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  1. 22 minutes ago, bluto said:


    That hideout second story deck was always really cool to me and seemingly totally underutilized

    I agree. I think they never got over the eclectic menu they had when they first opened.  The Del Frisco Grill has proven that it isn’t the location. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, victory88 said:

    Nice to see we have a linebackers coach that actually recruits and evaluates.  Like someone mentioned, Orlando would have told every prospect we’re waiting till November to offer to whiff on everyone to then pick up some unheard juco guy and then try to figure out which safeties to move to LB for depth.  That moron is going to ruin USC’s depth.  

    In all fairness to Orlando, if you telegraph every LB blitz from the outskirts of Temple, do you really need to have top talent? 

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  3. 10 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

    Is there a legal distinction that classifies an establishment as a bar and not as a restaurant? Most bars at least sell chips or nuts. How much snack food has to be on hand for a bar to consider itself a restaurant and be able to open on May 1?

    I don’t remember the percentage but a restaurant vs bar is based off of percentage of sales of food. 

  4. 10 minutes ago, Drew said:

    You can laugh all you want. None of that would make him a better WR next year. He could win ROY on a bad team.

     

    You realize Lamb will be the #3 and step in when Cooper is hurt occasionally right?

     

    If the raider chunk the ball all over the field and Ruggs is starting just lineuped outside running posts and fly routes, yeah he’ll probably have more catches and yards.

     

    But you want to know why? Because Ruggs doesn’t have Cooper, Gallup and a more focused on Jarwin taking away from Lamb.

     

    Who do the raiders have at WR and TE again?

     

    Anyone saying Ruggs is better than lamb today is on crack, and him having more yards and TDs next year won’t prove shit.

     

    Long term it’s a toss up. Depends on what happens all over the team. I’m taking Lambs potential over Ruggs.

     

     

    You realize Ruggs played for 3 years and had just around 1000 catches? That’s not a lot. Don’t think he had a 1000 yard season either. At some point production matters.

    I’m going to say 1000 catches is a lot.   Is that a lot? 

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  5. 1 minute ago, Newy25 said:

    That’s a reach. The fucking 49ers are going to be able to draft Wirfs. That is simply not fair. 

    Yeah, I like him a lot . Don’t want to see him there 

  6. 44 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

    A few weeks ago there was a Freaknomics podcast episode The Side Effects of Social Distancing that talked about a study showing reduced mortality in China due to reduced pollution during their quarantines. The study is by Mashall Burke from Stanford who estimates between 50,000 and 75,000 lives will be saved due to this. Here is the link for anyone interested:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2020/03/16/coronavirus-lockdown-may-have-saved-77000-lives-in-china-just-from-pollution-reduction/#f63dcbb34fe3 

    This is just in China alone, which they probably have the worst pollution in the world, but one would think that similar quarantines worldwide would further increase the number of lives saved.

    I would also expect that non-COVID all-cause mortality is down worldwide due to reduced rates of traffic fatalities, work-related injuries, violence, etc. I haven't seen any data to support that, but it would make sense to me.

    Although being fair, I could also believe that certain health-related causes of death like kidney failure and myocardial infarction are possibly higher due to reluctance to seek medical care, difficulty accessing medical services like dialysis, etc.

    The primary goal of social distancing is obviously to save lives by flattening the curve, which has been successful thus far. However, when we think about the secondary effects of social distancing on a macro level and the lives that are "unintentionally" being saved, do we at some point credit ourselves with some mortality capital that helps offset current and future COVID-19 deaths? Or perhaps that mortality capital is too small relative to COVID-19 to even be considered significant?

    I'm not sure if this matters only for peace of mind for some people, or if it's also something to consider as decisions are being made about reopening states and countries. We currently have 45,000+ deaths in the U.S. and it's easy to fixate on that and freak out about how bad COVID-19 is, but one would hope our social distancing efforts have been good on multiple levels beyond just flattening the curve, and unfortunately that doesn't tend to get reflected on worldometer or Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboards.

    I'm kind of rambling here, but hopefully someone understands the point I'm struggling to make.

    I am curious, did the podcast address drug overdoses and suicides?  It is my understanding that those among other negatives are on the rise during the quarantine.

  7. 25 minutes ago, NoName said:

    this guy I assume?

    https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/music/people/ashlin-parker

    you weren't kidding, he has a hell of a bio

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    Biography
    A sought-after and versatile jazz trumpeter in New Orleans, Ashlin Parker plays with large and small ensembles nationally and internationally.

    Ashlin shared in the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s album, Book One.  Following the album, Book One, Ashlin has recorded with numerous artists, including Ellis Marsalis, Harold Battiste, Dmitry Mospan (Moscow), James Partridge (London), Terence Blanchard (film soundtrack), and Jason Marsalis (film soundtrack).

    Ashlin leads the Trumpet Mafia that made their festival debut in 2015 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.  He plays with numerous ensembles, such as the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Bill Summers and Jazalsa, The Next Generation Big Band, Vivaz! and the Moscow-New Orleans Project, as well as groups led by Roland Guerin, Adonis Rose, Derek Douget, and Leroy Jones.  He has played with musicians such as Jason Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Vincent Gardner, Brice Winston, Kermit Ruffins, Nicholas Payton, Igor Butman, Aretha Franklin, Anthony Hamilton, and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

    Ashlin has been traveling and performing internationally since his undergraduate days of playing at the St. Louis Jazz Festival (Senegal) and the North Sea Jazz Festival (The Netherlands) with university jazz bands.  After graduation, he continued international travel with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, performing with, arranging for, and leading jazz ensembles on cruises throughout the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Central America, and the Mediterranean.  Since graduate school, Ashlin has played with extraordinary musicians in a number of national and international tours and festivals, including the Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (Tours to Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, various European countries, and throughout the United States), the Adonis Rose Band (Tour throughout Brazil), the Roland Guerin Quintet (Ingolstädter Jazztage, Germany), Steve Masakowski and the New Orleans Modern Jazz Masters (Jus Jazz, India), The Session (Aberystwyth MusicFest and Pershore Jazz Festival, UK), The New Orleans Brass Revue (JazzAscona, Switzerland), and the Moscow-New Orleans Project (Usadba Jazz Festival, Moscow).

    As a band leader, Ashlin has led ensembles in an array of settings and cities, including Radiance of the Seas (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line), the Chandler Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, numerous clubs and performance venues in Charlotte, NC and New Orleans, and fourteen home games of the NBA New Orleans Hornets (2011-12).  Since 2008, the Ashlin Parker Quartet has regularly performed in New Orleans’ premiere clubs and hotels such as Snug Harbor, Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, and the Jazz Market.  Since the fall of 2014, his new band, The Trumpet Mafia, has played at Tulane University, Snug Harbor, Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse, the Jazz Market, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Members of the Trumpet Mafia can be found in New Orleans, New York, Switzerland, Russia, and Japan.

    Ashlin has been teaching various aspects of jazz, including improvisation, theory, repertoire, arranging, and performance preparation in private lessons, courses, summer institutes, jazz camps, and master classes for more than ten years.  He has been leading the jazz trumpet studio in the Music Department at the University of New Orleans since January 2011.

    Ashlin holds the Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Shenandoah University Conservatory (2005) and the Master of Music in Jazz

     

    Studies from the University of New Orleans (2009).

    Search YouTube for him.  Dudes a badass. 

  8. On 3/29/2020 at 6:19 PM, HenryJames said:

    You’re a Texan. Do a King Ranch.

    This is great choice.  It’s so easy to customize to your own taste too.  I add lots of peppers/spices and use rotisserie chickens when available to change the flavor. 

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