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Any team not sold out within 100 miles is still blacked out on the dish.

I haven't seen the movie so I can't judge her performence, but if Freaky Friday that's already been a movie two times and has countless other movies based on the exact same idea has anyone even nominated for an Oscar I'm never seeing another movie again.

Bobby Clark, now my least favriot GM of the present.

What is some adult gets drunk, forgets to take her pill and to make the dude wear a condom, and dosn't want to get pregent. Really what's more likely to happen? It obviously should be over the counter. A bet a 12 just trying to buy some over the counter allegry drug would be questioned, let alone the mourning after pill.

That wasn't close to a swerve. WWE would never show Foley's return match w/o hyping it for weeks to months, esp. on free TV. It was just a very poorly booked angle even by WWE standards, and I the pay-off was a very bad idea in the first place. The only swerve that I really cared for in recent history was the ECW reforming angle, and it sucked in the end.

Natty is also the poor man's beer in Ohio. In upstate NY it's Genny. Coors Light would be allright if it cost the same as Natty, it's the most overpriced macro brew in North America.

I've been in the luxery boxes at a AAA baseball Rochester Red Wings game and got feer food and beer. I've been in the club seats for the Buffalo Bills and only got an exclusive food court with jacked up prices. Having a privite rest room was nice though.

I wish the Flyers would go back to wearing orange, it was unique. Everyone wears black now.

Why? Why give nutjobs ANY legitimacy? Do you have any idea how many people actually RUN for President? -=Mike I think the top 4-6 candidates should be able to partipate. Chosing a president should be more than an A or B decision. I'd like to see the Green, Reform, and Libretarian parties get their candidates on consistently.

Ferry Bad Place The good news is that Torontonians are getting an exciting new car ferry. The bad news is it's going to Rochester By JAN WONG ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- People in this beleaguered city on the south shore of Lake Ontario are pretty excited about a new Toronto-Rochester car ferry promised for May. For their part, people in Toronto have barely noticed. That's all to the good because there are several important reasons why Torontonians wouldn't ever want to come here. Take Rochester's homicide rate, at triple the U.S. average. The car-theft rate is 2.6 times the U.S. average. Robbery is nearly triple the national rate. Then there's the culinary treasure known -- this is true -- as the Garbage Plate. For $6 (U.S.), you get home fries and cold macaroni salad, topped with a cheeseburger or hot dog, all drowned in ground meat, hot sauce, chopped raw onions and Day-Glo orange grease. It takes a tattooed cook 14 seconds to assemble. It looks unpicturesque. "That's why they call it the Garbage Plate," says Mayor William A. Johnson Jr., 61, who is no fan. Don't sample it at Nick Tahou Hots (slogan: "Home of the Garbage Plate''). At this fluorescent-and-Formica joint, the cheeseburger is as dry as a cracker and the grease pools at the bottom of the paper plate. "It's supposed to be greasy," says the skinny cashier, who appears to eat elsewhere. Nick's used to be open all night until it hosted one too many shootouts. Located on West Main Street, it's a quick but perilous walk from the mayor's office, past a homeless shelter, shuttered businesses and a high school for troubled youths. "You walked there?" Mr. Johnson says. "I wouldn't walk there. Don't go there again. If you had made a wrong turn, you would have been in no man's land." He pulls out sheets of statistics. Rochester's homicide rate, at 17.4 per 100,000, is double New York City's. In 2001, Rochester had 39 homicides, mostly execution-style hits. "Only a couple of times a year, a purely innocent person gets shot," the mayor says. He dreamed up the ferry idea in 1995, a year after he took office. He thought tourism might halt the city's decline. Conjuring up a vision of Torontonians streaming across Lake Ontario, he persuaded New York state to kick in $14-million toward a ferry service. Currently, the $42.5-million (U.S.) high-speed catamaran is out of dry dock in Perth, Australia. At the Rochester harbour, a 30-minute drive from downtown, work crews are rushing to convert an abandoned warehouse into a terminal. But neither side has received approval from customs and immigration authorities. And construction hasn't even begun in Toronto. "I'm in the dark as to exactly what kind of structure they're talking about," says Mr. Johnson, who has heard rumours that Toronto's terminal might be a concrete pad covered by a tent. Henry Pankratz, Toronto Port Authority chairman, didn't return calls. Nor did Dominick DeLucia or Howard Thomas, executives at the ferry company, Canadian American Transportation Systems. "The last I heard they wanted somebody else to put in money," says Joe Pantalone, a Toronto city councillor who chairs the municipal waterfront group. In a sign of how few tourists come to Rochester, rooms at Microtel Inn & Suites cost $39.95. "I get the stupidest calls from the stupidest people," the desk clerk complained to a room attendant the other morning. "Like, 'How big are your rooms?' " In fact, Microtel has queen beds and full baths, and includes continental breakfast, free local calls, cable TV and the morning paper. Rochester would be a bargain, except that Air Canada charges nearly $900 round-trip for a 25-minute flight. (Advance bookings are $387, with a $150 penalty for any change.) By car, the trip via Buffalo takes about 3½ hours, plus gas and tolls. In contrast, the thrice-daily ferry will cost $40 (U.S.) per car, plus $20 per passenger, or $28 for walk-ons. Shore to shore, the trip takes 2½ hours, an estimate that doesn't include customs and immigration checks. But such comparisons miss the point, according to Carol Miller, a retired hospital worker (and my cousin-in-law), who has lived in Rochester her whole life. "What do they expect people from Toronto to do when they come here? There is so nothing here." Hers is a typical Rochesterian psyche, less civic boosterism than civic dumpsterism. Indeed, last June a number of local organizations offered a "Reality Tour" of the city's poorest neighbourhoods. Ms. Miller offers her own blightseeing tour. At the ferry docks, she points out abandoned buildings. "The beach is polluted," she says over the roar of front-loaders. Later, she drives her family van over potholed streets to the downtown core. Here, on the Genesee River, is Rochester's star attraction: a 30-metre waterfall. High Falls is no Niagara Falls, but it did power Rochester's first flour mills. On this sunny November day, the footbridge is deserted. "I hate to tell you this, but it's like this in the summer, too," Ms. Miller says. "To be honest, I wouldn't come here day or night alone." Downtown, all-day parking is $3. A nearby heritage building is vacant, with smashed windows and torn plastic sheeting. Traffic is so sparse it's unnecessary to look left or right when crossing the street. But pretensions to a bygone era remain: no-left-turn signs on every downtown corner. Two hundred years ago, High Falls made Rochester the largest flour-milling city in the world. A hundred years ago, George Eastman invented the 10-cent flexible film roll and the $1 Brownie camera here. His 50-room mansion, which now houses a museum of photography, is the city's only five-star attraction. In 1932, at the age of 77, the lifelong bachelor declared his life's work done and shot himself in an upstairs bedroom. Rochester's decline can be traced to governor Thomas E. Dewey. In 1948, Rochester voted against him when he ran for president, ensuring he lost the state -- and the White House. Two years later, Mr. Dewey saw to it that Interstate 90 bypassed Rochester on its way from Buffalo to Syracuse. Today, digital technology has slashed employment at Eastman Kodak Co. to 21,000 from a high of 60,000 in 1982. Two other main employers, Xerox Corp. and Bausch & Lomb Inc., have also cut jobs. In the past decade, Rochester's population has shrunk 6.3 per cent to 220,000 (Greater Rochester has about a million) and taxable city property values have plunged 15.3 per cent. It now ranks 173rd among the nation's 200 largest metropolitan areas in terms of job creation and economic performance. At the end of a depressing tour, Ms. Miller is pressed for a genuine Rochester attraction. She suggests Wegmans, a supermarket. Don't laugh. "It's the store where I take my relatives and out-of-town visitors," Neil Stern, a food-industry analyst, told The New York Times. Cher went there this summer. Wearing dark glasses and a cowboy hat, she signed autographs and cooed to the manager, Bill Congdon, "I'd love for you to build one of these stores in Malibu where I live." At 130,000 square feet, the Pittsford Plaza Wegmans offers a caviar bar, a kosher deli that authentically boils the bagels before baking, and a less authentic Chinese buffet. The fish department cooks to order, free. The flower department has a five-day guarantee on roses. You can hook your latte cup onto your shopping cart. Your toddler can "drive" a red plastic car also hooked, yes, to your shopping cart. Aside from gargantuan restaurant portions -- the Scotch N Sirloin offers 48-ounce slabs of prime rib, Nick Tahou Hots sells 42-ounce drinks -- everything in Rochester seems to be disappearing. Downtown's revolving restaurant has closed. The nightly laser show at High Falls has been mostly discontinued. Even the Red Wings baseball team had five consecutive losing seasons, including, in 2002, its worst in 23 years. "Then they moved the team to Ottawa, and immediately it got better," says Mr. Johnson, who himself was trounced this month in a race for county manager. Not surprisingly, Rochesterians prefer to look to the past. Visitors are told to go to Mount Hope Cemetery, where Frederick Douglass, the slavery abolitionist, and Susan B. Anthony, the women's suffrage leader, are buried. Her home is another attraction, but everyone from cab drivers to Ms. Miller to the mayor warned against venturing into the neighbourhood (just past Nick Tahou Hots). "Oh, we have no problem here," Joanne Middleton, the docent, insisted to the one and only visitor of the day. "The neighbourhood is fine." Johnson ired by Toronto slap Canadian newspaper columnist finds much to dislike in Rochester By Lauren Stanforth Staff writer (December 2, 2003) — Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. says city and fast ferry officials have to work on changing people’s perceptions about Rochester, after a Toronto Globe and Mail story on Saturday took pot shots at everything Rochester, from the Garbage Plate to the height of the waterfall at High Falls downtown to how George Eastman died. Johnson called a press conference Monday afternoon to denounce an entertainment article written by Globe and Mail reporter Jan Wong, which started with the phrase, “there are several important reasons why Torontonians wouldn’t ever want to come” to Rochester. The high-speed ferry that will run between Toronto and Rochester is scheduled to be operational in May. Wong visited Rochester for 2½ days and wrote about her “depressing tour” of the city. Wong wrote about Rochester’s homicide rate and declining work force at Eastman Kodak Co. She also took aim at many of Rochester’s institutions: the Garbage Plate with its pooling grease, how at age 77 George Eastman shot himself in the upstairs bedroom of his mansion on East Avenue and how Rochester’s star attraction is a “30-meter waterfall.” “We’re going to have to mount a serious effort to counteract this perception,” Johnson said Monday. The mayor said he will meet with Canadian American Transportation Systems President Dominick Delucia, Rochester’s partner in the high-speed ferry project, to discuss how to deal with negative perception before the $42.5 million project is finished. Johnson, who said he talked to Wong in person on Nov. 19 for two hours, said he was offended by Wong’s obvious bias against Rochester. Johnson said the quotes in the article, in which he advised Wong to never walk to the Susan B. Anthony House from Nick Tahou Hots because if she took a wrong turn “she’d wind up in no man’s land,” were accurate. However, Johnson said he was only trying to give sound advice to Wong about walking in a possibly questionable part of the city. Johnson said every city has questionable areas — even Toronto. Wong, reached by phone in her Toronto office Monday, said she did research on Rochester before visiting and found the city to be saddled with crime and facing economic decline. She said she wrote the story based on how a tourist would react to Rochester’s self-promoted bright spots. “I want the reader to read it. I’m trying to be a little funny, sometimes at other people’s expense and sometimes at my expense,” Wong said. “I understand people are upset. But I think (the story) is pretty accurate.” Wong said she went to a concert at the Hochstein Music School and visited Strong Museum — but many of those details were cut for space considerations, she said. The Globe and Mail’s publisher, Phillip Crawley, was out of town and could not be reached for comment Monday. Patti Donoghue, public relations director for the Greater Rochester Visitors Association, said she had heard about, but not yet read, Wong’s article. What she had heard left her shocked, said Donoghue, who said more than 200 writers have interviewed her about Rochester during her six years with the visitors association. “It seems what (Wong) concentrated on was crime. What I tell any travel writer is that there are certain areas that are not advisable to go to, just like any other city,” Donoghue said. “I can show you tons of articles and what was said about us that are wonderful. People who have lived everywhere and traveled everywhere have said ‘It’s beautiful here, you’re so lucky to live here.’ ” In October, Johnson took issue with a column that ran in another newspaper, the Toronto Star, which also criticized Rochester as a high-speed ferry destination. That writer, Joey Slinger, said he would rather visit Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, than Rochester. My Response The Garbage Plate is the greatest food ever invinted. If they bitch got off her high horse and actually tried it she'd like it. What contrabutions has Toronto ever made to food? Downtown is going to be destered on the weekend when on one as at work. They have the exact same probleme in Chicago, LA and countless other US Cites. Suburbanites are stupid and afraid of they City because of there own prejudice. Rochester had bad areas, Toronto does too. I'll admit to a higher crime rate, but your only put yourself in danger (which is exaggeratted) if you go out intentionally finding those areas. The Red Wings did not move to Ottawa, the Baltamore AAA affiliate did. Rochester still has a team and was named the best Baseball City in the minors. Ottawa is least in the International League in attendence. The article is elitist BS. I'll admit Rochester is no tourist attraction, but it isn't a shit hole.

It's suppossed to take 2:15. It saves about 45 minutes. I don't think alot of pepole will take it. I just don't like one sided pot shots at my home town.

This is a horrible idea, yet my Goonies markdom would force me to see it. Mouth was by far the best Goonie.

German government reforms vetoed German government reforms vetoed Germany's ambitious package of reforms aimed at kick-starting Europe's largest economy has hit a brick wall. The opposition-controlled upper house of parliament rejected plans to speed up 15.5bn euros ($18bn) of tax cuts. It also vetoed labour law changes. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has staked his political future on the reforms - known as Agenda 2010. A parliamentary committee will now try to find a compromise by Christmas. Taxing issue Mr Schroeder hopes that tax cuts, which are at the heart of his reforms and have helped drive expansion in the US, will also crank up the stagnant German economy. He warned of the consequences of failing to approve the reforms when the argument goes to the parliamentary arbitration committee. "The conservatives will then be responsible for less growth and more unemployment and will have to explain to the German public why it is putting power political games before the interest of the people," he cautioned. But conservatives fear that the tax cut will force the government to run up too much new debt and are calling for a fundamental rethink. And Bavaria's premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) denied that the vote was politically-motivated. "We are not blocking these tax cuts out of party political or tactical grounds," said Mr Stoiber, who ran against Mr Schroeder in the last general elections. "We want to make them possible, but with different financing. Not financing on credit." The country's budget deficit already exceeds the European Union limit of 3% of gross domestic product. Outlook The Bundesrat, where Germany's 16 states are represented, is dominated by the opposition Christian Democratic Union and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU. They have voiced concerns that the proposed reforms will strain public finances even further. A government report Friday highlighted the ongoing troubles of the German economy. German industrial production unexpectedly fell in September from the previous month. Output dropped 1.2 % from August. While the government is forecasting economic growth of as much as 2% percent next year, many analysts warn that may be too optimistic.

Sex Aid Causes Bomb Scare A sex aid has caused a bomb scare at a South African rubbish dump, the Cape Times says. A group of women searching for items for recycling heard a ticking sound coming from a rubbish bag. Thinking it could be a bomb, they informed the manager of the Hermanus dump in Cape Town, Adolf Hansen. "I thought I would just tear the bag open a bit, and then there I saw what it was - a vibrator, the batteries still working," he told the newspaper. Mr Hansen said he told the women recyclers there was no danger of an explosion, and attempted to explain what the item was to the mystified group. He recognised what it was immediately, he said, because he had seen vibrators "more than once" before. This one, he said, was "middle-sized".

Nader gave an endorsment to Kucinich, but unless he pulls out the biggest political uspet ever, Nader is going to run again from what I've heard.

I dressed up as Steve Bartman. I flattered anyone would go as me for Halloween.

You no ripping on commies is a bigger wast of time than being a commie yourself. They're not remotly part of the relevent US political spectrum. It's like wearing a Bengals suck t-shirt. Why bother?

Yes; I've heard of Who.

That may be true, I don't know anything about the guy, but does any doubt the album sucks. I'd buy it if I found it cheap in a discount bin and all, but not for it's quaility.

Apparatnlty 4 wrestlers, I'm assuming from Raw, will be at Kent St Nov 4 from 11-1 in the Student Center Plaza as part of Smackdown your vote.

How is occupieing an area that dosn't want to be ruled by Isreal and incorperating part into Isreal (while some want to take the whole thing) not conquering the area? I'm not saying Isreal dosn't have the right to defend itself, but when they took over the West Bank in 67 no one in the political mainstream of Isreali politics wanted to occupie for a long time. It self evident that the Occupation is a security disaster. When has the UN passed a resolution condemning the Jews? It's all been criticism of the Isreali state.

Can I go take a shit in the middle of a Wendy's because no clear written policy about it?

The West Bank did not have continous borders, was with out acess to a water supply, and the Palistinians wouldn't have been in control of there own border. And condemnation of Isreali repression in not anti-Semitism.

Is Rochester Becoming Buffalo? Is Rochester becoming Buffalo? Rochester Democrate and Chronicle Steve Orr and Todd Grady STAFF WRITERS (September 28, 2003) — To many local residents, certain truths are self-evident: Winter will always be too long, spring will always be too short, and Rochesterians will always be able to say, “At least we’re not Buffalo.” The last of those truths, however, is now under challenge in some quarters. Thomas S. Richards, a leader of the Rump Group, made up of local private- sector executives pushing for government reform, says that unless his hometown takes immediate steps, it could sink to the same depths as its neighbor. “If you’re sitting here in 1970, even 1980, Kodak was still cooking pretty good and Buffalo had already taken a few bad shots with the steel mills,” said Richards, the retired head of Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. “We would say we could never be like that. It could never happen to us. I really think it’s dangerous to say that now.” Richards asserted that Rochester and Buffalo suffer from many of the same long-term problems, such as population and job losses and shrinking property tax bases. The long-term health of the entire region is tied to the city’s fate, Richards added. “There’s no way in hell that this community can be successful if the city of Rochester is in a financial disaster.” At present, Buffalo’s circumstance is more dire. It began the current fiscal year with a $24 million budget gap when anticipated state aid didn’t show up. Instead, New York state took the draconian step of naming an independent authority to oversee city finances. Rochester began the year with a balanced budget, and its immediate prospects are good. But the city, like Buffalo, is projecting huge budget deficits that could force big tax increases or spending cuts, or both. Tom Golisano, CEO of Paychex Inc. in Penfield, said, “It’s unfortunate that municipalities like Buffalo are going through what they’re going through. “It’s quite possible Rochester could be very close to that in a short period of time,” said Golisano, a Rump Group member who owns the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. said the Rump Group members are off-base. “There is no question that Buffalo got into its predicament by overwhelmingly relying on state aid to balance its budget. That has never been a practice of the city of Rochester. They hit the wall. They have a control board. We aren’t close to that.” Earlier this month, the community was buoyed by reports that local business owners believe the economy is improving, and that Rochester is a national leader in planned job growth. But Eastman Kodak Co. took the wind out of some sails Thursday by announcing a new digital emphasis that imperils 15,000 local jobs. The idea of Rochester following Buffalo’s fiscal tumble is especially discomforting locally because Rochester has long fostered a superior — some would say smug — attitude toward Buffalo. Just ask Buffalo Mayor Anthony M. Masiello: “I guess I could get my dander up about somebody saying, ‘Oh, my God, you’d better be careful, you’re going to be like Buffalo!’” “But the fact of the matter is, if you look at all of the statistical data, you’re right behind us. I mean who’s kidding who? You’re right neck-in-neck with us.” BTW Major League Championships Rochester 1 Buffalo 0

Why don't they just turn him into a fisical conservative heel a la IRS? I don't think he's been heel sense the Ministery went under.