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Well congrats. I guess you get to stay. I'm 4th generation. My great grandparents were welcomed here during a flood of immigration shortly after WWI and had children that became citizens. The same situation that Trump wants to stop. Our birth rates are down. The only way this country continues to grow is with immigration.

I think this explains it fully.

Ovaltine got me once with their secret decoder ring. Never again....

Yup. we laid off last month. And early retirements were offered this month. Early retirements offers are typically followed up with more layoffs if they don't get the number of volunteers they want. Our business is down 20% in the last 6 months. China is 30% of our market.

Those tariffs still aren’t working..... U.S. trade deficit rises 1.3% in September to $54 billion. Imports up 1.5% to record $266.6 billion. Exports also increase 1.5%, to $212.6 billion. Deficit with China hits new record despite tariffs. Trade gap on track to reach 10-year high in 2018.

Given that we blew up 3 seasons and a franchise’s reputation to get him, it interests me a ton.

Not sure who the apologists are. I don’t think anyone here thought he was not guilty of poor off ice decision making at the least.

Olofsson isn’t going to do a damned thing to improve secondary scoring until we get the 2C position in mproved. He’s not that kind of player.

What have you seen out of Sam this season that makes you think it would work any better? Jbott screwed the pooch with the plan for 2C. It’s not Bills quarterback planning bad, but it was a poor plan. They really need a vet 2C to fill in a season or two gap until Casey is ready.

I seem to recall reading somewhere (on this forum maybe) that Hoppe has a small gig writing for the Sabres and is still primarily writing for the Olean Times-Herald.

@WildCard Not gonna lie. I have a bit of a kitchen knife fetish. I've spent entirely too much money on kitchen cutlery, but I do love to use it. Nonetheless, there are good values to be had. Don't buy cheap knives. Buy good value knives. If you can find Wustoff or Heinkle at TJ Maxx or Homegoods, it's probably a good value. Buying them at Bed Bath and Beyond isn't. I've heard that Victorinox chef's knives are really good value. I have a Chicago Cutlery meat slicer that I bought for $4.99 at a TJ Maxx in Lakewood, NY while on vacation that is scary sharp and very surprisingly nice. Based on a sample size of 1, I'd seriously consider Chicago Cutlery. Chef's knives.... are you a slicer or chopper? If you prep your veggies by slicing them get a traditional chef's knife. 8" is a good, all around size. The curved blade really helps you rock the blade and slice through whatever you're cutting. If you are more of a chopper, get a Santoku style blade. Straight edge and rounded front. You can get by quite readily with just a few knives. A chef or Santoku, a good paring knife, a good bread knife, and a boning knife. Those 4 can handle just about everything you'll routinely do. More important than expensive knives is a good, quality honing set. I don't own a steel. I do own a ceramic stick "sharpeing set". I put sharpening in quotes because you aren't really sharpening with it, you are honing. I hone my chef's knife about every 5 or 6 uses. It stays sharp enough to shave the hair on my arm. Mine is very similar to this one, Lansky Crock Sticks. I've had it for about 30 years and it works like a champ. My advise, wait for a Wustoff 8" chef knife to show up at TJ Maxx and nab it. Add a paring knife and serrated knife for slicing bread and meat. Get a "sharpening" kit like the ceramic rod one I linked. And use them for awhile and develop an opinion about what you like/don't like and then buy your upgrades after you have an opinion about the knives you didn't spend a ton of money for.

When we first moved into our current neighborhood Halloween was a zoo. We’re “in town” but on the edge of a rural area. We used to get car loads of kids coming in from the surrounding areas. And it used to annoy me quite a bit. I didn’t mind giving candy out to the neighbors, I did mind half the county coming door to door though. About 6-7 years ago houses began keeping their porch light off on Halloween night. Yesterday maybe 1/4 of the houses on the street participated. And now its just neighborhood kids coming around. We got maybe 30 kids last night.

Until the subject is health care, taxation, corporate regulations, or labor rights. Just citizenship. Innit? I had to suppress a literal LOL at this.

Over the last 3 fiscal quarters business investment grew at a rate of 5.1%. In the 3 fiscal quarters prior to the tax bill passing, the business investment rate was.............. 5.0%. That tax bill was quite the stimulus for business investment. And while corporate tax revenue dropped 31%, our deficit has grown 17% since 2017. So what are we getting for this deficit if we aren't getting business investment? Stock buybacks. Class A shareholders are profiting from the corporate tax savings. Not exactly what we were promised. And those tariffs? The Tax Foundation estimates that they will increase the amount consumers pay for goods by 42 billion dollars and result in 94,000 full time equivalent jobs getting eliminated. Even his economic promises were empty. He's the least fiscally conservative Conservative we've ever elected.

The Joy of Cooking. It’s a classic for good reason.

It was flocking genius.

Quinoa can be absolutely delicious. We make it as part of a Mediterranean salad.

How many places are there with large police presence? Government facilities, airports. What else? You aren't going to have many events at places with large armed presence because there just aren't many of those places around. And the ones that are around are typically government associated. These events haven't been targeted at our government, they've been targeted at specific groups of people. It's just not realistic to expect armed presence everywhere that groups of hated people gather. In one form or another, we're all hated by somebody. And so it is counter productive to go around shouting about how this might not have happened if there were an armed presence.

Anyone else remember the guy that was hit in the head with a thrown beer bottle in one of the Rich Stadium parking lots? I think it was maybe 25 years ago. Black couple walking through the lot post-game and someone sailed a beer bottle at him and hit him in the head. He managed to get home but died shortly after getting home from a hemorrhage presumably from that beer bottle. Was all over the local news at the time. Noone ever came forward and noone was ever questioned about the incident. That incident soured me on the tailgating scene at the stadium forever.

Before children came along we had 3 aquariums. We’re practically empty nesters now. We used to raise finches and canaries too. We’re probably buying a flight cage this Winter. And our dog doesn’t have much time left so we’re probably compensating more than a little.....

Fresh, and they’re inexpensive. I’m basically mimicking an office desk tank. of course, this is how you end up chest deep into a hobby again.

I now have a small tank starting to cycle. Going for a crustacean tank. Once everything stabilizes I'll get a few shrimp to populate it. No stink eye.....yet.

I'm not convinced of the deterrence level of armed guards in shootings like these. In the vast majority of these the shooter is inclined to go down in a hail of bullets. It's not often that they run and hide when (or before) the armed response arrives.

That is my take.

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