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The three-day conference on 'Crop improvement and adaptive strategies to meet challenges of climate change' that concluded here on Sunday, recommended that agrometeorology services be delivered at the village-level by setting up weather monitoring centres to facilitate micro management to effectively tackle climate change.
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The conference, organised by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, to develop protocols for conducting research to mitigate the impact of climate change on agriculture, stressed the need to provide agrometeorology data at the village-level to meticulously plan agriculture operations.
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FrightFest Day 2 August 28, 2007Posted by Ian W in : Film Reviews, Horror, Rants & Raves , trackback
Having skipped the Hatchet DVD commentary (not having seen the film before I didn't fancy having someone talk all the way through the film) the day started with The Sword Bearer. It wasn't the greatest start. A love story with characters you don't like and don't care about and a score so overblown you'd think it was an opera. You can get away without explaining a lot in genre films (The Signal that followed this is a case in point) but a guy with a fucking sword that shoots out of his arm isn't one of them. Worst film of the festival so far.
Things picked up big time with The Signal, a film that owes more than a little to Romero's Crazies but had enough originality to keep it fresh. I'm assuming the three directors each did one of the segments (or Transmissions as the film refers to them) and whichever one handled the middle section is the pick of the bunch. There's a lovely streak of black humour running through it that's mostly absent from the other parts. In fact one of the films main problems is its a little pretentious and has a climax that's far too drawn out.
Next up 1408 based on a Stephen King short story. It's well made, well acted but a little to over the top. It feels like they've thrown every possible scare tactic into the film, including that perennial favourite, bleeding walls. Still, Cusack is on good form and Sam Jackson steals the film (and delivers the best line) in what amounts to an extended cameo. This may have made more money than any other King adaptation but it's far from the best. This was followed by a short Q&A with the director, Mikael Hafstrom.
I decided to skip Teeth (the last minute replacement for P2) because my bum needed a break (even with the cushion). I was back in time for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. This was one of my most eagerly anticipated films of the festival and it didn't disappoint. Reinventing the slasher sub-genre for an age that produces college spree killers this was Friday the 13th with brains. Well realised characters, incisive dialogue and visually impressive direction aren't things you normally read in conjunction with a slasher film but they all apply to this must see movie. Amber Heard, who plays Mandy is destined for big things. Film of the day definitely and maybe film of the festival.
Giving Shrooms a miss in favour of sleep I headed home after Mandy Lane.
We also got our goodie bags today. I don't know if they're all the same but here's a rundown of what was in mine –
Film 4 FrightFest Collectors Edition Program
A copy of GoreZone horror magazine
A copy of DVD World Magazine
A promo brochure for Neil Marshall's Doomsday
A Horrorcide comic by Steve Niles
A small plastic sheep (with Black Sheep written on its back and blood round its mouth
A tub of 28 Weeks Later virus slime
A 28 Weeks Later lighter
A can of Kirin Japanese Beer
A Third Light – Iodine E.P CD
A Rasputin the Mad Monk DVD
A Samurai Commando Mission 1549 DVD
And another copy of the special FrightFest Edition of Bizarre magazine (we ll had one on our seats on day one)
Very nice indeed, particularly the Doomsday brochure (originally done for ComiCon) and the Samurai Commando DVD.
Day 3 stuff to look forward to - Cold Prey, Joshua, Storm Warning and Wrong Turn 2 plus the Short Film Showcase. I'll be skipping Disturbia (already seen it) and The Devil Dared Me Too (looks a bit crap) in favour of an early night.
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The Valley has jettisoned 750,000 hi tech jobs since 2000, mostly technical people. Did u know that India has a quota on hiring foreign guest workers in their country —- its 1`%. its a rough and tough world but please — hiring Americans, retaining unemployed technical workers, not turning your back and with the easy Republican quibble I hear – that's the right thing to do.
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You get all the H!B visas you want.for your company so that when they leave and compete with you in India you can't complain I tell the IRS that all internet execx making 300 times more than the average wage paid to employees results in the elimination of the corporate deduction for that exec's salary.
See how fast the hi – tech wiz kids complain to Congress over that. — its unfair.
The H-1B program is primarily used to import young, cheaper labor from developing countries for technical and engineering work; displacing many U.S. citizens from their professions or discouraging them from entering their previously-chosen profession. It is NOT typically used to bring in the "best and brightest" minds. According to a January 14 2011 GAO report, most of the H-1B workers are categorized as having only entry-level skills. The program is also plagued by rampant fraud, which the government has only recently begun to address. But fraud is not the biggest problem: the loopholes are.
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There have been a lot of studies recently that indicate the great shortage of STEM workers in America is a myth. I've been the VP of Engineering or CEO for 7 Silicon Valley startups now and I totally disagree with Jason's perspective that this is inevitable. It not only isn't, but I've seen it do more damage than it cures.
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Working with the above, Uhuru Kenyatta is easily Africa's richest President. His close competitor is Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
No wonder he thinks spending 200b on class one laptops falls in the 'needs' category.
after all that his dad grabbed, what do u expect? to be a church mouse? withuot a cent?
Forbes Magazine. Give us a break. We know you are only used for certain purposes.
Nowanda dropin a dime for this dude is no issue! Selected president!
Grabbed wealth?even if he owned the whole world,he doesnt put food on my table neither does he give air to breath.xcuse us!
He s quoted as saying he running to work for Kenyans..and not wazungu....Brooke hse school and Peponi caters for wazungus children .....I guess business is business ...nothing personal
Was he not the same guy that said he is working for Kenyans and not wazungu during the campaign ....peponi and Brokeside caters for wazungu.....I guess business is business ..nothing personal
I hope on completion of his term, slums will be no more in Kenya.
......Soo what he has chum..that thje bottom line....if u can't beat them ??
He won't steal from public confers then.............he is contented
This is Gutter press, Richest Please...check Angola's president
Ofcoz that is all wat his father grabbed.wacheni kuwekelea Mungu lawama asizozstahili.
Whao is good to hear that but must try to do something in the house of God either by building church or mosque
what is he doing with all this if kenyans still sleep on hungry stomachs?
or will he just die and leave all this for his son and make Kenya a monarch?!
Haha! Wacheni wivu! Mnawashwa? Dats his wealth n his family alone.concentrate on wat he's gonna do 4 kenya. Hata awe rais he also has his own issues too. Mtaishi kutegemea sirkal mpaka lini? He's building kenya n his own. Lyf too. Dis man is soo caring ..i luv him soo much ..all da goods He does cannot be shown evwy day ..avoid judging pls.
Hata muongee uhuru ni wa mungu! Mtaongea usiku mtalala. Conc on wat he's gonna do 4 kenya. GOD BLESS HIS EXCELLENCY.
the more wealth you have,the more mouths to feed, the bible says.
The more power you have the greater the responsibility,he is my president
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Sweet Lou thinks Cub fans will be kind to Mark McGwire this year...what do YOU think?
The Pujols Challenge remains open
Just a reminder --
Not too long ago Albert Pujols said he's clean and would get tested every day if that's what it took to prove his innocence. Obviously, we support daily tests in his case. After writing a lengthy article in which we accepted his challenge, we contacted several media types who promised to pass the information on to those in St. Louis. So far it's been a week without response, and so yesterday we sent the following EMail to two St. Louis journalists:
|Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM
|We want to test Albert Pujols
My name is Kurtis Evans, I write for a Chicago Cubs blog called Goat Riders of the Apocalypse (www.goatriders.org). During the All Star break Albert Pujols, stung by allegations that he's cheated to achieve his ridiculous numbers, said he's willing to be tested "every day."
At the time, my website accepted his offer (http://www.goatriders.org/
Please pass the message onto him on our behalf.
Kurtis Evans
We're still waiting ...
Goat Riders to Pujols: We Accept Your Offer
Recently you were quoted as saying that you are frustrated by the steroid speculation that you have been the brunt of. In your own words:
just because Manny made a mistake, now I have to pay? Just because A-Rod made a mistake, now I have to pay? Oh, guilt by association? That's wrong. . . .I would never do any of that crap. You think I'm going to ruin my relationship with God just because I want to get better in this game? You think I'm going to ruin everything because of steroids? . . . . Come test me every day if you want, everything I ever made in this game I would give back to the Cardinals if I got caught.
Mr. Pujols, we can't accept this offer fast enough. And let me say that we appreciate your generosity in making this offer. After all, we at GROTA are firm believers in the importance of the sport's integrity. There are millions of children out there who have grown up only to discover that their hero -- be it Manny, or Sammy, or Raffy, but not A-Rod (because nobody idolized him) -- is a cheat. If you in fact are clean, sir, then you would be just about the only one. That would be amazing! That would be exactly what the sport needs! We want to help you help baseball, Mr. Pujols!
So here's what we're going to do. We at GROTA are a simple Cubs blog that you have surely never heard of (as people your age are not particularly internet savvy). That means we're poor, working types who cannot easily afford the expensive tests that actually find the designer drugs. So, we will start a charity drive here. This charity drive will serve a two-folds purpose.
First, we will use that money to buy the really, really good drug tests. Not the urine tests that you can beat, but hair follicle and blood tests. A quick Google search confirms that these tests are expensive -- but they do exist and they work. The problem with Major League Baseball, though, is that they only ask you to pee in a cup -- and I'm not convinced by any measure that you are unaware of when those tests are coming. (Of course, that doesn't mean we think you're cheating, sir, it just means that we think it's possible that shady stuff could be going on. We want to be sure, though, and we're sure you would appreciate our thoroughness.)
Since HGH is still undetectable in urine tests, blood is the only way to go. David Epstein reports that HGH-seeking blood tests have existed for more than half a decade now, and there are some labs that will do a test for as little as $50 a pop. Hair follicle tests for high levels of testosterone, on the other hand, appear to be pricier. So let's just say -- and we'll confirm the exact figures later -- that we need to raise $250 a day to test you in hair and blood (and that might be on the conservative side. Then again, who knows, perhaps there is a testing company in the Chicago area who would do it for free -- this is something we will look into).
I'm quite certain that the millions of Cub fans out there would donate more than that to prove your honesty, Mr. Pujols. After all, Cub fans -- like all baseball fans -- want to prove the sport has integrity, and testing you would do that!
Therefore, on the assumption that we can in fact raise more than the total daily cost of the drug test kits, the second thing we will do is this: whatever we have left over will go to a charity of your choice if you are clean. (And on the unlikely chance that you are not clean and we have an overflow of donations, it'll go to a charity of our choice. Either way the down-trodden win. Perhaps there's a charity out there that benefits families scarred by steroid use -- we'll find them and help them out.)
And if you are in fact unclean, sir, then rather than force you to "give back" everything you've ever made in the game to the Cardinals, you can instead donate it to a cause supported by this website -- and perhaps you'll also agree to retire in disgrace? (We can discuss the ramifications of a failed test. I'm sure we'll agree on something fair.)
Here's the thing, Mr. Pujols. We won't just be testing you for a week or two. We'll test you every single day of the regular and off-season. We won't quit testing you in October -- we'll keep testing you for as long as you play and it comes up clean. (But we will pay out to the charities in October if you have passed all 180+ tests each season.) And although it's impossible to beat a blood test, we won't test you at a set time every day -- we will test you randomly, perhaps immediately before (or after) you have gotten on the team plane, or before (or after) you have entered your hotel, or before (or after) a game. The point is you will never know when it's coming.
We would never have thought to issue this challenge had you not welcomed it with your statement. But since you insist that you are clean, and as you welcome being tested "every day" -- your own words -- then it only makes sense that you stand behind what you have said.
Also, we'd love to see a copy of your original birth certificate, but we can discuss that one later on.
So please, Mr. Pujols, I am sure that you are as anxious to clear your name as we are. Contact us at media (at) goatriders (dot) org. We'll set something up and get the ball rolling as soon as possible.
Y'know. For the kiddies. And to prove your innocence. Really.
Cubs 101 - Pt 34 - Sammy Sosa, the 30-30 Man
Samuel Peralta Sosa was born a poor black sharecropper's son in the Dominican Republic. Actually, I'm not certain his dad was a sharecropper, but you get the gist. His was the prototypical humble beginnings of many of the Dominicans that were scouted, recruited, and signed by MLB in the 70's and 80's, up to the present day. Sammy was a strong, quick,and skilled young lad when he was signed by Texas in 1985. He made his major league debut with Dubya Bush's Rangers four years later, and even though Sosa matured quite a bit during his minor league apprenticeship, he was still largely as skinny, raw, and undisciplined as he was when he left home. It only took Dubya's people 25 games, 84 at-bats and 20 strikeouts to decide to trade Sosa to a rival GM who was panting with (what we can assume to be platonic) man-love with him.
Of course, that rival GM was Larry Himes of the White Sox. Himes only had to give up Harold Baines for him. Baines, of course, was the face of the franchise, and his owner's favorite player. But Himes must have convinced his owner that Mr. Sosa provided the fast-path to championships and winning beyond wildest dreams. So then, Sosa came in and hit .233 with 150 strikeouts in his first full year. After he followed that up with a .203 mark in 1991, Jerry Reinsdorf did the following: retired the number of his beloved Baines; fired Larry Himes; and when Himes (inexplicably) found employment a year later with the crosstown Cubs, traded Sosa back to him. Which made him our property and the 23-year-old cornerstone of our franchise.
One problem right off of the bat - we already had cornerstones, good solid ones, named Sandberg and Maddux. But thanks to his GM, Sosa was installed in the middle of the order, in center field, every day, an arrangement which lasted about 60 games, until he injured himself. Inexplicably, Sosa earned himself a 400% raise for his 3/8ths of a season in 1992, from the league minimum, to $750k. He also was installed in right field the next year in order to minimize injury risk, as well as to take advantage of his strong arm, which Sosa liked to display as runners tried to take extra bases.
Most general managers (nearly all of them in the 80's and 90's) placed utmost importance on players perceived to have 'five-tool impact', and there were few players at that point in time that were as young, with so much potential, as Sosa. He bashed pitches, ran very well, and could send throws from deep in the outfield all the way to home plate. His shortcomings were the typical ones for any raw prospect player - plate discipline; running routes to fly balls; overzealousness on the basepaths; and most of all, a brash, flashy nature. It was easy to overlook all of that when he was only 24 years old. He was young, and he could possibly mature and focus his talents.
On a fourth place Cubs team in 1993, one with Jose Guzman and Candy Maldanado instead of Greg Maddux and Andre Dawson, Sosa smacked 33 homers and stole 36 bases. Larry Himes declared victory, and Sosa for his part received his first of what would be three gigantic multi-million dollar contracts. Now, I don't begrudge the man for wanting to commemorate his accomplishment by purchasing a small token as a remembrance, but to this day, it rankles me that he purchased a shopping mall in his hometown and renamed it the "30-30 Mall". I mean, certainly, the 30-30 Club is rather exclusive, but your team still hadn't won anything, and wouldn't it be more satisfying if you could buy a shopping mall and call it "Cubs Pennant Mall"? But such was the me-first nature of Mr. Sosa.
The next few years, for the life of his first contract, Sosa put up great power and speed numbers. In the somewhat abbreviated season of 2005, he hit 36 homers and stole 34 bases, making him a repeat member of the 30/30 Club. He most certainly would have made it three years in a row, but the 1994 season was cut short with Sosa only five homers and 8 swipes shy. He was making money commensurate with the great young players in the game, and at the end of the 1995 season was only 27 years old and only had two years remaining until his next big deal.
But Sosa was not happy. He was not getting the acclaim and respect he deserved, from the national media, from his teammates, and now (since Himes had been relieved of his duties) from his own front office. He started talking about looking elsewhere for his next big deal. His agents started wondering out loud if the Cubs shouldn't try to trade him to a club who would respect Sammy more for his contributions.
From the time he was plucked from the slums, to this very day, Sosa's biggest fault was a lack of self-awareness, an over-inflated self worth. It never occurred to him that the reason why he was not getting the love he thought he earned was of his own making. His teams never won, in no small part to his own lack of fundamental baseball. He widened his strike zones; did not have a great average with runners in scoring position; he got caught stealing in over a third of his attempts; he was infamous for his disdain of cutoff men; and he misplayed more than his share of fly balls. Furthermore, Larry Himes managed to alienate or eliminate all of the clubhouse leaders, giving all credit to Sosa while assigning blame to the rest of the team. Finally, he committed the almost unforgivable sin of complaining about his contract in Chicago, a place that demands unflinching loyalty from its sports heroes.
So for all these reasons, Sammy Sosa was not getting the fame he deserved. Of course, Sosa never saw it this way. A man who twice made the 30/30 club deserved more, and he believed he knew the reason why - it was because that particular club was NOT the place to be anymore. Guys like Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds started a new "club". No, not THAT one. The 40-40 Club, of course. Canseco was the founding member in 1988, and Bonds hit 42 homers and stole 40 bases in 1996. When people talked about "the complete package", they pointed to Bonds and Canseco, and a new kid, Alex Rodriguez. They were the state of the art - they were the ones keeping Sammy Sosa from the accolades he so richly deserved.
In the confusion of the 1994-5 strike, Sosa actually had signed an offer sheet with Boston, but when the smoke cleared, he remained a Cub, and his big payday loomed after the 1997 season. Sammy, who did have a big heart, an even bigger ego, and loved hard work, figured out a way to leapfrog over everyone else, straight to the top.
Kurt Evans
When Sammy Sosa started his career with the Cubs in the mid 90's, I was a teenage kid who did not have access to the Chicago papers or even the opinions of the Chicago-based fans, and I thought Sammy was pretty effin' cool. I know I wasn't alone, either.
Pretty much all of my early opinions on the guy come from three sources -- Harry Caray, who described Sammy as being incredibly special in 1992, Steve Stone, who noted young Sammy's ridiculous hair style (subtly jabbing the flashy Sosa as having perhaps the wrong kinds of priorities), and Baseball Weekly, where I got to see the results of Sammy's exploits without experiencing his negative qualities.
Still, I was none-too-pleased when he became the defacto heir after Larry Himes sent Andre Dawson away from Chicago 1 homerun shy of 400.
But was Sosa the empty calorie that Rob describes? At certain points, he absolutely was. In 1993 when the Cubs were a decent team lacking the punch necessary to really compete, Sosa was abysmal with runners on base. He batted .214 in 1993 in "close and late" situations, and with 2 outs and runners in scoring position Sosa batted a putrid .160 with 19 strikeouts in 75 at bats.
It was the same thing in 1995, when the Cubs were competing for a playoff spot until the last series of the season. Sosa, who would hit 34 homeruns that year, would be the anti-intelligent hitter. While batters typically improve against pitchers who they see more than once in a game, Sosa got worse -- he batted .310 the first time he faced a pitcher, .252 the second time, and .228 the third time and beyond -- and he was again a .226 hitter in "close and late" situations.
Still, Sammy deserves some credit. He may have always grated some fans with his hot dog tactics and some teammates with his me-first mentality, but Sosa was always exciting to watch and he didn't exactly hit 600+ homeruns accidentally. And when he was in his prime, be it from chemical advantages or other kinds, he was undeniably amazing, and no longer an empty calorie offensive player.
And, back again to me: we have discussed two quite different perspectives on the most polarizing player in Cubs history. Kurt notes that even before Sosa's unreal home run binge period from 1998-2003, his "primary" statistics (HR, RBI, AVG) were far superior to anyone else on the Cubs, and compared favorably to the cleanup hitters on nearly every other ballclub. PEDs or not, Sammy was a supremely talented player.
I am beginning to think that the best thing to be is a Cubs fan who doesn't live in Chicago, or at least one who insulates himself or herself from the media. For the 90's brought on, at least in the Chicago market, the advent of the major Sports Radio influence. Until then, sports talk shows were only on a couple of minor stations, for a few hours a week. Overnight, two major stations started full-time Chicago sports talk, and several other stations, to compete, beefed up their sports talk programming. The hosts and program directors of these shows had a lot of hours to kill, and a favorite target, especially during the summer months, was the Great Sammy Sosa.
As a frequent listener, I was made aware of every cutoff man Sosa missed, every man he left on base late in games, and especially, every complaint he or his agent put forth in regards to the 'respect' he felt was lacking from his front office, once Himes was shoved aside. And, of course, a few years later, the Internet really took hold, and far more people stepped up (like myself) and spent countless hours picking apart Sosa's faults to an even more minute level of detail than even the blowhards on the radio.
So is that really fair to his legacy? Imagine what might have been said if the Internet and sports radio were around during the rise, stagnation, and eventual crumbling of the "1969 era" Cubs? Would be feel the same way about Ron Santo, Fergie Jenkins, and some of these other guys if their every flaw was laid out open for all of us to pore over and analyze? Probably not.
Fact is, though, Sosa came along too late. Thus, as a rabid Chicago Cubs fan, who listened to every possible hour of sports radio and read every website, and heard nearly everything about the man; true, exaggerated, or completely false, it all shaped my opinion for the worse. Just as for Kurt, living elsewhere, who got his information from TV, a more "mainstream" media, where the positives tend to be emphasized and the negatives glossed over, at least more so than on the radio and the internet. His opinion, along with a generation of younger fans and non-local fans, thought Sosa to be the leader and savior of the franchise.
I understand. Of course, I completely disagree.
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Sammy Sosa still belongs in the Hall of Fame
A memo to Jason: I know how strongly you disagree with Rob's strong distaste of Sammy. Feel free to tack onto this article, or write another one of your own.
A memo to Rob: Telling people from my generation about your hatred of Sammy Sosa is probably on the same level as telling children that Santa Claus may not be everything that he's cracked up to be.
Still, a few weeks ago I penned this piece about Sammy as he officially announced his retirement: Sammy Sosa belongs in the Hall of Fame. The premise of the piece is that, as he was never caught cheating, Sammy's induction should be a no-brainer.
Then it turns out he was caught in 2003. Whoops. It's probably a safe bet that he was caught fairly early on, hence his turn to cork. But you know what? Sammy still belongs in the Hall. And despite all his short-comings, he is still a great Cub, one who we'll remember for a long time for a bunch of reasons.
Probably the best thing I said in that previous article: I don't necessarily subscribe to the notion that we are born flawed but I certainly agree that our life makes us that way rather quickly. Heroes have dark sides. Villains can be charitable. And Sammy Sosa was a long-time flawed hero who played the charitable villain brilliantly.
That was Sammy. He was selfish, self-aggrendizing, and self-important. He alienated Mark Grace, and Ryne Sandberg, and Don Baylor (maybe we can forgive him the last one). He hit epic homeruns, took epic upper-cuts, and stole bases to the frustration of his teammates. He talked about money in the clubhouse and during the game whether the Cubs were winning or losing. He blasted his boom box and it was eventually smashed to pieces. He evaporated in September of '04 and was as responsible for the team's collapse as Dusty, taking massive missed swings when short ones contacting the ball into the shallow outfield would've got the job done.
He was never my favorite player -- in fact, he replaced my favorite player. But his jersey was the first I ever owned. I still have it in my closet, unworn since 2002 because it was washed and worn to the point of oblivion.
Anyway, Rob, the point is this: I get why you don't like him. You want the guy who will play selflessly, who will throw himself at fly balls, who will throw down a surprise bunt with runners in scoring position, who will rally a team through both his words and actions. But I do think that you take it too far because I remember clearly what he did on the field to win, and while it doesn't erase his numerous, flagarant flaws it does allow for me to remember him fondly.
So, now we know for a fact that he cheated, as if that changes anything from when we only knew without proof that he cheated. File this one under "unpopular opinions of Kurt," but I don't really care. Every guy to hit 500 or more homeruns since the 80's cheated, maybe with the exception of Ken Griffey Jr. Big deal.
The point is that in an era where everybody cheated, Sosa was still head and shoulders better than most of the rest. I guess the implication is that he either had the best trainer or he would've still been better than the rest had nobody ever discovered steroids.
And yes, with apologies to your assertations to the contrary, Sosa's homeruns and RBI were not empty calories. As much as the Cubs clearly couldn't do it with him alone -- see 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 -- they also couldn't have done it without him -- see 1998, 2003. Sosa's contributions were huge. His Nintendo numbers will never be duplicated. His enthusiasm and play will never be forgotten ... nor will his ego and selfishness.
Anyway, I would respectfully suggest Rob that you take comfort in this one fact that was true in 2003, was true a month ago, and is true now: he is not, nor was he ever Mr. Cub. He was never, nor would he ever be loved more than Banks, or Sandberg, or even Grace and Wood. Our organization's marquee player is not a cheater. But one of the best we ever saw was, and his positive test from 2003 does nothing to change the amazing things he did.
And with that, like you, I'll leave this one in the past ... until his eligibility comes up (or his loud denials of cheating, whichever comes first).
No, don't go run out in the streets and celebrate. I am NOT going away.
But something occured to me this morning. Now that he has been exposed once and for all, I don't ever ever have to write about Sammy Sosa ever again.
I'm putting away my anger. RIP, Pumpkinhead.


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Dayna Stephens knows a thing or two about overcoming obstacles. As a standout tenor saxophonist at Alameda High in the mid-1990s, he and a friend took over the jazz ensemble when the school's band director quit at the beginning of his junior year. Looking for more rigorous musical training, he transferred to Berkeley High his senior year, and quickly became one of the vaunted jazz program's leading lights. These days he's one of the most respected saxophonists on the New York scene, and he's facing a far more daunting challenge than an AWOL teacher.
Diagnosed in with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) at 19, he's long depended upon dialysis and has been on a kidney transplant wait-list for four years. Beloved by his peers as a person and a player, Stephens is at the center of an ongoing campaign, including a website, Help Dayna Stephens, to raise awareness about FSGS and funds for his medical expenses, which will run some $4,000 a month for anti-rejection medications alone. … Continue reading »
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Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Joe Johnson poured in 23 points to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 91-86 win over the Atlanta Hawks at Barclays Center.
Mirza Teletovic added 16 points, Alan Anderson scored 14 and Shaun Livingston added 12 for the Nets, who improved to 3-0 in 2014, despite guard Deron Williams sitting out the game with a sprained left ankle.
Jeff Teague and Paul Millsap finished with 16 points apiece for the Hawks, losers in three straight. Elton Brand and DeMarre Carroll posted 10 points and seven rebounds apiece in the setback.
The Nets held the Hawks to just 38.1 percent (8-for-21) shooting and forced seven turnovers in the first quarter to take a 27-21 lead. Pierce led the way with all nine of his points over the first 12 minutes.
Atlanta trailed 35-27 at the 8:51 mark of the second. The Hawks remained within striking distance and a Teague layup ignited a 15-4 run that put the visitors up 52-46 at the break.
Brooklyn, though, scored the first 14 points of the third quarter to go up 60-52. Atlanta countered with seven straight points. The teams traded makes the rest of the way, but Teletovic hit three 3-pointers in the final 3:04 to help the Nets take a 72-67 lead into the final frame.
The Hawks led 78-77 following Carroll's fast break slam at the 6:36 mark of the final frame, but the Nets scored seven straight and never looked back.
Teague's 3 with 1:31 left brought Atlanta within 86-84, but Teletovic answered with a triple of his own to help the Nets hang on for the victory.
Game Notes
The Nets scored 28 points off 18 Atlanta turnovers ... Kevin Garnett had 10 rebounds for the Nets ... Atlanta guard Kyle Korver extended his consecutive games with a made 3-pointer to 104 games ... The Hawks are 2-4 since losing Al Horford to a torn pectoral muscle.
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Well I just found out the Paper under my tile roof is shot and now I'm faced with a dilema remove the tiles redeck and reuse as many as possible, Shingles or a metal roof.
Well the first resort would be to coat the roof with? and avoid the process for a few more years. Has anyone run across or used any product?
Thoughts ? I look forward to your posts
Are the tiles still availible, I thought tile was placed on strapping not sheeting.
Why do you have to re-deck if only the underlayment is bad?
Who told you the paper was bad, if only one inspection was preformed, get another opinion.
I'd recommend against any coatings, you will make a bigger mess than you already have and will be throwing good money after bad.
Any hard roof system will generate a lot of heat. When we install slate, concrete tile, clay tile, wood shake and metal roofing, we install over "TAMKO METAL AND TILE" high temp underlayment. The is a peel and stick similar to Weather Watch.
If you have a clay or concrete tile roof and have never installed this type of product before I'd suggest leaving these applications to a pro. They are not installed like a traditional asphalt shingle. Trying to remove and reclaim the old tiles will cause a lot of stress and you will break a lot of these. Matching color, style and texture can be a problem if you don't know the MFG or these are not still in production.
Tile has 2 ways of attachment, they can be direct to deck (not having lugs) or installed over elevated batten strips (with lugs).
Post some pics of the roof you are referring to, pics always helps.
What he said... and please ,please pull a permit for the repairs. They can also help answer your questions, I recommend this because Florida is one of the strictest states in the country, they will make you take it down and start over if someone turns you in. And with a lag in the trades, guy's are turning in competitors left and right....even homeowners.
Just sayin.
And tile roofs are tricky, there are no magic bullets for repairs. Sometimes it's less expensive in the long run to redo the whole thing with something else.
And the last resort is a colorful tarp, until you have the $$.
Thanks guys,
The tiles are on 90# paper with a plywood deck over the trusses.
I have had 2 different roofer "pull back" a couple of tiles and tell me the paper is cracked and that is the cause of the leaks. One estamate for shingles replacment is $7k for that kind of money I can afford to be "jobless" and reroof it myself. I know the requirements have changed in the past few years in Fl. I have wanted to tie the trusses down for years in order strengthen the roof and get the discounts on insurance. So the next question is "If it was your roof and you were more concerned with the roof staying in place in high winds and never have to do this again." What products and what things would you do.
Here are some thoughts
1) Remove decking around the outside wall and tie the truss down to the poured collar.
2) Renail the deck as I go up.
3) Reinsulate the ceiling
4) Replace the ductwork for the A/C. Because of skylights I can not get to the northside of the house to do this.
I look forward to your answers
I am not up on Fl code requirements, so I'd advise calling your local codes office and asking what they require for replacement of the roof.
I know 7 grand sounds like a lot for a roof, but things are crazy in the shingle market and are only going to get worse. We've already seen close to a 40% increase in prices since the first of the year and it doesn't look to be over yet. You might just say that shingle prices are...ready for this...going through the roof :eek:
The hangers we use up here can be added to the outside of the house if the you remove the soffit.
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Saltair • It's been 10 years since the indie rock act the Postal Service released their lone, beloved album.
But at The Great Saltair Saturday, singer Ben Gibbard and electronic music artist Jimmy Tamborello showed the music still has resonance and a fan base.
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At about 90 minutes, the set was fairly short, but had high energy. In a black shirt and tight black pants, Gibbard seems to have ramped up his swagger since I last saw him perform a decade ago.
Singer Jenny Lewis, who provided vocals on the 2003 record, Give Up, shared center stage. The pair had chemistry, especially on the oddly upbeat breakup tune "Nothing Better."
With just 10 songs to work with on Give Up, the band rounded out the set with some new material (news that will please longtime fans).
Gibbard led a few thousand of those fans in a hand-clapping rendition of the catchy synth-pop hit "Such Great Heights."
"The only reason we're here," he said, "is you guys still like this record all these years later."
Tamborello's subtle new additions to the original songs, like violins, kept things interesting. The handful of new tracks, though, might not have been as innovative as the Give Up material — though maybe that's nostalgia talking.
The Postal Service was an unexpected success in 2003. It was something of a side project for Death Cab for Cutie's Gibbard and Tamborello, better known as Dntel, who made the record by sending CDs back and forth through the, ahem, Postal Service.
The combination of tightly crafted hooks and offbeat lyrics exploded, but despite the success, the two men never made another album.
This year, as Give Up was certified platinum, the duo released a 10th anniversary edition and mounted a cross-country tour. Salt Lake City's show at was rescheduled from May 29 after Gibbard lost his voice and Tamborello hurt his back.
The date change didn't seem to affect the size of the crowd though — the venue on the Great Salt Lake was nearly full.
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At the tight end position the Patriots always have a glut of quality players. Jake Ballard is finally close to 100% after the Patriots stole him from the Giants off of waivers and stashed him on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list last year. If Gronkowski and Hernandez are healthy and Fells and Hoomanawani also back someone has to go. Fells is a pure blocking tight end that the Jets are sorely missing and taking a chance on Ballard if available would be a cheap bet for a year.
Orson Charles was a 4th round pick in 2012 who starred at Georgia and was highly rated as a receiver and blocker. Charles fell to the 4th round due to a pre-draft DUI. He did not perform well in his rookie year and is now languishing behind Jermaine Gresham and Tyler Eifert on the depth chart in Cincinnati. He is certainly worthy of a second chance. Tony Moeaki may be on his way out of Kansas City as he is in the final year of his rookie contract and the team drafted Travis Kelce out of Cincinnati and signed Anthony Fasano. Moeaki should be healthy for training camp from a knee scope and could be a trade target.
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My Journey > > Heartbreak and Triumph ....... It's not even a comparison to me really.
Anyways, this might be a completely sacreligious thing to say on a Wrestling Forum, but in terms of pure consistent greatness on a main event level , Punk 2011-2012 is one of those runs where you look at it in a few years and say "Yeah, that was a fucking AWESOME main event run" , up there with runs such as HBK in 96-97 and HHH in 00-EARLY 01. To be honest , Lesnar from 02-4 was an AMAZING run as well in terms of his main event matches.
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One shot Julia POV. Julia looks back on her life, and on Rinoa in particular.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or any of the characters. This is for fun, not profit.
I look down upon my daughter with the small awareness that I have and I smile. I can see myself in her face and I am happy. That sounds like vanity; let me clarify. It is gratifying to see something, some part of myself still in the world. I watch her pursuit of the Leonhart boy with amusement and marvel at the poetic justice of it all. I look at the extraordinary life she has led and wonder how she - still only seventeen years of age - deals with each obstacle and moves on. Most of all, I wonder how much she remembers of me.
The melody used to flow down out of my head, out of my ideas, down through my fingers to the white ivory keys, and I could lose myself in it. I soon stopped playing in the bar. After that first song there were larger, more prestigious venues that wanted me to perform. Besides, I couldn't bear that empty corner. People tried to draw it out of me. Interviewers would endlessly question about the soldier that went to war and didn't return and I would end the interview. If they listened properly to the music, not necessarily the words, they would have understood everything. They wouldn't need to ask any questions about me. I don't think anyone could ever really comprehend what they heard when I played the piano.
He didn't tell me until after we were married. My ex-bodyguard, who had risen meteorically through the ranks to become general, had been one of Laguna's superiors and had taken it upon himself to 'arrange' some missions. Things were not particularly cordial between us after he admitted that. I still can't decide if there was some genuine feeling for me or if I was an appropriate trophy wife, whom he happened to be fond of, but then I wonder why he told me. Surely he must have wanted to be honest with me, to do a thing like that. It would have been so much easier to keep quiet. And why worry about honesty unless there was some love there? I find it is much easier to see these things in hindsight. There is a lot less clouding my judgement now. Life looks a lot simpler when you are dead. The thought raises a smile from me.
My marriage was uncomfortable, like the shoes I would wear when I performed for the large crowds - beautiful to look at but completely impractical for playing the piano in. Whatever my husband might have thought, it was not because I was pining for my lost love. I will admit to a certain amount of pining, but I got over that relatively quickly. I merely looked back into the past, a little wistful. Maybe that's why now I look back and dissect my life. It has always been my way.
We were always so different. I think that was the problem. He could not understand my endless searching through what-if, maybe, and might-have scenarios and I could not understand how anyone could put work so far in front of everything else. Well... not everything else. Me. That, perhaps, did not always make me the most pleasant person to live with.
And then I had my daughter. Yes, still I will say my daughter, not ours. He was never there. I suppose the arguments were persuasive enough. My job made it easier for me to look after her. I was her mother, after all. She was an easy baby to look after; quiet eyes staring up from her crib, the tiniest dusting of dark hair on her head. When she grew a little older she would sit underneath the piano and play with her toys while I practised.
I had been finding composing very trying. I had written nothing new since my first hit. I performed covers and occasionally someone else would write a song for me to sing, but try as I might, my own skill had deserted me. In spite of this, my career was still going strong. My audience seemed happy with just that one hit; it was only I who was dissatisfied. I should have been content. If I had been, my Rinoa might have had a different life.
I finally wrote a second song. It was a sudden burst of inspiration. I sat up all night, frantic to finish it. My husband was indulgent at first. I suspect he was pleased at the prospect of the good publicity that would reflect well on him. Maybe I have become overly cynical. Things were good for a couple of days. We even argued less than usual. I often wonder how much Rinoa absorbed of our arguments. She still seems to resent her father but I am not sure if she draws that from a memory of me. Many teenagers seem to loathe their parents for one reason or another. Maybe it is easier for me to deny I could be to blame. I should have made more effort to shield her from the fights. She would have been four or five years old then. And then he heard the song.
I don't know what he was expecting but that song was not it. I have never seen him so furious. I thought, at the time, that it was because he wanted to control my creativity. I thought he wanted to keep me at his side, like a puppet doll, maintaining our sham of a marriage. Now I am not sure. I think now it was just shock. The complete denial of his existence and his place in our lives must have hurt him more than I realised. I didn't even think he was capable of being hurt so much.
My second song was about my daughter, very pointedly and exclusively so. There was a short, ugly argument and I took Rinoa and left. I was angry. The car crashed. There is not much more to it. I wonder if she remembers what happened or if her mind has dealt with that too and put it away. I recall being conscious but not really being /there/. I remember only Rinoa, strapped in the back seat, not a scratch on her but her face spattered lightly in my blood. I remember her screaming and screaming without pausing for breath and thinking what a singer she could be, with lungs that powerful.
It is enough. I am content. Her life has been eventful but not destroyed by the loss of her mother. Perhaps it is egotistical to think it could be.
My second song was never released and never heard by anyone outside of my own family. I wonder if she remembers it.
Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, til I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
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Robert Pattinson is currently in Canada preparing for an upcoming movie, and according to sources, he's asked Kristen Stewart to come visit him. Perhaps it's because Canada is where they spent "some of their happiest days" together, shooting Twilight; or perhaps it's just that Rob has finally come to his senses. Whatever the reason, these two are clearly getting back together. First, Rob's Valentine's gift to Kristen; now a request to see her? When's the wedding, guys?
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According to reports, Rob asked Kristen to come see him in Toronto, and he wants her to bring their dogs, Bernie and Bear. From the sounds of things, he's operating under the auspice of "really missing the pups," but we all know that's the oldest trick in the book. What he really misses is Kristen. And I'm sure Kristen knows it.
So, go on and get all gussied up, KStew. Get your hair done, a mani/pedi, maybe a bikini wax, and go get your man. If he's telling you to come visit him in the place you first fell in love, I'd say he definitely wants you back, friend.
And now we can all finally get some sleep.
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yes it might shut you up then but then again you'd say they were splitting up so it's a no win situation for them
i hope so, i know it's silly, but when i saw them together in Twilight there was an absolute spark and i also don't know why i just want them to c'mon and get back together and stay together. my kids think there's something wrong with me cause i'm always looking to see what's going on with them. i just hope that she goes to Canada and they realize that they are made for each other.
yes Ann I agree, they belong to each other they are soulmates I only hope that these reports are true.
I hope this is true and that Kristen will go to wherever Rob is. I'm like Ann. I don't know why I care so much, but I do. I believe in true love and I think that is what they have or they have fooled thousands of people. I guess we'll see soon enough.