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Lone Pinellas Site Perfect for Rays Stadium
For years during my many roadtrips to and from Tampa, Florida back towards Pinellas County and St. Petersburg my eyes have always seemd to focus towards this dense and swampy parcel of land just outside my passenger window always questioning why some developer had not previously built something amazing on this prime real estate parcel. And it simply astonished me that this parcel of tall grass was not being held vacant because of the salt water intrusion or the mangroves thickets lining the southern most edges of the parcel, but for some other cosmic solution.
Sure I had seen a few scattered rental communities and office buildings spring up just off this uneven and water-soaked parcel, but even with the distant encroachment of modern civilization, this one huge pact of land has remained pretty consistant and dormant for several decades. And even as I stare quickly scanning this large parcel, my wild imagination used to rush a bit and tried to envision what could one day be built upon this land and maybe become a welcoming beacon of this community to any traveler cruising Southbound on I-275 just beyond the Ulmerton Road and 9th Street exit ramps towards the hamlets of mid Pinellas County or St. Petersburg.
Why had this massive singular parcel with stood the rush of greed and money and had somehow been sparred by the decades of real estate speculation and explosions to remain clear and free of development? Had there been a wise or (hopefully) missed decision by someone stuck somewhere within an office building without windows to not build, sell or even excavate and level this lush green segment just off the southern tip of the Howard Franklin bridge. Was it held instead by a sly developer or real estate mastermind for the future, and an endeavor of great magnitude unforseen by the region's citizens for so long.
Could someone had visualized so far into the past that this same parcel could one day be the site of a great architectural symbol of this Florida region built upon its sandy soil and forever be known throughout the baseball world for its construction on this very site? That it would house the benchmark in green technology and also embrace the surrounding mangroves and oyster beds to showcase that man and nature could co-exsist, even with the intrusion of sports just beyond the tide pools?
And maybe it was a blessing that finally on Monday, the A Baseball Community (ABC) coalition began to finally bring to light some of their year long discussions and meetings to finalize their detailed report to the local Tampa Bay communities on the future of Major League Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays franchise in this area. And it was real big surprise to me and maybe most of Tampa Bay, that two out of the three recommended locales for a stadium were within the confines of Hillsborough County.
It really did not surpise me in the least that the lone plot of land even being considered for a recommendation by the ABC Coalition on the Pinellas side of the bridge was this lone sandlot of land that might have been held for just this purpose in hindsight. That the miracle that this plot did not go under the blades of a bulldozer or excavator before now is simple unimaginable to me. And for the sake of total honest here, this same parcel of soil was my personal choice for the building of a baseball stadium site back in the late 1980's when the discussion first came up for the site of the then Florida Suncoast Dome/Thunderdome/Tropicana Field.
Finally it is so wild that this little preserved parcel of land might some day might be considered to produce the centerpiece building or stae-of-the-art facility this region has been seeking for the Rays and this community as a whole for so long. And it is still a bit mindboggling to me that this parcel of land has stood the test of time and is still standing here, undeveloped and might just prove to be the perfect location to make both sides of the bay again embrace baseball with a open arms from both sides of the pristine blue Tampa Bay waters.
It is simply unimaginable that at this very location lies some great infrastructural groundwork already being done to improve the area's roads and provide additional external ramps for future usage. That this parcel might neeed a bit more subtle tweaking and upgrading compared to the other two sites to take on the extra burden of game day traffic and even ground transport to and from all points around Tampa Bay. This parcel of land sits smack in the middle of a ever growing section of Pinellas County that can support such a complex being built on this site, and should flourish beyond present expectations as both an entertainment center and transportation hub.
And even the odd thoughts of reliable forms of alternative transportation options might have been done by accident in the past, but could prove a bright shining star to showcase this parcel. Because of the local business district at Carillion Parkway, there is an already established Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) bus route that serves the surrounding neighborhood office complex/condo community to the west of this parcel of land that could be greatly expanded to ease the transportation burdens of fans or might even be more fine tuned to the needs of the stadium complex.
Sure there will need to be additonal road construction or even off ramps or remote parking lots to take full advantage of the stadium, but they could be effectively designed to take the additonal stress off of the usual I-275 traffic going towards other Tampa Bay regions. And I personally like the idea of a year round Convention Center being constructed on the parcel to help bring a burst of activity to the stadium year round. But the biggest priority will have to be to build a great infrastructure supporting system to ease the demands by the I-275 traffic returning from Hillborough County at the 5 pm rush hour on game days.
And if you really want to look into the future about possible traffic solutions, maybe the PSTA and Hillsborough Area Rapid Transit Authority (HARTA) could combine or share some resources and produce a traffic alternative to bringing fans to Rays games from satellite parking lots or pre-destined pick-up locations throughout the Tampa Bay area. But because this parcel of land, to me, is so perfect for this future Rays stadium, my imagination is already running a mile a minute with ideas and future personal idea recommendations. Guess that is why they did not consider me for a post on the Coalition(lol).
And it is great to be finally have the ABC report coming out and we can get a bit of closure towards all of the ideas and proposals thrown up in the air over the last two years considering locations for a future home for the Rays. And it finally puts the obsurd idea of refurbishing Tropicana Field or even considering the distant Tampa Fair Grounds out as choices for final stadium consideration, and we can quickly move onto the three best locales.
And the Pinellas County choice is simply ideal as it is also situated within a critical epicenter of the cross-county area to give more access to Tampa residents and upper Pinellas and Pasco-Hernando county citizens, but might prove a bit of an added driving burden for people traveling north from Sarasota or Manatee Counties. But if it is a state-of-the-art stadium with all the bells and whistles to entice corporate America to expand their involvement and support with the Rays, then we are all going to be winners in the long run, not just the Rays.
This beautiful parcel of land was left in it's present state for some reason. It has withstood the Florida construction booms to stay true and unbuilt upon for decades. Could this be the ultimate locale for the Rays future proposed stadium? Can we finally put to rest the echoes of discontent by the citizens of Tampa to their "bridge phobia" or the hour long commute to games and finally bridge this stadium location into a unified show of community support by the Tampa Bay region on this one proposed site.
Next time you rush down Ulmerton Road on your way home from Tampa, look to the northwest and check out this parcel of land and see if you can see what I see…. A beautiful retractable roof stadium with a natural grass surface situated right off a main span of highway, but with a distant flickering lights of the downtown buildings surrounding Tampa Bay from the sight points on this tract of land.
This debate might be destined to go back and forth for the next few years with each side proclaiming some thin sliver of a slice of advantage to their location. But this location to me is perfectly suited to entertain the notion and the construction of a new masterpiece stadium for baseball. People soon forget that the first drawings of Tropicana Field had the stadium open to the elements on its southern side.
Instead it was enclosed and with Minnesota opening their new open-air stadium in 2010, the Trop will be the last of the totally domed stadium in Major League Baseball. So maybe it was a sort of locale devine intervention that left this parcel vacant for so long and loudly screams "baseball stadium" to me. And hopefully it will be heard loud and long enough for even the multitudes of Rays fans in both counties to conclude….This has to be the new home for Rays baseball.


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Boscan to stay until Ross is ready to catch
By Mark Bowman and Teddy Cahill / MLB.com
Ross strained his right groin on a check swing Friday. The injury, combined with catcher Brian McCann's bout with the flu last week, forced the Braves to call up J.C. Boscan from Triple-A Gwinnett on Saturday to be the team's third catcher. Atlanta then sent reliever Kris Medlen to Triple-A on Tuesday with the purpose of stretching him out to become a starter, replacing him on the roster with outfielder Jose Costanza.
The moves mean the Braves are now short in the bullpen. But thanks to off-days Thursday and Monday, Gonzalez said he is comfortable using starter Randall Delgado out of the bullpen this weekend against the Nationals in Washington.
"He can help us in the bullpen if we get short," Gonzalez said. "Delgado can help us in that weekend series in D.C."
Ross said his groin is feeling better, but he hasn't run at full speed. Once that happens, he said, he would be able to play.
"I caught [Tuesday] in the bullpen," Ross said. "I could catch if I had to. Running is the thing."
Once Ross is ready, Gonzalez said the Braves would call up a reliever. Right-hander Cory Gearrin would likely be the leading candidate. Entering Wednesday, he has 35 strikeouts and has allowed just three runs in 29 2/3 innings in Gwinnett and twice spent time with the Braves last year.
Sporting new glasses, Freeman stars in return
ATLANTA -- Excited to try the new prescription sports glasses that had just arrived, Freddie Freeman arrived at Turner Field early Wednesday afternoon and immediately went to the batting cage to take swings while wearing dress shorts and a collared shirt.
After experiencing no problem with the glasses, a jubilant Freeman made his way toward Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez's office to deliver the encouraging update. Things got even better when the young first baseman had no trouble taking swings outside and was placed back in Wednesday's lineup to make his first start since Friday.
It did not take Freeman long to make his presence known as he homered in his first at-bat against Cardinals right-hander Kyle Lohse. The first-inning solo shot to dead center was his eighth home run of the season.
"I was surprised about how I haven't played in a few days and I was able to have a swing like that," Freeman said. "I wasn't really worried about the glasses I knew they worked."
He added a bloop RBI double in the third and finished the night 3-for-5 with three RBIs in a 10-7 victory.
Freeman has battled blurred vision since winning the National League Player of the Week Award for the second time in three weeks earlier this month. He began having a problem with dry eyes while playing in Colorado and found little relief while utilizing different prescription eye drops and a plethora of different contact lenses over the past three weeks.
The inability to create tears led to two scratched corneas and constant frustration as he was unable to find a solution to the problem. Making matters worse is that he was hitting .298 with six homers and a .864 OPS when the Braves left Colorado. In the 16 games that followed, he hit .150 with one home run and a .521 OPS.
Finally, Freeman ordered prescription sports glasses from both Oakley and Under Armour late last week, just before the start of a holiday weekend. Oakley completed construction of their glasses on Tuesday and shipped them overnight to Turner Field. His sponsor, Under Armour, will provide two more sets of glasses in Washington on Friday.
"I'm sure Under Armour is going to feel comfortable, too," Freeman said. "If they feel the same, I kind of have to wear Under Armour. But if the Under Armours do not wrap around, I've got to go with these and I'm sure they'll understand."
With contact lenses providing constant irritation, Freeman plans to wear the glasses both at and away from the field for the remainder of the year.
"I've been getting some good feedback from my teammates and I look good," Freeman said. "I don't know if they're just trying to blow my head up. But I don't care what they look like. I can see and that is all that matters."
Simmons replaces Pastornicky at shortstop
ATLANTA -- Andrelton Simmons has passed all of the necessary tests at the Minor League level and will now begin what the Braves hope is a long reign as their starting shortstop.
After Wednesday night's 10-7 win over the Cardinals, the Braves announced that they will purchase Simmons' contract from Double-A Mississippi and option Tyler Pastornicky to Triple-A Gwinnett. The move is one that should significantly enhance the club's defense at the position.
"He has special talents there," Braves general manager Frank Wren said when asked about Simmons' defensive ability.
Simmons will join the Braves in Washington for the start of a three-game series against the Nationals on Friday. Backup Jack Wilson will be around to help the young shortstop as he is introduced to the Major League level.
Regarded by many scouts as the best defensive shortstop at the Minor League level, Simmons surprised many by winning the Carolina League batting title while playing for Class A Lynchburg last year. As he hit .292 with three home runs and a .794 OPS in 43 games with Double-A Mississippi this year, Simmons continued to minimize some of the doubts about his offensive capabilities.
"He's played extremely well at Double-A," Wren said. "He's done everything and more than we would expect. He's swinging the bat well. He's got more walks than strikeouts. His discipline is improving. The reports have been glowing.
"Once the reports came in so glowingly that he was handling that level so well, we started giving it some thought as to when would be the right time. We continued to call this week and everybody that [assistant general manager Bruce Manno] talked to in player development said, 'He's ready.' He's ready to help us."
As they both experienced their first big league Spring Training this year, Simmons dazzled with his glove and Pastornicky provided reason for some members of the organization to doubt he was capable of being a Major League shortstop.
Still, the club seemed to make the right decision to begin the year with Pastornicky as the starting shortstop and provide Simmons a chance to get a couple more months of development at the Minor League level. The 22-year-old shortstop from Curacao had totaled 839 plate appearances at the professional level before this year.
"He was putting a lot of pressure on himself and scuffling in Spring Training," Wren said. "He needed to go down and settle in. He did an excellent job at doing that. He went down and performed even better than he did last year at A ball, which was tremendous."
Pastornicky entered this season amid the pressure that surrounded his Major League debut and preparation to be Atlanta's starting shortstop. He batted .248 with a .605 OPS while primarily handling the challenge of batting eighth in a National League lineup. But the decision to send him to the Minors was based on his defense.
"We saw a lot of improvement in Spring Training," Wren said. "We saw a lot of areas where we felt like he stepped up. It just felt like right now we needed a little more. There are some areas we feel like he can improve. We feel like he has a chance to be a real good Major League player. But right now, we feel like he needs more work."
Some scouts have opined that Pastornicky's long-term future at the Major League level will be as a utility player or second baseman. His offensive capabilities should provide the 22-year-old rookie a chance to have an extended career at the big league level.
"It's disappointing," Pastornicky said. "I haven't played my best defensively. It's been kind of a grind. Even in Spring Training, I wasn't where I wanted to be defensively. It's kind of tough. Once you get that knock on you that you're a bad defensive player, it doesn't really matter what you do out there. You're always going to have that against you."
Fredi encouraged by Venters' progress
ATLANTA -- Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez has lined up his late-inning relievers as Eric O'Flaherty, Jonny Venters and Craig Kimbrel for more than a year.
But with Venters struggling of late, Gonzalez changed the order in the Braves' 5-4 victory against the Cardinals on Tuesday. He used Venters in the seventh inning and O'Flaherty in the eighth before Kimbrel closed out his 14th save.
Venters gave up one run on three hits in his inning. It was the third time in his last four appearances that he gave up at least one run. But after giving up three home runs in eight innings since May 11, two of the hits Venters allowed Tuesday were ground balls up the middle. Gonzalez said the ground balls were encouraging.
"I told Jonny when he came out 'We're getting ground balls which we weren't getting before,'" Gonzalez said. "Now we just need to put an infielder in front of them."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. Teddy Cahill is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Mark Brant '82 Joins Associated Bank as Sr. VP
May 2, 2014
Mark A. Brant, a 1982 graduate of DePauw University, has joined Associated Bank as senior vice president, regional sales manager.
In his new role, Brant "manages the strategy and execution for the business banking team in Madison and central and northern Wisconsin. He is responsible for leading a team of business bankers accountable for the retention and growth of relationships with small to medium size business customers and growing the market share in this region."
Brant, a senior financial leader with more than 30 years in banking, comes to his new position from Key Bank, where he was vice president, commercial banking.
He was a communication major and involved in student government at DePauw.
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I've made my own use of Fuse for debugging purposes [livejournal.com], but I used C++ because I started out with a C++-based Fuse-backend - LoggedFS, which seemed to be a good basis for that. As it turned out, it had a small problem that prevented it from being used on $HOME/.kde/, which required a lot of debugging on my part, until I found it and added the appropriate flag which fixed the problem.


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After solid 'pen, live hitters likely next for Verlander
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
LAKELAND, Fla. -- One day after Justin Verlander hit 31, he threw 60. That was the pitch count in what should be his final bullpen session this spring before he's cleared to face live hitters.
While a handful of Tigers relievers threw their second session of live batting practice, Verlander threw 60 pitches Friday in the bullpen at Joker Marchant Stadium. The session went "very well," pitching coach Jeff Jones said.
In the process, Verlander essentially completed his catchup process to get on track with the rest of the Tigers' starters. As long as Verlander feels OK on Saturday, he'll be cleared to begin throwing to hitters on Monday, the day before the Tigers' first game against Florida Southern College.
Jones said Verlander will likely throw at least two sessions against hitters in camp before he's cleared for game action. That would put him in line to enter Grapefruit League play for the second turn through the Tigers' rotation and make five starts this spring.
Rondon misses day of workouts with illness
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Tigers made it through a week of Spring Training workouts without a notable absence, but reliever Bruce Rondon was missing Friday.
Manager Brad Ausmus said Friday afternoon that the hard-throwing reliever was sent home from Tigertown with illness before workouts began.
"Rondon was sick today," Ausmus said. "Nothing major, but just to be safe, he was sent home."
Rondon was in the clubhouse at Joker Marchant Stadium Friday morning and took part in the Venezuelan Tigers' show of support for folks back home. Soon after that, he was spotted in street clothes leaving the facility.
"He was here, and there was some question whether he could go out or not," Ausmus said. "But I think in the end, the proper decision was made. … We don't want anything lingering or getting anyone else sick."
Ausmus said the illness probably wasn't enough to be classified as flu-like symptoms.
Rondon was not scheduled to throw Friday. He threw a full session of live batting practice on Thursday, which would put him on track to throw again on Sunday.
Ausmus addressing instant-replay questions with MLB
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Tigers officials were finally set to receive some clarity on the newly approved instant replay setup on Friday. Manager Brad Ausmus, bench coach Gene Lamont and defensive coordinator Matt Martin were scheduled to meet with Tony La Russa and Joe Torre from Major League Baseball to discuss the new setup.
The meeting in nearby Kissimmee included representatives from the Braves, Astros and Nationals.
"The staff and myself have spent the last few days hashing out questions that we have for them," Ausmus said. "But my gut says there'll be some minor changes when they finalize some things."
Ausmus said earlier in camp that Martin will be the point man on whether to challenge a call. He will not be in the dugout during games, but instead in a position to review video.
Tigers work on cutting time on basepaths
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The weather threatened to put a damper on Spring Training workouts for the first time this season on Friday, but that didn't turn out to be the case.
"We haven't had a bad day, but today was the best day," manager Brad Ausmus said. "Everything went smoothly, clean, not a lot of hiccups. The baserunning was outstanding."
The baserunning drills focused on clean, efficient paths around the bases, improving times without necessarily having to increase speed.
"Omar [Vizquel] and I have kind of been trying to stress cutting turns down, with the obvious goal of being aggressive and taking the extra base," Ausmus said. "This wasn't game action, but our effort around the bases was really, really outstanding."
Former Tiger Rogers helps Smyly with move to first
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Long before most Tigers players had taken the field to stretch Friday morning, Drew Smyly was on a mound on one of the back fields at Tigertown. He was working with former Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers, one of the more maniacal Spring Training instructors the Tigers have had in recent years.
Rogers is working with the left-handed pitchers in camp on their moves to hold runners at first base, manager Brad Ausmus said.
Rogers also did some work with his old teammate, right-hander Justin Verlander.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Storm expected to dump heavy snow on Southern Vermont
The National Weather Service's winter storm warning, in effect from 7 a.m. Thursday until 10 a.m. Friday, calls for total snowfall of 8 to 14 inches throughout western New England and sections of eastern New York. A mix with sleet is possible at times.
During the height of the storm as it tracks up the Eastern Seaboard to just off Cape Cod by Friday morning, snow could be falling at a rate of one to two inches an hour, or even more in some locations.
Because it's a slow-moving, intensifying storm, travel is expected to be disrupted on Thursday afternoon during the homebound rush, and potentially Friday morning as well. North winds gusting as high as 30 miles an hour would make conditions even more perilous, according to the government forecasters in Albany, N.Y.
"As is almost always the case, the exact track of the coastal low will be crucial," states a report from The Weather Channel. "A track a bit farther offshore would draw snow toward the coast, while a farther inland track would shift the rain/snow line farther inland. Although subtle differences in the track of low could make a difference in where the rain/snow sets up, there is confidence that a swath of the Northeast will be impacted by heavy snow and strong winds."
AccuWeather.com is predicting a range of 10 to 18 inches for Windham County, with snow expected to begin soon after dawn and continue into Friday morning. The heavy, wet snow could down tree limbs and power lines, the private forecasting service stated.
The Deep South was hard hit by ice from the storm that originated in the Gulf of Mexico before its run up the coast.
In Boston, a rain and snow mix was on tap for Thursday, with 4 to 6 inches of slushy accumulation expected in the city, but heavier snow and some ice west of I-95.
New York City is also expecting a mix, but with 6 to 8 inches of snow before any changeover to sleet, freezing rain or rain.
Airports in the New York area, at Boston's Logan and in Hartford and Albany are expected to post widespread cancellations for Thursday flights.
Reformer staff contributed to this report.
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Gender and Occupation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide (ICPSR 202)
Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates gender differences in occupations. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include how men and women are distributed across occupations, which occupations are predominantly female and which are predominantly male, how the occupational distribution of men and women has changed over time, and whether gender discrimination plays a role in the occupational distribution of men and women.
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Subject Terms: gender, instructional materials, labor force, occupations, sex discrimination, social sciences, working women
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Gwyneth Paltrow Named 'People' Magazine's Most Beautiful Person
While the majority of our society is focused on superficial triumphs like quality of character, good sportsmanship, and Scene-It aptitute, there are a select few people who still care about things like physical appearance. And reigning supreme in the eyes of this community of outliers is Gwyneth Paltrow, who has just nabbed the title of People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person of 2013.
Paltrow, who has earned a spotlight spike thanks to her heightened role in the forthcoming film Iron Man 3, joins the ranks of recent Most Beautiful People, like Beyoncé Knowles (2012), Jennifer Lopez (2011), and Julia Roberts (2010).
But I call upon you, fellow embittered average-lookings, to stray from the hate you might be inclined to direct toward Paltrow right now. We must accept the beautifuls as our equals, cherish them for all of their flaws and follies. And after this little chat, if you still feel the need to hate her, just focus all your rage on GOOP. Ugh, that one with the GOOP.
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Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, an accomplished world humanitarian and businessman, presently working with SFBBL and the SEED Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 to further the lives of impoverished communities found an article worth sharing.
The following article was posted by the BBC and may be read in full through the link below.
How Science Aims To Feed Seven Billion People
With seven billion people on the planet, traditional farming struggles to put enough food on everyone's table. But a host of hi-tech tools aim to save the day.
As birth announcements go, it was a pretty big one. Sometime around the end of October last year, the world's population officially reached seven billion people.
Seemingly, it is the kind of celebration we should get used to. By 2050, an extraordinary nine billion people are expected to call Earth home. But these are milestones we cannot yet afford to celebrate, because as the population swells, our ability to feed everyone diminishes. Globally, one billion people are undernourished at present, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
By around 2050, the swelling global population and affluence is expected to increase demand for food production by 70%, with a 100% increase expected in some developing countries. Yet most of the globe's best farmland is already planted or grazed. And when you factor in climate change, limited fresh water supplies and competition for harvests from biofuel makers, it is clear the world faces a major challenge.
One note of reassurance is that we have been in a similar fix before, and our ingenuity proved to be up to the challenge. In the mid-20th Century, when the global demand for food outpaced supply and famine was routine in places such as India and Pakistan, what helped save the day was the so-called "Green Revolution". The movement was spearheaded by American agronomist Norman Borlaug, who cleverly bred wheat to be shorter but sturdier and better at producing the parts we eat.
Borlaug's approach drew its fair share of critics, in part through its reliance on pesticides and fertilisers. But breeding high-yield crops in this manner more than doubled farm field yields globally in 50 years, particularly in Latin America and Asia, and helped to avert mass famines – an achievement that earned Borlaug the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
Recently, however, the trend toward higher yields has flattened, and the world finds itself in need of another revolution. This time, however, there is no obvious blueprint. Green Revolution 2.0 is possible, scientists say, but it will be engineered using tools that were unavailable to Borlaug and others in their pioneering days. Instead of relying on traditional breeding techniques and the lavish use of chemicals, the machinery sowing this new revolution includes supercomputers, molecular biology and arrays of sensors.
Here, BBC Future profiles four areas of research to discover how close they are to feeding the coming nine billion.
In a corner of Illinois, they are trying to improve on billions of years of evolution. A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis, the fundamental process that allows plants to use the light they capture to convert carbon dioxide into organic necessities like sugar and starch – or food, as we like to call it.
According to Long, plants currently operate at about one third of their potential efficiency when it comes to photosynthesis, which hints that if you can find a way to ramp it up, you can also produce more food. In 2006, Long and his colleagues described how climate-change experiments have shown that rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide lead to higher rates of photosynthesis in plants. When this happens, yields can improve by 15% in vital crops like wheat, rice and soybean.
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide further is hardly a practical or desirable way to boost crops, so the team set about looking for the genetic switches that could mimic the action and ramp up the plant's ability to harness the sun.
That is easier said than done. More than 100 different proteins play a role in photosynthesis, interacting in countless different permutations, Long says. Trying to work out which ones could boost photosynthesis through trial and error would take years. But there is a shortcut: supercomputers.
Long's team broke photosynthesis down into a long series of mathematical equations and fed them to the National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Illinois. The supercomputer whirred through the numbers and spat out a list of "best-bet" interventions.
For example, one potentially easy win they identified was to dial up production of just a single protein known as sedoheptulose bisphosphatase, or SBPase. British researchers have already shown that tobacco plants engineered to express more SBPase grew 10% larger in a glasshouse. And if it works in them, Long says, then it is likely to work in any crop, since photosynthesis does not vary much among plants.
However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent for concentrating CO2 within their cells at levels that make photosynthesis more efficient. It is believed that plants lost this ability when they transferred to the land 500 million years ago, because they did not need it.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have evidence that this may be one key to increased yields. In trials, they achieved a 20% increase in tobacco plants after adding a single cyanobacteria gene called inorganic carbon transporter B (IctB). Long says that he and colleagues from the University of Nebraska have carried out some initial tests on soybeans transformed with the same gene, and have recorded a 10% increase in yield.
However, there is a long way to go before either of these techniques can be used in the field. There is huge opposition to genetically modified crops in many countries, with some groups citing safety concerns and others ethical, arguing that the developing world should not be used as a laboratory to test such crops. But even if these arguments are won and efforts to re-engineer photosynthesis succeed, Long admits it would take at least a decade to move these transformed plants from research settings to farm fields. It would also take a lot of money. "The cost of meeting global regulatory requirements for a single gene engineered into a crop can run into many millions," says Long. "While we can show ways of achieving this, actually getting this to farmers could be more difficult."
Turning The World Green
Traditionally, farmers have sought out the best places to plant their crops – nutrient rich flood plains and the sides of volcanoes. But we have reached a point where all of this high quality land is taken. Instead, farmers are forced to use ever more marginal land – plots that are too wet, too dry, too short on vital nutrients, or are laced with damaging aluminium or salt.
As a result, there is a push to develop crops that not only grow in these conditions – they relish them. For example, researchers like Abdelbagi Ismail at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines are developing strains of rice that can flourish in flooded areas.
This is an important problem to tackle. As many as 20 million hectares of cultivated rice are affected by submergence in Asia every year.
To get round the problem, Ismail and his team scoured the vaults of their institute's rice seed bank – the world's largest with more than 110,000 varieties. They were looking for types of rice that survive on sketchy land, regardless of whether they produced low or high yields. In one case, they found a strain that did not waste precious energy trying to elongate itself above the waters when submerged by a flash flood, and instead put itself into a sort of temporary slumber. Using genetic techniques unavailable to Borlaug, they then crossed this flood-tolerant strain with a high-yield strain of rice.
"This [form of breeding] used to take 6-15 years," says Ismail. "Now we can have a tolerant variety in only 2-3 years."
And it seems to work. Tests have shown that fields planted with the hybrid that experienced flooding show average yield gains of close to one ton per hectare, says Ismail.
Their submergence-resistant rice has been distributed to farmers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and the Philippines. IRRI hopes it will reach 5 million farmers in Asia and Africa by 2014 and 20 million farmers by 2017.
Increasing the amount of food we produce is one thing. Producing nutritious food is another, according to Yassir Islam, spokesperson for HarvestPlus, a non-profit organisation looking to improve nutrient content in staple foods.
He says the next green revolution will have to be accompanied by a rethink about how nutritious the food is that we put on the table of millions of people every day. Too many people in Asia and Africa already suffer from what HarvestPlus calls "hidden hunger", or deficiencies in key micronutrients. These people live in parts of the world where their diets are dominated by staples – foods such as rice, wheat, cassava, millet and maize – that are high in calories but lack iron, zinc, vitamin A and other micronutrients. Deficiencies can reduce IQ, lower disease resistance, stunt growth and even cause blindness, which greatly increases a person's risk of death in the developing world.
The best-known example of boosting nutrition in staple crops is golden rice, which has been engineered with genes from daffodils and bacteria to produce beta-carotene, a nutrient that the body can convert into vitamin A. Developed in the 1990s, and field tested in the 2000s, golden rice is still not available for general use. Some environmental groups, including Greenpeace, fear that this genetically modified strain could contaminate and harm other vital rice strains.
But rather than importing genes from another organism, researchers are now trying to find maize strains that naturally produce high levels of beta-carotene. Torbert Rocheford of Purdue University, Edward Buckler of Cornell University, and their collaborators screened around 300 maize strains, and unearthed some with boosted beta-carotene levels. They then looked for any genes in these maize strains that resembled genes linked to high beta-carotene levels in other plants.
"It's the sort of process where either you hit a grand slam home run or strike out. There's nothing in between," says Rocheford.
They scored, finding a small number of maize varieties that grow in both tropical and temperate climates and which carry a gene variant that slows down the conversion of beta-carotene to other substances, leaving more to make vitamin A. As important, they also found a genetic marker that signals when this sought-after gene variant is in place.
Plant breeders are using the naturally occurring maize plants and those markers to breed new plants. So far, the process has boosted concentration of beta-carotene in the corn from practically nothing to about 8 micrograms per gram – around 53% of HarvestPlus' target for the micronutrient. The organisation expects to release corn that achieves that target in 3-4 years.
What will really determine its success is if farmers will regularly plant this orange corn in a region where people traditionally eat white corn with no beta-carotene. This year, HarvestPlus, which like the IRRI is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is releasing the fortified corn in Zambia, where more than half of children experience vitamin A deficiencies. The plan is to eventually adapt the plants to fields elsewhere in Africa, in Latin America and in Asia.
Plant Smart
Every one of us likes to be treated as an individual. And it is no different for fields, say advocates of an expanding type of agriculture called precision farming.
This is based on research that shows there is a significant variation in how crops grow over distances as small as an acre, says Raj Khosla, an agriculture researcher at Colorado State University, and president of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.
He is helping farmers to harvest a new crop: data. They do it by bringing electronic tools into their crop rows – global positioning systems, infrared devices that measure soil's electrical conductivity and light and sound sensors. Combining all that and more gives farmers precise information about variety in plant health, size and even nitrogen needs. The idea is that by collating all of this, farmers can produce highly detailed maps of their fields so that they can identify how much seed, fertilizer, water, herbicides and pesticides different areas require.
At first the appeal was that farmers would save money and avoid environmental harm by not adding unnecessary fertiliser or water, Khosla says. "But with precise input management, farmers can also influence grain yield and efficiency."
Some academics and sustainable farming advocates see this type of farming as one more push toward industrialising food production and making more farmers dependent on agribusiness. But José Molin, a precision farming researcher at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, says the concept has promise for farmers with and without the means or inclination to buy expensive equipment.
"We still have to develop the concept to apply it to small farmers and to low tech or low income areas," says Molin. "But the concept is always the same. Even small fields are different in different locations. We should treat them differently."
Given the imperative to expand the world's food supply, farmers need as much help as they can get, even down to the acre, says Khosla. "Previously we just raised food for humans and animals. In 2011 more corn went to biofuel than to feed for the first time in the US. Another big pressure is climate change. A third is the lack of water." Khosla says. "We're working under tremendous pressures today compared to those in the first green revolution. We can't just continue to do things the way we have done them."


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OCEAN CITY – After his friend damaged a street sign and fled police, a defensive 19-year-old Pennsylvania man took out his frustration by throwing rocks at a patrol car, causing about $500 worth of damage.
At approximately 1 a.m. on Wednesday, June 11, Ocean City Police responded to Robin Drive to assist the Maryland State Police (MSP) with a young man who was destroying public property. MSP witnessed the man, Justin Zepp, 20, of Birdsboro, Pa., pulling down a street sign and bending it so that it blocked a portion of the sidewalk. Officers placed Zepp under arrest.
While arresting Zepp, authorities on hand were confronted by a man, Michael Snyder, 19, of Reading, Pa. Snyder was a friend of Zepp's and became upset about his friend's arrest. Officers asked Snyder to leave the area and witnessed him disappear behind the Old Pro Golf Course.
During Zepp's arrest, police noticed rocks being hurled in their direction. The rocks, which were being thrown one at a time, were approximately the size of a half-dollar. One of the rocks actually struck Zepp and several others came close to hitting the officers. The Ocean City police K-9 vehicle's rear window and tail light cover were shattered after being hit by several rocks. K-9 "Indy" was in the car at the time, however, was not injured.
A witness on Robin Drive identified Snyder as the person throwing the rocks at the officers. Snyder was arrested after a short foot chase. At the time of Snyder's arrest, he was found to have a handful of rocks. During the arrests, officers noted both Zepp and Snyder appeared to have a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage about their breath and were both found to be in possession of a quantity of suspected marijuana as well.
Zepp was charged with misdemeanor offenses of malicious destruction of property and possession of marijuana. Snyder was charged with one felony count of malicious destruction of property to the police vehicle, misdemeanor malicious destruction of property to the MSP vehicle, two counts of assault in the second degree on the OCPD and MSP officers, as well as possession of marijuana.
The total damage to the OCPD officer's vehicle exceeded $500 and includes damage to the rear window and rear signal lamp covers as well as several dents and paint scratches. The MSP vehicle sustained minor dents and scratches believed to be under $500. The Town of Ocean City Street sign sustained approximately $75 worth of damage.


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text: Timothy Corrigan's Los Angeles Home\nTimothy Corrigan brings his brand of old-world sophistication to the Los Angeles mansion where he spent his childhood.\nThe Southern California home of interior designer Timothy Corrigan (left) embodies his spirited take on classicism.\nThe Georgian Colonial–style house was built in 1922.\nTreillage panels by Accents of France and a circa-1700 neoclassical bust grace the front lawn.\nThe living room displays an unfinished 19th-century canvas by Carolus-Duran; the armchairs, sofas, and cocktail table are by Timothy Corrigan Home.\nAn oil study by Jacques-Louis David surmounts an Italian commode.\nA ceiling clad in gold leaf adds glamour to the dining room. The silk wall covering is by de Gournay, the chandelier is 1940s French, and both gilt-wood mirrors are 18th-century Italian. The Moissonnier dining table is coupled with antique English mahogany chairs, and the Persian carpet is vintage.\nThe kitchen cabinetry is painted in shades of white and green by Farrow & Ball; a set of antique Mexican Talavera plates is arrayed against the backsplash.\nThe family room includes a pair of vintage chairs by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (at left) and a second pair, in green, by André Arbus; the cocktail table is by Quatrain, and the sofa is from the estate of philanthropist Doris Duke.\nThe study's circa-1795 cabinet was a gift from William V, Prince of Orange, to Catherine the Great; her likeness, inset in bisque, tops a grid of Greek deities. The mahogany Louis Philippe bureau plat was acquired at a Paris flea market.\nAbove an 18th-century Venetian console is a portrait of Cleopatra, attributed to Caravaggio.\nThe Emilio Terry chair in the entrance hall was originally designed for Palazzo Labia in Venice; the cushion fabric is by Fortuny. Sea-grass carpeting by Stark leads up the stairs.\nThe bed, curtained in a Pindler & Pindler linen, is by Timothy Corrigan Home, as are the chairs; the circa-1800 gueridon is French.\nIn the master suite, a Louis XVI bench upholstered in a Christopher Hyland silk velvet stands in front of a custom-made mantel and a painting attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson.\nThe 18th-century portrait in the bedroom's reading area is of a family ancestor; the Monte Allen armchairs and ottoman are clad in a Veronese velvet, and the matching end tables are by Timothy Corrigan Home.\nThe fittings in the master bath are by Waterworks.\nThe chaise longues beside the pool are by Janus et Cie.


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Point Park University students Dave Proctor, Larry Burkhart, Felicia Kmetz and Melissa Altman and Point Park alumnus Brad Smith won the first round of presentations at Point Park with their idea TeamProjectsOnly.com. The concept of TeamProjectsOnly.com is to develop a job searching website that brings pre-registered, pre-qualified teams of information technology professionals to projects. Companies in need of information technology services and teams of programmers are brought together in a web-based marketplace with a facilitator who assists both parties through the project life cycle
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The local company filed a letter of intent with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
+City finalizes St. Armands parking changes
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+Mowing issues continue on Siesta Key
Sarasota County could create as many as 28 temporary positions to buffer median upkeep; Canal Road right-of-ways will continue to grow until next month.
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Simulated game goes well for Anibal
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
DETROIT -- The smile on Anibal Sanchez's face as he walked off the mound at Comerica Park on Thursday morning made him look like a pitcher very close to returning to game action. That return, however, won't happen until next weekend at the earliest.
After throwing about 40 pitches by his count in a simulated game, Sanchez said he'll pitch in a Minor League rehab start next Monday. Sanchez said that will likely take place at Class A Lakeland, where Sanchez can drive over after the Tigers finish their weekend series at Tampa Bay.
"Everything's normal, everything's back on track," Sanchez said, "so I think I just need to wait for the process. I threw like three innings today, so I'm probably going to have another start for five innings, 60 pitches, something like that. After that, we see for [coming] back with the team."
The Tigers have not confirmed a rehab start for Sanchez. No decision will be finalized, manager Jim Leyland said, until at least Friday.
"We're going to wait and see how he feels tomorrow," Leyland said, "and then we'll see what happens. But he did have a good session, and the ball was coming out real good. So we'll probably find out tomorrow whether he's good to go or not."
Sanchez has spent the past week and a half on the 15-day disabled list with a right shoulder strain that has impacted him for a few weeks. The hope when Sanchez went on the DL was that he'd miss just two starts before returning on Monday for the Tigers' series opener in Toronto.
Jose Alvarez has taken Sanchez's spot in the rotation the last two turns, and he will again on Monday. Sanchez is hoping to return to his rotation spot the next turn, which would fall on July 6 in Cleveland.
Valverde clears waivers, heads to Triple-A
DETROIT -- Jose Valverde might not be finished with the Tigers just yet, even after being designated for assignment a week ago. The team announced on Thursday that its former closer cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Toledo.
The Tigers brought up the idea with Valverde when they gave him the news on Friday, and made it clear they were hoping he might take them up on their offer. The idea behind the move was to give Valverde the chance to work on his pitching, especially the splitter he has struggled to throw consistently, in lower-pressure situations.
"I'm glad he's going to stay in the organization and just see if he can possibly go down there and get it straightened out," manager Jim Leyland said Thursday.
The assignment comes with no guarantee Valverde will make it back. But the Tigers don't have a set closer to replace him, and the fact that no other team claimed him on waivers made this likely the best opportunity he was going to find.
"We'll take a look at his velocity and the movement on his pitches, command on his pitches and his ability to throw a split-finger, which when we first brought him back we thought was very important for him. He really has struggled with that," team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski said last week. "Again, I think a lot of it is mechanically related. When [Tigers pitching coach] Jeff Jones talks about it, his arm angle is a little bit lower than we would like. That's what we would look for."
Valverde was expected to make a stop in Toledo on his way back to the big leagues in April after he signed a Minor League contract, but the Tigers promoted him straight from Class A Lakeland. The 35-year-old hasn't pitched at the Triple-A level since 2006 in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization.
It's unclear whether Valverde will be closing for the Mud Hens, who have had Bruce Rondon thriving in the ninth inning for most of the season.
Avila finding groove on rehab assignment
DETROIT -- After going 0-for-8 in his first two games at Triple-A Toledo, catcher Alex Avila is finally starting to heat up at the plate in his minor-league rehab assignment.
Avila, who joined the Mud Hens on rehab on Monday, hit a pair of doubles Wednesday in a 5-4 loss at Pawtucket. One was an RBI liner to right in the fourth inning, the other was a fly ball to center in the sixth, both off Red Sox farmhand Steven Wright. Avila took a called third strike in the seventh.
The doubles raised Avila's numbers to 3-for-16 with five strikeouts in four games, three of them as a designated hitter. Considering manager Jim Leyland said earlier in the week that Avila's hitting will be as important as his health during his rehab, it's a step in the right direction.
Avila will have at least a few more games through the end of the week before he's eligible to come off the disabled list on Tuesday.
Jackson on fire since return from DL
DETROIT -- The Tigers have had to keep an eye on Austin Jackson's hamstring since his return from the disabled list two weeks ago. They have not, however, had to worry about his bat.
Jackson entered Thursday's homestand finale against the Angels with a 10-game hitting streak, his longest since last summer and the fifth-longest of his career. Though he went 0-for-3 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch vs. the Halos, he enters this weekend's series at Tampa Bay with a .301 average.
For someone who had just three rehab games at Triple-A Toledo before he returned from the DL on June 14, it's a fast start.
Moreover, Jackson has coupled those hits with walks -- six of them in the previous three games.
As Jackson goes, the Tigers' offense tends to follow. They were at their high-powered best when Jackson was reaching base to lead off innings in April. They withstood his DL stint for a couple weeks but finally showed signs of slowing in early June, but their leadoff hitter's return has them back on track.
Quick hits
• Manager Jim Leyland praised Torii Hunter going from second to third base on Miguel Cabrera's third-inning fly ball Wednesday, setting up the Tigers' third run of the night on Prince Fielder's ensuing single to right. "It was definitely worth a shot to get to third base with one out because he can score on a sacrifice fly," Leyland said.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Anybody else wished that the presenter lady got involved too?
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Speaker John Boehner is giving House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp plenty of leeway to chase tax reform, according to a senior GOP committee member.
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Anyone who has encountered Camp recently comes away with a clear sense of the Michigan Republican's commitment to a comprehensive Tax Code overhaul. But questions have grown in recent weeks about whether House leaders share that commitment.
On Tuesday, Boehner raised questions about the tax reform push during a breakfast with television reporters.
"There's a debate going on about whether we can get to the kind of tax reform we want given the outcome of the election," Boehner said, according to ABC. "We'd love to do tax reform. Lower rates for all, clean up the code, make it simpler. But why go through all that effort if it isn't going anywhere or why go through that effort if the outcome would be unacceptable?"
Camp isn't slowing down.
He's expected to soon announce the creation of 11 working groups that Ways and Means members from both parties will sit on to deliberate a range of issues.
That's just as it should be, Boustany said.
"If Ways and Means doesn't start the process, it doesn't get done," he said.
At the same event, Rep. Charles Rangel, another senior Ways and Means member, said that Republicans are divided on fiscal issues and need to figure out where the party is on tax reform.
"Mr. Boehner has to go through so many different groups to decide what he has the votes for," the New York Democrat said. "They need a conference to decide whether they're going to support the president or not."
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Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying NothingPosted by: Anne Haight in Islam, Middle East, Politics, Terrorism, tags: hillary, iran, secretary of state, sharia
Today on FoxNews I see the headline "Clinton Urges Against Iran Military Expansion", and my first reaction is:
Why does anybody, anywhere, think that anything anyone SAYS matters a damn?
Kyle, in the other room, responds, "Because they believe in magic?"
The United States, Clinton said, is increasingly concerned about the rise of military power in Iran, the main U.S. adversary in the Middle East.
That's wonderful, Hillary. We're concerned. And how long have we been concerned? I, for one, can remember us being concerned as far back as when Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State. The word "Ayatollah" has always been an epithet for my generation. We remember the hostages taken in Tehran in 1979, and that wasn't the Shah who was in power at the time.
"But the early advocates of it said this would be a republic. It would be an Islamic republic, but it would be a republic. Then we saw a very flawed election and we've seen the elected officials turn for the military to enforce their power," she said.
"Republic" is just a word. And to suppose that it is even possible for a government to be Islamic and have any semblance of liberty in its operation is, at best, naive. To permit any religion to dictate the functioning of government is an inherently bad idea. With Islam it is especially pernicious, because of how hostile Sharia law is to the idea of freedom and individual rights. While I understand that there are many regional variations of Sharia, and the extent to which it is implemented may vary, I will firmly claim that it is not a system under which anyone should be forced to live simply because it denies individual rights and equal treatment under the law.
Mandatory tithing (zakat) is described by Sharia. Inheritance is dictated, rather than being chosen by the owners of the wealth. Virgin women have their husbands chosen for them, and Muslims in general may only marry other Muslims. Any sexual intercourse outside the confines of marriage (and with the spouse) is forbidden and carries heavy penalties that include flogging and death. It is notable that women are typically punished more severely than men.
Court proceedings under Sharia are conducted by a judge only. There is no jury, no attorneys, no discovery process, and no punishment for perjury. Witnesses are considered more important than empirical evidence (modern law enforcement has long since known how unreliable even honest witnesses can be). Most of the legal protections and precedents codified in modern Western law are not recognized in Sharia.
I could go on at length about this. But my point is that talking about how much we dislike Iran doesn't mean a goddamn thing. It won't change Iran's behavior. It won't change their beliefs. It won't do anything to address the threat that country is to its neighbors and the world at large. Clearly we are going to have to learn the hard way. Again. Iran is going to build a functioning nuke and deliver it to a major city, probably Tel Aviv.
What will we do then? Keep talking? Wring our hands and whine like we always do? Israel can probably be counted on to bomb the shit out of them, and anyone who tries to claim they shouldn't will have absolutely no moral standing.
You would THINK that flying three airplanes full of people into 3 buildings full of people (and I can only wonder if the fourth plane was meant for the Capitol Building), causing the deaths of several thousand human beings and destroying a major cultural landmark in one of the world's most prominent cities would wake people up. Especially people who remember it like I do. The enemy tried it once before in 1993 with the underground parking garage at World Trade One and Two, and failed, and we all went "ho hum".
But no. We've forgotten. Politicians have let themselves feel safe again, and gone back to petty bickering about money and their own reelection. The President is babbling about another economic "stimulus" (which won't work any more than the last one did, and will actually make things worse. Again) or some shit. Maybe if Flight 93 had destroyed the Capitol Building and killed 90% of Congress, we would have taken it more seriously. Somehow, with this level of apathy, I doubt it.


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Papelbon adds slider to repertoire
All-Star closer prepared to use pitch on regular basis
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
If Papelbon's slider can be a go-to pitch along with his lethal fastball and nasty splitter, opposing hitters might be in serious trouble.
"I threw it well today," Papelbon said of the slider. "I threw that pitch a lot today. I threw it in to some left-handers and Doug [Mirabelli] said that it was a good solid pitch for me. It's just a matter of getting it to the point where I can throw it any pitch, any count, any situation. I think it will be there by the time Spring Training [ends] and I'll go into the season being a three-pitch closer."
Though Papelbon didn't necessarily need to develop another pitch, the Red Sox certainly have no complaints with him doing so.
"It's a third option," said Boston manager Terry Francona. "That's why we have Spring Training, aside from building up arm strength and getting ready for a season. Again, for certain hitters, it might be a pretty good weapon. Put something in the back of somebody's head. But when he goes with that fastball and he commands and that split, that's what makes him Pap. But we do like the fact that he's working on it -- because if he's going to throw it, he needs to have confidence in it. There are times when he will throw it. But those other two pitches are pretty special."
In Tuesday's outing against the Mets, Papelbon retired all six batters he faced, striking out two of them. Over five Grapefruit League outings, Papelbon has a 3.00 ERA.
"I think that those first couple of outings for me were tough just because you're getting the dust off," Papelbon said. "I think finally now my body is starting to get accustomed to using those muscles that I haven't used in so long this offseason. Just my overall body awareness and fluidness is a lot better and that's allowed me to get to the plate and deliver the pitch better, and I feel like I have that extra little oomph on my fastball now that I didn't necessarily really have in my first couple of outings."
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After making the American League All-Star team in his first two seasons and putting up gaudy numbers in the process, why did Papelbon add the third pitch?
"One, I used to throw it when I was starting, so it's not like it's a new pitch really," said Papelbon. "Two, it's a natural arm slot for me to throw this pitch. It's not like I'm going out of my delivery to execute this pitch. To me, it's just a matter of staying one step ahead of the competition."
Papelbon isn't naïve enough to think he can just stay the same and maintain the numbers he's put up.
"You can't just say, 'It's been working, it's been working, it's going to work another year,'" Papelbon said. "Hitters start seeing you more. It's almost like you just have to keep making your adjustments and staying ahead of the game. The same things aren't going to work for me now that I'm 26, 27 than when I'm 36, 37. It's the same type of concept. [I'm] just trying to stay one step ahead, really."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Rays Win First Half of Twinbill 5-2
Rays 5, Orioles 2
With the Rays winning the first game of the doubleheader, I thought it might be interesting to hit up Mapquest and see how long it would take to maybe take a road trip to Detroit Michigan and check out Comerica Park for the last series of the year for the Rays. It was easy enough to find the exact address of the ballpark, and I just popped it into the computer and printed out the directions and the distance.
Well, the distance is 1,190 miles of mostly Interstate driving. That is right, I could put the car on cruise control and drive as long as I did not fall asleep at the wheel some time during the 19 hour trip. So I extimated that I would have to leave my house in Clearwater, Florida by maybe, noon on Wed. to give myself about 5 hours of leeway in case of muchies or a traffic accident in Atlanta at rush hour.
You see, the great thing about Detroit is it is almost a complete straight line up from where I live on Interstate 75. All I have to do is hit the old Courtney Campbell Bridge and go over to Tampa and get on I-275 and head north until I hit Motown. Now I can't just pop off and leave like that tomorrow, but I would have been nice to be up there and surprise the guys in the Bullpen on Thursday's afternoon game. But, I have a few errands to attend to, plus I have to go down to the Trop and pick up my Playoff tickets for the ALDS game 1 and 2 in the morning.
By the way, if you have not heard already, Game 1 is an official sell-out except for a few odd and end seats being reserved for 2009 Season Ticket depositors'. At the end of the first game of the doubleheader, I went online with my special password for the day to purchase tickets and found only about 500 seats were left for general purchase for Game 2. By the time I get this onto the website and into MLBogs.com, the game might be an officla sell-out also.
If by some chance there is a few hundred or so availiable, they will go on sale at 9 A.M. tomorrow on www.raysbaseball.com . I would not hold mt breath unless you have already put down as little as $ 50.00 for your 2009 Season Ticket deposit. That might be the only way to still secure some seats for the upcoming ALDS games held at Tropicana Field. I got mine today at 9 A.M., hopefully you did also, or you will have to watch on your HDTV at home or in your local watering hole.
Rays Magical Number: 3
This number is a combination of Rays wins and Boston losses to secure the Rays first AL East title
James Shields
The Rays sent their big game pitcher out to begin this long day of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles. James Shields like to be known as "Big Game James" by his teammates, and he came out and pitched a masterpiece as the Rays won the front half of the doubleheader, 5-2 against the Orioles. Shields came into the game for his 32ns start of the season, which is a new career high for Shields. He is currently the only Rays pitcher to ever throw two seasons of 200 plus innings of baseball. This season against the Orioles, Shields has gone 3-1 against the O's, with a 3.27 ERA. The Rays are also perfect with Shields on the mound against the Orioles, going 4-0 this year.
In today's game, Shields came out early and tried to dominate the game, but the Orioles had a different gameplan for Shields. In the 1st inning, Shileds gave up a walk and a single to Nick Markakis and Adam Jones before gaining his composure and sent Aubrey Huff and Oscar Salazar back to the bench with strikeouts.
In the 2nd inning, the Orioles touched Shields for the only runs he would give up all day. Luke Scott struck out to start the inning, but got on base after a passed ball by Dioner Navarro.
The Orioles would quickly make Navarro pay for that mistake when Lou Montanez took the 2nd pitch he saw from Shields and deposited it in the leftfield stands for an early 2-0 Orioles lead. For the day, Shields went 7 innings and gave up 8 hits and 2 runs in his start. For his effort, Shields got his 14th win of the season tying former Rays Rolando Arroyo for the team wins record as a pitcher at 14. With 5 games remaining in the year, Shields might not get another start this season before the playoffs begin in October.
6 through 9 Hitters
The Rays 6-9 hitters were on fire today for the team. For the game they went a combined 9-13, and scored all 5 Rays runs in the game. They also contributed to 4 of the 5 RBI's in the game. The barrage was led by Dioner Navarro, who was hitting in the 6th slot and went 2-5 on the day, with 2 runs scored. Navarro doubled to left to start the 5th inning and ended up scoring on a Wild Pitch by Orioles starter Garrett Olson to score the first Rays run of the day.
In the 7th spot, Ben Zobrist went 1-3, with a single to right in the 8th inning. Zobrist ended up scoring in the inning after a attempted bunt single by Fernando Perez was misplayed by Orioles reliever Alberto Castillo.
In the 8th spot, Jason Bartlett went 3-4 in the game, with 2 RBI and 1 run scored for the Rays. Bartlett began his day by reaching on a throwing error by Oriole's shortstop Alex Cintron in the 3rd inning. Bartlett then singled to center in the 5th inning and escaped from a sure out at second on a bad throw by Castillo to second baseman Brian Roberts.
When Fernando Perez doubled to left, Bartlett scored to tie the game at 2-all. In the 6th inning, Bartlett hit a double to lect that scored Navarro and put the Rays up 3-2 in the game. He then singled to right in the 8th inning, but did not score for the Rays.
In the 9-slot, Fernando Perez went 3-3 on the day and had 2 RBI's and a run scored in the contest. Perez started his day by putting down a sacrifice bunt to third base in the 3rd inning. He then got on base in the 5th inning by doubling to left on a ball hit beyond the reach of Scott, and the ball bounced to the outfield wall. Bartlett scored on the play for the Rays to put the score at 2-2.
Perez then singled to right to open the Rays 7th inning. Perez ended up scoring on Carlos Pena drive to leftfield in the inning. Hius last hit was a bad bunt single that Orioles pitcher Alberto Castillo misplayed in the air and could not convert the out.
Rays Errors and Mistakes
For the most part, the first game did not have alot of drama or misplays. But it did have a few plays that could have changed the course of the game. In the 6th inning, Ben Zobrist tried to score on Bartlett's double to left and was thrown out at the plate by Montanez. At the time, the score was only 3-2 Rays, and the error in judgement could have come back to haunt the Rays.
In the bottom of the 5th inning, Jeff Fahey hit a 1-2 pitch to the base of the scoreboard in rightfield. Perez could have made a play on the ball on the warning track, but let the ball hit and Fahey got a double on the play. Fahey was standing on third base waiting for a hit through the hole when Huff hit into a 3-6-1 double play to end the inning. At the time, the score was 2-all in the game.
Odds and Ends
Today is the 14th time the Rays have played a doubleheader, and it is the second one in 7 days. In the most recent day/night doubleheader, the Rays split the games with the New York Yankees. The Rays have never won both bills of a doubleheader in their short history. They have been swept 6 times, and have split the games 7 times. This will be the Rays 3rd doubleheader against the Orioles at Camden Yards. They split a pair on August 26, 2000, and lost both games on July 5, 2004.
94th Win
This win ties the Rays with the 1991 Atlanta Braves as the only 2 teams to ever go to the playoffs after going from worst to first in their divsion the following season. The Rays also tied the 1991 Braves for the most wins by a team that had the worst record the prior year.
If the Rays win 3 out of their last 7 games to go 96-66, they will have reversed their record from last season ( 66-96) amd finish with a 30 game improvement over the last season. Only 9 teams since 1900 have improved 30 plus games from one season to the next. The Rays are also 1 of 4 team to ever win 93 plus wins after 10 plus years of consecutive losing seasons.
Rays Bullpen
The Rays Bullpen again came through for the Rays by pitching 2 innings of no-hit ball to secure the 94th win of the season for the Rays. Grant Balfour came on in the 8th inning and got 2 strikeouts on 16 pitches in the inning. Balfour has struck out 6 percent of the batters he has faced this season, which is tops in the major leagues. His 1.42 ERA is currently tied with the Twins Joe Nathan for second in the majors.
Dan Wheeler then came on and threw a scoreless 9th inning to get his 1th save of the season. his 285 appearances since 2005 is tied for 6th among active relievers in the majors. His 26 holds is currently only 4 shy of the major league lead held by Scott Shields of the L A Angels. Dan was the 34th pick of the Rays in the innaugural draft in 1996 and is in his 2nd tour with the team.


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Cream Cheese Cherry Meringue Pie Recipe
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People are surprised to hear this pie's meringue crust features saltines. The cream cheese and cherry pie filling make this dessert extra special.
Recommended: Classic American Pie Recipes
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 3 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup crushed saltines (about 12 crackers)
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
- 1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling
- In a mixing bowl, beat egg whites and vinegar on medium speed until soft peaks form, Gradually beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, on high until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Fold in the cracker crumbs, pecans, baking powder and vanilla. Spread onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased deep dish 9-in. pie plate. Bake at 350° for 14-18 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool on wire rack (meringue shell will fall in center).
- In a small mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Fold in the whipped cream. Spoon into meringue shell. Top with pie filling. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Originally published as Cherry Meringue Pie in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2003, p138
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"Made this for company on New Year Eve. This was so delicious and creamy. easy to make. One of my guest said she only like the real cherries, boy did she change her mind. She loved it! Thanks for the recipe, it was a big hit!"


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