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PORT CHARLOTTE — The Rays opened spring training five weeks — or was it five months? — ago with their team essentially intact and only a handful of questions, and the good news from their perspective is that with opening day now (finally!) only 14 days away, that really hasn't changed.
Injuries have been minor. Issues insignificant. Inconsistent performances by a couple of key players, such as starter Matt Moore, seemingly not much of a concern. Positional experiments have gone fine. Attitudes have been positive, work good. The World Baseball Classic hasn't been too disruptive, though with closer Fernando Rodney still pitching and catcher Jose Molina not playing much.
So, really, there's not much for Rays officials to sort out between now and April 2.
"You could almost say 90 percent looks as you would think, as you would expect," manager Joe Maddon said Sunday.
So here's a look at some issues still to be decided:
Fifth starter
The decision between incumbent right-handers Jeff Niemann and free-agent signee Roberto Hernandez (the former Fausto Carmona) is the biggest and most difficult remaining, and most impactful because it affects other players.
Both have pitched relatively well this spring, with similar numbers:
G ERA IP H BB K Avg.
Niemann5 2.13 12.2 11 3 9 .234
Hernandez5 3.60 15 13 5 12 .236
Injuries have been an issue — and there is a sense will continue to be — with Niemann, who was shut down at the end of last season with shoulder inflammation (after coming back from a broken leg). This spring he has thrown with no restrictions and said he feels healthy, though slightly diminished velocity in his last outing raised some questions.
Though Hernandez, who missed most of last season as a result of his identity fraud arrest, has not had good results with Cleveland since an impressive 2007 campaign (33-48, 5.01 from 2008-11), the potential to work 200 innings appeals to the Rays, especially without James Shields in the rotation.
Essentially, it could come down to quality vs. quantity.
"Figuring out how to set up our rotation is probably the biggest decision we have,'' executive vice president Andrew Friedman said Monday. "It's a really good problem to have with two really capable, good, quality major-league starters. We'll continue to debate it and talk through what puts us in the best position to win games.''
Whoever doesn't make the rotation could end up in the bullpen, though neither seems like a comfortable fit, and that would keep them from keeping a more versatile reliever. That makes a trade seem more likely, and though both make around $3 million, Niemamn, 30, probably would be the one to go. The Rockies have already been mentioned as a possibility.
Five of the seven spots are set, assuming Kyle Farnsworth is indeed as healthy as he says, and Rodney's arm is still attached after his heavy WBC usage. Others in are Joel Peralta and lefties Jake McGee and Cesar Ramos. The sixth slot seems set aside for veteran Jamey Wright, who has had a decent spring.
That leaves one spot for either the Niemann/Hernandez loser, or for Brandon Gomes, who has drawn Maddon's raves with a dazzling spring, allowing only two hits and no walks in seven shutout innings over six appearances. Gomes, however, does have options, so he can be sent to the minors.
Backup catcher
In short, Chris Gimenez has played better, is more versatile and seems more deserving of the job, but Jose Lobaton — who is out of options and thus could be lost on waivers if sent down — is probably going to get it because the Rays can't afford to lose him. Gimenez is hitting .355 (11-for-31) with an .898 on-base plus slugging, Lobaton .160 (4-for-25) with a .401 OPS.
That could change if the Rays acquired a more experienced catcher to stash at Triple A, or found a better backup to pair with Molina, though that's tough, especially with other teams looking, too.
Extra outfielder
Sam Fuld has the job and is supposed to be recovered from right hamstring tightness in time to be ready. But if not, and he were to need a short-term DL stint, calling up Brandon Guyer, who can play all three spots and is on the 40-man roster, probably makes the most sense. Stephen Vogt and Gimenez would be other possibilities (with Sean Rodriguez filling in in center if needed), along with non-roster options such as Shelley Duncan and Mike Fontenot.
Batting order
Maddon insists the only thing set is that Desmond Jennings will lead off, and that Evan Longoria will hit third or fourth. His primary concern is putting one or two high on-base percentage guys ahead of Longoria (such as Ben Zobrist) but to also have someone hitting behind Longoria who offers some protection (such as, well, Ben Zobrist), and then not to stack too many lefties — Matt Joyce, Luke Scott, James Loney, Kelly Johnson — the rest of the way. It will be a tougher puzzle to sort out against left-handed starters.
Though the top four starters are set up to be David Price, Jeremy Hellickson, Moore and Alex Cobb (who has had the best spring), Maddon has suggested several times they may not pitch in that order. The concern seems to be starting Hellickson and Moore back-to-back since both have had issues working deep into games, which could put a dangerous strain on the bullpen to cover too much on consecutive days. If Hernandez is in the rotation, he could end up between them.
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Is it too late to raise a cry against the confusion in our entitlement culture between the withholding of a benefit and the deprivation of a right? Probably.
This decision is dead on arrival. It is in line with recent intermediate appellate court opinions where they impudently attempt to take leftward iterations off the high court's rightward iterations, and end up in a place where the high court can only slap them down, not so much for the leftward tack, as for simply being seduced by the parties into a quantum jungle of nano-sensibilities. Looking at the list of attorneys, it's not hard to see how the court got lost, with 36 voices clanging in their ear. After hacking through the rain forest, the sense of relief, upon reaching the "clearing" of Judge Aldisert's dissent, was palpable.
One interesting technical point. The court eschews the presumption that a statute is constitutional and shifts the burden to the government to establish constitutionality of the statute. I was a little suspicious how it got there, especially when the standard of proof can ultimately be dispositive. In fn 8, the court opines "although a duly enacted statute normally carries with it a presumption of constitutionality, when a [statute] allegedly infringes on the exercise of [F]irst [A]mendment rights, the statute's proponent bears the burden of establishing [its] constitutionality." ACORN v. City of Frontenac, 714 F.2d 813, 817 (8th Cir.1983) (citing Org. for a Better Austin v. Keefe, 402 U.S. 415, 419, 91 S.Ct. 1575, 29 L.Ed.2d 1 (1971)) This is a correct statement from ACORN.
However, ACORN took some liberty with Keefe. The statement in the cited Keefe case was actually limited to prior restraints on speech: "Any prior restraint on expression comes to this Court with a 'heavy presumption' against its constitutional validity. Carroll v. President and Commissioners of Prinecess Anne, 393 U.S. 175, 181, 89 S.Ct. 347, 351, 21 L.Ed.2d 325 (1968); Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58, 70, 83 S.Ct. 631, 639, 9 L.Ed.2d 584 (1963). Respondent thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint." So, in other words, the court applied to a fuzzy claim of "expressive association," a standard appropriate to more serious claims of prior restraint.
Putting the burden on the government is quite telling. In the balancing of interest section, the court cavalierly dismisses the government's interest in recruiting military lawyers. The court, believing they know better than the government, suggests that the Solomon Amendment may actually impede recruitment by generating ill will toward the military (maybe the ill will was already there?). The court also makes much of the fact the government offered no evidence that requiring schools to provide a forum enhanced recruitment efforts. Why would the government do it if it didn't? How could it not? I was left with a suspicion that the majority shared the anti-military animus of the plaintiffs.


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A checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Polokwane Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Susan M. DippenaarI; Ansie S. Dippenaar-SchoemanII; Mokgadi A. ModibaI; Thembile T. KhozaI
IDepartment of Biodiversity - School of Molecular & Life Sciences - University of Limpopo - South Africa
IIARC-Plant Protection Research Institute - South Africa
As part of the South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA), spiders were collected from all the field layers in the Polokwane Nature Reserve (Limpopo Province, South Africa) over a period of a year (20052006) using four collecting methods. Six habitat types were sampled: Acacia tortillis open savanna; A. rehmanniana woodland, false grassland, riverine and sweet thorn thicket, granite outcrop; and Aloe marlothii thicket. A total of 13 821 spiders were collected (using sweep netting, tree beating, active searching and pitfall trapping) represented by 39 families, 156 determined genera and 275 species. The most diverse families are the Thomisidae (42 spp.), Araneidae (39 spp.) and Salticidae (29 spp.). A total of 84 spp. (30.5%) were web builders and 191 spp. (69.5%) wanderers. In the Polokwane Nature Reserve, 13.75% of South African species are presently protected.
Keywords: Arachnida, Araneae, diversity, habitats, conservation
In the early 1990s, South Africa was recognised, in terrestrial terms, as a biologically very rich country and even identified as the world's 'hottest hotspot' (Myers 1990). After the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, South Africa ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995 with the main goal to develop a strategic plan for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. One of the national efforts identified as necessary to accomplish the goal was to discover, describe and to make an inventory of the species of South Africa. As a result of this, the South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) was established in 1997 with the aim to develop an inventory of the arachnofauna of South Africa (Dippenaar-Schoeman & Craemer 2000). Arachnids are well represented in South Africa, with nine of the twelve arachnid orders occurring here. However, even though they constitute an abundant and successful group, they are still poorly sampled with little existing knowledge about their diversity and distribution within certain ecoregions.
South Africa has a very rich spider fauna represented by 69 families, 469 genera and about 2 000 species that occur in all of the ecoregions of South Africa (Dippenaar-Schoeman 2002a). Unfortunately, the lack of taxonomic expertise makes it impossible to identify some spider families to species and even generic levels, which could lead to under-appreciation and estimation of the actual species pool and undermines meaningful conservation. As part of SANSA, this study addressed specifically the objective to compile species lists within the Savanna Biome, starting with checklists of the conserved areas where conservation strategies are already in place.
The Savanna Biome is one of the world's major biomes and covers about one third of South Africa (Low & Rebelo 1996). It is especially well developed in the Kalahari, parts of Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape. Savanna is characterised by a grassy ground layer and a distinct upper layer of woody plants that can be identified as shrubveld, woodland or bushveld. The delimiting factor is complex for the Savanna Biome and includes mainly rainfall (235 to 1 000 mm per year) and/or frost (0120 days/year). Reports on the spiders of the Savanna Biome in South Africa are restricted to that of Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 1989), Makalali Game Reserve (Whitmore et al. 2001, 2002), Western Soutpansberg (Foord et al. 2002), Kruger National Park (Dippenaar-Schoeman & Leroy 2003), Sovenga Hill (Modiba et al. 2005) and Ndumo Game Reserve (Haddad et al. 2006).
This is the second survey of arachnids from the Polokwane region, Limpopo Province. The study was undertaken in the Polokwane Nature Reserve (PNR) which lies in the Savanna Biome, and is situated in the Central Bushveld Bioregion, specifically the Polokwane Plateau Bushveld vegetation unit (Mucina et al. 2005, Mucina & Rutherford 2006). A significant portion of the reserve includes a unique and threatened habitat type known as the Pietersburg Plateau False Grassland. The reserve was given conservation status and was proclaimed as a municipal reserve after officially being opened in 1971. Currently the reserve conserves one of the largest pristine examples of this habitat type, along with its associated plant and animal species.
As part of the MSc studies of the third and fourth authors, spiders were sampled from six habitat types over a period of a year using four collecting methods, sampling all the field layers. This paper is the first in a series of papers on the reserve and provides only an annotated checklist for the spiders of the reserve. Detailed information about the abundance and species richness of spiders collected from different habitat types, during different seasons and using different sampling methods will be published in succeeding papers.
The Polokwane Nature Reserve (23º58'S 29º28'E) covers an area of approximately 3 200 ha and lies on an elevated plateau with an altitude ranging between 1 200 and 1 500 m above sea level. The climate is moderate with mean summer day-time high of 28 ºC and a mean winter night-time low of 5 ºC. The average annual rainfall for the area is 478 mm. The Polokwane Plateau Bushveld vegetation unit is characterised by open Themeda grassland with scattered Acacia trees and bush clumps. The dominant trees are Acacia tortillis (Forssk.) Hayne and A. rehmanniana Schinz. Other interesting plant communities and habitats in the reserve include riverine and sweet thorn thickets, granite outcrops, quartzite pebble slopes, saline patches and a mountain aloe, Aloe marlothii A. Berger thicket situated on a shale outcrop (Grosel pers. comm.).
Six different habitat types were selected subjectively to represent most of the habitat diversity in the reserve and included: 1. Acacia tortillis open savanna, 2. A. rehmanniana woodland, 3. false grassland, 4. riverine and sweet thorn thicket, 5. a northern slope granite outcrop, and 6. Aloe marlothii thicket on shale outcrop.
Four collecting methods were used, namely grass sweep netting, tree beating, active searching and pitfall trapping. Leaf litter sifting was attempted once on the A. rehmanniana woodland site but was discontinued because of insufficient leaf litter. Sampling was conducted once a month in each of the six habitat types for a duration of 12 months (March 2005 to February 2006).
Pitfall trapping: Containers with a 10 cm diameter were planted with the upper rim level with the ground surface and covered by a funnel leading to a smaller container filled with 70% EtoH to immobilise and preserve caught specimens. Ten traps, 10 m apart, were planted per habitat site, consisting of a central trap with three arms in three different directions, each arm consisting of three traps. The traps were checked every day during the week of sampling per site. The pitfall traps were open for five consecutive days, resulting in 60 trap days per site and therefore 360 trap days for all sampling sites during the sampling period of one year. This resulted in a total of 3 600 pitfall trap samples taken during the study.
Sweep netting: A sweep net with a diameter of 31 cm was used to sample through grass and herbs. Sweeping was conducted once a month for two hours at each site, while walking from the central pitfall trap throughout the sampling site. Collected material was gathered into marked plastic bags and sorted in the laboratory.
Tree beating: Trees and shrubs were beaten with a 0.21 kg baton to dislodge specimens which were caught on a sheet and collected in plastic bags. Bigger trees received up to 20 beatings while smaller trees and shrubs received fewer beatings. This method was applied once a month for two hours at each site. Collected material was sorted in the laboratory.
Active searching was undertaken once a month for two hours at each site. The area covered was from the central pitfall trap working outwards and covered the whole sampling site. Specimens were searched and collected from all field layers.
Collected spiders were fixed and preserved in 70% EtoH and identified up to family level using the African spider family keys (Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué 1997) while genus and species determinations were done by the second author. Voucher specimens were deposited in the National Collection of Arachnida (NCA) at the Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria, an institute of the Agricultural Research Council.
Two main guilds can be distinguished among spiders, namely wanderers and web builders. The wanderers can be further divided into plant wanderers (PW) and ground wanderers (GW). Plant wanderers were separated and placed in a guild based on the vegetation type that they were most commonly found on, namely plant wanderers found on foliage (PWF), plant wanderers found on grass (PWG) and plant wanderers found on bark (PWB) while ground wanderers may be free living or burrow dwelling (BD). The web-building spiders can also be subdivided into different guilds based on the structure of the webs that they build: sheet-web builders (SWB), spaceweb builders (SPWB), orb-web builders (oWB), funnel-web builders (FWB), retreat-web builders (RWB), tube-web builders (TWB) and gumfoot-web builders (GWB).
A total of 13 821 spiders were caught during the sampling period, representing 39 families, 156 determined genera and 275 species (see Table 1). The 39 families represent 56.5% of the currently recognised families for South Africa (Dippenaar- Schoeman & Jocqué 1997). The representation and numbers caught (irrespective of other factors such as length of sampling period, size of sampling area etc.) compare favourably with other surveys undertaken in the Savanna Biome. In the Makalali Private Game Reserve, 4 832 spiders were caught over a year represented by 38 families and 268 species (Whitmore et al. 2001); at Lajuma in the Western Soutpansberg 127 species were caught that represented 46 families (Foord et al. 2002); on Sovenga Hill in the Polokwane district 793 spiders were caught representing 29 families and 76 species (Modiba et al. 2005). In the Kruger National Park, 152 species from 40 families were recorded (Dippenaar-Schoeman & Leroy 2003). The survey of the Ndumo Game Reserve reported the highest spider diversity from any protected area in South Africa so far with 46 families and 431 species (Haddad et al. 2006).
The most diverse families collected at the PNR were the Thomisidae (42 spp.), representing 15.3% of the total number of species sampled, followed by the Araneidae (39 spp.; 14.2%) and the Salticidae (29 spp.; 10.5%) (see Table 1). Sixteen families were represented by a single species only. At Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve and Lajuma, the Thomisidae were also the most diverse with 25 and 15 species respectively, while at Ndumu Nature Reserve, the Salticidae were the most diverse with 82 species. The total spider diversity (275 spp.) represents 13.75% of the species of South African spiders (2 000 spp.), presently protected in the Polokwane Nature Reserve.
The vast majority of the spiders (191 spp.) collected were wanderers (69.5%), with web builders (84 spp.) contributing 30.5% (see Table 2). This follows the reported pattern for species of the Savanna Biome. At Ndumo Game Reserve, 75.9% were wanderers, with web builders contributing 24.1% of the species (Haddad et al. 2006). At Makalali Private Game Reserve, the most abundant spiders collected were also wanderers (59%), with web builders contributing 41% (Whitmore et al. 2002), while on Sovenga Hill, 64.9% of species were wanderers while the web builders only contributed 35.1% (Modiba et al. 2005). Similar results were found in the Western Soutpansberg with 64% of collected species being wanderers and 36% web builders (Foord et al. 2002).
Most of the Mygalomorphae spiders are protected due to the pet trade and it is important that species are protected in reserves. According to Dippenaar-Schoeman (2002b), there are 14 species of Mygalomorphae occurring in the Limpopo Province. Only one of the previously recorded species (i.e. Augacephalus junodi (Simon, 1904)) was encountered during the study period. However, eight additional mygalomorph species (see Table 3) have been collected: Ancylotrypa brevipalpis (Hewitt, 1916), Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904, Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913, Segregara monticola (Hewitt, 1916), Hermacha mazoena Hewitt, 1915, Idiops sp., Harpactira sp. and Harpactirella sp. All of the above-mentioned species are burrow dwelling. These species are all new geographical records for the province.
Considering the duration of the current study (one year) and the large number of specimens caught (13 821), it may be expected that the study provides a good representation of families occurring in the Polokwane Nature Reserve and that an extension of the study will probably increase the number of genera and species, but will probably not increase the number of families significantly. All the reported families and species are new geographical records for the Polokwane Nature Reserve.
The large number of species (97) that could not be identified emphasises the taxonomic impediment of invertebrates in South Africa. During this study, nine possible new species were collected, and several genera were collected in South Africa for the first time. Additionally, the study provided new information on the distribution of all species concerned and provides material that can be used in future taxonomic work. This highlights the important contribution that the SANSA initiative makes to a better knowledge of the diversity of arachnids in South Africa, especially in conserved areas.
We thank the NRF (Thuthuka programme) and the University of Limpopo (Research Development and Administration) for financial aid that supported this work; the Polokwane Municipality for allowing the study on their property; the Rotary Club (Polokwane) for allowing two of the authors to stay at the Education Centre for the duration of field work and for supplying additional accommodation together with Wood Worx; Die Drift Instant Lawn for sponsorship of a bicycle trailer and Saloojee Cycle Works for discount on bicycle repairs. Additionally we thank the University of Limpopo for provision of facilities and equipment; Ms B.P. Jordaan (Department of Biodiversity) for spending a lot of time assisting and organising to accommodate our needs in order to successfully complete the study; Ms A. van den Berg (ARC Plant Protection Research Institute) for her assistance with the family identification of specimens; and Mr C. Haddad (University of the Free State) for the identification of the Corinnidae specimens.
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2002a. Status of South African Arachnida fauna. Proceedings of the symposium on the status of South African species organised by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) of South Africa. Rosebank. 4 - 7 September 2002. [ Links ]
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Rahm Emanuel, once President Obama's chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago, told corporate executives in 2008, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
That quote has been used to criticize Emanuel, but it's often certainly been true for this democracy. When something is merely a big problem, action can be delayed even if that delay causes great harm in the future. A crisis, however, demands a response. The country didn't get involved in World War II until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it didn't really get serious about the space race until the Russians took the lead.
Human nature is like that, too.
Today, the United States has a number of big problems that aren't yet immediate crises, including the, ahem, little unpleasant fact that the government continues to spend far more than it collects. This past week, the Obama administration announced that the fiscal year 2013 deficit will be $759 billion. Meanwhile, the national debt – what's been accumulating since 1835, the last time the government didn't owe anybody anything – is now $16.7 trillion, or $53,000 for every American man, woman and child.
The national debt is what we owe; deficits are what we add each year to what we owe.
This $759 billion deficit is being treated in many quarters as good news because it's the smallest one-year deficit in the past five years, when $1 trillion became the norm. At 4.7 percent of the gross domestic product, it's also much smaller as a percentage of the economy than 2009's deficit, which was 10.1 percent of GDP.
The smaller deficit is mostly a result of the improving economy, and clearly, adding trillions of dollars to our children's credit card bills was a stimulus in the short term.
Congress also cut spending through the sequester and raised some taxes, or at least allowed them to be raised. That happened because elected officials recognized that the $1 trillion annual deficits were unsustainable, and the economy had recovered enough that the country could try to deal with them.
However, the deficits were only a big problem, not a crisis, so Congress tried to manufacture one by giving itself a deadline to act. Remember the fiscal cliff? Unfortunately, a fake crisis wasn't enough to do the job. Congress simply nibbled around the edges of the problem instead of taking the big steps that would make it go away:
— Reforming Social Security and Medicare.
— Reducing the size of the military.
— And changing the tax code so that it generates more tax revenue while spurring economic growth.
Here's another thing about human nature: It has a funny way of comparing things. There was a time when $759 billion would have seemed like a big problem, almost a crisis. But now that we've gotten used to $1 trillion, a number like $759 billion seems like good news. The pressure to act, temporarily, is gone. And now that we've gotten used to $1 trillion, how much will it take for that pressure to return?
Clearly, an improving economy is a good thing. People need jobs and paychecks right now, so we shouldn't be Eeyore the donkey saying things are worse when for many, they're better.
Neither should we be Tigger the tiger, hopping around because this year's deficit is "only" $759 billion. That's $2,400 in new debt for every American man, woman and child.
So it's looking like it's going to take a crisis – a real one, not a fake one – to fix the debt. Unless attitudes change (and maybe human nature, too), Americans will pretend the problem doesn't exist until the country suffers the fiscal equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
That would be a shame, because even Eeyore and Tigger could agree that preventing a crisis is a lot more pleasant than responding to one.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner.


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Because of a flurry of trade activity earlier in the day that featured three teams and 11 players changing addresses, the Toronto Blue Jays faced the Orioles Wednesday night with just a 22-man roster and without three regular members of their bullpen.
But in reality, the only guy that they really needed was on the mound, and aside from one inning, talented left-hander Ricky Romero didn't give the Orioles much of a chance.
A night after their best offensive output of the season, the Orioles were held to just four hits by Romero, who pitched 8 1/3 shutout innings in a 3-0 win over the Orioles in front of an announced 16,861 at Rogers Centre.
"That's baseball," said Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, trying to explain how a team looks so dangerous offensively one night, and so overmatched the next. "The guy pitched his butt off on the mound. We could have had him early, but we let him off the hook. When you do that against good pitchers and they get in a groove, it's tough to battle back the rest of the game."
The Orioles (41-59) did bring the tying run to the plate with one out in the ninth inning, but Blue Jays closer Jon Rauch, who entered after Romero hit Derrek Lee with a pitch, retired Matt Wieters on a first-pitch lineout, and then Mark Reynolds on a flyout to end the game.
The Orioles went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and stranded seven runners in getting shutout for the fourth time this season, three of them coming over their past 14 games. They've also scored just three runs during Alfredo Simon's past four starts.
"I still thought that if it stayed at three, we'd make a run at them," said Orioles manager Buck Showalter. "We brought the tying run to the plate and Mark just missed that last ball. But little things add up."
The little things that Showalter spoke of included Simon allowing two more two-out runs over his five uneven innings, the Orioles not scoring despite having men on first and second and nobody out in the second, and Lee failing to score from third on a Romero pitch that got past Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia and went straight to the backstop.
Instead of immediately reacting and heading home, Lee got a late break and then froze before returning to third. The run would have tied the game at one in the second inning and certainly made a comeback more plausible with Simon and three relievers (Chris Jakubauskas, Troy Patton and Kevin Gregg) keeping the Orioles' deficit at three runs.
"It was a tough read down there, one you'd like to see him make," Showalter said.
Losing in Toronto for the 22nd time in the past 25 tries, the Orioles will get one more chance to break a seven-series winless streak and win their first series since June 24-26 in tonight's series finale. By then, the Blue Jays roster will be at full strength.
Striking four days before the trade deadline, the Blue Jays acquired talented outfielder Colby Rasmus and three pitchers from the St. Louis Cardinals for starter Edwin Jackson, relievers Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski, and former Orioles outfielder Corey Patterson. Jackson, the main piece heading to St. Louis, was acquired earlier in the day, along with infielder Mark Teahen, from the Chicago White Sox for reliever Jason Frasor and prospect Zach Stewart.
Dotel, Rzepczynski and Frasor were in the bullpen and Patterson started in left field a night earlier when the Orioles tallied season-highs in runs (12) and extra-base hits (eight).
The thought process was that if the Orioles could get to Romero early and get into Toronto's depleted bullpen, they would be in great shape. Even with Simon struggling early, allowing RBI singles to Jose Bautista and Eric Thames in the first and second innings and a homer to Arencibia in the fourth, the Orioles still had hope that could happen.
But Romero never allowed it to, getting a big double-play ball off the bat of Reynolds with runners on first and second and no outs in the second, and then retiring Blake Davis with runners on the corners and two outs after Lee failed to come home on the ball that got by Arencibia.
"He was pretty good," said Davis who was a former roommate and teammate of Romero's at Cal-State Fullerton. "He's coming at you with all his pitches and he battles. That's what he does. He works hard. That's why they're paying him what they're paying him."
Romero's pitch count was at 41 after two innings and 56 after three, but he got on a stretch where he retired 12 of the 14 hitters that he faced with the exception of Adam Jones' two-out double in the third and Jones' one-out single in the sixth. Vladimir Guerrero left him stranded both times, first with a groundout to shortstop and then with a double-play ball.
Romero, who threw 126 pitches, struck out nine, including five of the final nine hitters that he faced. Four of those strikeouts came against J.J. Hardy, who hit two homers and drove in four the previous night.
Romero is 5-1 in his past seven starts against the Orioles. In two starts against them at the Rogers Centre this season, Romero has allowed just one earned run, seven hits and seven walks while striking out 21 over 16 1/3 innings.
"He doesn't throw anything straight," Markakis said. "The ball cuts, it sinks. He puts it where he wants it. When you're doing that, you don't really need much off-speed. Even when it seemed to be over the plate, it was either cutting or sinking. Off a guy like that who is throwing 90 to 94, it makes it tough."


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In a joint interview on CNBC, Gates and Buffett said proposals to possibly limit or cap charitable deductions would not have changed their own giving. The charitable deduction's impact has become a flashpoint in Washington as President Barack Obama and some Democrats have proposed limiting deductions for high earners.
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Jason Giambi's at-bat, the most critical of Friday's game, was bittersweet for Rockies' manager Jim Tracy. Nothing matters more than winning right now. But he's human. And lifting all-star Brad Hawpe, a left-handed hitter, for Giambi, a left-handed hitter, was agonizing. He talked about the decision today.
"For me I realized I had to do what was best for the individual and the group. That's part of being in this position, making the difficult decisions," Tracy said. "Let's face it, Brad has been struggling some with the bat. We weren't going to do it for Ian Stewart and Yorvit (Torrealba). When you respect Hawpe as a player as much as I do, it's hard."
Hawpe has struggled since the All-Star break. He set a record for strikeouts in a month in August. And he has lost his power. Tracy said he didn't expect Hawpe to be happy with the move. But he hasn't given up on the right fielder. He's back in the lineup tonight, but dropped down to seventh in the order.
"I know he probably doesn't understand it, why I did it. But as I keep saying, he's one swing away from getting closer to figuring it out," Tracy said.
The Rockies are running out a similar lineup to the one used in Friday's dramatic 2-1 victory. The Braves won today, so the Rockies need a victory to remain 3-1/2 games ahead in the wild-card race.
Alan Embree threw well in extended spring training as did Manuel Corpas. Both will throw again early next week.
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Shawna Dempsey to Read "Bedtime Stories" in WAG Exhibition
Bedtime stories aren't just for kids! Certainly not when they are told by performance artist Shawna Dempsey as she reads from the very adult book Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The readings spin a tale of North American history as you've never imagined and will send you off to bed with new dreams. They will take place at 8:30 pm on Friday, November 2 and 16 and December 7 and are included with Gallery admission.
Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World was written by performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan as part of the WAG exhibition Winnipeg Now which features the work of 13 of Winnipeg's most creative artists.
"The stories were inspired by mythic notions of the North American 'frontier'—yarns and fables belonging to cowboys and Horatio Algers," says Dempsey. "But our interest was in the women of the 'New World.' So our tales follow pirate queens, inventrixes, sideshow performers, plucky spinsters, religious zealots, and office workers. Through them we are looking at ideas that shape North American's notion of itself and its dreams for the future."
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have collaborated on performances, films, videos, publications and public art projects since 1989. Their provocative, humorous, feminist performance art pieces have toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, and their art video and film works have been screened in venues ranging from women's centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. As WAG guest curators from 2006 to 2008, they curated three significant group exhibitions--Supernovas, In The Blink of An Eye, and Subconscious City. Performance artifacts, films, and videos by Dempsey and Millan are held in collections including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Regina Public Libraries, Planned Parenthood USA, American Indian Reservation Centre, and colleges and universities throughout North America.
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Gary A. Bartlett, 71, died peacefully at his home in Wichita on Monday, Aug. 27 . He was born June 18, 1941, in Wichita, Kan.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Alberta Bartlett, formerly of Marion; and by his brother, Donald E. Bartlett.
He is survived by his wife, Sheryl; daughter, Kelly Greene and husband, Danny, of Topeka; son, Bob Bartlett and wife, Kim, of Whitewater; and grandchildren, Meghann Boatright and husband, Clark; and Joel Greene, all of Topeka; Melissa Bartlett of Wichita; and Trent Bartlett of Whitewater.
Gary and Sheryl grew up in Florence and graduated from Florence High School. Gary was a barber in his early years and started working at Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita in 1963. In 1984, they moved from Florence to Wichita and Gary retired from Hawker Beechcraft in May of 2011.
Services were held at Downing & Lahey Mortuary East Chapel in Wichita at 2 p.m. on Aug. 31. Graveside services were held at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Florence at 2 p.m. on Sept. 1.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Archives.com So Far
I picked up one of the cards, and for the first couple of months I made a few forays onto the site to see what was there, but I did not try out all of the features. Several press releases came out about Archives.com hiring some well-known members of the genealogy community and about the addition of new material, so for the past couple of weeks I have been trying to check the site out a little more thoroughly.
It appears that the overall concept is to add and develop databases that are specific to Archives.com and to supplement this still-in-the early-stages-of-development resource by drawing on existing databases, both free (SSDI) and for-pay (some of the search results lead to Footnote.com, where you need a paid subscription to be able to access most of the document images). This is combined with the capability for building/adding your own family tree (Ancestry.com and many other sites have this), a for-fee service which you can use to request onsite county document searches by members of the Archives.com network, interaction with other members on the Archives.com message forums, and access to instructional materials under the "Learn" tab.
First, I did some searches using some of my own ancestors and some of my husband's ancestors who had less common names. Here are the results:
I noticed that I got different results from alternate spellings of one of the family names: D'Arco and Darco. This has the potential to be useful; on Ancestry.com, one spelling brings up hits for both spellings.
When I clicked to see the results under the category for immigration records, all the links took me to Footnote, where I have an account.
A search for Brinlees on Military Records pulled up mid-twentieth century enlistment records, but they were transcriptions/extracts, not actual images. Still, it was neat to see some information on my uncles' and distant cousins' military service.
The main "value-added" item for me seems to be that Archives.com has some newspapers that Genealogy Bank does not have (= I could not find them on Genealogy Bank when I checked their list of newspapers). The site claims to have images of 100 million pages from newspapers.
The hits under "Cemetery Listings" are not actual hits for an ancestor's name in a specific cemetery. Instead, the results give the SSDI information on the location where the last Social Security benefits were received, and uses that information to produce a list of cemeteries in that area.
Several times searches or clicking on a result produced an "Oops! An error has occurred" message, but trying again usually (not always) got me through to the database/information.
Other things I checked out:
Message forums: there are a lot of posts, but not many replies. I did a search for a family name, but mostly pulled up error messages.
The "On-Site County Court Records Search" tab has the following description: "Request an on-site county search for any court, criminal, or civil record in the United States. Simply fill in the information below to have someone from our network of court-runners do the job for you - saving you hundreds of dollars and countless hours." This could be useful, but there was no information on how extensive this network is, that is, whether or not they have all the counties and states covered, and what the level of expertise of their "court-runners" is.
My favorite feature was the "Learn" tab. I read several of the articles and will be checking out the videos. There were some familiar names of people whose expertise I respect, and I hope that the quality of offerings in this area is indicative of where Archives.com will be headed in the future.
Another thing I liked was the ability to set up "Ancestor Alerts" on the site.
I believe Archives.com has brought some people on board who can take Archives.com in the right directions, but right now that seems to be on paper only. At this point it is not worth it to me to pay for this service, as it does not do a significant amount more than the Ancestry-Footnote-Genealogy Bank combination does for me. But I will be keeping an eye on it.
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I have subscriptions at ancestry and footnote but haven't tried Genealogy Bank yet. Is it a "must have"?ReplyDelete
Debi - I don't know whether or not I would consider Genealogy Bank a "must have," but i have found a lot of information on some of my ancestors there. It might be worth giving it a try for a while - everything depends on whether they have newspapers in the right areas during the right time periods.ReplyDelete
I've found it useful for finding living people. So far, that's it.ReplyDelete
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You and I use the same subscription services.ReplyDelete
Genealogy Bank has almost no Arkansas papers, and the few it has are of limited years. So I use it mostly for other states.
And the Arkansas thing is really not the fault of any subscription service. Arkansas is hopelessly locked into the paper and microfilm thing in one of many bricks and mortar buildings. Apparently, we ain't gonna digitize our stuff, and we ain't gonna let anyone else do it either...
I had a similar experience on Archives.com as well. I'm not ready to jump into a subscription yet, but I think they are a company worth watching. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Carolina - I hadn't thought to try living people; perhaps I should check a couple in my database to see if they are still around.ReplyDelete
Dee - I am horrified to hear that about Arkansas; that's where a lot of my Norman relatives used to live and still do live. Ouch!
Lisa - Exactly - I'll keep watching, too, because I do think there is some promise there.


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Beauty Product Lead Capture Landing Page Design Templates for Beauty Product
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