| Occupational Hazard: Updates on Yao, Butler, G. Wallace
In his Washington Post blog, reporter Ivan Carter reported that, after speaking with trainers and doctors, he found that "there is a real difference of opinion as to whether surgery is an effective way to repair a labral tear." He also wrote that surgery was never mentioned as an option for Butler and that the team is optimistic he will have an unspecified period of rest, which Carter speculated could be between one and three weeks. Plan on sitting Butler for at least next week and check in here as we have more updates. Gerald Wallace, SF/PF, Bobcats: As you are probably well aware, Crash is out with a concussion suffered last Friday. According to the Charlotte Observer, the diagnosis was a Grade 3 concussion, the most severe. Grade 3 concussions are defined by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons as ones that "involve post-traumatic amnesia for more than 24 hours or unconsciousness for more than five minutes.
Celebrating Sara' and the Cancer Resource Centers
Sara O'Donnell, founder and executive director of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino will be honored at two receptions in March. The first one will be on Sunday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m. at the Stanford Inn in Mendocino. The other will be on Wednesday, March 26, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Ukiah Civic Centers. The community is invited to join Leadership Mendocino, staff and volunteers of the Cancer Resource Centers, local businesses, and other members of the community at the celebrations of O'Donnell's work and her recent awards. She was one of ten people in the country who won a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award. She was selected as one of KQED's Unsung Heroes to be honored during Women's History Month at an event in San Francisco. O'Donnell was also recently chosen by Assembly member Patty Berg as her District's 2008 Woman of the Year.
Litchfield Park: $14.9 million
The pad: This 12,000-square-foot home is the priciest in the West Valley, carrying a $14.9 million price tag, with key pieces of furniture and chandeliers thrown in. The goods: In addition to the two master bedrooms and separate master baths, there is marble throughout this stately ranch style that boasts unobstructed views of the Red Course of the Wigwam, the West Valley's most exclusive resort. The home is perfect for entertaining with an open gourmet kitchen, two built-in Sub-Zero refrigerators, wine cooler and a 12-seat theater with full wet bar. There is also a billiards and game room. The wall-length patio door disappears into the wall to invite the outdoors in. There are a six-car garage and a 2,000-square-foot guesthouse. Shaq can tout that he lives in an energy-efficient foam-paneled home built so soundly that it is hurricane proof - not that he needs to worry about that now that he's left Miami.
Chris Matthews: Defeat Means Troops Still in Iraq--What About WWII?
When will we be able to come home from Iraq, based upon all this popular good news here? (...) MATTHEWS: Because if we can‘t ever come home, we can‘t ever say we won. I understand what Matthews is trying to say, but it isn't that cut and dry. For many reasons, the winning side frequently retains troops in the country where the war was waged—rebuilding, maintaining order, training the defeated and ensuring that others do not invade. Iraq wouldn't be the first country where military forces remain in country after the war is over. Surely Matthews knows that. I wager that Matthews “definition of defeat" is a little different than most military historians'. Requiring American troops to leave the battleground country to declare a victory would mean that we didn't win WWII.
2007 Fleetwood RV Year in Review Fact Sheet
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This year Fleetwood's RV Group incorporated dealer and customer feedback into its product planning and development processes, resulting in some of its best-looking and most innovative motor home, travel trailer and folding trailer products to date. In 2007, each of the divisions made strides. The Folding Trailer Division remained committed to improving its profitability and maintaining its leadership position in the marketplace. The Travel Trailer Division spent the first half of the year reworking its entire product line and streamlining its operations in an effort to regain profitability, and is now beginning to enjoy the benefits of the new structure. The Motor Home Division continues to build on the momentum gained from its 2007 model year introductions of new floor plans and new brands in key high volume segments.
Fred Friction and Frederick's Music Lounge Reunion Show
Frederick's Music Lounge lives on.
Well, sort of. The beloved St. Louis music club closed two years ago, but its spirit survives with the second annual Fred Friction and Frederick's Music Lounge Reunion Show.
It's scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Off Broadway with performances by the Saps, Earl, the Dirty 30s and Jonathan Baer.
Tony Boersma, a former Frederick's "drunken regular" eventually promoted to "door guy," is behind the reunion show.
"It was always a place where I could see music five nights a week," he says. "And just about everyone I met in St. Louis, I met there." .
Restaurant tenant sought for Fava site
One of Baltimore's most distinctive buildings is hunting for a tenant. The four-story Fava Building in Jonestown, featuring a cast-iron facade salvaged from an 1869 warehouse, has been largely vacant since Gardel's Restaurant and Supper Club went out of business last fall. It formerly housed the Baltimore City Life Museums. A private entity, the 1840s Corp., owns the building at 33 Front St. and last year opened the 1840s Carrollton Inn, a 13-room, $2 million bed-and-breakfast inside three other former City Life buildings on the block. The inn is next to the historic Carroll Mansion, an estate owned by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. .
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