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The Royals biggest playoff hero didnt play baseball until age 16

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Explore More Don Money, baseball man since 1965, never had seen anything quite like this. The Nashville Sounds were taking on the Omaha Royals in Nebraska, and Money, managing Nashville — Triple-A affiliate of his longtime employers the Milwaukee Brewers — stood in the third-base coaching box as his center fielder Lorenzo Cain dawdled from the on-deck circle to home plate. “I started timing him with a stopwatch,” Money, now a Brewers special instructor, recalled Friday. Read More...

Annie Lennox, MTV-era chanteuse, is now a calming influence online

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LOS ANGELES — The day she found out that her group Eurythmics had its first No. 1 single in America, Annie Lennox was at a hotel in San Francisco. The hotel was Japanese-inspired, and its windows appeared to have a rice-paper-like translucency. Lennox was already beginning to struggle with the early onset of fame-related anxiety, and this didn’t help. “It felt like I had nowhere to hide,” Lennox says now. “I was so conscious of earthquakes, because I had never really been to San Francisco before. Read More...

How do I calculate how much lumber I need for framing?

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Calculate the Studs Multiply the total wall length (in feet) by 0.75 (for 16-inch on-center stud spacing). Add three studs for each 90-degree corner. Add four studs for each 45-degree corner. Add two studs for each wall intersection (where another wall abuts the wall you are estimating). Click to see full answer. Regarding this, how do I calculate how much lumber I need?A single board foot is one square foot of wood that is one inch thick. Read More...