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5 June 2014Waste not want not means more now than ever as around 4.2 million tonnes of avoidable food and drink waste is created each year. Sainsbury's has teamed up with Google to try and help by creating Food Rescue. This online service, which will also work on... >>
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24 July 2013Mobile by Sainbury's, the new network created in a partnership of the UK supermarket chain and Vodafone, has launched with three pay-as-you-go price plans that earn customers double Nectar points for their Sainsbury's shopping or fuel. When a Mobile by... >>
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1 July 2013Sainsbury's, the UK supermarket, has announced it is teaming up with Vodafone to launch its very own mobile phone network to take on Tesco and others. Called Mobile by Sainsbury's, the new UK network will be run as a joint venture between the high street... >>
Xbox 360 gets SkyDrive support along with 40 new apps worldwide
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Skype prepaid cards hit UK high street stores, including Asda and Sainsburys
5 November 2012Skype has signed deals with several top UK high street shops which will sell prepaid cards for the video calling service. Available in £10 and £20 denominations, the cards will be stocked in 1,400 Asda, Sainsburys, Currys, PC World and WHSmith stores... >>
Sainsbury's and Rovi team up to take on Netflix, Lovefilm and Now TV
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Sky Go and Sainsbury's team up to make iPad-toting shopping trolley
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Comic book movies are all the rage.
Though 2010 may have been a bit of a lean year in the superhero stakes, a quick glimpse into the future reveals that new adventures for Spidey, Thor, Batman, Captain America, Green Lantern and the X-Men are all on the way. Not to mention the most ambitious comic book movie ever –
The Avengers
Why have the pages of Marvel and DC suddenly become so popular on the big screen? Let's ask Thor himself…
"There are different waves constantly in the business," Chris Hemsworth told
Total Film
at this year's Comic-Con, "what's popular and what's not. Sure, it might dry up at some point, or it might not!
"Video games and superhero movies and 3D seem to be the craze at the moment. I have no idea where that will go in the future."
As a famous folk song once posited, where did we come from, where did we go? Well, let's take a look…
Next: Origins [page-break]
"Video game characters and comic book characters are very different; there's just something about comic book characters that translates very well to the big screen. They tend to be quite iconic."
Mark Millar had it right when he told us earlier this year that superheroes were made to be icons. They are brightly-coloured, hyper versions of ourselves – endowed with special abilities, yet prone to the same frailties that we lowly humans suffer through on a daily basis.
Interesting, then, that the first comic book movies tended to overlook this basic principal in favour of painting larger-than-life characters who were more hero than human.
The first ever comic book flick,
Flash Gordon
in 1936, was a serialised TV movie in three parts that was later crunched into one single film. Despite its rudimentary fashion, it set the mould for comic adaptations for years to come. Namely: cheap is the word.
Despite Gordon being viewed as a chance to garner an adult audience, comics were still deemed as things for kids, and little was spent on these early productions.
Flash Gordon
was made for a reported $350,000 (though rumours abound that it actually cost more like $1m), with numerous Universal sets and props recycled for the movie (including the watchtower from 1931's
It was
The Adventures of Captain Marvel
in 1941 that really kicked comic book movies into gear. A 12 chapter film serial following Captain Marvel's tussle with The Scorpion, it lit a fire under Hollywood's creative types, and showed how things could be done with dazzling special effects and Tom Tyler leading the way as a hero people could believe in.
Serials of
The Phantom
Captain America
all followed suit, ensuring that the '40s were stuffed full of superheroes that would remain popular on the screen even to this day.
The decline in TV serials and a nationwide investigation into the possible role of comic books in juvenile delinquency meant that the superhero's screen reign was short-lived.
In 1953, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was established, and public hearings were held in New York to discuss whether the graphic depictions of crime and horror in comics was having a negative impact on the nation's youth.
Which probably explains the form that the Adam West-starring 1966
movie took – violence and clashes amped up the cartoon imagery, and everything was played out with feather-light flourishes.
Next: A New Face [page-break]
A New Face
"I saw tremendous potential for a motion picture," says director Richard Donner. "He's Americana."
Donner is, of course, talking about DC Comics favourite
. With the '60s and '70s all-but a dead zone for the movie superhero (and heroine), he was about to embark on one of the most ambitious projects ever – yes, he was going to make a man (ney, a super man) fly.
The circumstances surrounding the making of his 1978 movie are the thing of legend.
"Maybe in a strange way, I was defending it," Donner explains of why he signed on to direct. "I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately, but then when I realised it was going to be produced by some Hungarians whose office was in Costa Rica and they had never been there in their life, and it was going to be directed by and Englishman in Italy.
"I thought, 'What the fuck are they doing to Superman?' It's apple pie and ice cream and Americana. It's Norman Rockwell. It's 'Don't Tread On Me'. In a strange way, I felt that I've got to do this.
"The moment I got into it – read it – I felt, 'Oh man, what a challenge this is going to be.' I knew I was up to the challenge, having done The Omen and realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. I readily accepted the challenge."
It was a challenge that eventually paid off in dividends. Trimming away the campy elements that had been a staple of previous comic adaps, and grounding Superman in a relatable reality (something Stan Lee had done with his Spider-Man comics), Donner struck upon a winning formula.
became the world's first serious superhero film – though imbued with its own wit and warmth, it held weight. People even related Superman to Jesus as a Christ-like figure (imagery that Bryan Singer would later play with in his own
Superman Returns
is a pure delight," wrote critic Roger Ebert at the time, "a wondrous combination of all the old-fashioned things we never really get tired of: adventure and romance, heroes and villains, earthshaking special effects and wit. Reeve is perfectly cast in the role. Any poor choice would have ruined the film."
With the Man of Steel's success at the cinema, other projects were greenlit, including
Swamp Thing, Supergirl, The Toxic Avenger, The Punisher
, and numerous
sequels. But the quality of these was wildly variable, and as the quality in Superman's successive cinematic outings took a dive, so too did comic movies…
Next: Camp Returns [page-break]
Camp Returns
By the '90s, it seemed Hollywood was again unsure how to make a superhero movie. Though Tim Burton's
had mopped up in 1989 with a lighter, pop-arty approach, filmmakers appeared to have ignored the lessons that
had taught them.
"I was lucky when I made
because, at the time, it felt like new territory," Burton told
Total Film
in 2007. "We went back to the traditions of the comic and they were usually light and cartoony. It was exciting. Then, all of a sudden, every comic-book hero is a tortured soul in a funny costume."
While more family-friendly fare like
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Addams Family
proved profitable (as well as fun), comic book movies were nose-diving.
Marvel's 1991 version of
Captain America,
starring Matt Salinger in a very silly rubber suit and Scott Paulin as Red Skull, failed to get a cinematic release, and Roger Corman's 1994
Fantastic Four
failed to see the light of day at all.
It was Joel Schumacher who really hammered the nail into the coffin, though, as he tag-teamed the
film franchise from Burton and created two further neon-splattered sequels that squatted all over the screen-verse Burton had so carefully crafted.
This last development was a kick in the teeth for Burton, whose take on Batman was one of the most celebrated pre-Nolan.
"I take Pee-wee and Beetlejuice and Edward and Batman - I feel very close to those characters. I really do. I feel like they are mutated children," Burton explained at the time.
"These characters are all fucked up. They are impurely pure. If Batman got therapy, he probably wouldn't be doing this - he wouldn't be putting on this bat suit, and we wouldn't have this weird guy running around in a cape."
Tellingly, after the disastrous
Batman & Robin
, Schumacher made
… dark days indeed. But in an echo of these shadowy times, it was the darker comic book heroes who began to resonate with moviegoers.
Alex Prayas'
The Crow
in 1994, replete with its own ghoulish on-set tragedy, earned critical praise, while Marvel's
in 1998 went pitch black and bloody, pairing cutting edge technology with a suped-up vampire yarn.
It was to pave the way for a new breed of hero…
Next: The Serious Superhero [page-break]
The Serious Superhero
In 2000, a little movie called
came out. Directed by the guy who helmed
The Usual Suspects
, starring some Aussie with claws and that chick out of
The Piano
, it was just another superhero flick that was sure to disappoint.
Except it didn't. Opening in the number one spot with $54m, the film has now acquired a total worldwide haul of $296m. Even better, fans and critics alike lapped it up.
For Bryan Singer, it was all about the story...
"I was not familiar with
," he tells
Total Film
. "What inspired me initially was the idea that they were reluctant superheroes, living in a world that hates and fears them. That struck me as very interesting, a little more depth than just revenge or fighting for the sake of it.
"The idea of being born the way you are, searching for acceptance – it's what every adolescent experiences at one point or another. It's what I experience every day."
The Noughties was when superheroes got serious. Devoting their time to staying pain-stakingly true to the comic pages that inspired them, comic book movies suddenly equalled dollar signs. And Hollywood knew that if it wanted to keep drawing in the crowds, something had to change.
Following the blueprint of
and Donner's
, Sam Raimi's
stuck close to Spidey lore (with a few notable adjustments) and became one of the biggest grossing comic book movies ever. Dealing with issues of responsibility and family, others followed, ahem, suit, with
both lensing their stories in swathing shadows.
Even Alan Moore's 'unfilmable' Watchmen made it to the big screen with expectation-shatteringly spectacular results.
Comic artist John Romita Jr. believes this sudden leap in the popularity of comic book movies was partly down to the advent of CGI technology.
"That is due in large part to the quality of computer generated images," he told
Total Film
earlier this year. "Computers have a lot to say in this, in that these brilliant out-of-this-world ideas in the comics industry have suddenly been able to be adapted into film.
And I think all it does is it enables somebody to take a wild idea and apply a quality story to it. And that's why thousands upon thousands of projects created by comic book creators are now fodder for the movie industry."
There's also that tricky matter of reality. How do you keep a story about near-indestructible heroes tense and interesting? It's all about balance, says Romita Jr.
"If you balance it properly," he explains, "I think Stan Lee or my father once said this, you do 80% of reality and 20% fantasy. If that fantasy is set up properly by the reality, you have a brilliant story. If you do much of either, you get in danger, but it has to be a quality story."
There were, of course, failures.
was critically interesting and fearless but turned fans off, while
Ghost Rider
were merely rotten to the core. The women came off worst, with Halle Berry's
an S&M nightmare, and Jennifer Garner's
a painful misstep. Small wonder that
Wonder Woman
is still in development hell.
If anything, the comic book movie genre appeared to peak with Christopher Nolan's moody
The Dark Knight
, which remains the most successful comic book movie of all time. Not only has it hit the $1bn mark in worldwide takings, it was also nominated for a staggering eight Academy Awards.
Next: The Future [page-break]
The Future
Where do we go from here? Well, if the Noughties were the age of the Serious Superhero, this new decade appears to be the age of reflexivity and reboots.
"I think the genre's always having to reinvent itself," says Tim Burton, "and, obviously, comics are a kind of modern folk tale that can stand to be re-told and re-looked at in many different ways. But I think the dark tortured comic-book hero… Well, I think it's time for a new angle. Maybe it's time to go back to the brightly coloured cartoon."
showed back in the mid-'90s, when a genre turns on itself and starts delivering material with a self-knowing wink, things are definitely shifting. In the comic book realm, examples of this are already evident with
Taking the Spider-Man mythos and bringing it bang up to date,
asks what would happen if a normal human being (crucially, one not backed-up by a trust-fund and his own corporation) put on a suit and decided to fight crime.
The result is Mark Millar's bloody, knowing and hilarious comic, transformed into a Matthew Vaughn movie just this year. Already, similar ideas are being touted in the movies.
James Gunn's
features Rainn Wilson as a wannabe hero who transforms himself into the Crimson Bolt in an attempt to win his wife back. And there is, of course,
Kick-Ass 2
on the horizon…
Meanwhile, previously profitable comic franchises are being rebooted all over the place.
has a new geeky Peter Parker in Andrew Garfield, the
Fantastic Four
are due a re-do (with a CGI Thing), and Matthew Vaughn is steering mutant prequel
X-Men: First Class
Then there's the tricky issue of
The Avengers
. A long time in the making, it could just make or break the superhero movie mould. With Joss Whedon recently confirmed as the flick's director, our hopes remain high. And he certainly seems to have his priorities in the right place.
"The thing that made me excited to do it was just how completely counterintuitive it is," Whedon says. "It makes no sense. These people should not even be in the same room, let alone on the same team. And that, to me, is the very definition of family."
Will the comic storm eventually blow itself out of puff? Perhaps. But if we've learnt anything from comics, in this world, anything can happen...
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Mark Morris returns to Seattle with 'Back on the Boards'
Mark Morris Dance Group returns to its old Seattle home, On the Boards, with a world premiere, two Seattle premieres and the return of his classic "Grand Duo," Oct. 4-6, 2012.
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Mark Morris Dance Group
8 p.m. Thursday-Oct. 6, On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., Seattle; sold out.Mark Morris Dance Group's show next week is being billed as "Back on the Boards." But some dancers in his troupe weren't even born the last time MMDG performed at Seattle's On the Boards.
That was in 1985 at OtB's old Washington Hall digs, where, throughout the early 1980s, Morris presented new work on a yearly basis. For a couple of years the Seattle-born-and-raised dancer, disenchanted with New York, even moved back here.
But the move didn't work out, he said in an interview in Seattle in late August, "because I had to go back to New York to go on tour anyway."
Morris fans have gotten used to seeing him at Meany Theater, the Paramount and what he calls "the scary Moore Theatre — which I actually like as a theater to watch, but it's just sort of ghastly backstage." This time around he's in a much smaller space — OtB's 300-seat Mainstage Theater — with a program that includes a world premiere ("A Wooden Tree"), two Seattle premieres ("Petrichor," "The Muir") and the return of Morris' classic "Grand Duo," set to music by Lou Harrison.
"A Wooden Tree" is unusual for Morris in that it's performed to recorded music: the songs and poems by Scottish cult humorist Ivor Cutler. Morris is usually adamant about performing to live music. But Cutler (1923-2006) is utterly distinctive in his personality and delivery, and to have a live performer interpret his tunes, Morris believes, wouldn't make sense.
"He's unbelievable," he says. "The little stories, the little poems, the beautiful little songs ... I could transcribe it and have somebody perform it. But, no."
Morris first encountered Cutler's work in 2009 at a Scottish dance-and-music showcase where he was debuting "Cease Your Funning" (a piece, performed to Beethoven settings of traditional Scottish folk tunes, that was later developed into "The Muir").
Ashley Page, then director of Scottish Ballet, had used Cutler's tunes in a piece at the festival, and Morris' reaction upon first hearing them was immediate: "I just fell for this music and decided that this was the perfect time and place to do a recorded piece."
There's a lot of Cutler to choose from, so Morris won't be using the same playlist as Page. As of late August, he hadn't made his final selection, but it seems safe to say that Cutler's song "A Wooden Tree" (easily tracked down on YouTube) will be part of the program.
Cutler is scarcely known here, but give one listen to "A Wooden Tree" and it's obvious what prompted BBC disc jockey John Peel to invite Cutler repeatedly onto his program and Paul McCartney to ask Cutler to be in the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" (as bus conductor Buster Bloodvessel, who encourages his passengers to enjoy themselves "within the limits of British decency").
A small stage made sense for "A Wooden Tree," Morris says, because it has a small cast and doesn't require live musicians. The rest of the program was guided by the logistics of fitting dance and live music in smaller-than-usual quarters. "The Muir" is for six dancers and piano trio. "Petrichor," set to a Villa-Lobos string quartet, features eight dancers. "Grand Duo" involves 14 dancers and two musicians.
Morris has fond memories of the old On the Boards: "I didn't have any money, and I couldn't pay anybody, and I didn't have time or space, and I made up wonderful programs."
He would teach there for a week or two, he recalls, and then use his students in his pieces. He cites "Canonic ¾ Studies" (1982) as something he came up with in collaboration with anyone willing to stick around after class. "I made it up in maybe five days, and then we performed it. Now," he muses, "it takes a week to teach everybody, and it took less than that to choreograph."
By some lights, Morris' early way of working sounds like the contemporary-dance equivalent of an old Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney film, where the kids, in impromptu fashion, casually throw a show together. But Morris takes issue with the idea that anything casual or impromptu is necessarily frivolous.
In the movies, he points out, Garland and Rooney were in earnest: "That's why they put on good shows. It wasn't frivolous at all. They were saving somebody's relationship, or saving the farm, the ranch. You know, it was serious business. And it was always serious business to me."
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Soon after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, many concerned Columbia University students and faculty members gathered together and formed Consortium for Japan Relief (CJR), a united coalition led by Dr. Shunichi Homma, Margaret Milliken Hatch Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center, Dr. Jeanette Takamura, Dean of the Columbia University School of Social Work, and Paul Anderer, professor at Columbia University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, along with alumni and student coordinators, Daiyu Suzuki, Kirsten Homma, Kenneth Nakazawa, Nathanael Andreini, Sayaka Tsuno, May Uchida, Alisa Prager, Hana Ito, Yasutaka Saeki, Maka Akannajin, Fred Tsutagawa, Yumiko Murai and Hiroshi Hasegawa. Other core members include Professors Hugh Patrick, Gerry Curtis, Dr. Kato and Dr. Robert Yanagisawa. Also many thanks to Alexis Liu, Qi Chen, Katie Moore, Jisuk Park, and Shigeru Eguchi, for their contributions.
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I was wondering if seeds collected from hybrid vegies such as Sungold tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, etc. will grow into the same plant, or would they revert to something else, would the seeds be sterile, or what? |
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- Posted by albert_135 Sunset 2 or 3 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 23, 12 at 14:38
Some hybrids 75% of the seed will not grow true and 25% will. I've forgotten what this sort of hybridization is called. |
I bought lemon cucumber seed from Baker Creek Heirlooms which would indicate these are not hybrids and will grow true. THAT IS.... if they didn't cross pollinate with a different cucumber near-bye. As for Sungold... I buy fresh seed each year because I don't want to take the chance. They are very expensive seed too. Talk about a captive market. |
As a general guideline - no. If the seeds aren't sterile (which many are) then they won't breed true. That is why the standard recommendation is to not save seeds from hybrids. In most cases hybrids will revert to one of the parent stock. There are exceptions but in general saving seed from hybrids is a waste of time IF you want the same plant. If you don't care what it produces and like to experiment it can be fun to see what the seed produces. Dave |
- Posted by yukkuri_kame 9 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 27, 12 at 3:54
No, hybrid seeds will generally not breed true, but.... If you have a particular hybrid that you are absolutely are in love with, and assuming the seeds aren't sterile, it is possible to breed out the hybrid for several generations to create a new, stabilized open-pollinated variety (Which you can name after your favorite South Park character!) Select for similarity to the original F1 hybrid. Larger plantings will ensure more genetic diversity in the new breed. The link has a little more info, mostly towards the bottom of the page. |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://howtosaveseeds.com/breeding.php
(Which you can name after your favorite South Park character!) *** Just don't call it Kenny because he dies all the time. |
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Masebe, Lesiba Johnny firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-09272007-141442 Document Title Meta-evaluation for programme reviewing at a University of Technology Degree MEd (Assessment and Quality Assurance in Education and Training) Department Curriculum Studies Supervisor
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- Meta-evaluation
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Date 2007-09-06 Availability unrestricted Abstract This is a case study of how Tshwane University of Technology is implementing quality assurance of its academic programmes in accordance with the requirements of the Higher Education Quality Committee. The focus of the study is on the activities of the central quality unit, the Directorate of Quality Promotion (DQP) regarding the evaluation of its programme evaluations. This is akin to a question raised regarding parliamentary procedures, not long ago when the Auditor General appeared before the parliamentary committee on public accounts. The question was 'Who is auditing the Auditor General?' Before this question could be asked at TUT, a strategic decision was taken by the current director of the DQP regarding what the directorate needed to do in achieving leadership in this regard.
An introductory description is made of the current curriculum development practices within the new educational dispensation. The statutory roles of the Department of Education, the South African Qualifications Authority & the Higher Education Quality Committee in this process are described. This is followed by an explanation of the new programme outlay within outcomes-based education. In offering a theoretical framework for the study various evaluation models are treated, and the CIPP evaluation model is adopted for this study.
The research design for the study is allied to a literature-based model by Brinkerhoff, et. al. This is a six step framework for conducting meta-evaluation. The qualitative data analysis takes the form of evaluating the evaluation against thirty International Evaluation Standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. These standards are sub-divided into the following categories, namely, utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy standards. The study concludes that conducting a meta-evaluation for programme reviews has the potential to expose strengths and weaknesses of quality assurance practice.
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Perseus Telecom, a New York-based low latency network provider, has formally announced a microwave service in Europe, which launched in October.
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When the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees 22 to 0 earlier this week, I was tempted to blog on the historic beatdown. Having seen the Yankees rebound from defeats in the past, I thought the better of it. Give it a few days, I figured, and see how it all plays out. Well, things are not playing out well for the Evil Empire.
The Orioles beat the Yankees 3 to 1 Friday night. Following the loss, Yankees ace Kevin Brown (don't worry, they have several aces up their sleeve) punched a wall in frustration and broke his non-pitching hand. Earlier in the day, news reports revealed that star firstbaseman Jason Giambi has a benign tumor in his pituitary gland.
Pedro Martinez shut out the Texas Rangers Friday night. The Red Sox have won ten games in a row. After being back ten-and-a-half games a short time ago, the Red Sox are now just two-and-a-half games behind in the AL East. They smell blood. Worse for the Yankees, six games remain with their divisional foe. The Yankees encounter Pedro twice in those six contests, and will face a murderers' row that includes the most potent duo in baseball, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez; the former tailor made for Yankee Stadium, the latter the odds on favorite to win 2004's Most Valuable Player Award.
The Red Sox have put more runs, and allowed fewer, on the board than the Yankees. They hold a commanding lead in head-to-head match-ups. Whereas the Yankees appear as a Mr. Burns, identikit baseball team (in other words, they don't have the chemistry of the Paul O'Neil/Tino Martinez/Scott Brosius Yankees), the Red Sox are a loose club that has gelled together as a team. Most importantly, just as the Red Sox are coming together, the Yankees are falling apart.
One month ago, there were serious doubts that the Red Sox would earn the wild card spot. Now they look strong to win the American League East.
Today, the Red Sox appear as an Indy car catching up to an old, broken-down jalopy. The Yankees are ahead, but for how much longer?
There's no way the Red Sox should have been 10 games back with the team they have. The fact that they are back in the race is a testament to the law of averages.
Its a testament to their horrible manager/coaching staff!
I was actually at the Cleveland Indians 22-0 rout of the Yanks. It was quite something to watch and really a bit surreal. By the ninth I was pretty positive I was witnessing Yankees history. I have never seen a perfect game or a no-hitter but that game was pretty amazing to witness.
The week before I was at Shea and saw NL MVP (to be) Adrian Beltre smack 5 hits in a row and then I got to see Omar Vizquel hit six in a row, what a crazy week of baseball in New York.
This is all fine and dandy but the baseball season ended last week when the college football season began. Next week the NFL starts and my insatiable need to bet every f$@!&*g contest will surpass my need to eat, sleep and attend to my hygene.
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