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Only the primary authors of a new, approximately $280 billion farm bill still say the legislation will be in place by an April 18 deadline.
And even they're hedging — probably a wise approach after the farm bill's first conference committee on April 10 lasted less than two hours and, according to multiple sources, failed to dislodge entrenched positions or find the funds needed to pay for the new legislation.
The conference came about only after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, following weeks of refusing to name conferees, finally produced a list of 49 (compared to the Senate's 11) just prior to the meeting. The group is largely made up of urban-based representatives, a fact cited by several unhappy senators from largely agricultural states.
The legislative process has "been hijacked by urban interests," claimed South Dakota Sen. John Thune.
During a press conference on April 9, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the current farm bill deadlock would be broken only after a source for $10 billion in new spending is found and a "very sharp disagreement" between the House and Senate on several billion dollars in taxes is resolved.
A day later, Harkin began the much-anticipated conference meeting by saying prompt action was needed as farmers are already in the field. He also acknowledged the priority discrepancies between the House and Senate.
"There are significant differences and disagreements, to be sure, yet we also have a lot of shared goals, objectives and interests."
For over a month, "we have been working on the assumption we will have available $10 billion in addition to our 10-year budget baseline. … We're now close at finalizing an agreement that can be broadly supported using this $10 billion along with $9 (billion) we have shifted around within the baseline.
"Both versions of the bill continue and strengthen our system of farm income protection, a crucial component to this legislation. Both bills address additional national priorities: Filling the gaps in nutrition assistance, investing in farm-based renewable energy, helping farmers and ranchers conserve our natural resources, devoting substantial new funding to initiatives for growers of fruits, vegetables and horticultural crops — this is the first farm bill to ever really do that."
No one is likely to be fully satisfied with whatever bill is finally cobbled together, Harkin admitted. "I will not get everything I want and neither will anybody else. But I think we are all going to have something that we can be proud of."
He then pointed to White House intransigence as a major reason for its tardiness. "Frankly, to get that part of our job done, we must see a lot more cooperation, reasonableness and flexibility from the White House. After (the Senate farm bill) passed 79-14 (the largest Senate majority for a farm bill since 1948), within two days the White House said they would veto it. Well, when you get 79 votes you don't expect that kind of a response. It's time for the White House to come to the table and deal with us in good faith to get this critical bill enacted."
If precedence holds, Bush administration officials — already threatening a veto if funding targets and policy reforms aren't met — are unlikely to be moved. In fact, following the conference meeting, USDA head Ed Schaefer downplayed the bill's chances for hitting the April 18 deadline. Congress has "been at it for two years. We're down to the last few days and they don't have anything solved. That doesn't give me a lot of optimism they can get it done."
House leadership had some complaints, as well. Minnesota's Collin Peterson, chair of the House Agriculture Committee, said the Senate is particularly overreaching on disaster aid and "indefensible" things like a $500 million capital gain treatment for thoroughbred racing horses.
Peterson had earlier proposed $5.5 billion in spending over the bill's budget baseline. This amount, he said, could be offset by the way credit card companies report sales. When informed of the House credit card proposal, USDA officials were dismissive.
The House version also called for the removal of the $4 billion disaster program. Not surprisingly, farm advocates were displeased with the initial conference meeting and the framework the politicians are working from.
The House proposal attracted special rebuke from Tom Buis, National Farmers Union president, as it "provides zero funding for a permanent disaster program which, in my opinion, is the only significant improvement in the commodity title of either bill. Farmers and ranchers are facing unprecedented increases in production costs, thus their financial risks are greater than ever.
"With a reduced crop, producers will not be able to offset these increased costs in the marketplace. It does not matter what the price of the commodity is if you have nothing to sell.
"I would urge the Senate to reject this latest offer from the House. It is vitally important that Congress pass a good farm bill, not just a farm bill for the sake of passing a new bill."
In crafting a new farm bill, congressional leaders have said if everything except paperwork is ironed out prior to April 18, another short-term extension of current law – perhaps a week, suggested Harkin — is likely. However, others are pointing at the increasing possibility for a one- or two-year extension or, in the case of Peterson, a willingness to revert to permanent law.
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Maryland Bill Proposes to Make HIV Transmission "Attempt" a Felony; State Senator Speaks
January 18, 2012
Another day, another HIV criminalization story.
According to The Daily Times, a Maryland state senator has proposed a new bill that would make "knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer HIV to another individual" a felony in his state, increasing its maximum prison term from three years to 25 years.
The Daily Times reported:
Senate Bill 60, proposed by Sen. Norman Stone Jr., D-6-Baltimore County, would elevate the penalty of knowingly transferring the virus from a misdemeanor to a felony, if approved by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor.
TheBody.com spoke to Stone on Jan. 16 to talk about why and how this bill came about. He said, "Someone suggested it to us, and we thought it was a good idea." He added, "The risk of knowingly doing something like this ... it's not like giving someone a cold."
When pressed on who suggested that he create this bill, Stone was adamant that he didn't remember.
As reported above, there are no co-sponsors on Senate Bill 60 and it's unclear whether Stone will work on garnering support for the bill from his colleagues. He said, "Either they are for it or against it."
Obviously, this bill and its potential repercussions don't sit too well with many LGBT and HIV/AIDS advocates.
Bill Browning, founder of the Bilerico Project, told the Washington Blade, "I would suggest that perhaps Senator Stone should be more concerned with advocating for more education about HIV/AIDS and social services for those already infected instead of trying to stigmatize people with HIV by treating them as de facto criminals."
Whether this bill has any legs is to be determined. It's also unclear what "knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer" HIV will include under the proposed law. Will this follow suit with other courts around the country that have found people living with HIV guilty for "attempting to transfer" HIV by spitting, even though transferring the virus this way is virtually impossible from a scientific standpoint? Does using a condom but not disclosing status fall under this law?
According to the Center for HIV Law and Policy, 34 states and two U.S. territories have HIV-specific criminal statutes, and 36 states have reported proceedings in which HIV-positive people have been arrested or prosecuted for consensual sex, biting or spitting. At least 80 such prosecutions have occurred in the last two years alone.
We will be monitoring this story closely and provide updates.
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Ruby Tanner, Lubbock's delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., was just outside Nashville, Tenn., about an hour ago. She's driving in and expects to arrive at her hotel in the area early Monday morning.
She'll get there just in time for the CarolinaFest 2012 in uptown Charlotte.
On the road, though, Tanner has had the opportunity to meet lots of people and share her enthusiasm for seeing President Barack Obama reelected.
"The gavel will come down at 4 p.m. Tuesday," she said, "and I expect to get there early. I always try to get there early."
The convention closes out Thursday.
Tanner is no stranger to the national convention. She represented Lubbock Democrats in Denver four years ago, and became quite the media star among CBS, MSNBC and CNN.
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There are many counterintuitive 'rules' in product design, these two are among the most intractable:
• The more successful a product, the harder it's to upgrade.
• The more users say they want a product update, the more they complain when the change arrives.
It wouldn't be unkind to ascribe both of them to the iOS platform: spectacularly successful and at the crossroads for the mother of all upgrades for both hardware and software, now commandeered for the first time by a single person who's not named Steve Jobs. The financial impact of these design decisions is easily the 64-billion dollar question at Cupertino.
What has changed?
Having already sold over 120 million iPads in less than two years, Apple's now making the sales pitch to hundreds of millions of potential post-PC consumers that iPads may be 'OR' devices, not just 'AND' adjuncts to their desktops and notebooks of yesteryear.
The iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010 created their respective industry segments, then went on to dominate what was mostly virgin territory with a simple proposition: One Device > One Account > One App > One Window.
Several years after their introduction, now with many competitors, Apple is under pressure to examine every link in that chain of platform definition. And the one most contested is the last: One Window. While it's true that iOS apps can contain two (and sometimes even more) 'views' in one screen, like the standard Master-Detail views, two different apps cannot share the same window. A blog writing app on an iPad can, for example, dedicate portions of its single window to video, map, search engine results or tweet displays, but not specifically to Vimeo, Google Maps, Bing or Twitter apps. In the sandboxed territories of iOS, 'One Device > One Account > One App > One Window' is still the law of the land.
As iPads move into business, education, healthcare and other vertical markets, however, expectations of what iPads should do beyond audio, video, ebook and simple app consumption have gone up dramatically. After all, users don't just inertly read in one app at a time but write, code, design, compose, calculate, paint, clip, tweet, and, in general, perform multiple operations in multiple apps to complete a single task in one app.
In iOS, this involves double-clicking the Home button, swiping in the tray to find the other app, waiting for it to (re)load fully, locating the app view necessary to copy, double-clicking the Home button, finding the previous app in the tray and waiting for it to (re)load fully to paste the previously copied material. That's just one operation between two apps. Composing a patient review for a doctor or creating a presentation for a student can easily involve many such operations among multiple apps.
Indeed, among the major post-iOS mobile platforms like Android, Metro and BlackBerry, iOS is the most cumbersome and slowest at inter-app navigation and task completion. There have been a few mitigating advances: gestural swipes, faster processors and more memory certainly help but the inter-app task sharing problem is becoming increasingly more acute. Unfortunately, solving iOS's multitasking problem in general involves many other considerations, including introduction of UX complexity and thus considerable user re-education, to say nothing of major architectural OS changes. It may thus take Apple longer than expected to find an optimal solution. What can Apple do in the interim then?
Is 'Multi' the opposite of 'One'?
Systems designers know all too well: when you just don't have the time, money, staff or technology to solve a given problem, there are ways to cheat. Steve Jobs would be the first to tell you: that's OK. A well executed cheat can be indistinguishable from a fundamental architectural transition.
From a design perspective, the weakest link in the one-task-many-operations-in-different-apps problem is the iOS clipboard. The single-slot clipboard. The one that forces the user to shuffle laboriously among apps to collect all the disparate items one. at. a. time.
But with a multi-slot clipboard, if you were writing a report, for example, you could go to a web page, copy the URL, a paragraph, maybe a photo and a person's email address in one trip. Now a single trip back to the initial app and you have four items ready to be pasted into appropriate places with no more inter-app shuffle necessary. Instant 4X productivity gain. Simply put, if you had a four-slot clipboard, you can instantly quadruple your productivity. For a ten-slot clipboard, 10X!
Well, obviously, it's not that easy. First of all, Apple doesn't believe in multi-slot clipboards and doesn't even ship one with Mac OS X. Also, you couldn't really have an 'infinite-slot' clipboard, for iOS would run out of memory quickly. Finally, a multi-slot clipboard would require a visible UI for the user to select the right content, thereby introducing some cognitive complexity.
None of these objections seem insurmountable, though. iOS already has a similarly useful 'option selectors' like the recent 'share sheets' from which a user can send stuff to Twitter, Facebook, email, etc. Limiting the clipboard to four slots would enable at least 250-pixel square previews of each slot's contents for easy identification. The Clipboard could pop, move up, slide in from right or perform some other clever animated appearance. Yes, there could be a cognitive penalty for having to be concerned about system-memory management, but a bit of user training for the concept of 'First In, First Out' or a little alert to the user indicating memory-intensive copying would go a long way.
It's not my job to suggest Jony Ive how this might be implemented in UI and UX. But until Apple has a more general solution to multitasking and inter-app navigation, the four-slot clipboard with a visible UI should be announced at WWDC. I believe it would buy Ive another year for a more comprehensive architectural solution, as he'll likely need it.


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Anne Hathaway's representative has shot down speculation the actress is pregnant with her first child.
The Les Miserables star, who wed actor/jewellery designer Adam Shulman in September (12), was the talk of the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday (13Jan13) after E! News correspondent Giuliana Rancic hinted at the 30 year old's potential family plans.
She told viewers, "Rumours are that Anne Hathaway may be pregnant. That's the buzz on the street right now."
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Today we're releasing several exciting updates to Hulu, most notably a new version of the Hulu video player. We've posted an overview of the new player, complete with an introductory video, here. And you can experience the changes for yourself throughout the site. Given the breadth of the changes, what I thought I'd do here on the blog is give more of a behind-the-scenes look at the thinking that went into the new releases.
Let's start with the new Hulu player. Around the office we referred to this as Project Voltron after the '80s animated TV series. Just as five robot lions combined to form Voltron in that show, many different components came together to make up the new Hulu player. A convergence of several forces — the availability of new technologies, lingering ideas from the product team, and user feedback — underlie this refresh of our player, but the primary motivation remained the same as always: elevate the experience of watching videos on Hulu.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
The new player is written in ActionScript 3, and among other things, that enabled us to launch adaptive bitrate streaming. Previously, we could downshift the bitrate of our video stream if we detected the user experiencing video playback issues for reasons like diminished internet bandwidth. With adaptive bitrate streaming, we can now shift video bitrates and resolution up and down continually to match the user's bandwidth. In the hierarchy of video playback issues, we believe frame rate inconsistency or video stuttering is more disruptive to users than a decrease in resolution, and adaptive bitrate streaming is designed for that prioritization.
You can turn on adaptive bitrate streaming in our new video settings menu in the player. That menu also allows you to force the player to stream at a fixed resolution of 480p, 360p, or 288p, but we recommend that you select adaptive bitrate streaming. When it's on, you can rest easy knowing Hulu is offering you the smoothest playback at the highest resolution possible for your bandwidth.
Ad Volume Normalization
Another feature that will improve the viewing experience on Hulu is one you can't see, but will hear, instead: ad volume normalization. There's a widespread myth that broadcasters and even Hulu would boost commercial audio levels, but it's just that, a myth. In the past, we tried to normalize ad volume to content volume globally, but that wasn't a perfect fix because content comes to Hulu with differing audio levels, and you can only raise the audio levels so much before you're simply magnifying background noise. In particular, many masters for older titles have really low audio levels, and producing new masters is often impossible or prohibitively expensive.
Our new ad volume normalization feature handles volume adjustments on the fly. As our player approaches an ad break, it begins analyzing the audio level of the content. When the ad is called, the player compares the content's most recent audio levels with a precomputed audio value for the ad and brings them into line dynamically.
Closed Captioning Display
For closed captions, we've added two new display options in addition to our original white text display, so now you can also choose yellow text, or white text on a solid black background. Each of the new options should improve the visibility of captions for most scenarios.
Seek Preview
When you hover your mouse cursor on our new player timeline, we now display a preview thumbnail of that spot in the video. This should vastly improve the accuracy of seeking around in a video. Since seeking past an ad break can trigger an advertisement before the video resumes playing, we wanted to do as much as possible to ensure our users get to the exact moment they're searching for on the first try.
Heat Map
If you don't have an exact moment in mind but are curious to discover particular moments of interest within a full episode or full-length movie, we've now ported the heat map from our captions tab to the drop-down pane below the player. Captions and the heat map never had any intrinsic relationship, and this move allows us to display the heat map on all long-form videos, even those without captions.
The width of the heat map aligns to the width of the new timeline exactly. The heights of the bars in the heat map indicate the relative popularity of various sections of that video. Hover over any bar and the corresponding preview thumbnail will appear above the video timeline. Click on any bar to jump to that place in the video. The heat map in conjunction with the visual timeline adds another powerful tool to the viewer's seek toolbox.
A Bigger, Sleeker Player
That's a look under the hood of the new player. We've also refreshed the design. For starters, we wanted to increase the size of our base in-browser player. We no longer scale the 480p video down. At its native resolution of 720 x 404px, our new video player is 25 percent larger in viewing area than our previous player.
The default view of the player is now chromeless, meaning it's clear of any controls, which gives it a cleaner look. The old Hulu player had a timeline visible at all times, but the new player displays the timeline only on mouseover and keeps the timeline height and width fixed.
The fullscreen button has shifted to the lower right of the player. The new location is also consistent across all the different incarnations of our player: regular, fullscreen, pop-out, embed, and off-Hulu (i.e. on our distribution partner sites like Yahoo). Many web video players have the fullscreen button there, and this control is used frequently enough that adhering to this unofficial standard location seemed prudent.
We've also renamed continuous play "autoplay" and have shifted the controls into the player itself. Previously those controls sat outside the player in a continuous play bar, but this feature generates enough usage to have earned a permanent integration into our player controls. At the same time, we've reduced the autoplay control footprint by replacing the "next video" button with the more universal icon for skip and by moving the autoplay playlist selector into a pop-over menu.
In the old player, we had a left and right column outside the player that held additional controls like pop-out or embed. These have all moved to the right of the player now. Since the player itself is bigger, menus for options like embedding or sharing videos have grown in size also. Rather than add more options with the additional real estate, we've left the controls largely the same as it lends a more airy, spacious feel.
You can still customize the start and end points of the video you share, as well as select a custom thumbnail for any video you wish to embed. With the increased timeline width in those menus, it's easier to do so with precision. The one new option is the ability to select between two sizes of video player to embed.
We made a few other subtle design updates. When you pause a video, the buffer indicator is now at the top, and we now display the current video resolution to its left. In pause mode we used to display a large play icon in the center of the video player as a cue. We've shrunk that button, and after a few seconds of inactivity, it now fades out completely and only returns on mouseover. Lastly, our new player will shrink the video window down when it encounters end credits, devoting more player real estate to suggest other videos to watch. We can tell from view-through data that most users aren't interested in the end credits. But if you are, you can still restore full-size view with one click. We won't shrink end credits if the show inserts additional content after the end credits.
An Aside on HTML5
Those are the highlights of our new player. Before we move on to the other updates to our site today, let me address a related topic that's been in the news a lot recently: HTML5. Plenty of users and members of the press ask about this topic all the time.
When it comes to technology, our only guiding principle is to best serve the needs of all of our key customers: our viewers, our content partners who license programs to us, our advertisers, and each other. We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn't yet meet all of our customers' needs. Our player doesn't just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren't necessarily visible to the end user. Not all video sites have these needs, but for our business these are all important and often contractual requirements.
That's not to say these features won't be added to HTML5 in the future (or be easier to implement). Technology is a fast-moving space and we're constantly evaluating which tools will best allow us to fulfill our mission for as many of our customers as possible.
That's a look at the new Hulu player. Let's turn to advertising.
Introducing Ad Tailor
The launch of the new Hulu player today also enables us to release a new ad personalization feature which we call Ad Tailor. The goal of Ad Tailor is to increase the relevance of ads for our viewers.
Ad Tailor works in two ways. One is that we now offer the user the option to give us immediate feedback on every video ad's relevance. In the upper right of every video ad, we ask "Is this ad relevant to you?" and offer a yes and a no button. These buttons replace our old "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons on ads. The new wording is deliberate since the thumbs up and down iconology might suggest that we were interested primarily in your subjective opinion of the ad creative when what's more critical for us is understanding whether the product or service being shown is relevant to you. We can't alter our advertisers' creative, but we can control which ads we show you. We'll use your feedback to adjust which ads we show you in the future.
Ad Tailor tries to improve ad relevance in another way. Occasionally, when you're watching a video, we'll also serve up a single or multi-question survey in place of an advertisement. Answer any single question and we'll return you to your video immediately, and answer any multiple question survey and we'll reward you with some ad-free viewing. Answering these questions is always optional, and any responses given will be kept confidential.
The more efficiently we can match ads up with users, the more everyone benefits. Users see more relevant ads, and advertisers reach a more targeted and receptive audience.
When we use Ad Tailor to personalize an ad we show you, you'll see a brief visual cue at the start of the ad: in the upper right corner we'll display "This ad brought to you by Ad Tailor." The more feedback you provide, the more we'll be able to personalize the selection of ads we show you.
More Customization
The last update to our site today is a refresh of our three homepages: the main Hulu homepage, the TV homepage, and the Movies homepage.
One of the primary goals of the homepage refreshes was to add a new layer of personalization. If you're signed in to Hulu, we'll recommend shows just for you in the masthead at the top of the page. You can now change what we display in the left two columns of all three homepages through the dropdown header, and we'll retain your preferences from session to session. We've added a My Videos section to each homepage that allows signed-in Hulu users to look at their queue, subscriptions and viewing history without leaving the homepage. At the bottom of all three homepages, just above the footer, we've added a recommendations carousel. If you're signed in, we'll recommend shows based on your past viewing, but if you're not logged in, we'll pull from a long list of our favorite shows and movies from our catalog.
Other changes to the layout of the homepage balance what we've learned from user behavior on the site and what we're interested in helping users discover in the months to come. Like many sites, we're constantly striking a balance between surfacing what users already like and what they don't know they will like. With our catalog having grown to hundreds of content partners and thousands of titles, the most efficient way to do that is evolving.
Here in Los Angeles, where the weather seems to be sunny every day, it's easy to lose track of what season it is. But we like to think of this as a spring refresh. As always, your feedback is welcome.
Happy viewing,
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A proportion is a type of ratio that relates a part to a whole. For example, in the class with with 20 men and 80 women, the total class size is 100, and the proportion of men is 20/100 or 20%. The proportion of women is 80/100 or 80%. In both of these proportions the size of part of the class is being related to the size of the entire class. The class above conveniently had a total size of 100, but this usually isn't the case.
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The first Blade boys and girls basketball polls for the 2012-13 season are out, and only two teams — the Liberty-Benton boys and the Rogers girls — maintain their No. 1 divisional rankings from the end of last season.
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Another unbeaten, 11-0 Perrysburg, claims the top spot in the first Division I girls poll. The Yellow Jackets of coach Todd Sims survived for a 53-49 double-overtime win last Friday at Northview to move to 8-0 in the Northern Lakes League.
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Not exactly breathtaking.
Now, after a $43.3 million renovation, the view fans will enjoy as they arrive at the ballpark is totally different.
The first thing they'll notice is green grass.
"They're going to see the field," Galdieri said. "In the old days, you were totally blocked off from all that. Now it's totally wide open."
That's just the way Galdieri likes it. As operations manager for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, he and Director of Field Operations Steve Horne work together to make sure the playing surface is as pristine as can be.
The new layout of the ballpark, with its open entrance and 360-degree concourse, gives them a better chance to show off their handiwork.
"You never have to take your eyes off the field," Galdieri said.
Horne's 2012 season was perhaps like no other in the history of groundskeeping. Certainly not like any other in his 25-year career or six-year stay with the team now known as the RailRiders.
Because the team played its entire schedule on the road, he spent much of his time making trips to places like Rochester or Batavia. In between, he maintained the PNC Field grass even though no games were being played there.
The team was coming back, after all. No reason to let the field fall into disrepair.
In some respects, he loved it.
For one thing, he got to take a summer vacation for the first time in decades. Horne, wife, Iris, and daughters Stephenie, 12, and Sarah, 10, got to see Niagara Falls and visit old friends in Oxford, Miss., home of his alma mater, Ole Miss.
For another thing, there were no ballplayers wearing spikes trampling his field or spitting sunflower seeds all over the place. There was no tarp preventing the grass from being watered the way God intended.
"In a warped sort of way, that's a groundskeeper's dream - to be able to have really sweet grass and nobody ever walk on it," Horne said with a laugh. "That was really nice. That's over now. I hope with the downtime we've had with the field, we've improved the root zone and the structure of the field so that when we do start playing on it now, it will hold up much better than it did in the past."
Before renovations began, Horne had nightmares about huge construction cranes parked right behind second base. His concerns turned out to be unfounded.
"I give these guys props. In no way did I think they'd be able to stay completely off the field, and they've done so," Horne said. "If they've intruded onto the field at all, it's not more than three or four inches. I can live with that. I was thinking I'd be losing massive areas."
Horne and Galdieri only ended up facing a few minor problems as a result of the renovations.
Early in the process, they had some storage issues.
"We had to move our equipment, which is usually on the third-base side, over to the first-base side. Then we moved it out in the infield. Then we moved it out here in the parking lot, just because they have to get their jobs done and we have all kinds of equipment in their way," Galdieri said.
Later on, they had to rebuild the bullpen pitching mounds, which were removed to make way for construction.
That's no big deal, right? Just throw a 10-inch-high pile of clay out there and play ball.
"A lot of people think they could build a mound. Not many people actually can," Horne said. "It just looks like a lump of dirt out there, but it actually has some things about it that have to be a certain way and to be able to know the personality of the New York Yankees and their players and what they expect, it's very important to be in tune with that."
Horne was concerned about the specifications of the mound at Frontier Field in Rochester when the Yankees played "home" games there last season, but he was hesitant to lay his hands on another man's field. One rehab assignment in May changed all that in a hurry.
"Andy Pettitte pitched in Rochester and was very unhappy with the mound," Horne said. "He complained and the next day I was there working on it."
While the field remained largely untouched by construction, a handful of other changes related to renovations have altered some aspects of Horne's job.
For instance, the addition of an outfield concourse that allows fans to watch the game while strolling around the park presents a new challenge.
"When we had a field you could only view from the front side, that's all you could see. I could have a rough spot in the outfield and unless you were within 50 yards of it, you couldn't see it," Horne said. "Now I have no place to hide."
Another new addition to the ballpark is a grassy area past the outfield fence for lawn seating. That gives the grounds crew 8,000 more square feet to maintain. They're OK with that for two reasons. First, the lawn doesn't have to be as lush as the playing field. Second, the Yankees bought new equipment to care for the area.
"We got some new toys to play with," Horne said. "Any time they grease my hand with a new toy, we can work it out."
One thing fans shouldn't expect at the renovated park is the outline of a train or porcupine mowed into the outfield grass. Horne eschews fancy mowing patterns that have become popular in the big leagues in the last five years or so.
"I want to wow you when you walk through the gate and see the field, but then I don't want you to be trying to figure out how did I draw that picture in the grass," Horne said. "I'm not one of those guys. I'm not that kind of an artist."
With about three weeks left before opening day, Horne and Galdieri are knee deep in the annual preseason rush.
In addition to finishing the bullpen mounds, they are putting the batting cage back together, getting the tarp from its parking-lot storage spot back to the field, drying out the infield dirt and training a new grounds crew.
Still, they make time to religiously check the weather forecast with their fingers crossed.
Everyone gets antsy for temperatures to start climbing upward at this time of the year, but Horne and Galdieri are antsier than most.
"We're judged by the color of the grass. You can look around Scranton right now. The grass is not green," Horne said. "I'm begging for warm temperatures and it doesn't seem like they're coming."
Eventually, though, the weather will warm up. It always does. The construction crews will clear out. Horne will hop on his mower with his dog Cooper - a West Highland terrier named after Cooperstown, not the eldest brother of Mississippi's Manning family - and begin what he hopes will be a carefree summer for once.
"I would like a stressless season," he said, "but they never happen."
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The Buffalo Sabres are auctioning off a set of game-worn jerseys from the 2011-12 season. The online auction, which is set to end Monday, features both home and away jerseys worn by Sabres players.
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The Time of the Doctor" (6 p.m. PST, BBC America): It's regeneration time. The show's annual Christmas special serves as the swan song for Matt Smith, the youngest Time Lord ever. He'll hand the keys to the Tardis over to Peter Capaldi, but not before donning his bow tie and taking fans on one more wild adventure. The episode has him and Clara (Jenna Coleman) investigating a mysterious signal echoing through space.
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Tommy Hilfiger lives a glamorous life. He's played volleyball with Prince William near his home on Mustique ("He was great; his bodyguard was better") and lunched with Jennifer Lopez. He's also preparing to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America during their awards gala on June 4.
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CHICAGO (AP) – Rick Porcello pitched his first career complete game, Prince Fielder homered among his four hits and the Detroit Tigers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 9-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.
Alex Avila added four hits and two RBIs as AL Central-leading Detroit's offense finally got rolling against the sloppy White Sox, allowing the Tigers to increase their lead over Cleveland to 5 1/2 games.
Porcello (12-8) scattered seven hits, struck out five and walked one. The 24-year-old right-hander retired 14 straight after Chicago scored its only run in the fourth.
Five of Detroit's runs were unearned, thanks to four Chicago errors, including three by third baseman Conor Gillaspie. Another was charged to first baseman Paul Konerko, when Gillaspie's wide throw ticked off his glove.
The Tigers entered Tuesday having lost five of six and having scored only 14 runs in September – excluding their 16-run barrage on Friday at Kansas City. Detroit is trying to hold off the Indians to earn its third straight division title after winning the American League pennant in 2012.
White Sox prospect Erik Johnson (0-2) was roughed up again and hurt by shoddy fielding in his second career start. He lasted just 3 2-3 innings, allowing six runs – two earned – on seven hits and three walks.
Chicago, in last place in the AL Central, has lost 10 of 12.
Porcello recovered from his worst outing of the season last Wednesday, when the Tigers were hammered 20-4 at Boston and he gave up nine runs in five innings.
Suspended Detroit shortstop Jhonny Peralta will work out with the Tigers before Wednesday's game against the White Sox, GM Dave Dombrowski announced before the game. But no decision has been made to activate the two-time All-Star, who is eligible to return on Sept. 27 for the Tigers' final three regular-season games in Miami.
Peralta accepted a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball on Aug. 5 as part of its investigation into a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Peralta was hitting .305 with 11 home runs when he was suspended, and has been working out in the Dominican Republic since then.
The Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the first on a pair of unearned runs.
Andy Dirks scored and Miguel Cabrera advanced to second on Gillaspie's first throwing error. Following a single by Fielder, the lumbering Cabrera scored from third on Victor Martinez's sac fly.
Detroit added three more runs – two unearned – after two outs in the third to increase its lead to 5-0.
Fielder lined a homer just inside the right field foul pole to make it 3-0. Following a single, walk and error charged to Konerko on Gillaspie's throw, Avila singled in two more unearned runs.
Fielder singled in another run in the fourth to make it 6-0. Gillaspie singled in a run in the bottom of the inning to cut it to 6-1.
Avila scored in the fifth on Gillaspie's second throwing error to extend Detroit's lead to 7-1. The Tigers added two runs in the ninth of Daniel Webb, Chicago's fourth reliever.
NOTES: Fielder had his second four-hit game of the season and Avila his second four-hit game of his career. Cabrera went 0 for 5. The Tigers have lost four games in a row only twice this season, in April and in May. . Chicago's four errors tied a season high. . White Sox OF Avisail Garcia was back in the lineup after getting two teeth pulled Monday. . In his two starts, Johnson has allowed 11 runs, but just five earned, in 9 2-3 innings.
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