
So, when possible, we know the 'Boys should probably try to get Bryant in favorable situations deep down the field. But that doesn't mean that deeper is always better.
Average Length of Passes Around the NFL
Using stats from Pro Football Focus, I researched a stat called aDOT, average depth of target, coined by Mike Clay. I sorted the league's quarterbacks into four quantiles based on the average distance of their passes and their winning percentage in 2012.
You can see that the quarterbacks who threw the longest passes were the most successful as a whole. That top quarter of passers includes Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Eli Manning and Joe Flacco. For what it's worth, Luck led the league with an aDOT of 10.8 yards.
On the other end of the spectrum, though, we see nearly as much success from the short-tossing quarterbacks. That group includes Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers, and both Robert Griffin III and Peyton Manning landed just outside of it. Christian Ponder had the shortest passes in the NFL in 2012, averaging just 6.8 yards. In case you're wondering, Romo's aDOT of 9.0 yards ranked him in the second quantile, right behind Tom Brady.
So what's going on here? Are these stats meaningful? I think the success of the deep-throwing quarterbacks is real – these stats actually hold up over the past few seasons – but there's also value in throwing short if it's used as an extension of the running game. Both Ryan and Rodgers threw the ball a bunch last season, effectively using screens and other short passes in place of runs.
Despite throwing deep to Bryant more often in the middle and tail portions of the 2012 season, Romo's average pass length didn't increase.
Romo's average pass length peaked in the Cowboys' seventh game, the near-comeback win against the Giants, and it was at its lowest in the team's first loss to the Redskins. Overall, though, there's not much of a trend here, suggesting the Cowboys probably didn't make a major effort to purposely get the ball downfield more frequently.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Actually, one of head coach Jason Garrett's best traits as a play-caller has been his ability to mix up play types and locations in an effective manner. Still, one of the main reasons Romo's average pass traveled 9.0 yards past the line, the 11th-highest mark in the NFL, is because the Cowboys don't throw many screens. I counted only 24 all season, 1.5 per game.
Meanwhile, only 10.8 percent of Romo's passes traveled at least 20 yards downfield. Twenty-two quarterbacks had a higher deep ball rate. So while it seems a big portion of Garrett's offense is based on intermediate routes, the 'Boys could perhaps increase offensive efficiency by utilizing both shorter and longer passes, the short attempts as an extension of the running game and the deep looks to find Bryant and Romo's other playmakers downfield.


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Samurdhi Officers get pensions right with absorption in to a new Department
On a proposal made by Mr. Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development the Cabinet decided to establish a new department called Department of Divi Neguma Combined Rural Development
This will be established amalgamating the institutions such as the Department of Samurdhi Commissioner General, Sri Lanka Samurdhi Authority, Department of Upcountry Peasantry Rehabilitation, Sri Lanka Udarata Development Authority and the Sri Lanka Southern Development Authority.
The objective of this new move is to implement the program of One million Domestic Economic Units as announced by H.E. the President in the Budget 2011 and empowerment of Rural Economy in a combine manner
When the staff of the Samurdhi Authority is absorbed into this new department, all Samurdhi staff will be granted pensionable status from the date of their first appointment.
A voluntary Retirement scheme will be implemented for those who are unwilling to come under this programme of converting all these institutions in to a single Department.
The Head office of this new Department will be located out of Colombo while three Regional Offices will be set up as the Northern Regional Office, Up country Regional Office and the Southern Regional Office.


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UniSA now offers a live web stream of its graduation ceremonies held in Adelaide. This service will enable family or friends of graduating students to watch and listen to the ceremony live using their computer and an internet connection from anywhere in the world. Below is a link to the page where the ceremony will be available for viewing - please feel free to forward this to any family members or friends who can't make it to your ceremony but who would like to watch the event.
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We know it's not been too long since build 35 came out, but you gotta appreciate the efforts development team is putting in in keeping and updating the AOKP rom to its best, with all bug fixes and issues fixed promptly, almost on a weekly basis.
Build 36, features-wise, isn't a biggie and is more of a bug-fixing version while also adding on support for new devices (Samsung Tab 2 7-inch – congrats to rare those who own this). With build 36, default ICS wallpapers are back, so is your favourite Phase Beam Live Wallpaper I guess (am yet to try it).
Compared to build 35, which brought the lovely T-Mobile Theme Manager from CM9 to AOKP, it may not sound a very compelling update – quite rightly – but those who can't resist one they know can simply download it and flash it – it doesn't take more then few minutes after all.
If you are still on Milestone 5, update to build 36 to get Theme Manager and other goodies. But if you're on build 35 already, it's okay to skip this one. Here's the official changelog of build 36 to further help you decide:
- fixed MTP not being enabled by default (yet once more)
- added Galaxy Tab 2 7″ (espressowifi)
- moved tablet clock to the far right of the statusbar
- updated tuna kernel to faux 17m
- added Transformer Prime (tf201)
- updated Nova Launcher to 1.1.2
- fixed potential weather service FC
- updated p4 devices
- added more padding to statusbar buttons
- updated Mms emoji code from CM
- added delayed ring feature to Phone
- fixed a bug when hiding sender information, photo would still show
- default ICS wallpapers have returned
- added SwagPapers (AOKP Wallpapers)
- updated theme engine from CM
- wifi icon cut off has been fixed on tablets
- fixed volume slider showing incorrect volume in a voice call (making it look like it wasn't full)
- added USB Tether toggle to devices that support it
Installation Instructions (in brief)
Well, if your device is official supported, just download the build 36 from the official AOKP download page here, and also the gapps (at the bottom of the list). Transfer the rom and gapps files to your android phone/tablet, reboot to cwm recovery, (optional) make a backup, (recommended) factory reset the phone, flash rom, flash gapps, and then reboot. That's it.


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Dang, Chelsea Handler went OFF on Angelina Jolie. In the meanest mean girl way. But, um, we're looking at YOU, Jennifer Aniston.
We used to be girls, so we know exactly how the mean girl conspiracies transpire. It's no big secret. And we don't forget. It often starts when the seemingly innocent nice girl becomes BFFs with the ballsy, say-anything girl, knowing she'll do all her crap-talking dirty work against her arch enemy. Which ballsy girl does, of course. And then, nice girl comes out smelling like a rose.
For those of you who never had experience with or as mean girls, let us spell this out for you:
Seemingly innocent nice girl: Jennifer Aniston
Ballsy, say-anything girl: Chelsea Handler
Nice gal's arch enemy: Angelina Jolie
Tsk tsk, Jennifer Aniston.
Yep, Jennifer Aniston has unleashed a bully on her arch enemy, and Chelsea is doing a pretty mean bullying job. Chelsea Handler took on Angelina Jolie during a standup performance in New Jersey over the weekend.
She went as far as to call the actress a "f**king homewrecker" and worse!
She continued. "[Angelina] can rescue as many babies from as many countries as she wants to," Chelsea said. "I don't f**king believe you ... she gives interviews and she goes, 'I don't have a lot of female friends.' Cause you're a f**king c**t and a f**king b***h."
Dang, Chelsea, I love you and I'm pretty meh about Angelina, but that's harsh.
Here's small clip:
Chelsea and Jennifer have been chumming it up for awhile now. They bonded and conspired to go out drinking and looking for guys on Chelsea's show, and then they spent Thanksgiving together in Cabo.
What do you think? Is Chelsea doing Jennifer's dirty work? Or is it just a coincidence that she and Jennifer are pals now and Chelsea's ripping on Angelina?
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Um. Angelina deserves what she gets. Sorry.
Give me a break! Is this Angelina writing this?! She STOLE this woman's husband (and trust me, I hate him every bit as much, if not more so. He was the one who was married. Plus, he seems like a total wimp). If my friend had had this happen to her, you can bet I'd call the homewrecker those names too. Jen A has been pretty classy for years about this, never ripping on bony old Angelina. And can I just say, Angie is way gross. Her arms look like cheap beef jerky, and she needs to gain 20 pounds. Brad must like grisly old chicks. Barf.
They need to get over it. What's past is past. Whether or not Brad is a jerk or Angelina is a home wrecker doesn't mean a thing at this point. The only thing I see is that Jennifer and/or her buddy Chelsea are having a hard time accepting that, shrugging it off, putting their head on straight and just MOVE IT ON ALONG. If he's really that full of crap, and she was really that much of a bi***... more power to you the sooner you put em both behind you!!!
Angelina deserves it. Also,it should be noted that Johnny Depp did a movie with her recently and their significant others were on set a lot. There is a reason for that. She doesn'r have female friends because other females do not trust her,for good reason.
i agree with sahmalama. angelina jolie is a home wrecking bitch. she stole jennifer anistons man and jennifer has taken the high road since it happened. she deserves to let loose and actually say her peace about the whole thing. angelina jolie gets to steal someones man and than pretend to be a mother earth by collecting children from all over the world and jennifer aniston has to sit there and say nothing? its about damn time the girl got to say what she has probably felt for a long time.
Okay, I like Angelina. I also like Chelsea Handler. All I can say is they need to get the hell over it. It's been a LONG time now.
Ha! I love Chelsea and Jenn. I've been team Aniston since day one.
Angelina deserves what she gets. You wanna be famous and live in the spotlight? Don't expect to steal someone's husband and get away scot-free.
Just sayin..
Jen needs to get over it already. I think she is insanely jealous on Angie. INSANELY. Angie has a life outside of Hollywood and Jen doesn't.


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Albany -- Live Oak Elementary school on Gillionville Road is still without school zone signs and it's because the school is on a state highway.
Gillionville Road is Highway 234 and before school zone signs can be put up, the Georgia Department of Transportation must perform a traffic study. That couldn't be done until school started earlier this month.
The DOT will count cars and buses and study the traffic flow, then determine whether the speed limit should be lowered.
"Since the school has opened, that study has been made, it has been sent to the Department of Transportation in Atlanta and we're just waiting to hear what they recommend," said School System Public Information Officer Brenda Horton.
Most of the schools in the Dougherty County School System are on city streets, so the city can place the school zone signs without consulting the DOT.
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