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There isn't a member of our family who doesn't like oyster stew.
Well, maybe one or two who would rather eat a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
It is a well known fact that oysters are food for the gods, with or without a glass of champagne and we are eternally thankful to the brave soul who first cracked open one of those razor sharp shells and dug out that "globby" mass of culinary delight.
No longer must we pull on rubber boots, heavy gloves and grab a bucket to dig up oysters.
Larry and Tina Toomer's Bluffton Oyster Factory at the end of Wharf Street is the last active seafood operation on the May River and their experts manage to supply us with oysters in season.
At one time there was a factory farther up the river where you can still see the oyster shell causeway they used from the dock to the bluff.
Jessie can tell you about the factory on Doe Island which she and Boonie ran for so many years.
On Daufuskie Island, they not only harvested and sold oysters in the shell, they had a cannery. It is said that the last Tsar of Russia ordered Daufuskie oysters for his dinner table.
True or not, we can certainly understand that anyone who likes oysters absolutely loves the salty sweet flavor of our delicate mollusks.
May River oysters are as different from the oversized Florida black mud versions as a Savignon Blanc from Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.
Being raised in Savannah, eating oysters in the winter months was as much a way of life as watermelon in July and when George William and I ended up assigned to Army posts in Germany, we were homesick for both.
On one trip to the French commissary in Tubingen, I found fresh oysters in the shell. They were pricey, but we hadn't eaten an oyster in three years. I bit the bullet and bought a dozen. The very first one I opened had a live worm in it, not a pearl. Out they went. Yuck.
In the 1940s, across the bridge at Thunderbolt was Frank Paris, a seafood restaurant. It was a box of a building on the edge of the river, up three steps into a space large enough to dance to the jukebox and surrounded by plain wooden booths. The menu; was basic, fish fried or not fried, shrimp fried or boiled, but oh, their oyster stew, creamy, steamy, in a heavy white bowl with those tiny oyster crackers on the side and loaded with oysters, a gourmand delight.
Granted, they weren't May River oysters, but still, they were the small elegant ones we find in our creek and river mud banks.
Not that long ago, George William and I lunched at a restaurant where their oyster stew has become a family joke.
When his order came, George William ran his spoon through the bowl and called the server over.
"Where are the oysters?" he asked. "I can only find two."
"Well," the server explained. "That's at lunch. At dinner, you get four."
Everyone has their favorite recipe for oyster stew. In our house, no matter what the other ingredients, trust me, there will be an abundance of oysters in your bowl.
I do tend to divide on the selfish side.
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Mark Twain wrote, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." Was Twain worried about weight gain? Because medical managers at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota have decided that that's one of the main reasons people often can't quit.
Marc Manley, MD, the plan's chief prevention officer, says that the insurer has offered its stop-smoking support program since 2000 and that he and his team are continually evaluating the service. In January, it launched a smoking cessation/weight loss program. "We try to remove whatever barriers people are facing," he says.
The health plan uses trained "quit coaches" who develop tactics geared to the individual, says Manley. Members who enroll in the program also receive access to around-the-clock online support by way of a tool the plan calls "Web coach." The critical time appears to be the first six months. "The hardest time is right after they quit. That's really when they need the most support."
"Members who enroll can call back for more support between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. seven days a week," says Manley. "The whole impetus for this is just to help people get through that time of quitting successfully and make it so that they have every resource — so that their concerns about gaining weight are addressed."
Mary Kate Salley is the senior vice president for client services at Free & Clear, the vendor running Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota's smoking cessation/weight loss program.
"Historically, programs focus on quitting smoking and imply that the patients shouldn't worry all that much about weight gain," says Salley. The medical literature reports that smokers do indeed gain weight — from 8 to 20 pounds. "So, particularly for women, that could be an issue," says Salley. "But the added support that we have means that they are able to quit and either maintain their weight or gain less weight than those who received only the initial smoking-cessation support."
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Part of the research done by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota involved investigating the long-pondered question of why people tend to gain weight when they quit smoking. "Not everybody gains weight. For most people who do gain weight, it's only a few pounds," says Manley. "It's much healthier to gain a few pounds than to keep smoking."
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Wandering through the news this morning, I came across a blog post on The Republican American titled "PlayStation 3 game offends Muslims, creationists". Creationists? Did I miss the part in the bible in which god created sack puppets? Oh no, it's just blogger Tracy Simmons, eschewing the search engine in favour of America's number one news source, random co-workers.
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Lynne Curtin of the Real Housewives of Orange County and her husband Frank might have to declare bankruptcy.
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The Board of Education recently approved a new plan for evaluating teachers as required by recent state legislation, although many members expressed frustration with the increasing demand placed on local districts by state and federal decisions.
To meet these new requirements, a new plan for teacher evaluations was developed by a committee chaired by Southington High School teacher Bob Brown, who is also president of the teacher's union. He said the group was pleased with the outcome.
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The district's administrators agreed with the sentiment of the board's comments, but said they hoped to make the best of the situation.
"It's not about creating work for teachers," said Assistant Superintendent Karen Smith. "It's about using these tools to improve student learning."
The board approved the plan unanimously as Smith noted that the district would also need to work out a process of evaluating administrators.
"I would not support this if it wasn't for the work of the committee," said Chairman Brian Goralski. "Teamwork is what makes these things succeed and I don't see teamwork at the state or the national level."


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Mineralogy of Hydrothermal Vents…in HD
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Our mineralogy students have been researching some fascinating topics and have recently created a suite of impressive digital presentations. Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we unveil their projects on the blog. The first presentation is by Megan Innis ('11) on the mineralogy of hydrothermal vents. Make sure your volume is turned up. Enjoy!


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Bacteria are associated with the three D's: dirt, disease and death but not all of them are harmful. Source: Microsoft Images.
Misunderstood bacteria
Bacteria suffer from negative public relations. You probably associate bacteria with the three D's: dirt, disease and death. And indeed, for centuries bacterial infections were the major cause of infant and child mortality worldwide. Child mortality began to decline after people were educated about better hygiene. The decline continued with the introduction of antibiotics for better treatment and vaccination for prevention of common deadly diseases.
Bacteria are certainly involved in dirt, disease and death, to which we should add decay. Spoilage of leftover food, decomposition of garden cuttings, decay of dead bodies, or smelly water in a forgotten vase, are all the result of bacterial activity. As is body odor, caries, strep throat, or bubonic plague, to name a few diseases from both ends of the spectrum. No wonder that bacteria receive a bad press.
Commercials want us to believe that the only good bacterium is a dead bacterium. Antimicrobial agents are added to tooth paste, soaps, detergents, and plastics. There is no Society for the Protection of Bacteria, although there is a satirical initiative for the Ethical Treatment of Bacteria.1 Some bacteria may even hover on the edge of extinction, and it is no coincidence that these are pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria such as Salmonella typhi (the cause of typhoid fever) or Yersinia pestis (the cause of plague). Fortunately for the little critters, populations survive in remote areas where they are not efficiently hunted with vaccines and antimicrobials, and people are still at risk for the diseases they cause in these places.
The bacterial kingdom
It is about time we take a closer look at the Bacterial Kingdom, with capitals. For a Kingdom it is, biologically speaking, and the ancient lineage, diversity, and evolutionary power of its inhabitants deserve royal treatment rather than disgust.
Before kindling fascination for the world of bacteria, a common misconception must be cleared: bacteria are not viruses.
Whereas most bacteria live as independent cells with a membrane to separate them from the outside world, viruses can only multiply inside, and to the detriment of, the cells they infect. Interestingly, some viruses, called bacteriophages, have specialized to infect bacteria.2,3
Viruses consist only of genetic material (DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein shell. They cannot metabolize and once inside a host cell, their genetic material hijacks the cell's machinery to produce replicas of the virus.
Bacteria are much more similar to you and me. They exhibit the basic characteristics of all living things — they breathe, metabolize, produce waste, and maintain a membrane potential. However, they do not have a nucleus in which their DNA is separated from the rest of the cell, as plants and animals do, and that is the major distinction between prokaryotes (a type of cell that most microorganisms are made of, including all bacteria) and eukaryotes (a different type of cell making up nucleated microorganisms, such as yeasts, or cells in an organism, e.g., human).
Both viruses and bacteria can cause disease. However, not all types of viruses cause disease in humans, and not all bacteria cause disease.
Another common misconception is that all bacteria are bad for you. Some bacteria you'd better not meet, but the majority of them are completely harmless, and some are highly beneficial to us. Confusingly, certain bacteria can be beneficial to some animals, and pathogenic to others. More commonly, pathogenic bacteria are harmful only to a limited number of hosts, or even only to one, whereas they live happily within other hosts without causing trouble. If the suffering host happens to be human, the culprit bacteria are called human pathogens; however, from the bacterial point of view, humans are just the wrong host to be in. So who is to blame for the disease?
Most bacteria are completely harmless
Although a tree can kill a person when it falls, we usually don't regard trees as harmful. The same is true for most bacteria — although they may cause problems under specific conditions, they usually live their lives without interfering with ours. An example is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which commonly lives in soil without doing harm. However, if it is inhaled by a person with Cystic Fibrosis, it can colonize their lungs and cause lethal infections.4
For many bacteria, the human body is not the right place to live in at all.
- They couldn't cope with the lack of oxygen (inside our cells the oxygen concentration is lower than that of air) or with the presence of oxygen (for bacteria that live in oxygen-deprived environments, oxygen is toxic).
They couldn't withstand our defense mechanisms such as the salt present on our skin and in our tears, the lack of iron (a smart device keeps iron, a vital element to all living organisms, inaccessible to most microorganisms in our body), or with the toxic radicals that cells release when under attack of bacteria.
It could be too warm for them, or too cold, as certain bacteria have specific temperature requirements to grow.
Or they could be deprived of food, as the members of the Bacterial Kingdom have specialized to live on almost anything, but each species has specific nutrient needs.
In conclusion, we have little to fear from most bacteria that we encounter.
It is no big surprise that we are relatively inert to bacteria. After all, mammals have evolved in the presence of bacteria, and have developed specialized strategies to keep bacteria under control. In contrast to what your mother taught you, soap is not essential to survive. Our body can resist the bombardment of bacteria it receives every day quite efficiently. Just as well that we can't see them (for the idea is unpleasant) but with every breath of air, every bite we take, little bugs are unknowingly entering our body. And this shouldn't worry you in the least. As long as you keep the troublemakers — the real pathogens — out.
We couldn't live without bacteria
We house millions of bacteria on our skin and in our nose, mouth, and gut:
- up to 500 species can be found as normal oral flora5
- there can easily be 25 species living in a single mouth
- a milliliter of saliva can contain as many as 40 million (4 x 107) bacterial cells6
- 108 bacterial cells present in the cecum (the initial part of the colon) per milliliter of content is normal and many of these species are different from those found in the mouth7
Strictly speaking, the inside of our mouth, stomach and intestines are part of our outer surfaces. Although they are inside our body, their surfaces are in direct contact with the outside world, and as food particles pass the mucosal inner lining of our intestines, hitchhiking bacteria can stay there and multiply. We are born sterile (free of bacteria) but within hours we are colonized by our little friends, not to be left alone again.
Without bacteria we would not survive. They help us digest our food, produce vitamins, and occupy niches that would otherwise be available for competing pathogens. This competitive effect becomes apparent when we wipe out a large proportion of our intestinal flora, for instance by an antibiotic that is prescribed to treat a bacterial infection. Diarrhea is frequently the unwanted result, as 'foreign' bacteria take their chance to occupy the 'empty' niches. Healthy bacteria take over in time, so that in most cases the side effects of antibiotics are soon gone. Bacterial populations grow into a state of equilibrium until some external factor disturbs it again.
Certain bacteria are good for you
For centuries, people have eaten certain food deliberately for the bacteria it contains and have used bacteria in food preparation.
The best-known example is the consumption of yogurt and other fermented milk products, which have the combined effect of reducing spoilage, and enhancing tolerance for partially lactose-intolerant individuals.
A major industry has developed to produce bacterial preparations, in the form of powders, drinks, and dairy products; all sold as healthy and beneficial (and sometimes tasty) supplements. Although some of their promises are unrealistic (some products don't even contain viable bacteria), it is generally accepted that certain bacteria are beneficial, especially when intestinal flora is unbalanced (as with antibiotic-associated diarrhea). The most commonly used bacterial species as so-called probiotics are lactobacilli and bifidobacterium.8
A number of bacterial species are required for the preparation of food, and may or may not arrive on our plate alive.9 Notably, many cheese varieties are dependent on their characteristic bacterial starter culture. Fermenting bacteria are required to produce sausages and sauerkraut; they even help cacao and coffee beans to attain their desired flavor.10
Earth: the planet of bacteria
In a gram of soil, approximately 108 bacteria are present11 and these are estimated to represent over 10,000 species. Interestingly, there are more than 1030 bacteria on earth, compared with fewer than 1010 humans.12
- Bacteria were the first living organisms found on Earth.
- They inhabit deserts, ice caps, oceans and hot springs.
- The number of bacterial species worldwide is estimated to be more than a thousand million.11 Their individual sizes may be insignificant, but their number and diversity is unimaginably large.
- Bacteria contribute substantially to the total biomass in marine environments.13 And, since oceans cover 70% of our planet's surface, bacteria make up a significant part of the total biomass on Earth.
These facts are truly impressive for organisms so small that they are invisible to the eye. It is to our advantage to look at bacteria as more than just pathogens.
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I think this season is improving as it goes. Last night's eliminations were spot on necessary. I believe that the consistent Top 3 will end up being our Final 3.
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I really like this team. The Globetrotters do a lot of good work and these two seem to have good spirits so far.
Perhaps they had to have the Globetrotters permission to do this? If so, the org may have preferred they use their Globetrotter names.
Who would have thought that two of the Harlem Globetrotters would make it this far on The Amazing Race and have so much fun doing it?! Catch all their adventures Sundays at 8pm on CBS!
They are called GLOBE Trotters afterall And Happy Belated Birthday to Flight Time
Will Flight Time leap from 'The Amazing Race' to 'DWTS'?December 2, 2009 | 1:03 pm He may not have won the $1 million, but could "Amazing Race" also-ran Herbert "Flight Time" Lang be redirecting his competitive sights to a shiny Mirrorball trophy instead? Allyssa Leehttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/12/will-flight-time-leap-from-the-amazing-race-to-dwts.html
Herb was very enthusiastic about the possibility of DWTS when we spoke in NYC. What do y'all think? Like the idea??
ABC owns part of TAR...not sure I see a conflict.
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Moth Emerges
A moth puffs out it's wings, having just emerged from pupating. Woodgate, Qld.
Blue Forester Moth
Blue metallic moth rests on a gum leaf. Woodgate, Qld.
Tiger Moth
Tiger moth feeds on nectar from a lemon myrtle flower. Kyogle, NSW.
Beach Moth
Brown and white moth quite common near the beach. Woodgate, Qld.
Cup Moth Caterpillar
Anaxidia lozogramma feeding on the leaf of a macadamia tree. Kyogle, NSW.
Cup Moth Closeup
The amazing detail and colour of a Anaxidia lozogramma cup moth caterpillar. Kyogle, NSW.
Orchard Swallowtail Caterpillar
It's too early to wake up! Says Orchard Swallowtail Caterpillar. I'm cold and wet! It's not easy being green! Kyogle, NSW.
Moth with Moss
Well camouflaged moth on a tree trunk. Cania Gorge, Qld.
Picture Winged Moth
Portrait of a Picture-winged Moth (poss. Banisia placida). Cow Bay, Qld.
Crazy Camo Looper II
Crazy little camo looper has been munching on this plant. Kyogle, NSW.
Crazy Camo Looper
Tiny looper caterpillar uses some crazy debris for camo. Kyogle, NSW.
Cup Moth Caterpillar Shedding Skin
Cup moth caterpillar (Doratifera vulnerans) shrugs off her old skin for a new phase of growth. Oxley Creek, Qld.
Cup Moth Caterpillar Moult
Cup moth caterpillar (Doratifera vulnerans) inches out of her old skin. Oxley Creek, Qld.
A moulting cup moth caterpillar (Doratifera vulnerans) consumes its old skin. Oxley Creek, Qld.
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The Mountain West: Gamblin' on VegasPosted: October 31, 2012 Filed under: Mountain West | Tags: Colorado State, Jamaal Franklin, Leonard Washington, Mike Moser, Mountain West Conference, San Diego State, UNLV, Wyoming Leave a comment
All things considered from the preseason, it's going to be a two-team race in the Mountain West Conference.
San Diego State and UNLV had players who were awarded preseason player of the year (Jamaal Franklin, SDSU), newcomer of the year (Dwyane Polee II, SDSU; Bryce DeJean-Jones, UNLV), freshman of the year (Anthony Bennett, UNLV) and put three of the five on the all-conference team.
So there we have it, right? Nah, it's a bit deeper than that.
Early on, it's a totally reasonable thought to think it's just two four-letter schools have a shot, but taking a look, this could turn into a three-team affair.
UNLV– Dave Rice just has this team ready. A great leader in Mike Moser. Quality transfers in Bryce DeJean-Jones and Khem Birch. Role players who have been in the system like Quintrell Thomas and Justin Hawkins. A serious freshman haul in Anthony Bennett and Savon Goodman. It's all coming together on The Strip.
San Diego State – Jamaal Franklin makes this team go. But don't sleep on guys like shooter Chase Tapley, who poured in 15.8 points per game in 2011-12 and hit 43.3-percent from three-point range. Xavier Thames returns and his 10.1 points per game returns as well. Dwyane Polee II makes his debut after coming over from St. John's.
New Mexico – No one is talking about this team. It might come back to bite some people later on down the road. Kendall Williams paces the Lobos and coach Steve Alford. Hugh Greenwood provides depth at the guard spot. In the post, a thin line is anchored by 7-footer Alex Kirk and Tony Snell. Someone is going to have to provide more depth there.
Nevada – The Wolf Pack (yep, two words) will go as far as Deonte Burton will take them. Burton was a preseason all-conference member after averaging 14.8 points last season. Nevada also gets back 6-5 Malik Story and his 14.1 ppg from last season. Someone will have to replace Olek Czyz down low, along with Dario Hunt's 10.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per. That might be a job for Kevin Panzer.
Colorado State – Larry Eustachy goes from a program that he could be mediocre with and keep his job, to the same kind of team in a bigger, better conference. Fortunately for the Rams, Eustachy doesn't do mediocre. He resurrected his own career along with the program at Southern Miss. Now he takes a solid roster left by Time Miles and can go as far as he will take them. I do, however, have questions about the contrast in playing styles from last season to this one.
The Rest
Fresno State
Boise State
Air Force
Mike Moser, UNLV – He's by far the best player in the league with Drew Gordon gone. Moser can score (14.7 points) and rebound (10.5 boards) and can get his teammates involved (80 assists). He also led the Rebels with 68 steals last season. He's a stat stuffer and should be a first round NBA pick after this season, barring something catastrophic.
Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State – Another recent product of coach Steve Fisher's uptempo system. He could've come out after last season, maybe, and taken his chances in the NBA Draft. He averaged 17.4 points and 7.9 rebounds last season, taking complete control of the team after the graduation of Kwahi Leonard.
Kendall Williams, New Mexico – Probably the best distributor in the MWC. He led the team with 142 assists (4.1 per game) and a lot of that last season was to one or two guys. This season, he's got a more wide-open system with more free-flowing offensive structure. He should lead the conference in assists and add on to his 12.1 points per game.
Leonard Washington, Wyoming – If he wasn't so good at getting in trouble, Washington would get more love. I don't overlook guys like Washington. The former USC transfer averaged 12.9 points and 6.1 boards for the Cowboys in 2011-12, but was recently suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules. He also led the MWC in blocks at 1.1 per game. He was brought back and the all-MWC second team pick can have the first-team all-conference season he's capable of if he can keep his nose clean.
Colton Iverson, Colorado State – This guy is a total wild card, but I love his game. He's a fifth-year senior with this being his only season with the Rams, but he averaged 5.4 points and 5.0 rebounds in the Big Ten (ok, I just want to call it B1G) last season at Minnesota, so I think the 6-10, 261-pounder can do some damage in the Mountain West. I can see an 11-and-10 season from him, enough to give him the nod. Though no one ever accused me of being smart.
New Mexico – In my writings on the Lobos, I got bombarded by fans of the program that I was foolish to think the team wouldn't compete with the league's elite. They have a point. The Lobos have guard depth to spare with Williams and his 12.4 points per game at the point and Hugh Greenwood's 83 assists last season. Jamal Fenton comes back after a three-game suspension in late November. The only problem might be post depth. With Drew Gordon gone, Tony Snell (10.5 ppg) and company will need to step up.
Colorado State – Tim Miles did what not many before him could do: make a football school with limited resources in basketball, relevant. Larry Eustachy taking over gives the Rams great coach to work with, but his and Miles' styles (rhymes!) are totally different. Miles loves to slow it down, Eustachy loves to shoot and run. Miles thrived on defense, and while Eustachy definitely doesn't poo-poo the defensive side of the ball, he puts more emphasis on scoring (Southern Miss gave up and average of 65.1 points per game, 111th in Division I last season, while scoring 71.4, 89th in the nation).
Mike Moser, UNLV – The former UCLA transfer gets his year. He took a few people by surprise with 14.0 points and 10.5 rebounds last season, but he's possibly the best wing in the nation and could be spending his final season in college. A 17-and-12 season from him certainly isn't out of the question.
Dave Rice, UNLV – Lon Kruger left a decent nucleus for the former UNLV role player to work with, but Rice has done a phenomenal job with this team. They're the favorite to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament, and with good reason. Expect a lot from this squad now and in the future. Mike Moser, one of the most important transfers in Khem Birch who gets eligible at the semester break, not to mention Bryce DeJean-Jones, this team has been pieced together methodically, and Rice has done it in a way that would make Tark proud.


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People Without Homes, Homes Without People
Three years ago at the first US Social Forum in Atlanta, residents of cities around the country met and found they shared a common goal: Make sure that city life stays accessible to everyone. They formed the Right to the City Alliance, a coalition uniting urban rights groups to allies in their own cities and across the country, from Los Angeles to Boston to New Orleans. The members share the belief that urban dwellers not only have the right not to be priced out of their communities, but to help shape and design them.
The New York City groups who came together, many of whose members were grappling with homelessness, life in shelters or on public assistance, and the loss of affordable housing options, were particularly energized.
"At that point, I didn't know what gentrification was," said Nova Strachan, a member of Mothers on the Move, part of the Right to the City-NYC alliance, who was living in public housing at the time. "Then they tried to privatize my building, and I found out quick."
The struggle hasn't gotten easier in the last three years. Just this month, due to budget cuts, thousands of New York families will lose their Section 8 housing vouchers, sending many of them onto the streets or into the city's overburdened shelter system. Meanwhile, housing prices (not to mention the median income numbers used to determine what's considered affordable housing) are going up.
For the people who attended Right to the City-NYC's workshop at this year's Social Forum—many of them low-income New Yorkers active with Picture the Homeless, Mothers on the Move, and other member organizations of Right to the City—gentrification isn't an abstract idea, but a direct threat to their neighborhoods and their ability to stay in them.
"How do you know when gentrification is coming?" asked Diego Quiñones, an organizer in Harlem with Community Voices Heard, one of Right to the City's member organizations. "What does it look like?"
The answers were forceful: More police harassment. Suddenly, you need a permit to barbecue, to use public parks, or to hold a street party; sometimes you can't get a permit at all. Neighborhood names get changed: Alphabet City becomes the East Village, Spanish Harlem turns into SpaHa. "You can't even stand in front of your property without the police coming by," said one participant. "Bike lanes!" shouted another. "We asked for bike lanes for many, many years—now suddenly we're getting some."
But there's one sign that stands out, clear evidence you're in danger of getting priced out of your neighborhood: the arrival of luxury condos, some of them built where affordable housing units used to be.
Following the financial crash, the condos got harder to sell and became especially noticeable: new buildings with enormous price tags standing empty in low-income neighborhoods. It was, said Rogers of Picture the Homeless, an "ugly image of people without homes and homes without people."
And so, when Right to the City sat down to prioritize its first projects (following a year spent in community dialogues crafting an in-depth policy platform, which calls for recognition of the rights to community decision-making power; quality, low-income housing; federal stimulus funds; jobs; public space; environmental justice and public health), condos were key.
In the most comprehensive count of its kind, 150 residents and advocates walked the City's streets and combed its records, producing a report detailing just how many luxury condos were sitting empty in a city with record homelessness and an affordable housing crisis.
In six low-income neighborhoods, they found 4,092 empty housing units, offered for an average price of $2 million, some of which had been on the market for years. Collectively, the buildings were $3.8 million delinquent in back taxes.
Members of Right to the City are now meeting with the City Council and other City departments about what to do with the information they've gathered. "We surprised City officials," said Quiñones. "They didn't expect us to be so organized."
Right to the City is now pushing for New York City to acquire the delinquent buildings through tax foreclosure so that they can become permanent affordable housing for low-income New Yorkers (a pilot project of 400 converted units began in 2009); they're also proposing that tax breaks for condo developers be suspended. Civil disobedience in the form of condo takeovers and squatting is also under consideration, Quiñones said.
"I am nervous. I am afraid. But I'll be damned if I sit down and let them take my city just like that," said DeBoRh Dickerson, part of Picture the Homeless. "We've got a voice in this."
Right to the City is also supporting Housing Not Warehousing—a bill before the City Council, now with 28-cosponsors, which would require the City to officially replicate their count of vacant properties every year—and lobbying for "affordable housing" to be calculated according to local, neighborhood income rather than median income for the area, which is skewed by affluent residents of Manhattan and Westchester County.
"This is part of the move towards human needs and away from the profit motive," said Rogers. "It's why we need the Social Forum. It's bold, but this is the place to make bold statements."


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OLYMPIA, WA -- Yoga studios in the state of Washington will not have to charge customers a sales tax, according to the state's Department of Revenue.
The owner of a yoga studio in Federal Way, WA, was audited earlier this year and was told that she owed about $20,000 worth of back taxes over the past three years, according to a Seattle Times report. Suzy Green-Cindrich, owner of Three Trees Yoga, as well as other yoga instructors in the Seattle area protested the audit.
A provision in the state law says that physical fitness services are subject to a sales tax, thus creating confusion. However, state Department of Revenue rules said that yoga studios that are primarily instructional do not have to charge a tax, but they do if the studios are run for exercise purposes, according to the report.
The backlash from the yoga studios caused the agency to reverse its course.
"We kind of left it up to the provider to determine what they're doing. Some of them said, 'We're instructional,' and some of them said, 'We're just exercise,'" Mike Gowrylow, a spokesman for the agency, told the newspaper. "We decided the yoga people had made a very good case that yoga, and similar kinds of things, are not really what most people think of as physical fitness."
Yoga studios that had been collecting a sales tax will discontinue that on Dec. 1, and none of the studios will be asked to pay back taxes. The department, however, plans to define what the state considers to be a yoga studio, according to the newspaper. This is an attempt to prevent fitness clubs from having to avoid charging a sales tax simply by labeling an exercise routine as yoga, Gowrylow told the newspaper.


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Running mate revealed: Green Party running mate, that is
(CBS News) On the day before the Green Party's presidential nominating convention, presidential candidate Jill Stein revealed her running mate to CBS News exclusively: homeless activist Cheri Honkala.
"She leads one of the country's largest multiracial, intergenerational movements led by people in poverty, fighting poverty, homelessness and foreclosures," Stein told CBS news. Honkala, a mother of two, and the national coordinator for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, spent some of her days homeless. She ran for sheriff of Philadelphia on the Green Party line in 2011 and based her campaign on a platform of halting evictions.
Stein, who defeated comedian Roseanne Barr for the Green Party's nod, will be officially nominated at the party's national convention in Baltimore, which begins Thursday. Stein, a physician, is from Massachusetts and has launched two unsuccessful bids for governor there, including against Mitt Romney in 2002.
Stein spoke to CBS News this week in advance of her nomination:
What do you think about the president's plan to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 per year?
Stein: That's a good thing. I think, well, partly a good thing. I think our tax structure is extremely unbalanced and our middle class and working families are generally overtaxed. If the president is set to reduce taxes below $250,000, that's good up to a point but there's so much more that can be done. If we really want to correct the severe inequities in the tax structure, we need to tax capital gains as income, we need to put a tax on Wall Street transactions not only to generate hundreds of billions of dollars, but also to reduce the speculation that has been so reckless and harmful to our economy.
As a physician, what is your response to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the president's health care bill?
Stein: It's very problematic. I think the Supreme Court's decision destroys the most useful part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - that is the Medicaid extension. We have a track record here. We don't have to just guess what he impact of the ACA will be. We already have it in Massachusetts, where I live. We've already had it for five years. It has not been a solution. The cost of health care continues to skyrocket.
On the other hand we have a real track record of what does work. It's called national health insurance, Medicare for all. We actually achieve health and we do it in a way that provides health care to everyone at less than half the cost per person. We know that under Medicare for all, we would be saving trillions of dollars over the next decade because it eliminates the wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and it stabilizes medical inflation. This is the way to go.
You have a "Green New Deal" to employ "every American willing and able to work." Is this your economic plan? And how do you plan to do it?
Stein: By using our tax dollars instead of to provide a stimulus package that's predominately tax breaks for corporations, instead we use a comparable amount of money and put it into the direct creation of jobs. And again, this is not a hypothetical idea. It's based on a plan that helped markedly to get us out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. This would not be a cookie cutter, top-down Washington-controlled program. Rather it would be nationally funded but locally controlled where by communities decide what kinds of jobs they need to become sustainable. It would create jobs in what we think of as the Green economy, but it would also create jobs meeting our social needs - hiring back teaches, nurses, after-school care [providers], violence prevention.
You have a lot of proposals, including tuition-free education through college, Medicare for all, also known as Single Payer, how would you pay for it, since the country is already trillions in debt?
Stein: You need money to jump start this but these are investments that pay for themselves many times over. You jump start it by stopping the bleeding. We are squandering trillions of dollars on wars for oil that we don't need and don't make us more secure, on Wall Street and tax breaks for the wealthy. To look at, for example, the military budget, it's costing us about a trillion dollars a year according to several different sources, so by reducing military to about the size it was in the early 2000s before it doubled under [President] Bush, we could free up hundreds of billions of dollars a year that could go a long way to pay for these costs.
Add to that: Tax reforms that begin to ask the wealthy to contribute their fair share. Corporations used to contribute about 5 percent GDP, their contribution is now about 1 percent.
And by ceasing to support bail outs for Wall Street, we can also free up a lot of money. When you actually sit down and you do the ledger, the money that can be saved by these boon dongles squandering money actually saves us money.
Right now there is no exit strategy for the severe recession we are really in. Neither Romney nor Obama has the beginning of an idea of how we really fix this. All they are doing is talking about restoring it to the same old phony economy of high finance that has taken us over the edge to start with.
We are talking about transforming our economy so it actually works for people, for our communities and for our environment.
Comedian Roseanne Barr says she is still in the running, are you confident that you are the nominee and what do you think of Ms. Barr's candidacy?
Stein: I'm confident we have the nomination. We have over two-thirds of the delegates being appropriated. I am quite confident we have the nomination. I think more celebrities should do what Roseanne is doing. This is a good thing for celebrities to not only sit back in the comfort of their second homes, of their third homes, and to actually put themselves out there in trying to create a better world. I wish other people of great stature and wealth would do the same.
You launched two unsuccessful bids for the Massachusetts governor, including against Mitt Romney in 2002. Why the presidency?
Stein: Success is in the mind of the beholder. One way to measure success is winning the office. Another way to measure success is changing the dialogue. Right now we have a dialogue that is horribly misguided, a dialogue that is not only boring but attention repelling, to use the words of the New York Times to describe the Romney campaign. This race is not only about me. This race is about the American people, and the American people have indicated clearly over and over that they are not happy - not with the president, not with Congress, not with the Supreme Court, not with their jobs, not with their declining wages, not with the skyrocketing cost of health care and education and these endless wars for oil.
Right now the American people have not been given a lot of choices.
Why does the Green Party focus on national elections, such as the presidency, which has to be rebuilt every four years? Why not start to build a strong coalition at the local or state level?
Stein: It's very important in our view to do both. When you do have real social progress you have both a social movement on the ground and you have an independent political party to help articulate that social movement. As Fredrick Douglas famously said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand - it never has, it never will.' Our goal is to drive those demands forward into the broader political dialogue and thereby help leverage and strengthen that social movement.
Here in my state of Massachusetts, we have essentially used this model to build an opposition party. It's true we did not win the office but we sure shook things up. The ideas I was bringing into the elections really started to move things in a way that the establishment politics got pretty nervous about it. We think that's a good thing.


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UBS finalizes equity funding for PaineWebber merger.
UBS has completed the equity funding for its USD 11.8 billion (CHF 20.8 billion) merger with PaineWebber, with no further requirement to issue shares. The integration of PaineWebber has proceeded very smoothly and is now essentially complete: the final IT and operational changes will be implemented in early February.
As announced at the completion of the merger, UBS chose to make an initial issuance of 12 million new ordinary shares, and to re-issue 7 million shares held in Treasury. The remaining 21.6 million ordinary shares needed for the merger were borrowed in the market.
Through its Treasury share buy-back program, which started on 6 November 2000, UBS has now repaid all the borrowed shares. No further new shares will be issued in connection with the PaineWebber merger. UBS has met its commitment to minimize the dilution of earnings and voting power, by keeping the final number of new UBS shares issued as small as possible.
As at 24 January 2001, UBS had purchased 22.1 million shares through the buy-back program, at an average price of CHF 262. The program will continue for the time being. Any further shares repurchased under the program will not be cancelled, but will be used for Treasury management purposes, principally to fund the Group's various employee share ownership plans. In order to ensure maximum transparency and clarity for investors, UBS will continue to publish the amount of Treasury shares repurchased every ten business days. Details can be found on the Investor Relations website at www.ubs.com/investor-relations.
UBS is and intends to remain one of the best-capitalized financial institutions in the world. UBS will, however, continue to avoid the build-up of excess capital, through selectively investing in its own shares. Any shares bought for capital reduction purposes would be repurchased under a separately announced, "second-line" buy-back program aimed at institutional investors, allowing tax efficient cancellation of the shares.
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Autonomy Founder Sets Up Web Site
There's not much there that has been heard before, but Lynch is evidently hunkering down for a long fight
By: Maureen O'Gara
Dec. 6, 2012 08:45 AM
Autonomy's aggrieved co-founder Mike Lynch, who's smarting under HP's stinging accusations of fraud in connection with its overpriced $11.1 billion acquisition of his company, has set up a web site at autonomyaccounts.org to tout his claims about the mess and hit back at HP.
Lynch, who maintains the problems all come from HP mishandling the acquisition, says, "The site provides relevant information pertaining to the accusations made by Hewlett-Packard (HP) on 20 November 2012 of financial impropriety at Autonomy. The former management team of Autonomy strongly rejects the accusations made by HP...This site is designed to be a public point of contact for Dr Mike Lynch and other former managers at Autonomy with the wider world. It will contain information about Autonomy and any public statements made on behalf of the former management team related to these issues. The Autonomy team are committed to providing clear and transparent information during this process, and would like to see the issue resolved as quickly as possible."
There's not much there that has been heard before, but Lynch is evidently hunkering down for a long fight.
HP last month took an $8.8 billion write-off on account of Autonomy and CEO Meg Whitman blamed "serious accounting irregularities." She said the results of an HP investigation, started when an Autonomy whistleblower informed, were turned over to regulators in the US and UK. The FBI has also been called in.
When Lynch sent HP an open letter last week challenging HP to detail its accusations, HP retorted that "We look forward to hearing Dr. Lynch and other former Autonomy employees answer questions under penalty of perjury."
She also said "We remain 100% committed to Autonomy's industry- leading technology and its employees." At its Discover conference, this week HP released new Autonomy software. It also updated its Vertica Analytics Platform.
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Guo DaLus mouth gaped so wide his chin almost fell off and said: What......what did you say?.
Yan Qi: I said Ma Yi..
Guo DaLu: Ma Yi?.......
He suddenly laughed until he was bent over and panted for breath: If youre even afraid of an ant, you must be very couragous..
Yan Qi sighed and shook his head: Looks like youve never mingled in the martial world, you unexpectedly dont even know what Ma Yi is..
Guo DaLu: Since I was three, Ive known what an ant was..
Yan Qi: What is it?.
Guo DaLu: It is very, very tiny. An insect that crawls all over the ground. Wang Dongs bed has quite a few, I can catch some for you to look at any time..
Yan Qi: Im not talking about that kind of Ma Yi, Im talking about a person..
Guo DaLu paused: A person? An ant is a person?.
Yan Qi: Its four people. These four people are the Ant Lords, they also have many ants under their command..
Guo DaLu: Oh?.
Yan Qi: These four people, one is called Golden Ant, one is called Silver Ant, one is called Red Ant, one is called White Ant..
Guo DaLu couldnt help laughing: If theres already a red ant and a white ant, then there really needs to be a black ant..
Yan Qi: There used to be one, but now hes already dead..
Guo DaLu blinked his eyes and said: Since theyre obviously men, why are they called Ants?.
Yan Qi: Many people have nicknames..
Guo DaLu: Even if one adopts a nickname, he should choose a more prestigious name, such as Winged Tiger or Golden-Maned Lion or almost any other name will do, why pick a tiny ant?.
Yan Qi: Because they are very short, all of them are dwarves..
The more Guo DaLu listened, the more ridiculous it sounded, and he couldnt help laughing again: Whats so scary about dwarves?.
Yan Qi: Not only are these dwarves scary, they are extremely frightening, Im afraid there are not many in this world who are more fearful than them..
Guo DaLu: Oh? Could it be that their skills are very great?.
Yan Qi: Each of them has a very special kung fu, even E Mei Sects number one fighter died at their hands..
Guo DaLu: Since they are this fearful, why do you still go bothering them?.
Yan Qi sighed and said: Because recently Ive become poor, and ran afoul of some bad luck, in the past half month Ive lost fifteen games, I had to sell the soles of my boots and take the money to pay off some of my gambling debts.......
Guo DaLu cried out: What? You said you sold the soles of your boots to repay gambling debts?.
Yan Qi: Thats right..
Guo DaLu: How much do you owe?.
Yan Qi: Around seven or eight thousand liang..
Guo DaLu: How much did you sell your boot soles for?.
Yan Qi: The two boot soles together got me 1300 liang..
The more he spoke, the less sense he made. Guo DaLu still wanted to listen to what more he had to say, so he stifled his laughter and said: Then that still leaves 6700 liang..
Yan Qi: Its precisely because of this, that I needed to take advantage of others..
Guo DaLu: Since you are a robber, why didnt you go steal it?.
Yan Qi: Do you think a robber like myself would go steal from just anyone?.
Guo DaLu: You were still picky?.
Yan Qi: Not only picky, but selective to the extreme. If one is not a corrupt official, I would not steal from him. If one is not a shady merchant, I would also not steal from him. If one is not a robber, I also would not steal from him. I will not steal if the target is not right, or if the location is not right..
Guo DaLu: So a robber like you would steal from other robbers?.
Yan Qi: Thats right, this is called black eating black..
Guo DaLu: Therefore, you decided to go take advantage of those Ants..
Yan Qi: Thats right, I happened to know they did some big transactions during those several days, so I went and asked to borrow 10000 liang.".
Guo DaLu: Did they agree to this?.
Yan Qi: Agreed to, yes, but there was a condition..
Guo DaLu: What kind of condition?.
Yan Qi: They wanted me to sleep in a coffin, and be buried underground for two days to see if I would eventually die or not..
Guo DaLu: But youve done this sort of thing before..
Yan Qi: Although Ive done it before, it was still not something Id enjoy tasting again..
Guo DaLu: Therefore you did not agree..
Yan Qi: I agreed, because any debt can be owed, but a gambling debt cannot be owed..
Guo DaLu: You promised them but didnt follow through, is that why they are chasing you?.
Yan Qi: Thats absolutely correct..
Guo DaLu: What is your name?.
Yan Qi: Yan Qi..
Guo DaLu: You have six brothers and sisters [*Qi means seven]?.
Yan Qi: No..
Guo DaLu: Since you arent the seventh child, why are you called Yan Qi?.
Yan Qi: Because I have already died seven times..
Guo DaLu: If you die one more time, then would you need to be called Yan Ba [*Ba means eight obviously]?.
Yan Qi laughed: Yan Qi is a good name, I dont want to change it anymore..
Guo DaLu suddenly doubled over, laughing loudly, laughing so hard tears came out of his eyes, and pointed at Yan Qi saying: Youre not a weirdo, youre the King of B.S. in every sense of the term..
Yan Qi: You dont believe what Im saying?.
Guo DaLu: Not a single word, even a three year old child wouldn't believe what youre saying..
Yan Qi sighed: I originally didnt plan on speaking the truth, Ive always known that it was much easier to make people believe lies than the truth..
Guo DaLu laughed: If you were speaking the truth, I would crawl on the ground and.......
Suddenly someone said: Then crawl..
This voice was sharp and high pitched, although not loud it caused ones earlobes to ring.
Guo DaLu lifted his head, and saw a person.
The person was standing on the window sill, but still wasnt as tall as the window.
On his body was a set of glistening golden clothes, if his face didnt have a beard and the corners of his eyes didnt have wrinkles, anyone would think that he was a five or six year old child.
Guo DaLu paused for a moment, and then exhaled slowly: So youre Golden Ant?.
Golden Ant said: Thats right, therefore I can testify that everything he said was true and not a single word false..
Guo DaLu sighed again and said with a bitter smile: Since Golden Ant has arrived, where is Silver Ant?.
Before the sentence was finished, another person appeared on the window. Although this person was a bit taller than Golden Ant, at most he was only taller by two or three inches.
On his body was a set of sparkling silver clothes, his face was wearing a silver mask that looked like some kind of terrifying spirit creature.
Even Guo DaLu felt a bit creeped out, and muttered: I guess Red Ant will be wearing red clothes..
Only to hear someone laugh seductively: You guessed right..
The laughter was very charming, no matter who you were you dont get to hear such a nice sounding laugh very often. As soon as you hear this laughter, youd imagine that the person laughing must be very attractive.
Red Ant was really very attractive.
A dwarfs body wouldnt normally be very symmetrical, but she was an exception.
She was wearing skin tight red clothes, the areas that should be slender were not thick, the areas that should be fat were not thin. She had a nice oval face, her eyebrows were like wispy distant mountains, her eyes like clear spring water, and her smile was sweet.
Guo DaLu couldnt help looking at her.
That pair of spring water eyes were also staring at Guo DaLu and she laughed charmingly: Those eyes of yours dont look very honest..
Guo DaLu sighed: I am originally not an honest person, from head to toe there isnt an honest spot..
Red Ant laughed: Haha, could it be that youre a pervert?.
Guo DaLu: Not entirely accurate but close, its only a pity.......
The smile on Red Ants face suddenly disappeared: Only a pity what?.
Guo DaLu: Its only a pity I cant shrink myself, otherwise I wouldnt mind becoming a Yellow Ant..
Red Ant bit her lips, the corners again revealing a sweet smile: You dare to flirt with me, your courage is really not small, arent you afraid my husband will be jealous?.
Guo DaLu: Who is your husband? White Ant? ......I hear white ants can fly..
Red Ant laughed tenderly: Youve guessed correctly again, youre really talented..
The laughter sounded like silver chimes, and in the midst of it something flew in from outside the window..
This thing wouldn't seem like a person in anyones eyes, lightly whirling around like a piece of fluffy cloud or a piece of white snowflake. Lightly floating about and then flying up and suddenly whooshing right by the top of Guo DaLus head.
Guo DaLu only sensed something cold near the top of his head, if he hadnt evaded quickly, his head would probably have been the thing that was moved.
With another whooshing sound, that thing flew by again.
Of course this couldnt be a person, a person wouldnt have this kind of fearsome hing gung.
But it actually was a person, a person wearing snow white clothes, the sleeves were wide and long like a pair of wings, he was thin and short, no taller than three and a half feet, no wider than a foot, if you were to place him on a scale he wouldnt be much heavier than a rabbit.
If one werent this type of person, how would one be able to learn this kind of hing gung?
Guo DaLu sighed again and muttered: The White Ant actually is able to fly..
Yan Qi said: White Ants hing gung is number one in the world, Red Ants entire body is filled with hidden weapons, Golden Ant can break fists and swords, Silver Ant cannot be penetrated by sabres or spears. I already said earlier, each of them has a very special kung fu, and now, you should finally believe me..


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ike Davis became the first player to hit grand slams for different teams in the same April, and Neil Walker had a winning run single with two outs in the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates twice overcame deficits to beat the Reds 6-5 Monday night.
Pittsburgh trailed 2-0 before Davis' fourth-inning homer off Mike Leake. Davis hit a game-winning, ninth-inning slam off the Reds' J.J. Hoover on April 5 for the New York Mets, who traded him to the Pirates on Friday.
According to STATS, no player previously hit slams for different teams in the same April. Davis became just the third to hit slams for different teams against the same opponent in the same year, following Ray Boone in 1953 and Mike Piazza in 1998.
The Pirates were behind 5-4 before Andrew McCutchen's leadoff homer in the eighth against Manny Parra.
Walker got the winning hit off Hoover (1-2) after consecutive one-out walks to Russell Martin and Andrew McCutchen followed by Pedro Alvarez's popout.
Jared Hughes (1-0) pitched a scoreless, two-hit ninth for the win after being recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier in the day.
Cincinnati had taken a 5-4 lead in the eighth when Brandon Phillips and Todd Frazier singled off Francisco Liriano, Jay Bruce hit an RBI double against Justin Wilson and, after an intentional walk to Ryan Ludwick, Devin Mesoraco hit a run-scoring single.
McCutchen and Walker each had three hits for the Pirates, while Mesoraco, Phillps and Frazier had three hits each for Cincinnati. Mesoraco has a hit in all 10 games he's played this season and is batting .541.
Liriano gave up five runs — four earned — and seven hits in seven-plus innings. Leake allowed eight hits in seven innings.
Cincinnati went ahead in the first when speedy rookie Billy Hamilton was hit on a foot by a pitch, advanced to third
on Joey Votto's soft tapper back to the mound and scored when he beat the throw home on Phillips' grounder to Alvarez at third.
Phillips and Bruce hit consecutive doubles in the third, and Hamilton's sacrifice fly in the seventh pulled the Reds to 4-3.
NOTES: Boone, playing for Cleveland and Detroit, hit slams against the St. Louis Browns in 1953. Piazza, playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets, hit slams against Arizona. … Pirates LHP Wandy Rodriguez was placed on the 15-day DL with right knee tendinitis, opening a roster spot for Hughes. … Reds LHP Aroldis Chapman is tentatively scheduled to throw batting practice Wednesday, the first time he will face hitters since sustaining facial fractures March 19 when he was hit by a line drive during a spring training game. The closer had a 45-pitch bullpen session Sunday. … Pirates SS Jordy Mercer was limited to pinch-hitting duty for a third straight day because of soreness in his right ankle. … Pirates OF Travis Snider had a bruised right eye but passed concussion tests Monday, a day after being punched by Brewers C Martin Maldonado during a rawl. … Cincinnati RHP Johnny Cueto (1-2, 1.50) faces Pittsburgh RHP Edinson Volquez (1-0, 1.71) on Tuesday night.


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