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DJ4K – Derek Jeter's Quest To 4,000 Hits?
As I sat on my couch last night, watching MLB Network, a very valid questions was posed by the network analysts of whether or not Derek Jeter has a shot of getting to 4,000 hits, or better yet, the even bigger milestone of passing the all-time hit leader, Pete Rose. Rose, who had a total of 4,256 hits in his career, is currently over 1,000 hits ahead of Jeter, who has 3,088 hits to show for his 17-year career. No chance of him getting over 1,000 hits before he retires, right? Well, although it's an uphill climb for Jeter, the idea of Jeter getting at least to 4,000 hits isn't out of the question. When you compare Jeter to Rose, in terms of hits through 2,426 games, Jeter is 22 hits ahead of Rose. A pace I feel he can keep up.
Jeter recorded 162 hits this past season alone, and if he can keep up an average of at least 150 hits a season, he could get to 4,000 hits in 6-years time. That'd put him at 4,000 career hits by his 24th season; or age 43. Though Jeter is already considered old (by baseball standards) Rose didn't retire until age 45. Add two extra seasons onto Jeter's career and you end up with roughly 20 hits more than Rose had in his career. I'm not saying that it's extremely likely that Jeter will pass Rose, I'm just saying that it's more likely than people are giving Jeter credit for. Jeter does an incredible job in his at-bats of fouling off tough pitches for one he can loop over an infielders head for a base hit. It's this skill that I feel will lead him to a 4,000 (or more) hit career.
So, do you agree, or disagree with me? Do you think Jeter is on track to a 4,000 hit career? Maybe even more? Let me know:
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Good blog but I don't think once he's done at Shortstop if he's DH material for a long period of time. Of course I'm an Angels fan, and I don't like the Yankees, but Jeter is a class-act old school professional. I wrote a paper on his 3,000 hi,t watched the HBO special, so I do consider myself a fan of him. Usually the DH position is a power hitters spot in the order. I can't remember a player his size flourish as a DH.. Again you make good points and he's a true professional
I am surprised at how many people think Jeter has a shot at 4k, much less Rose's record. Jeter, a first ballot HoF guy, is in the kind of decline we have seen in those before him when they hit their late 30s. Yes, he is hitting .306, but largely due to a torrid opening month. Since then, it has not been very good (.263). He has hit only .300 in 3 of the last 14 baseball months. He hasn't hit rightys since 2009 (check his splits). His once mediocre power is now virtually non-existent (nearly 80% of his hits are singles), so there is no room for him at DH. We know his days at SS are numbered, as his range continues to decline, and he was never a very good defensive SS to begin with. So how does he play for 5 or 6 more years?
Jeter lovers will cry foul, but that is the objective truth. If he never gets another hit again, he'll go down as one of the greats. But it isn't the 1990s, it will be 2013 next year and Derek's best days are already well behind him.
Incidentally, Derek is 7 whiffs from owning the all time Yankee KO record. He has already struck out far more than any SS in history. Amazing stats when you consider his high career BA.
Objective? When was Jeter ever a true power hitter? Every player's power numbers decline in their late 30s (except drug enabled players like BB).
With that said Jeter is on pace to exceed his extra base hit total from the previous 2 seasons And match or beat his slugging % from his age 23 and age 28 seasons.
Jeter is hitting .293 against righties.
He had as many hits in July as his 'torrid opening month'. He has hit over .290 in 6 of the last 7 baseball months.
Decline? What decline? HE IS LEADING THE AL IN HITS!!!
And this article was about hits, right?
The league leader in hits…..who isn't being objective?


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Moretown landfill warns of 80 percent reductionNovember 18,2012Stefan Hard / Staff File Photo
The Moretown Landfill is seen from the air, looking south. The Winooski River and Interstate 89 are on the left.
The landfill is one of two in the state that still accepts municipal waste, and haulers transport waste to the site from as far away as Chittenden County and Brattleboro.
By David Taube
MORETOWN A privately-run landfill is sounding alarms about how unapproved permits could slash into a major Moretown revenue stream and how four-fifths of its customers, which includes municipalities across the state, soon wouldnt be able to drop off trash.
The Moretown landfill could reach its permitted capacity in February, and the company that manages the business has warned it must reduce intake by up to 80 percent starting Dec. 1 to postpone that outcome, the landfills general manager, Tom Badowski, said.
According to a Nov. 2 letter he sent to the Select Board, the change could cost the town roughly $400,000 a year, which officials say could also adversely affect a significant portion of the trash business across the state.
This wouldnt just be hitting Moretown. This is region-wide, Select Board chairman Tom Martin said.
The landfill is one of two in the state that still accepts municipal waste, and haulers transport waste to the site from as far away as Chittenden County and Brattleboro. About 50 or 60 percent of incoming waste comes from municipalities, Badowski said.
The other landfill that accepts municipal waste is operated by Casella Waste Systems in the Northeast Kingdom town of Coventry, near the Canadian border.
The Moretown landfill currently has three cells, or areas, for dumping waste, and the landfill is seeking to create a fourth cell, which would last about 15 to 18 years and be about the size of the previously three combined, Badowski said.
The towns Development Review Board is currently reviewing an application for Cell 4. But even with local approval, the state has suggested the companys operating permit may not be renewed unless odor complaints are resolved.
The suggested 80 percent intake reduction could extend the life of the existing landfill by eight or 10 months, Badowski said. Customers have been put on alert, but they have not been given notice that they will be banned or that a contract wont be renewed, he said.
He said the company plans to choose what customers to still do business with based on contracts and relationships.
Martin, whose grandfather was also a Select Board member and whose mother was a town clerk and treasurer, said Moretown wants the landfill to obtain the permits but that standards shouldnt be lessened to make that happen.
Martin started working on the new town budget earlier this month, and he has already asked town departments to chop their own budgets by 20 percent to 25 percent. He said he doesnt know how the town could cut the money it would need to make up for the revenue loss projected. Martin suggested some roads might not have new gravel for the next two years.
Moretown Vice Chairman Clark Amadon told VtDigger.org that taxes for a $250,000 home could increase by $500 or $550 if the landfill stops offsetting town taxes.
Last year, the towns $1.1 million budget was helped with $532,762 through a host town agreement, which directs revenue from the landfill to the town.
Through its annual host town agreement revenue, the town has used a little more than half directly for its operating budget in recent years. For the last 12 years, its built up more than $1 million in savings, which are in savings and capital funds, Martin said.
The town also has a provision in the agreement that gives the municipality a fixed amount of crushed stone each year, officials said. That amounted to about $80,000 for a recent year, Martin said.
As the landfill nears its permitted capacity, the town is already seeing signs of the change affecting the municipality. Taxes for the property will drop from $208,647 in 2011 to $87,090 for this year.
In regards to the proposed expansion, neighbors have packed DRB meetings, and a hearing on odor concerns will continue at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Town Hall, located at 994 Route 100B Moretown.
Martin said the DRB, whose permitting authority isnt subject to the Select Board, could continue with several more hearings.
To get more time, Martin said hed like the state to allow the landfill to re-open Cell 2, which Badowski said would extend the landfill for about six or seven months. That extension would not have restrictions on the amount of refuse accepted, he said. Staff with the Agency of Natural Resources solid waste program are reviewing that option next week, said George Desch, director of the states Waste Management and Prevention Division.
Cell 2 could be re-opened because of settling, which has reduced some areas by some 20 to 30 feet, Badowski said. The landfill has requested to take off a cap and refill parts of the cell, he said.
The town has switched from five-year host agreements to one-year host agreements, and Martin said those could be used to create requirements for the company.
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I had a farmer the other day say This just makes me sick, Martin said. We cant afford an increase like that.
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Concerned about the growing trend of healthy students taking ADHD medications to boost their study skills... The American Academy of Neurology today issued a stern new policy statement.
The practice of prescribing these drugs, called neuroenhancements, to healthy students is called misguided and not justifiable.
The Academy spent years analyzing all of the available research and ethical issues to develop its official position on the "study drug" matter.
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PARKERSBURG – Two fast-growing fitness businesses in the Parkersburg area offer numerous choices to residents.
One has been around for more than a decade and one is new to the area.
Mountain River Physical Therapy has been serving the Mid-Ohio Valley for about 14 years with owner Burt Reed constantly improving his business.
Susan Tebay, director of marketing operations for the company, said Reed constantly tests the newest technology offered in the physical therapy industry.
"He is always laughing, always joking," Tebay said of her employer. "The atmosphere of our clinics is so (clients) enjoy coming."
Originally from St. Marys, Reed opened his first clinic in Mineral Wells in 1999, Tebay said. He now operates 13 locations, including two (one clinic and one athletic training center) in Parkersburg.
Tebay said those needing physical therapy are not necessarily partial to receiving the treatment and may be told they have to do it as a result of surgery or doctor's orders.
The business offers an athletic performance center on 37th Street.
Bill Islay, chief operating officer of the company, said they pride themselves on the innovation they offer to the valley.
"Our challenge has been people who may have had a bad experience generally (with physical therapy)," he said. "We're not typical."
Islay said the company has 25 hands-on therapists on staff and 70 percent are board certified.
Reed opened his first clinic in Mineral Wells.
"Things fell in place," he said. "It's interesting since the Mineral Wells clinic all have been asked of me by physicians or PT's (physical therapists) who wanted to stay with Mountain River and go to their hometown."
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Outpatient practices include quality patient care, cultivative professional and personal development, a positive and caring atmosphere and to enhance the communities the company serves, the team said. Other functions include Intramuscular Manual Therapy or trigger point dry needling.
Dry needling is a treatment for relieving the pain caused by muscular tightness and spasms following injuries to the body, Islay said. IMT can help relieve pain associated with carpel tunnel, tendonitis and osteoarthritis.
Specialties include manual therapy, sports medicine, orthotics, women's health, industrial rehabilitation and post-operative rehabilitation. Islay said physical therapists can come into play in dental work.
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TMJ is the hinge joint that connects the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull.
"We work with area dentists and orthodontists and collaborated with the local dental association," Islay said.
The company focuses on a new fitness craze called CrossFit. The exercise of 20 minutes or less consists of intense, demanding physical fitness. The director involved with that program is a licensed massage therapist, Islay said.
"Rehab stuff goes hand-in-hand (with the CrossFit training)," he said.
Another exercise sweeping the nation is Zumba fitness. Owner and Zumba fitness trainer Toni Holbrook said she and her daughter, Tiffanee Rice, became interested in Zumba after they took a local class.
Holbrook opened the Brickhouse Cardio Club (2311 Ohio Ave., Unit B, Parkersburg) in May 2011 and has since seen an influx of participants.
Brickhouse had been offering 14 classes a week and added four classes, two morning and two evening, in March, Holbrook said. Including the Zumbatomic program, which is two more classes, she was offering 16 classes a week and in March it became 20.
All of the trainers at the club are CPR/AED certified, and have been certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, she said.
Holbrook's husband, Darrell, is the main "Turbo Kick" instructor, with his daughter filling in when she isn't teaching another class. The club is slowly adding more instructors as interest in the fitness dance in the valley progresses.
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SPRINGFIELD Arvilla I. Strawn, 91, died Saturday, May 11, 2013, at her home.
She was born Aug. 18, 1921, in North Thumberland, N.H., the daughter of Arthur and Florence (Chesseman) Blodgett.
She graduated from high school in the Groveton/Lancaster area.
On Nov. 20, 1941, she married Vernal E. Strawn in Stratford, N.H. He died in 2003.
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Spring Training II: Milton Bradley
So, we've been taking a million pictures at Mariners Spring Training this week. I've been debating how to write up our experiences.
Chronologically by day?
Nah…too many pictures for some days and not many at all for others.
By experience (or groupings of experiences)?
Okay, let's give that a shot.
First up, the Milton Bradley experience.
The first week or two of Spring Training are the best. Games haven't started yet. Its just practice. The Mariners have 6.5 practice fields. During most of Spring Training, the big leaguers practice on the two least accessible practice fields. But during the first couple weeks, the big league camp spends most of its time on the four most fan accessible fields.
A couple days ago, the Mariners stretched, played catch, ran defensive drills, and then broke into hitting groups. Groups rotated between four practice fields — M3 through M6:
M3 – batters tried to get hits off of pitchers, but the pitchers played hard to get;
M4 – pitchers threw their "bullpen" sessions on the field as batters stood in and tracked the pitches and baserunners practiced leading off of second and breaking for third base;
M5 – batters took traditional BP while baserunners practiced leading off of third base and breaking for home plate; and
M6 – traditional BP, no baserunning.
Here is a peak at M3 with Brendan Ryan in the cage (I cannot recall or identify who was pitching):
At the beginning of the rotation process, Tim, Kellan, Colleen, my mom, and I watched live BP on M3. The first batter was Milton Bradley who faced Chris Seddon. Bradley's first two swings hit the right centerfield fence on the fly. His third swing almost took out Seddon on the mound. After a couple more random hits, Seddon's final pitch to Bradley was hard and inside. Milton swung defensively and helplessly (and sarcastically) yelled "Get off me!" as he hit a weak can of corn into the grass just behind second base.
I could tell Milton cracked his bat on the swing. He immediately went to his duffle bag and swapped out bats (each player brings two bats from the clubhouse to the practice field). I took a mental note.
My mom, Colleen and Kellan generally stayed put at M3. But Tim and I shifted around and watched some of the action on each of the fields.
On M4, Tim and I stood just behind Ichiro and watched him sit on a bucket and swing a weighted bat as he prepared to not take some hacks at the plate…
…all the while Michael Saunders and his group practiced getting a jump from second to third base. When Milton Bradley's group was at this station, I noticed he was using a bat with athletic tape around the middle. I figured it was probably the bat he cracked against Seddon. (By the way, Seddon really settled down and missed a lot of bats after Bradley's first round).
On M5, Ichiro and his group got jumps from third toward home plate as other guys took BP:
Finally, on M6, we watched Ichiro take some hacks (as shown in a video clip in our last entry):
The rotations were timed and after…oh, maybe 15-20 minutes…one of the coaches would call out "rotate" and then all of the players would run through the public grass to their next station:
Above, Brendan Ryan, Mike Carp, Justin Smoak, Dustin Ackley, Matt Mangini and others run past me from M6 into M3.
We had planned to leave at 11:30 a.m. to head down to Chase Field for a tour. We started to leave — we made it out to the sandy/rocky area beyond the OF wall at M3. But then we decided to push off Chase Field until later in the week.
When we got back to the area between the four home plates, Kellan and I looked around for Milton Bradley, but we couldn't find him anywhere:
…and all of a sudden I saw Milton enter M3 coming from M4. (By the way, that's Tim in the red and blue in front of Kellan and me in the picture above to the right). Players were starting to pack up and head back to the clubhouse.
As Milton headed toward his duffle bag, Kellan and I took off (my mom and Colleen had no clue what was going on, but they followed us)…
…and rounded the corner of M3's 1B dugout. There is a gate just past the dugout and I was hoping it would be open. As you can see in the picture above to the right, it was. As Kellan and I arrived at the open gate, we saw Milton pack up his duffle bag and start to walk toward the RF corner (where players exit the field to return to the clubhouse).
Todd: "Hey, Milton!"
[Milton looks over and sees us. He veers over in our direction.]
Todd: "Hi, Milton. Hey, is there any chance my boy can get your broken bat?"
Milton: "What's he gonna do with it?"
Todd: "Hang it on his bedroom wall."
[Deeming this a worthy response, Milton extracts a bat from his bag and hands it to me and starts to walk off.]
Todd: "Thanks, Milton!!!"
[I start to walk away with the bat and a great big smile.]
Milton: "Hold up! Is that the broken bat?"
I didn't hear him. But my mom pointed me back to Milton.
Lo-and-behold, Milton had given me the wrong bat. Above to the right, we made the switch. Now, I had the bat with the tape around the middle that he'd been using on M4.
In the next picture, I guess we're examining the bat:
I figured, hey, let's add to the goodness. So I asked Milton if he'd sign the bat.
Sure he would:
You know, Milton has a terrible reputation. But I invite you to click on these pictures to enlarge them. As he was signing the autograph, he has a big huge smile on his face. He was very pleasant in our little interaction.
As he signed the bat, I added:
Todd: "Hey, could we get a picture too?"
Milton: "Hey, you got me here, why not?"
So we turned toward my mom and Colleen (who both had cameras out and trained on us).
As they snapped away at the pictures, Kellan grabbed at Milton's hat:
I had no clue what was going on becaue Kellan was essentially behind me. But all of a sudden, everyone started laughing — my mom, Colleen, Milton and a crowd of people who had gathered to watch.
Milton had taken off his hat and put in on Kellan's head:
Kellan was lost in a sea of Milton Bradley hat…
…as Milton and I smiled for the cameras:
By the way, yes. I am holding Kellan in these pictures (with my unseen left hand).
After more "thank yous" to Milton, we split up and started celebrating Kellan's awesome new bat:
We tried to get a family picture, but Tim didn't want to jump in with us:
But a few minutes later, after the rest of the players left the field, Tim was more than happy to wield Kellan's new lumber for this picture:
So, it was an awesome interaction and experience with Milton Bradley. Many, many thanks to Milton! He was incredibly nice, and not just becuase he gave us the bat. He seemed like a very nice and genuine guy. We'll be pulling for Milton to have a comeback season in 2011.
Anyway, check out the bat closeup:
We had to mail the bat home because we couldn't carry it onto the airplane. Its finally here and hanging on Kellan's wall. Here is what it looks like now:
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Hi! I just want to say that I really like your blog, the pictures are great! I love the Stadiums panoramas, those were great posts! Now, you look like you guys are having fun at the spring trainning, and it was pretty cool of Bradley to give you the bat and the photos!
So, I just I want to know that, if it's not too much to ask, if ever see Dan Cortes, could you take a picture of him? pitching or not. I am a fan since I saw him pitch here in Venezuela, so it will be nice to know how he's doing there!
Well, thanks and I can't wait for the next post!
P.s. You have a lovely family!
That last photo of you, Colleen, and Kellan is a little deceiving. I thought her purse was baseball-oriented but now I realize it's just your glove hanging on it. That would be a cool gift idea for her though. I'd even let you take all the credit! Just kidding. Have fun bro, I'm jealous!
Fantastic moments! I'll definitely root for Milton Bradley this season! Hope this season will be the chance for his real comeback.
Wow, the photo with Milton with your son wearing his hat is one of the cutest things I have seen in a while. What a great family memory! I've heard the stories too and it's nice to hear something so positive about Milton Bradley. I hope he has a successful season and gets to really enjoy the game this year.
Haha, that's a great interaction with Milton. It's weird, I remember just walking around those exact empty fields this summer, and on m6 where Ichiro batted, there was a dead rat on homeplate. I'm assuming that rats gone by now. You guys planning on hitting up citi in april?
Great photo's and Bradley story. The guy has a bad rep, but little things like that bat and picture can make fans for life.
Milton does have a bad rap in the Majors. But you know? He is actually a very nice guy. Of all the times Ive had encounters with him he has always treated me nice.
He tossed me two baseballs last year. One at Kauffman, and one at Busch.
His major complaint is when the fans heckle him, he takes it to heart.
Glad to hear you're enjoying our pictures. Yeah, I'm a big fan of the panoramas. Glad you like them. I have a whole bunch of them coming soon from the tour we just recently took at Chase Field. Not sure when they will be ready, but soon. I looked through my Spring Training picts and I didn't get any good picts of Cortes. I saw him a lot but just get anything good of him. I'll ask my parents to snap a pict of him and see if I can post something for you.
Ha! Yeah, no baseball purse for Colleen. While I'd like to see Colleen with a Trap-Eze purse, I don't think its high on her list.
Let's hope! He's had his troubles. But he's also shown he can be an all-star caliber major leaguer. Hopefully he can find some piece of mind personally and his power stroke professionally in 2011.
Thanks for the nice comments about my family. That would be great if Milton puts it all together in 2011. Let's hope!
Great to hear from you, sir. No rats now-a-days on M6. April is still somewhat up in the air. I can tell you we won't be at Citi during the first three weeks of the season. We already have other plans those weeks. Maybe at the end of the month. We're looking at one game at Citi in June and probably another in September. Also looking at a Mariners game in the Bronx.
This was our first interaction with Milton. Because of his reputation in the media, I didn't know what to expect when I called his name. But he was extremely nice during our interaction. I've also seen some interviews with him where he has seemed like a really nice guy. Obviously, he has some issues he's had to work through (and maybe still is working through them), but we're certainly wishing him the best.


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ORLANDO, Fla. â As a barrage of players took their shots at the top of the leaderboard, Samuel Saunders of Windermere, Fla., was able to hold on to a one-shot advantage heading into the third round of the HP Boys Junior Championship. Five players trail Saunders by one shot with tournament totals of 1-under-par 143.
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Why doesnt Mello do any big Dunks anymore ? I want a Tomohawk ! hehe !
I sometimes dislike when we are up so much in the first quarter. We end up getting complacent. Let's hope they keep the hunger.
Why doesnt Mello do any big Dunks anymore ? I want a Tomohawk ! hehe !
Noone should be surprised if BD plays well, the guy is starting PG quality.
Dunleavy thinks he's Jordan everytime we play the bucks.
Yea i think Lin can actually learn a lot from him, BD needs to start.
I don't care how, but we have to keep Dunleavy from lighting us up again. He just is not as good as he has looked over the last few weeks.
Inexcusable. Just friggin inexcusable. This lifetime bench fodder has single-handedly changed the game against us again


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B.A.D. Sushi is a great addition to the Old Pas dining scene
By Dan O'Heron 01/01/2013
I've got my favorite sushi hangouts, so another one (especially a new one called B.A.D.) didn't have an immediate appeal. However, the suggestion to lunch at B.A.D. Sushi came from a good friend, one of the very few people I rely on as a scout for really interesting ethnic food. So, when Amy called to make a date and suggested the new restaurant on Holly Street, I figured it had to be good.
There's only one trouble: B.A.D. (Best And Delicious) Sushi's menu could, for the indecisive, take some time to ponder. It's nine full pages of fetching full-color pictures and small print, with an additional two-sided lunch special menu. And these offerings don't include the long "basic" sushi/sashimi list with more traditional choices to check off for the chefs.
As soon as we were seated, I realized that B.A.D. Sushi had taken the site formerly occupied by Chada Thai Restaurant and Sushi Bar, with many of the architectural and interior design elements left in place. In particular, I remembered the nifty light fixtures, the marvelous Zen waterfall fountain taking up the entire back wall, the lateral wall of comfy banquettes, the dark chocolate box-beamed wood ceiling and the panoramic glass façade onto Holly Street.
Chada's interior was low-lit, with subtle hues. Although the lighting remains low, the relatively minor renovations include a few brighter colors, with some orange and lime green walls. The small sushi bar tucked into the westerly niche of Chada has been retained. And with B.A.D. Sushi's singular focus, the place is presumably getting a lot more business.
Pressed for time, Amy and I almost immediately got down to negotiations about what to order. The lunch specials, all with miso and house salad, include a sushi set for $9.95 or a special roll set for $11.95. The important word here for differentiation is "special." The cheaper lunch includes three pieces of sushi and an eight-piece basic roll, such as California, salmon with cucumber and spicy tuna. The more expensive selection gets you two pieces of sushi and a more elaborate roll, such as spicy tuna crunch or shrimp tempura.
Amy wanted tuna and salmon sushi plus the SCS roll, which consists (according to an annotation under its delectable picture in the main menu) of shrimp tempura, cucumber and avocado, topped with spicy crab salad and tempura flakes and served with a sweet and spicy sauce. It costs $9.95 if you order it à la carte.
Despite the overlap, I also ordered tuna and salmon sushi (other choices were albacore, octopus, crab, shrimp, mackerel, bean curd and egg) and a C&C roll (also with a shrimp tempura base, along with cream cheese, crab salad and avocado, wrapped with soy paper, topped with tempura flakes and served with sweet sauce) — $8.95 as a separate item.
Despite the overload of ingredients (I ordered a much plainer and equally delicious assortment of rolls — tuna, salmon, yellowtail and rainbow — to take home for our dinner that night), we enjoyed the sushi immensely. I was especially pleased that B.A.D. appears to be using real crab rather than "krab" and is generous with its servings of wasabi and pickled ginger. Also admirable is the salad dressing, which tempers the usual Thousand Island with a subtle infusion of orange.
So good was this first meal (and our sushi supper, again, with more than adequate wasabi and ginger accompanying each roll) that I returned forthwith with another friend who doesn't like sushi to see what her opinion of the menu was. No problem. She went straight for the entrée section and ordered tempura udon ($8.95), actually tempura/udon, with three plump shrimp on the side and a huge bowl of noodle soup with shiitake and champignon mushrooms.
I had a B.A.D. combination plate ($8.95 at lunchtime — $12.95 for dinner) with mixed tempura (one shrimp, broccoli, acorn squash, sweet potato and onion) paired with a salmon cucumber roll. We also sampled an appetizer of shrimp shumai ($3.95), six surprisingly delicate, thin-skinned and seared dumplings with a great dipping sauce. My only complaint was that instead of the soft rock background during my lunch with Amy, this meal was punctuated with louder contemporary pop that made conversation more difficult.
That won't keep me from coming back, however. After all, we haven't even made a dent in the menu. Japanese sausage ($4.95), Spanish mackerel ($5.95) and shishito peppers (all fried) and green onion tempura ($4.95) await us. There's a short rib steak ($9.95) and some Canadian salmon teriyaki ($8.95), which are bound to appeal to my mate.
The list of fancy rolls and sashimi concoctions seems almost endless, and there's a fascinating section called "Something Without Rice" which includes items like "Bite Me! Pls" — spicy seafood with fresh garlic tempura served with spicy goma sauce, ponsu sauce, black caviar, masago and green onion ($11.95).
The logo of the restaurant (it's on their card and at the bottom of the special lunch menu) is "How B.A.D. do you want sushi?" Now that I've sampled theirs three times, the answer is REALLY B.A.D. Sushi's made it to the top of my G.O.O.D. (going out often dining) list for 2013.
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In pursuing that end, Colavito received from the New York State Authorities Budget office an Excel file that provides information, such as the value of the tax breaks the projects received, the number of jobs projected to be created and the number of jobs that were actually created, for the 68 projects that received tax incentive through the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency in 2008 and 2009.
The file shows that 23 of the 68 projects underperformed in terms of the creation of jobs, some of them strikingly so. The project for RSS Realty Associates in 2009, for example, which involved the renovation of a shopping mall in Liberty, received a total of $420,664 in tax benefits with the expectation that about 50 jobs would be created, but no jobs were created.
It now appears that file, and others like it for 2010 and beyond, will be posted on www.sullivanida.com, the IDA website.
At a meeting at the government center on January 6, Jennifer Brylinski, the executive director and chief operating officer of the IDA, told lawmakers that it would be possible for her to send data to Albany, have a file prepared for 2010 when the data becomes available in March and to post it.
During a discussion on the matter, county manager David Fanslau noted that in his State of the State address on January 5, Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York State has the worst business tax environment in the country, suggesting that additional scrutiny and reporting might be seen as anti-business.
In a phone interview, Colavito said, "New York State also has one of the worst property tax burdens in the country, and every tax break must be paid for by the remaining taxpayers."
At the meeting, lawmaker David Sager said tax incentives must be "a two-way street, because otherwise only that one business wins, the community doesn't win."
Lawmaker Ron Hiatt said, "We talk about performance measures all the time. Well, let's just see what the numbers come to."
Brylinski said she could have the two existing files posted on the site within two weeks.


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MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
BA, Brown University
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Ansley T. Erickson is a historian who focuses on educational inequality and urban and metropolitan history. Her first book, Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (Chicago, 2016) examines the case of Nashville, Tennessee to show the political and economic forces that supported segregation and inequality and later remade educational inequality in the desegregation years.
With Professor Ernest Morrell of TC's Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Erickson leads the Educating Harlem project, a collaborative investigation into the history of education in 20th century Harlem. Educating Harlem includes an edited volume under contract with Columbia University Press, a digital history project, and youth participatory history program.
Erickson was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011-2013, and has been awarded dissertation and research fellowships from the Spencer Foundation, the Eisenhower Institute, and the Mrs. Giles A. Whiting Foundation. She currently serves on the editorial board of the History of Education Quarterly and Theory and Research in Education, and as a member of the History of Education Society Outstanding Book Prize committee.
Earlier in her career, Erickson taught history and conducted ethnographic research in New York City schools and worked at two national education organizations. She also has experience in historical documentary film and public history consulting.
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Scholarly Interests
Educational Policy
Educational Inequality
Urban and Metropolitan History
Selected Publications
Erickson, A. Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Erickson, A. "Case Study as Common Text: Collaborating in and Broadening the Reach of History of Education," History of Education Quarterly, February, 2016.
Erickson, A. "Affordable Housing, Public Transit, A Mayoral Runoff, Racially Separated Schools. Welcome to Nashville - In 1971." Nashville Scene, August 13, 2015.
Highsmith, A. and Erickson, A. "Segregation as Splitting and Joining: Schools, Housing, and the Many Modes of Jim Crow," American Journal of Education, August, 2015.
Erickson, A. "Slavery and American Colleges: Historical Entanglements that Matter for Inequality Today," Teachers College Record, May 31, 2014.
Erickson, A. "Historical Research and the Problem of Categories: Reflections on 10,000 Digital Notecards, in Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds. Writing History: How Historians Research, Write, and Publish in the Digital Age. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013) and www.digitalculturebooks.org
Erickson, A. "Building Inequality: The Spatial Organization of Schooling in Nashville, TN, after Brown." Journal of Urban History, Vol. 38, No. 2 (March 2012), 247-270.
Erickson, A. "The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools." Dissent. (Fall 2011) and reprinted in Michael Katz and Mike Rose, eds. Public Education Under Siege. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Research Support
Provost's Investment Fund, Teachers College, Columbia, 2012-13
NAE/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-13
Clifford Roberts/Eisenhower Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-10
Mrs. Giles A. Whiting Fellowship, 2009-10 (declined to accept Eisenhower)
Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2009
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-9
Archival and Oral History Research Support
Buell Oral History Research Grant
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Moody Research Fellowship
Tennessee Historical Society Wills Research Grant
Other Support
Maxine Greene Foundation and the Fund for Teachers, for "Crossing Town: Brown's Legacy in Nashville."
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Damn bro, someone of you are still talking **** on STAT n Melo.
Nothing pleases some of you.
Melo doesnt have to score for us to win, he's dishing the ball like a beast.
Thats still getting us points and as for STAT, he's trying!
you haters just keep lookin to hate.
"stealin and dealin are the Knicks now" Clyde
i'm telling you, since Lin came back in, the Knicks are rejuvenated!
Linsanity was just the emergence of an excellent player, now he is
just a true point guard doing what needs to be done, he is the missing
piece Knicks have been looking for. 18 points, 10 assists and counting...
a steal and a block thrown in for good will, only 3 TO's. he's the man.
Melo and STAT playing together well! F*CK YEAH!
God damn, LINSANITY IS BACK!
Where is Douglas? 23 points up, c'mon Woody!
yea he's finally gonna let jorts come in..
i would love to see Toney and Jordan...
who knows maybe now that TD got a new baby it might change his game lol
Wow the next 24 hr will be tough to wait for the big brawl against PHI, hostile crowd? hop to see some Knicks fans
I wonder how much longer Stephen A Smith is going to call Lin "marginal"?


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]The constant manufactured noise inside Madison Square Garden, noises that would be deemed too cruel to use on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, can either excite or irritate those attending Knicks games. Nate Robinson is a similar polarizing force. In the midst of a decade full of losing and controversy, two distant types of Knick fans have emerged: those who will sacrifice their bodies and $9 beer for a free T-shirt, and those who get annoyed at every turnover and missed defensive assignment and arent afraid to show it.
Donnie Walsh, though, is different. He is impervious to the madness surrounding him. Whether the Knicks are winning, losing or losing some more, the man who has staked his reputation on rebuilding the once-proud franchise is poker-face calm.
Occasionally, hell turn to his constant companion, younger brother Jimmy, and whisper a quick thought. But mostly, the Knicks president sits 10 rows up at center court with his arms folded, watching and thinking. Its as if he knows something that everyone else doesnt.
You will not find a more focused executive anywhere, says NBA commissioner David Stern. Hes always thinking about basketball and his team and ways to get better.
Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver and Walsh ate dinner at a Manhattan restaurant just hours after Walsh was introduced as Knicks president and savior last April. The NBAs two highest ranking officials were thrilled that Walsh, raised in Riverdale, had postponed retirement to return home. He didnt need the Knicks. The Knicks needed him.
The team Walsh inherited had just completed its seventh straight losing season. Reggie Miller, the best player Walsh drafted when he ran the Indiana Pacers, had called the Knicks a league-wide joke and that was the day before they lost to the Boston Celtics by 45 points on national television.
Miller was obviously selling the Knicks short. As awful as they were on the court, their conduct off it included an embarrassing sexual harassment trial featuring Isiah Thomas and screaming headlines about the star point guard, Stephon Marbury, having an extramarital encounter with an intern in a truck. The Knicks werent just bad, they had become hard to like.
That is why he was hired, Stern says. This is the guy you want.
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of Walshs hiring and his welcome to New York dinner with Stern. On the surface, there has been little to celebrate. The Knicks faded rapidly after the All-Star break and have lost seven of their last eight after last nights defeat against the Bobcats.
Their streak of losing seasons has reached eight and barring a small miracle the Knicks will miss the playoffs for the seventh time since 2001. Danilo Gallinari, Walshs first draft pick, is likely headed for back surgery and an uncertain future. Chris Duhon, Walshs first significant free-agent signing, is crawling to the finish line.
When youre trying to build a team, it takes times, says Walsh, the Knicks third president since 1999. People dont leave you great teams. I knew it would be hard. But basically, I wanted to see the players I had and work from there. The last thing I wanted to do was rip everything apart from the start. I wanted to look at the pieces we had.
Walsh understood the inherent risks of making in-season trades, particularly at the trading deadline, and blames himself for disrupting the teams chemistry by orchestrating deals designed to help the Knicks in the future.
I have to take responsibility for that, Walsh says.
But Walsh, always looking at the big picture, made the decision to trade the contracts of Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford in November because losing in the short term could lead to the Knicks signing a major free agent in two summers: That free agent may or may not be LeBron James and/or Chris Bosh. But getting under the salary cap gives the Knicks something they havent had in over 10 years: the opportunity to upgrade their roster with proven talent.
When the Knicks were under the salary cap in the summer of 1996, the club signed free agents Allan Houston and Chris Childs and also acquired Larry Johnson in a trade. Johnson and Houston were starters and Childs was the backup point guard on teams that reached two conference finals and one NBA Final.
We made the trades primarily for the cap space, Walsh says. But I also think the players we got back have helped us. I wanted Cuttino Mobley but he wasnt able to play (due to a heart condition). He would have been an important player.
But Im happy with the team. The players have played hard and I have a lot of faith in Mike (DAntoni). Hes a very good coach and at the end of the year well sit down and decide what were going to do.
The summer will be a critical time for the Knicks. They have a first-round pick and will have to decide what to do with their restricted free agents, David Lee and Robinson. Walsh can also free up additional salary cap room if he can somehow trade Eddy Curry and Jared Jeffries.
In typical Walsh style, he isnt tipping his hand. Now 68, and eight months after having a small cancerous tumor removed from his tongue, Walsh seems more determined than ever to finish the job.
He is a constant presence at practice, where he can evaluate the roster each day. He has attended every home game, has made several road trips and was in Los Angeles two weeks ago to scout the Pac-10 tournament. Having been forced to quit smoking last summer after the cancer scare, Walsh looks better and appears re-energized.
And in a corporate environment that devoured his predecessors - Scott Layden and Thomas - Walsh has remained true to himself. He speaks regularly with Garden chairman James Dolan but he also tries to eat lunch with DAntoni every day after practice to talk basketball.
I love being around the team, Walsh says. I love going to practice every day. I know Im getting older and I still get nervous about everything. Just being an executive is not my tea. My cup of tea is running a team. My job is to build the team. When you do that, all the other things fall into place.
Walshs immediate goal is to rebuild the basketball product, but hes also been proactive in repairing the Knicks image. Addressing the teams infamous restrictive media policy has been on his agenda since last April and while there has been noticeable change - Walsh always makes himself available - old habits are hard to break. In keeping with tradition, at least two assistant coaches were warned by a member of the media relations staff to avoid certain beat reporters. Walsh says he doesnt condone such policies.
More importantly, Walsh is reconnecting with the Knicks past. He wants the teams former players to feel welcome at the Garden. It was Walshs idea to honor Knicks from each decade and last Monday the team welcomed back Richie Guerin, Willis Reed, Bernard King and Patrick Ewing. As Walsh greeted each player at midcourt, he said the moment nearly brought him to tears.
It was a great night, Walsh says. Its important to recognize these great players and celebrate history. I wanted to do it.
All that remains is for Walsh to create his own piece of history, one that would include the clubs first championship since 1973.
Hey, I knew this would be a difficult job, Walsh says. But thats what appeals to me. If I cant do it Id be the first one to say it.
I gave him a B mainly because the Marbury thing wasn't handled well. Besides that, he's done a very good job.
Wow, the paper said it, so it must be so, just like when they were comparing Curry to Ewing. Please, Walsh hasn't done anything special. Chicago, just like lots of other teams: Washington, Philly, G-State, Cleveland, wanted to get rid of Larry Hughes. Harrington and Crawford are essentially scorers, and we just replaced one with another. The Randolph trade dumped Mobley and Thomas on us, which has left us paying a guy who can't even play.
One of the already signed Knicks, not Thomas, and Jerome James for Hughes might have been okay. Better yet, waive James and free up a roster spot for a hungry, cheap player, like the Rockets did with Von Wafer and the Clippers did with that kid they had the other day. Let Marbury know that the minute he gets stupid, he's waived and let him play as a back up to Duhon. Keep Zach, who, if you look at his numbers is definitely not overpaid, based on how great of a lowpost threat, rebounding and offense machine, he is. Bring in Lopez to stabilize the middle, by controlling the boards and intimidating penetration, while also playing the pick and roll with Marbury, Duhon and Craw. You keep a solid bench of guys that include Lee, Nate and Marbury, and you have a team that can compete.
As time moves on, you get the cap space to sign a superstar, or you get one from the draft, which makes the team a contender, more than just a playoff team.
I gave him A. He have done what he said he would do. Dump salary and rebuild with the future in mind, but most of all he gave me hope again. Something I haven't had in long long time as a fan. Donnie Walsh is my man.
i give him a B only because he hasn't provided us with a true center and a legit no.1 option, soon though that B will become an A
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
Being an ole Knick-Fan for 40 years I gave Walsh a C-minus for not being able to deal with the max contract he gave to Jermain O'Neal, and not having the guts or intelligence to deal with Marbury and Zach for just one full season.
Does Walsh deserve high praise for deliberately Tanking his first season as the Knick-President? I dont think so.
Is it hard or complicated for a team to get below the salary cap within a 2 and a half year span? I dont think so.
All the moves Walsh made from March 2008 to March 2009 shows he will need several miracles this 2009 offseason to not give Utah a Lottery draft pick.
The most important thing about Curry this season is his $9.7M salary and being this teams best low-post scorer.
Inwhich President, management, and coaching-staff found no interest in getting Curry into game shape this season when they found out he was out of shape in October 2008.
What would've been the action and reaction of "Curry & James (our $85M investment)" if we would've drafted Brook Lopez whom was a 5th round pick in the 2008 draft?
Which gives us 3-Centers
Dantoni already had plans of grabbing FA-Duhon while in Phoenix so before draft night Dantoni knew he was adding PG-Duhon to the list of Knick guards PG/SG-Marbury, SG-Crawford, PG/SG-Nate, and PG-Collins.
Which gives us 5-Guards.
What Dantoni did not think was important was our Fowards which does all the rebounding....we had Balkman, Lee, and Zach....which was the 3-strongest-rebounders on this team to average 43-rebounds as a team.
To give up one (Balkman) of our rebounders and get no rebounder to replace him may not hurt the team much.
But to give up two (Balkman & Zach) of our rebounders and get nothing to replace them but a person to pick up their pay check is a "sign" of cluelessness or tanking in our new regime.
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The Knicks having 7-Fowards under contract before the 2008 draft of Zach, Malik, Q.Richardson, Jefferies, Lee, Balkman, and Chandler (above $40M salary this season)....adding another foward to this $$$ list of Fowards the new foward (Gallo) would have to be sold as Larry Bird....for the manager to explain to his boss.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
i give him a C.. the roster at the begining of the year was last years more or less, he made lots of moves midyear, and now the roster is at about the same talent level as we started the year.
we have had little improvement, and i don;t see the building blocks in place for the future, espec a roster where if we plug in a lebron (or a wade), we become a contender.
i hope walsh has a master plan.
I'm so sick and tired of people thinking a team of Marbury, Crawford, Chanlder, Randolph, and Lopez would have won a championship. At best they would have squeaked into the playoffs. And after being quickly dumped out of the playoffs we would have been in the same salary cap mess without a lottery pick.
Due to Walsh we have cap flexibility and a ton of expiring contracts that during the offseason will be very intriguing to alot of teams. Once the Raptors and Hawks realize they won't be able to sign Bosh and Johnson after next season they are going to go out looking for teams with young talent (Lee, Chandler, Robinson, this years lottery pick) and expiring contracts (duhon, hughes, harrington, Q Rich) and start talking trades and since Donnie Walsh was able to give us cap flexibility we can be in the running to land one of these players. If we kept Crawford, and Randolph we wouldn't even be in the discussion to land these players.
Some people don't want Lebron (which is stupid) and i agree that we may not be able to land him but to go into the summer of 2010, the biggest summer in the history of free agency. Without the ability to be a major player would be a damm shame. Donnie Walsh to this point has given us the ability and flexibility to be a major player come 2010.
Me and a couple of others said that they would have made the playoffs.
16 teams make the playoffs, and only 1 win the championship, in case you didn't know.
There's a huge difference between making the playoffs and winning a championship.
Please expand your vocabulary, so that you can tell the difference between the two.
Also, if you would have read the thread, I made some good points.
#1-Marbury had an expiring contract, so the Knicks could have used him this year and then let him go.
#2- Jamal Crawford has an opt out clause on his contract. The Knicks could have used him this year and got rid of him afterwards.
#3- Zach Randolph is a top 10 power forward. You do not trade 20 point, 10 rebound players for Larry Hughes who has 25 million dollars left on his contract and sucks, and Cuttino Mobley who retired and is still owed 16 million dollars.
#4- Brook Lopez > Danilo Gallinari
Lopez can block shots, rebound, and post up. Gallinari can't do any of those things.
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