Blacks jotted down licence-plate numbers on scraps of paper.

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Beck was able to get his equipment down to about 30 pounds with the new dry-plate method, needing only an assistant or two to help carry the camera and a big wooden tripod up a mountain.

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At every Brewers home game, five sausages standing over 7 feet tall--bratwurst, Polish, Italian, hot dog and chorizo--entertain fans by racing each other down the warning track and around home plate.

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The voting machines were used in some 140 municipalities in the province last year but, according to the report, they went down like bad plate of poutine, suffering from blackouts and transmission errors, resulting in unreliable results -- although he adds that there's nothing that can be done about the results now except to move on.

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Wood said the 2-2 pitch was a changeup that he tried to get down, but instead left up over the plate.

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