text: [[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/richcheese_4763.JPG]][-[[caption-width-right:325:[[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]]]-]'''Richard Cheese''' is an artist who does [[StealthParody seemingly straight]] CoverVersion[=s=] of RockAndRoll and HipHop songs in the style of a LoungeLizard, backed by his band '''Lounge Against the Machine'''.Discography:* ''Lounge Against the Machine'' (2000)* ''Tuxicity'' (2002)* ''I'd Like a Virgin'' (2004)* ''Aperitif for Destruction'' (2005)* ''The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese'' (2006)* ''Silent Nightclub'' (2006)* ''Dick at Nite'' (2007)* ''Viva la Vodka'' (2009)* ''OK Bartender'' (2010)* ''Lavapalooza'' (2010) (As Johnny Aloha)* ''A Lounge Supreme'' (2011)* ''Richard Cheese Live at the Royal Wedding'' (2011)* ''Back in Black Tie'' (2012)!!Tropes associated with Richard Cheese include:* AutoTune: Occasionally retained in covers of songs where the AutoTune is supposed to be gratuitous. He gets in an argument with his at the end of his "Stronger" cover.* AudienceParticipationSong: [[Music/{{ACDC}} "She told me to--" "CUM!"]] "Come. Yes. Thank you."** Hilariously played with in one of the live recordings of "Me So Horny". He asks the audience to sing along with the chorus, which they do. [[EpicFail For one line.]]-->''"Keep doin' it!"''* BerserkButton: Bobby is ''very'' protective of his piano if "[[{{Coldplay}} Viva La Vida]]" is anything to go on.* CallAndResponseSong: "[[Music/SystemOfADown Chop Suey]]". "'''''Why''''' did you leave the keys ''upon the table?''" "You wanted to!" "Oh."* CasanovaWannabe: His stage persona in live concerts. If you're a female, expect to be hit on (for laughs), groped, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking asked for what song he should play next.]]* CarefulWithThatAxe: In the cover of "[[Music/JanesAddiction Been Caught Stealing]]", Richard is attacked by a dog, which is conveyed with a mix of barks, growls, and Richard screaming for help.** In a lighter note, the drummer in "You're the Inspiration" tries to {{foley}} out an intro to the song.** "Viva la Vida" ends with Dick's screams of pain as he gets his ass kicked by Bobby.* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Of Music/GreenDay's "American Idiot", see {{Medley}} below. * CoverAlbum: Technically all of them. But ''Dick at Nite'' aims for television opening themes instead of regular songs.* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted, always, even when the song is "Don't Cha". Becomes especially bizarre when he covers "My Neck, My Back", where he sings about his vagina, and parodied on Music/LordsOfAcid's "Pussy", where he's talking about Siegfried and Roy's tiger.* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: His cover of "[[Music/{{Disturbed}} Down with the Sickness]]" tweaks the lyrics slightly to make the song about an actual sickness, rather than a metaphor for societal oppression.** "[[Music/LadyGaga Just Dance]]" inverts it somewhat, where the song's upbeat tune is made into a sombre jazz song, on top of Richard laying out what was LyricalDissonance into the obvious. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't ''see'', ladies and gentlemen."** A less straight (tee-hee) example is "Relax", which slows down the pace quite a bit to go from hard and fast fucking to slow lovemaking. Until he finally says "come".* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Due to the fact that most of the royalties of his music go to the original artists, he obviously does not take kindly to fans pirating his music. His threats of legal actions toward pirates only got worse when he was unable to afford surgery for keratoconus due to lack of funds. Often, during shows, he'll lightly admonish people recording via film (you can hear a track where he gropes a woman recording).* EdibleThemeNaming: Richard Cheese, Bobby Ricotta, Frank Feta, Billy Bleu...* EpicFail: He spends the entirety of the "Viva La Vida" cover ''trying to figure out the piano notes'' for several painful minutes, messing up things he gets right the first time, and then getting beaten by Bobby for touching his piano.** "[[{{Queen}} Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo]]--I'm sorry, what's the next line?"** "Light my Fire" ends with Lt. Sulu accidentally firing ("FIRE!") and destroying the USS Enterprise.* GratuitousSpanish: Richard getting into the spirit of "[[Music/{{U2}} Sunday Bloody Sunday]]":-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas why senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!''* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Sunny Side of the Moon''.* HAHAHANo: A variant occurs with a fake telephone call between Music/WeirdAlYankovic and Richard: Weird Al returns Richard's call about joining forces to do Richard's latest album. Weird's response: '''NOPE!''' (hangs up telephone)* IAmNotShazam: Richard calls [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]] "Weird". [[invoked]]--> "Actually, it's Al."* IAmTheBand: Richard Cheese is the only constant: his fellow band members have all changed hands at least once, especially Bobby.* IncrediblyLamePun: During [[StarWars the Imperial March]] cover: "Piano solo! Bass solo! Drum solo! HAN SOLO!"** [[Music/TwoLiveCrew "The horn section so horny!"]]** PunnyName: His band members.* InTheStyleOf: Occasionally mixes up the Lounge covers: for example, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica is done in the style of the Chordettes' version of "Mr. Sandman", and his live version of "Don't Cha" has him parody ABBA, George Takei, Music/BobDylan, the Doobie Brothers... at times he breaks out imitations such as Music/{{Bjork}} during a performance.* IndecipherableLyrics: Undone by many of his covers, in which you can understand him perfectly. He keeps it in tact for LilWayne's "Lollipop", though, by mumbling all the words.* LyricalDissonance: Must we say? Things like "Enter Sandman" and "Man in the Box" become 50s-style Chordettes pop and smooth tango music, respectively. Sometimes actually inverted: for example, "Beat It" becomes somewhat more somber, as does "Just Dance", both of which have pretty dark subject matter. He also has slow, dark, sentimental songs... about looking for "a bad bitch" or how he wants to bend you over his Lamborghini. There are exceptions, such as "Perfect Situation", which is oddly ''even darker'' than the original song.* {{Medley}}: His "[[Music/GreenDay American Idiot]]" cover devolves into one of these, going through [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", "The Star-Spangled Banner"]] and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "La Cucaracha"]] before cycling back around to the Green Day song.* MusicalPastiche* NationalStereotypes: Johnny Aloha's entire band consists of increasingly bizarre ones.* OneOfUs: Is a huge Franchise/StarWars and Series/StarTrek fan. He's also a GeorgeTakei impersonator.* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: With a fake duet with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Lieutenant Sulu]] (who is not ''the'' Sulu... and he's not GeorgeTakei, either - Richard Cheese is a Takei impersonator), Richard Cheese's lawyer personally calls him up to see if he did the disclaimer and made sure he said "Celebrity Voices Impersonated".-->"By the way, this call cost you fifty dollars."* PenName: Richard Cheese is really Mark Jonathan Davis (not to be mistaken for the guy from Music/{{Korn}}), meaning he invoked all those Website/YouTube comments [[RedundantParody pointing out his name is Dick Cheese.]] The Lounge members are also given rather silly names--Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio), Frank Feta (Brian Fishler), and Billy Bleu (unknown).* PunBasedTitle: [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Lounge Against the Machine]], and all album titles (i.e. ''Dick at Nite'' is to ''Creator/NickAtNite'' following the television theme).* RunningGag: The word American in the line "knocking me out with those American thighs" changes every time he sings "[[Music/{{ACDC}} You Shook Me All Night Long]]".** At concerts, "my good friend [name of singer/band]".** Also at concerts, getting the latest lyrics of the newest, most popular song (Lil' Wayne's Lollipop, [[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]]) off the internet, and proceeding to butcher it deadpan by doing a straight reading of the lyrics.* TakeThat: In the live version of "Lollipop", Richard Cheese claims to have gotten the latest lyrics of his good friend, [[TheUnintelligible Lil' Wayne]]. They're all gibberish, except for "Shorty wanna", "lollipop", and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "pussy"]].-->''"Shorty wanna suck dat ungh ahhhhh hurr ghanbaba murhmahumr ammaurhghaa nanghahrug ammangh mdunganur pussy"''** In his Christmas album, the band begins to play "Last Christmas" by Wham!, but Richard stops them all.-->''"Uhm, we were going to do a swingin' lounge version of 'Last Christmas', by Wham!... but that song sucks! Next tune!"''** Off "Viva la Vodka", which mostly features songs from a Washington, D.C. performance:-->"So I visited the White House the other day, which, aside from UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush being there, was pretty cool!"** "Freebird" is one to people who... you guessed it... keep telling him to play Freebird, which is a TakeThat in itself.-->"Now shut the [bleep] up, you stupid drunken [bleep]heads!"* TheScapegoat: Britney Spears in his live version of "Toxic", as Richard launches into a monologue blaming her for every scandal, then-recent (such as breaking the toilet on the ISS and attempting to kill some astronaut's girlfriend), even up to and including [[TheWarOnTerror sending our troops into Iraq]] "[[AuthorTract with no justification whatsoever!]]"* SelfTitledAlbum: Inverted; Cheese used synthetic instruments for his first album, and then named his actual band after said album when he got one for the second.* SmallNameBigEgo: All a part of his stage persona. When the news broke that ''Series/{{Glee}}'' had ripped off JonathanCoulton's cover of "Baby Got Back", his immediate reaction on Facebook was to speculate that his would be next.-->''ATTENTION GLEE: I know you are already thinking about copying one of my swingin' swanky arrangements and using it on your show. I don't blame you, I'm awesome.''* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ** ''Dick at Nite'', which covers TV themes. ** ''Lavapalooza'', which covers songs tiki-style rather than lounge-style. ** ''Silent Nightclub'' is a Christmas-themed album, and contains one of the band's original songs, about... well, make an educated guess from the title. ** "Star Wars Cantina" is another original song, which is a summation of the original ''StarWars'' trilogy, set to "Copacabana". ** There's "RC on the Air" off of ''Vida la Vodka'', which is a collection of all of Dick's radio appearances. ** ''I'd Like a Virgin'' has a hidden track where a covered band calls up the band to congratulate them, a Mexican hotel owner offering Dick and the band some free rooms at a hotel... and [[BestialityIsDepraved Dick asking for some donkeys]], Dick hitting the microphone with his dick, and asking a woman to open her legs during a concert. ''OK Bartender'' inserts random drunken messages left by fans on Dick's phone between songs.* SophisticatedAsHell: His charming, smooth demeanor contrasts with the songs he covers.-->''Pardon me, do [[Music/GunsNRoses you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby! You're gonna die!]]''* SongParody: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The lyrics are kept largely the same, but the tunes are radically changed. The only straight-forward example is "Star Wars Cantina", which is "Copacabana" with the lyrics rewritten to be a plot summary of the ''Star Wars'' original trilogy.** "Yellow" may also qualify--the lyrics are the same, but they're applied to the theme from ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', which does have its own lyrics.* ThisSongGoesOutToTvTropes: "[[{{Music/Nirvana}} Rape Me]]" is "for the ladies", "Don't Cha" "goes out to all the lesbians in the audience", real or imagined. He has one for "[his] good friend, TheBeastieBoys" in his cover of "Brass Monkey".* StealthPun: The singer's name is one for "dick cheese".* VivaLasVegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but UsefulNotes/LasVegas is a common theme and destination spot for them. There's a reason why "Christmas in Las Vegas" is their only original song.


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The 13th Black History Celebration by the African-American Cultural Committee will be presented from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Hendersonville High School.
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In the July 3rd Daily World there was a front page article on lighting off fireworks and when you can do them.
Either people who buy the fireworks don't read the paper, or they just don't seem to care about their neighbors who have animals who are sensitive to these types of noises, or they couldn't care less about the laws that have been set.
The laws are put there for a reason and not just a waste of the paper they are printed on.
I guess the people who do it have no sense whatsoever.
I think they need to have a penalty that is a little more strict, saying that if they are caught doing it before the day of the holiday they won't be able to do it on the holiday ever.
My dog gets really stressed on this matter and doesn't understand. It is hard to tell your dog everything is fine when, being a dog, to them it's not.
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The trust is seeking 20 volunteers each day, for six days.
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With the news that Buck Allen has declared for the NFL draft, the Trojans have lost their most productive running back in the last decade.
"This was a tough decision for me," Allen said in a statement released by the university. "I went home to Florida and talked it over with my family. I am proud to have been the first one in my family to have gone to college, and I've been blessed to say I played football in college. Now I'm ready to take it to the next level. Every kid dreams of this moment."


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In time, Piersall would become one of the silkiest centerfielders of the '50s--no mean feat given his contemporaries Mantle and Mays. A new afterword by Piersall catches us up to his later years (and stunts) in baseball and his post-career as a broadcaster. Fear is actually a prologue to that. It's a courageous story. Piersall's demons had him by the throat and nearly choked him. The breakdown he suffered early in his rookie years was so complete and so terrifying that his mind blanked out the next seven months before his own healing allowed for a painful reconstruction. Given that Fear was written in an era before biographic confessional and the public washing of an athlete's unclean flannels, Piersall's honesty and detail about mental illness, hospitalization, psychiatric therapy, and the struggle back to sanity are extraordinary. This is a truly marvelous book--better than the movie starring Anthony Perkins that was made from it--and, like the lead-off hitter Piersall was, it's earned its spot at the top of the order of any serious collection of baseball biographies. --Jeff Silverman


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English trio Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle all managed to avoid one another as the Europa League quarter-final draw was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on Friday.
Dethroned Champions League winners Chelsea host Russian club Rubin Kazan in their first leg on April 4 while Tottenham are at home the same night against Swiss outsiders Basel and Newcastle travel to former European champions Benfica.
Tottenham, who won the inaugural competition in 1972 when it was known as the UEFA Cup and added their last European trophy in the same tournament in 1984, will fancy their chances against Swiss champions Basel.
Newcastle head to Lisbon after scoring with the last kick of the match on Thursday to defeat Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala and face a Benfica side who are two points clear of Porto and unbeaten in 22 domestic matches this season.
The final last-eight tie features 1999 Cup Winners' Cup champions' Lazio against Fenerbache with the first leg to be played in Istanbul.
The final is set to be played at the Amsterdam Arena on Wednesday, May 15.
Matches to be played on April 4 and 11
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- Provide opportunities for students to engage in reflection and dialogue about values, transition, expectations, and identity to assist in building an inclusive community.
Outcomes of the SLU 101 Program:
Students will...
- Identify the basic principles of the University Mission.
- Describe their understanding of their academic requirements and expectations.
- Identify campus resources that are available to help them in their transition (social or academic).
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Russian officials say Polish President Lech Kaczynski has died in a plane crash in western Russia.Russian news agencies say that 60-year-old President Lech Kaczynski was killed when the Tupolev TU 154 went down as it approached an airport near Smolensk. Witnesses say the plane crashed into trees near the airport and then, broke into several pieces before catching on fire. The exact cause of the crash is under investigation.Among the passengers confirmed on the flight were Mr. Kaczynski's wife Maria, Poland's army chief, deputy foreign minister, central bank governor and scores of Polish legislators. The Smolensk regional governor said there were no survivors.The Polish delegation was headed to the western Russian town of Smolensk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World War II-era killing of 22,000 Polish officers by Soviet security forces at the town of Katyn near Smolensk.Mr. Kaczynski was elected president of Poland in 2005. A year later, he spoke of his plans to make Poland an integral part of the European Union.He said we must build a properly functioning country, without corruption. A country helpful toward its citizens, to build an independent Poland within the European Union.Residents in Poland expressed shock at the news of Mr. Kaczynski's death. Hundreds of people gathered outside the presidential palace in Warsaw to pay tribute to the president.Adrianna Parowska says she, like the others who gathered at the presidential palace, is in shock. We are here to be together, she says, to console each other. It's a great shock because the elite of our nation went there to remember the dead from 70 years ago and right now Poland is really in trouble.The speaker of the lower chamber of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, is expected to take Mr. Kaczynski's duties.


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During the divorce preparation Robin and her assistant, Krystle, provided me with excellent service answering all my questions patiently making sure iIunderstood the process and the procedures to the completion of the negotiations as my case was settled in mediation. Robin and Krystle are a credit the legal profession of the northwest, the state of Washington and to themselves. I highly recommend them without hesitation.
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One of the new wiz-bang features of the JLCA version 3.0 is support for converting the Swing package to .NET. This numerically performs great, but there is one hole that brings almost every conversion to a screeching halt: Layout Managers. The .NET framework doesn't currently have a concept of Layout Managers that a Java Programmer would recognize. You can anchor controls which can approximate BorderLayout and FlowLayout is kind-of the default in C# but what about the others? Remember the phrase up-a-creek? Currently your options are limited to not using LayoutManagers in your Java code (like that is really an option) or having LayoutManagers implemented on the .NET Framework. For those of us that don't really have the time or inclination to re-code Gridbag in C# there are 3rd parties that sell C# versions of all the LayoutManagers. For those of us that find our money more limited than our time check out: http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive7.html for a good starting place. Matthew Johnson wrote a short article on LayoutManagers in C# and generously provides implementations of Flow, Grid, and Border Layouts. If your Swing application wasn't overly complicated this might be all that you need. Those that went all out with GridBagConstraints can still use Matthew's foundation classes as a starting point for your own LayoutManagers. (Hmm, sounds like a good excuse to start a small series of posts one on each of the missing LayoutManagers… We'll see what my schedule is like in the next few weeks.)
The JLCA will work with these new LayoutManager right? Sorry. Oh wait, did you want something more than the short answer? You will convert your application as usual, receive LayoutManager errors and then "quickly" fix them by changing the non-converted Java calls to C# calls into your newly bought/written .NET LayoutManagers. Shouldn't the tool do this automatically? Maybe. This ties back to not supporting 3rd party any-things that I mentioned in my introduction to the JLCA. But (you knew there had to be a 'but' since I wrote this post) you can make your life a little easier if you plan on running the conversion multiple times. I.e. you only have to do the work once instead of after every conversion. How you ask? Well it is all about the difference between 3rd party libs and your source code. Why can the JLCA convert your code but not that nifty logging utility? The simplest of answers; you have the Java-source to your code. How does that help us if the LayoutManager source is in C#? It doesn't, but if you created (I propose this being done programmatically) a tool that took your C# code and created Java stubs of the public methods and members (also the protected ones if you extended any of the LayoutManagers) you would have Java code. Then you refactor your imports from the standard javax.swing.XYZ to my.stub.XYZ and the next time you convert the JLCA will convert your source plus your stubs. You have effectively fooled the JLCA into thinking you have the source to these LayoutManagers. Assuming you used the same package structure and class names as the C# you can now overwrite the converted stubs with the actual C# implementations and bingo: conversion without the LayoutManager errors. Sounds like a crap-load of work huh? Well I did warn you it was really only really an option if you planned on doing multiple conversions. At that point you could justify the up-front cost by not having to repeat the post-conversion work every time. Is this the only solution? Not by a long shot; remember the good old Extensibility Kit? This is of course the poster child case for that tool. And while I haven't purchased any of the 3rd party toolsets I am sure they have their own creative ways of dealing with this tedious issue.
Completely off topic, if any of you haven't seen the new movie Monster yet I would suggest you wait for the video store. I would say that it was the best acting I have ever seen in a made-for-TV movie. Honestly, the acting is very good. Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci do great jobs. It's just that the story lacks drive. A friend summed it up by saying that the movie "lacked climax" (and before you think this a bad pun on the lesbian scenes; it was a female friend and her mind isn't in the gutter.) A different friend said that it was the first time he had paid to see a documentary. No one expected a fiery, explosion-filled ending, but I left the theater wondering where they had wanted to go with the movie, and why hadn't we gotten past the start line.


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The only player in the deal that would cause me a second thought is Gleyber Torres.
McKinney and Crawford are decent prospects but both are redundant/replaceable in the system and Warren was really only a middle-reliever or #6 starter, so to me it's really just Torres for Chapman.
There is no Comp pick for players traded mid-season. 2+ months of Chapman is it.
to get one of the best you have to give up one/some of your best...but it's a bit painful to watch the system's best prospect walk for any 2-3 month rental, especially one that's not an everyday player.
I assume Chapman will replace Richard on the roster, but who goes down when Cahill gets activated? Maybe Grimm?
And when Soler and Coghlan get healthy, how do they fit them on the roster when they're ready to be activated?
We are giving up a lot, but it's not like we're trading Addison Russell for 2+ months of Jason Hammel. When impact players become available, they are going to cost you. The other bids could also have been high.
Having Chapman as a rental is potentially less disruptive than having him come in with an extension in place.
Billy McKinney had season-ending knee surgery last August and came to Minor League Camp this year somewhat restricted. (He was used mostly as a DH in Cactus League Minor League Camp games), and I'm not sure he's 100% right now (he's repeating AA, and his XBH numbers are way down, like he's not getting good rotation in his lowev half). That might have been part of the reason why the trade wasn't completed right away.
Rashad Crawford was a basketball star in HS (he was known as "Baby Jordan", and baseball was only his second sport) and he has plus-speed and athleticism, so when the Cubs drafted him (Keith Lockhart was the scout) he was seen as a long-term project.
I was at Fitch Park the day that Rashad Crawford became a LH hitter, He waa never a switch-hitter, He went directly from being a RH hitter to a LH hitter, which I had never seen before.
I'm with Rob G and Johann here. It's not about Chapman as a pitcher. I just don't want to have to block out a real problem (the domestic violence) in order to try to enjoy the frivolous ball and stick game.
ROB G & BOB R: You're right. The QO can only be extended if the player spends the entire previous season with one club, so only the Yankees could have offered one to Chapman (if he wasn't traded). If an Article XX-B FA is traded during the season, the new club can't offer a QO. .
i was going off what AZPhil said above...they keep talking about tweaking the rules, i didn't know if that had been changed or not. my winter/spring was way too hectic aside from a couple weeks vacation in janurary and i missed a lot of stuff.
if not, this is one hell of an expensive trade for what looks to be 30-40 innings of play...including the playoffs. damn.
Did the QO rules change?
unless there's a TARDIS involved, I dont believe that's a possibility
I didn't think you could offer a QO to a player who was traded during the season? For example, Lester was not offered a QO when the Cubs signed him.
I think the assumption is that make him a Qualify Offer and he signs elsewhere next year.
cubs QO, chapman declines, cubs get a draft pick, brewers sign him for 6/90m, brewers win world series in a sweep as chapman strikes out g.torres in game 4 vs the yanks.
Sorry, how are the Cubs getting a pick out of this?
Besides what he adds to the Cubs bullpen, getting Aroldis Chapman means the Giants and Nationals (and Indians) can't get him, and that could be important come the post-season.
When the opponent knows Chapman is out there ready to pitch in the 9th, it can cause the other team to alter their strategy and play things differently than they otherwise might prefer to play things in the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings.


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Only 20 minutes walk to the Grand Palace, Khao San Road started on its current incarnation in the early 80s, when Thailand fully embraced tourism. What began as a few budget travelers renting rooms in local houses, bloomed into a fully fledged backpacker mecca.
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We have just returned from the Grand Hotel where we enjoyed a family christening. The hotel itself reminds me of one of the old fashioned but elegant hotels you might find in Brighton except with the stunning Italian lakes as a back drop . The rooms were very nice with ours on two levels with a bathroom up stairs and bedroom down an a largish balcony commanding an amazing view over the lake and mountains in the distance . The hotel has a nice but smallish pool. The terrace is amazing with another mouth opening awesome view. The restaurant was also good with a lot of choices for breakfast and some delicious different Italian foods for the christening buffet which seemed never ending .Somewhere I would love to go back to.
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The only change I made was to grate my ginger and chilli and then just mix the marinade/sauce in a jug and pour over trhe wings in the baking tray (lined and would adivise doing so) and made as per recipe and the result was moist wings that melted in the mouth. The only suggestion I would offer is that I cooked the wings the meatiest side up (I had removed the wing tips for stock) and I would cook them the initially the other way for the first 15 minutes (I did them 200C fan forced oven) and then flip to have the fleshy/meat side up and cook at 165C fan forced for the last 20 minutes. Though my photo looks like they are burnt they are declicatbly delicious and moist and only over the above suggestion to maybe get better colour coverage in the cooking. Thank you mersaydees, made for Please Review My Recipe.
My DH made this for a quick and easy dinner tonight. He made Iceberg Wedges With Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing to go with it. Made for Aus/NZ swap.
I used pork spare ribs instead of the chicken and it was excellent. The combination of spices makes this a finger lickin good receipe.
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These were great! Perfect amount of spice for us! I made more than I needed and have just had them cold today for my lunch - excellent recipe I shall be making again and again for BBQs and picnic! Made for ZWT6 Ya Ya Cookerhood.
This was wonderful!!!! I made it with chicken legs as I could not get wings, I will make it with wings next time. I also added a tablespoon to the sauce from the pan when the chicken was cooked and served it on the side as a dipping sauce. I love how easy this was with such a wonderful flavour. A big 5 stars from all of us. Thanks for sharing mersaydees.
Yum! I'm a big fan of hoisin sauce so I had to try this recipe. I marinated the wings overnight and cooked them in a 180oC heat oven for about 30 minutes. They were perfect. Thank you mersaydees
These wings were really good served with fried rice. I also had to sub garlic chili paste for the chili bean paste. I loved the flavor of the barbecue sauce and can't wait to try it on other meats. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Very easy and tastes great. I used this on some pork chops and I baked them at 375 for 45 minutes basting every 20 minutes. Delish
These were so yummy! I couldn't find the chili bean paste so I subbed garlic chili paste, which came out so well I can't imagine the other would be better, LOL. Sweet, tangy, with a touch of spice. Awesome!!
Loved these wings! I used chili garlic sauce in place of the bean paste, but other than that followed the recipe exactly. I halved the recipe and it made 7 lg. wings. The cooking time worked fine even on the lg. wings, and I was worried that they may need additional time in the oven, but they didn't. I will definately be making these again! Made for Chinese/Vietnamese New Year Tag Game. Linda


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YouTube, the online video site that Google bought in 2006, continues to see strong growth in the US and around the world. As a consequence, Google was this week able to post fourth-quarter revenue up 51 percent over the same period the year before.
Google reported revenue of $4.83bn for the quarter ending December 31 using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Net income for the period was $1.21bn, compared to $1.01bn in the third quarter of 2007.
With earnings per share of $4.43, Google just missed analyst consensus of $4.44 on a non-GAAP basis, as polled by First Call.
Google continues to increase revenue from outside the US, reporting that 48 percent of total revenue in the quarter came from international markets. That's up from 44 percent in the same period a year earlier but the same as the third quarter 2007.
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"The international market is still very nascent, with tremendous potential with what we can do," said Eric Schmidt, CEO and chairman of Google, during a conference call to discuss the earnings.
YouTube, the online video site that Google bought in 2006, continues to see strong growth in the US and around the world, executives said. It is now available in 17 languages, including eight that were added last year.
In conjunction with CNN, YouTube recently offered video of a presidential candidate debate. Almost as many people watched the video on YouTube as on CNN, said Sergey Brin, cofounder and president of technology for Google.
"We consider this a great milestone," he said. Google hopes to work on similar partnerships to help grow the YouTube audience in the future, he said.
Despite several bright spots, Google also hit a speed bump during the quarter. "We're still learning how to monetize social networking," said George Reyes, Google's chief financial officer.
Last year Google launched OpenSocial, a development platform for social-networking applications. While it now has 20 partners, Google is disappointed with the money it was able to generate from the platform in the fourth quarter, said Larry Page, cofounder and president of products for Google. "But we're optimistic about the future," he said.
The executives highlighted Google's newer mobile initiatives. Phones running Google's Android operating system are expected later this year. Schmidt was reluctant to estimate the proportion of searches that will come from mobile phones in the near future, but he said he expects that in 10 or 20 years, the majority of searches will be done on mobile phones.
Even though phones running Android will compete with Apple's iPhone, Schmidt, who holds a seat on Apple's board, sees the iPhone as a trailblazer. "The iPhone is the first of a whole generation of products that will be much more search-intensive," he said.
The executives didn't expect a decline in Google's fortunes because of the potential economic slowdown in the U.S. "We have not yet seen any negative impact from the rumors of a future recession," said Schmidt. "So we'll see what happens."
Even if the economy does slow, Google is well-positioned to keep performing well, said Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management and marketing. If more people turn to the Web to look for bargains and comparison shop, that's good news for Google, he said. However, if overall commerce decreases, that could reduce demand for Google's offerings, he said.
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I set up multi-site on a blog the other day and been non-stop running into problems.
First problem I was receiving was, when receiving the code for wp-config the DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE included the "www." portion, which to my understanding shouldn't exist there, so I removed it. Upon removing it I couldn't access my WP-Admin due to redirecting me to WP-Signup.
The second problem is that when creating a secondary site I got a "403 Forbidden" issue and attempting to access the site's dashboard resulted in a "Not Found" page.
I honestly have no idea what is going on, thought it may be a problem with the host not allowing wildcard domains, but they do.
EDIT: Also just noticed, when trying to go to "statueclothing.com" I get re-directed to the "wp-signup" page, yet when going to "www.statueclothing.com" everything works fine.
Here is my current WP-Config:
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true );
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define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.statueclothing.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
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# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
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RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
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Released: Jul 01st, 2005
Running Time: 142
Director: Axel Braun
Company: Digital Sin
Cast: Zenza Raggi, Veronica Jett, Brother Love, Zoe Belmont, Tony T., Nicole Brazzle, Jennifer Luv, Axel Braun, Jada Fire, Michelle Banks, Claudio Meloni, Vanilla Skye, Scott Nails, Delilah Strong, Sammie Rhodes, Mary Jane (II), Mr. Pete
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This is the flagship series for your squirting section.
The jury is still out on the subject of squirting, but Axel Braun's Squirting 101 series makes a fairly good case for its validity. While there aren't any Cytherea-quality geysers of fluid, the girls all get plenty wet from Dr. Braun and his crew's rapid-fire fingering.
Most of the action in Squirting 101 5 is girl after girl getting finger fucked until they gush. But a few good hardcore scenes are thrown in as well. Delilah Strong takes a vigorous pummeling from Tony T. and keeps on smiling. And Veronica Jett and Michelle Banks double-team Mr. Pete.


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We have introduced a photonic crystal into a single-crystal silicon slab in order to manipulate the light emission. When the lattice constant of a defect-free photonic crystal matches the wavelength of light in the medium, the light emitted from the silicon is resonantly extracted at the photonic band edge within the escape light cone. When the lattice constant is larger than the wavelength, Brillouin zone folding of the photonic band also allows the light to be extracted; we achieved an intensity that was enhanced by a factor of ~ 20 due to the diffraction of internal light into the light cone. We have also created a point defect in photonic crystals with smaller lattice constants that functions as a nanocavity and strongly interacts with the silicon emitter. Four cavity modes were observed, with different Q -factors and emission patterns. The mode orders were assigned using the resonant wavelengths and polarizations. The observed emission at room temperature was enhanced by a factor of ~ 30 in comparison to that of an unprocessed area of silicon-on-insulator. Our study demonstrates that employing a photonic crystal nanocavity in silicon can greatly improve the light extraction efficiency, the characteristics of the radiation pattern, and the internal quantum efficiency.
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She is very intelligent doctor she knows very well how to treat the patient and she diagnosis of problems very quickly
nice doctor i have ever seen
She does not deserve to be a doctor.
Decided to give her a try as I just needed to see a doctor for my annual. I figured it was worth trying someone closer to where I live and wasn't necessarily looking for my "lifelong gyno." Huge mistake. Without a doubt the worst doctor I have ever seen. I waited over an hour for her and she spent about 2 minutes with me. Brought someone into the room but never introduced them and had terrible bedside manner. She gave me no chance to ask any questions and when I called back after my visit she ignored me for two weeks. When I finally did get a response, she said she could not respond over the phone and I would need to come in again just to speak with her. She is all about making money, not making her clients happy. To top it off, she gave me the wrong prescription so I subsequently had to go back and forth with her office to get this sorted out. Avoid at all costs.
We went to see dr.nilufar for the first. The worst doctor ever. She did not answer any of our concerns or questions. Seems like she was always in rush. She has no manners and if I try to ask a question, she will interrupt you or just ignore u at all. We wen there one time and we left with more questions and concerns than with any answers. I don't recommend this doctor to any one. Feels like she is there not to help patients but just to make money, no care for the patients at all, no manners and doesn't help any way. She doesn't deserve to work In that office. Choose other doctors, like dr. Han or Fernandez. So don't waste your time, find some one else. I don't not recommend her any one ever.......
Informed about bleeding and miscarrying at home to doctor's place and again next week at nurse visit . Guess what..Doctor came to know about the miscarriage on a (before miscarriage) pre-scheduled appointment i.e. two weeks later. That too when I mentioned. Lack of communication and irresponsible behavior of staff.
When I found out I was pregnant, Dr. Nilufar was the first one I could see so I went despite then the less than glowing reviews. (I am shocked by the 5 stars from 60 reviews on another site - they certainly weren't there a year ago when I looked. I prefer the ones where you can actually read about people's experiences.) So while she does seem to care in the time she spent answering questions and was available by phone and e-mail, several instances made me decide to switch doctors for my ob needs. 1) When I asked about how to calcium intake, she seemed surprised when I told her the prenatal prescribed to me does not have any. 2) When I needed an rx for my prenatal vitamins faxed to my mail order pharmacy, I found out that it was delayed because the medication her at the office twice and they were still waiting. 3) My blood tests came back showing thyroid functioning that is out of range for someone in her 1st trimester pregnancy. I raised this concern because I miscarried shortly after. She said it was in normal range, which it was - for a normal person, despite my telling her I had already been diagnosed with early hypothyroidism and the asterisk on the report stating the range for pregnant women. Instead, I was referred to a reproductive endocrinologist - but not specifically for that condition but in case I needed help because of my age. I went to my own endo, was given medication, and am now within range.
I would not recomend her to my family and friends.
I would never go back to her.She was impersonal snobbish and hurried.Never asked me of my concerns.just kept talking for 10 mins and left. Did not even show me my babys heartbeat.Treated me like a baby machine/beast. I came out crying at how she made me feel


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VA Health Care:
Inadequate Planning in the Chesapeake Network
HEHS-95-6: Published: Dec 22, 1994. Publicly Released: Dec 22, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) planned construction of a new nursing home in the Baltimore, Maryland, area, focusing on whether VA used sound planning criteria in: (1) choosing the new nursing home site; and (2) developing its plans to replace the former medical center and nursing home.
GAO found that: (1) VA did not soundly plan its construction projects partly because it failed to provide adequate guidance to its regional offices and medical centers on how to change its facility-by-facility construction process into an integrated network planning process; (2) the VA Eastern Region did not provide an integrated plan to develop the Chesapeake Network into a competitive managed care system as VA envisioned; (3) VA inadequately surveyed the future availability of community nursing home beds, misallocated the availability of state nursing home beds, and did not thoroughly explore the option of renovating excess hospital space in determining the need for a new VA nursing home; (4) VA may have overstated its need to build additional extended-care capacity in the Chesapeake Network; (5) the VA construction plan may not be the best approach to improving veterans' extended-care services in the Chesapeake Network service area; and (6) the proposed site may not be the best location for a new VA nursing home in light of the misallocation of state nursing home beds.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: VA required its Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) to develop 1-, 2-, and 5-year strategic and business plans. These plans were completed in 1996. In addition, action has been taken to integrate management of the Baltimore, Perry Point, and Fort Howard facilities. Several ongoing assignments are assessing the adequacy of the network plans.
Recommendation: Before requesting funding of any future Chesapeake Network construction projects, such as the Fort Howard replacement hospital and nursing home, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should provide Congress with a revised plan for meeting the future medical care needs of Chesapeake Network veterans. This plan should include: (1) a thorough assessment of the needs for all types of care throughout the Network, rather than assessments made on a facility-by-facility basis; (2) a thorough assessment of alternatives to new VA construction, including renovation and conversion of unused space at VA facilities; and (3) identification of planned VA construction and renovation projects that the Secretary considers necessary after need has been determined and alternatives explored, prioritized according to need.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: VA required VISNs to develop strategic and business plans. These plans were completed in 1996. The plans do not, however, include the type of facility-by-facility assessments envisioned by the recommendation.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should consider requiring completion of similar plans for all other VA medical care networks.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: With its shift to VISNs, VA has emphasized networkwide planning. In addition, guidance issued to VISNs encourages greater use of contracting when it is cost-effective.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Undersecretary for Health to revise VA strategic planning guidance to: (1) better support networkwide, rather than facility-based, planning; and (2) improve the methodology for conducting community nursing home surveys.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
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Mar 21, 2016
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VA's Health Care Budget:Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Improve Tracking of Obligations and Projected UtilizationGAO-16-374T: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2016.
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VA Benefits:Outcome Measures and More Outreach Would Enhance the Post-9/11 On-the-Job Training and Apprenticeship ProgramsGAO-16-215T: Published: Nov 18, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2015.
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VA Benefits:Increasing Outreach and Measuring Outcomes Would Improve the Post-9/11 GI Bill On-the-Job Training and Apprenticeship ProgramsGAO-16-51: Published: Nov 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2015.
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