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How would you define team commitment? I am only asking because Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, and others who are in the rafters all played for other teams in their careers.
Gordie played 25 years with the Wings until injury forced him to retire. It was only a few years later that he felt fit enough to play again, and did so with his two sons. He didn't leave to go somewhere else.
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Football Team Arrives at GoDaddy Bowl
Ball State's football team, under the direction of third-year head coach Pete Lembo, arrived in Mobile, Ala., to continue preparations for the GoDaddy Bowl.
The Cardinals flew a charter plane out of Indianapolis and arrived in Mobile Tuesday.
The team will enjoy the New Year's Eve in downtown Mobile before returning to the practice field Wednesday.
Ball State, 10-2 on the season, will face Arkansas State in the GoDaddy Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.

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While receiving palms at Mass on Sunday, Catholics also gave, as donations continued pouring in on the final day of Appeal Week, putting Catholic Charities on pace for what organizers are optimistic will be a successful $10.7 million campaign.
With no letup in demand – despite what statistics say is an improving economy – and a decrease in government support, the contributions are critical, organizers say.
"The demand for services continues to increase, not dramatically but steadily," said Sister Mary McCarrick, Catholic Charities diocesan director.
As of late Sunday afternoon, the appeal had raised about $8.25 million, said Chairman Stephen Ulrich, with more expected today before an official Appeal Week tally Tuesday.
"We are about where we were last year at this time," Ulrich said. With Easter arriving early this year, he noted, many Catholic snowbirds haven't returned yet to make their pledges but are expected to do so before the appeal ends with the close of the fiscal year June 30. He expects to hit the $10.7 million mark by then.
While giving so far is on a pace with last year, there are some differences. Public support from government agencies that pay Catholic Charities to provide services such as foster care is down.
"Those contracts have been cut dramatically," McCarrick said, making the appeal dollars "more important than ever."
On the other hand, while the improving economy has not manifested itself in a shrinking caseload, it has contributed to an increase in stock gifting, as rising portfolios benefit the charity when contributors donate stocks.
"That's an area where we have noticed an improvement, for which we are very grateful," she said.
McCarrick quoted M&T Bank Chairman Robert Wilmers as saying Western New York is "older, sicker and poorer," and pointed to two sets of numbers to prove it: There are 6,000 Catholic burials each year, but only 2,500 births.
"That's the kind of reality we're dealing with," she said of the challenge of raising money.
And she pointed to one area of particular need: GED training for displaced older workers. While there is certain funding available to help those from 17 to 22 earn their GEDs, no such funding exists to help those who have worked for years but never earned a GED and then got laid off. Catholic Charities has to rely entirely on appeal money to help those displaced workers.
Ulrich said the appeal also reaches out to non-Catholics, noting that the charity serves all, regardless of religion, race or ethnic background. And he said it does it efficiently, getting a four-star rating from the independent Charity Navigator, which evaluates charities.
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Western herds show a profit during early 2010
Western herds show a profit during early 2010
For the first time in over two years, many western U.S. dairy herds began showing a small profit. While these positive numbers are a welcome sight for many dairy farmers, they fall way short of making up for losses during 2008 and 2009.
Within California, the state's southern region farmers had the greatest gains, making $59 per cow compared to $55 in Kern County and $27 in San Joaquin County from January through the end of June. On a per-hundredweight basis, returns ranged from 26 to 51 cents for herds that had Frazer Frost LLP handle their farm's accounting records.
Among other western regions and states, Arizona led the way with $150 profit per cow. They were followed by: The Pacific Northwest, $48; New Mexico, $46; and the Texas Panhandle, $5. Dairy producers in Idaho lost $25 per cow for the first half of the year. On a per-hundredweight basis, returns ranged from Arizona's $1.31 to -$0.22 for Idaho.
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LifeWays Community Mental Health -Everything Under the Sun Sale- Jackson
June 14th from 9am-3pm LifeWays CMH is hosting the Everything Under the Sun Sale II in the former Hollywood Video space, located at 1190 N. West Avenue in Jackson.
All proceeds will help support individuals living with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders in Jackson and Hillsdale counties. Items for sale will include gently used housewares, office equipment and furniture, fresh golumbkis and various miscellaneous items. All items are cash and carry. The event will also be open on June 15th from 9am-12pm. Those that can't attend, but still want to help can donate items to the sale.
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5 Great Joys in Life That Healthy People Never Experience
I, like many of you, am a genetic wreck.
I am not supposed to be alive right now. If humanity still functioned on any sort of evolutionary logic, I would probably have a brief but successful career as a lion's afternoon entertainment, instead of being what I am now, which is a Mildly Successful Internet Thing. I possess a slew of health problems, chemical deficiencies, mental aberrations and spiritual monstrosities that I manage every day by the grace of medical science and an oblivious culture that not only tolerates but nurtures weakness (thanks, guys!).
Sometimes, I get bitter about my situation. I watch the powerful and healthy from afar, while I squat here in the damp shadows of disease, nurturing my resentment like a hypothyroid, myopic Gollum. But there are some joys in life that the hale, hearty, happy and healthy will never know. Sure, they think they're having a good time boning ab models on the backs of jet skis now, but they'll never know the simple pleasure of ...
#5. Getting New Glasses
Vision problems come at you so slowly that it takes years, or even decades, before you first realize that the world around you is not supposed to look like a Monet painting covered in Saran Wrap. But one day somebody catches on. They say: "You can't read that from here?" Or "Didn't you see that stripper's unibrow?" Or "Jesus, stop the car, you hit that hobo!" and then after a hasty burial in the Nevada desert, you book an appointment at the eye doctor and sit down in their sticky rubber chair. They settle a big black contraption in front of your eyes, point to a drab chart full of tiny letters, flip a little glass piece and say, "Better, or worse?"
And you, in response, manage to force a handful of syllables through your emotion-clogged throat, barely muttering: "No words ... should have sent a poet."
"The way the 'G' curves is so ethereal, so beautiful ... it's like a ballerina fucked the stars themselves."
You had no idea that life had better graphics available. You've been playing the 16-bit world this whole time, while everybody else was running quad-core realities hooked up to an HD screen. The only downside to this whole experience is dodging the errant punches from your friends and loved ones as you incessantly inquire as to the amount that they see this shit for the next several months:
"Did you see those leaves? What? You can always see those? No, man, I mean: Can you see that, like, a tree is made up of a billion different leaves from all the way back here? Holy shit! Look at that gravel! It's not just gravel; it's a thousand different kinds of rock! Do you see it?! No, man, do you really see it?"
And hey, if you're lucky enough to have regularly deteriorating vision, like me, you get to experience some form of this joy every few years until death. It's the only reward life gives you for getting progressively worse.
#4. Getting a Diagnosis
I was pretty young the first time I saw Pulp Fiction, and up until that point, I had never seen a movie that didn't play out chronologically. I was lost and infuriated for most of the run time. I hated the pretentious director and the coked-up scriptwriter for inflicting this incoherent mess on my preteen brain -- I had Saved by the Bell I could be watching! -- and then about 3/4 of the way through, it all clicked. It finally made sense. And it blew my tiny adolescent brain right out the back of my unfortunate '90s-era, chick-from-Republica haircut.
That's what being sick is like, once you finally get a diagnosis.
You spend most of the time utterly lost: "What the fuck is going on here? Did Vincent just die? Wait, is that Vincent, or a different guy in a black suit? Is this coughing the same thing as the wheezing, or is it a whole different thing? Somebody make some goddamn sense or I'm just going to start punching body parts until something shapes the fuck up!"
"I swear this was a black guy a second ago. Is that what this movie is about? Like a racial swapping Freaky Friday?"
Maybe the sickness isn't even real -- maybe it's a psychiatric problem, or stress, or allergies, or maybe you're just finally paying the curse-price for telling that old Gypsy woman at the State Fair that she looked like a fat Bruce Springsteen roadie. There can be months or even years of buildup as you flit between shrink and doctor, exclusion diet and medication, until you finally land on the answer and it all snaps into place. And that's an awesome moment.
People who have been healthy their whole lives will tell you they're glad they missed that moment -- glad they've never been truly sick. But they don't know, do they? They live their whole lives in a Disney movie, facing some form of external adversity that they know, deep down, they'll ultimately triumph against. You? You're not just a trial; you're a puzzle. They're Aladdin. They're The Little Mermaid. You're Memento. You're motherfucking Inception.
"Baby, even science doesn't understand me. What chance do you have?" - Overheard seconds before a tragic sexplosion killed everyone in the bar.
You're a problem that took all of medical science thousands of years to solve. And you know who thinks untameable problems and complex mysteries are sexy? Friggin' everyone, man.
Try using that line next time you cough blood into some saucy young thing's Margarita: I guarantee they'll throw up just a little bit less than usual.
#3. The Moment When the Medication Kicks In
If you're lucky enough to have a condition that can be treated -- not even cured, just treated a little -- the moment the medication kicks in is like unlocking a secret level in life. All these years, you've existed at half power because chronic illness Harrison Bergeroned your ass, so any meds that take even a fraction of that weight off of your shoulders are basically giving you goddamn superpowers. If people thought you were obnoxious after you got those glasses, with your constant prattle about wood grain and cloud patterns, they're going to strangle that newfound health right out of you the first time you wake up to find it doesn't hurt as much as it usually does.
"Holy shit, have you ever realized how great it is not to feel like you're going to die after you eat?"
"Have you tried this walking stuff? It's amazing! It hardly hurts at all!"
"Listen to this breathing right here: That's right, baby. Wheeze-free. Interested?" - Not quite as effective as the previous line.
Most assholes will answer adversity with the mantra "At least you have your health." They don't stop to wonder whether or not the person they're reassuring actually does have their health; they just assume that's the default state of humanity. But a lot of us are rusted out Pintos, just coughing and sputtering along until we inevitably explode. The moment when your meds finally kick in is like jumping out of that Pinto and right into the warm, faux-leather seat of a lovingly maintained 1994 Ford Taurus.
What? Did you think you were going to be a Ferrari or something? No, man: You're still a piece of shit, but the important thing is you're not going to explode.
And remember, Twilight was basically the best-selling book in the world; a lot of people really like shitty things.


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Home Sweet Home
So the Cubs left for this road trip on the winds of winning 7 of 8 and being a half-game up on the Cardinals. They come home losing 6 of 10 and dropping 3 back (3.5 games total). It leaves their road record a paltry eight games under .500 at 25-33. To rehash the trip in all its glory...
Cubs tie it up in the top of the 7th with 2 runs, Marmol walks two in the 8th and gives up three runs total.
Game 2: 9-8 Win @ Florida in 10
Cubs enter the 9th up 8-5, Kevin Gregg blows it, then Derrek Lee unblows it with a solo HR to leadoff the 10th and Aaron Heilman notches an unlikely save.
Cubs enter the 9th up 2-1 and Kevin Gregg blows it by giving up back-to-back home runs. Then notifies the team that his arm may have been tired over the weekend and he needs some rest.
Mike Fontenot's 3-run HR is most of the offense and fill-in closer Carlos Marmol tries to, but fails at blowing the game.
Fukudome leads off the game with a home run and Gorzelanny sparkles in his Cubs debut.
The Justin Lehr Game! Complete game shutout for the 32 year junk ball journeyman.
The Rockies have been playing good enough that the Cubs didn't need to handicap themselves for the series. Z doesn't make it out of warm-ups and Sean Marshall and the bullpen are called into action and the results are predictable.
It looks like the Cubs were paying attention during those Jason Marquis starts and take 5 walks and score 6 total on the game. The bullpen holds the one run lead without any drama. The Cubs still lose though when Aramis Ramirez leaves early with shoulder stiffness.
Randy Wells was due for a correction, although he probably didn't need his defense doing the correcting for him. 3 errors that the Rockies capitalized on and then finished off Jeff Stevens for the blowout win. The Cubs managed 5 runs on 17 hits.
Gorzelanny was well on his way to getting shelled anyway, but a comebacker off his ankle/foot and an odd landing trying to make a play claimed another Cub to injury. Lou deemed Esmailin Caridad as the sacrificial lamb of the bullpen and the Rockies bloodied him up over 5 innings of work with Troy Tulowitzki doing the bulk of the butchering - a cycle and 7 RBI's. A meager 9th inning rally made the score look more respectable than the game. The Cubs left about 3,241 runners on base during the 4-game set (unofficial tally).
So back to Wrigley come the Cubs, 33-19 on the year and 132-82 (.616) since Lou took over in 2007. That's probably more a reflection on the talent than any magic on Lou's part, but I suppose a flimsy case could be made that he's cracked the day-game code that has befuddled many a past Cubs team (hint: schedule more night games). The Cubs will host the Keystone state for the next 6 games, before heading back on the road to my side of the country and 7 versus the Padres and Dodgers.
First up at home though are the World Series champs, but they're also the losers of 7 of their last 10 including a sweep at home against the Marlins. They'll throw Randy Wells' Rookie of the Year competition J.A. Happ (8-2, 2.74 ERA) in the first game. The Cubs will counter with Rich Harden and his 1.80 second half ERA. Then Pedro Martinez makes his debut on Wednesday against Jeff Samardzija's starting debut. Finally Cliff "Complete Game" Lee goes on Thursday against Ryan Dempster. If the Cubs can manage 2 out of 3 wins against Philadelphia, it could bode well for a nice rebound homestand as they finish off against the Pirates who have already started their spring training.
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And in the 'stating the obvious' category, the nominees are:
"The Cubs have not won a series against a team with a winning record since April, which is a trend that has to end if they expect to make the postseason."
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Since Lou got ejected (this time for a real cause) it bodes well for a renewed vigor to put all the pieces together, although this year has been a touch and go season for injuries. It's OK to use that as an excuse for a while but things are not looking up for a return from Ramirez and Zambrano at 100%. Soriano has to carry the team? Bradley getting hot helps too, but personally I'm hoping Soto finds his stroke soon.
It's exciting that every game is important, but loading the bases twice in two innings and not scoring seems to indicate Lou's tirade didn't light a fire under anyone but the umps.
Rothschild seems befuddled again.
I'm predicting another trade...for offense this time. Just a hunch. This could be the Hendry/Pinella swan song if things don't turn around soon.
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"Since Lou got ejected (this time for a real cause) it bodes well for a renewed vigor to put all the pieces together"
did you miss last night's game?
besides, for all the lip service that goes on about that stuff it's highly overrated even if funny.
len/bob were going on a for a short while last night with dugout shots about how dead the team seemed. i guess that's better than month 2-3 of bob disgusted with what soriano gets away with as a player.
losing like this will make a team look dead. they're hitting, but doing nothing with it that's timely, though.
the pitching is just falling apart all around...injuries are killing all around.
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I'm expecting the worst from Arams MRI.
De Ja Vu all over again
Sound familiar?-
"It was Piniella's feeling upon taking over in 1988 that the Yankees were too righthanded, and he pushed for the Phelps deal.
Unfortunately, Phelps' power was mostly to left-center, which made it an ill-fated deal, especially when Buhner went on to stardom with the Seattle Mariners. But Piniella felt compelled to get Phelps into the lineup as much as possible and that meant taking away some of Clark's DH at-bats."
Frank Constanza should have been yelling at Lou.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees...
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I wish we had any home games left against St. Louis, Colorado or San Francisco. I wish BP thought we had a better than 4 percent chance to win the Wild Card. I wish St. Louis didn't have so many games against Louisville and Indianapolis. I wish the injuries would happen to the guys on the Cubs who I wish would go away, not the guys we need to actually play baseball well. I wish the Cubs appeared to care as much as baseball as Chicago's other pro athletes do about $1.20. I wish the Cubs' GM was an engineer and not a painter. I wish there was room in the payroll and flexibility on the roster to make me believe it's not going to be mostly the same team next year but maybe with more questions in the bullpen. I wish Wilken was Nostradamus. I'm thankful I wasn't able to secure season tickets to this paperweight.
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Just a note about the 2001 DiamondBacks team not having a shut down closer. Yeah they did, his name was Byung-Hyun Kim.
98 IP, 58 hits, 113 Strikeouts.
He is forgotten because he could have had a long career as a dominate closer but he always felt working out of the bullpen was an insult. He just wanted to be a starting pitcher.
He took his lumps in the WS, but i don't think i have seen a pitcher as filthy as he was coming out of the bullpen since K-rod was a rookie.
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Kim was actually a mess by the time the playoffs rolled around. He put up his big K numbers primarily in the 1st half of the season. I would take about 4 Lidge seasons and one or two Marmol seasons over Kim's 2001 (and Nathan, Rivera etc).
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While talking to a SF friend this morning on conference and b/s'ing about baseball I noticed the giants record vs. their power production...pretty slick stuff.
17 HR leads the team and only 1 other guy with more than 10 HR...1 with 9 HR.
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meanwhile, the Cubs have no less than ten players who reasonably can be in double figures by the end of the season--- Theriot being #10 with seven homers.
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Rumor has it that John Smoltz has cleared waivers. Any takers?
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correct me if i'm wrong here, Sandy, but can't anyone pick him up at veteran minimum right now while he still gets paid full pop from the Sox?
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another clarification: so when players get put on waivers after the deadline (the all do for the most part) that is the same as getting dfa'd?
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i thought that was the case. which is why i thought that smoltz was now a free agent. or i guess can accept a minor league assignment.
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Funny... I watched that video (Motley Crue performing "Home Sweet Home") and I thought it was a Spinal Tap tribute/parody.
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First Cub minor-league pitcher to 100 strikeouts is . . . Beliveau (100), followed by Carpenter and Atkins (99) and Archer (96).
Beliveau is 4th in K/9 (11.52), behind Gaub (11.54), Buchter (11.94) and Huseby (12.35). Beliveau is the only starter in this group.
Here's a number for you: Huseby has issued 8 walks in 45.2 innings to go with his 62 Ks.
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speaking of atkins...after last night's performance, use, and schedule without a break why isnt katydid back in AAA?
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Weren't they high on Caridad last winter and during the spring?
They may give him another inning or two to try to get a glimpse of the pitcher who struck out 12 in 6 innings on August 5th.
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he has great on paper stuff, but both his fastballs are lamely straight and his slider doesn't have much break.
i'd be willing to hold off judgment on the slider til i see it outside colorado, but he had no movement on those fastballs.
he's got great stuff...maybe it's just colorado.
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As someone who was at the game, with a view from the 4th row next to first base, I thought that he clearly made more than one mistake pitch, but I really thought that he handled that game pretty well, given that he had never pitched in the majors before, and was being thrown into a game that had all the makings of a blow-out. He really fooled some hitters badly, and he was regularly hitting 97 on the radar gun. Aside from facing Tulowitzki, who would have hit almost anyone hard last night, I thought he did pretty well. I am not saying that i think he is the second coming of Bob Gibson, but I don't think he did badly at all. To me, he pitched like a fairly competent rookie pitcher.
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he hung his slider a lot...mostly cuz it didn't have a lot of break. how much of that is COL and how much is him...no idea.
i've only heard about the guy...never seen until last night.
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Team sold yet?
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Justin Lehr is pitching for Cincy vs Stl tonight...I predict, he turns back into a pumpkin tonight. The Cardinals love salted pumpkin seeds.
I'm just sayin'.
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Is ARam back tonight, he asked hopefully but fully aware of what the answer will likely be.
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nope - cortisone shot - expected to miss 2-3 more days.
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Jambalaya. edited for your pleasure.
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It's Ryne Sandberg bobblehead doll night at Wrigley...sponsored by National City/PNC Bank...our TARP money finally gets us something of value.
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that's funny...it happens to be the 17 year anniversary of cindy sandberg's bobblehead night at wrigley.
...oh snap.
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*drops monocle in his tea*
SIR! ...do control yourself and be civil. *scoff* this is the internet, sir.
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Dave Kaplan apparently doesn't like Carlos Zambrano very much:
Although the article is over the top, he does make some legitimate points.
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jesus f'n christ...damn.
someone get kaplan a tissue and a diaper change.
"Pack your bags Carlos, it's time to take your act to another team. We've tired of you and your immaturity."
we are? also...we?
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Kaplan is a little punk. He was on WGN radio today saying he had the Patrick Kane situation solved. Kane should just have to wear his Hawks sweater and drive a cab in Buffalo for charity for two weeks and everything is good.
Sorry, the guy has been charged with committing a significant enough crime that the punishment is 5 to 15 years in prison, and Kaplan thinks donating money to charity fixes the problem? I'm tired of Kaplan's act, he's phony and thinks he's the big man in town.
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Muskat has Zambrano and Ramirez updates posted.
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Santo just advised that the Rockies are only 3.5 games back in the divisional race... behind the Phillies.
Can a fan commit Cubbery?
I'm working late, and I decide to check on the game.
I call up Cubs.com, the the left side of the page loads first:
Harden hasn't allowed baserunner through five
Tonight at Wrigley Field, Rich Harden has kept the Phillies off the bases for the first five innings. Jake Fox hit an RBI single and Alfonso Soriano lifted a sacrifice fly in the third.
Why, that sounds promising! I wait for the box score to load.
When it finally does, I see that it's tied at 2 in the sixth.
And the Cubs' two runs have come on seven hits.
And the Phils' have come on one.
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My mother on Marmol:
"Why can't he get hurt? Everybody else gets hurt."
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This is the most painful Cubs team I've endured in some time.
EDIT: Although I've been saying almost every year for about the last 40 years
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After exhaustive research, I have reached the following, inescapable, conclusion:
Carlos Marmol is a fucking idiot.
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parachat not working for me so this is all I got.
1. Why would anyone bat Aaron Miles for Angel Guzman?
2. Why would anyone bat Aaron Miles for Angel Guzman?
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crap. Gregg is in and they're giving us the "he's tipping his pitches" excuse. The one before that was, what? Tired arm?
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Aaron fucking Miles, this little fucking midget is such an epic fail it boggles the mind. For Christ's sake Hendry, eat the money and release this choad. God-dammit.
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Nice Len comment. Guzman? Set up at least?
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Bradley has had a real nice game.
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ok dammit. I want these guys to show some fucking inner fortitude. Even if they hate Gregg as much as we do they need to pick him up here.
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Show that Jake some respect! 4-0 walk.
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I don't care anymore. I never did.
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Fuck this team
Fuck their friends and fuck their families
Fuck Lou and Hendry
Fuck Soriano and Marmol for wasting their talent, and fuck Lou again for creating an environment where they are allowed to
Fuck the entire truckload of bad second basemen and fuck Hendry again for the stupid, unnecessary trade of DeRosa
Fuck Matt Sinatro, for pete's sake
This is a ridiculous team and a ridiculous season.
Fuck 'em.
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Phils get 4 runs on 3 hits, and Eyre gets the win.
"2009: It's not gonna happen"
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That's MY line!
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Sorry, E-Man -- rage-fueled plagerism.
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Do we know if the cubs put any players on waivers,I would
think it is time to see,shame on hendry if he did not consider this and do it.
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Submitted by rokfish on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:17pm.
Do we know if the cubs put any players on waivers,I would
think it is time to see,shame on hendry if he did not consider this and do it
ROKFISH: Trade Waivers are supposed to be kept confidential, although occasionally names leak out.
As for strategy, most contending teams (the "buyers") put their entire roster on trade waivers the first week to ten days of August (a club can place no more than seven players on Trade Waivers per day, and waivers cannot be requested on Saturday and Sunday) to determine ASAP who they can trade and who they can't trade.
Also-rans (the "sellers") usually do it a bit differently, trickling players onto Trade Waivers over the entire month of August, sometimes holding back the players they think will be most attractive to the contenders until the last week of August, when other options are few and when the remaining contending teams start to get really desperate.
So it's likely that the Cubs have already put most of their roster on Trade Waivers (at least the guys they would most likely have to trade to acquire a player of value), although whether any were claimed is unknown.
Remember, any player with "no trade" rights can be put on Trade Waivers, but if he gets claimed and his club doesn't pull him back, the player can refuse the waiver claim (as well as a trade) and remain with his original club.
Also, minor league players who are not on the 40-man roster never have to go through waivers to get traded, and players on the 40-man roster who are on optional assignment to the minors can be traded without having to go through the waiver process as long as the player remains in the minors for the rest of the season. And ONLY MLB players on the 15-day or 60-day DL and minor league players (both those on the 40-man roster who are on optional assignment to the minors and those not on the 40) can be a PTBNL in trades made during the season (including August). To be eligible to be a PTBNL, a player cannot be on an MLB Active List (25-man roster) at any time between when the trade is made and when the PTBNL is announced.
And if a player is claimed off Trade Waivers during August and is pulled back when no trade can be worked out with the claiming team within the 48-hour "window," the player cannot be put back on Trade Waivers again for at least 30 days (taking it past the August 31st deadline for playoff roster eligibility), and the second time a player is placed on Trade Waivers in a given season, the waivers become irrevocable and the player cannot be pulled back if claimed.
A few years ago, Mets GM Steve Phillips put in waiver claims on dozens of the best players in baseball after the Mets had fallen out of contention in August (a club can claim up to 50 players per week), pissing off a lot of the other GMs who then had to withdraw the waiver requests or risk losing their best players to the Mets for the $20,000 waiver price. Phillips claims he didn't do it to be a nuisance, he really wanted the players he claimed. He just didn't want to give up any players to get them.
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I fucking hate this team.
...on a new note, I am moving to Arizona in a few weeks to start a new job. I'm hoping that college football will help fill the void. Even TheRiot is pissing me off. Sell everyone and do the Marlins thing. Let's at least lose on the cheap.
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This game would make for a delightful year end video recap of the entire season. This game perfectly sums up the season to date for me.
- Good starting pitching
- weak offense, high LOB
- Marmol walks in run
- Gregg gives up game winning HR
- Aramis didn't play.
This team is very unlikeable. Not nearly as much fun when you are rooting for a uniform and not for a strong fundamental team of great guys who are exciting to watch.
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Great post.
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Stat of the day:
...Marmol's August BB/9 rate.
Another stat of the day:
...Gregg's August HR/9 (is that even a real stat?)
One last stat:
...how much I dislike this team.
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Hey I'm not sure how this will effect the likability of this team, but some people who were at the game last night were calling into WSCR 670 AM saying that during the game Milton Bradley was seen flipping off certain fans and making the money sign (rubbing fingers together).
But the way I see it this doesn't really matter because Milton Bradley is a switch hitter... DeRosa was just a righty.
UPDATE: Happened top of the 5th inning.
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It's become clear this is a very pro-Bradley crowd.
After getting a couple hits the bleacher bums were booing him saying that he "still sucks".
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if the bleacher bums boo him, he's alright with me.
they need to get back to complaining about "kids" like they have for a decade+ and talking people into throwing balls back with certificates of awesomeness they hand out to those visitors that comply.
maybe they can watch a game and enjoy it between the blue-collar social event.
sorry, bradley isn't going to cal ripken jr. it out there and be a movie-of-the-week "aww gee golly shucks, yall!" will clark type.
they should go yell at soriano. he may be nice and all, but i'm seeing him do a lot more lazy and selfish crap than milton out in the field. not many accounts of milton lack-of-hustle going on in the OF that i've seen (as long as he can remember how to count to 3).
i guess being nice is more important that busting your ass...what game they wanna watch out there...the one that leads to a W/L or the one that leads to a story for the grandkids?
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why is this a story? he is simply saying you are a scrub in the bleachers working a desk job and I am a millionaire, so heckle all you want, you are still the loser. I am not sure it means anything more than that.
True Story:
Many years ago I sat in the bleachers and Rickey Henderson was in center. We were all grilling him all game. He would flick us off, grab his junk, and do all kinds of stuff. No one called the score then. so.....in the 7th or 8th, EY jacks a home run (which is rare in its own right) and it comes right for me. I reach to grab it, someone tips it, it hits my shoulder and I trap it there. My first (and only) caught home run - something I will never forget. Anyway - the cameras hit me and everyone was going nuts. I decided that was the time to give it to Ricky and proceeded to give him the double bird. TV coverage cut, go to commercial.....ahhh good times. I still have that ball.
Moral of the story....sh!t happens in the bleachers with the outfielders. Its just part of it and I am sure Milton is just playing the crowd.
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Good story, but I couldn't disagree with you more.
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If Rickey Henderson was on the Cubs and was flipping the bird to his home fans I'm sure that would have been a story.
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Cubs are the only team that Rickey didn't play for.
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I have a feeling Piniella is getting close to a Jim Mora-esque press conference. "PLAYOFFS?!!"
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Hope so..that'd be great!
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Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
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.


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#include "qpid/client/QueueOptions.h" QueueOptions qo; qo.setSizePolicy(RING,0,1000); session.queueDeclare(arg::queue=queue, arg::arguments=qo);
The default ordering in a queue in Qpid is FIFO. However additional ordering semantics can be used namely LVQ (Last Value Queue). Last Value Queue is define as follows.
If I publish symbols RHT, IBM, JAVA, MSFT, and then publish RHT before the consumer is able to consume RHT, that message will be over written in the queue and the consumer will receive the last published value for RHT.
#include "qpid/client/QueueOptions.h" QueueOptions qo; qo.setOrdering(LVQ); session.queueDeclare(arg::queue=queue, arg::arguments=qo); ..... string key; qo.getLVQKey(key); .... for each message, set the into application headers before transfer message.getHeaders().setString(key,"RHT");
Messages that are dequeued and the re-queued will have the following exceptions. a.) if a new message has been queued with the same key, the re-queue from the consumer, will combine these two messages. b.) If an update happens for a message of the same key, after the re-queue, it will not update the re-queued message. This is done to protect a client from being able to adversely manipulate the queue.
Acquire: When a message is acquired from the queue, no matter it's position, it will behave the same as a dequeue
LVQ does not support durable messages. If the queue or messages are declared durable on an LVQ, the durability will be ignored.
A fully worked Section 1.6.3, "LVQ Example" can be found here
This option is used to determine whether enqueue/dequeue events representing changes made to queue state are generated. These events can then be processed by plugins such as that used for Section 1.7, " Queue State Replication ".
#include "qpid/client/QueueOptions.h" QueueOptions options; options.enableQueueEvents(1); session.queueDeclare(arg::queue="my-queue", arg::arguments=options);
The boolean option indicates whether only enqueue events should be generated. The key set by this is 'qpid.queue_event_generation' and the value is and integer value of 1 (to replicate only enqueue events) or 2 (to replicate both enqueue and dequeue events).
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A term used to back a girl or guy off you in a club or anywhere for some reason. It could be because their breath stank or anything. Its a foot ball pose that you use on people.
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It's no secret that Upper Sandusky's Taylor Graboski and New Reigel's Brandyn Reinhart are two of the better basketball players in the area on the girls and boys sides, respectively. On Thursday, each was placed among the best players is all of northwest Ohio.
Graboski and Reinhart were named first team All-Northwest District by a panel of media voters.
Graboski was named first team in Division III. She averaged 17.4 points per game and 9.2 rebounds per game as the junior led her team to a 13-0 conference mark and the North Central Conference Black Division title.
The award for Reinhart adds to the hardware the Blue Jacket senior already has collected this offseason. His first team selection in Division IV comes on the heels of the 21-ppg scorer named Midland Athletic League boys player of the year.
Also on the boys side, Justin Meek of Carey was named All-District second team in Division III while Dalton Perry of Old Fort was named second team in Division IV. Third team honors were won by Seneca East's Ben Hahler in Division III, and in Division IV by Old Fort's Cole Davidson.
Special mentions were given to Columbian's Bryce Lonsway and Upper Sandusky's Joe Reile and Trent Howard in Division II, Carey's Zach Boes and Jared Wentling as well as Lakota's Kody Brewer in Division III and in Division IV, to Buckeye Central's Cade Kaple and Austin Wurm, New Riegel's Korey Williams and Nick Wank, Hopewell-Loudon's Alec Gregg, Mohawk's Drew Loose and Old Fort's Hunter Perry.
For the girls, Columbian's duo of Jocelyn Cole and Valesha Province were given special mentions in Division II. Allison Snyder of Upper Sandusky was named special mention in Division III, joining teammate Graboski as the only area honorees in the division. In Division IV, Hannah Tong of Carey and Kasey Adelsperger of Mohawk were named to the second team. Hopewell-Loudon's Cassandra Hohman, St. Wendelin's Colleen Fondessy and Seneca East's Ashton Daniel were named to the third team.
Special mentions were given to Kate Brickner, Megan Funkhouser and Olivia Smith of Calvert, New Riegel's Kara Scherger and Taylor Arbogast, Carey's Hannah Draper, Hopewell-Loudon's Courtney Burns, Seneca East's Seina Adachi, Mohawk's Lynsey Trusty and Buckeye Central's Brooke Karl.


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Across the 10-county area of PIAA District 6, 50 high schools and their athletes were eligible for $2,000 in scholarship awards through the Sportsmanship: Let it Begin With Me! Program.
The program recognizes two senior students (one female, one male) from each of the fifty senior high schools that exemplify leadership in sportsmanship. Each school established a selection process and was asked to submit two names for recognition. The selected students will receive a sportsmanship medallion.
In addition to the medallion, four names were drawn from a lottery and each of the selected students will receive a $500 scholarship in recognition of their accomplishments in the area of good sportsmanship.
Claysburg-Kimmel's Joey Kamrud and Williamsburg's Miranda Deterline were among the four scholarship winners.
Altoona-Zach Price, Maria Thompson; Bald Eagle Area-Coleman Hoffman, Taylor Parsons; Bellefonte-Bradley Grieb, Karissa Thal; Bellville Mennonite-Micah Peachey, Michelle Zook; Bellwood-Antis-Brian Leap, Amanda Grannas; Bishop Carroll-Vinnie Tranquillo, Becky Hogue; Bishop Guilfoyle-Chad Madden, Megan Blake; Bishop McCort-Jake Markley, Maria Tomkowski; Blacklick Valley-Josh Moses, Megan Thomas; Blairsville-Cameron McLaren, Tori Smith; Cambria Heights-Caleb Vescovi, Danielle Bodek; Central-Patrick Schon, Sarah Ormsby; Central Cambria-Tyler Melius, Breanne James; Central Mountain-Tyler Buckwalter, Chelsie Williams; Claysburg-Kimmel-n Joey Kamrud, Bobbi McDonald; Conemaugh Valley-Tyler Haupt, Jessica Verno; Ferndale-David Horvath, Elizabeth Chobany; Forest Hills-Luke Gallaher, Leah Anne Wirfel; Glendale-Lucas Westover, Morgan Biddle; Johnstown-Jerrell Hardison, Clare Svirsko; Harmony-Erik Welteroth, Makenzie Kruise; Hollidaysburg-Nathan Pope, Megan Bettwy; Homer-Center-Dan Holt, Megan Gaydosh; Huntingdon-Trevor Mitchell, Sarah Snare; Indian Valley-Jacob Bender, Teagan McCardle; Juniata-Jeffrey Burdge, n Hannah Ritzman; Juniata Valley-Mike Moore, Teresa Mock; Lewistown-Tyler Gantz, Cheyenne Stonerook; Ligonier Valley-Clayton Nanassy, Christine Henderson.
Marion Center-Alex Woodrow, Nicole Miloser; Moshannon Valley-Joel Martin, Maria Charney; Mount Union-Brock Goodling, Emilee Gearhart; Northern Cambria-David Pedersen, Miriah Butterworth; Penn Cambria-Justin Miller, Katelyn Reese; Penns Manor-n Luke Walsh, Sara Fuehrer; Penns Valley-Nicholas Brown, Teressa Deardorff; Philipsburg-Osceola-Chris Rocco, Chelsea Rex; Portage-Andrew Blair, Marla Sanders; Purchase Line-Scott Henry, Alexandria Hudson; Richland-Zach Bowser, Erin Barefoot; Saltsburg-Evan Adams, Sara Prenni; Southern Huntingdon-Andrew Yocum, Amanda Hann; State College-Phil Sebulsky, Courtney Nellis; Tyrone-Derrick Emigh, Casey Fisher; United-Brandon Mountan, Kaitlin Cawley; West Branch-Chase Bamat, Jada Larson; Westmont Hilltop-Stephen Popchak, Alyssa Yewcic; Williamsburg-Trent Lee, n Miranda Deterline.
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I know. It is only a roadway. But that is like saying Gibraltar is just a rock or the Alamo is merely a building.
For years, the Robert Moses Parkway has been a noose around the neck of Niagara Falls. It is hardly the only thing that collapsed the bed of the former Honeymoon Capital. But the high-speed parkway running along the Niagara River and Gorge might as well be a wall, the way it seals off the city from its prime resource.
If the aim was to repel investors, drain population, destroy property values and create a Main Street pockmarked with boarded-up storefronts and battered dreams, then the parkway succeeded beyond imagination. It could have been a Communist plot, it was so subversive.
So it was no small thing Wednesday when state parks officials agreed – after decades of ignoring local pleas – to finally free the city of a two-mile stretch of the asphalt chokehold. Obliterating the section north of the Rainbow Bridge, which should be done in two years, is a giant step toward the city reclaiming its future, by recapturing its natural-attraction past.
Paul Dyster merely smiled when I asked how big of a deal it was. But the city's progressive mayor was dancing on the inside.
"Nothing is more important to the future of Niagara Falls over the next 20 years than getting this [parkway removal] done," Dyster told me in his City Hall office. "We have forgotten what it's like to live next to a great natural resource."
It brought me back to a chilly December day in 2000. I stood with then-Councilman Dyster, Sen. Chuck Schumer and others at the edge of Niagara Gorge (no, despite the city's grim prospects, no one threatened to jump). They talked of reclaiming parkland, visitors and neighborhoods by reconnecting the city with its natural-attraction roots. The solution included obliterating the namesake highway of '60s power broker Robert Moses – a classic case of addition by subtraction.
Twelve years and numerous political roadblocks later, we can see the end of the road.
"There were people in the womens' suffrage movement who didn't live long enough to celebrate," said Dyster, who grew up in the Falls. "We did this in time for the baby boomer generation to see it."
The '60s "urban renewal" assault, epitomized by Robert Moses' empire-building, fueled the city's decline; the back-to-the-future urbanity of Jane Jacobs and natural-landscape vision of Frederick Law Olmsted will drive its resurrection. From demolishing downtown's Stalinist-like structures, to reconnecting neighborhoods to the waterfront, Dyster, city planner Tom DeSantis and others have drawn a blueprint for recovery.
The now-doomed stretch of parkway gives drivers a tourism-class tour of urban planning folly. Standing between neighborhoods and the natural wonder at street's end is not just the highway, but walls, fences and concrete pillars. At the end of one block, enterprising residents years ago cut an access hole in the cyclone fence. Each time the city repaired it, the hole re-appeared.
There are vacant lots, empty buildings and hurting neighborhoods within punting distance of the gorge's natural wonder. If connected to the nature trails and parkland, instead of sealed off from it, this would be prime real estate. Instead, the city discounts some of the houses for recent college graduates. The need for those sort of lures will disappear, once the parkway does.
As Dyster and others have long understood, the road to recovery is no road at all.
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a term for a retard used by Carlos Mencia also can be used for someone acting retard, dumb, etc.
if he is dee and she dee the kid going to be dee dee dee
লিখেছেন- RenegadeY2K5 13 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2005
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A term you say when somebody does something REALLY stupid. not like forgeting their keys, like thinking Rhode Island is not a state. Made famous by comedian Carlos Mencia, you say it like imitating a retarded person.
Idiot: I did not know school started on time today
Me: DEE DEE DEE!
Me: DEE DEE DEE!
লিখেছেন- Gray "the rod" Roberts 2 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2005
An idiot, usually more stupid than the usual idiot.
He thought a chicken's neck was a penis, he cut it off. What a Dee Dee Dee!
লিখেছেন- Zach Ary 28 de অগাস্ট de 2005
A term used by comedian Carlos Mencia which describes someone so incredibly stupid that Carlos had to invent a catch phrase for them.
In 2005 Carlos Mencia made his first anual dee dee dee awards on his tv show Mind of Mencia.
লিখেছেন- It's_Just_a_Flesh_Wound 2 de মে de 2006
A person who is not born as mentally retarded, but who was born normal, and has become stupid.
Don't act like a dee dee dee.
লিখেছেন- Dan Fonseca 23 de নভেম্বার de 2006
Dude, that's not how you do it you deedeedee!!!!
লিখেছেন- ooolalalamamasita 23 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2006
Its Carlos Mencia's catch phrase Witch Means Stupid/Retarded/Dumb Ass
You Are Such A DEE DEE DEE!
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WARREN - Natural gas drilling in area Marcellus and Utica shale rock formations will fuel dramatic growth for local economies and the entire nation in coming decades, a report released last week says.
It also is energizing regulators and environmental groups who are sharply critical of the controversial hydraulic fracturing process used to crack shale rock and release gas.
Workers will benefit by the creation of nearly 270,000 jobs in the coming four years, according to a study done by IHS Global Insight and released last week by America's Natural Gas Alliance.
The report projects the number of jobs supported by shale gas to rise to almost 870,000 from 600,000 now. IHS said the number of jobs linked to shale gas development will surpass 1.6 million by 2035.
Jobs will be relatively well-paying at an average of $23.16 per hour, the study showed. Many of the 350 permanent positions projected at V&M Star's new pipe mill, plus another 100 at the recently announced pipe finishing mill, are expected to pay $50,000 to $80,000 a year.
Government, schools and other public bodies will benefit from more than $940 billion in federal, state and local taxes, along with royalty revenues, in the coming 25 years.
Sales tax receipts in Columbiana County, which already is seeing considerable shale drilling, have climbed 5.6 percent for the year through September to $10 million at its 1.5 percent rate.
Carroll County, another drilling hotbed, has reaped 7.4 percent more in sales tax to $1.46 million at 1 percent.
Both counties are well ahead of the statewide gain of 4.6 percent.
In addition, the percentage gain in new car and truck sales at Columbiana County's nine dealers that belong to the Automobile Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio is far outpacing other member dealers this year through November.
Those dealers have sold 3,785 new vehicles, 42.5 percent more than in the same period of 2010. By comparison, Trumbull County has seen a 27 percent gain, and Mahoning County 22.6 percent.
"It's great for people to have some money to spend. We've been down for quite a few years," Columbiana County Commissioner Jim Hoppel said.
Consumers stand to see an average increase of $926 a year per household in disposable income between 2012 and 2015 due to lower gas prices. Savings will increase to $2,000-plus by 2035.
Major natural gas using industries, such as steel companies, will benefit from lower gas prices, the study said. It predicted low gas prices will boost industrial production by 2.9 percent by 2017, and by 4.7 percent by 2035, stimulating job creation and output.
Regina Hopper, president and chief executive officer of America's Natural Gas Alliance, said the study shows shale exploration can help address the nation's job worries, while being conscious of environment concerns.
"Whether it is through job creation, economic stimulus, or government revenue, shale gas has provided and will continue to provide numerous benefits for Americans," she said in a statement. "And our commitment to safe and responsible development means communities don't have to choose between their economic well being and the protection of the environment, they can have both."
Environment watchdogs like the the Sierra Club of Ohio are waiting for proof of that.
"What worries people the most are actual and potential pollution effects of water and air," Cleveland resident Dave Simons, who chairs the club's energy committee.
Risks of groundwater contamination gets much of the pollution publicity, but Simons said air pollution is a concern where large scale hydraulic fracturing is done.
"There's a lot of leakage of methane," he said.
Simons noted the oil and gas industry in 2005 received exemptions from Clean Water, Clean Air, Superfund and other major national environmental laws.
"Regulation is in the hands of the states," he said.
Besides pollution and land-use concerns, Simons said financial rewards may not be so great for neighbors of people who lease their land for thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of dollars.
"Your neighbor may make a great deal of money, but it may affect your ability to sell your land for what it's worth. It may also be hard to get a mortgage because banks are worried about the loss of property value," he said.


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Shhh! 'Quiet Cars' Turn Commuters Into Librarians
Quest for Relaxed Ride Sometimes Raises Ruckus; 'Vigilante' Passengers
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.—Welcome aboard the Tension Train.
"As a reminder, folks, this train has two quiet cars," announces a conductor on a NJ Transit train. "Please refrain from cellphone usage and keep all conversations down to a quiet tone."
In theory, and often in reality, the quiet car has been a haven for commuters seeking peace. Passengers who desire quiet stay in a designated car, and chatty types in the rest.
Tell that to the passengers on the 8:07 p.m. NJ Transit express train out of New York City late last year. In an extreme example of the kind of scene that has played out regularly on train lines nationwide, two passengers mistakenly got on an express train at Newark, N.J., instead of the local—and then stood in the quiet car as they discussed their dilemma. A stranger on the train told them to shush. A shoving match ensued. Police were called in. The train was delayed on its route for 30 minutes.
Some people, the conductor explained to riders, "didn't know how to behave like adults."
A NJ Transit spokeswoman, Nancy Snyder, acknowledges the occasional quiet-car incident but says the program has been popular. "We do not encourage customers to go about quieting other passengers," she says.
Yet passenger-on-passenger policing is just what can happen as the quiet-car concept continues to expand to more railroad lines. Best-known on Amtrak, the shhh-cars are an option on local train lines in places including New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois and California. While some of the quiet cars have clear signs with the rules, others roll up with none.
Quiet-car "vigilantes," as some railroad workers call the self-styled enforcers, step in. They can pinpoint someone talking from half a car away, and will intone "This is a QUIET car" to the stranger. And not every adult likes to be shushed.
"You get scolded like you're an idiot!" says Cindy Marselis, a professor who rides Septa, the commuter rail in southeast Pennsylvania, which has a "QuietRide" program. "A number of times I was on the train and colleagues get on. You want to say hi to them and you get a dirty look [from others]. I'm like, come on. I'm not screaming across the whole car."
Sonia "Sunny" Linkfield knows the feeling. The makeup artist, who embarks at Hamilton, N.J., to commute to New York, is part of a class of commuters that might be called the "second-car riders." There she was, contentedly sitting in the second car of a NJ Transit train the other day. She knows she is just too chipper for the lead car, which is a quiet car during rush hours.
"There was a time," she recalls, when she and a woman friend "were coming back from the city and she never really took the train before." The friend made the mistake of talking. A stranger admonished: "Excuse me, you'll have to be quiet, or you'll have to leave. This is the quiet car and you can't talk."
Ms. Linkfield, who also confesses she has a text-message alert that whistles ("I was getting dirty looks" for that, she says), gave up on the line's Quiet Commute cars.
Other transit agencies that have adopted some iteration of the quiet-car experience include the Altamont Commuter Express system in California (with its "Dim-Lit" cars); New York's two big systems, Metro-North (which has a "Quiet CALMmute" program) and Long Island Rail Road; and Virginia Railway Express.
Patco, a system that takes passengers between Philadelphia and the New Jersey suburbs, on Jan. 2 became one of the latest transit agencies to jump on the trend, making a pilot program permanent. Since Patco has no onboard conductors, its quiet-car policing is entirely up to the passengers.
That sounds like a recipe for the worst, but so far it's working, a Patco spokesman says. A key move was putting in big yellow-and-red signs. But it dropped the onboard announcements calling for quiet; after all, they were "contrary to the concept" of quiet, he says.
"Self enforcement" is the Chicago way. The Metra rail system says its quiet car is "largely enforced by peer pressure and conductor intervention when necessary."
In California, Thomas Reeves, manager of public affairs and communications for ACE's regional rail commission, says officials have talked about ways to combat the tension, which he says is generally minimal, and even considered ending the program. "It's still up to people to respect the rules or not respect the rules," he says, "but it's such a staple of our service that we can't do away with it."
One of the biggest myths about quiet cars, say transit officials, is that the rules have legal authority. Most of the time, the quiet ride relies on riders to voluntarily comply—by talking in "library voice" and disabling sounds on all electronic devices.
Septa, for example, says riders shouldn't expect to hear a pin drop. "It's the quiet car, not the silent car," says Kim Scott Heinle, assistant general manager for customer service and advocacy. What helps is that conductors will hand "shush" cards to riders who forget or didn't know the rules. The system lets conductors suspend quiet operations when needed, like before and after a sports event or during the Flower Show in Philadelphia, when many riders aren't regulars.
Two of the most heavily trafficked rail systems in the U.S.—Metro-North and the LIRR—similarly use cards that explain the rules of etiquette in English and Spanish, says a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman. That, plus routine announcements and a regular savvy ridership, keeps the conflicts in check.
On NJ Transit trains, there often aren't any signs to announce a car is in quiet mode, and riders can stumble into trouble.
On the 8:07 p.m. express out of New York's Penn Station to Trenton on a recent Tuesday, the door to the next-to-last car suddenly slammed open and a woman marched in from the last-car quiet car, muttering obscenities. As she found a seat, other passengers nodded knowingly to each other about the car she had fled: "Quiet car."
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The new trend for several companies is to cut their employees' hours from full-time to part-time. This "downsizing" of time spent on the job is a ruse to avoid paying health care for these workers.
Companies like pizza king Papa John's and restaurants like Red Lobster, The Capital Grille, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Wendy's and others think the best way to protect their bottom line is to opt out of Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act). Reducing workers' hours, and thus their salaries, helps them fall outside the category where the health care mandate will be enforced. Incidentally, Papa John's offered one million free pizzas as a Super Bowl commercial stunt. How can they cover all those free pizzas but not afford health care?
In fact, companies like McDonald's and Rite Aid already practice what I call the "slash-a-worker-hour to make more," where they hire most entry-level workers as part-timers. These workers toil just as hard as a full-timer but get half the payout. Moreover, employers do not have to pay any benefits, including health care, for the part-time employee. So a worker can work two part-time jobs at the same company and still not be eligible for benefits. Remember when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during a "60 Minutes" interview on CBS that poor people had health care via their local hospital emergency room? I guess these low wage companies were listening. (Click here to read more on Romney's emergency room solution to health care for millions).
These businesses have made a killing, with a surge in profits even during the recession. (Read it here). While most other businesses were floundering, folks like Papa John's, McDonald's and Walmart, to name a few, were flourishing. Meanwhile most of their workers are on government assistance despite having jobs, because their net pay is too small to cover all of their living expenses.
But maybe these CEOs should look at the above video to see the other side of their cost-effective business practice. It's a spoof, but the logic of it all is so real. Corporate execs are focused on the bottom line while leaving out a crucial contributing factor to that line—healthy workers.
The irony and dangers here are industries where workers are most likely to come into contact with consumers are the ones with the lowest wages and minimal or no health care and paid sick leave. This in turn means that there are greater risks for contagious diseases being spread to the general public through restaurant and fast food preparation.
True, low-wage jobs have a zillion applicants lining up to fill every available vacancy, and employers take advantage of this endless supply of the poor. But the time and effort to train new workers as opposed to using an already skilled staff can cost some of that bottom line they are greedily trying to expand.
So sick workers, especially in the food industry, can become a heavy liability in more ways than one. Lawsuits from patrons getting sick from food served and workers dropping like flies because of illnesses can surely shrink the size of the "profit coffers."
It just might be cheaper to cover your workers' health cost, Mr. CEO; after all, their toiling keeps you handsomely paid. In fact, one of those minimum wage employees at McDonald's will have to work a staggering 500 years to make the salary of his CEO. (Read more here).
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Men's Volleyball Downs St. Francis in Straight Sets
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men's volleyball team started its 50th season as a varsity program with a sweep of St. Francis at Worthen Arena on Saturday evening (25-22, 25-21, 25-22). Greg Herceg and Kevin Owens led the offense for the Cardinals registering 17 and 11 kills, respectively.
With the win, the Cardinals move to 1-0 while the Red Flash drop to 1-2 on the season.
Herceg had 17 kills for a .412 hitting percentage (17-3-34) to go with a match-high three service aces, seven digs and two assisted blocks. Owens was the second Cardinal to register double-digits in kills with 11 and a .500 hitting percentage (11-1-20). The junior also had a solo block and assisted on a block.
Tommy Rouse led the match in digs with 13. Urim Demirovski notched nine digs to go with an assisted block and four kills. Graham McIlvaine had a match-high 30 assists.
In the decisive third set, Herceg served for six straight points to bring the Cardinals back from a 9-6 deficit to a 12-9 lead. The match was tied at 20-all of a kill from St. Francis' Logan Patterson. A kill from Herceg followed by a service ace and a Red Flash attack error gave the Cardinals a 23-20 advantage. The match ended on a kill by Demirovski.
The Cardinals held the advantage in hitting percentage .248 (43-16-109) to .177 (35-18-96) and team blocks, 7-4.
The Red Flash were led by Colin Sherwin and Logan Patterson who each registered 10 kills.
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Author and narrator Jeremy Siepmann leads a large, talented cast through this behind-the-scenes biography of the popular classical music composer. The perfectly chosen narrators play their parts with professionalism and subtlety in the extraordinary drama of the great man's life. Siepmann lets his authoritative voice and knowledge of the subject lead listeners through the inspiring rags-to-riches story. Most enlightening are the letters between Dvorak and his contemporaries as the narrators portray them. Secrets are revealed with heightened emphasis and portentous pauses, letting listeners feel the rhythm of the conversations.
One of the best-loved composers of all time, Dvorák rose from rural origins to become not only a great but an influential composer. The first composer to put his native Bohemia on the musical map of the world, he was invited to do the same for America. One result was the famous "New World" Symphony, which made him a household name across the globe. Writing music of irresistible color, lilt and peasant vitality, he was also a melodist-in-a-million. This portrait-in-sound follows a lovable and in many ways a very simple, man from hay cart to imperial palace, from tragic loss to heart-warming joy, to pigeon-raising and world celebrity.
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"Serviceable, lightweight bio with music"
I love the format, mixing the text with music. I would have been happy with twice or three times as much of each, and would have preferred more depth. I found the narration over the top; the emotion, the cultured accents, were overdone. At times it felt like a Monty Python sketch. But if you're looking for the basics of Dvorak's life and a taste of his music, it's a good choice.
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