Thompson’s offense reminds me of Charles Barkley’s quote about DeAndre Jordan — “If you left DeAndre Jordan in the gym all night and told him he couldn’t dunk, he’d have six points in the morning” — but that’s besides the point. He dominates all the little battles that the Cavs are currently winning.
Tristan vs. Draymond: The Mismatch That’s Defining the NBA Finals «
...Take, retired NBA star Baron Davis gave more than just a refined, measured opinion on the 2015 NBA Finals. He also premiered a high-and-tight, next-level Jheri curl that had the entire world talking. For years, the Jheri curl has been receding into the hairline of history, but now it can finally join the flattop in the 21st century. Grantland editor Dave Schilling asked style expert Rembert Browne to explain this epic moment.
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... $200 billion government bailout during the financial crisis, motivated in large part by losses on loans that they guaranteed, so I figured there must be something interesting in the loan-level data. I decided dig in with some geographic analysis, an attempt to identify the loan-level characteristics most predictive of default rates, and more. As part of my efforts, I wrote code to transform the raw data into a m...
Mortgages Are About Math: Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie - Todd W. Schneider
The salad itself—shredded kale, "flash roasted" beets, goat cheese, and chicken (which I substituted with falafel) in a honey vinaigrette—was actually pretty good, but that’s really the very least you should expect out of what is essentially a high end fast food salad with a double digit price tag. Still, the perfect amount of snap in the beets was enough to occasionally distract me from picking apart my multilayered annoyance at the salad’s name and the way it reminds me of the enervate, Etsy-f...
Consumer Goods and Bads: Wearing Kendrick's Shoes, Eating Kendrick's Salad | The Pitch | Pitchfork
The Act was repealed in 1822, and the authority to regulate vaccines given to the states. This was the result of an 1821 outbreak of smallpox in North Carolina, which was traced to contaminated vaccine provided by Dr. John Smith while in the capacity of the federal agent charged with preserving and distributing genuine vaccine.[3]
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The Foggy Bottom area was the site of one of the earliest settlements in what is now the District of Columbia, when German settler Jacob Funk subdivided 130 acres (0.53 km2) near the meeting place of the Potomac River and Rock Creek in 1763. The settlement officially was named Hamburgh, but colloquially was called Funkstown. In 1765, German settlers established the town of Hamburg on what would become the area between 24th and 18th NW Street.[1] Jacob Funk (or Funck), the recorded founder of Hamburg, allegedly bought the...
Foggy Bottom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As those Nineties Kids grew into Angsty Teens in the Oughts, along came Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, canonized quickly as the patron saint of Vagrant Records and Third-Wave Emo. Then—soon after—the wunderkind of MTV2, which gave Carrabba a large platform from which to sell over a million copies of his entry into the Unplugged franchise and duet with Michael Stipe. By 2003, Carrabba was leading tearful singalongs in large venues nationwide as emo’s ambassador to the mainstream, going gold with that year’s A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar and 2001’s The Places ...
Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional and the Cultural Shock of Millennial Nostalgia | The Pitch | Pitchfork
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