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I didn't accuse anyone of hypocrisy or make an argument about the new CBA.
Minnesota did what it thought it needed to in order to be competitive within the previous CBA. They are still allowed to criticize that CBA (player salaries) without being accused of hypocrisy. Your argument would only hold water if the owners weren't forced to operate and compete under the rules outlined in the CBA.
Contract length limits and a reduction in player salaries under a new CBA would go far to solve that problem...
In response to a post pointing out how players already have their contracts affected by escrow, I speculated on one example of why they still may find the salary reductions in these negotiations difficult to take. I didn't make any argument about the logic of it.


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A state lawmaker wants to make it easier for people to sue over wind turbines.
WISN 12 News' partners at the BizTimes report that state Sen. Frank Lasee is working on the legislation.
It would allow anyone harmed by industrial wind turbines to sue the owner of the turbine and the owner of the land where the turbine is located.
They could seek damages for loss of property value, cost of moving, medical expenses, pain and suffering, and more.
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MARTINSBURG - The Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival that runs Thursday through Sunday is undergoing a lot of changes this year, yet it is not changing at all.
Visitors to the 33rd annual celebration of the region's orchard industry and heritage will find the same fun activities and exciting events as in past years. The big changes are in the venues for the festivities. Most have been moved to downtown Martinsburg.
"We had been talking about this for years, and all the pieces of the puzzle finally went together," Barbara "Barby" Frankenberry, president of the MSAHF, said in a recent telephone interview.
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A girl puts down her apple at the end of the apple eating contest during last year's Mountain State Apple Harves Festival in Martinsburg.
She explained that originally, most of the festival's activities like the arts and crafts show, entertainment and apple contests were held in hangars at the Air National Guard base at the Eastern Regional Airport.
However, after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, which precluded most outside activities at military bases, "we had to find a home," Frankenberry said. "The Berkeley County Youth Fair board welcomed us and they were wonderful."
The arts and crafts show, entertainment, activities and special features moved to the Youth Fair Grounds for several years.
This year, almost all those activities are moving to the B&O Roundhouse Center in Martinsburg.
"The Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority has been welcoming," Frankenberry said. "And the Army National Guard has been wonderfully helpful."
Earlier this year, the West Virginia Army National Guard won a contract to operate a U.S. Department of Defense vehicle storage and maintenance facility. The Roundhouse complex was picked as the site of the operation.
Guardsmen have been making repairs and cleaning up the Roundhouse buildings and grounds since moving to the site in March.
"It's the time when everything fits," Frankenberry said.
She expressed gratitude to Randy Lewis and Linda Snyder for volunteering to put on the arts and crafts show and activities at the Roundhouse, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Other traditional Apple Harvest Festival features are moving to sites downtown, also, like Friday evening's concert, which had been held at War Memorial Park.
"Friday Night in the Square is a thank-you to the community - it's for the community," Adam Robinson, chairman of the evening's activities, said in a recent telephone interview. "We moved it to the restored square in the heart of Martinsburg."
Sponsored in part by The Journal, Friday Night in the Square will feature dance music by Souled Out, Robinson said, and food by M&T Concessions from 6 to 10 p.m.
"It's a celebration," he said. "Come out to dance and dance the night away. It's free and open to everyone. Just come out and have a good time."
New this year, a beer garden will be offered, he said.
"Queen Pomona XXXIII (Alivia Ayers) and her court will make their first public appearance at about 8:30 p.m. on the square," Robinson added.
The Queen Pomona coronation ceremonies will be held at the Apollo Civic Theatre at 6 p.m. Friday, followed by the Queen's Reception at the Historic McFarland House, 409 S. Queen St., from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The Apple Harvest Festival continues through Saturday and Sunday. For a complete schedule of events and locations, go to www.MSAHF.com.
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CLYDE - Bryce Creamer carded a 78 Saturday to guide Columbian to fourth at the Northern Ohio League Tournament at Green Hills.
Bellevue took the tournament title via a tiebreaker over Willard after both shot a 316. However, Willard edged Bellevue 22-21 in overall points for the league's overall championship.
Teams earned two points for each regular-season NOL win and one point for each team they beat in the tournament.
T.J. Wickham backed Creamer with an 85 for the Tornadoes, who shot a 346 to end fourth. Columbian wound up fifth in the overall standings.
Jack Burkes added an 87 for TC and Mason McCool had a 96. Clayton Neal (102) and Katie Bogner (109) competed as non-scorers.
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SYCAMORE - Two days after knocking off unbeaten New Riegel, Mohawk faced another pair of tests Saturday in a tri-match against Monroeville and Wynford. The Warriors split the day, topping Monroeville 25-12, 21-25, 25-17 and falling to Wynford 26-24, 25-22.
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Also for Mohawk (10-2), Aubrie Flood had eight kills and eight digs, Clara Adelsperger had 13 digs and four blocks, Ashley Parker dished out 53 assists, Lynsey Trusty had 20 digs and Taylor McClain finished with 15 digs.
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MANSFIELD - Chance Smith booted home the go-ahead score with a little less than 32 minutes to play and Mansfield held on from there Saturday for a 3-2 win over Upper Sandusky.
The teams entered halftime knotted at 1 after goals by Upper Sandusky's Brandon Miller and Mansfield's Coltan Henderson.
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James Cyrus Gilbert maintains in the lawsuit that state officials rejected his application for the tags 4GAYLIB, GAYPWR and GAYGUY.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that all three vanity plates are on the list of vanity plates banned by the state, although the state has approved plates expressing some political or religious expressions.
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ALBANY – A Chautauqua County man appears to be the first person arrested under New York's new gun-control law, charged with selling newly banned assault-style weapons to an undercover police officer.
Benjamin M. Wassell, 32, of Silver Creek, was accused of twice selling weapons now prohibited under the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, according to State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
If Wassell is convicted of the felonies, he faces a possible prison sentence of seven years.
The sales to a State Police undercover investigator took place at Aunt Millie's Restaurant and at Lakeshore Lanes in the Town of Hanover, according to a criminal complaint against Wassell obtained Thursday by The Buffalo News.
State police arrested Wassell on Thursday, and he was arraigned in Hanover Town Court. He could not be reached to comment, and prosecutors said he did not have an attorney.
"By selling these illegal firearms, Mr. Wassell's actions had potentially dangerous consequences for New Yorkers," said Schneiderman, whose office conducted the joint investigation with the State Police. "We have seen far too much gun violence in our state in recent months, and the sale of illegal semiautomatic weapons will not go unpunished."
Schneiderman's office believes the arrest is the first in the state since the gun-control legislation was passed two months ago.
Prosecutors alleged that Wassell on Jan. 24 tried to sell a Del-Ton AR-15 rifle to a police investigator operating undercover. The gun is considered a banned weapon now in New York, and selling it is a Class D felony, because it had several military features, including a pistol grip, telescoping butt stock and bayonet mount.
Wassel also faces a Class A misdemeanor charge for knowingly making a false statement to police.
The investigator and Wassell finalized the deal during a meeting at Aunt Millie's Restaurant, where the weapon was sold for $1,900, and included 299 rounds of ammunition and six large-capacity clips, the complaint states.
The sale was made nine days after the NY SAFE Act was passed by legislators and signed into law by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
The investigator kept in contact with Wassell after the first sale to try to purchase another weapon, according to the state complaint.
The second sale to the undercover investigator took place Feb. 24 in the parking lot of Lakeshore Lanes and involved an Armalite AR-10 Magnum semiautomatic weapon. The $2,600 sale included 21 rounds of ammunition.
Both transactions were recorded by the investigator. In the second sale, the investigator told Wassell, according to the complaint, that he or she had a felony conviction for a domestic violence incident.
The complaint states that Wassell was recorded on tape responding: "The whole felony, banned-for-life thing, it's stupid.''
The NY SAFE Act bans the sale of assault-style weapons, includes new gun registration requirements, tracks ammunition sales, requires mental health professionals to report patients deemed a threat so police can confiscate any weapons they might own and adds new penalties for crimes committed with guns.
Wassell, authorities said, was released on his own recognizance Thursday because he has no r convictions and is not considered a flight risk.
Wassell is an Iraq War veteran, according to a law enforcement source. "He was very knowledgeable about weaponry," the source said.
When Wassell sold the first gun, it would have been illegal even before the NY SAFE Act because the gun had multiple military-style features, authorities said. They noted that second gun sale was considered a SAFE Act violation because the gun had one military-style feature.
"To arrest a person on entrapment, I don't think is a good idea," Harold "Budd" Schroeder, chairman of the Shooters Committee on Political Education, or SCOPE, told The News on Thursday evening.
"It's a law that should be illegal," he added, "because it doesn't do anything to cut down on gun violence. Maybe by the time it gets to trial, it will be repealed."
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Methods for quantification of in vivo changes in protein ubiquitination following proteasome and deubiquitinase inhibition.
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|Ubiquitination plays a key role in protein degradation and signal transduction. Ubiquitin is a small protein modifier that is adducted to lysine residues by the combined function of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes and is removed by deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Characterization of ubiquitination sites is important for understanding the role of this modification in cellular processes and disease. However, until recently, large-scale characterization of endogenous ubiquitination sites has been hampered by the lack of efficient enrichment techniques. The introduction of antibodies that specifically recognize peptides with lysine residues that harbor a di-glycine remnant (K-ε-GG) following tryptic digestion has dramatically improved the ability to enrich and identify ubiquitination sites from cellular lysates. We used this enrichment technique to study the effects of proteasome inhibition by MG-132 and deubiquitinase (DUB) inhibition by PR-619 on ubiquitination sites in human Jurkat cells by quantitative high performance mass spectrometry. Minimal fractionation of digested lysates prior to immunoaffinity enrichment increased the yield of K-ε-GG peptides 3-4-fold resulting in detection of up to ~3,300 distinct K-ε-GG peptides in SILAC triple encoded experiments starting from 5mg of protein per label state. In total, we identify 5,533 distinct K-ε-GG peptides of which 4,907 were quantified in this study, demonstrating that the strategy presented is a practical approach to perturbational studies in cell systems. We found that proteasome inhibition by MG-132 and DUB inhibition by PR-619 induces significant changes to the ubiquitin landscape, but that not all ubiquitination sites regulated by MG-132 and PR-619 are likely substrates for the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Additionally, we find that the proteasome and DUB inhibitors studied induced only minorchanges in protein expression levels regardless of the extent of regulation induced at the ubiquitin site level. We attribute this finding to the low stoichiometry of the majority ubiquitination sites identified in this study.
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A new tweak to the S.M. Wright Freeway and Interstate 45 overhaul would nix a portion of a historic building's parking lot, Texas Department of Transportation officials said Thursday at a public hearing in South Dallas.
The Dallas ISD maintenance building, formerly a Procter and Gamble plant, is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. TxDOT spokesman Mark Pettit said the Dallas ISD legal team is reviewing the proposal, but has not formally responded.
"We hope it's just a matter of dotting I's and crossing T's," he said.
The original designs would have eliminated an exit to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue. Public complaints led city councilwoman Carolyn Davis and other officials to demand changes, which increased the cost of the project to $165 million from $150 million.
The plan was met with plaudits by many in the packed community hearing. And Davis said Thursday that she hopes construction, which will begin next year barring unexpected delays, can now go full-speed ahead.
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This letter is for all of the economic morons who re-elected Barack Obama president. You deserve every bad financial catastrophe, and other catastrophes, he inflicts on the country.
The rest of us do not. He will ruin this country with his overspending economic policies. He has added more than $4 trillion dollars to the national debt and will add considerably more.
For those of you who cannot comprehend a trillion, it is a 1 with 12 zeros after it.
How large a number is that actually? A trillion seconds equals 31,688.7646 years. If you don't believe that do the math or check it on the Internet. This man engaged you in class warfare and you, unfortunately, listened.
According to the Forbes magazine 25th anniversary issue on billionaires, if one took all the assets of all the billionaires in the country, you could pay approximately 10 percent of the national debt.
That would mean taking absolutely everything they own down to the clothes on their backs. Or it would pay for slightly more than one and one half years of his deficit spending.
As Paul Ryan said in his debate, "There aren't enough rich people" to tax our way out of debt.
Spending has to decrease, not increase. Even if spending is actually reduced, the debt will increase because of interest payments.
How will the economy benefit when the new taxes enumerated in the Cal Thomas column of Nov. 9 on this very page take effect after the first of the year.
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Almost as soon as Fred Neuville opened The Fat Hen, he realized he had a noise problem.
How the decibels were measured
This survey of sound levels shouldn't be mistaken for science. To obtain decibel readings, I did a quick sweep of restaurant dining rooms (as opposed to bar areas) between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. That's when restaurants are loudest, so if you're trying to avoid noise, by all means dine on a Tuesday.
All of the numbers were gathered over the course of two weeks in May, using Decibel Meter Pro, an iPhone app.
Since the numbers may have been skewed in some instances by especially boisterous parties or a guest lull, the results shouldn't be considered definitive. It's entirely possible that you've had a noisy meal at a restaurant with a relatively low decibel level (or vice versa.)
I confined my survey to restaurants on the peninsula, with the exception of California Dreaming west of the Ashley. That restaurant earned a spot on my list because it famously acquired a reputation for loudness soon after its 1984 opening. According to local rumor, the restaurant took out a full-page ad in The Post and Courier to apologize for the noise. Sadly, neither the crack research team at the Charleston County Public Library nor I was able to find it, so I'm chalking up the legend to wishful thinking. I'd love to be proven wrong, though: If you have a copy of the ad, please share it.
To keep the measuring project manageable, I only visited restaurants which are identified in online reviews as "noisy" or "quiet." I also made sure to visit every restaurant which Post and Courier readers have pegged as too loud, according to my e-mail archive. Finally, I swung through the Noisy Oyster, because I couldn't resist trying to establish whether the restaurant lives up to its name (it doesn't.)
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In transforming the former St. Johns Island Cafe into a French bistro, Neuville in 2007 tore up the lineoleum to reveal attractive concrete floors, which amplified every wine-fueled laugh and boisterous conversation. Within two years, he was scrambling to find architectural antidotes, including dropped ceiling tiles. "I was under the impression that the tile was sound absorbent," he recalls. "I was under the wrong impression."
Instead of deflecting noise, the tiles trapped it, creating an overhead echo chamber.
Neuville has since stuck soundproofing pads under chairs, replaced tables and redone the floor, a series of projects that's brought his total expenditure on acoustics to more than $20,000. The servers reported they had an easier time hearing guests after the floor went down in 2013, but as recently as April, a customer griped on Yelp that the noise level was "unbearable."
This week, Neuville is waiting on delivery of art reproductions: He's hired a company to recreate The Fat Hen's decorative paintings of "le cochon" and "la vache" on sound absorbent panels.
"It is a journey, and this is the next step," Neuville says. "You want people to have a conversation without having to yell. It just takes some time."
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As Charleston eaters have discovered, Neuville isn't traveling alone. Restaurateurs citywide are grappling with how to mitigate an issue that tops many diners' lists of deal-breakers. "If had a dollar for every guest who said they loved the food at Lucca, but would never come back because of the noise level, I would be rich," says Ken Vedrinski, who finally licked the longstanding noise problem at his downtown restaurant.
Lucca is now on the quieter end of the local dining room sound spectrum. But The Post and Courier turned up more than a dozen popular restaurants where the volume stood at or above 75 decibels, the aural equivalent of an alarm clock or Times Square. The noise level at the loudest restaurant tested, The Ordinary, registered at 90, OSHA's permissible exposure limit for an eight-hour workday. (The Ordinary's publicist didn't return a message seeking comment.)
"The over-45 set, and the reality is these are the people who spend money, just can't hear," Vedrinski says.
Structural problems
By big-city standards, Charleston's restaurants are relatively serene: According to New York magazine, New York City dining rooms "regularly measure at 90 decibels" and frequently exceed it. But that's small comfort to local diners trying to use normal speaking voices, which is difficult to do whenever a room's volume climbs past the 60-decibel mark. (The decibel scale is logarithmic, so 60 decibels is half as loud as 70 decibels, which is now the national restaurant average.)
Restaurants everywhere are loud and getting louder. Responsibility for the phenomenon is usually pinned on conniving restaurant owners, who are clued in to studies showing customers drink more and chew faster when there's loud music playing. Celebrity chefs, who've lived up to their roles as society's "new rock stars" by blasting bass-heavy tunes, haven't escaped blame either.
"I like a loud restaurant. I just do," three-time James Beard Award nominee Ethan Stowell told a Seattle crowd in 2012, revealing he'll turn up the music if he thinks people are talking too quietly. "An individual customer might say, 'Oh, it's loud in here,' but a quiet restaurant is definitely not what you want."
Mostly, though, the problem doesn't lie with individuals. Decibel levels have leaped because of significant structural changes in restaurants, says David Thompson, the Charleston architect whose portfolio includes The Grocery, The Granary, Indaco, The Belmont, The Ordinary and Butcher & Bee. Thompson declined to address any of his projects specifically, but he firmly believes that food trends that aren't directly related to noise have inadvertently led to deafening dining rooms.
For example, the Food Network didn't set out to reshape the restaurant guest experience when it debuted in 1993. But by turning the mundane acts of chopping, stirring and sauteing into theater, the channel helped strengthen demand for open kitchens, perhaps the most insidious cause of elevated noise levels.
"You would never put your finger on it when you walk in," Thompson says. "But there's an incessant hum from the kitchen."
Riding the magic carpet
And it's not just the white noise that's bothersome: Staffers are apt to raise their voices to be heard over equipment, forcing customers to talk more loudly, too.
Vedrinski says he was initially stymied by how to overcome the whirr of the cooler at Lucca. "I brought in (local jazz musician) Quentin Baxter, because he has a good ear," he remembers. Baxter estimated any easy fix that didn't involve removing the open kitchen would only reduce the room's volume by 20 percent. "You're just wasting your money," he told Vedrinski.
In an earlier era, elaborate wall hangings might have muffled the kitchen clamor. But Thompson says artwork has fallen out of favor since open kitchens and other functional elements - think of the bare light bulbs, cocktail-aging barrels and shelves of jarred pickles that are Brooklyn's gift to restaurant design - provide plenty of visual stimulation for guests.
Also on the currently uncool list: carpet, tablecloths and curtains, all of which are sound-taming champions. "I don't know if I've worked on a restaurant in six years that had a tablecloth," Thompson says. While he bravely predicts a curtain resurgence, it's highly unlikely that restaurateurs will ever again roll out the carpet for guests. It's not just that exposed floors are stylish: For restaurateurs, the prospect of a carpet-cleaning bill is terrifying.
The last bastion of dining room carpet is the hotel restaurant, such as Circa 1886, the quietest restaurant in our local survey. A church mouse might worry about making a racket at Circa 1886, which is furnished with paisley-patterned carpet, white tablecloths and upholstered chairs.
"We strive to be quiet so our guests can have a quality experience," spokeswoman Linn Lesesne says. "I don't think it inhibits a good time. I know people have said they enjoy it."
One person who was put off by the hush was a New York Times contributor, who this month wrote about Charleston restaurants for the paper's travel section. "So many people complain about noise in restaurants these days, but here, there was no merry tinkling of ice, no laughter," she wrote, elaborating on the "near silence" she encountered on a recent visit.
Where's the bar?
Circa 1886 segregates ice tinkling and laughter from the main dining room by keeping its bar up front. That's a departure from the currently prevailing standard, in which the bar is situated smack in the middle of the restaurant. The cocktail revival is yet another culinary trend that can be measured in decibels.
"I remember being kind of ushered past the bar to the dining room," Thompson says of his childhood restaurant visits. "Now drinking is viewed as an integral part of the meal. The bar is a logical extension, but it has a cascading effect."
As Neuville puts it, "I find as people drink, the noise level goes up."
Diners now have to talk over the natural din of a bar - and since many of them are equally lubricated by stiff liquor drinks, which have become as societally acceptable as wine spritzers, they're typically up to the task.
According to Thompson, architects are aware of the consequences of planting a bar in a restaurant's center. They also know what's bound to happen when they yield to farm-to-table fashion by outfitting dining rooms in wood, or nod to historic buildings' pasts by leaving their brick walls uncovered, a tendency that's especially pronounced in Charleston. But they can't precisely predict a restaurant's sound level until every seat's taken.
"I always cringe a little bit on opening night," says Thompson, who dreads noise complaints. "You have to have a pretty thick skin."
When Vedrinski dreamed up Lucca, he imagined it would be as "loud and fun" as the trattorias he liked so much in Italy. "I figured my clientele would want that noise and buzz," he says. "But you don't ever know until you fill it up."
Customers began flocking to Lucca after its 2008 opening sparked glowing reviews. Many of them were familiar with Vedrinski from The Woodlands, a fancy restaurant with thick carpeting. According to Vedrinski, they struggled to square the notion of a tasting menu with a raucous room: One disappointed customer even offered to pay for a new ceiling.
"A lot of these people hated it," says Vedrinski. "I was the poster child for restaurant noise."
Thinking ahead
Not wanting to repeat the situation at Coda del Pesce, the restaurant he opened last year on the Isle of Palms, Vedrinski purchased costly sound-deadening tiles at the start. The tiles were so effective that he installed them at Lucca last December.
"They took away 40 percent of the noise," he says. "I have not had a noise complaint since they went in. It was one of the best $13,000 I've ever spent."
If Vedrinski hadn't been scarred by relentless online feedback comparing Lucca to an airport hangar, and attuned to the profoundly competitive nature of the city's restaurant scene, he probably wouldn't have taken such a proactive approach to Coda's soundscape. Acoustics are always discussed at the outset of the design process, yet rarely ever addressed.
"We think about it pretty early, because it's one of the chief complaints we get early," Thompson says. "But it's one of those things that's easy to let slip. When you're weighing whether to get light fixtures or super-secret sound panels that nobody sees, you're going to get the light fixtures."
"You're hard-pressed to find a restaurant that hasn't had to retrofit," he continues. "There is not a way to partially address these things. The challenge is trying to find an economical way to do it."
Thompson's firm has consulted with acoustical engineers who've explained it's impossible to control decibel levels outside of buildings designed around sound, such as orchestra halls and opera houses. Still, Thompson is confident restaurant owners can dial back noise if they make it a design priority.
"When you're talking with a client, talking about problems probably isn't the best," says Thompson, who's starting to present sound control as an opportunity. "We've got a whole new batch of work coming out, and I think we're going to have better luck."
And if that strategy doesn't pan out, there's always the curtain comeback to look forward to.
Reach Hanna Raskin at 937-5560.
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CALCUTTA - Two area residents are vying for a position on the Buckeye Water District Board of Trustees, and trustees whose townships are members of the district met Thursday night to discuss who should be appointed.
The ad hoc committee of member townships Center, Elkrun, Liverpool, Madison, Middleton, Salem, St. Clair, Washington and Yellow Creek was formed to help choose the three representatives on the BWD board who represent the townships.
Currently, the appointment of Bob Wines is set to expire in December, and he has made it known he would like reappointed. Sam Sowards of Lisbon has also indicated a desire to be considered for the six-year term.
Wines is a former St. Clair Township trustee and a retired Beaver Local administrator. Sowards owns Sowards Engineering Consultants in Boardman.
Although Liverpool Township Trustee Karl "Butch" Kontnier presided over last night's ad hoc committee meeting, he adamantly denied that he is the chairman, saying he just "stepped up to the plate" when former Chairman Bob Miller left office in 2001.
He offered an overview of how the committee has tried to unify the townships in deciding who their BWD representatives will be, emphasizing trustees "can't have our own agendas (but) need to look out for all our townships."
Kontnier noted that any person named to the BWD board must be available for day time meetings and asked Center Township Trustee Greg Shive, "Your man (Sowards) still works. Is he able to go to the meetings?"
Shive said, "As far as I know. He owns his own business."
Center Township has adopted a resolution naming Sowards as its candidate for the BWD seat, while, thus far, Liverpool and Middletown townships have passed resolutions in Wines' favor, with St. Clair expected to do the same at its meeting next Tuesday.
The other townships either have not yet passed resolutions choosing one of the two candidates or have not made it known to the ad hoc committee.
Center Township Trustee Joe Csonka posed the question, "Who owns the Buckeye Water District?" with St. Clair Township Trustee Chairman Jim Hall responding, "Good question."
Kontnier said that, to his understanding, "It's its own entity," but admitted, "I don't really know."
Middleton Trustee Eldena Gearhart questioned why trustees are never contacted by their representatives on the BWD board, saying, "I've never heard from our appointment. It would be nice to hear from (him)."
Kontnier pointed out all trustees are welcome to attend BWD board meetings and Madison Township Trustee Mint Cook said, "If we have a problem, we go."
Kontnier encouraged the trustees who have not yet passed a resolution naming their candidate to go back to their respective boards and discuss the matter.


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The hotel is steps from Touchwood shopping complex housing stores, restaurants and multiplex cinema. Popular family attractions like Cadbury World chocolate factory and Warwick Castle are just a short drive away. When you return, take a dip in the heated pool, work out at the well-equipped fitness centre and relax in the steam room. Relax in front of the TV, grab a bit to eat or catch up with work at the hotel's new Open Lobby.
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SUSS MicroTec teams up with research partners on a range of R&D projects.
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JEMSiP_3D (Joint Equipment and Materials for System-in-Package and 3D-Integration)
European research project within ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) coordinated by SUSS MicroTec. Nineteen participants from industry and R&D with focus on new processes, equipment and material for 3D integration. http://jemsip3d.net
MALS (Mask Aligner Lithograpy Simulation)
Joint research project about simulating of mask aligner lithography processes with GenISys GmbH, Fraunhofer IISB Erlangen, FH Vorarlberg, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH funded by the Government of Bavaria. http://www.forschungsstiftung.de/index.php/Projekte/Details/Lithographie-Simulation-fuer-Mask-Aligner.html
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Research project with Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics at University of Kassel (INA) funded by the German Government (BMBF) focusses on conception, development and characterisation of a tunable sensor array. http://te.ina-kassel.de/index.php/tosa.html


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The Bon Jovi/Toronto group that is seeking ownership of the Buffalo Bills had its first bid rejected last week, according to the Toronto Sun. But they will be allowed to resubmit a higher, non-binding initial bid.
The bid will reportedly be somewhere between $1 billion and $1.1 billion, as the first one was rejected for being "uncompetitively low."
It was rejected last week by Morgan Stanley, the investment bank in charge of handling the sale of the Bills for the trust of Ralph Wilson. Not only was the bid too low, but the bank also reportedly had an issue with the group's future plans for the team, and asked for a stronger commitment with plans to keep the Bills in Western New York long-term.
The Toronto Sun shined some light on how much money the group (fronted by Bon Jovi) may offer for the sale of the team.
While some reports last week said the Bon Jovi/Toronto group had bid $1.2 billion, the amount was considerably less, perhaps under $900 million. Their ultimate bid limit is believed to be somewhere approaching $1.2 billion.
The group will need to up the ante a bit if they want to get the deal done. Buffalo Business First reported that Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula was the top bidder as of last week, with a bid of around $1.3 billion. Pegula is assumed to be the front-runner at the current time.
No matter what the number is, the sale will be record-setting for acquisition of an NFL team. Stephen Ross set the bar high and paid $1.1 billion for ownership of the Dolphins in 2009, and this deal will likely top that.
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An environmental firm found no imminent threats to the public or Charleston Harbor on the Yorktown after conducting an extensive study of the former warship moored on the edge of Mount Pleasant.
Shaw Environmental Inc. told Patriots Point Development Authority today that the World War II-era aircraft carrier will have to be cleaned extensively before structural repairs can take place. The estimated cost is $4.4 million and would require about six months to complete.
Patriots Point said it would seek federal funding to pay for the cleanup.
The Atlanta-based firm found 129 tanks with about 160,000 gallons of petroleum residue and 1.6 million gallons of onboard contaminated water. Just two of 21 refrigeration units are charged, and all fire-fighting systems were found to be drained or air gapped.
Most hydraulic systems were found to be empty, and all radiological devices are low-level and pose no risk to anyone, Shaw said in its report.
Of the 71 samples taken for cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, 23 tested greater than 50 parts per million and 17 showed less than 50 parts per million.
To remove fluids, Shaw recommended pumping and separating petroleum products and affected waters. The water can be treated on site, while the oil-based residues can be used to blend fuels or make asphalt, said Ron Kenyon, a senior project manager with the firm.
The toxic PCBs will have to be pumped into small containers. Those exceeding 50 parts per million will have to incinerated while the rest can be treated and sent to a landfill.
If PCBs cannot be removed from the ship because of its layout, Shaw recommends encapsulating them.
Any radiological devices could be put in containers and disposed of in a low-level facility.
State-owned Patriots Point is staring at an estimated $81 million price tag to upgrade the aging vessel that has served as the centerpiece attraction for tourists since it was decommissioned and brought to Charleston Harbor in 1975.
The environmental elements of the ship comes before a structural analysis is conducted to determine the 70-year-old ship's overall condition.
It could take decades to refurbish the ship, since Patriots Point's annual income is about $9.5 million.
Read more in Thursday's edition of The Post and Courier.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.
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Behati Prinsloo, 24, had a leggy surprise for her followers underneath some poinsettia-decorated Christmas wrapping paper.
"My ghost of Christmas present … Get it? Get it?" the Victoria's Secret model wrote on Instagram to accompany one of two shots.
But the mystery only lasted for so long, as the second shot had smiley fiancé – and PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man Alive, Adam Levine, popping out from underneath.
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Are you satisfied with your current health care policy?
the people ******** are the ones for NOW have decent coverage. that can change for you in a heart beat,unless your a senator or congressman in wash****panies are cutting benes all the time and have been doing so for years.
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there are a few of you who work for big co. and have decent healthcare but get laid off and see what you get,my daughter was laid off and after colbra ran out which was not affordable she has a 300 a month policy with a 5000 deductible, I don't call that even insurance. so anything would be better than what she has now. she won't even go to the dr.when she's sick.
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no I have a 5,000 deductible before it kicks in at a wooping 400 a month, hardly anything you could call healthcare.
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will now enter the insureds pool and drive down the cost for everyone as uninsureds compensation costs will go down. The law ensures that 85% of your premium dollar is directly paid out to cover your cost of care and if it is not; a rebate is due to individuals with individual policies. Just wait until those cheques begin to make their way into mailboxes year in and year out. (I would imagine some folks will forsake a company policy and buy an individual one to recoup money in the long run - but that remains to be seen) Keep up the scare tactics that are sold by private insurance companies who want to keep the status quo. The future is now and universal care is coming.
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With the standard of personal responsibility in buying insurance as the model. People cheat on their taxes and will cheat on their health insurance coverage. Once this begins to play out, the answer to the problem will be a public option to ensure 100% of the public is covered by some sort of health insurance. The rules written into the law about 50 employees, or full time workers will have to work itself out on the low end of the employment pool. The idiots on the right (99.999% of whom already purchase their coverage thru full time jobs and are not effected 1 bit by the legislation) will lose their megaphone of deciet due to the popularity of the program as millions of people with no way to obtain healthcare
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My current health insurance may not be great, but it's a heck of a lot better than Obamacare.
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The policy seems to cover less and cost more each year. Whether this is because of the new laws or not does not really matter. Companies use it as an excuse are we end up paying for it one way or another.
Seems policies are just not as good as they were previously. Sadly I do not expect it to become any better.
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We all better be Obama care is a joke we all see it with thousands of doctors that cant even practice they will soon be closing ofice as other business across our country are going to 25 hr work weeks to cut the cost of the the great ones benefit that know one read.God Bless us all is this what we want better be satisfied with what we have.
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The hotel boom along Buffalo's long-ignored waterfront took another step forward Wednesday with the announcement of a second Marriott International hotel coming to Canalside.
HarborCenter Development LLC said the hotel component of its ice-rink and hospitality complex in front of First Niagara Center will carry the international lodging company's flagship Marriott brand, capping a process that began a year ago.
The new full-service Marriott Buffalo Harbor Center hotel, scheduled to open in May 2015, will bring another 205 rooms and suites to the waterfront. That's in addition to 415 other rooms that recently opened or are coming online downtown in the next few years.
Some critics question if Buffalo needs that many hotel rooms, and whether the new hotel projects are really viable. But advocates say Buffalo's hotels, with an occupancy rate of 66.1 percent, already do much better than those in peer cities, and will continue to do so even with the new rooms.
So supporters say the key is to drive more visitors to Buffalo, and the new developments pose an opportunity to do so, if the right investment is made to promote tourism.
"The time is right for us," said Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership business group, and former president and CEO of Visit Buffalo Niagara. "We have the right mix of hotel properties to justify those investments. Now we have to close the deal, to get the visitors to come here."
The new Marriott will be a major part of the $170 million multi-use hockey and entertainment project being developed downtown by the Pegula family and the Buffalo Sabres. The combined operation is expected to bring additional tourism and business to Buffalo, officials said at a news conference.
Besides the guest rooms and suites, the hotel will contain 5,000 square feet of meeting space to handle groups of up to 450 people. It also will offer a fitness center, a business center, a newsstand and a
Marriott Great Room restaurant serving three meals daily.
It it will also be the second Marriott-branded hotel in a two-block area. The former Donovan State Office Building across Scott Street is being converted by Benderson Development Co. into One Canalside, a mixed-use building that will include a 96-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel, along with the headquarters for the Phillips Lytle law firm.
Marriott executives aren't worried. "Customers enjoy each of those brands differently. We offer a different guest experience in each of them, so we don't anticipate an overlap between those two products," said Kip Vreeland, chief officer for full-service franchising for Bethesda, Md.-based Marriott. "We don't develop hotels or put a brand on hotels in markets that they can't support and contribute to while they're open and running."
Additionally, the new hotel will join the Hotel @ the Lafayette's 57 rooms, the planned 124-room Hilton Garden Inn at Hamister Group's Tishman Building and the 138-room hotel that Ellicott Development Co. plans as part of its Carlo project at the Erie Basin Marina.
And those 620 rooms come on top of the existing Adam's Mark Hotel, the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, the Embassy Suites at the Avant, the Hampton Inn & Suites, the Comfort Suites Downtown, the Doubletree Club by Hilton, Buffalo Downtown at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the Mansion on Delaware.
However, many of the new hotels are more limited-service establishments, Gallagher-Cohen noted, so "this really adds an exciting element to give visitors a choice of a really good full-service property."
HarborCenter President John R. Koelmel called the selection of Marriott another indication of the level of quality that the Pegulas are aiming for. The hotel will be managed by Shaner Hotels of State College, Pa., which has a long-standing relationship with Marriott.
"We are very, very proud and pleased to have both Shaner and Marriott as our partners, and to add the Marriott flag to the increasing array of lodging opportunities in downtown Buffalo for the benefit of all visitors to Canalside and the region," Koelmel said, as the white and red Marriott banner was raised by a crane to the 20-story level.
"Shaner is one of the foremost hotel operators in the hospitality industry. The Marriott name needs no introduction. It's one of the lodging industry's most desired brands," he said.
"It was clear from the beginning that Marriott was the right choice," said Sabres Chief Development Officer Cliff Benson.
The new hotel will feature new "contemporary" styles, amenities and approaches to guest services, including redesigned guest rooms intended to appeal to younger hotel guests, who will soon become the dominant portion of both the workforce and traveler base.
Shaner is an international hotel firm that is owned by Western New York native Lance Shaner, who grew up in Bolivar, near Olean, graduated from Alfred University, and started his hotel business more than 30 years ago in Lockport. The company has assembled a team of architects, engineers and designers to "produce one of the best hotels in the Northeast," said Plato Ghinos, Shaner president.
Shaner owns and manages more than 40 hotels in 17 states, as well as in the Bahamas and Italy, and posts $150 million in annual revenues. It's a division of Shaner Cos., a diversified privately held company that owns and operates investments in lodging, finance, energy production and professional services. Among other ventures, it's invested in companies involved in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" in the Marcellus Shale area of Pennsylvania.
That's the same industry in which Sabres owner Terry Pegula made his fortune. In fact, Pegula and Shaner are old friends who have known each other since both were in their 20s. That relationship, as well as Shaner's strong and established relationship with Marriott, helped play a role in the selection of the hotel operator after some competition, Benson said.
"We are very, very proud to be associated with it and very excited," Shaner said. "We believe that performance of this beautiful facility will exceed all expectations, and we're honored to be associated with this project, the Pegulas and the team that is here today."
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So Many Autographs; So Little Ryne
Not as balmy as last year, but better than average Opening Day weather here last night as Des Moines tiptoes toward the Summer of Sandberg. For the record, the Iowa Cubs dropped Ryno's Triple A managerial debut by a score of 6-3 to the Nashville branch of the Milwaukee Brewers.
The paid attendance was listed at just over 6,000, about the average for a Pacific Coast League game last year, but there were way fewer than that many rumps in seats and suites. Last year's home opener drew about 9,500, but it was on a warm Friday night later in the month [April 17th] after the team opened on the road. I'm still pegging last night's official figure at roughly 1% of what the season total will be. The club record for season attendance is around 575,000 [2007]. Having Sandberg on hand to sign autographs before the games [Des Moines Register reported that he scribbled 75 last night] and flash signs from the 3rd base coaching box during the games should push the record beyond 600K, about what the Chicago Cubs drew as recently as 1966 [okay, that's not all that recent, but I was 12 then and very interested in the Cubs when not nearly so many others were]. Of course, whenever Mother Nature is one of your business partners, projections can be hazardous. In the flooded summer of 2008 the I-Cubs actually played a game with a paid attendance of zero since their downtown ballpark was smack in the middle of a municipal evacuation zone at the time.
Sandberg was featured in all of the team's winter marketing efforts even though he's always been a pretty vanilla guy when not manning 2nd base during his HOF playing career. I'm anxious to see him go toe-to-toe & nose-to-nose with some umps, something he rarely did as a player.
His I-Cub uniform is #23, same as the flag flying on the foul pole at Wrigley Field. Just because no Chicago Cub will ever wear that number again doesn't mean that the guy who retired it can't slip it on if he wants to [The Register also reported $3,000 worth of Sandberg jersey sales in the stadium gift shop].
Whatever lies in store, he is to be commended for exiling himself back to the bush leagues after his induction at Cooperstown and giving the organization an in-house example of how far a healthy respect for the game combined with great talent can take you.
Ted Lilly's rehab start has been deferred from tonight to Sunday afternoon which will enable me to watch. Jay Jackson goes tonight; I send my regrets…
Here's a link to a photo gallery of Episode I of the R-Cubs:
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"Whatever lies in store, he is to be commended for exiling himself back to the bush leagues after his induction at Cooperstown"
after the wimpy pushover he was as a player it's shocking to see the guy grow a pair and become a leader of men. he seems to have a thing for bunting, though...oddly.
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Quiet isn't the same as wimpy.
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Also didn't realize that one had to scream profanity in other people's faces to be a "leader of men."
I'm now going to begin a gender-focused critique of all comments. Masculinity Studies 101: Blogs About Sports Teams With Long Histories of Failure.
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it'd help if sandy didn't become a joke to teammates everywhere but in the field and at the plate.
the guy was kinda walked all over by some teammates while he went out and played the game. it got to him enough that he took some time off.
just because you play the game right and know how it should be played it doesn't make you a manager of people.
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He took time off because he was having a custody suit over his children... but do continue.
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Well it seems he's picked some managerial ability up along the way? He's had success in A, AA, and trying AAA this season?
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And will be in Chicago by 2011 the latest.
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yeah, he gets respect.
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"success in A"
He may have managed well, but I don't know about success. Chiefs in '07: 71-68. In '08: 60-78. They got good in '09 after he left. Of course, that has a lot to do with the players.
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just because you play the game right and know how it should be played it doesn't make you a manager of people.
If you quote someone, you should really attribute it.
"Dusty Baker is a lousy manager. just because you play the game right and know how it should be played it doesn't make you a manager of people." --Mister Whipple
Ah, that's better.
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weird thing is that's the one thing dusty is a master of...
he rarely has an upset clubhouse and if you put some dickheads in the clubhouse (kent/bonds) he tends to be able to diffuse the assholes before it gets to the point you have to trade away your players to make others happy.
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Two Words.
Sammy Sosa.
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sammy wasn't festering in the clubhouse, though.
dusty did lose control over him. it seems sammy was kinda "checked out" of being a ballplayer at that point, though.
people were thrilled to see him go, but it didn't grind on anyone...well, his choice of music did.
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Kent merker and the end of 2004 season. Say hi
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merker didn't divide the clubhouse, didn't have to be traded, only pissed off an announcer who got shown the door, and had one of his best years as a cub that season.
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That's your proof? That he kowtowed to Bonds and Kent while they were completely juiced out of their gourds? Interesting.
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you got that out of what i said?
the guy is well known for being able to communicate effectively with people from different backgrounds...country boys, hipsters, egomaniacs, spoiled brats, etc...
Thread jack from previous post
Sorry to do this but it got too thin in last post to comment- In reply to Rob G and Mike C about odd man out with Sori and Colvin.
If Colvin hits lights out, I mean ROY stuff, the Cubs will have to try and trade Dlee. I know he has no trade clause, but he would be easier to move then Fuku (ntc and another year on contract) and put Sori at first base where he's going to end up any ways.
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your theory is the Cubs will try and trade Derrek Lee if they're in the race and put Soriano at first base where he's never played in the middle of a season?
Don't see the Cubs being completely out of it on July 31st this year, at least not by Hendry standards. He refused to let Harden go last year and save a million bucks when they were 5 games back in late August.
Fuku's NTC might be a problem, as I don't know how willing he is to waive it, but there are teams that value OBP and defense and he has it in spades. Cubs might not get much in terms of player talent and probably have to pay some of his 2011 contract, but I don't think he's that unmovable at this stage, with the caveat he's closer to his 2009 numbers than 2008 in 2010.
better odds are that someone just ends up getting hurt sometime during the season anyway...
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I doubt Lee waives his NTC, but he might, to maybe go to the Dodgers or the Angels.
Fukudome has OBP "in spades"? He does walk a lot, though. Teams are going to have the same problems with Fukudome that the Cubs do - too little power to play in RF.
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Giants would probably be the most likely for Lee, but Cubs aren't even going to entertain the idea of trading Lee to get Colvin more AB's, unless they're completely out of it...which I certainly don't foresee.
IF Fukudome is hitting at his 2009 levels, than yeah, he has OBP in "spades", .375 would have been 8th best in the majors for qualified RF'ers. We're already know 2-4 teams that liked Fukudome since the Cubs signed him, Cubs just aren't giving him away yet. If they reach the point that Tyler Colvin is the future, and can get some salary relief, I could see the Cubs to start making some concessions on what they expect back for him.
Imo, Colvin has 3 option years left and either worse or as good as the other 3 options. No reason to do anything unless they can completely get out of a contract or bring back something they need more of (like a second basemen). But considering the contracts, more likely they'd just dump someone and hurt their organizational depth.
15th in OBP among outfielders with 400 PAs, his HR's would tie him for 21st among right fielders. He'd probably be the worst hitting RF on a contending team - if he got traded to a contender or if the Cubs contend.
15th in OBP among outfielders with 400 PAs
15 of 86 is pretty damn good, especially when it's not BABIP inflated.
that being said, I assume a team looking at Fukudome might have an injury they're trying to replace, or maybe a team like the Nats that are hoping to contend next year.
his BP comps sure don't suck...
D. Dimaggio, G. Matthews Sr., B. Murcer, C. Lemon, F. Lynn, G. Woodling, R. Maris, B. Gilkey, JD Drew, R. Greer
the problem is he's a $6-8M player getting paid $12M
still think he's the player the Cubs would have the most luck trading and want to trade out of Soriano, Byrd, Fukudome or Lee.
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Look at that list of players again Rob. It's pretty much a who's who of guys whose careers dropped off a cliff.
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5 (if Drew keeps it together this year) guys maintained their high 700's/800's OPS through age 34 which is what Fuku's contract runs through.
more importantly, the Cubs will never be able to get rid of Soriano's contract without just waiving him, won't consider trading Lee unless 2010 is a repeat of 2006, which leaves Fukudome or Byrd on the block.
my money would be on them moving Fukudome if it gets to that.
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Yes, all these teams will be tripping over themselves to take on a one dimensional platoon player with $15 million left on his contract, instead of a well rounded offensive player with $6 million left. Sorry, Rob, I am going to have to go with history and logic on this one.
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is Lee the one with $6 million left? You think the Cubs are gonna trade him this year if there anywhere near the playoffs?
and fuku's got at least two dimensions....
ss theriot, cf colvin, 1b lee, 3b ramirez, rf nady, lf soriano, 2b fontenot, c hill, p silva
Koyie Hill wins games...I guess.
Re: Lineup
Lou do you really Nady in the lineup?
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I believe he would be trying to put more than 2 runs on the board. The dude certainly can hit.
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It seems only two people know where they will be hitting on a day-to-day basis. I'm not complaining, I'm just making an observation.
Photos from Wrigley
Graphs on Cashner
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Colvin WALKS and scores on an ARam SF
Wooooooooooooooooooooooo.....Colvin OBP to the Moon, Alice!
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This is completely off topic, but here's Stephen Colbert's view of the new Tiger Woods Nike ad. Very funny...
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So That Went Well
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Maybe the offense will have a big day tomorrow. That'd be nice. A big lead late in the game (and, preferably, at the end of the game).
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Glad to see the bullpen is performing as good as expected. Whose brilliant idea was it to go into the season with basically no proven relievers.
What a great way to start the weekend. But hey, at least we don't have Dusty as our manager.
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how can one hate a guy nicknamed "Smiley"
(put a Kevin Gregg mask on him next time he goes to the mound)
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Cubbie rules:
- Let Chipper Jones beat you
- Walk bottom of the batting order with a 2-run lead in the 8th
- Never, ever hit with men on base
Cubs are now 1-2 when leading after 7 innings -- champonship stuff, that.
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Yep. We knew what the deal was with this bullpen of youngsters and Grabow.
This is what happens when the boss says, "Don't spend any money."
Levine has said on three occasions I have heard that they were $500,000 shy on Capps, and not much more shy on Park.
When the team finishes below .500 at the end of the year, Hendry should be gone anyway (one can hope).
Recent comments
Oh my! Cards down 2-1 to Reds in the bottom of the 9th -- get a leadoff triple -- and don't score!
Gameday has stopped at the top of the 8th inning. Google tells me it ended up 8-4 Pirates but I can't get further detail. Guess I'll have to wait until the Cubs' website updates...
Phil, thanks for posting. Where do find the schedule? I have a condo in Surprise, yet I drove to Mesa and Tempe looking for a game today! Thanks!
Dear Baseball Gods--
My trip to Chicago has nothing whatsoever to do with the Cubs. In actuality, I am a Red Sox fan.
Well, if Strop had to give up a run...at least he hit Sean Rodriguez to do it.
jaso has a cycle and 5 rbis...pit leads by 4.
have a nice
bowl of pizza soupdeep dish pizza...or a leisurely walk around the notorious south-side (bring money)...shopping at one of the walmart supercenters...waiting in line to waste $20 at willis tower...
seriously, though...it's chicago, a lot to do. have a dog for lunch, a great dinner, and catch some local comedy.
Strange, because he really seemed to have the Pirates number last year.
Bummer for Jake -- I think this is the first time all year his ERA has been over 3.00, and that will be his number for the year.
Jinx remover -- your trip doesn't have to be for a baseball game -- lots of stuff to do here in town.
Guess they could always try to White Sox (and Bears...sob) approach: Never Rebuild! Seems to work pretty well for them.
3rd time this season he's given up 6+ runs to PIT...only team he's given up 6+ runs to this season.
7 runs is the most he's given up since august 6th in colorado...in 2014.
Over 100 pitches, only the 5th.
coghlan out...got his cleats stuck in the wall attempting a play (failed, but looked great doing it). walking off on his own, precautionary/day-to-day looking stuff...hopefully not worse.
also, jake arrieta is literally worse than hitler. 1-5, bottom 5. ...make that 1-6, bottom 5. ...make that 1-7, bottom 5.
Coghlan crashes into wall and comes up limping, looks like left knee or ankle. Leaves game...
Arrieta inspiring no confidence yet again.
from a sun-times article that I won't link to so you don't have to bear the ad-loading that will crush your browser
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Abby, SCE FCU Foundation Manager, was looking for an economical and reliable sedan to replace her 2000 Jeep Cherokee. With all the community work the Foundation does, Abby's poor Jeep has racked up a few miles over the years. She hadn't done much research on the vehicles available, but knew she wanted a pre-owned, mid-size car with low miles and good on gas.
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After returning from an out-of-state conference, we had 3 different cars lined up for Abby to check out. Right away the 2010 Hyundai Elantra caught her eye, and after test driving it she knew it was the perfect car for her and her kids. We took care of everything and had it delivered to the office the next day.
Abby said, "Working at the Credit Union I've heard many stories about how easy and professional the car buying experience is through CU at the Wheel. Being a single mom with a busy work schedule, I really don't have the time to go from dealership to dealership and I was really dreading the process of buying another car. But CU at the Wheel made it so easy, I came back from my business trip and had my new car within a few days. It was like having my own personal shopper!"


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8 New TV Show Ideas Almost as Stupid as 'Grey's Anatomy'
If you've never seen Grey's Anatomy, you probably at least know it as a punchline representing awful, female-targeted, self-absorbed TV dramas. Characters are nicknamed things like "McDreamy" and "McSteamy," and actors of questionable attractiveness are passed off as sex gods and goddesses.
The title of the show is a pun that really makes no sense. It starts from the real medical reference book Gray's Anatomy (with an A), which apparently doesn't exist in the show and is replaced with a fictional famous book named Grey's Anatomy (with an E) that was written by the mother of lead character Meredith Grey (with an E), and the book apparently has nothing to do with the plot anyway. It's what you would get if someone with brain damage free-associates the words "Grey" and "medical" and tries to explain their thought process.
I'm not saying it's wrong to glance at the name of a reference book on a shelf and come up with a formulaic and predictable show premise based on it. I'm saying that if you're going to do it, do it with style. Here's a few of my suggestions.
#8. Roget's the Saurus
As you can see, Roget is the Saurus. It's sort of like being The Man, except he is a dinosaur. This isn't the first dinosaur sitcom -- the live-action Dinosaurs somehow ran for four seasons in the early '90s despite every episode being 30 minutes of a baby dinosaur shouting "Not the mama!"
Roget naturally has his own completely original catchphrase ("Dino-MITE!"), but the show borrows more from ALF than anything, placing the reptile-out-of-water in the home of a bewildered suburban family. It's sort of a comedy of manners, at the intersection of American middle-class values and dinosaur culture, leading to hilarious misunderstandings where Roget displays his ignorance of baseball or inadvertently eats a classmate.
In later seasons, Roget's the Saurus might go beyond escapist comedy and attempt to tackle some tough topical issues, like gay marriage (he accidentally eats a gay couple) or drugs (he accidentally eats a drug dealer).
#7. Miriam Webster's Dictionary
The show revolves around the trendsetting blogger Miriam Webster and her cleverly named blog, Miriam Webster's Dictionary, where she highlights and sometimes invents new slang words that annoyingly trendy people might use, like "frenemy," "frenefits," "friendsetter," "friendoscopy" ... basically words that make you want to hit someone when they use them.
Every episode begins and ends with Miriam blogging about the word of the week, kind of like Stephen Colbert's "The Word" feature, except without any subtlety, because people who watch a show about a fashionable blogger think subtlety is a bunch of English words on the bottom of a screen when characters are speaking a foreign language.
A subtlety.
In the course of each episode, Miriam gets into hilarious hijinks and learns a valuable lesson about life or something that she blogs about in the closing scene, similar to Grey's Anatomy's ending voice-overs or the ending journal entries in the more realistic medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D.
Sometimes she learns the trite and easily digestible lessons that viewers come to expect from these awful shows, such as in the episode "Friendorphins" (every episode is named after the word she comes up with), where she learns that being around your friends can give you the high that drugs never could, or "Friendception," where she learns to stop being jealous of her pregnant friend's fetus and see it as "a friend inside a friend." But sometimes the show makes a statement about current political hot-button issues, such as one episode where Miriam's careless words get a friend deported to Pakistan and tortured ("Extraordinary Friendition").
#6. The Chicago Manual of Style
Envious of the success of fashion-obsessed shows like Sex in the City? Beaten to the punch at purchasing the TV rights to the popular The Devil Wears Prada book/movie brand? No problem!
The TV rights to the Chicago Manual of Style can probably be had for a pittance, probably because it is not a saucy tale of high fashion but a language guide for proper citation and writing styles. You have all the benefits of most people vaguely thinking it sounds familiar and none of the drawbacks of those people knowing exactly what it is.
Kaylee, Madison and Mackenzie are three confident career women who can identify different makeup products and know the difference between Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik. Someone else is going to have to write that part or else I am going to have one character tell another she wears too much mascara on her lips or something.
Too much?
They all work at a fake newspaper with a made-up name like The Chicago Sun-Times or something whimsical like that, but they never spend any time at the office, or working, because that would get in the way of their sexy and fashionable adventures. The show makes sure to stand out from Sex and the City by constantly emphasizing its Chicagoness, with at least one character in every shot holding a deep-dish pizza, at least 10 mentions of a local sports team in each episode and constant cutaways to aerial shots of Wrigley Field.
The show is, of course, shot in Vancouver.
#5. Strunk & White
Odd couple cop/detective buddy shows named Something & Something have been popular forever, with such classics as Starsky & Hutch, Simon & Simon, Cagney & Lacey, Jake and the Fatman, Rizzoli & Isles and of course Law & Order, featuring the unforgettable characters of uptight, by-the-book Johnny Law and his spontaneous, free-spirited partner, Jessica Order.
In Strunk & White (based on the popular nickname for the authoritative grammar reference book The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White), buttoned-up grammarian Margaret Strunk faints at the sight of a dangling participle while her easygoing partner Torrey White sees English as "an evolving language" and launches social media campaigns to include the word "bromance" in the next version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
They hunt down criminals by identifying unique grammar and misspelling patterns. "Notice the use of 'should of' and 'bare with me' in both the first and the second ransom note."
Thanks to Strix.org.uk's ransom note generator.
Strunk & White is currently facing a legal challenge from the creators of NBC's upcoming show The Elements of Style (a sexy show about socialites in Minneapolis designed to compete with smash hit The Chicago Manual of Style) regarding who has licensing rights to the book.


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Breakfast on Spring
Another bakery is setting up shop on Spring Street, this one helmed by a pair of recent Art Institute of Charleston grads.
Sweet & Savory Cafe at 100A Spring St. is a joint project of baker Jessica Wilkie and her fiance, chef Logan Scott. Wilkie has worked at The Kiawah Island Golf Resort since finishing school in 2012, while Scott has worked in different restaurants, "learning to accommodate the local neighbors here in Charleston," according to the cafe's website.
"We're trying to bring in a good Southern breakfast," Wilkie says.
Breakfast will be served all day. Menu items include French toast with amaretto, cookies-and-cream pancakes, s'mores waffles and a breakfast burrito. More recognizably Southern touches show up on the lunch menu, which features a fried shrimp po' boy, a pimento cheese sandwich with fried green tomatoes and a barbecue sandwich. The menu is rounded out with fresh pastries from Wilkie, who sidelines as a wedding cake baker.
There's seating for 30 at Sweet & Savory, and Wilkie says the Wi-Fi's free.
"It's just a neat little place," she says.
Wilkie estimates the cafe will open within a few weeks.
French tea at Magnolia
Tea is typically associated with the United Kingdom, but the drink has occasionally cropped up in coffee-loving France, most famously in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," in which the narrator drops a crumbly cookie in his cup and 3,000 pages of reflections ensue.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is hoping to stimulate garden archaeology, not unbridled sentimentality, with its upcoming French Tea. The April 6 event will benefit the Friends of Andre Michaux Charleston Garden Project, an organization studying the site of the 18th-century French botanist's Charleston-area home.
To give the tea party a French feel, Fork chef Wendell Edwards is preparing a four-course meal featuring carrot soup, a vegetable Napoleon and chocolate tarts. A flutist, violinist and cellist will provide the classical French tunes.
Tickets to the tea are $65, and can be purchased through magnoliaplantation.com. The tea runs from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Tapio bubbles up again
Bubble tea retailer Tapio is still on the search for a permanent home, but owner Terry Hung writes to say his team is now accepting private gigs.
"We are offering orders of our milk and fruit teas for friend gatherings, special events, company parties, or even pot lucks!," Hung emails.
Tapio had hoped to open downtown by the end of last year, but ran into lease trouble.
"Be assured that we are still dedicated to bring you the best boba tea ever," Hung writes.
For more information on Tapio's services, call 695-7252 or email email@example.com.
Future for Farmbar?
Unless The Farmbar Provisional applies for and receives an operating permit, last Friday's spaghetti dinner may have marked the pentultimate instance of the ad hoc cafe cooking and serving food.
The roving culinary concept last month settled into a shipping container parked at 1600 Meeting St., announcing a standing schedule of daily lunchbox pick-ups and twice-weekly meal service. It celebrated its opening with a menu featuring duck fat hash and roast chicken.
"The Farmbar has not received a permit to operate," S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control spokesman Jim Beasley explains. "The facility did, however, run a special promotion after contacting the department."
As state law defines it, a special promotion is conducted on private property by a private business promoting a good or service. Businesses may hold four one-day special promotions over a 12-month period; the clock starts ticking at the first event.
According to Beasley, The Farmbar was approved to hold its third special promotion on Feb. 14.
"They're using up their promotional events pretty quickly," Beasley says.
But the fast pace doesn't worry founder Tara Derr Webb, who's looking to schedule The Farmbar's fourth special promotion during the Charleston Wine + Food Festival. She's confident she can devise a creative solution that will allow for continued food service.
"We are truly WAY-out-of-the box renegades trying to create an innovative experience," Webb emails. "Despite our raw beginnings, we've had tremendous loyal supporters who are patient, enthusiastic and forgiving. They have become part of our evolution and narrative, which is quite special."
Webb declined to elaborate on her plans, but revealed DHEC approved the relocation of The Farmbar's kitchen from the shipping container to a permanent structure on the property. Webb says the move will pave the way for a "more robust kitchen ... and potentially an ABL license for wine and beer. The FARMBAR installation outside of the building will then have more room for seating, market and retail."
The move is scheduled to occur by the end of next month.
Without an operating permit or special promotion clearance, retailers are only allowed to "dispens(e) non-potentially hazardous beverages or non-potentially hazardous prepackaged food," meaning food prepared in a permitted commercial facility and delivered in a hermetically sealed package.
On non-special promotion days, The Farmbar typically serves coffee and baked goods: A recent Tuesday's meals included Brown's Court Bakery schnecken and scones for breakfast, Brown's Court focaccia for lunch, and Brown's Court focaccia and pie for supper.
Gluten-free classes
One in three Americans is trying to follow a gluten-free diet.
And whether they're snubbing the grain protein for valid health reasons - fewer than 1 percent of the population is coping with celiac disease, the most severe form of gluten intolerance - their desire for eggplant parmesan, gravy and mac-n-cheese that don't taste like sawdust is understandable.
Trident Technical College is trying to appeal to those discerning eaters with a pair of new workshops: Gluten-Free Kids' Favorites and Gluten-Free Dinners.
Both classes feature entree overviews and a recipe exchange.
Gluten-Free Kids' Favorites is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on March 22. Gluten-Free Dinners will meet from 6-9 p.m. on April 30. Each class costs $59.
To register, call 574-6152 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Shad roe season
Shad roe season came early this year, according to Lia Sanders of the Old Firehouse Restaurant.
As detailed in a recent Post and Courier Food section, shad roe is a seasonal Lowcountry delicacy.
Often served for breakfast, the herring egg sac is not particularly good-looking, but it's very rich.
"We have shad roe and have been serving it for the last 11 years," writes Sanders, who reports the ingredient is now available at Crosby's Seafood.
"We offer it the traditional way, wrapped in bacon and deep fried, or poached in cream for a more delicate approach."
The Old Firehouse Restaurant is at 6350 Highway 162 in Hollywood. It's open for dinner Tuesday-Saturday. For more information, call 889-9512 or check out the restaurant website.