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My brother is a SFC, in the U.S. Army. He is currently stationed in Afghanistan. His family has lived in many, many places. He recently got news that his next move will be to Belgium. How exciting for them. I would like to go with them. I have lived in Missouri, Wyoming, California and back to Iowa again. I have often quashed the wanderlust in me because it was best for our family. I would like to experience lots of places while at the same time there lies a fear of the unknown. Maybe I will have to be one of those retirees who travel in RV's. Until then I will live vicariously through my brother's family and maybe I will save for an oversea's trip to Belgium.
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One thing I've found that Europeans love to point out is how Americans "don't travel". Then you explain to them that in Europe, you can drive 5 hours and travel from Paris to Amsterdam. 5 more hours and you're in Berlin. Drive 5 hours in the US and you've MAYBE crossed a state or two. However, if you've visited New York, for example, you've seen an entirely different side of America than Arizona. Add to that the fact that travel to European countries is far less cost-prohibitive for Europeans than Americans (most of which can be achieved without a passport) and the fact that Germans, at least, are given a month or so of holiday in the summer to travel, its comparing apples and oranges. Also, there is a well-developed public transportation system (trains), which is amazing if you are traveling without children. My children have experienced trains, but its not what I'd call a good time. I like to ask if they've ever visited the US, and about 6 times out of 10, they have not. I've also found Europeans to be just as patriotic/nationalistic than Americans. "Don't you love it here? Isn't it better than the USA?"
-- Posted by notinia on Mon, Jan 21, 2013, at 10:06 PM
For a girl that loves to travel, you must be thrilled to have traveled to the middle of nowhere.......
-- Posted by Cookster on Mon, Jan 21, 2013, at 5:02 PM
Belgium is a great central location to explore the rest of Europe- France, Germany, the Netherlands... all within a drive or train ride. I recommend visiting while they live there, because if they're willing to put you up for a bit, it will leave room for other expenses and enable them to show you what they will have grown to love about the area.
-- Posted by notinia on Sat, Jan 19, 2013, at 12:41 PM
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in japan as most of us may know there are cosplay cafes around there. i recently found out about this new one called: Sergeant cafe. supposedly it's a military themed cosplay cafe where you walk in as a new recruit and the waiters are your military drill instructors. there is even a warning that says this: "once you join the army (enter the café), you must obey whatever sergeants (waitresses) say," "when you order food or drink, you order to a senior officer, so you have to say 'Sir!' first". There were 2 courses: Hard Course (1F) and Soft Course (2F). On the 1st floor (Hard Course), former U.S. Marine Corps scolded trainees (customers), let them do push-ups or jump. The former officer said "this is nothing- you have to do such things every single day in the real Boot Camp." for more information abut this you can go here: http://toysnjoyshawaii.blogspot.com/2008/06/otaku-alert-get-berated-by-m...
One of the one's I had heard of was an emergency room themed cafe. You eat on hospital gurneys, and drink out of an iv bag hung over the back of your seat. People fear the strange and unusual. I AM the strange and unusual.
-Alf-Aries-Sani'd want to try that place. Sounds like a cool experiance
In Little Tokyo, there's a bar that has these Japanese women dress in french maid costumes. They serve you wine and food. This place is called, "Tapas & Wine Bar C" and it's located in Downtown L.A.'s Little Tokyo. I saw an ad in Japan up! magazine.
that's the common ones but the one i was talking about is totally different because they make you feel like a newrecrute in a boot camp.
-Alf-Aries-SanSound like just my kind of place!To bad in my city there's NOTHING of the sort. All we got is tons of NORMAL crap!
i'd liketo visit cosplay cafes all of a sudden "blood isnt enough..."
cosplay i would like to go as evil ryu to a coplay place
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The Keeper of Precepts/For Friends and For TomorrowI would like to try it too!
i do not live in japan, i live in wisconsin
what about maid cafes? know any good ones?
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Tuesday on the 1st Congressional District campaign trail served up a bit of everything — barbecue, a random billboard, new endorsements and attack ads, a growing wave of national media, and plenty of candidate stumping.
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch will campaign at 10:30 a.m. today at the South Windermere Shopping Center.Mark Sanford has three public events in West Ashley, including a 10:30 a.m. stop at Fred Anderson Toyota of Charleston on Savannah Highway, an 11:30 a.m. visit to Mooney's Barber Shop in St. Andrew's Center, and a noon stop at Jason's Deli in St. Andrew's Center. Gov. Nikki Haley is joining him at a private fundraiser later.
With a week left before the May 7 election, Republican Mark Sanford, Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch and Green Party candidate Eugene Platt made separate pitches to Charleston's business community and the Goose Creek branch of the NAACP.
Asked about Colbert Busch's debate pledge Monday to return 10 percent of her salary to taxpayers, if elected, Sanford said he returned $250,000 each year from his office account when he served in Congress.
"I'm not going to criticize anybody's pledge, but I thought she said during her campaign that she was going to make no pledges," he said. "The bigger question is how are you going to vote on millions, billions and ultimately trillions of dollars."
Sanford pushed back at Colbert Busch's criticism of his voting against port funding during his last time in Congress. Sanford said he voted for the port on the committee level but voted against the omnibus spending bill — which contained the port funding and many other items.
He noted Colbert Busch has criticized Obama's budget, even though it also contains money for port dredging. He said by her standard, she's against port dredging.
Asked about that, Colbert Busch shook her head and said, "He voted against dredging the port. I've been in the business 20 years."
Weeks ago, Colbert Busch, initially refused to comment on Sanford's 2009 implosion — when he left the state to visit his girlfriend, now his fiancee, in Argentina, as his staff said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. As Election Day nears, she aired a new ad accusing Sanford of lying to the people of the state.
"We're just talking about the facts. We're talking about the differences between the two," she said. "We're talking about how differently we would lead."
Sanford acknowledged the incident when he spoke in Goose Creek, saying, "You probably do a lot more soul searching on the way down than on the way up. You probably learn a lot more in the valleys of life than on the mountaintops. ... I think I'm more ready than I've ever been to take on this job of trying to represent you."
A growing number of news reporters from outside the state followed the candidates Tuesday, a day after the candidates' only debate — one marked by Colbert Busch's pointed criticism of Sanford leaving the state "for a personal purpose."
She passed over the Rotary Club of Charleston's invitation to appear again with Sanford on Tuesday and instead held an event in Beaufort County to unveil a support committee of veterans and military families.
The two also sounded some new themes. Colbert Busch talked about how she would prioritize constituent service. "You can pick up the phone and you can call us," she said. "You can say, 'I have a question,' and we will be there."
Sanford said he is a fan of divided government — where neither Republicans nor Democrats are in firm control in Washington.
Platt, who is spending less than $5,000 and acknowledges he won't win, got some of his first audiences in the race, joining Sanford and Colbert Busch in speaking to the Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce's Pork and Politics in the Park event and then in Goose Creek.
In both places, he outlined his platform of nationalizing health care, ending foreign wars and supporting green energy. In Goose Creek, he also read a poem and joked about his difficulty hearing questions because he said his hearing aids, which he received from the Department of Veterans Affairs, "were made by the low bidder."
Sanford was endorsed Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., whose father, former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, already had announced his support.
Less welcome was an "endorsement" from pornographer Larry Flynt, who released a sarcastic YouTube video calling Sanford "America's great sex pioneer."
Also, a website for married partners looking to cheat raised a billboard just this side of Columbia with a picture of Sanford saying: "Next time use ... ashleymadison.com to find your 'running mate.' "
Of the billboard, Sanford said, "South Carolina is the land of strange politics, and in essence, dirty political tricks in the last week of the campaign. I think the reality that we've all seen over the last couple of years is, you don't know what's coming in the last week of the campaign. I'd put this in that category."
At the Rotary event, Sanford was asked if there was anything else Lowcountry voters should know about his personal life. "If you guys aren't exhausted by that right now," he said. "I don't know what it's going to take."
Reach Robert Behre at 937-5771.
Democratic candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Green Party candidate Eugene Platt and Republican candidate Mark Sanford spoke at a forum for the 1st District race sponsored by the Goose Creek branch of the NAACP on Tuesday.×
Green Party candidate Eugene Platt spoke at a forum for the 1st congressional district race sponsored by the Goose Creek Branch of the NAACP on Tuesday April 30, 2013. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)×
Republican Party candidate and former governor Mark Sanford spoke at a forum for the 1st congressional district race sponsored by the Goose Creek Branch of the NAACP on Tuesday April 30, 2013. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)×


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What is the current position of the input attenuator? Do your input signal in SA is below clip?
As mentioned above (and below), I have a HP set in at 35hz. The input signal in SA is close to 0db (generally between 0db and -10db) though even if it looks at though it has spiked above 0db I am totally unable to make the clip indicator on the input stage light within SA regardless of what is thrown at it.
The power amp attenuator was at 3o'clock. The Pre amp output volume was VERY LOW (around 9 o'clock) in order to keep the input gain low right.
The sound you hear is the thermal limiter engaging, it was described by many as "shattered glass"...
Take a little load of the amp or adjust the fans to "full speed" setting, see which works better for you.
Thermal clipping - interesting. I see no mention of that in the manual. Though the shattering of glass may be a suitable description - will this harm my speakers? It was only triggered by a handful of notes and all on the high C string (I play 6 string bass) when using an octave pedal (to reproduce the note 1 octave lower - so still 'high' for a bass note). These notes are Audibly more resonant due to the way the octave pedal tracks higher pitches so I'll try and avoid them! Lol. When you say 'take a little load off', I assume you mean back off the power amps attenuator rather than the preamp signal? Fan - as in always on? (I see no way to select a fans speed, just at what temperature it kicks in, or to leave it on constant). The fan is fine for live work I find, but in the studio it seems so LOUD it almost off putting


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With the best multiplayer shooting that money can buy, an incredibly action-packed campaign and plenty of superb two-player co-op levels, this is without a doubt a real contender for game of the year.
I felt like I needed a rest after I finished the single-player campaign in Modern Warfare 2. Such was the onslaught of in-your-face gameplay, explosive set-pieces and "OMG" plot twists that I was mentally exhausted. It was hard to process what I'd just played through. The campaign more or less follows the formula set out by Infinity Ward in its previous two games (CoD2 and CoD4), but it's one hell of a ride. Hopefully I'll recover soon, as I've got months of multiplayer and Spec Ops to play.
Modern Warfare 2 will receive criticism for all of the things I said above. At times the campaign is so intense, so intent on throwing things at you, that it's hard to take it all in. The plot will leave some wondering what's going on as it switches from soldier to soldier, moving all over the world and beyond through the course of a six-hour experience. Some of the story will have players wondering if certain scenes were necessary and if certain moments really make sense in the grand scheme of the story that spans CoD4 and Modern Warfare 2. You'll also still find yourself battling against wave after wave of enemies, and some gamers will no doubt feel that this scripted gameplay is a bit old-fashioned now.
These things aren't going to convince CoD haters that this is the kind of game they want to be playing, but if you've been taken in by this formula in the past, Modern Warfare 2's campaign delivers the goods and then some. Even talking about one brilliant moment will potentially spoil one of the best parts of the experience, so let's just say that you should expect plenty of variety in gameplay, mission types and environments. There's absolutely a feeling that this is a direct follow-on from CoD4, but that's no bad thing when that is quite rightly regarded by many as one of the best shooters of all time.
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Anyone who's played a CoD will be familiar with the basic controls. On consoles the left trigger will aim down your gun's sight, snapping your aim to the closest enemy - something PC gamers with their mice needn't worry about. The shoulder buttons throw out grenades, eliminating the need to manually switch to them from an inventory, while the d-pad activates special weapons or night vision goggles (when available). Thrown grenades show up on the screen as easy-to-identify icons, and you can chuck them back if you're quick enough. Finally your knife or other melee weapon can be instantly used at the click of the right stick.
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Texas Instruments Inc. isn't the only local company displaying next-generation technology this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (Read my story about TI at CES.)
Several other North Texas companies also will have a presence at CES. Here's a look at what two other Dallas-based companies will be doing there:
* Hothead Technologies Inc. will unveil a biometrics device called Spree to measure sports performance. The wireless headband device monitors a person's body temperature, movement and heart rate (as well as speed, time and the amount of calories burned) and sends this real-time information to a smartphone app or stored to be downloaded later.
The 6-year-old company first used the patent-pending heat observation technology in Spree to combat heat illness among football players.
Professional athletes have monitored their personal metrics for decades, but new consumer devices and sophisticated social networks make self-tracking easier and more precise to help improve sports and health performance. Other companies (San Francisco startup Basis and Maryland-based Zephyr) have introduced or are developing similar devices.
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An increase in district programming had monthly 'thematic' programs/events at the different libraries, including J.M. Barrie presentations, storyteller Lois Burrell for Black History Month, a Madame Curie presentation for Women's History Month, Celtic Storytelling, National Library Week, Hispanic Celebrations with storyteller Esther Acosta, Teen Read Week, Western music/storytellers, Scary Stories, Edgar Allen Poe presentations, Children's Author Tea Parties, Tellabration, Santa Visits, and a holiday reader's theatre presented in December by DPLD staff.
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Library computer terminals started offering Microsoft Word for patrons.
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In the summer, DPLD sponsored the first annual Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, presented under a tent by Theatreworks of Colorado Springs) for all of Douglas County to enjoy for free, right in the heart of downtown Castle Rock (in the parking lot of vacated Safeway building). Over 1,000 residents enjoyed the tent performances and various library Shakespeare-related programs.
Page to Stage Productions: DPLD's Literary Theatre Troupe was created for various theatrical outreach projects, including a summer children's theatre tour of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe into schools to help promote the summer reading program. Over 8,000 Douglas County elementary school children were connected with the library in this extremely popular outreach program.
DPLD sponsored the first Battle of the Bands teen event, also held in the vacant Safeway parking lot, which had over 200 teens enjoying the music of local bands. DPLD also co-sponsored the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Festival kick-off event, A Summer Evening of Stories, held at the new Douglas County Events Center.
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Kennesaw, Ga. - It didn't take long for Stetson to break out of its offensive slump Sunday.
Freshman Jessie TenBroeck led off the game with a home run, the first of four Stetson long balls on the day, as the Hatters (29-8, 13-4 A-Sun) rolled to a 11-0 victory in their Atlantic Sun series finale at Kennesaw State.
Meredith Owen hit a pair of home runs and Kayla Drury added a three-run blast to help end Stetson's 21-inning scoreless streak.
"It was nice to end that streak in a big way," Stetson head coach Frank Griffin said. "We talked about after the game (Saturday), about some adjustments we needed to make against this type of pitching to be successful. We have a very mature team, and they bought into it."
The Hatters bought in quickly as TenBroeck took the third pitch of the game and deposited over the fence in left field for her first collegiate home run, giving Stetson an early 1-0 lead.
"It felt amazing, especially with the whole team being there (at home plate)," TenBroeck said about her home run. "It definitely helped with our momentum because after that we just kept rolling hits up there."
Drury followed with a three-run home run later in the inning, also to left field, to put Stetson ahead 4-0.
That would prove to be more than enough offense for Owen (17-5), who tossed a one-hit shutout for her 17th victory of the season. She also hit a pair of home runs, including a three-run shot in the fourth inning that gave her career RBI No. 100. In addition, Owen recorded her 500th career strikeout in the bottom of the fifth, becoming just the fourth Hatter pitcher all-time to reach that milestone.
"I was so frustrated after yesterday," Owen said. "It wasn't that we played terrible, we just couldn't catch a break. We showed we can bounce back from these tough losses. It sets us in a good position going into the rest of conference play."
After not collecting an extra base hit over the last three games, the Hatters hit six on Sunday, including a season-high four home runs. Griffin was looking for the Hatters to shorten their swings on Sunday.
"Compact swings don't equal less power, it means you can get to the ball in a more efficient manner," Griffin said. "That is something we weren't doing yesterday. We were late on a lot of swings. Today we talked about using lighter bats, choking up, making the adjustments, doing what we needed to win. I was real proud of them."
The Hatters also played well defensively, highlighted by a diving catch in foul territory by Drury in the bottom of the fourth.
"Kayla made a great catch at first, and Chrissy made an exceptional effort in center field, coming within an inch or two of making a superb play," Griffin said. "It was a good day defensively, and of course Meredith got it done on the mound. It's good to be back in the win column."
Taylor Denton had the only hit for the Owls (22-22, 11-10).
Stetson will return home to face Lipscomb in a three-game series beginning at noon on Friday.
Notes: Meredith Owen hit two home runs in a game for the second time in her career (also Apr. 22, 2012 at USC Upstate) ... She is the sixth Hatter to record 100 career RBI ... She also recorded her 20th career shutout ... Chrissy Morello had an RBI double in the fifth, and Morgan Hatch hit a pinch hit double in the fourth.


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With the victory, the Hatters (20-8, 13-4 A-Sun) swept the season series from the Owls (7-22, 3-14) and reached the 20-win plateau for the third consecutive season.
"It's incredible what the players have done," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said. "It's one thing to win one year, but to sustain it year-after-year is a very difficult thing to do. It's a credit to our players, and it's huge for Stetson University women's basketball."
The win also moved Stetson into a tie for second place with Mercer in the league standings. The Hatters and Bears will meet in the final regular season game of the year at 1 p.m. Saturday to determine which team gets the all-important no. 2 seed for next week's conference tournament.
"It really does help because (as the no. 2 seed) you don't have to play three back-to-back-to-back games (in the conference tournament)," Bria said. "You still have to play three games, but having that day inbetween (the first and second round) really does make a difference, especially if you are fortunate enough to get to Saturday's game."
Stetson dominated the inside game Thursday, owning a 52-16 advantage in the "points in the paint" category. The Hatters also outrebounded Kennesaw State 42-33.
"We are pretty consistent that if we can win the paint, most of the time we have the better chance of winning the game," Bria said. "I thought we did a great job of guarding the paint. Our post defense was very good, and we had a lot of help inside the paint, so it was very effective."
"I like what we did on the boards," Bria added. "We got on the offensive glass very hard and we were very aggressive."
Sims went 9-for-16 from the floor to post her second straight 20-point performance. She scored 16 of her 22 points in the first half. Sanders shot 50% (8-for-16) from the field while Sharp added 11 points and seven rebounds.
"Sasha is playing really well right now, and Shanasa had a great response from last game," Bria said. "Jama actually had a very good game against Gulf Coast so she has put some games together."
The Hatters jumped out to an quick lead and never looked back. Already leading 10-7, Stetson went on an 11-0 run, highlighted by three-point baskets by Sims and Sharp.
Stetson extended its lead to 19 at halftime as Sanders drove the lane for a lay-up just before the buzzer sounded.
In the second half, Victoria McGowan fed Sharp on a back-door pass at 12:53 mark to put Stetson ahead by 24. Sharp returned the favor to McGowan a few minutes later as the lead ballooned to 27.
Stetson led by as many as 34 before finishing the 28-point victory.
McGowan finished the game with eight points and moved into third-place in school history in career points scored. She now has 1463 points, trailing just Kristy Brown (1522) and Michele Michael (1570) in the record books.
Stetson will honor its five seniors - McGowan, Sanders, Ashley Dennis, Janelle Mills, and Ashley Buis before Saturday's contest with the Bears.
Notes: Stetson set the school record for most wins in a four-year span (69) ... Ashley Dennis picked up a charge in the first half and dove after a loose ball late in the second half ... Freshman Sydni Payne played the final five minutes and scored three points ... Stetson has won nine games this year by 20 or more points and eight home games this year by leading wire-to-wire ... Stetson committed just six turnovers (three each half) ... Stetson tied the school record for most conference wins in a single-season (13) ... The Hatters have posted 20+ wins in a season five times in school history.


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In the field of editorial cartooning, the 20th century belonged to one man: Herbert Block, who has been signing his cartoons since 1929 with the name Herblock. He was born on the 13th October, 1909. At age twenty, his pointed barbs at politicians and other scalawags graced the pages of the Chicago Daily News. Even then, his drawings demonstrated a mastery of the conventions of the political cartoon.
The early 1930s brought Herblock to Cleveland, where he drew exclusively for syndication at NEA. Curiously, as the decade wore on, Herblock grew more liberal as his syndicate's politics became increasingly conservative. By the late '30s, the syndicate shrank the size of his cartoons, and begrudgingly waited out the term of his contract. But in 1939, Herb Block won the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes for cartooning, and he became the NEA's darling again.
After serving in the military during World War II, Herb Block joined The Washington Post in 1946, where he worked as political cartoonist for the rest of his 74-year career, winning his second Pullitzer in 1954 and the third in 1979.
Block was one of the first American political cartoonists to fiercely comment on the communist-hunt of senator Joseph R. McCarthy. He coined the term "McCarthyism" in a cartooning showing a ton of tar and feathers. McCarthy wasn't too pleased with this portrayal.
Herbert Block's poignant pen has harassed American presidents from Herbert H. Hoover to George W. Bush. Especially Richard M. Nixon, who unsuscribed from the Washington Post after Block portrayed him crawling out of a sewerpipe. Lyndon B. Johnson refused to award Block the highest civilian honor: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was eventually given to him by Bill J. Clinton in 1994.
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Clothes washer models vary, so the specific instructions that are available in the owner's manual are very important. Any devices made of rubber were never intended to last the lifetime of the appliance (remember the term "built-in obsolescence"?). Leaking or cracked valves and hoses need to be replaced immediately. Preventive maintenance not only saves valuable water but also could prevent a costly flood inside your home.
Always turn off the power before working on an appliance!
Even the most reliable clothes washer may need an occasional repair.
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If no water enters your washing machine during the fill cycle, or if only cold water is entering the appliance, there is a strong possibility that the water mixing valve needs to be replaced. If you want to learn about doing this repair yourself, check out this detailed article in Popular Mechanics.
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The Three Little Pigs are the noted house-builders of fairy tale fame, who have frequently appeared on Sesame Street opposite their nemesis the Big Bad Wolf, most notably in Sesame Street News Flash segments. They are not to be confused with the Five Little Piggies, the quintet of toe counting fame who live elsewhere in the forest; like their fellow porkers, however, the Three Little Pigs have on occasion said "wee wee wee" all the way home.
The pigs also appeared in The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street, constantly interrupting Grover's poem about Kermit.
In a 2007 episode, Abby Cadabby calls the three little pigs on her "cell wand," at which point they reveal their names to be Iggy, Wiggy, and Melvin.
The pigs have been performed by various puppeteers, including David Rudman, Kevin Clash, Frank Oz, Joey Mazzarino, Martin P. Robinson, Eric Jacobson, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Matt Vogel, and Noel MacNeal.
In 2008, the Three Pigs began making various background appearances on Plaza Sésamo.
- I.M. Pig and his associates show up in the Hurricane story arc in 2001, which also features the Big Bad Wolf as building inspector.
- In a 2005 episode, Baby Bear's story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" explains that during the three bears' walk, he and his parents made pig noises that caused themselves to transform into the Three Little Pigs. When the Big Bad Wolf began chasing them, the "pigs" made bear noises, transforming themselves back into their true identities and catching the wolf off-guard.
- In the 2007 book My First Trip to the Farm, Abby Cadabby mistakes farm pigs for the Three Little Pigs.
- A different set of Three Little Pigs appears in animated form in a Journey to Ernie segment (EKA: Episode 4027), along with another animated variation of the Pigs appearing in the 2002 song "Don't You Go Back In." (EKA: Episode 4145)
- Oscar the Grouch is auditioning for the lead in the Grouch Play The Big Bad Wolf, the Grouch version of The Three Little Pigs, in the storybook Ernie and His Merry Monsters.
Book appearances
- Elmo's Lift-and-Peek Around the Corner Book (1996)
- Abby Cadabby's Rhyme Time (2007)
- Elmo Visits the Dentist (2007)
- Storybook ABCs (2008)


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The "Jazz Cats", organized in 2005, is a group of seasoned world class musicians. They are under the direction of Danny Barber, a South Bend native.The Jazz Cats have performed at Jazz Festivals throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan over the last twenty years. These versatile musicians have performed with such Stars as Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Doc Severensen, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Nancy Wilson, The "Mighty" Joe Williams, and Count Basie, to mention very, very few. As seasoned musicians their careers have reflected Studio recording work, Jazz festivals, University performances, Solo performances with Symphony orchestras and the Kennedy Center Honors. The group plays music from the libraries of Duke Ellington, Parker, Garner, Jobim, Nat King Cole, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis and many tunes from the Cole Porter library.
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The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
Learning Objectives
The goal of this conference, consistent with the ASCP Educational Affairs goal, is to enhance participant knowledge and competencies in providing pharmaceutical care to elderly individuals as part of the interdisciplinary team, which results in their improved health and well-being. Knowledge, competencies, and needs in the following general areas will be enhanced:
Target Audience
This conference's educational activity is designed for consultant and dispensing pharmacists who care for older adults. Other health care professionals are encouraged to attend ASCP's continuing education activities. While ASCP awards only continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit, non-pharmacist attendees may submit CPE to their respective professional boards for consideration.
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In continuing alignment with ACPE standards, the continuing pharmacy education activities at this conference fall into the following categories:
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Attendee badges will be scanned for all education sessions for which CPE is being offered. Please ensure that your attendance is confirmed by badge scanning. To receive continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit, participants must attend the activity in its entirety and evaluate the activity on the ASCP Professional Development CEnter. To access the evaluation, participants must enter the CPE code for the educational activity attended. The CPE code will be announced during the session introduction. ASCP reports CPE attainment to ACPE and NABP via the CPE Monitor system. Participants must provide their correct MMDD of birth and unique identifier number on their member or guest profile of the ASCP Website. The deadline to complete evaluations is December 23, 2013.
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This CE event is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing education for pharmacists, and continuing education certificates may be used for recertification of geriatric nurse practitioners through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
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The Stetson tennis teams will travel to Jacksonville to take on North Florida in the Hatters' final road matches of the regular season on Saturday. The women will take on the Ospreys at 10:00 a.m., and the men will challenge the 66th ranked UNF squad at 2:00 p.m.
On the women's side, Stetson (9-7, 4-2) will look to bounce back after dropping a pair of conference matches this past weekend. The Hatters currently sit in fourth in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings, and will look to make up some ground on Saturday.
In order to do that, they will need to defeat the defending conference champion North Florida Ospreys (10-4, 3-1). UNF is currently in second place in the conference, trailing only ETSU.
On the men's side, Stetson enters with a record of 14-2 overall, and 5-1 in conference play, good for second place. Already having clinched a spot in the league championships, the Hatters split their last two matches, falling to ETSU by a score of 6-1 and bouncing back to defeat USC Upstate by an identical 6-1 margin.
The Ospreys enter with a 10-6 record, are 4-0 in the A-Sun, and are currently ranked 66th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. UNF is also in first place in the conference, has played nine matches against ranked opponents, and is taking on nationally ranked Florida State on Friday afternoon.
The women's team will return home for a match on Wednesday, April 10 against UCF, before both teams play host to Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday for the Hatters' final matches of the regular season.


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Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA) Will Fund Gintech and Utech Jointly to Undertake R&D Projects on "Mono-like Crystalline Silicon Wafers and High Efficiency Copper Plating Solar Cells" Research.
Under the steep competition of solar industry, producing high-efficiency and low-cost products are the primary missions for Gintech Energy Corporation (Gintech). Leading by Gintech, together with Utech Solar R&D teams, the researches on developing high-efficiency mono-like wafers and copper-plating technologies on cells were undertaken.
The copper-plating technologies, once successful, can be an alternate for silver-plating conductive method. The expected efficiency will reach 19.0% with 4.6 W/pc (6-inch) output. The R&D projects have been accepted by Department of Industrial Technology of MOEA and will be funded as part of MOEA's Industrial R&D and Innovative Projects.


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College enrollment plateauing, preliminary report shows
AUSTIN — The number of students enrolling in college slowed, bad for a state with a burgeoning economy, according to preliminary data released by the Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Enrollments at most institutions have either stabilized or gone down slightly, said board Commissioner Raymund Paredes, putting Texas on kind of a plateau.
"If we start seeing trends going the other way I want to do everything we can to reverse those trends," said Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas.
Texas schools added a little more than 12,000 students from fall 2011 and fall 2012, the lowest in some time.
Paredes said that enrollment slowed partially because of "apocalyptic accounts" about the cost of college.
It's also lower in some areas because many students have put off college to find profitable jobs with Eagle Ford Shale. There was, however, significant enrollment growth in the Metroplex and greater Houston area, a reflection of where the most dramatic job growth is.
The Fisher vs. Texas case also made its reprisal at a committee hearing on Friday. Less students are identifying themselves ethnically when enrolling in college, Paredes said.
"Aligning [admission] with socioeconomic status might be more relevant," he said. "By 2030 those ethnic lines will begin to blur and, regardless of the court ruling, Texas' economy will not be competitive if we don't succeed in educating our diverse population."
Branch said the fact that the numbers "stunned" Paredes is bad news.
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Videodrome. How can a title as mysterious as that not get you curious as to what this movie is about. I'm not here to talk about the title, of course. I'm here to talk about the movie behind that title. David Cronenberg is a name that resonates throughout modern film with movies like Scanners, The Fly, and Eastern Promises. This 1983 film, however, is what has stood the test of time and has quite possibly become even more relevant in this modern day and age. This is Videodrome.


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Refreshed, for another swing at the Cubs
Whichever way Hendry tried to spin it in the press conference, this trade is a rental. Matt Lawton is entering the final months of a four year deal that's paying him $7.5m this year. And when this season is done, Lawton, whose contract includes no options, will file for free agency. With Lawton turning 34 in November, and doubtless looking for a multi-year deal all the same, this being a rental or not, it's probably best left that way. But it is a rental. And that says much for the Cubs' attitude towards this season, it says that they still clearly think they can make the playoffs. But this team right now stands at just 53-52 and is very much flawed, as this lousy homestand against lousy Western opposition [Giants, Diamondbacks] has demonstrated. Nomar, Wood and Williamson, who Hendry is viewing as mid-season pickups, will not change that, promoting Van Buren won't either, and neither will Matt Lawton, whose simply not an impact ballplayer.The Cubs only gave up Jody Gerut, who managed just 18 plate appearances with the Pirates before succumbing to the problems with his knee that have ruined his season, but right now the Cubs' delusions of competitiveness mean that in the long-term they've exchanged him for Justin Berg, and that's just an unjustifable trade. In the short-term, Lawton gave Dusty Baker a convenient excuse to screw over Matt Murton, and the Cubs threw in a million dollars or so too. And for what? Parity with the Cincinnati Reds in 2005? I need a holiday.
Sorry with the multiple
Sorry with the multiple posts in a short period of time, ony my lunch break at college...
I loved this, the Top 10 reasons Scott McClain didnt get an AB yesterday...
# 9 is the best, as a reader
# 9 is the best, as a reader posted.
On Lawton, I always thought we'd end up with more for DuBois, and now am regretting we didn't just allow Gerut to get healthy and be a Cub next year.
For now Cubs, play the kids. Show Murton, Cedeno and any other young player for the rest of the season. Throw in Fontenot for some AB's, too. Start waiving Koronka, and some other AAA fodder and protect some of the real prospects instead.
Dusty's Top-10+ Reasons Why
Dusty's Top-10+ Reasons Why Scott McClain didn't get an AB Today
11) I thought his uniform number had been retired before the game started
12) Andre Dawson was in uniform and we were working on getting him a pinch hit appearance before McClain
Andy MacPhail was the
Andy MacPhail was the subject of two lengthy interviews over the past several days--one on WGN radio's "Sports Central" evening show; the other, the Score's "Hit and Run" Sunday morning show.
If I read Andy right, and he said essentially the same thing during both interviews, Baker and Hendry will be working through at least the 2006 season. There was not even a hint of a change of personnel at either position. Also, and just as important, MacPhail said nothing about a contract extension for either one beyond '06--at least not right now.
So, like 'em or not, it's looking more and more as though we'll have to live with Baker and Hendry for, in all probability, one more season.
In between all his management-speak, MacPhail did say he was extremely optimistic about '06, primarily because of the additional salaries the club will be able to take on next season.
Lawton traded? Who cares?
Lawton traded? Who cares? Didn't like DuBois. Didn't like Gerut. I like Lawton if we were able to compete. Since that's not happening, it was a great move. We cleared a lot of dead weight and now that the season is over we can start experimenting. Having said that, how many starts will Holly get in the next 30 or so games?
anyone hear anything about
anyone hear anything about Walker getting traded to cleveland?
Re: #6 -- just flipped on
Re: #6 -- just flipped on WSCR, I'll tell you in 5 minutes...
Nomar...is this a rumor or
Nomar...is this a rumor or do you think this just happened for real?
no hint of it on WSCR. so
no hint of it on WSCR. so it's just a rumor.
from what i can tell, just a
from what i can tell, just a rumor...
The Walker talk is just
The Walker talk is just rumor for now, nothign official.
For those who subscribe, check out Joe Sheehan's column on why the cubs have sucked this year. He identifies three problems:
1) Dusty's inability to recognize that neifi and corey were not 1-2 hitters
2) Putting rusch in the pen and dempster in the starting rotation, and then keeping rusch in the bullpen
3) Consistently playing the wrong LF'er
For all of their shortcomings, it's pretty much obvious to everyone that Murton should have been getting the bulk of the at bats since he's been called up. But instead we sank with Hollandsworth and other crappy players, and now not only have we wasted this year, but we did not get a chance to see what Murton can do on a full time basis -- even though his performanc evidences a solid contributor. Oh well, dusty is as dusty does...
Walker rumor was reported in
It hardly matters what we
It hardly matters what we get out of this trade sequence. It's all small potatoes. We overanalyze this not only because we overanalyze everything, but also because it takes our minds off losing. :P
13) I slept through Spring
13) I slept through Spring Training 2004
So...who does Cleveland have
So...who does Cleveland have that we would possibly get in return for Walker if that deal did come into fruition? I am guessing it would be mainly prospects(and don't tell me dubois). Anyone know if they have any young studs?
So...who does Cleveland have
So...who does Cleveland have that we would possibly get in return for Walker
"Bear" Bay? :)
"For all of their
"For all of their shortcomings, it's pretty much obvious to everyone that Murton should have been getting the bulk of the at bats since he's been called up."
obvious to who? if youre trying to win you surely dont stick him out there every day for the hell of it when you have MATT LAWTON on your club.
did he mention that TODD HOLLANDSWORTH had just come off a .360 clip when he was being played along with murton/lawton?
sounds like a buncha crap to me.
and what's so special about the dumpster that he deserved the closer role besides 1 offhand comment by hendry and a few by sportswriters?
and what's so special about what dumpster has done aside from a month and a 1/2 of effitive ball surrounded by pure crap?
and did joe shee. convienently forget the cubs own one of the worst bullpens in baseball (sans arizona who is just beyond awful) and has carried 1/3rd-1/2 of their lineup with .300 ob% hitters at any given point in the year?
that seems like a major oversight to ignore that.
Crunch, for all your
Crunch, for all your complaining about the Bullpen, etc, do you really think that fighting to stay out of 5th place is the best this team can do?
While the Cubs have holes, and have had them all year long, they really aren't much worse than the holes that every team in the NL East has.
Sheehan didn't talk about
Sheehan didn't talk about the bullpen (except to point out that Rusch didn't belong there) but he did offer some helpful hints on where these .300 OBPs should bat. Hint: not leadoff.
"The Cubs needed a better bullpen" isn't incompatible with "The Cubs certainly didn't use the rest of what they had very well," which was Sheehan's focus.
what does i think have to do
what does i think have to do with what this team has to work with?
and what does what you said have to do with the points i raised above?
an issue was raised about dempster and murton and i addressed them via what ive seen and backed it up with what's been done by the players leading up to the event.
looking at murton vs. righties...looking at what holly did leading up to murton joining...looking at the fact matt lawton is on the club...i drew those points.
looking at what this pen is...looking at the fact this pen has been crap ALL year...looking at the fact the dumpster puts 1.50 guys on base an inning...i drew those points.
now, what's your points besides saying "but..but..they did this!" ?
okay ron...thank you. that
okay ron...thank you.
that was very unsheehan-like to absolutely ignore things and come to those 3 points.
tem...if you have an agenda, its not nice to hijack someone else's name to attach your views to it.
this whole rant could have been avoided...
yes, batting corey/neifi 1/2 was retarded...yes, rusch has been worse as a starter compared to a reliever (but its not like rusch the starter has been all that great)...yes, dusty's made some weird moves like most managers in the game do.
anyone see florida's lineups the past few games or their substitutions?
castillo burried with conine batting 2nd? seriously, this stuff happens a lot..its when it happens for a majority of games that stuff gets really weird.
people already giving cedeno a death sentence even though he's playing...people wanna give murton the LF job with lawton already around as if he was traded for to be a bench player and he has no history of success...
There is nothing that CLE
There is nothing that CLE has in the minors outside of that Aubrey kid I would want. I imagine it would be for Dubois since Hendry likes him and I think he regrets that set of trades. I have to give it to you John your analysis on the Lawton trade was on the mark. I still don't think Gerut is that great, but he will probably be better than whoever the 4th OF is next year.
whatever anyone's interest
whatever anyone's interest in walker is...they got 2 days and a few hours to get it done if its likely to get done.
You mean "THE" Matt Lawton??
You mean "THE" Matt Lawton?? Wow..you are right Crunch....
If Lawton played woth a shit, sure. But he stunk with the Cubs, period. Jollandswoth's big tear? 2HR and 16 RBIs..geez...better trade Burnitz and K-orey...Oh, that was an aberration..as May was .111, with .179/.139/.318...July was .197 with .260/.348/.608..yep, he's a keeper.
Murton may need work hitting righties, you are correct. But calling him out like he was Roosevlet Brown on such a small sample size is ludicrous. (4/20)
dustyb... yeah...the matt
yeah...the matt lawton...the guy with who the club traded for...the guy with a history of success. yeah, that one. ever heard of him?
and no matter what you wanna say about holly he was still coming off a .360 clip. no amount of whining will take that away. no amount of whining will also make murton's obvious holes vs. righties suddenly get better.
why is one person's crap better than someone elses?
did murton step up and dominate both sides of the plate? no... did he get a chance to see pitchers from both sides? yes...
did murton show up in baseball 3 months ago with no one knowing about him? you think he was in the minors for 1000-ish a/bs without anyone noticing how he handles righties, especially righties insides with breaking stuff? do you seriously think that? i think you do.
murton isnt a 19 year old that was drafted in june.
you think he was in the
you think he was in the minors for 1000-ish a/bs without anyone noticing how he handles righties, especially righties insides with breaking stuff?
Murton hit righties just as well as lefties in the minors.
Hey chifan3887, I am still
Hey chifan3887, I am still will to make that bet that the Cubs will win 65 games. What do you think?
its not what your #s
its not what your #s are...its how you get them and what youre getting them off of.
he's faced A, AA, and non-pro pitchers his entire life.
based on the A and AA ball ive seen, and that's a whole lot...you're not gonna see refined sliders and changeups down there.
if anything can be learned from dubois and rich hill (to keep it recent) there is a HUGE difference between major league pitchers/hitters vs. what you see in the minors.
Doh. Yup...I can type! I
Doh. Yup...I can type!
I am still willing to make that bet...
btw...cedeno's move through
btw...cedeno's move through this cubs system has NOTHING even remotely to do with his #s...if it did him and l.montanez would probally be teammates throughout the both of their careers.
there's more to the minors than numbers by far...
Crunch: What exactly are
What exactly are you trying to say about Holly? That he deserved more playing time?
He had an admitedly hot June, hitting .360/.372/.547 in 75 at bats. Even after Murton's call up, though, he had almost the same number of at bats in July (65) and put up horrible numbers: .197/.260/.348.
I neither have a secret
I neither have a secret agenda nor did I attach someone elses name to my viewpoint. I menionted that Sheehan made 3 points, paraphrased said points, and then in a new paragraph typed my own. Do I need to put "In my opinion" in front of every f'n thing in write? I have no agenda, and even if I did, do you really think that Hendry/McPhail read these message boards and say "shit TEM, some random poster on an internet message board is shitting on dusty baker, we better get rid of dusty to appease TEM." Get over yourself; you're not that important to the cubs, and neither am I. Christ you sound like Dusty Baker blaming the Internet for his problems instead of looking in the mirror.
The point of my comment was to show that to the statistically oriented community, Dusty has wholly misused the players on the team, even when provided better options. Hollandsworth has had one decent stretch this year that lasted about 2 weeks in june, and over the course of his career has been no better than a 4th outfielder. Murton clearly showed that he should have been given a shot at the everyday position, BEFORE they acquired Lawton. Oh shit, looks like i forgot to write "in my opinion" in front of this again, maybe you'll attribute this to Hunter S. Thompson.
no im not saying holly
no im not saying holly deserved more playing time...
im saying ignoring that he was producing at the time is akin to ignoring the fact that murton isnt a complete hitter from both sides of the plate.
there's a lot more righties than lefties around and 3/4 of the year a guy's gonna see those righties.
its a complete package going against murton for why he wasnt there everyday...the main being the addition of matt lawton above anything holly can/would/did do.
big lowitzki, I never said
big lowitzki,
I never said the Cubs wouldn't win 65 games unless your COL, KC, TB, Pit you should be able to do that.
What you and Baker want is a guy like Cabrerra who is ready to go when he gets the callup. Guys will have holes in their game and a good manager lets a guy go out there and work through their problems. If you and Baker were running this team in the early 80's Sandberg would have never became Sandberg because you would have traded him after he went 0-32.
tem...you posted 3 points
tem...you posted 3 points and attached them to shee...
not all of us frequent the "baseball prospectus" nor do all of us pay for it...
you presented 3 points, 1 of which was outright debunked totally.
that is taking someone's name and attaching your view/interpretation/etc. to it.
"For those who subscribe, check out Joe Sheehan's column on why the cubs have sucked this year. He identifies three problems"
that says
1- sheehan identified those points
2- sheehan's points were 3 points
the paragraph afterwards i took as your opinion and covered that in another part of the post.
Actually, those are three
Actually, those are three points that Sheehan made, and none of them were debunked.
I posted this in another
I posted this in another thread but I thought I'd throw it out again just to give my 2 cents worth...
Although the trade for Lawton didn't work out in the long run, at the time it was the right thing to do if you still felt the Cubs had an outside chance to win this year. With over 2 months left in the season, I wasn't ready to throw in the towel, not with the guys we had coming back for the stretch. And you can be damn sure that Hendry, McPhail, Baker and others with reputations and pressure on the line surrounding a $100 Million payroll weren't ready to throw in the towel either.
With all that being said, it didn't work. So in retrospect, maybe we shouldn't have picked up Lawton and just let the young guys play. But you can't bitch constantly about the team not having a legit leadoff hitter with a high OBP (which historically Lawton has had) and then bitch when we pick one up at the trade deadline for a guy that should be nothing more than a backup OF'er for a legitimate contending team. There are many reasons why this team has underperformed, but the chain of events that ultimately produced us Justin Berg, in my opinion, is not high on that list
"If you and Baker were
"If you and Baker were running this team in the early 80's Sandberg would have never became Sandberg because you would have traded him after he went 0-32."
in fact if you'd bother to research what ive said about murton in the past you'd learn i compare the two a lot.
but that would require research insted of just saying "its dusty's blah blah"
its a lot easier to blame 1 guy for the shortcomings of 25-40 players.
"Actually, those are three
"Actually, those are three points that Sheehan made, and none of them were debunked."
well tem...
in that case...refer to the 1st responce where i called shee shortsighted and ignorant to what more pressing problems were.
and if im wrong, im sorry...i dont pay BP a dime to read their stuff, nor do i plan on it.
if shee did say that...refer to the 1st post responce and i appologize to you.
Sheehan's support for his
Sheehan's support for his contention that Rusch should've been in the starting rotation is his performace as a starter as well as the lack of performance by Dempster in the starting rotation (as well as Koronka and Hill).
You may not subscribe to BP, but you should really rely on something more than hearsay to try to refute something.
what exactly did shee
what exactly did shee say...im getting 2 stories...tem's and rob's....
someone's either misinterpreting or someone's lieing.
im not asking for a full
im not asking for a full report of a copycontrolled and for-pay article...but im curious to know what was said since im knee deep in this crap now.
Hey Chifan, Cabrera hit
Hey Chifan,
Cabrera hit something like .220 for his first month as a starter, and .250 for most of the year in 2003. And, he's a liability in the outfield. He would never have been given a chance to play on a Dusty-led team after showing those kinds of numbers. Rookies have to produce, you know.
My response to your points
My response to your points then:
Re: Dempster & Starting & Closing. I'm not saying he should have been made the closer right away, but that doesn't mean he should not have been in the bullpen. Look at Dempster's starting numbers over his career, he's been less than stellar pretty much his entire career (save one year) whereas Rusch has outperformed him as a starter both last year and this year.
Re: Murton & Hollandsworth. Hollandsworth has had one good stretch that lasted 2-3 weeks this year. Over the course of his career, he has shown to be nothing better than a 4th outfielder. Murton, however, got on base at a .415 clip, and this team sorely needed players who got on base. I've heard you repeat ad nauseum that he can't pull the ball, blah blah, as if hits to right field somehow don't count, and that getting on base via the walk does not count. Further, you say he can't hit righties, but what evidence do you have to support that? Murton has been a solid hitter of his career in the minor leagues, and good minor league performance EVIDENCES the potential to hit at the major league level
I'm not slamming the trade for Lawton or Lawton playing over Murton. I'm attacking Murton's lack of play before that acquisition - although Murton should have stayed up on the roster when Hairston returned from the DL to at least play against lefties (whom he mashed) while Patterson should have been sent back to AAA.
Finally, Sheehan never said if Baker had made the moves that he suggested, that the cubs would be in 1st place, just that those moves contributed to the poor performance of the team this year. You're reading into his comments far too much because you disagree with them.
rob=ron...for clarification...
to take a buncha points and come to those 3 conclusions...that just dont sound like shee to me.
to say those 3 reasons are why the club is sucking is so shortsighted to me compared to bigger issues seems like a joke.
rusch/dumpster was solved after a month and it didnt do a whole lotta good as it is.
constantly playing the wrong LF...for over 1/2 the season that was holly vs. dubois and that's 2 flavors of suck.
i just see a bunch of nothing in those points (aside from 1) and a lot more pressing issues that contributed to the cubs decline.
why are those 3 points given and not the others when summing up a death sentence for this team?
that is my question...
5 for 20 is too small a
5 for 20 is too small a sample to simply say "he can't hit righties."
about dumpster... his WORST
about dumpster...
his WORST area of performance is pitches 1-15
if anything this should say he's not closer material since that's historically where he gets lit up.
that's a hell of a gamble, period.
"The gap between Cubdom and
"The gap between Cubdom and contention is wide, but so much of it is contained in three Baker mistakes: using Neifi Perez and Corey Patterson atop the lineup, refusing to play his better left fielders, not keeping Rusch in the rotation"
morphesus... get this
get this tatoo'd on your eyelids so when you close them at night you can say 'oh yeah...'
murton didnt show up 2-3 months ago.
he's had almost 1000ab's in the minors that have given people plenty of looks at his stregnths and weaknesses.
guys just dont show up without a scouting report on them...maybe the other team dont know them, but that's why advanced scouts exist.
advanced scouting told other teams to pound him inside, and they have. this is a problem with his game. seeing as a guy is gonna see a righty 3/4 of his ab's in the majors unless he's a bench player, this is a major issue.
hell, murton rules...he just dont rule right now. he's damn close. hopefully he's not got a choi-like block on inside stuff. pat listach (ha) is working DAMN HARD trying to sort him out in the limited time he has him. this will be his 6th hitting coach he's seen (at least) in the past 3 years.
"The gap between Cubdom and
"The gap between Cubdom and contention is wide, but so much of it is contained in three Baker mistakes: using Neifi Perez and Corey Patterson atop the lineup, refusing to play his better left fielders, not keeping Rusch in the rotation"
thank you tem...and i appologize for my off the cuff comment earlier. if that is the grasp of it and it seems i was totally 100% wrong.
my beef is with shee's shortsighted article it seems.
Crunch, I don't think you're
Crunch, I don't think you're getting two stories. Sheehan detailed ways he feels Baker's misused the talent on the team. He didn't talk about the bullpen except to acknowledge that it was subpar, and the bits about Rusch/Dempster. You're saying "The Cubs had serious problems in the pen," which I'm sure he'd agree with, but Sheehan's article focused (in the BP style) on how they didn't use what they had in an intelligent fashion.
His summary:
It's dangerous to oversimplify this, but so much of the Cubs' deficit in the wild-card race can be traced directly to their shortfall in runs, and that deficit to poor lineup construction, that it's hard not to just level a finger at Baker.
Baker continues to show little understanding of how an offense works, of how to fit his players' skills to the proper roles. Worse, he shows little desire to learn these things, making the same mistakes repeatedly while taking little criticism for his decisions, and deflecting what criticism comes in a manner that has nothing to do with baseball. Whatever his leader-of-men qualities may be, it's increasingly clear that they're not enough to make up for his decisions.
He's not saying "this is why the Cubs are bad." He's saying "the Cubs' tactical management and use of their roster were bad enough to put them 7 down instead of 3 down."
I too think he overplays the LF hand, but the other two, Neifi/CP and Rusch, are varying degrees of slam dunks.
Take it easy, Crunch. Why
Take it easy, Crunch. Why are you so uptight? All I said was that we're looking at an awful small sample size in the major leagues. You are fond of saying that it's completely different in the majors than in the minors, right? So, how do we know that Murton has this huge hole until we get more than a few AB's to evaluate him on? He hit both righties and lefties in the minors. Did you see the advance scouting report on him or something? I know you have connections in the business... and I'm not being sarcastic there.
"refusing to play his better
"refusing to play his better left fielders"
dubois? hollandsworth? gerut? murton?
what better left fielders?
you got a lefty specialist and 3 flavors of crap as far as 05 goes.
i guess hairston could be out there if someone wants to make an arguement for him, but he spent a lotta time spelling todd walker at 2nd when he missed a month of action and spelling corey in CF when he was sucking hard.
"Take it easy, Crunch. Why
"Take it easy, Crunch. Why are you so uptight?"
im not uptight, i just covered the answer to that from my view in this very thread already.
and i like to inject jerk-like humor in my posts sometimes hehe...i got nothing against you.
"So, how do we know that Murton has this huge hole until we get more than a few AB's to evaluate him on?"
okay...now that i answered and re-answered...re-answered in the very post you're complaining about.
he HAS been evaluated, people KNOW what's up with him.
a lot of people get paid (really bad pay, btw) to know these things.
those binders in the dugout with other team's names on them...theyre full of this stuff.
"He's not saying "this is
"He's not saying "this is why the Cubs are bad." He's saying "the Cubs' tactical management and use of their roster were bad enough to put them 7 down instead of 3 down.""
thank you ron...this whole thing has escaped my grasp and yeah, i took the whole thing the wrong way.
the lack of clarification in my head between what i was getting caused me to hit on the wrong points of a greater issue.
if you feel slighted, i appologize to you, too.
and once again, i appologize to you tem.
...and yeah, Neifi/CP was a slam dunk point
no worries, it's an internet
no worries, it's an internet message board. can't really take these things seriously :)
well, anyone that runs his
well, anyone that runs his mouth as much as i do will make mistakes.
if anything, especially when i involve the community here, i must accept responsibility for saying stupid crap.
thank you for accepting my appology and i seriously do extend it to you and anyone else who had to sit through this.
in the future i need to do my own homework rather than interpreting the back/forth because we dont all use the same venacular to say the same things...interpreting can lead to error and i really made a big one in this post.
when push comes to shove and all opinions of this club aside...we're all cubs fans...i think =p
thank you for accepting my
thank you for accepting my appology and i seriously do extend it to you and anyone else who had to sit through this
We had deal with this season I think we can handle your posts.
big lowitzki, I never said
big lowitzki,
I never said the Cubs wouldn't win 65 games unless your COL, KC, TB, Pit you should be able to do that.
You are right...sorry. it was Cubby78.
Cubby78...do you read this? Or was that just a one week thing?
Sometimes I wonder if
Sometimes I wonder if anybody here is actually paying attention. Just to set the record straight, RYAN DEMPSTER has done a quality job as a Cub reliever.
As a relief pitcher this year he:
Has a won-loss record of 4-0
Has converted 19 Saves in 21 opportunities
Has an ERA of 2.59 in 40 games.
Has a WHIP of 1.34
Has a GO/AO ratio of 3.5
Has limited opponents to a .222 batting average.
Sheehan is a big Dusty fan
Sheehan is a big Dusty fan (NOT!), but actually, he was negative on the Cubs at the beginning of the season (and 2004 as well) because he did not like the way they had constructed their offense (to many guys with low OBP and not enough left handed hitting). With the departure of Alou and the disappearance of Sosa we knew the outfield was not going to be as productive as last season, and when Patterson became the worst offensive starter in the NL outside of Christian Guzman, the offensive liability of the Cubs outfield became fatal. And it was not particularly good defensive outfield either, especially when Macias and Lawton were out there.
Crunch, the bullpen problems were to some extent set up by Dusty's abandonment of the original plan (Dempster as the closer with Hawkins as the set up man) when Wood and Prior got hurt in spring training. And that set of dominos started tumbling because the Cubs let Clement go and did not sign a starting pitcher to replace him and provide depth, something they should have done given Wood's and Prior's history of health problems. So the supposed Cubs' strength, starting pitching, became a weakness, and less innings the starters pitched, the more the bullpen got exposed.
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A left-handed one...
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.


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We think surprises should be fun, but there's nothing fun about being surprised with extra charges. That's why with British Airways the price you see is the price you pay.
Wherever and whenever you fly UK Domestic you can expect the same impeccable standards, complimentary drinks, snacks and warm service by our attentive crew, but some of the features and cabin elements may vary according to the time of your flight and the type of aircraft in use.


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