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Cubs Recall Cotts from AAA, Send Ascanio Down
The Cubs have optioned RHP Jose Ascanio to AAA Iowa, and have recalled LHP Neal Cotts from the same club.
Ascanio was acquired from the Atlanta Braves last December for LHP Will Ohman and IF-OF Omar Infante, and was optioned to AAA Iowa during Spring Training. He went 1-0 with nine saves at Iowa (2.08 ERA, allowing 14 H and one HR in 21.2 IP, with a 1.01 WHIP, a .179 OBA, and an 8/23 BB/K) before being recalled on May 19th when Chad Fox was placed on the DL with a sore elbow.
Ascanio got into five games with the Cubs over the past ten days, going 0-0 with a 1.80 ERA, allowing one run (earned) on four hits (.235 OBA) over 5.0 IP, with a 3/3 BB/K. He threw one scoreless inning in last night's Cubs victory over the Dodgers.
The 28-year old Cotts was also optioned to Iowa during Spring Training (March 21st), and had spent the entire 2008 season (up until now) at Iowa, posting a 2-0 record with three saves, a 2.00 ERA, and a 1.22 WHIP in 19 games, all in relief (.232 OBA, 23 hits in 27 IP, no HR, and a 10/33 BB/K). Cotts has been particularly effective versus left-handed hitters, allowing just seven hits (.206 OBA) and one walk with 15 K in 9.1 IP (0.78 WHIP).
Cotts was acquired by the Cubs from the White Sox in November 2006 for RHP David Aardsma and LHP Carlos Vasquez. He was selected by the Oakland A's in the 2nd round of the 2001 Rule 4 Draft out of Illinois State, and was traded to the White Sox after the 2002 season.
Cotts has 3+077 MLB service time and will (once again) be eligible for salary arbitration after the 2008 season. He is making $800K (plus another $75K in potential performance bonuses) in 2008, and will be out of minor league options as of Spring Training 2009.
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I'm surprised. I thought Ascanio looked pretty good. Are there a lot of lefties in Colorado?
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in addtion: Iowa started using Cotts as their closer of late and he did well in something like 3 or 4 outings.
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Cory Sullivan
Seth Smith
All lefties...
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we don't have a real left handed option out of the pen right now. we know that Stevie is no loogie.
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scott eyre really isnt a loogy at this point either.
Re: Eyre
what's wrong with Eyre?
He's retired all 9 lefties he's faced this year. and was fantastic the 2nd half of last season.
Curious move, but if the Rockies are loaded with lefties, it's understandable.
Did Cotts find a slider though? He use to be all fastball/changeups with a marginal breaking ball.
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I guess LouPa still likes Wuertz more than Ascanio.
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I beleive Wuertz has options, but I think he can refuse an optional assignment, as he has accrued enough service time. Someone help me out there, but I think Wuertz has to stay in Chicago.
Regardless of his struggles, Wuertz is definitely too valuable to expose to waivers.
We haven't heard the last of Ascanio. He is probably the first call in the event of bullpen injury. He could be a regular bullpen guy in 2009 if we choose not to resign Howry or Wood.
Hendry ALWAYS seems to have a stockpile of Righty Relievers around.
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I believe you are correct, sir...Wuertz has an option year left, but has enough service time to refuse an optional assignment.
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Regardless of his struggles...
What struggles?
15Ks, 9BBs in 26 innings.
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Wuertz cannot be sent down without waivers. He has been arbitration eligible for 2 years already. I for one am glad the stockpile is here now. At the end of the year the following guys are Free Agents
and unfortunately NOT Jason Marquis
So we are looking at possibly replacing 5/12ths of our current pitching staff. Hopefully all those guys move along and Hendry has the forsight to Get FA compensation in return for Woody,Dempster and Howry.
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thanks for the clarification...
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Makes me wonder how aware Pie is of all of this, and whether he feels particular pressure to perform over the next several days to justify recalling him by Monday.
I like Edmonds more than the average TCR'er, since I watched him play well in STL for several years, but I can't see any way in which he's better than Pie now.
Speculative fun...
Teams that are just about out of it and their center fielders:
Mariners/Ichiro (not happening)
Royals/DeJesus (well there's something)
Tigers/Granderson (we wish and I don't think the Tigers are really out of it)
Nationals/Milledge (no good)
Giants/Rowand, Winn (Winn is a possibility)
Padres/Gerut (amusing, but unlikely)
Rockies/Taveras, Spilborghs (no on Taveras, yes on Spilborghs)
Coco Crisp is floating out there as well. Seems like we could make a trade for Randy Winn tomorrow if we wanted. Wouldn't be the worst 8th hitter in the world, not sure if he can still handle CF duties.
Since I assume they're like everyone else in baseball and not interested in Matt Murton, what is Winn worth? He's got $8.25 MM owed to him next year and the remnants of $8MM from this year, plus a limited NTC to 10 teams.
Giants are doing okay in the pitching department, although you can't have enough young arms.
Re: Speculative fun...
Only guys I want on that list are Ichiro and Granderson, and being that they aren't coming, why not just play Pie or Patterson if you're not going to wait on Edmonds to find his bat? I mean, Randy Winn is the great hope of 2008? Take your Major-League-Leading offense and let Pie search for his swing and help the team with his defense. Matt Murton for Randy Winn would be a gift to the Giants, who ought to be looking to dump Winn's contract on the first GM to inquire.
Also, LouPa has apparently spoken a bit recently about how great Fuki is in RF and how he doesn't want to mess with that, so any dreams of Murton/Hoffpauir in RF should be labelled "not going to happen unless the team really, really struggles."
Re: Speculative fun...
since were speculating...
the last time ichiro and fukudome played together, kosuke moved to CF while ichiro stayed in RF.
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I like Edmonds more than the average TCR'er, since I watched him play well in STL for several years
I think most of us saw several good years from Edmonds in STL. The problem is that those years seem to be quite clearly behind him.
He is coming up on a year and a half of some pretty awful offense. It isn't like he just started to struggle when he got to the Cubs a few weeks ago.
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I hope that we see an improved version of the Neil Cotts that was on display last year. He didn't appear to be fooling anyone, some games it looked like BP out there.
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When did Neal Cotts become a good pitcher? Despite the fact that they both had very good numbers in AAA, I think I believe in Ascanio more than Cotts. I hope, though, that I am and wrong and Cotts turns out to be good, as well as Ascanio.
The Triumphant Return of Neal "2005 Smoke and Mirrors" Cotts
I guess it was a tough situation to make your major league debut for the year. Still, Marquis followed by Cotts was not a pitching change I was looking forward to.
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I assume you meant 2008 debut, but Cotts pitched well last night. The Taveras hit was a jam shot that Derrek catches if he wasn't playing even with the bag. And I have no idea why he was with a 1-2 count and the bases loaded.
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And I have no idea why he was with a 1-2 count and the bases loaded.
For the double play at home?
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it was a 2-run game at that point, made no sense to be playing to stop one run from scoring there. Now if my memory was wrong and it wasn't a 1-2 count, then you could be worried about Taveras bunting and that would make some sense. Otherwise I don't see why they were even with the bag or holding the runner there (I think Ramirez was even with the bag as well).
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I love this team.
Looks like Mother Nature is trying to call this fight.
Hey! I remember this team!
The key for Heyward's offense: get early leads. Heard a stat on Mike & Mike on the way to work that his avg/power much better this year when the Cubs have the lead. And true to form he gets the two run dinger with Cubs winning 3-0 ...
I'm sorry - I was probably not looking at the correct line, or spot, or...who knows!
I could blame it on the weed, but I stopped smoking many years ago.
Fortunately, I can rely on the rest of you sober and astute folks to bring the correct info forth.
Oh yeah! It just felt like one for some reason.
Agreed. I was not including Fowler or Heyward.
I'm just not a fan of 2016 Coghlan.....
@Dusty Contreras if it's a Lester or Arrieta start. TLS is good PH too. You also forgot about Heyward, assume Fowler is CF.
I expect Soler to get optioned as well when activated and Cahill to replace Grimm. It wouldn't surprise me if Coghlan and/or Soler is included in a trade.
Maybe Coghlan is up to see if he can get on track before someone acquires him.
This move could also be to assure that we have as much OF depth as possible to maximize Joe's ability to rest players in September once we've clinched.
Maddon basically said as much...Fowler still kind of sore, they're being proactive, etc.
La Stella at 2B...Baez at 3B, or vice versa. Zobrist in RF, Bryant in LF No one gets bumped.
If Coghlan is leading off, I assume Fowler is getting the day off. Who is supposed to lead off, then? Someone has to get on base for Bryant and Rizzo. Coghlan's OBP is .346 with the Cubs. Jackson's was .304. LaStella can lead off, but then he has to play second or third, and bump Zobrist or Baez.
Unless he gets hot, Coghlan will likely change places with Soler soon.
I suspect the Cubs asked Chris Coghlan if he would accept an Optional Assignment to the minors and he refused (Coghlan has one minor league option left), so either you keep LaStella on the 25 and release Coghlan, or option LaStella to AAA for about a month and have both LaStella and Coghlan available in September-October. (As an Article XIX-A player, Coghlan must give his permission before he can be optioned to the minors, while LaStella has not accrued enough MLB Service Time to refuse an optional assignment).
Given today's lineup -- maybe they just wanted an extra OF to give Dexter a few days off (i.e. day game after a night game).
Tommy LaStella has three minor leaue options left so it's no big deal to send him to Iowa, but as of right now he projects to be at 2+124 MLB Service Time by the end of the of the 2016 MLB regular season, which will place him "on the bubble" as far as being eligible for salary arbitration as a "Super Two" post-2016.
But if he spends at least twenty days on optional assignment this season (anything less than twenty days and he will accrue a full season of MLB Service Time), he will not have enough MLB Service Time to have a chance to be a "Super Two."
this will be his 4th time leading off for the cubs this season...WITH A .500 OB%! HAIL MADDON! THE PLAN (c)2016! HE HAS RISEN! #YOLO #SWAG! KONY 2012!
I don't hate Coghlan as a PHer but he's leading off today which is as bad as Austin Jackson doing so last year. He doesn't even have the speed.


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6. Where do you find shanty towns? What are the problems and how can they be improved?
The urban landuse of LICs/MICs
The central business district is still at the centre
But this time much of the nicer housing in grouped around it, so that they have access for all the shops and cinemas and banks and offices.
In addition, more nice housing takes over the best land spreading outwards along a hillside or close to a beautiful part of town.
The industry needs good transport so tends to develop in wedges along the main routes to the city.
People who moved to the town for work early on built houses for themselves or it was provided as rented accomadation by landlords when the city growth was much slower.
These areas tend to have most of the essential services such as clean water and sanitation and roads.
But once urbanisation really took off, people arrived from the rural areas, made shacks wherever they could, often in areas prone to flooding for example or subject to other forms of pollution that no-one else wanted, using whatever materials were around. They lacked paved roads and fresh water or any of the other main services, like schools and health care.
It is in the outer shanty towns that you find most of problems we have already talked about. The poor housing, lack of fresh water and sanitation, no electricity and unmade up roads are obvious problems. Why did they occur? The people arrived faster than the city could cope – and in the early days, many cities were unwilling to try too hard.
Then there was employment issues.
The migrants from rural areas thought that they would be much better off in the city, where there were lots of well-paid jobs – or so they believed.
However, while there were jobs for the trained and educated, these rural people lacked the skills to make them employable in any of the available roles.
So they are often left trying scratch a living from the informal economy (jobs that do not appear on government statistics and are often very hard and can be dangerous as there is no legal protection) as street vendors and cleaners or working in sweatshops down to picking up rubbish to recycle from the city tips.
Some could not make enough feed their families and so turned to crime, pick-pocketing in the CBD or prostitution or dealing drugs.
Hence crime was a big problem in some of the shanty towns.
As we have mentioned there are few made-up roads in this area so public transport has to manage with narrow, muddy rutted roads.
Once the buses are on their way into the city, the roads are crammed with every sort of vehicle wanting to get into the centre - congestions and polluted air are common place.
However, this has become a major issue for the UN Millennium goals.
Also the countries themselves see it in their own interests to have a healthier, better educated, law abiding population, and while such an enormous problem cannot be solved overnight, by joining with the people in these areas, a lot has been achieved, in some areas at least.
What is a shanty town?Shantytowns (also called slums, squatter settlements camps, favelas), are settlements (usually illegal or at best unauthorized) of poor who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials—often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic. Shanty towns, which are usually built on the periphery (edge) of cities, often do not have proper sanitation, electricity, or telephone services
The advantages of the growthEven the informal sector in many shanties pays more money than being a farmer in the rural areas and is seen as better than the life of a landless peasant farmer.
Growth of urban areas eases the pressure on the rural area so there are more jobs available and less people to feed.
Disadvantages of growthThe high expectations of life in urban areas are not fulfilled.
They do not usually have the skills needed to carry out the well-paid jobs in the cities.
Therefore they do not have enough money to buy a home or to go back to the rural area. Shanty towns become the residence of many. These are small, makeshift homes with one or two rooms only. They are made of wood, corrugated iron and cardboard found lying around the area. The favellas have no electricity or clean running water.
The rivers running through the city are polluted with sewage and waste from the favelas.
Agricultural production in rural areas might decrease as so many of the young adults have moved away.
Shortage of housing.
The results of rapid urbanisation1. Inadequate housing and services. 40% live in shanty towns or favelas .
2. The shanty town services are non-existent or incapable of maintaining a basic standard of living. The lack of basic services like a clean water supply, rubbish collection and sewerage disposal mean that the risks of disease are very high. In storms sewers block and flood.
3. Shortage of affordable formal housing.
4. The shanty town is likely to be found on inappropriate land. Maybe it is prone to flooding or is very steeply sloping, increasing the chances of a landslip. It could be on a piece of land that has been badly polluted by a neighbouring industry. The shelters made of wood and high population densities increase the risk of fire.
5. Because the growth is so rapid, the government does not have enough money to maintain the existing facilities, let alone improve them.
6. Increasing levels of pollution. Pollution of air, land and water is a major problem. Air pollution is second only to Los Angeles. Laws to protect the environment are either non-existent or rarely enforced. The back street workshops of the informal economy add to the problem
7. Increased volume of traffic on poorly maintained roads.
8. The informal economy employs over half the city's workforce. This is partly due to these people lacking the education but partly to the lack of jobs.
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What is Kibera like?
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A very vibrant place!
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A case study of shanty town management in a MIC city - you do not need this but it was the case study from the old syllabus and could be of use)Sao Paulo – urban growth: Why is it like that?
It all started in 1850 when coffee became the big money spinner. The land around Sao Paulo was good for growing coffee. The plantation owners became very rich.
Sao Paulo was the port used to export all the coffee and the plantation owners built beautiful houses there – it was their city place for culture and leisure!
It continued to be an upmarket playground and even became a tourist resort for the very rich in the 1920s and 1930s.
Then in the 1950s, LEDCs started to think that instead of exporting cheap raw materials, thus allowing the developed countries to make all the money by processing them, wouldn't it be much better to do the processing themselves?
It so happens that Sao Paulo had locally sourced minerals, iron ore and ample cheap energy (mostly HEP), and this made it an ideal spot to develop an iron and steel trade.
Iron and steel and engineering businesses were set up and were soon followed by Ford, General motors and Mercedes all have building factories there. The labour was cheap and willing and Brazil was a big market longing to buy more goods as the country developed.
It started slowly, but soon more labour was needed. New housing developments grew up. Although the wages were low on the world stage, they were much better than in many other parts of Brazil, especially the North East. To begin with the need for more labour meant that the factories trained up the new arrivals. Universities and research establishments around the city generated new ideas. This area has the greatest concentration of paved roads anywhere in Brazil.
Whilst best know as a centre of the car industry, Sao Paulo produces everything from satellite dishes to canned drinks. The head quarters of many of the major companies in Brazil are found in and around the Central Business District (CBD) of Sao Paulo. Also it is a centre for banking and other financial services
So thousands have continued to pour in, more than there factory jobs for. There was not enough housing so they built their own on any piece of spare land.The city authorities have been unable to keep up with demands for housing, schools, health care, water, sewage and other waste management. Air, water and land pollution are all major problems. The roads are so crowded that many rich business men have resorted to getting to work by helicopter.
Edward Lee - the push-Pull Model of Migration
Population: Sao Paulo from 7 million in 1970 to 19 million in 2000 – a rate of about 500,000 a year.
The reason why so many people moved from the rural areas to the urban areas was explored by Edward Lee in the 1960s. This is known as the Push-Pull model of migration. It can refer to people moving from one country to another or from one part of their own country to another.
The idea behind this model is that there usually more than one type of reason why people move from their homes. Often people are attached to their own area and to its culture, and so in general are unwilling to move. But circumstances can encourage them to overcome their reluctance. It might be that the situation is so bad where they are, that they feel they have to find a better place to live – these bad conditions push them away. However, having decided they need to go, they must find somewhere suitable. There will usually be a choice of places and so they will look for the one with the best chance of a better life. So of the choices they have, each will have attraction, but one place will pull them more than their other options.
Pushes may include extreme poverty, natural disasters like drought or floods or earthquakes, and lack of education, health care and other important services.
Pulls may include a variety of jobs, better services, a more varied lifestyle.
The problems with rapid migration
As we saw in 6.3. Rapid urbanisation , this rapid and unplanned growth leads to a number of problems
Housing: on arriving from the country, they are looking for low cost housing. The only choice they have is find a patch of ground that no-one else wants – on the outskirts or steep slopes or in places liable to flood, where they build a shelter with whatever happens to be around – cardboard, wood, corrugated sheets. About 1 billion people, one sixth of the world live in such 'temporary' dwellings. The shanty towns are know as are called Favelas in Brazil, bustees in India (Slumdog Millionaire) and barriadas in Peru.
Access to services: having built their shack, the new comers rarely have access to water, electricity or sewage disposal. Often their only source of heat is an open fire – dangerous inside a hut made of combustible material.
Traffic congestion and transport: shanty towns have few roads and do not generally have access to public transport. The existing road and transport systems are often overloaded. Everyone. Rich and poor suffer from congestion and air pollution, which often leads to smog
Health care: there are insufficient doctors and clinics to deal with the expanding population. Poor sanitation leads to out breaks of cholera and typhoid. Air pollution exacerbates reparatory problems.
Employment: While people were attracted by their belief that life was better in the city, often there were more people than jobs in the formal economy. So they are forced to make a living from whatever chances they can find in the informal economy, e.g. shoe-shiners, street vendors selling snacks or even picking over rubbish from the tips to see what they can recycle.
Education: rapid population growth means that there are not enough schools. Most manage to get some primary schooling of a sort, but few can afford to pay for secondary education (which is not free as in the UK) and in any case they usually have to work to support their families.
Social problems: The difficulty of getting work that pays enough to live on leads to crime and drug trafficking. Often this is controlled by street gangs and the violence that tend to accompany it
Urban problems and solution: LEDCs – Sao Paulo - What can the planners do?
Sao Paulo's repaid growth and the influx of the poor from rural areas has led to the rise of favelas on the edge of the city, along the main roads, on steep slopes liable to landslides or flat land given to floods. 20% come from poorer areas, end up in favelas, work in the informal economy but are still better off than they were before.
Sao Paulo has approximately 2500 favelas – some are quite large e.g. Helipolis (50-60,000). Besides the lack of services, having no legal place to live meant that this shut the residents off from certain kinds of employment and also from free medical care, which required proof of legal occupancy. The latter was concerning, as the poor sanitation and water supply made them more susceptible to typhoid and cholera and similar diseases.
Early on, the planners were so overwhelmed by the size of the problem that in the 1970s, bulldozers were brought in to flatten the favelas - if they are not there, we don't have a problem. However, this did not stop people building elsewhere. Then the government changed and the policy became more one of improving the favelas.
(a) Some these larger ones are outside the main city but are close to some of the factories. Having been around for 40 years, they are the most improved. They started off with little but over time organised. E.g. Jaguare has a strong neighbourhood association, persuaded federal government to help reduce crime and provide sporting and other activities for children.
(b) Improving the housing: (i)The city authorities set about improving the housing stock by providing the basic services of water, sewage and electricity. In a number of self-help schemes, the city or NGO provide the materials which the local people use to build better homes. Once built, water, sewage and electricity would be installed. These were very successful the peole has some controll over their lives and working on a common project bound the community together.These are know as Site and Service Schemes.
(ii) Other schemes such, Favela Monte Azula use rehabilitation rather than replacement. The authorities proved materilas to modernise the area. But this was not entirely sucessful, as the underlying problems were not solves - it was more 'papering over the crack' to coin a phrase.
(iii) There were further self help schemes such as CINGAPURA HOUSING Scheme - this should have involved building 140,000 apartments in large blocks ( see what has occured in the right og the picture above)
(c) In some favelas, once illegal building was made legal and the residents got legal rights to their property, which meant that they had more reason to improve it, and could later sell it and move on if that was what they wanted.
(d)Other schemes include microfinance, where small amounts are leant to people without security – those the banks would not touch with a three-metre pole – to improve their situation and/or start small businesses, such as bakeries and grocery stores.
(e)However as the favelas improve, more people will be attracted to migrate there and this is not sustainable. What is really needed is to develop the areas that the migrants are coming from.
(f) Adding satellite cites to the main big city may help the situation, e.g. Berrini and Jardines on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. People may be encouraged to move out of Sao Paulo, and businesses are also setting up factories there, so that local jobs will be available.


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within the data center -- which both enforces established rules and tracks the current state of users and systems throughout the network domain. Windows-based networks can accommodate more than one domain controller. Multiple domain controllers may be essential for larger, more complicated or physically segregated networks. And changes in any domain controller instance are ultimately replicated to the other domain controllers within the network. It's a process known as multi-master replication.
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In keeping with the grand tradition of networks pushing their own talent on the Emmys stage, Jimmy Kimmel will host the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The man behind ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" will host the network's broadcast of the Emmys on Sunday, September 17. Kimmel takes over for last year's host, Andy Samberg, the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" star who guided the Fox broadcast to rave reviews.
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Kimmel previously hosted the 64th Primetime Emmys in 2012, after gaining plenty of experience in front of an audience on his late-night series as well as hosting gigs for the ESPYS and the American Music Awards (which he helmed five times). Kimmel kicked off his career with a Daytime Emmys win for Outstanding Game Show Host (back when he was on "Win Ben Stein's Money") before earning multiple Emmy nominations for "Jimmy Kimmel Live" from 2012 through 2015.
The TV Acadmey also announced Bob Bain will serve as executive producer for the Creative Arts Emmy Awards; a significant hire considering the ceremony for technical, behind-the-scenes talent will take place over two nights, one week earlier, on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11, at the Microsoft Theater.
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Dutch slang word for 'fight' (as a noun, not as a verb), possibly originated from Suriname.
Wrong: You don't want to fittie with me!
Right: Yesterday, she had a huge fittie with her boyfriend.
Right: Yesterday, she had a huge fittie with her boyfriend.
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A Fit Biddie, A damn fine girl, sexy boddied girl, a girl to write home about, yeah girl.
Marlen: how was that party? any fitties?
Nolan: Nah, just a bunch of bunk ass dusty chicken heads.
Nolan: Nah, just a bunch of bunk ass dusty chicken heads.
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nickname for 50 Cent rap/hip hop artist
Fittie's new one is fly...
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Nickname for "50 Cent", for those who can't pronounce the middle "f".
YO, u gank Fittie's fresh trax off Limewire yet?
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word originating in liverpool mean sum1 who iz VERY shagable
OMG e iz a bit of afittie
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Who's that leggy blonde? Selma Blair shows off her long legs and newly-dyed locks on a day out with son Arthur
She's better known as a dark beauty.
But Selma Blair appeared to be the quintessential Californian blonde on a trip out with son Arthur in Hollywood on Thursday.
The 41-year-old was almost unrecognisable as she showed off her newly-dyed 'do and toned pins on her way to a children's play class.
Blonde bombshell: 41-year-old Selma Blair showed off her newly dyed blonde hair during a trip out with son Arthur in Los Angeles on Thursday
Wearing tiny frayed denim shorts and a
boho-style red and white shirt, Selma was clearly embracing her new
look as a blonde bombshell.
The Cruel Intentions actress lingered outside the building as two-year-old Arthur pottered about in a blue and white checked shirt, cut-off jeans and bright yellow shoes.
Selma accented her outfit with red and white espadrilles, subtle silver jewellery and aviator sunglasses - she even appeared to have matched her lemon-coloured handbag to her son's shoes.
Distracting herself? Selma enjoyed a day out with her son, no doubt taking her mind off her firing from Anger Management, after reportedly falling foul of co-star Charlie Sheen
Taking a break: Devoted mother Selma is often seen taking her young son to enjoy different activities
Black beauty: Selma Blair has long favoured a darker look, complimenting her pale skin
On Wednesday, the single mother tweeted a picture of herself in the hairdresser's chair having her hair lightened.
She said: 'Fixing. Takes time. Years of black hair dye. Yowza.'
Blair first debuted an ombre look on Sunday, when she visited a farmer's market with her son and Jason Bleick, her ex-boyfriend and father of her child, who she remains on good terms with.
Since then her hair appears to have become several shades lighter.
The new look may well be an attempt to lift her spirits after her much-publicised firing from hit TV show Anger Management.
It was claimed that her co-star Charlie Sheen wielded the axe himself via a profanity riddled text message in which he labelled her a 'c***.'
At the time, Mr Sheen's publicist declined to comment on the allegation.
Selma, who played Dr. Kate Wales, Charlie's therapist, colleague and friend with benefits, had appeared in 33 episodes over two seasons opposite the Platoon star.
Relaxed mother: Blair wore a casual outfit of frayed denim shorts and a boho style top as she enjoyed the trip out with her son
Daddy cool: Selma looked excited to see her son's father Jason Bleick in West Hollywood on Thursday
Heavy lifting: Jason carried a small paper bag while Selma lugged around their toddler as they went for lunch
Arthur's minder: Jason proved to his son he could be so good for him when he took a turn at carrying
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China may require Internet users to register with their real names when
signing up to network providers, state media said on Tuesday, extending a
policy already in force with microblogs in a bid to curb what officials
call rumours and vulgarity.
A law being discussed this week would
mean people would have to present their government-issued identity cards
when signing contracts for fixed line and mobile Internet access,
state-run newspapers said.
"The law should escort the development
of the Internet to protect people's interest," Communist Party
mouthpiece the People's Daily said in a front page commentary, echoing
similar calls carried in state media over the past week.
"Only that way can our Internet be healthier, more cultured and safer."
users say the restrictions are clearly aimed at further muzzling the
often scathing, raucous - and perhaps most significantly, anonymous -
online chatter in a country where the Internet offers a rare opportunity
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It could also prevent people from exposing corruption online if they fear retribution from officials, said some users.
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have long had to present identity papers when signing contracts with Internet providers.
Earlier this year, the government began
forcing users of Sina Corp's wildly successful Weibo microblogging
platform to register their real names.
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system is needed to prevent people making malicious and anonymous
accusations online and that many other countries already have such
"It would also be the biggest step backwards since 1989,"
wrote one indignant Weibo user, in apparent reference to the 1989
pro-democracy protests bloodily suppressed by the army.
Chinese Internet users have long had to cope with extensive censorship,
especially over politically sensitive topics like human rights, and
popular foreign sites Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube are
Despite periodic calls for political reform, the ruling
Communist Party has shown no sign of loosening its grip on power and
brooks no dissent to its authority.
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Destiny's next expansion will be called 'Rise of Iron'
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The official preview trailer shows new quests, gear and gameplay tweaks.
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'Destiny' spring update arrives on April 12th
The upgrade brings a new quest, more gear and additional perks.
'Mass Effect: Andromeda' lead writer joins Bungie
This marks the second announcement of a scribe leaving the studio in less than a month.
'Destiny' sequel set for next year
A few expansion packs are en route for 2016, as well.
Destiny's new 'Damage Referee' will punish laggy players
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Nampa, ID 83687 USA
(208) 467-3811
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