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Hi everyone, I found a good site to buy anime on. On my quest to find someone for myself i ran across someplace that is having an anime cleance with huge discounts, like 70% off regular. Some of their stuff is in Japaneese and some of it is dubbed so look carefully before buying. The site is www.animeballz.com/. If you're in the market for anime dvds and other mercendise check it out. I hope this information is of some use to you.
I dunno about any others but i tried the site and it doesnt seem to exist >.< i tried www.storeanimeballz.com as well but no luck, if you mispelled it plz correct, im really interested, i could use sum extra cash around now >.< "Don't doubt the darkness, it can be your enemy as well as your friend."
The site is www.animeballz.com and then you scrool down to the 70% discountsale..... The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
Sorry guys it worked for me yesterday or i was really really tired. I fixed the main post as well. I found this site and posted this at around two in the morning last night. I apologize for the confusion, just trying to help out the masses though. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
Tired!!!Thats a great excuse.....Well when they invented mistakes we just had to use themafter all whats a good invention if you don't use it.... Good post though if people are into cosplay they have a link to some greatstuff at the site there.... I was totally bored yesterday and visited that siteand as you mention the 70% sale i recognised the error... its no biggy.... The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
it was true, i was up late like i am pretty much everynight. I don't try to make excuses, i only speak the truth. I do try to help pass on useful information to my friends on here. I picked up hellsing which i am surprised they had. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
^.^ ty, i checked it out now that it works, they have a lot of anime haha, im gonna be broke v.v , probably gonna put in some overtime at work, theres sooo much I want hehe, thanks again. "Don't doubt the darkness, it can be your enemy as well as your friend."
Glad i coulld be of help. I know what you mean by being broke, i had to pick up a few things, like too many for my checking account. i just couldn't resist getting GITS at that price."You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"


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The couple is happy. They're content. They're concerned about their daughter's high-school social schedules. They, however, are not worried about the status of their marriage – despite some recent pesky tabloid reports claiming they're headed for a divorce.
"[Rumors] seem to be running like crazy right now for some reason. It's perplexing," Hill, 46, told PEOPLE when asked about the reports. "I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story."
Hill insists they are "absolutely not" splitting.
Their body language seems believable, too. During the interview at the Venetian, the couple held hands and joked about their "impending doom." Clearly, this is old hat for them.
"We've been married 17 years, and since the first week we were married those things were out," McGraw, 46, said. "We don't even think about it. The only time we ever think about it is [when we] worry about the kids. But they've been around it, too, so they laugh it off."
Their three daughters' hectic social calendars seem to be the pair's biggest concern these days, especially with their oldest daughter, Gracie, 16, being a junior in high school. "I don't recall in high school ever being so busy," Hill said, talking about a phone call she'd just had with her kids, who are back in Nashville.
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Having a bad hang over after a night of drinking.
After last night i feel like i have been skull fucked
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Skull fuck or skull fucking is when a man sicks his dick into an un natural hole in a corpes head
The 3rd view gang has crazy ganstas that will skull fuck a bitch at times.
by Stray May 10, 2004
Confused to the the point of near pain; psychologically unstable
That movie Jacob's Ladder will leave you seriously skull fucked.
by shakezilla May 12, 2004
Being extremely high. An unbelievable feeling.
We all went over to his apartment and got extremely skull fucked.
Who knows whats in that weed; it will defiantly get you skull fucked.
Who knows whats in that weed; it will defiantly get you skull fucked.
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To confuse or to become confused by someone.
Dude he was saying all this crazy shit and I just got completely skullfucked.
by Jables123 June 03, 2009
A song by producers (Drum & Bass) "Corrupt Souls", US.
Appeared on Label BlackSunEmpire (BSE007).
Appeared on Label BlackSunEmpire (BSE007).
"We spent the night dancing on Skullfucked"
by Chinim July 12, 2006
Completely pissed (drunk)
I was skullfucked last night
by DCoyle07 June 08, 2005
to get severley jewbobbed or trickbagged
Man,you really got skullfucked on that deal!
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Dear Governor Haley:
We have become aware of a growing concern---anger---across America by "We the People" for the arrogance of many politicians, particularly at the federal level, for ignoring Constitutional law and imposing their will, and accompanying intrusiveness, upon American citizens. This grass roots movement is coalescing around the idea of revisiting, through the amendment process, the wording of current Amendments to the U.S. Constitution for the purpose of revising their wordage to further fortify them to better resist efforts by Progressives to reduce the influence of "We the People" of this Constitutional Republic.
The ever increasing power of the federal government, particularly the executive and judicial branches, is very disturbing. We the People are being marginalized by the federal government through (1) executive orders, (2) establishment of unconstitutional federal departments even at the cabinet level, (3) the decisions of unelected, bureaucratic, politically appointed autocrats, and (4) federal judges who make rulings that are clearly politically motivated rather than based on Constitutional law. Their sole purpose is to centralize power---in Washington, D.C.
America's Founding Fathers didn't intend for the federal government to hold the power they wield today. At the Constitutional Convention, the states generally had a lot of suspicion about transferring even limited, political powers to a federal government, and the wording of the U.S. Constitution, its Amendments, the private writings of our Founding Fathers, and our current balance of power problems substantiate those suspicions.
Unfortunately, over time, as illustrated in the second paragraph, cunning and deceitful people with a socialist world-view for America have manipulated, often unethically, the balance of power to their advantage wherein a disproportionate amount of political power has transferred from private citizens and the states to the federal government particularly, as previously stated, the executive branch and the judicial branch. This must be stopped!
Of course, the question is "Who is going to bell the cat?"
We have absolutely no confidence that our inept Congress will vote for modifying our current Amendments because of the partisan, political divide therein; however, through the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, Article V of the U.S. Constitution states that two-thirds of the States of this great nation can activate this process.
With this background information, our purpose for writing this letter is to ask you, as governor of a state whose conservative roots support the concepts of limited government, to come forward and take a leading role with mobilizing other like-minded state governors across America with taking the steps necessary to identify amendments that need to be made or modified to return political power to "We the People."
Most likely, one can limit to his or her two hands the counting of historical events that had ramifications for ALL of the world's people. The concepts of America's U.S. Constitution, in its original purity, have been a beacon of hope for the "entire" rest of the world since its adoption along with its Amendments, particularly our Bill of Rights. Therefore, we strongly believe that a decision by two-thirds or more of America's governors to preserve our U.S. Constitution by fortifying the wording of its Amendments will be discussed in educational and political circles two thousand years from now.
We believe our very sovereignty primarily rests with whether the governors of the conservative states across this great nation will have the courage and unselfish patriotism to address this subject in a bold and noble manner. If they will, then, we believe this body of governors will reassert, as well, their rightful political power on national matters as understood by the majority of our Founding Fathers.
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PLANO — Here come the carts! One carries metal steamers of steamed dumplings and meatballs. Another offers plates of fun rolls — broad noodles rolled around various fillings. From a third, a server dishes up congee — soothing, soupy rice porridge. It's late Saturday morning at J.S. Chen's: prime time for dim sum.
Traditionally served for breakfast and lunch only, dim sum is the Chinese tradition of small dishes served with tea. It's one of my favorite meals in the world. I've been eating it my whole life, but I only just learned that the literal translation of dim sum is "so close to the heart" or "touch the heart." That makes so much sense.
For my money, J.S. Chen's Dimsum and BBQ is the best place in North Texas for dim sum. On weekends, Anna Zhou, owner of the 4½-year-old restaurant, opens up the banquet room adjacent to the main dining room to accommodate the crowds — mostly Chinese families, many of them multigenerational. It's a bit snazzier than the main room, with elaborate gold-tone chandeliers, Chinese objets d'art on smartly lighted shelves, and black-and-white art photos on the walls.
It's easy to over-order as the carts go around. Restraint! Just claim a few to start. Maybe some har gow: scallop- shaped steamed dumplings encasing whole shrimps in pleated, transparent skins. And frilly edged siu mai filled with a savory mixture of pork and shrimp. From the fun roll cart, we choose luscious
barbecue pork fun rolls, the wide, slippery noodles rolled around minced pork jazzed up with scallions and bathed in soy-based sauce with cilantro.
There are lightly sweet and zingy pickled vegetables; squat, round pan-fried dumplings filled with chopped Chinese vegetables; and jalapeño-spiked chicken feet, the Buffalo wings of the dim sum world. Lotus leaf-wrapped sticky rice, snipped open with scissors by the server, bursts forth from its wrapper; it's chock-full of thin-sliced Chinese sausage, pork, chicken, mushrooms and more, so moist and delicious. It's all taken with endless cups of tea, brewed properly from leaves (not bags), jasmine by request. Hot, greaseless sesame balls filled with sweet bean paste and wiggly cubes of gelatinous coconut pudding studded with sweet beans make a fine finish. The only disappointment is the char siu bao — steamed wheat buns filled with sweet-savory-saucy barbecue pork. They're fine, but not as bursting with filling as they used to be here.
All that and more (we way over-ordered), and the bill for three totals less than $60.
J.S. Chen's serves dim sum on weekdays, too, but you order from menus, not carts. Same for dinnertime, though if you're a traditionalist, you'll go for other fare.
With New Year's Eve in mind, I bring a bottle of Champagne one night for dinner, along with some cheap flutes I have lying around. J.S. Chen's, which doesn't serve any alcohol, cheerfully accommodates those who bring their own (they'll supply standard wine glasses), and I wonder how sparkling wine will go with the Cantonese dishes that come from chef Qi Rui Zhou's kitchen. (Qi Rui is Anna's husband; the two come from Guangdong, China.) How cool to drink a great Champagne on New Year's Eve, or on any other celebratory night, and not have to pay double or triple its retail price, right?
The Champagne goes splendidly, as luck would have it, and with Chen's large tables fitted out with lazy Susans, it's a good place to take a large party, as long as you can tolerate the brightly lighted dining room that doesn't offer much in the way of decor. (The place cries out for rheostats or sunglasses.)
In the past, I've been seriously impressed with dinners at J.S. Chen's. More recently, the cooking has been less consistently outstanding, though there are some wonderful dishes. I tend to order from the "Chef's Special (Authentic Chinese Food)" page, or the first page, identified in Chinese as house specials Hong Kong-style, rather than go for the more Americanized dishes that can be found anywhere.
Most of the best dishes come from the Chef's Special page: small, sweet stir-fried shrimp flecked with leaves of longjing tea that add a lovely delicate flavor; gorgeous hunks of hacked-up lobster bathed in a gingery sauce with lots of scallions; crinkly string beans with deep-flavored sliced beef in a terrific black-pepper sauce; garlicky sautéed snow pea leaves. Those scarlet lobster shells are filled with perfectly cooked, sweet lobster meat; it's messy and wonderful, a fairly reasonably priced treat at $29.95 (the current market price).
There are fewer dishes more festive than Peking duck, but at J.S. Chen's, it's served with less fanfare than it is elsewhere. All right, it's served with no fanfare, placed unceremoniously on the table, rather than carved tableside. Peking duck is all about the skin, which here is properly crisp, with a lacquerlike sheen; the well-seasoned meat has good flavor, too. But the steamed buns that accompany it, along with hoisin sauce and frilly ended raw scallions (the idea is to make a sandwich in a bun), aren't as squishy and tender-fresh as they ought to be.
The first menu page can be a fun read, though I wish the restaurant didn't trade in shark fin, as sharks are gravely overfished; shark finning is banned in the U.S. Dried squid and dried fish with chive flowers sounds intriguing, but we go for sautéed dried scallop with "mixed veggie" instead. It's somewhat less interesting than it sounds: florets of broccoli, shiitake mushrooms and chunks of bamboo shoot bathed in an oyster sauce flecked with shredded dried scallop. Good, not great. Braised abalone, a $49.95 dish, disappoints: The shellfish itself, sliced thin, is delicate and tender, but there's so much gloppy sauce, along with quartered baby bok choy and lots of shiitake and straw mushrooms, that the precious abalone gets lost. A sticky fried rice studded with minced Chinese sausage, tiny dried shrimp and scallions is wonderful, though — definitely $9.95 well spent.
For dessert, same drill as at dim sum — hot, sweet sesame balls, or a trembly mango- or coconut-flavored pudding, or just settle for the sliced orange set on the table gratis. It's no great shakes, as oranges go, but we've eaten so much — and so well — we hardly care.
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J.S. Chen's Dimsum and BBQ (3-stars)
Price: $$ (appetizers and soups $1.25 to $6.95; barbecue and marinated dishes $1.80 to $15.95; main courses, noodles and rice dishes $3.95 to $13.95; chef's specials $7.50 to $59.95; dim sum $2.95 to $4.95 at lunch, $3.20 to $5.20 after 3 p.m.; desserts $3)
Service: Helpful and fairly attentive
Ambience: A brightly lighted, fairly nondescript main dining room whose main design element is the ducks hanging in the window to the kitchen. An adjunct room used for banquets and for dim sum on weekends is a bit snazzier.
Noise level: Conversation-friendly
Location: 240 Legacy Drive (just west of Central Expressway), Plano; 972-517-2332; jschensbbq.com
Hours: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Reservations: Accepted only for parties of eight or more only, except during weekends at lunchtime, when no reservations are accepted
Credit cards: D, MC, V
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Alcohol: None. BYOB, no corkage fee.


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someone who argues an arbitrary point and refuses to end the argument regardless of evidence provided or outcome.
Bob is a "gobber" because he likes to argue with cindy even though she raised some compelling points in her argument.
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one who is extremely orange and walks like a person of a horsey nature
"look at that horse. it looks like gobbers"
di iamachicken 08 maggio 2008
somebody who spits alot.
My friend is a gobber but I think gobbers are dirty bastards.
di Emily 05 aprile 2005
someone who gobsmacks you every time they go in for the tongue, a gobber will usually part-take in washing-machine movements when they finally gob you, be weary, these persons do not know how to kiss.
last night this guy/girl absolutely gobbed me out of nowhere, shite kiss too, absolute gobber!
di slyndicate 15 maggio 2011
a gob shite. Idiot. Slack jaw. Invalid. Sinead Foley
Sinead Foley is a gobber.
di Vaaaampire 19 maggio 2011
A tree (latin name 'Mattundkanus gobberus') characterised by it's brown, bay leaf like foliage and large yellow fruit resembling coconuts. Often seen in a forest habitat around mushrooms, or on top of 21st birthday cakes.
Ayyy the gobber
di Whyhallowthere 29 agosto 2008
Somebody who has a go or "gobs off" at people alot.
You know what you are? You're a gobber!
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
It is the strangest thing to be 52. Having never been this age, I'm not sure how 52-year-old women are supposed to look, dress or act.
I know mini-skirts are out (I can still hear Mother's voice: "Just because you CAN wear it doesn't mean you SHOULD wear it.") In fact, I try to avoid any garment that shows my knees, which look like large, dehydrated clams. But since we live in a semi-tropical climate and I'm not trying to die of heatstroke, there are times when only shorts will suffice.
But, at this age, what kind of shorts?
I couldn't get away with booty shorts even when I had a booty (what little I possessed vanished sometime around 40, if memory serves). Bermuda shorts are definitely more dignified, but they end just above the aforementioned unfortunate kneecaps—not flattering.
I also have an odd, unexplained divot on the front of my right thigh that requires covering. (It looks like I ran into a piece of rebar at 20 mph. Since that never happened, and the dent only appeared after I married Widdle, who complains bitterly about my snoring… I think we all see where I'm going with this.)
Basically I need my shorts custom made, which isn't an option. Neither are capris, because when you're as short as I am, capris make you look like you're standing in a madras-patterned hole in the ground.
I prefer skirts to shorts and own a few lovely Old Navy tropical-print skirts, but… am I too old for Old Navy? Do I look like I'm trying to hang onto a youth that's far behind me?
I got the memo about too-bright lipstick and heavy black eyeliner, but nobody told me my eyebrows would disappear. They didn't fall out, they faded. They are now an odd shade of beige, and eyebrows aren't supposed to be lighter than your hair. So I use eyebrow pencil, which is terribly old-fashioned. And then there's God's special joke on my face, crows' feet and acne within inches of each other.
I already know my hair's too long. But if it's cut I'll have to actually style it every day, and that's never going to happen, not when I can twist it up or yank it back in a ponytail. I haven't seen my true hair color in 30 years, but I can tell the grays are winning. (They are coarse, wiry and coil impishly in the air like bedsprings.) I've thought about dyeing my whole head silver, but with beige eyebrows? Really?
As far as acting my age… I try to be kinder than I was, which seems to be working well. But with no children or grandchildren to remind me of my age, I veer wildly between the latest pop culture and my deep-seated, Episcopalian sense of propriety.
This manifests in things like my handwritten thank-you notes on personalized stationery: "Yo! Your kind gift of the latest Pink CD was so thoughtful and is truly appreciated. The next time you're in the hood, please holla!!! Affectionately, Mrs. Widdle."
I understand more than I did at 30, but don't we all? I love Jesus and ice-cold Michelob Ultra. I used to be afraid of dying; now I'm afraid of outliving my mind. Last week I asked Widdle, "Will you still love me when I'm putting down food for a cat that's been dead 10 years?"
He replied, "No cat's ever coming in this house."
I'm not quite sure he gets it.
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Charming loft apartment, 15 min from New York
Size65 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
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- Elevator in building
- Air conditioning
- Dishwasher
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This loft-like apartment is quiet, bright and cheerful. It features hardwood floors, large windows, high ceilings, a nicely appointed kitchen and a cozy bathroom.
There is a king size bed and a sofa bed with allow 4 persons to share the space comfortably. Free Wifi is available. The kitchen offers a gas range, a fridge, a dishwasher, a microwave as well as all the needed utensils. There is also a washer/dryer for your clothes. The bathroom has a comfortable bathtub.
Located in a historic district, the neighborhood is safe and diverse with many charming restaurants and cafes as well as several delis convenient for grocery shopping.
The apartment is located 4 blocks from the Grove Street Path station which offers direct and convenient connection to Manhattan: The World trade Center is only 10 min away (just two stops on the Path), downtown New York (West Village) is 15 min away (Christopher St., 9th st or 14th st), Chelsea 20 min away (Path to 23rd st) and Midtown 30 min away (Path to 33rd street)
For those who drive, the Holland tunnel is also near offering a quick connection to downtown Manhattan (10 min to Tribeca, when there's no traffic!)
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We stayed in Jersey City for 8 days. The
location was excellent. We were in NYC by train or by ferry in half an hour. Francois's house is charming and comfortable, with good furniture, though a bit careless. We suggest him just some refurbishing so that the flat looks like the pictures.
This beautiful apartment gets a 100% recommendation! It is perfectly situated in a very nice neighborhood, only a 10 minutes walk from the Path station Grove Street, which is only 2 stations away from the World Trade Center. Everyone having worries about staying in New Jersey instead of Manhattan: Forget about it! You are much closer to lower Manhattan than all the hotels and tiny little, but unbelievable expensive apartments at the Upper East Side or West Side or Bronx or most parts of Brooklyn.
Furthermore the apartment is not only well situated, it is also very lovely, has very comfy beds, good working WiFi, and really everything you need. We enjoyed our stay a lot!
oh my! this was a lovely place - spacious and just enough room. the location is great and overall safe. it's very cozy and comfortable. you may need your own cleaning items but everything else is there. some of the items in the pictures are not in the room but it doesn't take away from the stay.
one thing to note which is no fault at all to Francois - unlike most, I had a rental car and parking was on the street - that initially made me panic but Francois was trying his best to help me. it turns out, parking is okay on the street for the weekend and it may take a drive around the block once but you can find parking. this is a great place, location and size.
i would definitely recommend this loft for a stay in Jersey City. if available, i would definitely stay again.
Large and stylish studio apartment with good kitchen, bathroom and double bed. Futon sofa bed. Wifi works well and fast, quiet house & area, about 800 m to the PATH station. (Metro-card unlimited travel is not PATH. Costing 2.25 U.S. dollars to Manhattan) Values Francois really nice and met us with the keys on time. We are completely satisfied!
Stor och snygg etta med bra kök, badrum och dubbelsäng. Futon bäddsoffa. Wifi funkar bra och snabbt, lugnt hus & område, ca 800 m till PATH-station. (Metro-card obegränsat resande gäller inte PATH. Kostar 2.25 dollar in till Manhattan) Värden Francois jättetrevlig och mötte upp oss med nycklar på avtalad tid. Vi är helnöjda!
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'Les Miserables' review totally missed the mark
Seldom have I read a movie review that so misses the mark and as completely fails to "get" a movie as Jeff Simon's review of "Les Miserables." To say that the movie would have been great without the music is like saying that a sundae would be great without all that ice cream getting in the way. Les Mis is the music. That is what millions of people who have come to love the stage production appreciate about it.
I saw this movie in a crowded theater on Christmas night, and sustained applause filled the theater as the film ended. It was apparent that Simon's view of this movie is not an opinion that will be shared by many people. Upon rereading the review after seeing the movie, I realized that nothing the film could have done would have met with his satisfaction. What Simon really was reviewing is the concept of this film, which he does not like, not the way it was executed. In so doing, he does not do justice to a beautiful and well-acted film. Maybe a reviewer who did not have a built-in prejudice against the concept would have been better suited to deliver a fair and honest assessment of this film.
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The Oath
By Jeffrey Toobin
352 pages, $28.95
By Robert L. Pratter
Barack Obama has already been sworn in twice as president. Some new conspiracy theory? No, but it is part of a true story that opens Jeffrey Toobin's newly published "The Oath."
Prior to the 2008 inaugural ceremony, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had decided to administer the presidential oath from memory. His frequent rehearsals had caused Mrs. Roberts to remark that, "At this point the dog thinks it's the president." At the ceremony, Obama prematurely interrupted the expected cadence, throwing off Roberts' timing and causing some minor bumbling before they finished on track.
This kerfuffle led neophyte White House lawyers to recommend that the oath be re-administered to deflect any challenges to the legitimacy of Obama's presidency. Toobin notes that Roberts had not blamed anyone for the mix-up. But he would not read the oath from a script at the redo. Obama supposedly responded, "We're going to do it very slowly." Adding his literary gloss, Toobin writes, "The new president was a polite man, but his remark to the chief justice had an edge."
Toobin uses this anecdote to presage the tension he anticipates between Obama and Roberts. Contradicting Roberts' confirmation hearing testimony, Toobin charges that Roberts is not an "umpire calling balls and strikes," but a partisan committed to achieving a conservative Republican agenda. The Democrats and Obama, says Toobin, have no contemporary agenda on major constitutional issues "other than a pallid embrace of the status quo: preserve Roe (the abortion decision) and affirmative action." Toobin also criticizes Obama's "lassitude" and White House ineptness concerning judicial appointments that have left a record number of unfilled seats on the federal bench.
When he wrote "The Nine" in 2007, Toobin, himself a lawyer, lamented the conservative shift taking place on the Court. Nonetheless, Toobin concurred with the observation of Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that, "It is rarely possible to say with a straight face of a Supreme Court constitutional decision that it was decided correctly or incorrectly."
Five years later, "The Oath" abandons this admonition and attacks the result and legal reasoning of Supreme Court decisions supporting an individual right to bear arms, upholding the partial birth abortion ban, and denying an equal pay claim on the basis of the statute of limitations. Like many media commentators, Toobin reserves his greatest outrage for the 2010 majority decision in Citizens United striking down federal limitations on union and corporate independent electioneering expenditures.
Toobin further levels the unconvincing accusation that the chief justice had engineered the result solely to advance Republican interests.
White House political operatives were enraged with the decision. Obama took the unprecedented step of openly criticizing the Supreme Court in his 2010 State of the Union address, including the dubious assertion that Citizens United permits foreign corporate political contributions in U.S. elections. State of the Union attendee Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, unaware that he was on camera, shook his head and murmured, "Not true".
Chief Justice Roberts later tried to play down the incident. However, he observed, "The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the Court - according to the requirements of protocol - has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling."
But the White House did not see it that way, and Toobin writes with a flourish, "The conflict between the White House and the Court was now out in the open."
The book climaxes with the anticipated gunfight at the OK Corral over the Affordable Care Act, Obama's health-care program. The White House, Toobin and other similarly minded Court watchers had dismissed the constitutional heft of lawsuits challenging the act. But, after the first day of oral argument, Toobin blogged in anguish, "This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. The law looks like it's going to be struck down."
"The Oath's" rigid characterization of Roberts as an unfailing Republican operative and Toobin's doleful predictions of defeat were wrong. Toobin surmises that Roberts had initially agreed with Justices Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Alito that the act was unconstitutional. However, as Roberts was drafting what would be the majority opinion, he supposedly changed course. He concluded that the insurance mandate was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, but reasoned that Congress could create a "penalty" under the taxing clause for being uninsured.
Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan grabbed onto the "tax" life preserver and the mandate was saved. However, Roberts and six other justices (including Breyer and Kagan) invalidated the law's Medicaid expansion provisions as impermissible federal coercion of the states.
Adding narrative color, Toobin writes that when the decision was announced the justices "looked as they had never appeared before: haggard, exhausted, spent. Even these tortured visages could not prepare anyone for the sound of John Roberts' voice. The brisk mid-western confidence was gone, replaced by a mournful near whisper. This was unpleasant duty for him."
It is inconceivable that Roberts shared his personal emotions with Toobin. But, there is merit to Toobin's conclusion that the "result and opinion were for Roberts and the conservative cause generally acts of strategic genius." Emulating Chief Justice John Marshall's 1803 opinion in Marbury v. Madison, Roberts nimbly sidestepped a divisive political battle while exercising the Court's constitutional authority to narrow Congressional power to enact legislation under the Commerce Clause and to defend state rights under principles of federalism.
Toobin notes that Obama and the Democrats may come to rue their victory because of these limiting constitutional principles, but he predicts, perhaps naively, that Roberts has insulated the court from Democrat attack in the 2012 election and gained political elbow room for rulings in future cases.
Toobin writes in a conversational style featuring insider trivia and considerable knowledge of the Supreme Court based on interviews with unnamed justices and law clerks. Fact-checking many of Toobin's assertions and his predictable portraits of the justices therefore is not possible. Like many popular books about the court, it skips over the bulk of the court's work in cases involving important substantive and procedural issues and resolving good faith legal conflicts among Circuit court decisions. These may be subjects more suitable for law reviews, but public understanding of the court and the federal judiciary suffers if the mass media do not offer the whole picture.
For example, it would likely surprise many to know that 44 percent of the court's decisions in 2011 were unanimous, another 36 percent had margins of 6-3 or greater, and only 20 percent had a 5-4 split.
Toobin is correct that the Supreme Court Justices hold different judicial philosophies and views of the Constitution, but it does the court and the country a disservice to label their work as "Republican" or "Democrat". As with any venerable institution, there may be internal differences within the Supreme Court, but Toobin steps over the line in advancing the hypothesis that this is a case of politics with a capital "P."
Robert L. Pratter grew up in Buffalo and now practices law in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.


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Because we are totally radical, we made some notes. But probably not very good ones.
CHRU 3 meeting 1
Attending: Ailsa, Jon, Peter, Charlie, Mervyn, Gareth
Overview of last time
How much different and how much the same?
More formats needed - fishbowl etc
Pecha kucha is here to stay!
Mix it up - perhaps each time slot a different format
Suggestions: Artists? Live interaction? Live stream? Other formats? Drama? Graffitti artists?
Shout out to the community for creative skills
We need an icebreaker - world cafe networking
Decorate the space – zones? Beach, gym, office, garden...
Bring in unemployed etc to talk about the sharp end of HR - reconnecting must to the purpose of what we do.
How can we add more depth?
Pre-planning on tracks for deeper tracks advertised beforehand so there is some idea of what we will discussed. Outline of themes beforehand - electronic version of the grid?
Start this early – will help with sales etc
Political edge
Try to change something - publish paper etc - lobby
Our own community had been hit - their stories. Self employment, etc
Alisa- talk to Darius, bring in young people etc
Gareth - Investigate types of format, publish on the NingNangNong
Post apocalypse HR - after the riots
New ways to engage
How can HR take action
Anarchist HR
Immigration cap
The four HR horsemen...
The HR spring
What to do differently?
The un-structure
World cafe for icebreaker - ask a question each time, not so much for populating grid
Quickly grid, will be part populated already
Five different formats – one for each session
Energiser after lunch
Is there a demand for a social media surgery?
Community to develop something - data gathering, HR and technology, workshop, white paper
Case study: ConnectingHR changed my life
Reach out to community again for icebreakers
Choral suggestion
on boarding of newbies
Marketing and the tickets debate
Give a discount for 'plus 1' invite - discount for 2 – bring someone not part of the crowd
Community needs to work harder to spread the word – we're looking at you, there
Practitioner must be one of the tickets
We should target a few people - Gareth seems to know a load of people, so he can do some of that. Any superstar HR requests, throw them in the forum
Single tickets? £85 - £100 – if we sell singles at all...
2 people £150 by 5 Oct
200 after
More you bring the better! Whole HR teams etc
Group tickets?
Supplier/practitioner/commentator system
Gareth will finalise this....
Charlie - get us Media partners (will get on this asap)
Chief poet - Neil
Chief busker - Doug
Coordinator with Darius - Ailsa
MC - Charlie
World cafe - Mervyn
Grid – Jose? Yet to be consulted
Marketing - Gareth
Media partnerships - Charlie
Event rite management - Gareth
Shopping - Mervyn
HR cupcakes - Charlie and anyone else who wants to
Follow up masters and wrap up at the end - Gareth and Jon
Gareth migrating people over by email invite
Special Ning community discounts
5% discount for profile set up by sept (two weeks)
Top ten points on Ning get 'most influential' badge on the day
Disorganising pixies will lead Ning
Once a week at least participation required! So be warned!
Thanks everyone for attending!
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How do we think the organisation is going everyone?
Charlie / Ailsa - confirmed the agenda timings?
Mervyn - sorted the world cafe? and the shopping?
Is Jose / someone else doing the grid?
Are we going to do anything to encourage PKs and facilitate fishbowls etc?
Shall we put the attendance list up on eventbrite yet?
Are we letting people come along for lunch / evening drinks - and charging them a nominal fee for this or not bothering?
Do we need a call (or a google + hangout?) over the next couple of days?
PS this was the agenda from CHRU2 and I also attach the grid from CHRU1
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09.00 – 10.30
World Café welcome
10.30 – 11.00
Break and Networking
11.00 – 11.30
11.30 – 12.15
Session 1
12.15 – 13.00
Session 2
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 14.45
Session 3
14.45 – 15.50
Session 4
15.30 – 16.00
Break and networking
16.00 – 16.30
Review & Planning final sessions
16.30 – 17.15
Session 5
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Lawmakers who spoke at the Elkins-Randolph County Chamber of Commerce's Legislative Luncheon Wednesday got right down to business — local businesses and the issues affecting them, that is....
I'm pretty sure Clark Barnes has had a business in Grant County for many years so why would it be so odd to want to live there & serve his customers needs in politics also?
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Sounds to me like they all just sat around and didn't really get anything accomplished except eat...
Also, Barnes needs voted out. He's a sell out and also he has no idea whats best for this area or state.
He was going to move to Grant County to be able to run for the 1st district US House Rep. Some allegiance to Elkins huh?
Also, I've lived in a right-to-work state before. It should be called "right to treat employes however you feel like" states. Literally, I lost vacation, sick leave, and personal time because I was unable to take time off from my position before I moved. Right to work means they don't have to pay you that money that you've earned.
Also, it weakens unions by making it difficult for new unions to form and making it basically a race to lower wages, fewer benefits, and less workplace rights.
The decline of the unions has been the decline of the middle class in America.
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A local OB/GYN has lost a long-running legal battle with Aiken Regional Medical Centers, which removed her privileges after an incident where a fetus was stillborn.
Dr. Margo J. Hein-Muniz filed the lawsuit in April 2010, after she had her privileges to practice at ARMC revoked and she was to be reported to the National Practitioners Data Bank.
However, after a two-and-a-half year battle in U.S. District Court, a judge has granted ARMC's motion for summary judgement and ended the case in their favor.
Muniz described the reporting as "the worst punishment a physician can receive, and effectively ends their career."
In 2008, Muniz faced a disciplinary review by the hospital, after they claimed a "demonstrated lack of clinical competence."
Her privileges were first set to be revoked after a March 2010, incident where a high-risk pregnancy was lost under her care. These facts were cited as the reason for Muniz's firing in the original complaint.
However, her privileges were eventually removed due to "a lack of candor, lack of credibility, poor judgment."
This judgement does not make any ruling on the competency of Muniz or the veracity of the claims made against her by ARMC. The judgement only addresses the legal right of ARMC to revoke the doctor's use of the hospital's facilities.
Muniz's case attacked the process of her disciplinary hearings, the allegations made against her and that ARMC had breached their contract with her.
While the court found in favor of ARMC and found they conducted the reviews of Muniz legally, the order noted problems with the review process for Muniz's case.
"The court is aware that there were procedural deficiencies during the hospital's peer review process," the order reads. "The court is particularly disturbed by the discrepancies between the original reasons for terminating Dr. Muniz's privileges and the reasons given by the Hearing Panel in their report upholding the (Medical Executive Committee)'s recommendation."
The hospital originally charged that Muniz "failed to recognize an emergent situation," delayed treating the distressed fetus for two hours and "gave inappropriate medication." However, it was for her lack of candor, veracity and good judgement that she was eventually dismissed.
Muniz strenuously denied the claims made in both 2009 and 2010 by ARMC.
Muniz's fear about being reported to the NPDB seems to be reasonable. Evidence from the case shows that she was reported in 2011, and has since applied for positions at several hospitals, but has been denied privileges due to the report to the NPDB.
Attorneys for Muniz did not respond to calls for comment on the case.
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OP: Why, exactly, are you outraged at the words of some random blogger?
considering he joined today and has pretty much only posted in this topic, it kinda feels like he is the writer of the article and just coming to drum up traffic.
regarding the topic, sure theres going to be a black area with the wings because they have been successful for so long. fans of other teams assume that wings fans are only fans because they are winning. whether or not its true can only be shown by having lean years which everyone here hopes we can continue to avoid.
regarding the hawks, i give them a little leniency. part of their resurgence was old man wirtz dieing. it was hard to be a fan of the hawks when you couldnt even watch their games on the local sports network. old man wirtz seemed to go out of his way to make is really really hard to be a hawks fan. him passing not only allowed more people to get interested in the hawks thanks to the increased exposure, but it also caused some fans to come back to the team after sometimes boycotting the hawks or at least minimizing their fanhood because of the hatred they had for wirtz.
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Pet Lit: 'Dog Hair: The Best Doggy Hairdos for Fashion-Conscious Hounds'
Now that we've gotten past Halloween outfits for our dogs, cats and ferrets, let us move on to everyday fashion tips for the canine set, namely hair. Dog Hair (Spruce, $9.99) shows how to gift your dog with an abundance of "good hair days." It's surprisingly non-silly, with 75 mostly cute 'dos such as the afro (for pups with soft, tight curls like a bichon frisé) or the bob (to keep hair out of the eyes of, perhaps, the Yorkie who is just too busy chasing balls and Frisbees to worry about her coiffure). You can also go mop, mohawk or — if your pup is in an '80s mood — mullet.
There's a minor descent into insanity via "the dye job" (a neon-pink 'do, complete with bow) and celebrity styles such as the Cher, David Bowie and Britney (blonde 'dreads, y'all!). And, of course, doggy grooming disasters such as a gnarly beard combined with wispy, all-over-the-place hair. But even those entries come with helpful hints — for instance, I didn't know that human dye can be quite harmful to pooches, and you can now get non-toxic doggy hair colorants at most pet stores.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
The final numbers for 2013 residential real estate sales are in, and it was a record-breaking year for Charleston-based agency The Cassina Group. The boutique firm, with only 19 general brokerage agents, placed in the top 10 of all Charleston-based real estate companies, surpassing firms with many more agents. The agents sales volume of more than $152.8 million in closed sales for the year earned them this honor and represents a 50 percent growth over the companys 2012 numbers.
We are beyond pleased that 2013 was such a productive year for our company, said Robertson Allen, broker-in-charge and co-founder of The Cassina Group. Our dedicated, full-time agents, wonderful clients and cutting edge website attributed greatly to this success and we look forward to another prosperous year. The company works with local tech firm, BoomTown ROI, to design and manage its website. The site at www.thecassinagroup.com employs an easy-to-use real estate search engine that allows users to narrow down their preferred residential property searches in a quick and efficient way.
Our goal is to stay on top of innovative technology to deliver the best possible customer experience to our clients and to only hire driven agents who can deliver the high level of service our customers expect, said Jimmy Dye, broker and co-founder of The Cassina Group.
In 2013, The Cassina Group also received statewide accolades as one of the fastest-growing companies in the state by SCBiz News Roaring Twenties. The company, founded in 2006, also purchased its second office in the Charleston area. The company now has offices in both Mount Pleasant (309 Coleman Blvd.) and downtown Charleston (69 Morris St.).
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Chess Game
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation Chess Game is a foreign (non-US) release chess game, presumably originally produced in 1999, and since produced by several companies, such as Wood Expressions, Inc., Character Games Ltd., and Really Useful Games.
Unlike the fancier - and more costly - Star Trek: The Next Generation Commemorative Chess Set by the Franklin Mint, this set consists of PVC pieces on a standard cardboard chessboard. Additionally, both sides' main pieces consist of crewmembers from the USS Enterprise-D as follows:
- King: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Queen: Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Bishops: Lt. Cmdr. Data
- Knights: Cmdr. William T. Riker
- Rooks: Lt. Worf
The main differences in both sides pieces are their bases, the pawns and the uniforms each side wears. The "black" side (black bases in the shape of the TNG combadge) worn with the standard TNG Starfleet uniform and the pawns are the Enterprise-D. The "gold" side (gold bases also in the shape of the TNG Combadge) wear the DS9 Starfleet uniform, apparently inspired by Star Trek Generations, and the pawns are the USS Enterprise-B (also from Generations).


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Transforming a Relationship: On the 40th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
In celebrating the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the landmark Vatican document that launched a historic new positive dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people, the Anti-Defamation League has assembled an impressive series of essays and reflections analyzing the history this groundbreaking event and its profound impact on Catholic-Jewish relations. This report features articles from some of the world's leading Catholic and Jewish interfaith experts on the meaning and future of Nostra Aetate.
The report also for the first time compiles in one place some of the most important recent Vatican documents concerning its new relationship with Jews and Judaism.
· Dr. Eugene J. Fisher, Associate Director of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, offers a Catholic perspective on the history and significance of Nostra Aetate.
· Rabbi Leon Klenicki, ADL Interfaith Affairs Director Emeritus provides a Jewish perspective.
· Philip A. Cunningham, Executive Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, analyzes the continuing development of Nostra Aetate over the last 40 years.
· Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, ADL Director of Interfaith Affairs, evaluates unresolved issues in the Jewish-Catholic dialogue and offers solutions.
These articles should help to frame a healthy discussion on assessing our progress and planning for the future. Also included are the actual texts of Nostra Aetate and several follow-up documents issues by the Vatican that further evolve Catholic-Jewish relations, and a guide on how to teach about Nostra Aetate in the schools and pews.
Anniversaries give us an opportunity to suspend time for a moment and look back at the road we have traveled and reassess the path that still lies ahead. Celebrating 40 years since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, we must marvel at the remarkable change in the relationship between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church. Not only that, we must realize the changes this document has wrought in the wider Christian community.
Nostra Aetate: What is it?
� 2005 Anti-Defamation League


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|Roles of the Special Educator
|Examines: a) professional roles and responsibilities of special educators in K–12 schools, b) collaborative and inclusive program models for special education, c) collaboration among various educators, family members, and community agencies in providing appropriate services and educational plans for special education students, and d) laws and State rules and regulations that govern the program. Field work is required.
|Principles and Application of Special Education Assessment
|Students gain an understanding of statistical procedures and basic processes for collecting and analyzing observational information, criterion referenced and environmental assessment in diagnosis and special education development. Students administer, score, and interpret norm-referenced instruments, analyze results in combination with data from other assessment processes, determine eligibility, and develop educational programs. Field work is required. Prerequisite: SPED 503; co-requisite: SPED 535.
|Methods of Instruction and Curriculum for K-6 Mild/Moderate Special Education
|This course explores the current research on best practices regarding curriculum and instruction for students with mild to moderate disabilities in K–6 settings. Students learn to apply interventions that assist students with learning difficulties in reading, math, and written and oral expression. Students also learn to use instructional and assistive technologies to enhance the learning of students with disabilities. Students are required to spend twenty clock hours in a field placement. Prerequisite: SPED 503; co-requisite: SPED 508.
|Methods of Instruction and Curriculum for K-6 Severe Special Education
|This course prepares special educators to deliver quality educational services to students with severe learning and behavioral disabilities. Students will conduct three instructional programs in the areas of discrimination task, motor task, and habit, rule, or discrete behavior chain. Students will also learn how to determine instructional needs, develop IEPs, use prompting and fading strategies, implement differential reinforcement and error correction, and understand how to analyze the learning environment for the impact it has on students. Prerequisite: SPED 503; co-requisite: SPED 508.
|Methods of Instruction and Curriculum for 7-12 Mild/Moderate Special Education
|This course explores the current research regarding methods to serve students with disabilities in the general education classroom. Students learn to apply learning strategies to reading, writing, mathematics, and study skills. Students also develop transition programs to enhance student learning. Students also learn to use instructional and assistive technologies to enhance the learning of students with disabilities. Students are required to spend twenty clock hours in a field placement. Prerequisites: SPED 503, 508, and 535; co-requisites: SPED 585.
|Methods of Instruction and Curriculum for 7-12 Severe Special Education
|This course prepares students with an understanding of the foundations of curriculum and instruction for elementary and high school students with severe learning and behavioral disabilities. Students will conduct three instructional programs in the areas of functional literacy, functional math, and personal leisure, management, or employment. Students will also learn about instructional grouping, distribution of instructional trials, and inclusion in the general education curriculum. A specific focus will also be on transition programming for students in secondary education programs. Prerequisites: SPED 503, 508, 536; co-requisites: SPED 585.
|Facilitating Services Across Disciplines
|This course introduces students to the variety of management issues that are prevalent for special educators. Students will learn various approaches to co-teaching, scheduling services, working with service and support personnel, and utilizing assistive technology.
|Behavioral Supports in Special Education
|Students focus on the integration of methods and techniques for addressing the academic/social development of learners with special needs. Field work is required. Prerequisites: SPED 503, 508 and 535 or 536; co-requisites: SPED 540 or 541.
|Student Teaching in Special Education
|Supervised teaching in selected special education programs in an elementary or secondary school. There is a $100 student teaching fee. This course is offered on a credit/ no credit basis. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.


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Like a lot of adults who keep score of baseball games now, Dick Wagner started when he was very young.
"I first started keeping score of games for the old National Amateur Baseball Federation Tournament, back in 1959, when I was 11 years old,'' said the 65-year-old retired Altoona Area School District teacher. "I got paid a buck each game then - 50 cents by the NABF Tournament and 50 cents by the Altoona Mirror for turning in the scoresheets to them.''
Though the pay wasn't great, Wagner always enjoyed the hobby, and five decades later, he parlayed his experience into a job as one of the Altoona Curve's official scorekeepers.
Wagner and Ted Beam have shared official game scorekeeping duties at Peoples Natural Gas Field - formerly Blair County Ballpark - for many years.
Being a scorekeeper requires focus, said Wagner, who operates the balls, strikes, hits, runs and errors categories on the PNG Field scoreboard.
"You have to pay attention, it's more of a concentration level than anything else,'' he said. "I know there are times during the game when I'll miss a ball or strike on the scoreboard.''
Beam, 61, also a retired AASD teacher and current Blair County Commissioner, has been serving as the Curve's scorekeeper for 14 years. He began by keeping the scorebook for Altoona Little League and Minor League games as a high school student back in the late 1960s.
"Years ago, I used to keep score of games in front of the television when I watched [Pittsburgh] Pirates games,'' he said. "It makes the game interesting, and it helps people learn the game.''
Beam does a conscientious job of attempting to make the correct calls on all of his scoring decisions at the Curve games. often referring to both the baseball rule book and supplemental book on baseball scorekeeping that he keeps handy with him at all times in the press box at PNG Field.
"There are days when the game goes smoothly, and there are other games when things crop up that you've never heard of,'' he said. "You refer to the rule books all the time because you want to be right and you want to be fair.''
Major sticking points are hits that are ruled as errors, or vice versa. Scorekeepers' rulings can affect things like earned run averages for pitchers and batting averages for position players.
"Sometimes, managers and coaches will question our decisions, and usually when they do, it affects somebody's earned runs,'' Beam said.
He recently ruled a hit on a gray-area ball that Curve players and coaches felt should have been ruled an error, resulting in five earned runs charged to the Altoona pitcher.
"Had I ruled it an error, it would have been only one earned run,'' Beam said. "But I thought it was not an ordinary play to make.''
Wagner and Beam have the benefit of replay review on most plays.
"But there are still times when the camera is trained somewhere else and they don't have the replay for you,'' Wagner said. "For the most part, though, we have a computer screen in front of us and we can normally see the replay.''
Charlie O'Rourke, 47, of Warriors Mark, keeps detailed pitch-by-pitch and spray-chart reports from Curve games and sends them via computer to a company called Baseball Info Solutions, which analyzes the data and disseminates it to various major and minor league baseball teams for scouting purposes.
"The company was advertising on Craig's List for a scorer for Curve games five years ago,'' O'Rourke said. "They sent me a disc, asked me to score a major league game, graded me and hired me.''
For O'Rourke, Wagner and Beam, being at the ballpark and keeping an official scoresheet is a labor of love.
"It's a fun job,'' Wagner said. "You're out in public, you get to meet an awful lot of people, and it's a great atmosphere at the ballpark. It beats everything.''


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Baez Hits for the Cycle at Diablo
Javier Baez hit for the cycle and drove-in all five Cub runs with a two-run triple and a three-run home run, but the Angels rallied for five runs in the middle-three innings to edge the Cubs 6-5, in Cactus League Extended Spring Training action this morning at Diablo Park Field #3 in Tempe, AZ.
In addition to his big day at the plate, Baez also stole a base (3rd base following his double) and made the defensive Play of the Day, going deep into the hole to backhand a grounder headed for LF, and then nailing the out with a leap and an on-the-money throw to 1st.
In his first four Extended Spring Training games, Baez is 9-15 with three three-run home runs, three triples, two doubles, and a single, and in his last game prior to the start of Extended Spring Training, Baez clubbed a two-run HR off Paul Maholm in an intrasquad game at Fitch Park.
Today's game was extended an extra inning so that all of the Cubs and Angels pitchers who were scheduled to throw today could get their work.
Here is the abridged box score from the game (Cubs players only):
1a. Shawon Dunston, Jr, LF: 1-2 (K, 2B, R)
1b. Jeffrey Baez, PH-LF: 0-1 (6-3)
1c. Dong-Yub Kim, LF: 0-2 (F-8, 5-3)
2. Gioskar Amaya, 2B-DH: 2-4 (BB, 1B, K, 1B, P-4, 2 R)
3. Yasiel Balaguert, RF: 0-4 (BB, F-9, 6-3, K, K, R)
4. Javier Baez, SS: 4-5 (3B, HR, 2B, 1B, K, R, 5 RBI, SB)
5. Rock Shoulders, 1B: 0-2 (BB, 4-3, BB, K)
6. Trey Martin, CF: 1-4 (K, 1B, P-4, 3-1)
7. Neftali Rosario, DH-C: 0-4 (P-4, K, 5-3, F-9)
8. Jair Bogaerts, 3B: 1-4 (6-3, K, K, 1B)
9. Yaniel Cabezas, C-DH: 3-4 (F-8, 1B, 1B, 1B)
10. Brian Inoa, DH-2B: 0-4 (K, K, 5-3, K)
1. Tayler Scott: 2.1, 3 H, 2 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HBP, 51 pitches (25 strikes), 2/2 GO/FO
2. David Henrie: 2.0 IP, 5 H, 4 R (4 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1 GIDP, 37 pitches (26 strikes), 2/2 GO/FO
3. Brian Smith: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 33 pitches (19 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO
4. Carlos Martinez: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 27 pitches (19 strikes), 5/1 GO/FO
5. Charles Thomas: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 21 pitches (13 strikes), 2/1 GO/FO
SS Javier Baez - E-6 (errant throw allowed batter to reach base safely)
Yaniel Cabezas: 2-2 CS
CF Trey Martin - threw out batter-runner 8-3 after batter singled to CF and then took too wide of a turn around 1st base
WEATHER: Sunny and a bit breezy at times with temperatures in the 70's
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SS Javier Baez - E-6 (errant throw allowed batter to reach base safely)
What a bum!
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does baez still do that weird semi-double-clutch before throwing thing?
a lot of his scouting video showed some weird throwing action.
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what i saw a lot of wasn't a true "double clutch" as much as it was he runs with the ball a weird/long distance after picking it up on the run as he tries to either get his grip or get his mechanics to throw or whatever he's trying to do while running 2-4 steps too many. he also tended to do this with his arm already raised, ball in hand...looked weird.
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Has Javy Baez been the best player on the field you've seen (any team)? Give us a general comp for his hitting, please. I've heard Gary Sheffield like bat speed and power. Similar build, too.
Did you see where Zapata had a nice debut for Peoria? Just let the kids play every year. He'll probably flop like most do, but we Cubs fans live off the hope of a player. Play the young ones.
Also, did anyone notice in a rubber match with the Cardinals, early in the year, we rested 4 of our top 6 hitters. I understand resting guys before a day off to give them two days off, but I didn't like giving St. Louis our weakest lineup in a series finale. Dale needs to save that stuff for the Pirates (we can't beat them anyway).
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Sveum's claim was Westbrook was much better versus lefties in his career than righties. Doesn't really explain putting DeWitt in there to butcher second base though.
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Dumb question maybe, but.....why is Baez in Extended ST anyway? With his skill level and draft status, shouldn't he be in Peoria? I understand not wanting to rush young players, and Baez is still a teenager and all, but by the same token you have to challenge the really great prospects, at least a little. He needs to be in the MWL.
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Yeah, and based on recent reports it doesn't sound like he's there to fix any potential attitude/ego problems. He ought to get bumped up soon.
Or maybe they are working on his throwing in an effort to keep him at SS?
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"Right now, I'm working on my offense," said Baez, the club's first-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, No. 9 overall. "We are working to make my swing smoother and put me in a position that gives me more control. It's not just about swinging as hard as you can."
Monday minor league lineups
Campana 8, Jackson 7, Gonzalez 3, Valbuena 6, Castillo 2, Cardenas 4, Sappelt 9, Vitters 0, Amazega 5, Coleman starting
McNutt goes for Tennessee, awaiting starters
#Cubs lineup: Szczur- CF, Torreyes- 2B, Perez- DH, Rohan- 3B, Jones- 1B, Alcantara- SS, Silva- LF, Bonne- RF, Burruel- C...Jokisch- P
Chiefs Monday lineup: DeVoss 4, Darvill 5, Lopez 2, Cuneo 3, Hoilman DH, Easterling 8, Hernandez 6, Gonzalez 9, Zapata 7, Jensen 1
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Soto 6, Watkins 4, Ha 8, Bour 3, Burgess 9, Adduci 7, Apodaca 2, Samson 5, McNutt 1
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3/3 with a run scored so far for M. Szczur, Jokisch though has given up 4 ER in 4 IP
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That's nice--Szczur has been off to a pretty slow start, though he did open the season with a few more walks than we might have expected from him.
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It's clear to me that Szczur is changing his approach at the plate, so long as the numbers can be believed:
2010 A- Boise 7.4% BB rate, 13.6% K rate
2011 A Peoria 7.0%, 9.4%
2011 A+ Daytona 2.8%, 11.0%
2012 A+ Daytona 17.0%, 17.0%
That's a huge jump in walk rate. His K rate goes along with it as he works deeper into counts, etc. SSS of course.
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make it 3/4 for Szczur now
McNutt gives up his first run of the season in the first
Campana with a leadoff walk, but B. Jackson strikes out looking and Campana caught stealing on the play.
Mon minor league update
Amezaga and Campana both reach with 1 out on errors by the 3bman, Campana steals 2B, then Jackson BB's. After a sac fly scores Amezaga, Campana and Jackson pull off a double steal and Campana scores on the throwing error.
2 runs, 0 hits that inning for Iowa.
McNutt through 4 with just a run allowed on 3 K and 1 BB.
Jokisch goes 6 IP, 4 ER, 7 K, 3 BB and gets the loss vs. Toronto's stacked affiliate
Peoria up 3-1, R. Cuneo with a HR
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Phil - do you know the penalty under the new labor agreement for going over the "pot of money" available for signing draft choices this year?
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Important to note that slot bonuses are much more than previous recommended slot bonus $$$
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Holy Cow. Seems like going up to 5% over is worth it if there is someone you really like, but more than that is extremely counter productive due to the loss of picks.
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2 runs, 0 hits that inning for Iowa.
That will be fun when it translates to the parent club.
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holy f'n faceplant a.gordon (KC)...he seems to be okay, but he nailed himself on a diving catch...and he made the out. ka-ching.
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It is great that there seems to be some actual talent coming into the fold recently with respect to the position players.
However, has anyone on the mound knocked your socks off this spring? In a Cub uniform, that is.
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Thanks for this report, Phil. When I read it, I had an unfamiliar feeling. I think it's a prospect boner. Should I be using a cream or a balm or something?
Recent comments
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
tarp came off 10 minutes ago...let's do this.
He will not pitch another game for Cubs
/Unless injury in playoffs
Today is bullpen day
10/450 if they win WS
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Even though Hammel is missing start, don't assume he'll not be on #Cubs postseason roster. Maddon says elbow problem isn't that bad
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Maddon on #Cubs postseason rotation: "I don't want to announce anything. We haven't talked to anybody yet"
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Maddon hopes Soler can take BP in Cincy, play in sim game Tue. "All of that should give us some kind of indication of where he's at"
tarp on the field 40 minutes before gametime...meh.


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Now that's 33 including this years championship titles in 60 years. Doesn't it just get boring keeping seeing them same 2 teams hoist it.
I mean comparing to the NHL yes we do get teams with 24 cups and all but there are so many other teams that have won meanwhile. (Carolina / Anaheim / Lightnings / Avs / Hawks / Pens)
Yes back in the days there use to be a lot of teams winning couple of years in a row but not when the league became 30 teams.
I mean if I we're a NBA fan I would just be like BLAH ... another celtics and lakers.
What's your thoughts I'm curious.
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