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Ordering a taco or a hamburger from a truck parked at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus or on Hertel Avenue might seem like a simple transaction.
But before that truck can sell anything, there are rules to follow and fees to be paid.
Owners of nine food trucks are seeking relief from the city's $1,000 annual permit fee, but the fee will likely stay the same for first-time truck owners, said North Council Member Joseph Golombek, who has taken up the issue in the Common Council.
The Council is considering reducing the permit fee to approximately $750 for trucks that have already paid the $1,000 fee once under terms of an extension to the ordinance governing food trucks, which ends April 1. But truck owners are asking that the initial fee be lowered to $300 to $400 and that renewal fees not exceed $250. In exchange, they are not asking for changes to their operating rules.
"Buffalo should not be accruing profits to city coffers by assessing onerous fees upon the backs of small independent start-up businesses," wrote Mitchell M. Stenger, a lawyer representing the Western New York Food Truck Association, in a letter to Golombek.
Truck owners are seeking changes for several reasons, one being that suburban communities are establishing their own fees and rules and will likely look at what Buffalo has done, Stenger said.
Debate about the trucks was heated leading up to passage of the original ordinance by the Council in January 2012. Golombek is hesitant to make many changes because of the competing interests surrounding the issue, including those of established restaurants, he said.
"Both sides will not be thrilled with this, but neither side will be unhappy with this either," he said.
The debate could reach Council chambers Tuesday, depending on how far negotiations progress. Stenger's letter to Golombek is part of the agenda for the Legislation Committee, which meets at 2 p.m. It's possible the Council could approve new terms before the ordinance ends on April 1, Golombek said.
The trucks are also asking that if a mobile food vending business owns more than one truck, that the business is not charged more than $500 per year.
It is the city's intention, however, to assess each truck a permit fee, meaning a business that wants a permit for two new trucks would have to pay $2,000, Golombek said.
The coalition is not asking for changes to the rule that prohibits them from being within 100 feet of an open kitchen, though Stenger noted that some cities have no such restrictions.
The Council is also considering a change to allow trucks into Canalside, though they would not be permitted there during special events, and the 100-foot rule would still apply.
Canalside is now under the oversight of Buffalo Place, which has different vending rules, and charges the trucks typically more than $1,000 in additional fees to operate at assigned locations.
Truck owners are also seeking to negotiate with Buffalo Place for better terms, as current fees and rules prohibit many trucks from operating downtown, Stenger said.
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'Finnegans Wake' Is Greek to Many; Now Imagine It in Chinese
Translation of Joyce Novel in Works for Years Sells Well to Readers Craving a Challenge
BEIJING—"Finnegans Wake" has bedeviled readers for decades, but few can claim the toil and triumph it has given to Dai Congrong.
Ms. Dai spent eight years translating into Chinese the 1939 James Joyce novel that the author's own brother described as "unspeakably wearisome." She endured low pay, a skeptical husband and the continued demands of her teaching job. That is on top of deciphering sentences like this: "Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."
Her reward, to her great surprise, was success. Her translation of the first part of the book has become a modest but clear hit here in China. Chinese readers are now puzzling their way through Joyce's rhythmic stew of English, Gaelic, Romance languages, puns and layered meaning.
"It's beyond my expectations," Ms. Dai said. Local media even interviewed her 8-year-old son, she said, "though he has no idea what the book is about."
A newly affluent nation that prizes black Audi sedans and Louis Vuitton handbags has made a literary status symbol of what may well be English literature's most difficult work. Thanks in part to a canny marketing campaign involving eye-catching billboards and packaging, "Finnegans Wake" sold out the first, 8,000-volume run shortly after it was released in December. The book briefly rose to No. 2 on a bestseller list run by a Shanghai book industry group, just behind a biography of the late Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's modern-day boom.
That isn't to say buyers necessarily love it. "I have to say it's less pleasant than I expected," said Nico Wu, a 23-year-old public-relations professional in Shanghai, who says he slogged through the first 30 of its 775 pages before giving up.
"I thought at least I could get a sense of the plot," he said. "But now, I feel it is too hard to even do that."
Ms. Dai is unfazed by that sort of response. "One has to admit that there is a group of people who bought the book out of curiosity and vanity, but there is also a large group of people who bought the book because they really want to appreciate it," she said.
The appetite for Joyce's most challenging work comes from a real hunger for demanding literature. A Chinese writer, Mo Yan, last year won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a Chinese national. But his victory only underscored China's lack of a global profile in the printed word. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution suppressed China's rich literary heritage. Continued government censorship and the lack of emphasis on reading for pleasure in the schools haven't helped.
"I am so desperate to know how it feels to read the most complicated book in the world," said He Kuang, a 50-year-old civil servant in the coastal city Xiamen, who bought the translation. "It's like an IQ test."
"Finnegans Wake" famously begins midsentence. It defies conventional narrative structure. It offers 10 different words referring to thunder, each at least 100 letters long, such as "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunn-
trovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!" Experts are still arguing, but many believe it takes place during a shifting dream or dreams, and it involves among many other matters a bar owner and his family and an unspecified sexual transgression in a park.
Criticism dogged the book more than a decade before it was released in 1939. Joyce had been writing it for years and had published snippets in magazines and pamphlets. "I don't think it gets anywhere," H.G. Wells wrote to him in 1928 after reading part of it, adding, "you have turned your back on common men." Even Joyce's wife, Nora, once referred in her letters to "Finnegans Wake" as "that chop suey you're writing" and once asked him, "Why don't you write sensible books that people can understand?"
Defenders say its power lies in how it pushes the boundaries of language. "You can read it as poetry," said Sun Ganlu, a prominent 54-year-old Chinese writer whose work has been translated into English, French and Japanese. Mr. Sun, who praises the new Chinese translation, says the book could inspire readers. "Maybe after they read it, they will start to take literature seriously or even write."
That possibility inspired Ms. Dai, the translator, an associate professor and vice dean of the department of Chinese language and literature at Fudan University in Shanghai. "The traditional writing style of Chinese literature needs to be changed after all these years," she said. "Someone needs to stand out and lead by his unique writing, like what James [Joyce] did in Western literature."
Ms. Dai, a bookish 42-year-old whose only nod to ostentation is her taste for Lancôme perfume, first discovered Joyce through Chinese translations of "Ulysses" released in the 1990s. "It lingered in my mind after I put the book down," she said. "Life is like what is described in 'Ulysses': fragmented."
"Finnegans Wake" is on another level, however. To re-create some of the sounds of the novel, Ms. Dai had to create new Chinese characters—a notable hoop to jump through considering Chinese already has tens of thousands of characters.
The first line of the novel, which begins mid-sentence, reads, "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." To translate that sentence alone, Ms. Dai provides two definitions, five footnotes and seven asides in smaller type to describe its allusions to religion, memory and the 17th- and 18th-century academic Giovanni Battista Vico.
Her publisher paid her 75 yuan ($12) per thousand English words translated, meaning she needed to keep up her research duties at the university. That bothered her husband, Gu Jian, who told her he could make the same amount of money in much less time. "I don't have time to read it," said Mr. Gu. "Maybe I will try to read it after retirement."
But publisher Shanghai People's Publishing House gave the book market appeal with a slick billboard campaign in the downtown areas of major Chinese cities. A deluxe, 168 yuan version comes in a box with a slim Joyce biography and bookmark, and it shows a young Joyce standing head-cocked and confident with his hands in his pants pockets. The book was also advertised in in-flight magazines, online reading sites and stores. It got an additional boost from China's state-run media, with the official Xinhua news agency naming it one of the most influential books of last year.
As a result, the book's initial 8,000 run sold out within three weeks, according to the publisher. It has since printed 5,000 additional copies that it says have been distributed to bookstores. The publisher has committed to supporting translation of the rest of the book, says Ms. Dai, a process that she says will take at least eight more years. Mr. Gu worries that it could be longer: "It will take maybe 20 years to finish that."
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The abrupt end to the season of Washington Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg was one of the most controversial stories in baseball in recent years. As the 2013 season approaches, fans and baseball writers will follow him closely to see if he can pitch a full professional season for the first time in his career.
To young players who dream of one day starring in the big leagues, though, Strasburg's history might serve as an important lesson.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity recently to speak with legendary pitcher Tommy John. Like Strasburg, John suffered a devastating injury to the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. In 1974 he underwent an experimental surgery. That ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction — which now approximately one in every seven active MLB pitchers has had — is now commonly called Tommy John surgery.
John explained his sense of the underlying factors that led to the Nationals' decision, including Strasburg being "valuable property" to the team and the fear of legal ramifications for the team if he suffered another injury. What interested me most was his suggestion of a bigger issue with the superstar.
Stephen Strasburg has the "worst mechanics I've ever seen in my life," John said.
In an article for ESPN the Magazine last season, writer Lindsay Berra interviewed several pitching experts who claim Strasburg's mechanics drastically increase his risk for suffering a Tommy John injury. Why then would the Nationals' coaches and management limit his innings and not also fix his mechanics?
"It's hard to change pitching mechanics after high school," John said.
Tommy John is right. Most shoulder and elbow throwing injuries that manifest later in baseball careers have their origins years earlier. Ulnar collateral ligament tears, like most other arm injuries in pitchers, have two basic risk factors — overuse and bad mechanics. We might not have the ability to correct these issues in the pros. We can fix these problems in young players.
The USA Baseball Medical and Safety Advisory Committee created guidelines to prevent arm injuries in young pitchers. Pitch counts are probably the most recognized aspect of the guidelines. However, they also recommend that young players avoid pitching in showcases, pitching on more than one team per season or for more than nine months per year. The committee discourages young athletes from throwing breaking pitches until puberty and advocates that they develop proper pitching mechanics.
Even though these guidelines have been in place for years, youth baseball coaches largely don't know them. Researchers surveyed Little League coaches and questioned them about different aspects of the injury prevention guidelines for a study published in the May-June 2012 issue of Sports Health. Overall, the coaches only got 43 percent of the questions about pitch counts and rest periods correct.
More worrisome than the apparent lack of knowledge by the coaches was the significant percentage of youth pitchers in that survey who experienced shoulder and elbow pain during the season. Almost one in five youth players pitched through soreness or fatigue, which is thought to dramatically increase a pitcher's risk of serious injury. That percentage would likely be even higher if the researchers had asked the pitchers themselves and not the coaches.
Tommy John pointed out another flaw in the mindset of youth baseball.
"Too much stress is placed on how hard a kid throws," he said. "People forget that the most important thing is getting batters out. What are important to getting batters out are location, movement and changing speeds."
These messages probably aren't exciting ones. Giving up the radar guns, focusing on perfecting pitching techniques and mechanics, emphasizing location and changing speeds, observing pitch limits and mandatory rest days are probably not what Little League players and their parents and coaches want to hear. But they can and will prevent arm injuries in some of these athletes.
If we can fix these problems early, maybe these kids will stay healthy enough to get to the major leagues one day. And, unlike Strasburg, maybe they can avoid season-ending injuries once they get there.
Dr. David Geier is an orthopaedic surgeon and Director of MUSC Sports Medicine. For more information about baseball injuries and other sports medicine topics, go to his blog at drdavidgeier.com.


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An elderly husband and wife were killed Tuesday night when their small sport utility vehicle collided with a car while turning onto Genesee Street in the vicinity of Transit Road in Cheektowaga, authorities said.
The victims were identified as Eugene Fechter, 83, and Marian Fechter, 84, Cheektowaga, police said today.
Their vehicle was leaving Calla Point Mobile Homes Park, where they resided, authorities said.
Eugene Fechter, a retired New York State trooper, was driving the 2013 Ford Escape, which turned onto Genesee from Calla Way at about 7 p.m., colliding with an eastbound car, according to police Capt. James J. Speyer.
Richard Lipczynski, 33, of Cheektowaga, was identified as the driver of the eastbound 2010 Dodge Challenger. No charges were brought against him and none are anticipated, Speyer said. Lipczynski was uninjured.
Eugene Fechter was pronounced dead soon after he was transported to Erie County Medical Center. Marian Fechter died a short time later at ECMC, police said. A Rural/Metro Medical Services ambulance took the victims to the hospital.
"This is a very unfortunate event," Speyer said. "It looks like it was an accident. There are no other circumstances surrounding it."
The crash remains under investigation by the Cheektowaga Police Accident Investigation Unit and Speyer asked that any witnesses call police investigators at 686-3580.
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Thousands of local residents will celebrate the new year in family-friendly style when First Night Buffalo stages its 24th annual New Year's Eve event in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
Carrie Meyer is executive director of the Independent Health Foundation, which sponsors the drug- and alcohol-free event. She talked with The Buffalo News' Brian Meyer about some highlights of this year's event in an interview that is part of the weekly "In Focus" series. To get a sneak preview of activities at First Night, watch the full five-minute segment at BuffaloNews.com/video,
Q: Give us a little bit of the history of First Night.
A: It originated in Boston [Mass.] over 35 years ago, and it's celebrated in over 100 cities across the nation. We believe First Night Buffalo is one of the longest-running First Nights in the country.
Q: You bring in thousands of people.
A: We do, We have about 5,000 people that come down to the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. It's a great family tradition here in Western New York.
Q: We're here at the Hammerl Amusements workshop in Clarence, where 28 rides come for upkeep and sprucing up. We're right in front of the Berry-Go-Round. This is one of the rides that's going to be there on New Year's Eve.
A: That's right. We set up the exhibit floor at the convention center as a carnival. We'll have ... carnival rides and bounce houses. And we have so many different activities and entertainment at First Night.
Q: Talk about a few of those activities.
A: In between all the different rides ... we have two stages. We have a music stage so people can come out and dance and sing along. On the other side of the exhibit floor, we have a stage that ... features some really unique entertainers. We're bringing in this new year two entertainers from the Boston area. One is called Wade Live. He is a magician that does all these zany, crazy, fun magical acts. Families will really enjoy him. Then we have a show called the Red Trouser [Show]. These two gentlemen do very high-energy acrobatic shows. They juggle knives and fire; really exciting and entertaining.
Q: The main theme ever since this event began [focused] on the drug- and alcohol-free theme. We have an interesting twist this year ... over 600 pieces of art and poems done by students will be displayed. Tell us about that.
A: We partnered with Western New York United Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse. In the fall of the school year, they reached out to all the elementary and middle schools, and asked if they would like to take part in a poetry and poster contest. The whole concept is living a drug-free and alcohol-free lifestyle. We had over 600 entries come in, and we were just so pleased and excited. We wanted to feature and focus on all those beautiful artworks and poetry that we received from the children. So all the families throughout Western New York can come and read their message.
Q: Is there any interfacing with other events that are going on [New Year's Eve]?
A: There is the ball drop. We end our event at around 10 or 10:30 ... We encourage them to go out and go to the different restaurants downtown, go to the ball drop, engage in the activities throughout the city.
Q: Is parking going to be an issue?
A: We do have free parking at the Main Place Mall ramp and also the Fernbach ramp, and that's right next to the convention center. You can go to www.firstnightbuffalo.org and get a listing of all the different entertainers and activities. Everything is included with your ticket. The tickets are available at all Wegmans locations. They're $8 in advance and $10 at the door.


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An algorithm to detect zero-velocity in automobiles using accelerometer signals
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Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta
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The vehicle is often operated in environments where GPS signal is lost. In such cases, the navigation has to be done alone by an inertial navigation system (INS), called free INS navigation. The positioning errors of INS grow exponentially with time, thus the duration of the free navigation should be monitored in order to give warning of possible loss of positioning accuracy, and if necessary, supported by the static INS calibration in Zero Velocity Update Mode (ZUPT).One of the main components of INS is the inertial sensor whose error is unfortunately, increased unboundedly with time. One way to bound this error is to use the absolute zero velocity to calibrate the inertial sensor from time to time. This requires to detect the zero velocity condition accurately and instantly. This thesis presents a novel way to detect the zero velocity condition using a method in pattern recognition. One feature is given and compared with other possible features. A simulation test has been done and performance has been evaluated based on the collected samples. /Kir10
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the gang members from southern california
we represent sur 13
ayon kay Anonymous ika-16 ng Agosto, 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
It refers to best gang the SURENOS{SOUTHSIDERS}SUR means south and the 13 refers to the 13th letter in the dictionaryM for their original name Mexican Mafia aka LA EME & since most of their member were from south california they called each other Sureno{southerner}
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ayon kay l1l Jok3r ika-09 ng Oktubre, 2005
Sur 13 is another name for the Sureños (Spanish for "Southerners"), a group of Mexican American street gangs with its origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. Sur 13 also stands for "Southern United Raza." Raza is Spanish for "Race." The Number 13 stands for the letter "M," paying homage to the Mexican Mafia Aka La Eme.
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ayon kay ♫ Highway to Hell ♫ ika-31 ng Disyembre, 2009
A gang that started in Southern California but has spread to Seattle, Washington.
The SUR 13's turf is right by the Crips and Disciples in South Seattle by Renton.
ayon kay lilnative ika-24 ng Enero, 2009
mayate (nigger) killing southern california gang that is starting to grow into Arizona
That cholo kills mayates he must be from the SUR 13
ayon kay Anonymous ika-18 ng Agosto, 2003
Balled Fuckers that disgrace Mexicans. Uneducated fools who have nothing better to do than create crime and impregnate women. Sons and daughters of illegal immigrants.
"Yo Esse, wanna go skip skool?"
ayon kay JDH ika-09 ng Abril, 2005


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The Buffalo Niagara Enterprise is claiming 12 project "wins" during the last year, its second-weakest tally in the past decade but one that met the business development and marketing group's goals in a sputtering economy.
The number of wins was two less than last year and well below the group's pre-recession levels, when the region averaged about 20 during the three years leading up to the downturn. Still, BNE officials said they were pleased with the group's results, especially the $225.6 million in new investment those projects brought to the region.
The 12 projects are expected to bring 473 new jobs to the region, paying an average of $44,142, which is about 10 percent more than the slightly more than $40,000 a year that the average job in the Buffalo Niagara region pays, the business group said in its annual report. The job creation is about on par with the 465 new positions that the 14 project wins from last year were expected to create.
"It is an incredibly competitive marketplace right now, with a growing number of communities around the globe fighting for a shrinking number of expansion and investment opportunities," said Thomas A. Kucharski, the BNE's president and chief executive officer.
While the BNE's project wins are down from their pre-recession level, part of that stems from the group's more focused approach on targeted industries. Investment levels, which dropped sharply during the recession, last year were on par with the low-end of the group's range leading up to the downturn.
"We are entering into a new fiscal year with optimism," he said during a meeting Thursday to discuss the group's annual report to members. He said the BNE is pursuing a "robust" number of leads that could turn into future projects, although the group's goals for this year indicate that BNE officials are expecting a difficult year in securing new projects.
The BNE said its goal during the current fiscal year, which runs through next June, is to secure 10 project wins and attract $60 million in investment, which would be the second-lowest in both categories over the past decade. The group said it hopes to retain or attract 700 jobs, down from 810 last year.
Nearly all of the $225.6 million in investment comes from a single project - the $206 million yogurt plant that Muller Quaker Dairy plans to build in Batavia, which is expected to create 186 jobs, or more than a third of all the jobs generated by the BNE-backed projects.
The results also reflect the BNE's narrowed focus on a half dozen targeted industries and on Canada. Two-thirds of the projects involved Canadian companies.
Half of the projects involved advanced manufacturing, including a $3 million project by Toronto-based Fichman Furniture, which makes wooden radiator covers, to open a $3 million facility in Holland.
Two other projects were in the advanced business services sector, while two others, including the Muller Quaker Dairy project, involved agri-business. There were single projects in logistics and life sciences.
While the yogurt plant involved a huge investment, the other 11 projects were relatively small, with the second-biggest being the $7.4 million shift of high-temperature insulation products manufacturer Unifrax's headquarters and research factility to the Town of Tonawanda.
Only three of the BNE's "wins" involved more than $4 million in investment and half of the 12 projects carried investments of less than $1 million.
BNE Scordcard
Year Project wins Jobs created Investment
2011-12 12 473 $225.6 million
2010-11 14 465 $472 million
2009-10 9 578 $11.8 million
2008-09 19 810 $336.8 million
2007-08 20 889 $70.3 million
Source: Buffalo Niagara Enterprise
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There are plenty of things Shawn Parkhurst has achieved in his four-year swimming career at Canisius College.
He has won individual titles and was the school's Male Athlete of the Year. But there's one thing he hasn't achieved – winning a team title.
Parkhurst and the Golden Griffins will look to make a move to the top of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in men's swimming and diving at the championship meet scheduled to run today through Saturday at the Flickinger Aquatic Center.
"Shawn raised the standards of the program and the group of five seniors have come together with a common goal to try and win a championship," said Canisius coach Scott Vanderzell. "Shawn has been exceptional this year. He continues to race like a champion and give his team confidence. He's a team a player and he knows that we're striving for a championship."
Parkhurst won the 1,000 freestyle MAAC title the last two years. Last year, his winning time of 9:12.43 was a conference record. As a sophomore he won the 200 butterfly.
This year he is entered in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 free along with the 200 fly. He can only swim in three of those events and Vanderzell said they were still deciding which he would drop.
While positioning for individual titles is important, so, too, is that elusive team championship. Last year, Canisius finished second overall, its highest finish ever at the conference meet. And Parkhurst's ability and work ethic have helped encourage and motivate his teammates.
"He has an impact in the pool because he challenges others around him to do better," Vanderzell said. "He pushes everyone out of their comfort zone to make them better. Outside of the pool, he's always looking how he can help the team in different ways, how everyone can be better. As he gets toward the end of his swimming career, the one thing he doesn't have is a team championship."
Look for key performances from freshman Spencer Bray (Orchard Park), sophomore Sam Hansen and senior Tyler Carver (Canisius).
On the women's side, Canisius finished fifth last year. While Marist has had a hold on the top spot, winning eight of the last nine titles, the Griffs believe added depth will help them charge into the top three. Look for key performances from freshmen Alex Doody (Sacred Heart) and Clare Battaglia (Williamsville North), sophomore Marissa Oakey (Niagara-Wheatfield) and junior Anna Schena.
Niagara comes into the championship meet having set 10 school records this year – six individual and four relays.
Senior Aubrey Kettrick leads the Purple Eagles. She has set records in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle events and the 100 butterfly and was part of the record-setting 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams.
Senior Julia Bulmahn (Clarence) set the record in the 200 back while sophomore Cary Roycroft broke the mark in the 100 breaststroke while being part of the 200 and 400 medley relay teams.
Meanwhile, the University at Buffalo will host the women's Mid-American Conference championships Feb. 28–March 2 at Alumni Arena. The Bulls finished fourth out of eight teams last year, their best finish in the conference meet.
"I've been very pleased with our team on the women's side and how they've come together this year," UB coach Andy Bashor said. "We've had leadership from our captains and our seniors and we've definitely gone through our share of adversity in terms of injuries and sickness and we've been still been able to be very consistent throughout the year."
The men's championship meet will be March 7-9 in Carbondale, Ill., and the Bulls are looking to regain the MAC title. They won it in 2011, in the same pool as this year's meet. That bit of trivia brings good memories and confidence to a deep Buffalo team.
"We've got nine seniors on this team," Bashor said. "It's an older, more veteran team and we're just excited to be going back to the pool where we last won the MAC Championship. We've got a lot of great images of that place and we will use that to our advantage. These guys have been working really hard throughout the year. In our sport, we train all year for this moment. "
Swimmers to watch on the UB women's side include senior Brittney Kuras, who was the MAC's Most Outstanding Swimmer at least year's championship meet after winning the 200 IM, 200 free and 100 free. Senior Mallory Morrell was a first-team All-MAC honoree after winning the 50 free while sophomore Jessica Powers could make an impact in her first MAC championships.
The men's team is anchored by a solid group of seniors. East Aurora native Matt Schwippert was part of three winning relay teams last year and finished second in the 100 and 100 backstroke. Cory Zorsch was part of two relay wins and finished third in the 100 fly.
Matt Hogan was part of four winning relay teams while winning the 100 free and taking second in the 100 free and 200 IM. Josh Meints was part of three winning relays while winning the 100 breaststroke.
For St. Bonaventure, the Atlantic 10 Championships this year have moved to the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, and will take place from Feb. 20-23.
The Bona men's team finished second last year – the sixth straight year the Bonnies have taken the No. 2 spot.
St. Bonaventure returns sophomore Vatslav Lets who was the A-10's Most Outstanding Rookie at last year's championships. He won the 500 free, was second in the 200 free and third in the 200 back.
Senior Mike Murphy was the Most Outstanding Diver after winning both 1-meter and 3-meter events.
The women's team finished in seventh place last year. Swimmers to watch include freshmen Elizabeth Malone and Shannon Hamberman, sophomores Lauren Caldwell (Jamestown) and Rachel Bull and junior Jeanette Dietrich.
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I say "Ethiopian-Style" soup because the flavours are inspired by the Ethiopian stews I like to make, but is not any "real" Ethiopian dish that I know of. In many ways it is just a simple and thinned down stew packed with that nourishing lentil-y goodness that I love about Ethiopian food. This was also a great way to use the first squash of the season (see below). I used Bonbon which had a delectable texture and gave the soup a wonderful sweetness to offset the spicy heat. It was even better the next day.
Makes a lot
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 1 large sweet onion, diced
- 1 1/2 cup sliced shallots
- 6 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 tbsp minced fresh ginger
- 1 tsp tumeric
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- berbere to taste
- 2 cups red lentils, rinsed
- 10 cups water
- 1/4 chopped fresh parsley (more for garnish)
- salt and pepper to taste
1. Melt butter in a large stock pot over med-hi heat. Add onions and saute for a few mins, until the onions get a nice golden brown on the edges (don't burn them, though). Add shallots, garlic, and ginger and reduce heat to med-lo. Cook for about 20-25 mins, until the mixture has nice brown colour.
2. Add spices and lentils and raise heat back to med-hi, stirring to mix everything well. When sizzling (the spices will stick a bit), add 6 cups of the water. Bring to bubbling, then cover and reduce heat to low. Let cook for at least 30 mins (longer is nicer, if you have the time, so that the lentils and onions can break down), stirring regularly.
3. Add the remaining four cups of water along with the squash and parsley, bring to bubbling over med-hi heat, then cover and reduce heat. Let simmer for 20-30 mins, or until squash is cooked through. Adjust seasonings to taste, garnish, and serve.


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6 Video Games That Just Didn't Get It (And 6 That Did)
#6. Survival Horror Should Be Scary
Didn't Get It: Resident EvilResident Evil was as scary as the number at the bottom of a tax bill: you knew exactly what was coming and where it would be when you started if you'd bothered paying attention to one of these before. Capcom's Japanese department mistranslated "survival horror" as "point your gun at every window you see." A dying police officer spent the second game telling me to save myself, and I did so by pointing my shotgun at him at all times. When he inevitably leaped at me it was more disappointment after a longer buildup than my first kiss, with the same amount of failed biting. They used "jumping out and shouting BOO!" as the plot for three games, and anyone who could actually be scared by one couldn't work enough hands to pick up the controller.
Every window installed by Umbrella corporation comes with a free monster.
Got it: Silent Hill
The first Silent Hill on the other hand was scarier than waking up next to the girl from The Ring wearing a broken condom. It could scare the shit out of you when nothing was happening after a week without fiber. Little things like music, fog, the flies buzzing round the blood-soaked blanket draped over a broken wheelchair in the corner.
Anyone who didn't piss themselves at this point is lying or dehydrated.
The core difference was effort. When Silent Hill wanted you to run around the level it kidnapped your daughter and posted bloody riddles which left you staring at a broken piano for a full minute, and enraptured by every second. Resident Evil says, "You need a [BLUE]emblem" and waits for you to piss off and find it. They connected a random number generator to a dictionary instead of hiring a designer. They didn't even say "you need a crowbar, maybe check the garage" because that level of object recognition gets tiring when you install 50 fetch quests instead of a plot. Protip: Working as a delivery boy has many negative aspects, but "soul-chilling terror" is not one of them.
#5. Story Serves Gameplay
Didn't Get It: Metal Gear Solid seriesMetal Gear Solid was the K-T extinction asteroid of 3D gaming. Before it struck, warm-blooded gamers suffered under clumsy, lumbering games which were as three dimensional as the pyramids: they had depth but moved at the speed of continental drift and were visibly blocky from four miles away. Metal Gear kicked the entire industry in the ass, and to this day Psycho Mantis is the only individual who could convince many gamers to put the controller down for a second.
Luckily gasmasks and rubberwear are already an established fetish.
Unfortunately Hideo Kojima thought this was because he included a personalized War and Peace for every character, rather than just having good characters and letting you kill them. The rest of the series is summed up by the "submit to torture" ending of the first game: Solid Snake saves the nerd who talks too much instead of his true love. Metal Gear Solid 2 was the world's first tactical nagging simulator. The main character Raiden was such a painful pussy the FOXHOUND special forces were rezoned as a maternity ward for the game. The fourth game elevated video game meta-conflict by trying to defeat the player with relentlessly extended cut-scenes instead of bullets.
Got It: Half-Life series
Gordon Freeman is the smartest first person shooter ever, and proves it by kicking ass and shutting up. His refusal to speak even once demonstrates more respect for his user than the Emperor's Geishii.
They had inhumanly photoshopped fetishes way before computers.
Dr Freeman understands both particle physics and that if you wanted to listen to assholes you wouldn't be running around throwing toilets at people.
This is basically internet commenting.
This is a man who ripped a hole in reality rather than stop for one second to ask, "Should we be doing this incredibly dangerous experiment with me at ground zero?" He figured that slowing the game down by 13 words was a worse fate than ending the world, and for that he's the greatest action hero of all time.
#4. Combos Require Skill
Didn't Get It: Killer Instinct
Action movies claim that one man can beat up the world, and video games claim that person is you. Disbelief isn't so much suspended as given a jetpack. The idea that one hero can triumph over waves of idiots if he's skilled enough is the exact fantasy of thousands of IT workers, and why they want to beat people up for fun. The ultimate example in fighting games is the combo: a sequence of perfectly timed moves pounding your opponent into an insensible heap, where (unlike the real world) you're just so good he doesn't have a chance, a gun or five friends behind you with tire irons.
Killer Instinct served our need for combos the same way late night cable served other urges: unsatisfyingly and only after sitting through hours of bullshit. Killer Instinct's big appeal was "amazing combos," where a single special move would make your character hit the other player 16 times. Which you might recognize as "a single move" and "not a combo." It was combo masturbation -- you couldn't get the real thing so you watched it on the screen and pretended. Worse, the incredibly extended animations destroyed any actual fighting-game flow and turned defense into a horrible quicktime event 10 years too early -- if you missed the microsecond window between their multi-hit special moves, you were flailing around for another minute. Playing Killer Instinct was like arguing with a taser.
In reality kicking one man in a bath house only begins your problems.
Her combo is about as believable as her anatomy.
Got It: Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III was the most self-aware fighter of all time. It elevated everything about Street Fighting to Ph.D. level and even admitted that Capcom photocopies its games. The first version had a subtitle, so Street Fighter III: New Generation might as well have been called SFIII: You Bet Your Ass We're Making More. 2nd Impact tuned it, and 3rd Strike performed the even more vital task of fixing the broken tuning.
3rd Strike remains one of the most perfect fighting games of all time. Most of the game is still built around incredible (and real combos), and even the the most devastating special-move Ultra Combos can be parried if you've spent years of your life inhumanly training to counter exactly that move. Which is the exact plot of half of all kung fu movies.
If you don't play fighting games, this clip kicks more ass than destroying the Death Star. Except the one responsible actually knew what the hell he was doing.


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The art of fisting a chick from the rear (like noodling for catfish) while drawing drawing cat whiskers on her face with a permanent marker and talking with a massachusetts accent.
My girlfriend was asking about noodling in Tennessee, so i gave her a Nantucket Noodler.
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The art of shoving your hand in a woman's hole like fishing for catfish while talking with a northern accent and drawing cat whiskers on her face
She was curious about noodling, and me being from Boston, i gave her the Nantucket Noodler.
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5 Ways College Accidentally Prepares You for the Real World
My freshman year of college was filled with some pretty depressing realizations. After all, like so many high school kids, I'd dreamed of college as a magical place where all petty, small-minded behaviors would magically float away. It would be a place filled with people who "got it." The halls would be teeming with bipolar, bisexual girls looking for three-ways with a deep and sensitive boy like me, and being a David Bowie fan would not be cause for suspicion. When I got to school, however, I found that none of that was true.
Still, college taught me a lot, and I'm not talking about all the things I learned as an English major: Dorothy Mermin explained the inherent anti-Irish elitism in T.S. Eliot's "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," Gordon Teskey lectured about his theory on William Shakespeare's "project of interiority" while being on the receiving end of Indiana Jones-esque flirtations from the girls in the front row and Dan McCall delivered flawless creative writing instruction. But the most important lessons I learned from college, I learned indirectly. Life lessons delivered to me by my first immersion in a shitty microcosm of humanity.
Look, I'm sorry, but Cracked requires me to include a really old photo of myself in one out of every three columns I write. It's in my contract.
Y'see, although I wasn't conscious of it, in the back of my mind, whenever I saw children misbehaving, whether it was cheating or bullying or not sharing their toys, I thought, "Oh, some day, you'll have to grow up. Some day you'll be in the real world, and the real world won't tolerate it." But when you get to college, guess what? You're an adult. And that's horribly depressing, because you learn that terrible little children have become terrible big adults, and that's the way it's going to stay.
But before we put on the Cure and compare cut marks, let's break this down a bit more, because this thunderbolt of reality conveys some important lessons.
#5. People Are Less Good/Bad and More Sane/Insane
I used to think the world was divided into good and bad people. Things were black and white. As I got older, I acquired a deeper appreciation for shades of gray, but that's not the point of this entry. College taught me that before I could judge good and evil, there was a more basic inquiry that needed to be addressed: Is this person batshit insane?
By living with your classmates 24/7, college affords you an insight you didn't have in high school. For example, you might think some girl who criticizes another's clothes mercilessly is just mean or cruel. She's surely that, but if you see that same girl wearing a ratty bathrobe every day for an entire semester without washing it, while spending whole days in bed and subsisting on Diet Coke and candy bars, you realize something else: She's a loony. I can actually think of two girls from the floor of my dorm alone who fit that description. (Amazingly, I only hooked up with one of them!)
In my defense, she was really hot. For legal reasons, here's a picture of someone who is not her.
College was the first time I realized that people were walking around with scars I knew nothing about. Injuries and illnesses that shaped everything they did. They weren't making objective decisions of right and wrong as they went through their day. They were acting reflexively to prior pains and current neuroses. Learning that, it got a lot harder to simply call someone a childish jerk who needed to grow up. (Don't worry, I persevered and found a way, ultimately creating a mean-spirited Web series and a caustic Internet column, but you get my point.)
#4. Weasels Succeed
There's always that guy in high school who is just smarter than everyone else. He doesn't need the teacher. You put exams in front of him and they'll come back with 100s every time. And then there's that other kid who sits in the front row and raises his hand a lot. He constantly asks, "Will this be on the test?" and then he gets a copy of an old exam from his brother's best friend's sister to prep. That kid gets 100s all the time, too. I didn't mind getting inferior grades to the smart guy, but the other kid always pissed me off. I was pretty sure his grab-ass, bullshit games wouldn't work at the college level.
They totally worked at the college level.
To be clear, I'm not talking about hard workers who arguably are the most entitled to their success. I'm talking about crafty little weasels. They end up doing even better than the hard workers, because college is not some test whereby qualified academics recognize true quality the way a psychic reads an aura. It's a machine, like government bureaucracy or your future job. The only thing most people care about is getting it done. You can be that sniveling little busybody whose greatest talent is just getting the 411 on exams, and that, alone, can propel you to greatness. Or take a privileged little student whose only talent in college was instantly memorizing all the names of his fraternity brothers. Do you know where a skill like that will get you?
He does.
#3. Everyone's Still a Cultural Philistine
One of my biggest expectations for college was meeting people who shared my passions for comedy and films and music. I mean, college radio was where the cool stuff got played, right? Student filmmakers and college cinemas flourished on every campus. I thought that once people hit college, they magically became more sophisticated.
Well, there was a college radio station and student cinema aficionados at my school. There were freaks and artists, but here's the thing I didn't realize: The people who see the demanding movies and want to talk about them, the people who search for obscure music and study the nuance of the classics, will always be in the minority. They're the freaker artistic fringe. College, like most of society, is filled with bland people whose favorite author is John Grisham, favorite movie is Forrest Gump and favorite band is the Spin Doctors. (That's the '90s version of being obvious and boring. Today it would be, oh, I don't know, Stephenie Meyer, Love Actually, and Coldplay.)
I went to college at the height of grunge, but the best way to get an audience (and women) was to play really bad, extended jam hippie funk or join (God save us all) an a cappella group. Yes, just like Andy Bernard on The Office. I can't tell you how absolutely spot-on that character is. My campus was flooded with guys just like that. But no one except me and my freaker friends called them tools. And we did. Over and over. And it was fun. But most people didn't, because most people were just like them, minus the ability to sing three-part harmony to Billy Joel songs while smiling.
In hell, these guys perform all your favorite songs.
College is no different from the high school that precedes it or the real life that follows: If you want to find the special people, you need to look for them. As an aside, I have to note that, ultimately, the Internet did a better job of fulfilling the promise of college by giving easy access and a worldwide pool for similarly interested people. And much like college, you can do a lot of it without leaving bed.


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Cubs Week in Quotations
Commence the Season
"Hey, it's Opening Day. We've got some things to find out about this group, and we'll find them out relatively quick.'' - Lou Piniella
''Words can't describe how it felt. Just awesome.'' - James Russell on his major league debut.
Quote You Only Hear from the Losing Team on Opening Day
''Opening Day don't mean anything. You want to win ballgames early in the season. The more games you win now, the less you have to win later. But it's just a game.'' - Aramis Ramirez
Is There a Draft?
"We need Zambrano to shut the door." - Lou Piniella
Maddog Love
"This Spring Training for me is very special. To have Greg Maddux around, he's my guy. ... I was asking him the other day, 'How can I throw a backdoor sinker to a lefty?' It's unbelievable -- you ask him something, and the way he answers is ... wow." - Carlos Silva
"When Greg's on your team, you're better in any role. He's got a great way about him, and he's the most successful, non-promoting person I've ever met. We can all learn from Greg." - Jim Hendry
"In every sense of the word, he's someone I aspire to be. It's just how he's so personable and knowledgeable and doesn't try to force it on you. It's almost like he breathes excellence. It's pretty cool and pretty special having him around." Randy Wells
Except Steal Their Hearts
"I haven't done nothing for them." - Greg Maddux
A Land War in Asia?
"Those things shouldn't happen." - Lou Piniella on Chad Tracy getting doubled off first on Opening Day
I Want Answers!
''We've just played two games, sir. 'We're not in our 22nd game or our 42nd. We've played two games, for God's sake. What do you want? Roles changed in two games? - Lou Piniella
Once You Lose That Trust, It's Gone Forever
"Demp pitched a heck of a ballgame, and I kind of let everyone down. But you've got to come back tomorrow and go at it again. Once you leave this place, it's over.'' - John Grabow
The Other is Where to Hide Soriano's Body
''We're going to have to sort some things out here, period. I said that coming out of spring training. And one of them is the youth that we have in the bullpen.'' - Lou Piniella
Quicksand Jesus or Jason Heyward?
''I don't want to be more impressed than I was the first day. He's impressed me enough.'' - Lou Piniella on Jason Heyward
Maybe 3 Feet
"...2-0 you're on top of the world; 0-2, you're six feet under. - Lou Piniella
Like How I Forgot How to Throw Strikes Last Year
"We learn from our mistakes. We have tomorrow. He needs to forget stuff."- Carlos Marmol on Esmailin Caridad
And Make Routine Catches
Control yourself, and that's all you have to do."- Alfonso Soriano on Esmailin Caridad
Lies, Damn Lies
"We have a good bullpen. We just have to trust them." - Carlos Zambrano
Someone Should Hang a Green Jacket in Fukudome's Locker
"He's a Masters player. That's when they play the Masters -- in April, right?" - Lou Piniella on Kosuke Fukudome
"This is the year I feel he'll break out and have a nice solid offensive year. We know he can play defense."- Lou Piniella on Kosuke Fukudome
Funky Fukudome
"The country guys play country music, the Latin guys play Latin music -- Kosuke's on the team so he should be able to play his music." - Carlos Zambrano letting Fukudome choose the music the day he starts. It's customary to let that day's starting pitcher make the choice.
Can Lou Make It Anymore Clear that He Doesn't Like Soto's Defense?
''I like Koyie, the way he calls a ballgame. He's a really good defensive catcher. When a team isn't scoring many runs, the more defense that you have on the field, the better. Is he going to catch more? We need Soto to hit. I've said that before. That's the key to this whole thing, how well Soto swings the bat. And we'll leave it at that.'' - Lou Piniella
18 Million Excuses
"I took a couple steps then hit the grass, and as soon as I hit the grass, I thought I had two more steps. I took little steps, because I didn't want to hit the wall. You know, full speed into the wall can be very dangerous." - Alfonso Soriano
"But at the last moment, I take my eyes off the ball and just think about the wall. One second, I took my eyes off the ball, and I dropped it." - Alfonso Soriano
"I've got to have a little stop, because I don't want to go into the wall. If you go full speed into the wall, it can be very dangerous." - Alfonso Soriano
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"But it's just a game."
uh oh, some people get upset about that one... =p
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I really like this piece, I hope you can put one of these together every week or so.
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You know, Rob, Adam is right. Putting one of these together each week would be swell.
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That is if you have time between doing the pre-game write ups, the Friday recaps and finishing up my taxes, that would be just swell, Rob.
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And mow my lawn.
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I thought that was my job.
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You are all racists. Probably are booing Soriano yesterday, didn't ya? DIDN'T YA?!?!?!?
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Ricketts on WSCR this am-
-been reading Bill James since late 80's
-Wasserstrom is our sabre guy
-Went to DR this winter to check on things there(willing to bet first cub ownership ever down there)
-Hosts suggested that Hendry is "safe" this year and next due to previous Ricketts quotes, Ricketts reiterated that Hendry and Lou " are accountable" for this year
-Believes player development needs to be strength of the team, rather than relying on free agents "so you are not stuck with big contracts" (looking at you Sori)
-Knows Cubs have had dry spell with development(still in it)
-Says there is "flexibility" with pay roll if needed during the summer
-Does not have same options as Fenway regarding bringing in outside income(landmark status)
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It's good to know that they're willing to spend a little if, by some miracle, they are in contention in July.
And also, I hate Albert Pujols.
Edit: "Believes player development needs to be strength of the team, rather than relying on free agents "so you are not stuck with big contracts" (looking at you Sori)"
That is an amazing quote. Clearly he's talking about Soriano. I agree with Ricketts on this point, but I would also say that having a good player development system does not excuse a big-market team from opening the wallet.
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The Soriano error was terrible, but let's not let that error distract us from all the other bullshit that happened in that game.
Loading the bases up in the first with zero outs and letting Cincy off the hook? A team that does that doesn't deserve to win. Ridiculous. Walking in runs? F' that.
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Sori made the last out of the first inning.
~piling on I know~
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Had Ramirez or Byrd done what Soriano did, we at least get a run.
Byrd sort of sucks, that's to be expected, but the pitch that Ramirez swung at - and tried to pull - that's just not the smart hitting I expect from Aram-Ram.
Rookie, making his ML debut - bases loaded and no outs in the first and they let him off the hook - who oculd do that other than the Cubs?
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I'm not trying to excuse Soriano for anything. I'm just saying let's not forget all the other bs in that game.
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7th game, I count one start for Colvin so far - is that right?
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No started against Reds Homer Bailey. Lefty pitching today.
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2 starts, which is within the 2-3 games a week range that Piniella gave. I, however, think 2 is not enough. If they don't want to stall his development, he needs to start at least 3-4 and get into most of the other games off the bench as well, especially if he's going to sit against all left-handed pitchers.
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Facing a southpaw today seemed to wake up the bats. The Cubs don't usually beat up on Doug Davis. (He's 9-6 against us lifetime with a 3.20 ERA.) Newcomers Byrd, Nady and Baker may present a problem for lefties. We may see fewer lefty starters than usual during the season.
Colvin had another walk today, although he swung at a bad pitch (he likes those low ones) during the at-bat.
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On a more positive note, although it's debatable whether or not getting more access to Cubs games is a positive, I subscribed to MLB Premium and can now watch the games from my iphone and was surprised at the good quality.
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I also have MLB Premium, but am blacked out for all Brewers games because I live in Wisconsin. And my apartment building's cable package does not carry the Brewers' channel. Annoying.
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Though I am generally not a proponent of pirated media- when there's a series of circumstances that conspire against you like that, what else can you do? Someone can probably find you a site that broadcasts the Brewers' channel.
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In the first inning, the Cubs work Davis for 27 pitches. I'm feeling good about that.
2nd inning, Soriano and Baker see a grand total of what, 2, 3 pitches? And they both ground out to the right side.
Is there any game plan at all?
Maybe we need a hitting mechanics coach and another hitting strategy coach. And somebody to press the button on the shock collar remote when guys err from the path without a good reason (like a hanging slider or fastball down the middle).
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I hate Byrd's swing.
Anybody know if he has any power at all to RF? He looks like he shouldn't.
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If you look at his hit chart from last year at home - http://cubs.mlb.com/stats/individual_player_h...
You can see almost all of his HR's were to left (left center) and his two triples were to right center. His doubles and fly outs were more evenly dispersed. His groundouts were almost all to the left side. I would guess when he's trying to hit a HR he's going to be pretty pull-conscience.
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Not a terrible thing on a day when the wind is blowing right to left, though.
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Can we get Millar back!?!!!?
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Some comments on watching the game:
After he singled to left in the 2nd, I saw Soto shaking out his left hand as he returned to first after his turn. It was his left hand/wrist that he hurt at the end of 2008, wasn't it? I wondered if that was a manifestation of that same injury or was it just a stinging from a "bees in the bat" situation. Or possibly both? I know there has been some speculation about whether Soto is still having injury problems with his hand. A left hand injury would definitely affect one's power. Something worth watching.
What were they thinking? On Soriano's single off McGehee in the 4th, Vargas had a 1-2 count on him and had just got him to swing and miss on a (what else?) slider low and away. The next pitch? Zaun, the catcher sets up INSIDE and Vargas throws a thigh-high fastball on the inner third of the plate, which Sori smokes on a line off 3B McGehee's body for an infield single. I don't know if they just missed location on the pitch and intended to waste a fastball off the plate inside, but why they (or anybody) wouldn't just throw him another slider low and away, I just don't know. I know you got to mix things up sometimes to keep from being too predictable, but I would wait until Sori actually starts to HIT that pitch before I started mixing things up.
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Up and in I would understand, but Zaun was set up low and inside. It was just a head-scratcher.
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Another Soriano- related question: Has anyone EVER seen him successfully check his swing and not be rung up by the umpire? I've just come to the conclusion that he is constitutionally incapable of doing so.
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dude swings a very heavy and long bat...it's gonna be hard.
he's using a new bat this season thanks to rules that length/weight requirements that can only be "3" +/- from each other.
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42 ounce bat I believe?
I'm no hitting instructor but I would suggest a lighter bat.
Alfonso Soriano
Alfonso Soriano is turning into the Michael Barrett of 2010.
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Does that mean that Zambrano will slug him and we'll trade him for a decent prospect then take off in the standings?
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I bring up these things about Sori even though I like the guy. He's just like a damn Ferrari -- great capabilities but quirky as hell, VERY high maintenance and a lot of work to get it to perform at its best (so I hear). I wonder if he has ever been checked out for ADD or ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). Stuff like the "hop" before catching a routine fly helping him concentrate sounds very much like classic ADHD coping behavior. If he does have it, some medication may help him decrease some of that "scatterbrained" behavior. Now that the Cubs have a psychiatrist on staff, they may have someone who could look into that (if he is very familiar with classic ADD/ADHD symptomology).
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I know your question was a joke, but if you were so inclined you could just take the under on whatever Vegas has for their season win total.
Ya know, if gambling were legal and all.
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he walked last week too.
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Hey, Double Play! Cubs Win!
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Good thing, too. Marmol was starting to give me a stomach ulcer again. 10 pitches, 4 strikes, 6 balls (incl. a HBP). So what else is new?
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Ah, the Marmol angst. Gotta love it, especially after how dominant he was in Cincy.
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Yeah, why wouldn't anyone forget the 77 free base runners in 74 innings last year based on one good inning in Cincy over the weekend?
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Wow, when you put it that way... that's wretched.
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Of course not. But it was his third game of the year, he didn't allow a run and there's a complaint about him, immediately after he had a great outing. Just thought it was a little quick.
Off Topic
"Mark McGwire drew a standing ovation before the Cardinals' home opener Monday, a clear sign many St. Louis fans have forgiven the former home run king for using steroids."
More like don't care that he used steroids, while playing for them.
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there's a lot to learn from the roid-era...
...most specifically that you'll still get paid, whatever team hires you will still love you, and you'll be welcome back to coach the game.
i'm sorry...what am i supposed to learn from all these roid commercials besides my balls might shrivel up? all i'm learning from the real world is you get paid and you might not make the HOF.
these roiders are not only not shunned by our community, they're forgiven and celebrated.
jason giambi is an embarrassment to the game, yet no one has an issue giving the guy work. mark mcgwire is a cheating piece of shit who dragged others through the mud while he waited over a decade to come clean...standing O, yall.
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Hey, Hey! The Cubs are undefeated at home.
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GO Cubs!!!
Aww man, they need to just get rid of everybody. @#$@!!
Yay!!! Cubs win!!!
!#%#@ bullpen... f* this...
Awesome win!
#$@@#!@ Soriano. What a bastard....
Go Cubs!!!
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WHATEVER. this turnaround is ___________ (insert coach's name) victory in spite of the faults of ___________ (insert coach's name).
if __________ (insert other team's coach's name) was here then __________ (insert 3-4 player's names) would be competing for MVP/CY right now.
fire ____________ (insert a slew of names of dudes 50+ years old).
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lol, oh my god. We need this as a printable PDF form on TCR.
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Dude! I love madlibs!
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per Muskat:
X-rays of #Cubs Derrek Lee's right thumb were negative and he's listed as day to day. No fracture. He originally hurt it last Wed in Atlanta
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Jake Fox is the A's DH tonight vs mariners.
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CUBSTER and I in Attendance.
The Good: The offense! Soriano with a SINGLE! The X-Man commeth today. Decent relief by youngsters. Soto nails Weeks. Best weather I can remember for an opener since HS.
The Bad: Doug Davis turns every AB into a ten minute affair. Theriot trying to steal 3b on a ground out to Fielder.
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i just noticed the pitching chart on the right. that is really cool. What a great usage of google docs.
Recent comments
A left-handed one...
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.


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Monday, September 9, 2013
A concerned citizen called police because a car crash had occurred behind his house, but there was no sign of a driver anywhere.
Police found a BMW upside down along the tree line. It was heavily damaged. It appeared to have been travelling at a high rate of speed and drove off the right side of the road and flipped.
Police ran the license plate number and found that the owner of the car lived just down the street. They went to the home where the car was registered. The man who came to the door looked like he had just woken up and could not have been driving. He admitted to owning the car, but would not say who had been driving it. In fact, he said he did not want to make anymore statements.
The officer believed the man had children of driving age and asked if his son was home and if he was okay. Again he said he did not want to say anything. The officer said he simply needed to know if his son was okay since EMS had been dispatched and was waiting at the scene. The man said his son was fine, but again reiterated he was not going to say anything else.
The officer then turned to leave and told the man that if he changed his mind and wanted to talk, he should contact him at the police station. The officer told him that is also where he could find out information about who towed his car and how to get it out of impoundment.
The officer returned to the scene where he found the son's college books, his license and a trunk full of empty beer cans.
The paperwork linking the son as the driver was put into evidence, according to the report.
No tip for you
Two women went out to eat one day and when their order came to the table, it was incorrect. They sent the dishes back and waited for the correct food order to be prepared.
When that arrived the women tasted it and were not satisfied. They agreed they were not satisfied with the service or the food and decided to pay the bill and leave.
They did not leave a tip however, which infuriated their server.
The server then followed them out of the restaurant and had words with the customers, but the argument grew heated and the customers left the area until police arrived.
But the customers and the server were able to come to an agreement and told the responding officer that it was a business misunderstanding and all had been settled, the report said.
Have another drink
Police were called by a concerned citizen that a fight was in progress at a local bank. When officers arrived there was a male and a female surrounded by several onlookers.
The man said he was assaulted by another man who had left the scene. The victim had swelling on his face and was extremely intoxicated, the incident report said. He refused medical treatment. The female who was with him was also extremely intoxicated, according to the police report, and was unable to provide police with any information as to what had occurred.
The victim told police he only knows his alleged assailant by his street name. He said they pulled into the bank, just before the ATM machine and he noticed the subject pulling in behind him. The suspect got out of his car and came to the window of the victim's car and began arguing with him. The suspect accused him of owing him money from a long time ago. Then, according to the police report, the suspect punched the victim in the face. The victim said he then pulled forward and exited the car and the two began fighting.
Officers began taking statements from witnesses and began patrolling the area. A witness gave them a possible license plate number, but it belonged to a woman out of Myrtle Beach who was deceased.
In the meantime, the couple was not allowed to continue driving since they were so intoxicated. A cab picked them up to take them home and the car was parked for them to come pick up the next day. Officers assured him they would patrol the lot so that no one messed with his car during the night.
The victim must have forgotten they would be patrolling. The victim, who was still drunk, according to the police report, returned to get his car. He was seen trying to drive off and was arrested for DUI.
A barista at a local coffee shop arrived at work early one morning to open up shop when she saw a suspicious car in the parking lot. The driver saw her arrive and started driving around the shared parking lot very recklessly. The barista later told police that the driver did not appear to be in control of the vehicle and continued to the shared parking lot of a drug store, drove around the building and continued until the driver slammed the car into a curb and stopped. The driver then laid her head down on the steering wheel and passed out. That is when the barista called police.
The vehicle was still running when police arrived and they had great trouble waking the driver. Finally an officer reached in and made sure the car was in park and turned it off. According to the report, the officer had to lift the driver's head to get her to wake up and it took her a few minutes to focus.
She was asked about her consumption of alcohol and she said she had a glass of wine and a shot at work. Because she admitted to drinking, she was asked to perform field sobriety tests.
She was not able to pass any of them successfully and was informed of her Miranda rights. She was then asked if she wanted to discuss what transpired that evening. This time she said she had a glass and a half of wine and a shot.
She was then questioned about open containers. She made no mention of the large bottle of Fireball, but denied the small mini bottle of Fireball was hers. She refused to blow and was taken to jail for DUI and open container.
5 o'clock somewhere
Police were called to a local restaurant by a concerned citizen. According to the report, the citizen was taking a friend out for lunch and on the way there they noticed the car in front of them swerving all over the road. They followed the car to a shopping center. The driver then stopped at a liquor store and came out carrying two bottles of vodka. Then the driver drove to a nearby restaurant and went inside. The concerned citizen said he as concerned this individual might be drunk.
Police went inside the restaurant and found the man. The officer introduced himself and asked him to step outside. He could see that the suspect was very unsteady on his feet and possibly intoxicated.
The officer asked him how much he had to drink and he said one margarita with his lunch.
The officer asked him about the liquor he purchased and if he had consumed any of it. He said he didn't and showed the officer the two unopened bottles.
The officer asked him again how much he had to drink and this time he said he had two margaritas. Then he stopped and said he had one and a half.
According to the report, the officer then asked the man what was going on and if there was anything they could do to help him. They explained to him that they were concerned since it was 1:30 in the afternoon and he was allegedly drunk.
He at first stated no but then after police asking him again, he confessed he had some personal issues going on at home. The officers explained that they would help him in any way they could and asked if he had someone who could come pick up his car and give him a ride home. He said no, but he could take a taxi home. He admitted he was in no condition to drive, according to the report. So police offered him a ride home. he went back in the restaurant and settled his tab and got a ride home from the officers. He said his wife could come get the car later that evening.
Bad choice
Teenagers aren't the brightest lamps on the street sometimes. It it is particularly evident to patrolling police officers when teenagers park under a street light in a business complex that is closed for the night.
An officer on patrol saw a car in the back parking lot of this particular business and approached it. The windows were down and he could immediately smell marijuana. He knocked on the window and the driver rolled it down.
Three girls were in the vehicle. The officer asked the driver what she was doing in the parking lot and she didn't answer. But a girl in the back seat said they were waiting on friends.
The officer then asked if there was any pot in the car since he could smell it. The driver started crying and all three girls said there was no marijuana in the car.
The officer told the girls to be honest and asked them again, and this time the driver admitted that there was pot in the car. She was asked to step out of the car and questioned. She said they had just bought the pot in North Charleston and that there was a bottle of wine under the car seat. She said they had not sipped on it since earlier that afternoon.
However, when the officer searched the car he found the bottle to be empty and a red solo cup full of wine in the cup holder.
All three were counseled about underage possession and alcohol being in the car while driving.
Then the officer asked all three girls what they were intending to smoke the reefer with. One girl began to tell the officer, but was quickly interrupted by another girl who said they left their pipe at home.
But, lo and behold, the officer found a pipe hidden under the seat. They then admitted to knowing it was there, but said it was a friend's and had been there since earlier in the week when they all went to a concert.
The driver was then issued a citation for simple possession and released. The other two, because they were not 18 yet, were issued the same tickets and made to call a parent to come pick them up. The wine was poured out and the bottle and weed and pipe were taken in as evidence.
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Which Internet Providers Offer the Best Value for Speed?
It's notoriously difficult to compare Internet plans because of varying costs and advertised speeds, which The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week usually aren't as fast as promised. A more equivalent point of comparison is to measure how much people are paying each month for a set download speed.
The average monthly bill for Internet service in the U.S. is $54.81, but the median residential U.S. Internet subscriber pays $3.56 for each megabit per second (Mbps) of download speed, according to data provided by Ookla and its online speed test, Speedtest.net. That rate varies considerably by provider.
Speeds also vary based on the customers' area and hardware, such as wiring, routers and modem (which is often provided by the ISP). The Ookla data represent the speeds users actually receive, not the speed advertised by providers.
Users subscribing to larger plans (a higher number of megabits per second) generally get a better value for their buck. There also are often trade-offs between speed and coverage. Some plans are designed to be slower. Mobile Internet providers such as Clear Wireless and Sprint PCS cover more remote areas but offer slower speeds than wired providers.
Ookla, which previously licensed its data and technology to the Federal Communications Commission, compiled 12 months of data from tens of millions of speed tests as well as surveys of nearly 650,000 Speedtest users' Internet plans (not including bundles). The company divided users' monthly bill costs by the number of megabits they receive to create a comparable value measure for each provider.
Here's a list of popular Internet providers and how they measure up by speed and cost:


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Teri Hatcher and a friend were recently discussing what would be on her "bucket list," a list of things to do before she dies.
So what's on it? "I want to learn to play a couple of songs on the guitar. I want to learn a few of those fancy dances from one of those Dancing with the Stars teachers. And I want to run a triathlon," the Desperate Housewives star tells PEOPLE.
The timing was perfect for Hatcher, when her show's parent company Disney asked her to lead a team in this year's Nautica Malibu Triathlon on Sept. 13. In addition to checking off an activity from her bucket list, 44-year-old Hatcher is also raising money to benefit the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
For a month, she has stepped up her training, she says. And although she feels like a kid when she rides her bike to work three to four times a week, and has been known to swim with the whales, she says running is the hardest part of the triathlon.
"It's the least fun for me," she says about the four-mile run that comes at the end of the event. "By that point, I'm really tired, so the whole time I'm thinking, 'I'm not going to make it.'"
But Hatcher says participating was not about getting a great time or winning.
"I'm just out to do it and I did it," she says. "I did surprise myself that I'm in better shape than I thought I was."
Anyone interested in donating to her cause can go to Teamhatcher.org.
Teri Hatcher Training for Triathlon
Courtesy Teri Hatcher