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Are Educational Institutions responding to the challenges of teaching and learning in the 21st Century?
The Digital Age offers all sorts of opportunities for learners ranging from the formal to the informal, from the Web to the classroom and the studio. Why do educational institutions continue to rely on traditional models of learning? Why have schedules, disciplines and departments remained the same as in the 20th Century? Why has the architecture of schools changed so little? How have learners changed?
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Mar 2 2011: Short remark. How can you learn this in University's : http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/universities-teach-harry-potter-classes-2136367.html
Really aren't there more interesting things in life to be learned ?
"St. Catherine College in St. Paul, Minnesota
A literature class requiring the reading of all seven J.K. Rowling books for group discussions. The final project lets students create a Hogwarts character for a computer game."
I don't see how this can help an individual in life.
As Jamie Oliver said in one of his TED conferences, we should learn how to cook first. In research for innovation we are loosing the basic skills we need to know.
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The title is rather self explanatory. Might be a little bit of crossover sometime later on.
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-There might be some minor crossover between different bands that I like.
-If you have any suggestions/comments/anything PLEASE review and tell me. Hell if you want email me. I really don't mind talking.
-And if you want a certain character/yourself in the story give me details, and LOTS of them. :] I'll try to get them/you in as best as I can or see fit. :D
-Oh thoughts are in Italics
-Sometimes the POV will switch, I'll be sure to let you know if it does. I'm not sure if it will quite yet, but it's just a heads up. :]
Alrighty, well I'm sure you're sick of me babbling, so without further adu, I bid you the first chapter of this story! :]
The first little bit is mostly filler just to let you know! But it WILL get better! Promise! :D
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Skye Agumenti was just your typical teen punk. In fact she was a little on the normal side, if you can grasp her type of normal. Her mother and father didn't care for her. Father always told her that she was a mistake while mother drank away all her worries.
She always wore black, maybe not from head to foot, but it was in her wardrobe. Her hair was a deep brown with a hint of black. Her glasses were dark purple, people mistook them for black though. She almost always had a coat of eyeliner on her light blue eyes. Sometimes her eyes even looked gray.
Some of her clothes were custom made, bought normal then transformed. She loved transforming her clothes, she loved the abnormal. She was one of the nicest people you could meet. She was on the quiet side and always did what she was told. She never rebelled and loved animals. Where that comes into play will be later.
Skye was on her way to English. She had written her term paper, five and a half pages to be exact. Five and a half pages in her small handwriting from front to back. She got to her English class and walked in, but nobody was there. She was confused, and in fact realized there wasn't anyone in the hallway as well. She set down her paper on the teachers desk.
She was wearing a black and white skirt over a pair of black jeans. The skirt was cut diagonal from her knees down. Her shirt was a band tee, it was for The Ramones. It was fitted as well. Her feet bore black and white checkered vans with skulls on them. Her dark brown hair was tied back in a pony-tail. Her bangs framed the right side of her face; side bangs.
Skye looked around trying to figure out why nobody was there. Not even the teacher. She adjusted her glasses before walking into the hallway. She heard a scream and quickly looked around to find nobody. "What's going on?"
She heard running footsteps and watched as her best friend rounded the corner. "Shelby?" Shelby tackled her friend in a hug crying her heart out. "Shelby, what's wrong?", Skye was very much confused. "Brian's d-dead!", Shelby sobbed. Brian was Shelby's boyfriend. "What? How?", Skye realized that Shelby got quiet. "Shhh...", Shelby paused, "Skye, run", Shelby herself got up and ran.
Skye was utterly confused. After Shelby's footsteps faded away she heard another set. They were going quite slow. She stood up and looked the way Shelby came from. There was a silhouette of a person walking slowly towards Skye. Skye backed up a few steps and realized that there was someone coming up behind her as well. She looked around for somewhere to hide, she ran back into her English classroom and hid in the corner. There was a huge tree in front of her, her teacher was quite festive.
She listened quite intently, hearing the footsteps stop. She didn't dare move though. "I wish I would have run with Shelby, but I just had to be overly curious again!" It was then that she heard someone enter the classroom. She shrunk into a smaller ball, if that was possible. She overheard the two people talking.
"She went in here." "Are you sure?" "Yeah." "No, I mean are you sure she's the one?" "Yeah, the other wasn't. She must be." "But what if she's not?" "Then she dies, like the rest." "Don't you think that's a little brutal?" There was a short silence. "Never mind." The two people continued their search. It was then that the tree was pulled away to reveal Skye's hiding spot. She squeaked. One of the people smiled, they didn't look much older than herself. She got up and tried to run but a pair of hands found her arm and pulled her back. She screamed, "Let me go!"
The boy holding her laughed, "Sorry." He checked her pulse and smiled, "You're perfect." Skye was confused but figured she shouldn't talk. Then she saw him lean down towards her, she pushed him back, "Leave me alone!" He laughed, "Told you." He looked over to the other hooded person. The other person just rolled his eyes.
Skye could only stay quiet as she was taken away somewhere. She didn't know where she was going and she wanted to know. She tried to get them to let her go, obviously that hadn't worked. She tried to scream and struggle but they were both strong.
The boy that was carrying her had short black hair, it was spiked up. She had, by then, enough time to realize that he had green eyes and long looking sharp teeth. He was wearing some type of hooded cloak. He was stronger than a normal human because normally Skye could get out of any grip.
He was carrying her over his shoulder, her head at his back. She was staring at the ground, the other boy was following them. After a couple more hours she was bored, "Where are you taking me?" It was the first time she had spoken in a while. "Home", the boy carrying her said. She sighed. "They're not going to talk to me."
After a while Skye had fallen asleep. She awoke in a strange place. It was damp, it was dark, it was creepy.
It was a dungeon.
She was shackled to the wall from her ankle. She curled up with her knees to her chest, once again in a corner. She went from crying to shouting to becoming mute. She was confused, scared and didn't know what to do.
"If she's the chosen one why the hell are you chaining her up?!", Frank yelled. (Note: It's not Tre, it's Frank from My Chemical Romance. Interpret his look as you wish. :) "Because I don't want her messing anything up", Billie calmly said. Frank was the only one who actually treated him with disrespect, although he probably deserved it every once in a while.
"Please, leave me be. I have my reasons", Billie said as Frank was about to say something more. Frank frowned and said, "As you wish", he left with a small bow. Billie was left in silence. "She doesn't know what's going to become of her. She doesn't need to interfere with the future before it happens. Waiting is key."
Most of this is filler. I hope you enjoyed and I hope that I get some reviews. They're always nice. If I don't get at least ONE review then no story. None at all.
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That Empty Lot Problem? Solved.
While the recession has put a damper on development along San Francisco's Octavia Boulevard, the mayor's office has reached out to Douglas Burnham of Envelope A+D to come up with something cool to temporarily fill the two vacant lots that front Hayes Green at the intersection of Octavia and Fell.
Burnham's plan sounds like a lot of fun. He plans to transform the space into a mini-shopping, dining, and entertainment destination called PROXY–using a series of modular units that will be recyclable in two or three years when things ratchet up again. The vision includes a group of pop-up stores, a food court served by "slow food" carts, an art gallery, and a courtyard for projecting outdoor movies. Design-wise, the spaces will make their transient nature apparent, revealing their infrastructure (e.g., wiring, water storage) and their modular assembly.
Pint-Sized City
AN contributor Christina Chan sends this wee report from Irvine:
Pretend City is populated entirely by kids–this mini replica of a city is Irvine's newest children's museum. The 28,000-square-foot facility, which just opened its doors to visitors, has taken over a decade to come to fruition. Philanthropists Alexandra Airth and Sandra Peffer are behind the new mini-metropolis. The museum includes interactive learning exhibits geared for kids up to eight years of age.The city includes a farm where little ones can learn about the food they consume, a ATM for financial learning, a café with mock ovens and menus, and a beach that will teach about the effects of pollution. And for budding architects, there is even a construction site where kids (and perhaps grown-ups, too) can build structures with wooden planks.
How Fruity?
Friday, August 28, 2009
Matt Chaban.
Just a reminder that everyone has until Tuesday, September 1, to make their submissions to the Redesign Your Farmers Market competition launched earlier this month by us, GOOD, The Urban & Enviromental Policy Institute at Occidental College, and the LA Good Food Network. They've updated the submission guidelines, so be sure to check 'em out, as well as three proposals that have already gotten the thumbs up.
Gehry Shines in Court
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Matt Chaban.
He may have lost Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, but at least Frank Gehry won't have to forfeit half the proceeds from his jewelry line designed for Tiffany & Co. Yesterday, a judge threw out a case from Culver City-based Circa charging it was owed a fee for a 2003 agreement it struck with the Santa Monica designer for half the profits from any jewelry deal, though it was apparently rescinded a year later, though the two sides differ on this point. Gehry later entered into a direct deal with Tiffany, excluding Circa and its proprietors, Fred and Anthony Nicholas, though people at the company claim to have introduced the architect to New York jeweler. "I couldn't understand why he wanted so much money for doing nothing," Gehry told NBC LA outside the courthouse following LA Superior Court judge Jane Johnson's decision not to hear the case. Maybe this explains the tagline for Gehry's Tiffany line: "Beauty Without Rules."
Architect as.. Indiana Jones?
TV program developer William Wiegman is looking for a sexy architect (yes, that does exist) to host a new reality show he's pitching that "takes viewers on an exploration of the world's most famous rooftops." Details on the show are still vague (the producers don't want anyone stealing their ideas…), but according Wiegman, the "architect must be photogenic, male, 30-45, adventurous, and have an engaging personality on-camera. He must possess the physical agility of a rock climber and the intellectual prowess of an architectural historian." Good idea, because this architect needs to be filmed standing on building roofs, among other things. Send resume and photos to email@example.com. Deadline for submissions is September 20.
Only In Vegas
After a recent visit we saw that Las Vegas' 18 million square-foot City Center project, with buildings by Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, Helmut Jahn, Rafael Vinoly, and KPF, among others, is well underway. In fact despite delays (remedied by foreign investors), the project's web site still claims it will be done by this year. We also noticed that Libeskind's new building is sporting a conspicuous Louis Vuitton logo. Only in Vegas.
Oy, Danny, What a Mezuzah!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Matt Chaban.
Some of the greatest architects happen to be Jewish, such as Frank Gehry, Louis Kahn, and Robert A.M. Stern. Some are unabashedly so, and none more than Daniel Libeskind. The Polish-born accordion prodigy of two Holocaust survivors, Libeskind made his name designing for the Chosen People, beginning with his first and arguably best work, the Jewish Museum Berlin. Others have followed, such as the Felix Nussbaum Haus, the Danish Jewish Museum, the Wohl Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and, most recently, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. As if that weren't enough, Liebeskind has now designed a mezuzah for that same museum. Read More
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Editors.
Now that Donald Fisher's CAMP project in San Francisco is officially dead, talk is swirling about where the Gap founder's art collection will go. The whispers have focused on one obvious suspect: SFMOMA, which has already begun planning a 100,000-square-foot expansion that could get even bigger. One rumor has it that the museum is talking to the city about acquiring an adjoining fire station and building a new one elsewhere in return, in order to offer the Fishers their own digs. SFMOMA director Neal Benezra coyly parried questions with the comment: "We welcome the opportunity to partner with the Fishers to find a home for their collection as part of an expanded SFMOMA campus." Read More
Pulp Fiction
He had my wrists now, instead of me having his. He twisted them behind me fast and a knee like a corner stone went into my back. He bent me. I can be bent. I'm not the City Hall.
Leave it to Raymond Chandler to come up with architectural descriptions that pack a wallop. Excerpts of the taut prose that would define a whole genre of American fiction are brilliantly paired with Catherine Corman's photographs of the L.A. of the 1930s and '40s in her new book, Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City (Charta, $40). The evocative black-and-white images taken by Corman–who is the daughter of horror-movie maven Roger Corman–linger with great deliberation on architectural details like an arch or a building corner, turning each page into a world of suspense. With a poetic forward by Jonathan Lethem: "If architecture is fate, then it is Marlowe's fate to enumerate the pensive dooms of Los Angeles, the fatal, gorgeous pretenses of glamour and ease…" Altogether, a thoroughly enjoyable way to "read" a building.
Pre-CAD: Architects With A Sketch Pad
Monday, August 17, 2009
Michael Webb.
Rare drawings by major architects are on display at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, a new gallery at 6018 Wilshire Blvd, across from LACMA. Highlights include Frank Lloyd Wright's sketch of an unrealized ocean-front house for Ayn Rand, the semiliterate guru of the loony right; a color pastel rendering by Richard Neutra of the Tremaine house in Montecito, and floor plans of the Empire State Building. Carlos Diniz, the LA illustrator, created a presentation drawing for Minoru Yamasaki, showing how tenants might exploit the unbroken floor plan to create an interior townscape. The most surprising feature of the exhibition is Berlin Underground, a suite of twenty drawings by Lebbeus Woods. Commisioned by the Aedes Gallery of Berlin in 1988, a year before the Wall came down, they imagined a subterranean link between the two halves of the divided city. Woods' tortured vision evokes alien life, lurking beneath the surface and bursting into view at the Alexanderplatz. On view until October 10 and after the jump. Read More
Americana goes prefab
Friday, August 14, 2009
Sam Lubell.
LA architects Taalman Koch have taken their prefab sensibility from projects like the Off Grid iT House in Pioneertown to, of all places, The Americana at Brand, Grove-developer Rick Caruso's latest lifestyle center/historic town recreation/playland in Glendale. The project, created for marketing and event company Sparks Exhibitions, is a temporary demo space for the new Palm Pre on the Americana's large central lawn. The 12×20 structure (with a 12×16 deck) was constructed in about 12 hours on site. It was made with aluminum framing, swiss pearl walls, galvanized steel roof, and redwood floors, all prefabricated off site and tested at Spark's factory. "When it got to the Americana it was completely ready; we didn't even need a tape measure," said Taalman Koch principal Alan Koch. The structure's next stop, on Monday, is The Grove itself, where it will stay for two weeks. Read More
Autry Not Expanding Anymore
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Sam Lubell.
Plans for a $175 million expansion project for The Autry National Center of the American West in LA's Griffith Park have been shelved. The expansion was proposed for the Autry's Southwest Museum of the American Indian (the Center's other two cultural facilities include the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West). But according to the LA Times, its approval hinged on the Autry making a commitment to support the museum as a fully functioning art institution. And in a letter delivered to members of the Los Angeles City Council today, the Autry stated that such a commitment "would be irresponsible" and that it was withdrawing its proposal. As pointed out by Curbed LA, the Autry had put forward a contemporary-style proposal by architect Brenda Levin last spring, which would basically have doubled the museum's size, from 142,000 square feet to 271,000 square feet, including exhibition and visible storage space for the collection. To see a walkthrough of the plans with Levin, visit here. The Autry says it will still care for the Southwest's Native American art collection and historic building, and that they will convert Autry storage space into more galleries.
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Media Warfare Is the Middle East's Latest Blood Sport—and the U.S. Is the Loser
Who owns the widespread and influential new Arab media, source of much of our news about the region?
Earlier this week, Al Jazeera staffers were driven out of a news briefing held by the Egyptian military—apparently because of perceptions by those in the crowd that the Doha-based network is biased toward the Muslim Brotherhood government. This incident is only the latest salvo in what's emerging as an ongoing media war in the Middle East. Last month I wrote about the Middle East media war and its role in the real-world conflict in the Middle East pitting the Sunni powers—from the Arab states in the Persian Gulf to Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey—against the Iranian-led resistance bloc of mostly Shia states and organizations like Hezbollah, Syria, and, increasingly, Iraq, whose bloodiest battlefield right now is in Syria, but which is claiming lives and minds throughout the Middle East.
Pushing the resistance bloc's narrative are a host of media organizations, including the Beirut-based daily newspapers Al-Akhbar, publishing in Arabic as well as English, and As-Safir, as well as the newly founded satellite TV station Al Mayadeen, which is reportedly owned by Bashar al-Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf.
Promoting the Sunni narrative of the media war—and of the shooting war in Syria—are the two giants of Arab satellite TV: Al Jazeera, which is supported financially and politically by the emir of Qatar, and Al Arabiya, which is owned by a consortium led by members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family. There are also various other television stations, newspapers, and websites representing the interests of Persian Gulf Arab powers, including the two great pan-Arab daily newspapers Asharq al-Awsat and Al-Hayat—which are both owned by members of the Saudi royal family and headquartered in London. Where satellite television has captured the largest audiences, these two papers publish leading Arab intellectuals in their op-ed pages while faithfully chronicling the opinions and policies of Riyadh decision-makers for other Arab elites throughout the region.
In Beirut, the other great center of Arabic media, are a number of other media outfits aligned with Gulf Arab interests, like Future-TV, owned by the family of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Since Lebanon borders Syria, where the Sunni-Shia shooting war is presently most active, Beirut is effectively the front line of the media war.
Yet up until the beginning of the uprising against Syria, the Sunni-owned press was anything but unified. The purpose of the Arab media is to advance the interests of states, regardless of what those interests might be from moment to moment. Where the old Arab media was directly owned and controlled by states, today's Arab newspapers and satellite TV stations are owned either by the ruling families of Arab states, or by powerful people whose political and financial interests are tied to states, who can afford the nicest studios and the largest production budgets for their ventures, and whose profits are measured in influence rather than dollars.
The difference between stations owned by states or by wealthy individuals who run states or are dependent on states may not sound important—but it is. Before the advent of broadcast media, Arab rulers were largely able to ensure that their subjects knew only what the local state-controlled media wanted them to believe. It wasn't until the 1950s that the information barrier walling off individual Arab states from the rest of the world was crashed—by an Arab ruler, Gamal abd el-Nasser of Egypt. Nasser was the most charismatic Arab leader of modern times, but his voice wouldn't have carried from western North Africa to the Persian Gulf littoral if it weren't for American technology and the financial assistance of the CIA. Nasser's Voice of the Arabs radio station was broadcast on a powerful frequency that allowed the Egyptian leader, who came to power in a military coup, to reach into homes, cars, and coffee shops across the region where he often stirred up local populations against their rulers—in Iraq, Jordan, and especially Saudi Arabia. Nasser used radio to advance Egyptian foreign policy, while damaging the prestige of his rivals whom he often painted—ironically, for a president speaking from a media pedestal built by the CIA—as American stooges.
If some Arab states eventually learned how to block information dangerous to them and advantageous to their rivals, two new technologies changed the game once and for all: satellite television and the Internet. If Arab regimes were incapable of deterring the global flow of information, the new information technologies also made it possible for them to project influence and power far outside their borders. The media revolutions of the past 15 years in the Arab world turned every local Arab potentate into a potential pan-Arab leader.
Al Jazeera is the most famous example of the shift from old media to new media in the Arab world. Built on the rubble of a failed BBC effort to create an Arab satellite station, Al Jazeera hired the BBC staffers and started up operations in 1996. While Al Jazeera's Western-style production values and its free-wheeling journalistic style and (relative) openness to the Arab public have often earned it high praise from Western media experts, the aim of the Doha-based network was strictly old school: to advance the interests of its host and chief funder, the emir of Qatar. Specifically, Al Jazeera was created to counter the influence of Saudi Arabia—and to drive the Saudi ruling family crazy.
With a population of less than 27 million, Saudi Arabia is nonetheless the most important advertising market in the Arabic-speaking Middle East—since its citizens can afford to buy consumer goods on a first-world scale (by comparison, Egypt has 80 million people, but very few Egyptians can afford to buy foreign cars, or even lower-ticket items like refrigerators and washing machines). The size and wealth of the Saudi consumer market made the kingdom into the de facto capital of Arab media, even if many Saudi media properties have never shown a profit.
Al Jazeera's news networks have also never been in the black, but this matters little to an Arab ruler sitting on enormous natural gas reserves and hungry for regional influence. In building his media empire, the Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (who announced last week he was handing power on to his son) followed one of the old rules of the Arab press—if you want attention, find the biggest guy on the block and kick him in the knees. In response to Al Jazeera's aggression against the old Arab order, the Dubai-based, and majority-Saudi owned, Al Arabiya satellite network went on air in 2003 with the purpose of pushing back in favor of the Saudis.
Frequently described as the moderate alternative to the Doha satellite TV powerhouse, Al Arabiya represents the interests of a country that is closely allied with the United States and has no interest in promoting the revolutionary energies that long seemed to galvanize the Al Jazeera staff. For instance, it is unlikely that Al Arabiya's executives and journalists are any more kindly disposed to Israel than Al Jazeera's. But the Saudis would never have dreamed of celebrating on live TV, like Al Jazeera did, the release of Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese prisoner held by Israel for 29 years for murdering three Israelis, including a 4-year-old child whose head the hero of resistance bashed in. Al Jazeera presented Kuntar with a cake.
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I have raved about Da Mario on a number of occasions, simply everything you could ever want in an Italian restaurant: family-run, great food, inventive specials, lovely wines, charming service, nice surroundings, good vibe, no hassle of any kind, and no serious damage to your wallet. Perfect. Unbeatable.
I'm spending most of my time in Dubai these days, and what I wouldn't give for a Da Mario out here. I've been reading the latest reviews just to remind myself of what I'm missing, and I couldn't resist chipping in again.
I'll be back in London in October, and no prizes for guessing where I'll be heading!
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, July 11, 2013
One of the better Italian restaurants in the area. Fair value but still not cheap. Two average starters, (very good) sea bass and seafood spaghetti for mains, and two coffees came to £52 (including service) Pleasant and helpful service.
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Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 6
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Four years in London and still one of the best family-run Italian restaurants. Perfect for italian food lovers, food lovers, romantic dates and small groups of friends or colleagues.
Italian food is easy to make, some even say it tastes better at home, but because its easy it must be cooked to perfection.
I believe that an Italian knows that serving a good wine is everything.A real Italian restaurant will not dare to serve wine which tastes like diluted vinegar. A good Italian will offer a range of national wines. An excellent Italian will pick the best national canteens per grape variety.
Da Mario is an excellent italian restaurant. Da Mario has always managed to keep high standards throughout the years serving clean, tasty and appetising courses.
What i truly love about this restaurant is its menu which always has an additional daily special allowing the customer to try different, less renowned yet still beautifully cooked dishes.
The service it extremely welcoming and i would say very Italian. Professional, with good and clear explanations, sometimes accompanied with a joke and most important of all with an Italian accent.
Let's begin. An appetiser will lead you into the meal. My favorite are the cold dishes whether its a caprese or a delicate carpaccio di tonno.
The pastas are a joy to watch, to smell and you cannot wait to for them to be served. You will find yourself staring at the table next to you thinking "delicious". My favourite above all is the spaghetti al sapore di mare (seafood spaghetti). i truly recommend the tagliolini al tartufo nero (black truffle), the ravioli burro e salvia and the daily special because they are, as i said, fantastic.
As a second course, if you're still hungry, I would suggest choosing for yourself as everyone has different preferences. I had some very nice tiger prawns, a lovely fegato alla veneziana (not everyone's favorite) and a very tasty veal.
Did not really like the branzino unfortunately.
Dessert is always a strong point. What can i say "the simplest things are always the best". I cannot emphasis how breath taking the tiramisu is although i'm more of an affogato al caffč type of person.
Da Mario can promise a genuine and memorable experience. What it cannot promise is a table as it's either fully booked or simply full specially on a saturday.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
We were so lucky to find this lovely restaurant in Covent Garden. The food i had, exceeded all expectations, the best i had for long time and the fact that on a Monday night we had to wait for a table suggests that it is popular restaurant for a reason. We will definitely be back.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Food is excellent, service very professional and a lovely atmosphere. We will go back when back in london and tell all our friends..
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Friday, May 04, 2012
it was ok. nothing special. may return if in the area.
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Food 5 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 4
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Another visit (5th) to Da Marios proves yet again a fantastic evening with great food. Staff still friendly and efficient and food tasty and very good value. Will return.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, December 02, 2011
A truly excellent experience. This is definitely one to come back to.
Food - wow. I'm only dropping a point because I thought certain items were lacking in flavour. But every other aspect was spot on. All ingredients were cooked to perfection and the presentation was worthy of a Michelin star.
Their service is an example to all other restaurants. I was early for a booking but they didn't make a fuss. They just made a few notes on their sheet, gave me a table and made a joke out of it. Given that this was their busiest night of the week, I thought this was quite impressive. I would have accepted a short wait. Furthermore, even on their busiest night, they didn't keep anyone waiting. The kitchen must have been flat out.
The decor in this place is amazing! It's very modern - rather like one of those showcase dining rooms in a home improvement store, but with a lived-in look. It is a bit cramped but the use of space doesn't make you feel uneasy. You're not knocking elbows with other diners. It would be quite easy to have a private conversation here.
And I have no idea how they do all this for the price. With two three-course meals plus drinks for around £50, I do hope this restaurant will be open for a long time to come.
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Washington Examiner Watchdog investigative reporter Mark Flatten has been named the 2014 recipient of the American Legion's Fourth Estate Award.
Flatten's series on the Department of Veterans Affairs - "Making America's Heroes Wait" - was cited by the American Legion in announcing the award.
"The National Media and Communications Commission met during our spring meetings in Indianapolis and selected the reports as being in the best tradition of the Fourth Estate Award program, which honors excellence in journalism that was instrumental in bringing a positive change to the community, state or nation."
The award-winning series appeared from Feb. 10 through Feb 14 and can be read here.Mark Tapscott is executive editor of the Washington Examiner.


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With God, I can.
Honestly, I am so afraid about the results of my exams last week. I admit that I did not study my lessons so hard. I was even lax and didn't take UP's exams seriously. I am totally unprepared for each exam, and after each one, I go out of the Lecture Hall feeling condemned and full of regrets.
Later, I think, I will know where all my idleness has gotten me into. I'm so scared. I prayed to the Father for strength and courage to face everything, regardless of how good or how bad it may be. I prayed for peace, for joy and for the stillness in spirit so I will still be able to smile, smile, and smile.
However, God gave me more than what I am asking. I can never take back what happened in my exams last week, but He told me, "Your story doesn't end here, beloved. You've learned your lesson, and I've never left you. It's not too late. Just trust me okay? This semester's not over. Abide in me, and I will infuse in you a love and passion for your studies more than what you've had before. I will enable you, because this is my grace. I will never leave you alone in your studies."
With God, it's never too late. He always teaches me that. I know there isn't such a thing as 'no more hope.' As long as I walk with God, and always be conscious that He is in control, I know that I am headed to good things.
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Indictment in Auburn YouTube pot bust
The reflection at left in this image captured from YouTube was used by authorities to identify Kyle Berry, 40, of Auburn, who was indicted this month on felony drug charges. (JAMES A. KIMBLE / FILE PHOTO)
Kyle Berry, 40, now faces up to 7 1/2 to 15 years on a pair of felony drug charges alleging he intended to sell the marijuana he was growing in his Auburn apartment in January.
Berry, who is free on bail, will be arraigned on the charges later this month in Rockingham County Superior Court.
A grand jury indicted him on felony counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to sell, manufacture of a controlled drug and a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled drug.
The Rockingham County Sheriff's Department began watching Berry's YouTube account after receiving a tip from a confidential informant around Dec. 20.
Berry had posted a total of 35 videos featuring him speaking about the progress of his growing operation, preferred soils and the variety of marijuana plants sprouting up under heat lamps and fans.
Deputies began collecting information about him, including his home address, a booking photo from a November 2010 jail stint, and a driver's license photo.
He was arrested shortly after one video showed a reflection of his on a foil-covered wall.
Berry, who used the YouTube handle "beginnergrowerktb1," said in a posting a few days after his arrest that his aunt was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.
"I'm not a drug dealer," Berry wrote in the comments section of one of his videos. "All I wanted to do is help my aunt. I'm not a bad person. All I wanted to do is give my aunt a chance, and if not, at least make her comfortable."
In one video, Berry brags about how his U.K.-based seed supplier, Herbies seeds, "packages things stealthily to avoid detection" by mislabeling the contents, Deputy Sgt. Jay Murphy said in an affidavit.
"As you can see, it's very secretly stealth," Berry allegedly says on the Oct. 17 video. "They have it down as a video game. Awesome, right?"
But the video also shows the package has Berry's name on it, followed by the narrator opening it to reveal packages of marijuana seeds inside.
Deputies executed a search warrant at Berry's home finding the marijuana plants, a pound of loose marijuana and a variety of unknown chemicals that are being tested by the state, court records say.
Investigators with the state forensic laboratory and the Drug Enforcement Administration's Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team assisted with the search.
During an interview with investigators, Berry admitted to buying his grow equipment at a store in Manchester and ordering marijuana seeds from Herbies Seeds in the United Kingdom, Murphy said in the affidavit.
He told investigators he had been growing marijuana for about eight months.
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This week, the news has been about the swine flu, which has resurfaced aggressively and is now affecting communities throughout the world, killing more than 150 people in Mexico. Of course, it should be noted that the more common seasonal influenza causes approximately 36,000 deaths in the United States each year, just to keep things in perspective.
But it's a good time to ask about illnesses in the workplace. According to CCH Workplace Analyst Heidi Henson, JD, "A pandemic could affect as many as 40 percent of the workforce during periods of peak illness." Experts say that businesses should prepare a pandemic influenza plan in order to prepare for health emergencies involving their staff.
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2007 Tocopilla earthquake
|November 14, 2007
|7.7 Mw[1]
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|Quillagua, Tocopilla 22°11′20″S 69°50′35″W / 22.189°S 69.843°WCoordinates: 22°11′20″S 69°50′35″W / 22.189°S 69.843°W
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The 2007 Tocopilla earthquake occurred on November 14 at 15:40:53 UTC (12:40:53 local time). Its epicenter was located between the localities of Quillagua and Tocopilla, affecting the Tarapacá and the Antofagasta regions in northern Chile. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.7[1] and lasted about 3 minutes and 35 seconds.[3] Seventeen aftershocks of magnitude greater than 5.3, including one of magnitude 7.1 and two others of magnitude 6.3 or higher, were recorded.[4] The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning, stating a tsunami had been generated; after one hour, this warning was cancelled.[5][6]
The earthquake was felt from Santiago, 1,245 km south from the epicenter, to La Paz, about 700 km north-northeast.[7]
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The USGS reported that the earthquake resulted from the release of stresses generated by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca plate beneath the South American Plate. In this region, known as the Peru-Chile subduction zone, the Nazca Plate thrusts beneath South America at a rate of approximately 79 mm/year in an east-north-east direction. This earthquake indicates subduction-related thrusting, likely on the interface between these two plates.
This earthquake occurred near (and within) the southern end of the rupture area of the great magnitude 9.1 earthquake of 1877, which produced a destructive tsunami and whose source region has since the late 1970s been recognized as a potentially dangerous seismic gap. In 1995, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred in the same subduction zone approximately 200 km further south of the November 14th event.[8]
Damage and casualties[edit]
At least two deaths have been attributed to this earthquake, one being an 88-year old woman crushed under a collapsing wall at Tocopilla,[7] the other being a 54-year old woman, whose exact cause of death remains unknown. At least 150 were injured.[2][9] There were also reports of widespread power outages in the region, including the cities of Antofagasta, Calama and Arica. The earthquake disrupted copper mining in the region; because Chile is the world's top supplier of copper, the earthquake caused prices of the metal to jump by more than 6%. Tin prices also rose 4% to reach a record high.[10] There were reports of several dozens of road workers trapped inside a collapsed highway tunnel.[11]
200 homes were destroyed by the shaking and up to 15,000 people were displaced. In Tocopilla alone, 1,000 homes were demolished, representing 30% of all standing structures.[2]
See also[edit]
- 2007 Peru earthquake
- 2007 Aysen Fjord earthquake
- Earthquakes in Peru
- Great Chilean Earthquake
- List of earthquakes in Chile
- Plate tectonics
- ^ a b c Magnitude 7.7 Antofagasta, Chile by USGS
- ^ a b c Chile rattled by big aftershocks, BBC News
- ^ Terra.cl, 14/11/07, «Fuerte sismo sacudió esta tarde al Norte del País»
- ^ Magnitude 7.1, Antofagasta earthquake of 15 November 2007
- ^ NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
- ^ Cancellation bulletin issued by the PTWC
- ^ a b Strong earthquake shakes northern Chile, kills at least two AFP news report
- ^ Magnitude 7.7 - ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
- ^ Big earthquake kills two in Chile and hits mining, Reuters, Canada
- ^ Metals prices up after Chile quake The Australian Business
- ^ Workers trapped in tunnel collapse after quakes, Radio New Zealand News
External links[edit]
|Wikinews has related news: Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Antofagasta, Chile
- Oficina Nacional de Emergencia
- Report from the seismology service, University of Chile (in Spanish)
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.


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Gamecast: August 28th vs. Mets - No. 2 Starter
Pat Misch (0-1, 4.09 ERA) vs. Ted Lilly (3.40 ERA)
Story Lines
The Cubs still suck....so we are moving on to the second part of our series on the Cubs players returning (AS OF NOW) to the 2010 Chicago Cubs, because we have nothing better to write about.
Starting Pitcher - No. 2 Starter (Ted Lilly)
Contract 2009: 13 Million
Contract 2010:13 Million
Stats 2009: 9-8, 3.40 ERA in 135 innings. 116/27 K/BB Ratio with a 1.11 WHIP
Ted Lilly has more strikeouts and less walks than Carlos Zambrano. I understand the walks, but how are the strikeouts possible? That was the really a telling stat with me, not to mention Ted's 1.11 WHIP. I really think the Cubs were dealt their biggest blow this year when Ted hurt his knee, which led to his hurt shoulder. At the time, he was mowing people down and keeping the Cubs in contention. Then, the Cubs lose him for about a month, the wheels come off. As Paul Harvey would say, "Now you know the rest of the story."
For all of Jim Hendry's move like trading for Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee, there where moves like Milton Bradley and Alfonso Soriano. He's really hit and miss. I was SURE that Ted Lilly's signing was the dumbest thing he has ever done, and that included getting Jacques Jones. There was no way this signing would work, but Ted's that lefty every team needs. He keeps you in games, throws strikes and wins. He's not going to win 15 this year thanks to his time on the DL, but I expect him to really be out No. 1 next year (Don't forget he makes about five million less than Big Z). Hopefully, he will be heathly all next year and lead us to the World Series. The best thing is that Lilly does not get a crazy raise next year. He makes another 13 million, which is still a lot of money. It just so happens our next pitcher will make 13 million next year, and he really needs to improve to earn it next year.
Running Totals:
Payroll for 2010: 30.9 Million (Two Starting Pitchers)
Who's Hot
Aramis Ramirez - This is just a lost year for Aramis with the shoulder issues. I won't be surprised if they shut him down in a few weeks to let him get his shoulder scoped. That way he is well over 100% at the start of Spring Training next year. Anyway, he's hitting .374 in his last six games with four RBI.
Koyie Hill - Hill's batting .500 in his last three games and is cleary the better hitter right now. Geovany Soto just needs to head to winter ball and find his swing.
Who's Not
Alfonso Soriano - It's time to shut him down just for sucking so much. Come back next year and lets try this again. He's 1 for 10 in his last four games.
Ryan Theriot - He's 4 for 24 in his last six games with a .240 OBP. Can say you are going to score many runs with that number. Guess What? The Cubs aren't scoring many...hmm...I might be onto something.
Ted Lilly rocks, and he is going to pitch a gem today. Mark it down, folks...No David Wright, no Jose Reyes, No Jeff Francoeur....oh wait we wouldn't mind him playing...well still the Cubs will probably find a way to lose 1-0 with Angel Pagan hitting an inside the park home run to right.
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Mets
Do you remember where you were for the first game of the 2009 season? I was at a bar (big surprise) in Champaign watching the game with a few close friends. Soriano hit a lead-off home run, Zambrano was dealing for six innings, Ramirez smacked a dinger, Fontenot had three hits, a unicorn was born, and everything was right with the world.
Now only a few months later, we're playing mop-up games against the equally disappointing Mets after losing a series to the worst team in baseball at home. Eff-in-a.
If you read past the title of this post, then I commend you. I know many of you have given up on 2009 (myself included), so I'm surprised you're taking the time to read on as opposed to buying Jay Cutler Fatheads.
There really isn't much to look forward to as NYM rolls into town. The Mets are throwing what has essentially become a minor league squad onto the field as most of their stars are hurt.
Still, there is some value in these games. First, you could drink yourself silly in public if you happen to be attending (Remember, beer in stomach and not on Hawaiian people). Second, you can teach children sitting nearby that being a Cubs fan will most likely result in their early deaths due to stress-related issues. Or third, you can start over.
Since I believe the Cubs will have an extremely similar lineup in 2009 as they will next season due to some untradeable contracts, let's start getting ready. Welcome to Opening Day 2010.
The Matchups
August 28th – Pat Misch and Ted Lilly
Misch will be making his first start for the Mets this season and his first start since last season. He isn't exactly known as a strikeout pitcher (13 K's in 18.2 innings), so the Cubs should be able to make contact all day. Also, Misch is from Northbrook. To the people of Northbrook: your mall sucks because it's too clean. That freaks me out. Stop it.
TRL has been a beast at home this season going 6-1 with a 1.86 ERA. His goal in this game should simply be to shut down the Mets like I want to shut down those stupid ass Shaq/Ben Stein Comcast commercials. This game is all about focus and mental toughness for Lilly.
August 29th – Bobby Parnell vs. Ryan Dempster
Of all the starters the Mets will be featuring in this series, Parnerll has the most experience (and I use that term lightly) with 62.0 innings pitched. Too bad he has an 8.82 ERA as a starter in 2009. Woof. Lefties have a .389 OBP against Parnell and opposing hitters have a .404 OBP when he pitches on the road. That might have something to do with the ERA. Just saying.
Although Dempster's ERA is just barely above 4.00, the guy has really struggled this season. Some attribute this suckery to the fact that Dempster has never pitched back-to-back successful 200-inning seasons. Speaking of which, Dempster has thrown 143.2 innings of baseball this year (the most on the team). The guy just isn't a horse and he can't be relied on as such.
August 30th – Nelson Figueroa vs. Carlos Zambrano
It's almost insulting the lack of talent New York has on their team. Could you imagine if we were Mets fans? I'm not sure if we're better off though. Most of the major contributors on the Cubs are healthy yet they still suck. No excuses there. Anyway, Figueroa enjoyed success against the Fish because he said they were unfamiliar with all five of his pitches. Cubs have seen Figueroa a bit and he is 0-4 against them. Rut Roh.
Many will argue that Milton Bradley has been the biggest distraction on the 2009 team, but I'm going to give that honor to the Sullivan-branded Lay-Z-Boy. Bradley's a nice player with a lot of talent that I like, but Zambrano's stuff is just untouchable, yet he is unable to maximize even half of his potential. I would say Z should have a good game against this pea-shooter lineup, but who knows what will happen after the Nationals incident.
I've never considered myself a "Wait 'til Next Year" type of guy, but I think we're all resigned to the fate of this team. Unlike most teams that don't reach the playoffs though, I don't see the Cubs making any big changes in the offseason. Aside from a few bench spots, a couple bullpen roles, and perhaps a rotation gig, this team is pretty much set for next season.
So why not start treating it like next season? Say hello to your 2010 Chicago National League Ballclub.
Go Cubs.
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Game Recap: Mets 7, Cubs 6
The playoff roster roulette table keeps on spinning, and tonight Micah Hoffpauir made his statement against Pedro Martinez and the Mets. Hoffpauir went 5 for 5 tonight against New York, with a double, 2 homeruns, 5 runs driven in, and after the game he reportedly cleaned the Augean stables and captured the girdle of Hippolyte*. But, alas, the Cubs were doomed to lose anyway, thanks in part to Lou responsibly saving his top relievers for games that matter.
(*For Googlers of the Labors of Herakles, welcome. Thanks for the clicks. Sorry about not being what you were looking for. But for a great resource on Greek Myth, consult the Perseus Digital Library ... although if you want to be blown away by verifiable modern-day myth, just Google Micah Hoffpauir. Dude jacked 2 in one game tonight.)
Speaking of roulette*, Neal Cotts worked tirelessly to get onto Lou Piniella's shiz-list tonight with a rocky 8th inning. He was last seen being chased from the mound by Piniella, yelling "but you need me!" as he ducked into the tunnel leading to the clubhouse. Bob Howry quickly joined Cotts by giving up 2 RBI hits upon relieving the inept lefty.
(*For Googlers looking for rules about the game of roulette ... ehhh, forget it. You came to the wrong place. I mean, you Googled "roulette." Why the heck did you click on a link that said "Goat Riders of the Apocalypse?" Did you think it was some witty play off the term "let it ride!"? And if so, how the heck could you justify the Goat and the Apocalypse part of our name? I mean, seriously!)
No worries. While the Cubs are now incapable of winning 100 this year, they remain poised to win all the games that actually matter. What's more, they are in an excellent position to spoil the hopes of the hapless Milwaukee Brewers, who are on the brink of completing their Wild Card collapse. All they have to do is beat them, and that's something the Cubs have enjoyed doing all year long.
The Playoff Roster
While we continue to debate Hoffpauir's inclusion, and while we ponder the image of Neal Cotts sneaking into Lou's hotel room at night and feverishly whispering "you need me!" over and over again as our skipper slumbers, it has been confirmed by ESPN that the Game 1 starter will be Dempster.
Clownsevelt will also apparently get one final tune-up before the end of the season, although he will be limited to a mere 75-80 pitches against the Brewers tomorrow night. While Brandon Webber has to be the hands-down favorite to win the Greg Maddux Award this year, Dempster should get more than a few votes.
Series Recap
You are still focused on the frightening image of Neal Cotts whispering into the ear of Lou Piniella. Well, here's a fun fact for you to think about once you get over the convulsions...
The New York Mets, desperate for a playoff spot and fighting two teams to earn one, were barely able to split a series from a Cubs team that batted back-ups and call-ups 80 times in the 4 game series.
C'mon. How can you not feel good about this team? And Smitty - where are you, man? I want a recant!
Game Recap: Cubs 9, Mets 6; extra inning thrill
Tonight's game was one of thrills and disappointments. Cub fans were thrilled to see an offensive outburst, including a 4 run 5th inning that would bring the team back from a serious deficit. Cub fans were disappointed that Carlos Zambrano continues to make up for his September moment of brilliance with yet another mediocre and stress-inducing start. We were thrilled that after going into extra innings, the team scored 3 runs in the 10th to capture the win. We were disappointed, bizarrely enough, by Bob Howry's buckling down and escaping a dangerous 9th. We were thrilled that Kerry Wood had a 1-2-3 10th to get his 34th save of the season. Some of us were disappointed, again bizarrely, because the Mets lost and the Brewers still have a shot of getting into the playoffs.
But as I said in the shout box, don't worry. The Cubs can beat the Mets again tomorrow - in fact, I hope they do - but it means little to the Brewers, because Chicago will be their final obstacle this season. Considering the crappy luck Milwaukee has had against the Cubs so far, I have a pretty strong suspicion that they won't have an easy sweep this weekend.
Now, to break it all down...
Yes, Cub fans, Mark DeRosa left the game after a 2 for 3 start (including a homer, a double, and 3 RBI) because, as GA Hill noted in the Shout Box, he's got a strained calf. Lou Piniella has noted that DeRosa was scheduled to rest the next couple of days anyway, and it seems unlikely that he'll be at risk to miss time in the playoffs.
Furthermore, the Cubs saw good offensive days from a few other guys, too. The Fonz went 2 for 5. Theriot went 3 for 6 and will probably finish the year with a better-than-.300 AVG and the second-highest total of hits for any player on the team. Oh, Reed Johnson also had a good game, going 2 for 5, and Aramis "Nail in the Coffin" Ramirez got some Big Game Hit practice tonight with his 10th inning 2-run homer.
On the pitching front, forgetting about Carlos, Neal Cotts struck out 3 in 1.1 innings of work, Jeff Samardzija had another rough inning, Bob Freakin' Howry nearly blew it in the 9th, but managed to hold on for a Kerry Wood save in the 10th.
Let's spend a moment on Howry. Apparently unconcerned with actually winning, Lou brought Bob in and Mr. Excitement surrendered a leadoff triple, struck out David Wright, intentionally walked the next 2 guys to load the bases, forced Ramon Castro to hit into a fielder's choice ground out, and then struck out Ryan Church to escape. Cripes, that's not the kind of baseball I had in mind tonight.
Anyway, with 4 games remaining the Cubs accomplished 2 things tonight. 1) They have matched their highest win total of any year since 1945. It seems likely-if-not-certain that the Cubs will reach the post season with the best record that most of us have seen in our life-times. 2) They've ensured that, at the worst, they will have split the season series with the Mets this year.
I've said a few times now that Pat Hughes is calling these games on his own because Ron Santo hates NYC. In fact, I suspect that he's had a few experiences there in his life time that could easily have been the basis for one of the greatest Simpsons episodes of all time - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, best known for how Homer left the city while driving a car with no windshield, behind a garbage truck which was spewing trash all over him:
Lisa: Oh, Dad, I loved it there! Can we come back someday?
Homer: Maybe we will, sweetie. Maybe we will.
Game Recap: Mets 6, Cubs 2; Mea Culpa
Tomorrow morning, we'll post my first podcast in months. In that hour-long monstrocity, you'll hear me say "I think one of the playoff spots should go to Chad Gaudin." I may have even called it a "no-brainer, if his back is up to it." I probably even said "aside from one bad outing when he was Lou's whipping boy, he's been lights out." Oh man, I was wrong.
In just 16 pitches, Chad Gaudin probably hard-tossed his way right out of Lou's post season plans. He took what had been a tied game and turned it into a route. They could have put a cage in front of the mound and given Gaudin a bucket full of baseballs, and it would've been identical to what you might see before the start of most games. It was brutal.
But, hey, on the bright side, the Cubs scored 2 runs on Johan Santana in 8 innings of work. Actually, perhaps the best thing they did was rattle off 7 hits, which doesn't seem like a lot until you remember that Santana is a force of nature on the mound. Johan got his 15th win of the season, the Cubs got good days from Kosuke Fukudome (surprisingly) and Reed Johnson (predictably, as he seems to be the only guy in baseball who regularly hits effectively against Santana). Derrek Lee had his 40th double of the year, Sean Marshall went 5 innings and struck out 7 on 71 pitches, and Mets stay alive to fight another day.
A few minutes ago, Goat Friend and Iowa broadcaster Jon Miller voiced an opinion that I have shared on numerous occasions. The Mets in the playoffs is a good thing, because wherever they go, they are followed by a fleet of ambulances. A team as injury prone as the Mets cannot be seen as a serious threat in the playoffs, and for that reason alone they would make good first round opponents against the Cubs.
Then again...
- Nobody, especially Ron Santo, wants to see the Cubs get eliminated by the Mets. It could theoretically be very stressful.
- Johan Santana is dominating and in a 5 game series, he'd see 2 starts. Hell, the Mets might even pitch him in Game 4 if it comes to that.
- I sure was excited to see the Cubs face the Marlins in '03. They were my preferred NLCS opponent. I was so painfully wrong.
Moments of panic aside, the Mets really would be "good" playoff opponents. While Santana is a true threat, there are other good teams out there with even better pitching. If they manage to sneak in, pity any team that has to face Brandon Webb, Randy Johnson, and Dan Haren, and Johan won't win a series on his own.
Besides, Lou Piniella is a student of the rope-a-dope, and I'd expect the Cubs to step up and score more than 2 against Santana the next time they face him. Maybe I'm being a little ridiculous, but I just have a feeling that next time, the Cubs will use better players than Ronny Cedeno, Casey McGehee, Henry Blanco, and Koss-kay, while the Mets will be trying to recover from the burn-out factor of not cliching until the last few days of the season.
Cubs Lose to Mets....YESSSSS!!!!
Ok, you might think that I have gone mad. I haven't been around here since last week, and I haven't read any of the blogs. I know, ten lashes.
So if this 'theory' has been thrown out there, my apologies and there was no plagarism intended.
But here is my thinking; don't we want to play the Mets in the first round of the playoffs?
Of all the possibilities, hosting the Mets is the best, at least to me. Keep me away from the Dodgers in a short series, and I want nothing to do with the arms of Arizona. Philly's power scares me in a short series, too.
The Mets entered the game with a one game lead over the Brewers for the wild card position and two and a half games behind Philadelphia for the NL East title.
So now, with a Mets win, they stay ahead of the Brewers...now, the Phillies lost, so that lead is just one and a half now.
So here is how I see it the rest of the way....Go Mets, Go Phillies, Brewers, you just keep doing what you do...this way, we can root, root, root for the Cubbies the final three games of the year, and get that post season groove back on, and welcome the Mets in October, the most beatable playoff contender out there.
Game Recap: Cubs 9, Mets 5; Marquis de Grand Slam
Just think of the embarrassment. Think of the shame. Your name is Jon Niese. You're running hard, making your first cup of coffee count. You're thrust into the key position of starting the first of a four game series that very well may determine if your team reaches the playoffs. You are playing a team with a history of getting their asses handed to them the first time they face a left-handed starter.
And then, you give up a granny to their pitcher who isn't Carlos Zambrano. Aw, snap. The humiliation. The Cubs took the Mets for a ride tonight, and Jon Niese was the bus they rode on. Were it not for the Marquis 4th inning smacker, the Cubs would have been offensively meh-diocre tonight. Their first two hitters combined to go 0 for 10, but the bottom of the Cubs lineup delivered. 10 of the team's 14 hits came from hitters 5 and after. Middle infielders Mark DeRosa and Ryan Theriot had 3-hit games. Derrek Lee smacked his 20th of the season.
Oh, and with 6 likely games remaining, the Cubs have locked in home field advantage, and are 2 wins away from the most they've had since our oldest readers were children. The Cubs won 96 games in 1984, and that was the most since they won 98 in 1945. I think it's fair to suggest that the Cubs could go 4-2 the rest of the way out and finish with 99 wins. Which would be appropriate and perhaps predictable, since they would never play that last, 162nd game. But I digress.
We have to give props to Jason Marquis. Up until the 7th inning, he had the Mets tied up in loops. He won his 11th this season, and while he finished the game having surrendered 4 earned runs on 8 hits and 4 walks, he got 'er done. I think it's fair to say that the Cubs wouldn't have won without him. ::cough::grandslam::cough::
Now, here's the interesting thing. After having taken a ridiculously comfortable lead, Lou Piniella turned to his 3 best relievers - Samardzija, Marmol, and Wood (who got save 33 tonight). This befuddled some of us - GA Hill included - although I maintain that regardless of the situation, Lou needs to keep his Cubs pitchers fresh. He can't let them get rusty just because the Cubs don't technically need to win another game this year.
That said, I'll be disappointed to see any of those three pitchers throw tomorrow. Save them until Wednesday. Then, on Wednesday, regardless of the situation, pitch at least 2 of them. Then, skip them on Thursday. Maybe close a game or two with Samardzija. This is the time to take steps to prepare for all kinds of post season situations, am I right?
Anyway, the Cubs have clinched home field advantage, but more important is this - the distance between them and any other team is wide, and it's getting wider. It's not even close. I know I've said it before, and I'll say it now: these guys are good.
Series Preview: Cubs at Mets
Four years ago this week, one of the best Cub teams of my lifetime stopped for a series in New York en route to what appeared to be their first consecutive post season appearance in almost 100 years. The Cubs were in control of their own destiny, they were looking solid and ready, and then the Mets ripped out their effing hearts and stomped all over them on consecutive days. I saw both of those games in person. The Cubs went 1-7 in their last 8 and miss the playoffs that year.
This year, the pressure is off, although the Cubs will still be taking on the Mets with the intent of beating them into a pulp. In fact, the Cubs are now playing the part of spoilers, as their final 7 games will be against teams that are competing for a spot in the post season.
Personally, I find the whole playoff picture so bloody confusing that it makes me dizzy, so I'll refer instead to the writings of Desipiot TJ, who summed it up like this:
Mets (86-69)
4 vs. Cubs 2-2
3 vs. Marlins 0-3
Total 88-74
Phils (88-68)
3 vs. ATL 0-3
3 vs. WAS 0-3
Total 88-74
Marlins (81-74)
3 @ Mets 3-0
Total 88-74
Brewers (85-71)
3 vs. PIT 2-1
3 vs. Cubs 1-2
Astros (82-73)
3 vs. CIN 3-0
3 vs. ATL 2-1
1 vs. CUBS 1-0
Dodgers (81-75)
3 vs. SD 2-1
D-backs (78-77)
3 vs. COL 3-0
I guess anything is possible. Me, I want to see the Mets make the playoffs for one simple reason: wherever they go, ambulances follow. So many Met players are hurt that I don't see them as a serious threat in October. However - you knew there'd be a however, right? - if the Mets are the wild card, they'd play the Cubs in the first round, and I would fear for Ron Santo's health.
Enough pre-amble. Let's get to it:
Monday, September 22nd - Jason Marquis (10-9, 4.39 ERA) vs. Jon Niese (1-0, 4.09 ERA)
Jason Marquis is doing more than simply battling to win more games than he loses in 2008. He's also ... battling for his soul. (Sorry, couldn't help myself). Actually, Marquis is probably on the bubble to be the guy in Lou's post season bullpen who Lou turns to when the Cubs are either winning by 8, or losing by 8, but never in between. He faces stiff competition from Bob Howry for the gig, though.
Jon Niese is a left handed 21-year-old who the Mets are apparently turning to out of desperation. Niese very well might be a respectable starter someday - he's 34-26 in his minor league career with a 3.72 ERA, and in 7 career starts at Triple A, the youngster is 5-1 with a 3.40 ERA. If this was 2004-2007, I'd be worried, because the Cubs historically get killed by lefty starters they've never faced before. But this is '08 and Niese is batting practice.
Tuesday, September 23rd - Rich Harden (10-2, 2.03 ERA) vs. Johan Santana (14-7, 2.65 ERA)
Rich Harden has been exactly as advertised. He's a front-line pitcher with game-changing stuff and a questionable arm. He's also in all likelihood the Cubs #3 starter in the post season. He'll be facing Johan Santana, the Mets ace. It's a tough day for the Mets when their ace pitcher is squaring off in his home park against another team's #3 guy and yet he's the under-dog. But Santana should keep his chin up. Harden is likely to be allowed only 70 or 80 pitches. On some days, he won't get out of the 4th with that much restraint.
Wednesday, September 24th - Carlos Zambrano (14-6, 3.77 ERA) vs. Oliver Perez (10-7, 4.10 ERA)
Oh, Carlos, how you tease us. With you, teams either score 8 or they score 0, there's no middle ground. Consequently, you've got my riddled with jitters.
This is likely the Big Moose's last tune-up start before the playoffs. He's done well when limited to pitch counts in the past - very well, in fact - and I suspect he'll do well this time, too. How well probably will determine if he's the #2 or #1 pitcher in the post season.
Oliver Perez is not exactly a frighteningly good pitcher. However, he'll be a guy with a mission on Wednesday, as the Mets are fighting for a playoff spot. I suspect he'll pitch better than his numbers convey.
Thursday, September 25th - Ted Lilly (16-9, 4.17 ERA) vs. Pedro Martinez (5-6, 5.50 ERA)
Once upon a time, Pedro Martinez was awesome. Lucky for the Cubs, that time is long passed.
Also once upon a time, the Cubs were aching for a reliable left-handed starter. In fact, it was akin to the Santo Curse. Much as the team went three decades between good third basemen, the Cubs also went just as long between talented lefty starters. Lilly has worked on changing that. And, while he probably won't be with the Cubs for more than a few more seasons, he's already done something that we haven't seen since before Nixon resigned from office - he's won 15+ games in back-to-back seasons for the Cubs as a lefty. It sure would be awesome if he finished the year with 17, and it's a strong possibility on Thursday.
Predictions: It could go either way. The Mets are a team with a lot on the line. The Cubs are a team with nothing left to prove.
There's actually a fine balance here. Lou wants to save his starters for the playoffs, and so they will be unlikely to pitch past the 5th. But he also can't be looking to over-use his playoff relievers. I suspect we'll see a lot of non-essential pitchers this series, and that may effect how the Cubs do in the wins column. However, if the Mets press, then Chicago just might bury them right there in Shea.
Considering that the Mets would be Chicago's first round opponent if they won the wild card, I have a feeling that the Cubs will try to set the tone early in the series by pounding on them. At least, that's what I hope will happen. There should be no free rides in baseball, and if New York is going to see the post season, they should have to earn it.
But hey - if they do indeed face Harden, Zambrano, and Lilly, even if in a semi-limited capacity, then it won't be easy. Ultimately, that's all I ask.
Update: Looks like I'm already wrong. The Cubs are moving Harden to Thursday's game, and Sean Marshall will be starting on Tuesday. So, uhm, go Cubs.
Go, Mets, Go!
Ron Santo would punch me in the face if he read this, but I am strongly advocating for the Mets to pull it together and reach the post season over the Phillies. Mostly, I think this would be a good thing for one simple, essential reason - the following key Met players are on the DL:
Billy Wagner - 2.30 ERA, 27 saves
Orlando Hernandez - 24 starts, 9-5, 3.72 ERA
John Maine - 25 starts, 10-8, 4.18 ERA
Moises Alou - .347 AVG in what little playtime he had this season
Fernando Tatis - .297 AVG, 11 HR, 47 RBI
At the rate they're dropping, it'll be a miracle if they make it. And if they make it ... soft prey.
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