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Agricultural Subsidies and the Environment
Heather Williams
Worldwide, governments subsidize agriculture at the rate of approximately 1 billion dollars per day. This figure rises to about twice that when export and biofuels production subsidies and state financing for dams and river basin engineering are included. These policies guide land use in numerous ways, including growers' choices of crop and buyers' demand for commodities. The three types of state subsidies that shape land use and the environment are land settlement programs, price and income supports, and energy and emissions initiatives. Together these subsidies have created perennial surpluses in global stores of cereal grains, cotton, and dairy, with production increases outstripping population growth. Subsidies to land settlement, to crop prices, and to processing and refining of cereals and fiber, therefore, can be shown to have independent and largely deleterious effect on soil fertility, fresh water supplies, biodiversity, and atmospheric carbon.
Changes in Land Use Influenced by Anthropogenic Activity
Zong-Liang Yang and Lang Wang
The terms "land cover" and "land use" are often used interchangeably, although they have different meanings. Land cover is the biophysical material at the surface of the Earth, whereas land use refers to how people use the land surface. Land use concerns the resources of the land, their products, and benefits, in addition to land management actions and activities. The history of changes in land use has passed through several major stages driven by developments in science and technology and demands for food, fiber, energy, and shelter.
Modern changes in land use have been increasingly affected by anthropogenic activities at a scale and magnitude that have not been seen. These changes in land use are largely driven by population growth, urban expansion, increasing demands for energy and food, changes in diets and lifestyles, and changing socioeconomic conditions. About 70% of the Earth's ice-free land surface has been altered by changes in land use, and these changes have had environmental impacts worldwide, ranging from effects on the composition of the Earth's atmosphere and climate to the extensive modification of terrestrial ecosystems, habitats, and biodiversity. A number of different methods have been developed give a thorough understanding of these changes in land use and the multiple effects and feedbacks involved. Earth system observations and models are examples of two crucial technologies, although there are considerable uncertainties in both techniques. Cross-disciplinary collaborations are highly desirable in future studies of land use and management. The goals of mitigating climate change and maintaining sustainability should always be considered before implementing any new land management strategies.
Christiane Runyan and Jeff Stehm
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Eight thousand years ago, forests covered an estimated 47% of Earth's land surface. In 2015, forests covered roughly 30% of the Earth's land surface, a cumulative loss over the last 8,000 years of approximately 2.2 billion hectares (ha). Between 1990 and 2015, forest losses occurred at the rate of about 0.13% annually, but this rate appears to be slowing. These losses mostly occur in tropical forests (58%), followed by boreal (27%) and temperate forests (8%). Deforestation is driven by a number of direct and indirect factors and processes that vary across regions and interact in complex ways. The primary driver of deforestation is agricultural expansion (both commercial and subsistence), followed by mining, infrastructure extension, and urban expansion. Indirectly, population and economic growth increase the demand for agricultural and timber products. Global food demand will increase 70% by 2050, requiring a net increase of 70 million ha of arable land under cultivation, with approximately 80% of this expansion occurring in the tropics. Deforestation is affected by other indirect factors such as land tenure uncertainties, poor governance, low capacity of public forestry agencies, and inadequate planning and monitoring. Forest loss has a number of environmental, economic, and social implications. Environmentally, forests provide an expansive range of benefits across local, regional, and global scales, including hydrological benefits (e.g., regulating water supply and river discharge), climate benefits (e.g., precipitation recycling, regulating local and global temperature, and indirectly, by taking up atmospheric CO2 during photosynthesis), biogeochemical benefits (e.g., enhancing nutrient availability and reducing nutrient losses), and by supporting greater biodiversity as well as ecosystem stability and resiliency, to name a few. The loss of forest vegetation may negatively affect important ecosystem processes and services, and may induce bistable ecosystem dynamics. The existence of bistable ecosystem dynamics in some forest ecosystems suggests that these forests are prone to abrupt and irreversible shifts to a stable and often degraded state with no trees. In addition to environmental impacts, the long-term loss of forest resources negatively affects societies. About 8% (450 million) of the world's population live in forest ecosystems, with an estimated 350 million people entirely dependent on forest ecosystems for their livelihoods. The forest sector, in 2011, contributed an estimated total amount of USD 600 billion to global GDP, or about 0.9% of global GDP. Understanding how to best manage forest resources to preserve their unique qualities is a challenge that will require an integrated and concentrated effort from scientists and policymakers alike. In particular, improving forest management will require being able to more accurately measure and monitor forest resources, identifying the trade-offs between competing objectives, valuing forest goods and services, and equitably balancing costs and benefits. On the policy front, approaches to strengthen land tenure and property rights, reduce corruption, improve the capacity of public agencies, and develop more inclusive governance arrangements are needed. Underlying these management and policy goals is the need to better understand the environmental processes occurring in forests—to improve their management, minimize adverse impacts, and strengthen our models of these systems, because the long-term loss of forest resources affects not only the functioning of ecosystems but also the societies whose health and livelihoods depend upon them.
Desalination Technology and Advancement
P.S. Goh, A.F. Ismail, and N. Hilal
Water scarcity as an outcome of global population expansion, climate change, and industrialization calls for new and innovative technologies to provide sustainable solutions to address this alarming issue. Seawater and brackish water are abundantly available on earth for drinking water and industrial use, and desalination is a promising approach to resolving this global challenge. Recently, the considerable reduction in the cost of desalination has contributed to the growing capacity for global desalination. The desalination technologies that have been deployed worldwide for clean water production can be categorized into two main types: membrane-based and thermal-based. Technological advancement in this field has focused on the reduction of capital and operating cost, particularly the energy consumption of the systems. Seawater and brackish desalination technologies are promising solutions for water shortages.
The Economics of Watershed Management
Brent M. Haddad
Watersheds are physical regions from which all arriving water flows to a single exit point. The shared hydrology means that other biophysical systems are linked, typically with upper-gradient regions influencing lower-gradient ones. This situation frames the challenge of managing economic and other uses of watersheds both in terms of individual activities and their influence on other connected processes and activities. Economics provides concepts and methods that help managers with decision making in the complex physical, biological, and institutional environment of a watershed. Among the important concepts and methods that help characterize watershed processes are externalities, impacts of economic activity that fall upon individuals not party to the activity, and third parties, individuals impacted without consent. Public goods and common pool resources describe categories of things or processes that by their nature are not amenable to regular market transactions. Their regulation requires special consideration and alternative approaches to markets. Benefit-cost analysis and valuation are related methods that provide a means to compare alternative uses of the same system. Each is based on the normative argument that the best use provides the greatest net benefits to society. And intergenerational equity is a value orientation that argues for preservation of watershed processes for the benefit of future generations. The need for effective watershed management methods pushed 20th-century economists to adapt their discipline to the complexity of watersheds, from which emerged subdisciplines of natural resource economics, environmental economics, and ecological economics. The field is still evolving with a growing interest in data gathering through land-based low-cost data collection systems and remote sensing, and in emerging data analysis techniques to improve management decisions.
Ecosystem Management of the Boreal Forest
Timo Kuuluvainen
Boreal countries are rich in forest resources, and for their area, they produce a disproportionally large share of the lumber, pulp, and paper bound for the global market. These countries have long-standing strong traditions in forestry education and institutions, as well as in timber-oriented forest management. However, global change, together with evolving societal values and demands, are challenging traditional forest management approaches. In particular, plantation-type management, where wood is harvested with short cutting cycles relative to the natural time span of stand development, has been criticized. Such management practices create landscapes composed of mosaics of young, even-aged, and structurally homogeneous stands, with scarcity of old trees and deadwood. In contrast, natural forest landscapes are characterized by the presence of old large trees, uneven-aged stand structures, abundant deadwood, and high overall structural diversity. The differences between managed and unmanaged forests result from the fundamental differences in the disturbance regimes of managed versus unmanaged forests. Declines in managed forest biodiversity and structural complexity, combined with rapidly changing climatic conditions, pose a risk to forest health, and hence, to the long-term maintenance of biodiversity and provisioning of important ecosystem goods and services. The application of ecosystem management in boreal forestry calls for a transition from plantation-type forestry toward more diversified management inspired by natural forest structure and dynamics.
Ecosystem Services
Leon C. Braat
The concept of ecosystem services considers the usefulness of nature for human society. The economic importance of nature was described and analyzed in the 18th century, but the term ecosystem services was introduced only in 1981. Since then it has spurred an increasing number of academic publications, international research projects, and policy studies. Now a subject of intense debate in the global scientific community, from the natural to social science domains, it is also used, developed, and customized in policy arenas and considered, if in a still somewhat skeptical and apprehensive way, in the "practice" domain—by nature management agencies, farmers, foresters, and corporate business. This process of bridging evident gaps between ecology and economics, and between nature conservation and economic development, has also been felt in the political arena, including in the United Nations and the European Union (which have placed it at the center of their nature conservation and sustainable use strategies).
The concept involves the utilitarian framing of those functions of nature that are used by humans and considered beneficial to society as economic and social services. In this light, for example, the disappearance of biodiversity directly affects ecosystem functions that underpin critical services for human well-being. More generally, the concept can be defined in this manner: Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems, in interaction with contributions from human society, to human well-being.
The concept underpins four major discussions: (1) Academic: the ecological versus the economic dimensions of the goods and services that flow from ecosystems to the human economy; the challenge of integrating concepts and models across this paradigmatic divide; (2) Social: the risks versus benefits of bringing the utilitarian argument into political debates about nature conservation (Are ecosystem services good or bad for biodiversity and vice versa?); (3) Policy and planning: how to value the benefits from natural capital and ecosystem services (Will this improve decision-making on topics ranging from poverty alleviation via subsidies to farmers to planning of grey with green infrastructure to combining economic growth with nature conservation?); and (4) Practice: Can revenue come from smart management and sustainable use of ecosystems? Are there markets to be discovered and can businesses be created? How do taxes figure in an ecosystem-based economy? The outcomes of these discussions will both help to shape policy and planning of economies at global, national, and regional scales and contribute to the long-term survival and well-being of humanity.
Giles Jackson and Megan Epler Wood
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Ecotourism is an evolving field that originated in the 1980s, when leading conservationists explored and wrote seminal papers on how tourism could contribute to the conservation of natural areas. Hector Ceballos Lascurain coined the first definition, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy all undertook research and documentation of the benefits and potential risks of ecotourism in the 1990s. The International Ecotourism Society, founded in 1990, brought together conservation organizations and businesses to create the first definition that was globally accepted in short form: Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people.
Small group tour operators flourished during the 1990s, bringing travelers to a growing number of natural areas worldwide, together with top guiding, high-caliber interpretation, and strong ethical contributions to local wellbeing. Many important micro, small, and medium sized enterprises were founded in high biodiversity regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and throughout the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean, offering life-changing experiences while helping build conservation economies and inspiring positive action.
In 2015, nature-based tourism was estimated to have an economic value worldwide of hundreds of billions of dollars annually in protected areas alone, driven by the growing need of a rapidly urbanizing world to experience and reconnect with wild nature. However, this growth has not resulted in growing budgets to safeguard and manage natural areas, which are increasingly under threat. Scientific concerns that poor business practices under the guise of ecotourism might irreversibly damage fragile natural areas have led the conservation community to de-emphasize ecotourism as a conservation tool in favor of business certification. But these efforts have reached only a small percentage of the corporate sector of the eight trillion dollar global tourism industry.
Although the net economic, social, and environmental contributions of ecotourism have not been fully accounted for, the research to date has confirmed the conservation value of ecotourism—among the first examples of social enterprise. One well-documented case is Wilderness Safaris, an $89 million company operating in 58 destinations in Southern Africa in 2015, which reinvests at least 5% of its gross profit (before taxation and depreciation) to help protect the natural assets and support local communities on which the business depends. This example suggests that ecotourism can yield benefits for the conservation of biodiversity and can benefit local communities on a large scale. To increase ecotourism's role in sustainable development, more businesses will need to scale up, and government management of tourism will require improved impact measurements, updated regulatory strategies, and effective policy mechanisms to garner a greater portion of tourism revenue.
The Global Groundwater Revolution
Jac van der Gun
Human behavior in relation to groundwater has remained relatively unchanged from ancient times until the early 20th century. Intercepting water from springs or exploiting shallow aquifers by means of wells or qanats was common practice worldwide, but only modest quantities of groundwater were abstracted. In general, the resource was taken for granted in absence of any knowledge regarding groundwater systems and their vulnerability. During the 20th century, however, an unprecedent change started spreading globally—a change so drastic that it could be called the Global Groundwater Revolution. It did not surface simultaneously everywhere but rather encroached into different regions as waves of change, with varied timing, depending on local conditions. This Global Groundwater Revolution has three main components: (1) rapid intensification of the exploitation of groundwater, (2) fundamentally changing views on groundwater, and (3) the emergence of integrated groundwater management and governance. These three components are mostly interdependent, although their emergence and development tend to be somewhat asynchronous. The Global Groundwater Revolution marks a radical historical change in the relation between human society and groundwater. It has taken benefits produced by groundwater to an unprecedented level, but their sustainability is assured only if there is good groundwater governance.
Interface Urban Forest Management in an Urbanizing Landscape
Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá and Sofia F. Franco
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Economic development, technological change, and urbanization are typically identified as important drivers of land use change. Yet, land use change entails important environmental and socioeconomic consequences, namely by affecting the processes and functions of ecosystems, and, therefore, the provision of their services.
Urbanization comprises residential, commercial, industrial, and highway-related development. At the edge of this built environment is the urban-wildland interface (UWI), which has been the focus of environmental policies in several parts of the world. The reason rests on the fact that urban development at the UWI is linked to significant environmental damages, including air and water pollution, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, increased runoff, and wildfire risk, among others. These effects can reduce biological diversity and, furthermore, some of the ecosystem services (ES) can be irreversibly lost.
Though forests located nearby urban areas are a small fraction of the forest cover, a better understanding of the extent to which UWI forest conversion affects local economies and environmental services can help policymakers harmonizing urban development and environmental preservation at the UWI, with positive impact on the welfare of local communities.
The main income from most forest holdings at the UWI depends on wood production. However, forests and forestry practices also contribute to climate change mitigation. Yet, the public good nature of most forest ES distorts the forest market price below its social value. As a result, as development pressure increases, it is expected that interface traditional timber management practices become a transitional use as conversion to other valuable land use, such as residential use, occurs in the future and, the UWI open space is undervalued. This, in turn, raises concern given the current increasing trend of forestland conversion at the UWI.
Moreover, the value of developable land held by a private forest owner derives both from the returns from the current use (timber production) and from the expected returns from future urban uses. Given that the decision to convert is conditional on the relative magnitude and timing of the returns of the two alternative uses, decision-making at the UWI must reflect the factors that influence both, that is, urban (e.g., residential rents and switching costs) and forestry-related factors (e.g., stumpage prices and regeneration costs), when considering the optimal rotation periods and conversion dates. Accounting for the urban influences on UWI forestland practices is thus very important, because a growing population and increasingly land consumptive development patterns will require more effective policies and programs to stem the tide of urban sprawl seen in several municipalities worldwide.
National Parks in Developed Countries
Leslie Richardson and Bruce Peacock
Economics plays an important role not only in the management of national parks in developed countries, but also in demonstrating the contribution of these areas to societal well-being. The beneficial effect of park tourism on jobs and economic activity in communities near these protected areas has at times been a factor in their establishment. These economic impacts continue to be highlighted as a way to demonstrate the benefit and return on investment of national parks to local economies. However, the economic values supported by national parks extend far beyond local economic benefits. Parks provide unique recreation opportunities, health benefits, preservation of wildlife and habitat, and a wide range of ecosystem services that the public assigns an economic value to. In addition, value is derived from the existence of national parks and their preservation for future generations. These nonmarket benefits can be difficult to quantify, but they are essential for understanding and communicating the economic importance of parks. Economic methods used to estimate these values have been refined and tested for nearly seven decades, and they have come a long way in helping to elucidate the extent of the nonmarket benefits of protected areas.
In many developed countries, national parks have regulations and policies that outline a framework for the consideration of economic values in decision-making contexts. For instance, large oil spills in the United States, such as the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 and the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010, highlighted the need to better understand public values for affected park resources, leading to the extensive use of nonmarket values in natural resource damage assessments. Of course, rules and enforcement issues vary widely across countries, and the potential for economics to inform the day-to-day operations of national parks is much broader than what is currently outlined in such policies. While economics is only one piece of the puzzle in managing national parks, it provides a valuable tool for evaluating resource tradeoffs and for incorporating public preferences into the decision-making process, leading to greater transparency and assurance that national parks are managed for the benefit of society. Understanding the full extent of the economic benefits supported by national parks helps to further the mission of these protected areas in developed countries.
Politics of Water Flows: Water Supply, Sanitation, and Drainage
Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero
Since the late 20th century, water and sanitation management has been deeply influenced by ideas from economics, specifically by the doctrine of neoliberalism. The resulting set of policy trends are usually referred to as market environmentalism, which in broad terms encourages specific types of water reforms aiming to employ markets as allocation mechanisms, establish private-property rights and full-cost pricing, reduce (or remove) subsidies, and promote private sector management to reduce government interference and avoid the politicization of water and sanitation management. Market environmentalism sees water as a resource that should be efficiently managed through economic reforms.
Instead of seeing water as an external resource to be managed, alternative approaches like political ecology see water as a socio-nature. This means that water is studied as a historical-geographical process in which society and nature are inseparable, mutually produced, and transformable. Political ecological analyses understand processes of environmental change as deeply interrelated to socioeconomic dynamics. They also emphasize the impact of environmental dynamics on social relations and take seriously the question of how the physical properties of water may be sources of unpredictability, unruliness, and resistance from human intentions. As an alternative to the hydrologic cycle, political ecology proposes the concept of hydrosocial cycle, which emphasizes that water is deeply political and social. An analysis of the politics of water flows, drawing from political ecology explores the different relationships and histories reflected in access to (and exclusion from) water supply, sanitation, and drainage. It portrays how power inequalities are at the heart of differentiated levels of access to infrastructure.
Rethinking Conflict over Water
Scott M. Moore
It has long been accepted that non-renewable natural resources like oil and gas are often the subject of conflict between both nation-states and social groups. But since the end of the Cold War, the idea that renewable resources like water and timber might also be a cause of conflict has steadily gained credence. This is particularly true in the case of water: in the early 1990s, a senior World Bank official famously predicted that "the wars of the next century will be fought over water," while two years ago Indian strategist Brahma Chellaney made a splash in North America by claiming that water would be "Asia's New Battleground." But it has not quite turned out that way. The world has, so far, avoided inter-state conflict over water in the 21st century, but it has witnessed many localized conflicts, some involving considerable violence. As population growth, economic development, and climate change place growing strains on the world's fresh water supplies, the relationship between resource scarcity, institutions, and conflict has become a topic of vocal debate among social and environmental scientists.
The idea that water scarcity leads to conflict is rooted in three common assertions. The first of these arguments is that, around the world, once-plentiful renewable resources like fresh water, timber, and even soils are under increasing pressure, and are therefore likely to stoke conflict among increasing numbers of people who seek to utilize dwindling supplies. A second, and often corollary, argument holds that water's unique value to human life and well-being—namely that there are no substitutes for water, as there are for most other critical natural resources—makes it uniquely conductive to conflict. Finally, a third presumption behind the water wars hypothesis stems from the fact that many water bodies, and nearly all large river basins, are shared between multiple countries. When an upstream country can harm its downstream neighbor by diverting or controlling flows of water, the argument goes, conflict is likely to ensue.
But each of these assertions depends on making assumptions about how people react to water scarcity, the means they have at their disposal to adapt to it, and the circumstances under which they are apt to cooperate rather than to engage in conflict. Untangling these complex relationships promises a more refined understanding of whether and how water scarcity might lead to conflict in the 21st century—and how cooperation can be encouraged instead.
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Management
James B. London
Coastal zone management (CZM) has evolved since the enactment of the U.S. Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, which was the first comprehensive program of its type. The newer iteration of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), as applied to the European Union (2000, 2002), establishes priorities and a comprehensive strategy framework. While coastal management was established in large part to address issues of both development and resource protection in the coastal zone, conditions have changed. Accelerated rates of sea level rise (SLR) as well as continued rapid development along the coasts have increased vulnerability. The article examines changing conditions over time and the role of CZM and ICZM in addressing increased climate related vulnerabilities along the coast.
The article argues that effective adaptation strategies will require a sound information base and an institutional framework that appropriately addresses the risk of development in the coastal zone. The information base has improved through recent advances in technology and geospatial data quality. Critical for decision-makers will be sound information to identify vulnerabilities, formulate options, and assess the viability of a set of adaptation alternatives. The institutional framework must include the political will to act decisively and send the right signals to encourage responsible development patterns. At the same time, as communities are likely to bear higher costs for adaptation, it is important that they are given appropriate tools to effectively weigh alternatives, including the cost avoidance associated with corrective action. Adaptation strategies must be pro-active and anticipatory. Failure to act strategically will be fiscally irresponsible.
Urban Landscapes and Green Infrastructure
Stephan Pauleit, Rieke Hansen, Emily Lorance Rall, Teresa Zölch, Erik Andersson, Ana Catarina Luz, Luca Szaraz, Ivan Tosics, and Kati Vierikko
Urban green infrastructure (GI) has been promoted as an approach to respond to major urban environmental and social challenges such as reducing the ecological footprint, improving human health and well-being, and adapting to climate change. Various definitions of GI have been proposed since its emergence more than two decades ago. This article aims to provide an overview of the concept of GI as a strategic planning approach that is based on certain principles.
A variety of green space types exist in urban areas, including remnants of natural areas, farmland on the fringe, designed green spaces, and derelict land where successional vegetation has established itself. These green spaces, and especially components such as trees, can cover significant proportions of urban areas. However, their uneven distribution raises issues of social and environmental justice. Moreover, the diverse range of public, institutional, and private landowners of urban green spaces poses particular challenges to GI planning. Urban GI planning must consider processes of urban change, especially pressures on green spaces from urban sprawl and infill development, while derelict land may offer opportunities for creating new, biodiverse green spaces within densely built areas.
Based on ample evidence from the research literature, it is suggested that urban GI planning can make a major contribution to conserving and enhancing biodiversity, improving environmental quality and reducing the ecological footprint, adapting cities to climate change, and promoting social cohesion. In addition, GI planning may support the shift toward a green economy.
The benefits derived from urban green spaces via the provision of ecosystem services are key to meeting these challenges. The text argues that urban GI planning should build on seven principles to unlock its full potential. Four of these are treated in more detail: green-gray integration, multifunctionality, connectivity, and socially inclusive planning. Considering these principles in concert is what makes GI planning a distinct planning approach. Results from a major European research project indicate that the principles of urban GI planning have been applied to different degrees. In particular, green-gray integration and approaches to socially inclusive planning offer scope for further improvement
In conclusion, urban GI is considered to hold much potential for the transition toward more sustainable and resilient pathways of urban development. While the approach has developed in the context of the Western world, its application to the rapidly developing cities of the Global South should be a priority.
What Is Public and What Is Private in Water Provision: Insights from Progressive Era Cities in the US Northeast
Gwynneth C. Malin
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
During the colonial period and into the mid-19th century, residents of US Northeast cities drew water for domestic uses from local ponds, rivers, and ground water sources. In these early urban settlements, procuring water was a daily activity and one linked to economic class. Water provision was often a blend of public and private efforts—if residents wanted a well or a sewer built in their neighborhood, they had to help pay for it. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, city officials in the US Northeast made the gradual transition from relying on private water companies to implementing the public management of water supply. As quickening urbanization and growing immigrant populations rendered local and privately managed water sources undersupplied, elected officials began to search for new sources of water.
Each city's history is unique, but common themes include an increase in water pollution, the need to tap new water supplies further from city centers, disease prevention, fire extinction, and financial corruption, within both private water companies and municipal efforts to supply water. While most cities of the US Northeast transitioned to municipal operation of water supply during the 19th century, this shift was not without its challenges and complexity. Funding shortages often prevented change, but crises, such as fire, drought, and infectious disease outbreaks forced the hands of municipal officials. Philadelphia was first to transition to public water management in 1801, followed by New York in 1842, and Boston in 1848. In the late 19th century, New York experienced municipal delay, countered later by Progressive-era political forces that ultimately assured permanent public water management. The story of the emerging publicity of water management during this historical period sheds light on a larger narrative about the changing role of the state during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. It was during the 19th and early 20th centuries that the public management of water triumphed over private in the cities of the US Northeast.


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Age: 57
Family: Married for 30 years to Dr. William F. Denig, chief, Solar Terrestrial Physics Department, NOAA; two grown children
How long have you lived in Boulder County? Four years
Professional background: Travel agent 1994-2002; travel agency owner 2002-present
Political/community experience: Vice chairwoman, board of selectman (equivalent of city council member without a mayor); served three terms regional district school board; president, Clover Creek HOA; member, Longmont Senior Citizens Advisory Board; member, Longmont Rotary
Education: B.A., political science, Siena College
Name a person you admire and explain why: My father, William. He was a veteran of WWII; an honest businessman; a man of faith and courage; a volunteer firefighter for 30 years; American Legion state commander, New York; and former mayor of Cooperstown, N.Y.
What problems or situations in the District 2 area need attention, and how would you address them?
High taxes, homelessness and providing a talented workforce for businesses. Solutions are to reduce taxes, encourage more businesses to locate within Boulder County and encourage training programs for careers in manufacturing.
On a countywide basis, what are the top problems or situations or concerns that need the county commissioners' attention, and how would you address them?
The Boulder County Comprehensive Plan was created to guide development within Boulder County. It is a plan and, as such, subject to periodic revisions and updates. At this time, it is being used as law, and all areas of Boulder County must conform to the excessive restrictions and over-regulation. Boulder County's formation is unique in that the county offers both mountain and Front Range lands and incorporated and unincorporated areas. Each area should be treated as a distinct, separate area and not forced to comply with decisions and policies that primarily benefit and reflect the interests of municipal residents and visitors.
A solution is to change the definition of comprehensive from being absolute to a definition of being applicable to the needs of the local community.
Why would you be voters' best choice for this seat?
I believe the common good is best served by the two-party system. The two-party system provides checks and balances so that one sector of citizenry does not end up dominating the political system. Diversity of thought is extremely important in resolving today's complex issues. My experiences as a selectman, school board member and a small-business owner place me in a unique position to be able to evaluate and move forward policies beneficial to all citizens of Boulder County. I would appreciate your vote.

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This study were to Analyze and synthesize the action plans for the study leave system of RMUTL. Research procedures include job analysis, questionnaire, data collection, data analysis and operational plan syntheses. ...


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Lineup breakdown: Cards-Pirates, Game 1
A look at tonight's starting lineups for Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Cardinals and the Pirates:
1. Matt Carpenter, 2B -- Carpenter posted a .412 OBP in the 2012 postseason, with a double and a homer in 17 plate appearances. He's 9-for-21 (.429) lifetime against A.J. Burnett.
2. Carlos Beltran, RF -- The 16-year veteran enters his fourth postseason as the all-time leader in playoff slugging percentage (.782) and OPS (1.252). He is tied for ninth all-time with 14 postseason home runs. The switch-hitter batted .315 against righties as opposed to .252 against lefties this season.
3. Matt Holliday, LF -- Holliday is looking to redeem himself after a 2012 postseason in which he hit .224 (11-for-49) with two extra-base hits. He's been hot of late, hitting .378 in September.
4. Matt Adams, 1B -- Adams hit some big home runs for the Cardinals down the stretch, with eight of his 17 homers on the season coming in September. But he struggled against the Pirates in the regular season, going 4-for-30 (.133).
5. Yadier Molina, C -- Molina turned in another solid season both offensively (.319/.359/.477) and behind the plate for the Cardinals, but struggled against Pittsburgh this season, hitting .173 (9-for-52). He has also had a tough time with Burnett, batting .160 (4-for-25) against him in his career.
6. Jon Jay, CF -- After batting .250 in the season's first half, Jay finished strong with a .311 average since the All-Star break. He hit .400 (24-for-60) against Pittsburgh this season, with six doubles and 11 RBIs. He also hit .291 against right-handers in the regular season, as opposed to .220 against lefties.
7. David Freese, 3B -- Freese -- the 2011 NLCS and World Series MVP -- has a .345 career postseason batting average. But he didn't fare well against the Pirates during the regular season, hitting .154 (8-for-52).
8. Daniel Descalso, SS - Descalso -- who hit five home runs this season -- hit two homers in last year's NLDS against the Nationals. His career postseason batting average is .250 (14-for-56).
9. Adam Wainwright, SP -- Wainwright has a 2.48 ERA in 13 career playoff appearances (four starts). In three starts against the Pirates this season, the right-hander went 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA. He also pitched well at home, with a 2.53 ERA and 0.94 WHIP at Busch Stadium.
1. Starling Marte, LF -- Marte batted .333 (17-for-51) against the Cardinals this season, with four doubles, three triples and four stolen bases.
2. Neil Walker, 2B -- In his first career postseason game, the hometown hero Walker was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI. He looks to build on that despite batting .207 on the road this season versus .295 at PNC Park.
3. Andrew McCutchen, CF-- The National League MVP candidate hit .317 during the regular season but had difficulties with Cardinals pitching, posting a .246 clip (17-for-69). He's hit Adam Wainwright well, however, with a .429 (12-for-28) lifetime average.
4. Justin Morneau, 1B -- Morneau has hit for roughly the same batting average since coming over from the Twins (.260 with Pirates, .259 with Minnesota), but his power numbers are down. He hopes to find the postseason stroke he had in the 2006 ALDS, when he hit .417 with two homers.
5. Marlon Byrd, RF -- Byrd finally got a taste of the postseason with the NL Wild Card Game after 1,250 games without a playoff appearance. The Pirates hope he continues to do what he did Tuesday night, when he homered in his first at-bat and went 2-for-4.
6. Pedro Alvarez, 3B -- Alvarez's line against Wainwright is a microcosm of his season line, with good power numbers but a lot of strikeouts (4-for 19, 2B, HR, 6 RBIs, 7 K).
7. Russell Martin, C -- Four of Martin's 15 homers this season came at Busch Stadium, where he hit .346 (9-for-26). He is also 9-for-22 (.409) in his career against Wainwright.
8. Clint Barmes, SS -- Bucs manager Clint Hurdle is going with the veteran Barmes at short under the bright lights of October. Though he is 1-for-18 in his postseason career, he has hit Wainwright well (7-for-21, 3 2B, HR).
9. A.J. Burnett, P -- Burnett posted a 2.37 ERA at PNC Park this season, but his road mark was 4.22. He has struggled at Busch Stadium in particular, going 1-2 with a 13.50 ERA in four career starts.


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The Sharks' 40-20 loss to their local rivals was only one concern, with Andrew Fifita and Paul Gallen sweating on knee scans on Saturday ahead of potentially lengthy stints on the sidelines.
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CHICAGO -- A rise in expenses, unfavorable pricing and membership trends led to a third quarter net loss for Bally Total Fitness. The fitness operator's nine-month net revenues, operating income and number of members all declined, and the operating income for the third quarter of 2006 dropped 11 percent compared to the third quarter of last year. Bally also experienced drops in different market segments—personal training revenue declined 1 percent, and retail products revenue decreased 12 percent from the same period last year. General and administrative charges also increased due to the $5.4 million in severance payments to Paul Toback, former president and CEO. Net revenues for the third quarter increased $.5 million, and membership revenue bumped up 1 percent.
Looking forward, Bally is fine-tuning its Build-Your-Own-Membership model, working to create a bottom-up rather than a top-down culture at the clubs and conducting member research to better target its marketing efforts. The company is also evaluating all of its existing operations in order to achieve an optimal club footprint and improve returns, says Barry Elson, chairman. As part of this process, Bally plans to upgrade 100 of its clubs in the larger cities, Elson says.
"We will direct the capital expenditure in those clubs that have a competitive advantage and growth potential going forward," he says. "This will be easier to solve as we finish our evaluation of the club footprint."
While Bally's board authorized some incremental spending to improve the company's top clubs, the chain plans to sell its underperforming clubs, arrange sale-leasebacks and franchise in select geographic areas. Bally relaunched its U.S. franchise program in June and is focusing on cities where the company doesn't have a presence, such as Jacksonville, FL, where a new club will open next year.
During today's investor conference call, Bally's management also announced that the company could enter in a joint venture agreement. One of the listeners to the Nov. 10 investor conference call asked Elson if Bally was considering partnering with Planet Fitness, which recently bought World Gym. Elson responded by saying that Bally is talking to several parties, and it was premature to talk about any specific negotiations at this time.


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On November 13, the final Twilight saga soundtrack will be released. The franchise has been beautifully curated, featuring original tracks from a constellation of artists that include Death Cab for Cutie, Muse, Ellie Goulding and Christina Perri. One potentially unfamiliar name on the Breaking Dawn Part 2 soundtrack this time around is POP ETC.
This band are familiar to blog loving music heads under another name. They were previously known as the Morning Benders — a group beloved for their bedroom tapes and sleepy, West Coast influenced production. Their album Big Echo earned Best New Music from Pitchfork and universal acclaim from critics as well as opening slots touring with the Black Keys and Broken Bells. In spite of their success in indie rock arenas, the guys decided to ditch their name, revamp their sound and move from San Francisco to New York City to start anew.
It's a tough decision to scrap your brand and signature sonic style to start all over agan, but the band see it as more of an opportunity than a risk.
"We were called the Morning Benders before. When we named ourselves that we kind of did it as a joke because we weren't really big partiers and we thought it was funny," explains singer Chris Chu. "Morning benders, going out and drinking all night, whatever. And then a few years later after touring around a lot we found out that bender has this other meaning in Europe and other parts of the world where people use it as a slang for gay, in a derogatory way…It came off in a way that wasn't like us. We're wouldn't do anything like that. We decided to change our name and it coincided with this change in sound. We had a lot of new ideas and it worked out really well to change it, and change everything at that point. And now we're POP ETC."
While some indie bands have let the mainstream embrace them, POP ETC have decided to take a different tack and embrace the sound of the mainstream instead. The guys largely produced their new self-titled album on their own, but did work with Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Norah Jones, Gorillaz) and Andrew Dawson (Kanye West, Lil Wayne, fun.) to create a a very different sort of record from their previous output. That includes a vocoder, which Dawson expertly used in his work with T-Pain and West, but is an unexpected addition to POP ETC.
"At some point we just got really into pop music and rediscovered a lot of the pop that we great up with," Chu says. "We felt like the directness in the production, the bigger, fuller sound, and the crispness of the sounds [as] opposed to some of the more indie or rock leaning stuff really spoke to us."
The band's guitarist Jon Chu says when he listens to West's "Monster" now he can hear particular keyboards that Dawson suggested they use on the POP ETC album. While the band's experiences working with seasoned studio veterans gave them a leg up, they also looked to their own past as music lovers for inspiration when creating POP ETC. That inspiration included a master of pop music and the man who helped create Taylor Swift's mega-hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
"A lot of the pop producers, listening to [Swift producer] Max Martin, who's the big guy behind everything, and Dr. Luke; The-Dream [who is also known] as Terius Nash and Tricky, that combo," Chris Chu says, highlighting the production styles they favor. "Discovering a lot of the artists that we listened to like Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men and D'Angelo — stuff that we grew up with and didn't think too much about at the time but then rediscovered later and realized that not only did we still really love it but we were hearing all these new things about it."
The guys reconcile the idea that pop music isn't as worthwhile a genre by pointing out one simple fact: what's cool is constantly changing. It's akin to the idea of letting history be the judge instead of worrying about today's critics. They invoke the argument that Madonna was considered a throw-away pop artist at the start of her career. Today's guilty pleasure can easily become tomorrow's icon.
"Any time someone calls something cheesy or corny, it makes me want to check it out," Chris Chu says. "To me that shows that it's something that people of the moment, of this current culture don't understand. That's sort of what it is: cheesy and corny is just opposed to being hip or being popular."
Can a band embrace pop music, to the point of including it in their name, and remain cool while eschewing the constraints of coolness? POP ETC's experiment in upsetting the cart is the first of it's kind, so keep an eye on them to see.
POP ETC is available now. The band have also contributed an original track to the Breaking Dawn – Part 2 soundtrack, available on November 13.
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A great crowd of Wabash alumni and their spouses, the biggest yet in the history of the Chicago Holiday Luncheon, gathered at the historic Maggianos restaurant in downtown Chicago to welcome President Pat White and Chris White to the windy city.
Greg Jania '93, president of the Wabash Club of Chicago, welcomed the assembled crowd and served as the event's emcee.
Pat White spoke after the luncheon, telling the group about his experiences during his first semester on campus. Pat relayed a couple of classic encounters with our guys - including one while the freshmen were guarding campus during Monon Bell weekend. Pat also noted the Wabash Club in Chicago counts over 700 members and has a powerful network throughout the region. Pat mentioned that 16 new freshmen call Wabash their college partly because of the tremendous working relationships between area alumni and the admissions office. Pat also complimented the group on its efforts to help Wabash graduates find employment, noting one of the first jobs for a Wabash senior came from the Chicago area.
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Military intervention should be the business of the Arab League with Saudi Arabia perfectly capable of the necessary missile strikes (with over 300 combat aircraft) and other Middle East countries as this is their region of the world. Even non-member Turkey which is nearby has over 1500 aircraft capable of intervening. Why not send Israel who would relish the job? They are the leading military might in the Middle East. That certainly would prove nothing if not interesting...
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By Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
With the holiday season upon us, it's easy to get busy this time of year. Some pretty important tasks can get left to the last minute. One of those important tasks is ensuring you are in the right health insurance plan in Medicare. Selecting the right plan is a personal choice, and a lot of thoughtful consideration goes into finding the right match. But just like the holidays, those key dates come whether or not you are ready.
If you haven't made up your mind yet about a health or drug plan, now is the time to make your selection. Medicare Open Enrollment ends on December 7. To help you sort through your choices, try using the Medicare Plan Finder to review the options in your area. It can help you decide the best mix of benefits and costs that meet your needs and budget.
If you're like Helen Rayon from Philadelphia and find yourself in Medicare's prescription drug coverage gap ("donut hole"), you will continue to save money in 2013 with big discounts on brand-name prescription drugs. More than 5.6 million people like Helen have saved over $5 billion on prescription drugs in the donut hole since 2010.
In these last few days of Medicare Open Enrollment, take a second to review your options. If you like your current health care coverage, you don't need to do anything. But if you're thinking about making any changes, now is the time to act and cross another item off your to-do list.


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I've been following the open source OpenStack cloud effort since it was first announced in June of 2010. I mean come on, how many times does a tech journalist like me get to interview NASA about enterprise open source tech?
Over the course of the last year, I've seen OpenStack grow from its NASA/Rackspace base, into becoming the most influential open source cloud project on Earth. I've seen IT vendors big and small including Cisco, Dell, Brocade, Citrix and Canonical all align behind the OpenStack vision.
There hasn't been such a gathering of tech titans for an open source effort since IBM launched the Eclipse Foundation. OpenStack is a multi-vendor group and make no mistake about it, OpenStack is the present and the future of the cloud.
I recently caught up with co-founder of the Rackspace Cloud and member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board, Jonathan Bryce and I asked him about Linux and why Ubuntu has come first. I also got Bryce to reveal why he thinks that OpenStack is a once-in-a-lifetime open source opportunity.
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Neo Loudness also features a new multi angle metering system. Users can not only read the peak and reduction amount through the two volt meters, but also monitor the input signal by looking at the brightness of the Tube GUI. This makes the whole monitoring process easier and clearer.
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Jesse James' latest ink job won't cost him a dime.
The twice-divorced tattooed motorcycle mechanic has reportedly signed with Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books to publish his memoir.
"American Outlaw" will hit shelves later this year, according to Usmagazine.com.
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James, 41, and Bullock finalized their divorce in June after James copped to stepping out on the "Blind Side" Oscar-winner with other women.
The West Coast Choppers CEO and reality star famously apologized to Bullock for causing her pain and embarrassment. James later blamed his cheating ways in part on having been physically abused as a child.
In January, James and 28-year-old Kat von D, who had been dating since the summer, announced their engagement.
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Updated Nvidia has admitted that it suspended its user forums last week because they were hacked and posters' personal data lifted.
The graphics chip maker said last night that its investigation following the discovery that "unauthorised third-parties gained access to some user information", specifically user login names, email addresses and profiles, though the latter just comprised information forum users could view anyway.
Nvidia was quick to state that while it had not stored users' password in the clear, the hackers did get hold of hashed passwords with a random salt value.
When the forums come back up - Nvidia couldn't say when this will take place beyond a general "as soon as possible" - all user passwords will be automatically reset. It will email users to prompt them to change their new, freshly assigned password.
Nvidia also warned forum folk who use their password for other sites to go and change those magic words, just in case.
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What is meant by "trust" is not merely to keep something in one's safekeeping for a period of time. All obligations and duties are trusts. A person fails to honor his trust when he is careless in his duties.
A believer, as described in the Qur'an, is an honest, assured person who undertakes his responsibilities and does not pursue insignificant personal interests. That is why others can confidently rely on him to fulfill a responsibility or contract. In numerous verses, Allah praises this quality in Muslims:
Those who honor their trusts and their contracts. (Surat Al-Muminun; 8)
Those who honor their trusts and contracts. (Surat al-Ma'arij; 32)
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travelers and beggars and to set servants free, and who perform prayer and give the alms; those who honor their contracts when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those are the people who are true. They are the people who guard against evil. (Surat al-Baqara; 177)
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Ordering the children to get down on hands and knees, the babysitter had them crawl to a back bedroom and hide out, with 7-year-old Mason MacDonough furiously texting his mom about the unbearable situation.
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"Next too couch outside help!!!"
"He's sleeping"
"Sleeping that's right"
"The bear sleeping in the Lana"
"Inside the Lana"
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MacDonough told CNN she thinks she knows what the bear is coming for, and it's not honey. Pizza and Chinese takeout were snatched from her neighbor's home just the other day, leaving the fruits and veggies behind.
A capture trap was set for the bear by state wildlife officers, but MacDonough hopes the bear stays away for its own good, and finds somewhere else to hunker down.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials told CNN affiliate WBBH that the MacDonough family did everything right by keeping garbage and pet food inside, and they think the bear was just looking for a dry spot for that nap.
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Mark and the group,
Many of you are probably aware of the issue that is facing the city of Seattle. Other groups would like to recreate on tennis courts for various other spots such as dodge ball, hockey, etc. The rationale is that these courts are not used often enough to maintain them solely as tennis facilities. This has to seem like a slippery slope in that once the gates are open, all sorts of other groups will want to join in legally and illegally. Then we will probably face a huge problem policing these facilities and how to reconcile the hostilities that could ensue.
The tennis players in the city have less than a month to plead our case, otherwise we might find that we will be sharing our limited facilities with who knows what. Since I live near the courts at 72nd and 12th NE, I have seen what illegal multiuse can do to courts that have been resurfaced within the last few years. These courts are clearly suffering. There are large divots that have been taken out of the courts due to hockey players, skaters, locals running their dogs within the courts. The city invested a fair amount of money to upgrade these courts using our tax dollars and now after a short period of time they are already in poor shape. If this idea was to pass, illegal activity could make often used courts like those at 72nd N.E. unplayable, and then the city could legally open these to the same groups that destroyed them as tennis courts. Talk about the cart before the horse!
I'm hoping that members of this group will be interested in organizing to help influence the city to reject the idea of making certain courts multiuse and look at other alternatives for these other smaller interest groups. Given the difficulty in getting courts in Seattle, I'm hopeful that we can put an organized proposal to the city. If it also means that we can get more consideration in fixing courts in the future, so much the better. Let's organize around this issue and let the city know how we feel.
Barry Levine
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Happy Blue Jay Miscellany
The Blue Jays will likely miss the playoffs again this season. That's not to say they will definitely miss the playoffs. It certainly does not say that I hope for anything less than post-season baseball for the team. What it does say is that the Yankees, (Devil) Rays, and Red Sox are very good baseball teams. I don't see any of them faltering dramatically. I also don't see Exec of the Year Alex Anthopoulos (where's the Jack Z love now, huh? HUH?!) mortgaging the future - his vision of the future - to take a run in an insanely talented and crowded AL East this season.
Donnie Downer or what, right? I know. I'm sorry. What can I tell you? That's how I see the season shaping up. But let me tell you something else:
I'm enjoying this season - this Roy fucking Halladay-less season, no less - more than any season in a number of years. This is a team with a strong core - built on pitching - that seems poised to settle into definite contender status in the immediate and foreseeable future. This is a team that will run out a 5-man rotation built among the best of Marcum, Romero, Cecil , Morrow, Drabek, Jenkins, Rzepczynski, Stewart, and McGuire (if the dude wises up and signs - more later).
I'm not particularly sold on the bats as currently comprised, but there's definite hope with Lind and Hill (there both better than this, c'mon), Snider (hurry back!), a resurgent Vernon Wells, and a crop of youngsters (Wallace, Arencibia, Emaus, etc) from the freshly stocked farm on the way.
And there's more good news:
Brandon Morrow has a chance to be really, really good
Oh boy. I can't say for certain which attribute impresses me more: his ability to clock an easy 96 (I refuse to say "cheese") on the gun, or his ability to dial it back and reign it in when his mechanics fall out of line and he has trouble spotting the zone. He's AJ Burnett without being a headcase. That's a good thing, friends. He's also developing that fantastic character trait which seems to be prevalent amongst the Jays young arms - battling it out when taking the mound without their best stuff.
I'm not saying Morrow should necessarily be mentioned in the hot-topic "who is/will be the ace?" conversation....but don't sleep on this arm.
Aaron Hill and Adam Lind are better than this
Let's not sugarcoat this. To date, the pair that last season carried the club on their backs have been.....bad. Mendoza-line bad. Regardless of their second halves, the year end lines will not be pretty. It's hard to finish with respectable stats when you approach the all-star break scraping .200.
But both are too talented and too devoted to the craft to continue the shittacular output for a full season. I'm optimistic. Why wouldn't I be?
More minor league shenanigans - welcome back Auburn Doubledays
Apart from the coolest name in the minor leagues (debate for another team), the Jays short season A-ball team begins play this weekend, with another crop of prospects to (stress over) follow.
I would tell you that roster notables include SS Gustavo Pierre, C Carlos Perez, OF Marcus Knecht, and P Asher Wojciechowski, Drew Hutchison, and Daniel Webb....but what do I know. Very little, that's what.
Feel-good stories make you feel good
What can I say? I'm a sucker for them. Here's the draft-day memory of an undersized right hander drafted in the 42nd (!) round by the Jays. A book-end for Timmy Collins? I'm down.
Catcher backlog?
The Jays have one of the season's top offensive catchers on the major league roster. They also have 5 or 6 legitimate catching prospects lining up nicely in the queue....with Arencibia knocking on the door from AAA after surpassing Brett Wallace as that team's top offensive force. I'm not saying the Jays will be out of contention by the trade deadline....but if they are?
Deck McGuire aint mad at us
Seems early reports (cough GRIFF cough) of ol' Deck's sour attitude on being drafted by the Jays were a tad premature. Still, it looks like a drawn-out negotiation that will come down to the August signing deadline. Which sucks, because apart from a lost year of development within the Jays system, we'll likely be robbed of seeing Deck McGuire, Auburn Doubleday.
And that would just about blow what's left of my mind.
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How does Griff know that McGuire didn't text the Jays back "when he found out who it was."? Unless Griff was there, that's kind of a bizarre statement to make.
Who knows, though. He wouldn't be the first pro athlete to not want to come to Toronto.
- June 19, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Darren Priest said...
He should just sign and then tell them he wants a trade asap. He's a good piece to deal.
Remember the talk of possibly putting the Expos in the Dominican Republic (or was that Puerto Rico)? If that had happened, I wonder how many players born and raised in Midwestern states would be crying into their mommas' aprons when they got drafted by them.
They could have had Strasburg: Señoras y señores, quién es más macho? El Stasburgo es muy, muy machista. Aplauda sus manos y decir, ¡sí!
(Gracias, Google Translate)
- June 19, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Brandon League who?
- June 20, 2010 at 5:23 AM
Thanks Tao. It's nice to have my excitement with this team and this season - no matter how it plays out from here - confirmed by someone else.
The future is bright, and our pitching is fucking awesome.
- June 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- plain_g said...
brian tallet clap-clap clap-clap-clap
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Cameron Diaz stopped by "The Tonight Show" to play a wild game mixing miniature golf and roller derby--aptly named roller golf-- with host Jimmy Fallon.
But first, Diaz wanted to chat about Drew Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman's daughter who was born on Tuesday. Apparently the "The Other Woman" star helped coach Barrymore before the baby came into the world.
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