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Red Sox Dissect Rays Pitching for Win
here we are with the second half of the home and home series today in Fort
Myers. The Rays kind of put the Red Sox fans in the back of their seats
yesterday, but today's contest is a whole different ball game. Not only will the
Red Sox be in their home stadium, but they will have the multitudes of Red Sox
fans who love to cheer on their team. I do have to make a note that yesterday's
game had a total of 7,148 fans in and around the stadium, which is a new record
for this young stadium location. I do have to say that at some point in the
berms and the outfield it was total standing room
I do
have a huge suggestion to the Rays and the Sandcrabs for future games in this
stadium. It seems that we need a secondary speaker system throughout the
outfield section of the stadium. Maybe a series of those upside down speakers
that look like free standing light poles could be put in areas around the kids
area and near the boardwalk and Tiki Hut. You can hear the game, but you get a
delayed sight to sound response because of no audio out in that area of the
ball park. I play my game day audio from my laptop to hear it no matter where I
am in the stadium, but some games are not on the radio. Just a thought. Now
let's get back to our Sunday recap of the Rays versus the Red Sox
The Rays
sent Wade Davis, one of their top prospects from Triple-A to the mound today.
Davis has been tweaking a few of his pitches and has had a few outstanding
performances this spring. But he is penciled into be sent to the minor league
camp sometime in the near future to begin his season in Triple-A again for the
Durham Bulls. Davis will make his major league debut sometime in 2009 with the
club, but I do not see him winning the fifth rotation spot this spring. With
that said, another guy who might have pitched his way out of contention for the
fifth spot is Mitch Talbot. But if you really consider the top three pitchers
for the Rays at their Triple-A level in 2009 of David Price, Davis and Talbot.
There are club throughout baseball who would love to have that kind of
consistent staff starters in their
game got off to start with the Boston Red Sox sending Justin Masterson to the
mound. The wild thing about Masterson is that he can be in the same boat as Jeff
Niemann and Jason Hammel this year. He can be both a starter or a reliever for
the team and might make some heads turn with a great outing today. With Brad
Penny not throwing yet in Spring Training, he could get a start or two early in
the year, then settle into the Bullpen for 2009. Fernando Perez lead off for
the Rays today and quickly hit a grounder to Julio Lugo, who was
playing shortstop today for Boston. Adam Kennedy then struck out. Evan Longoria
then hit another grounder to Nick Green who threw out Longoria to end the
inning 1-2-3 for Boston.
Davis came out for the Rays and gave up a sharply hit single down the third base
line that eluded Longoria. Rocco Baldelli then came up and hit a ball to
Longoria that he quickly threw to Kennedy at second base to force out Lugo.
Jason Varitek then came up and struck out. J D Drew then walked to put me at
first and second base. Lars Anderson then hit a RBI single through the hole at
short into left field and the throw to the plate was cut off and Baldelli scored
to put Boston in front 1-0. Zack Deages then struck out to end the Boston rally
stranding two runners on base.
Masterson again came out for the top of the second inning and got
Carlos Pena to strike out to lead off the inning. Dioner Navarro then hit a long
fly ball to left field that Zack Daeges caught for the second out. Gabe Gross
then hit a single to right center field for the first Rays hot of the day.Morgan
Ensberg then came up and struck out to end the Rays chances in the
also again took the mound for the Rays and got Jonathan Van Every to hit a ball
down the first base line and covered first for a flip from Pena for the first
out. Green then took the first pitch from Davis and drilled it past the left
field fence and onto the adjacent field's dugout for a solo home run. Ivan Ochoa
then put a nice bunt down the third base line to get an infield single. Lugo
then came up and hit a screaming RBI double to left center field to easily score
Ochoa. Baldelli then struck out. Varitek came up and hit a single to left field
that split the outfielders, but Lugo tired to score from second base and was
thrown out at the plate by Ray Sadler in left field to end the inning. Boston
was ahead at that point 3-0 over the
Masterson came out for his third inning and quickly got Sadler to
hit a grounder to Lugo, who got him in time at first base. Elliot Johnson then
hit a fly ball to Drew in right field for the second out of the inning. Perez
then came up and hit a ball to the left of Masterson that he quickly picked up
and fired to first barely getting Perez in time. At that point, Masterson had
gone 3 innings and had given up only 1 hit, with 3 strike outs against the
came to the mound in the top of the third again for the Rays and got Drew to hit
a quick fly ball to Gross in right field for the first out. Anderson then
walked to give Boston their first runner of the inning. Daeges then hit a
2-run home run to right-center field. Van Every hit a foul pop-out to Longoria
and quickly the Red Sox had two outs in the inning. Green then came up and hit a
double to left field and after that Rays Manager Joe Maddon came out to make a
pitching change. The Rays brought in Calvin Medlock, who quickly gave up a RBI
single to Ochoa to right field. Lugo then came up and hit a double to left
field that scored Ochoa. For the day, Lugo went 3-3 against Rays pitching.
Baldelli then came up and hit a foul pop-up to first base to end the inning with
the Red Sox up 7-0.
In the fourth inning, the Red Sox sent closer Jonathan Papelbon to
the mound to face the Rays. He got Kennedy to strike out to lead off the inning.
Longoria then took his first pitch to right-center field for a single. Pena then
struck out to give the Rays one last out in the inning. Navarro hit a single to
left field, but Longoria stopped at second on the play. Gross then came up and
struck out to end the inning. Even though Papelbon gave up two hits in the
inning, all three outs were
Day came out for the Rays in the bottom of the fourth inning. He quickly got
Varitek to ground out. He then fooled Drew with a nice breaking ball for a
strikeout. Anderson then came on and hit a hard smash to Chris Richard, who was
now on first for the Rays. Day was backing up Richards on the play and Richards
tossed the ball to Day, who dropped the ball. Day was given an error on the play.
Daeges struck out to end the Red Sox
heralded prospect Daniel Bard then took the mound for the Red Sox. In a recent
game, Bard had thrown over 100 mph on the stadium's jugs gun. He got Ensberg to
strikeout for the first out of the inning. Sadler then followed with a
strikeout. Bard completed the trio as he got Johnson to also strike out to send
the Rays down 1-2-3 in the inning. At that point in the game, the Rays had
struck out swinging in six straight at bats, with only Gross being a called
third strike.
Day came
out again for the Rays and walked Van Every to lead off the inning. Green then
hit a fly out to Sadler that he easily caught for the first out. Ochoa was
fooled on a breaking pitch outside for a strikeout. Lugo then walked to give
Boston two men on base in the inning. George Kottaras then pinch hit and was hit
by the pitch to load the bases with two outs. With Varitek at the plate, Day
threw a wild pitch and Van Every tried to score from third base on the play.
Navarro quickly got the ball to Day, who tagged out Van Every before he reached
the plate for the third out of the
pitcher Junichi Tazawa then came on to pitch for Boston. Tazawa was the young
pitcher that did not go into the Japanese Baseball League before signing with
Boston this off season. He might not make the 25-man roster of the big club
this year, but this was the first time the Rays would see him pitch outside of
Japan. Tazawa's first pitch to Perez was rifled into center field for a lead
off single. Kennedy then hit a double into left center field that scored Perez
from first base. Longoria then struck out for the first out of the inning.
Richard also struck out, and Varitek threw a strike to third base to nail
Kennedy who was trying to advance on the play for the final out of the
Abreu then took the mound for the Rays. He got Varitek to quickly fly out to
right field for the first out. Josh Reddick, who came in to replace Drew in
right field then hit a fly ball to Johnson at shortstop. Anderson then hit a fly
to Longoria to complete the first 1-2-3 inning for the Rays today. But Boston
still lead 7-1 in the game. Tazawa came back out for the eighth inning and quickly got Reid
Brignac, who came in to play shortstop to strike out. He then got Ben Zorbrist,
who came in to play second base to fly out to center field, The Ensberg struck
out to give Boston a 1-2-3 inning against the
again took the mound for Tampa Bay and he went straight to work striking out
Daeges to lead off the inning. At that point, Abreu had gone 4-up, 4- down for
the Rays Maddon again came out and swapped Abreu for Chad Orvella with one out
in the inning. Orvella, who is fighting for a roster spot after coming back from
a shoulder injury gave up a towering solo shot to right field to the next
batter, Van Every. This is the second homer in two days against the Rays for Van
Every. Gil Velazquez then hit ball to Chris Nowak at third base. Nowak got off
a bad throw that seemed to two-hop before Richard dug it out at first for an out.
Ochoa ended the inning by striking
The Rays
sent Rule-5 player Derek Rodriguez to the mound for the 8th inning. Rodriguez,
who the Rays picked up off the Rule 5 draft from the Red Sox, quickly got
Argenis Diaz to fly out to right to start off the inning. Kottaras also hit a
long fly ball to right that Justin Ruggiano caught for the second out. Pinch
hitter Carlos Maldonado then hit a slicer to Brignac at shortstop that he
quickly threw to first to get Boston 1-2-3 in the
inning . In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Red Sox sent Michael Bowden to the mound. Rugginao lead off the inning with a single to center field. He then stole second base to put himself in scoring position for the Rays. Johnson then walked. The Rays then attempted a double-steal with Johnson and Ruggiano taking second and third base respectively. John Jaso the struck out for the first out of the inning. Jon Weber then hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score Ruggiano. Weber has no produced 7 RBI's in the last two games for the Rays. Chris Nowak then hit a pop-out to first base to end the rally for the Rays.
Jones took the mound to try and preserve the Red Sox victory. Jones is a
prospect in the Red Sox system who once broke his arm in three spots and had to
have multiple plates in his arm to heal the bones correctly. He gave up a
lead-off single to Richard to right center field. Brignac then struck out on a
nice called third strike. Zorbrist hit a ball to center that was easily caught
by Van Every. that left the Rays with one out to play with against the Red Sox.
Tim Beckham came up as a pinch hitter and hit a sharp ball to Diaz, but he
quickly threw the ball to end the game for the Rays. the final score was 8-2
Boston. It also marked the first win in three tries against the Rays this
For the
Rays, the game seemed to bring out some impatience in the Rays batters. For the
day they struck out 15 times, including 4 times to Tazawa in the game. For the Rays to
be productive against any team, mush less the Red Sox, they must be patient at
the plate. Tomorrow the Rays will again travel to Fort Myers where they will
take on the Minnesota Twins in a 1:05 contest. Leftie Scott Kazmir will be
making his spring debut on the mound for the
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It's still spring training and I will not panic. I'll just keep reminding myself that this is not the team that we're going to break camp with. I really wish I could get some of these games… But come hell or high water I WILL find a way to follow the game tomorrow afternoon. There HAS to be a way…I simply refuse to miss any of Kaz's games this year. (I didn't last year – so why start now!) I just hope when I go to the game in Toronto in early July that he'll be pitching. ***fingers crossed***
I was wondering if you were at this game! I love the picture of Johnny Pesky. I know it's just Spring Training – but I thought my boys looked good in this game and I just can't get use to Papelbon coming in in the 4th inning!
The game was not on MLB Game cast today. But he did okay for his first start of the year.
He went 2 innings and gave up 3 hits and 1 earned run.
The biggest play of the game might be the 4 shutout innings by Jeff Niemann today.
If he doesn't falter, I think the 5-slot is his come April.
Rays Renegade
I was at the game only because I left my laptop in Port Charlotte and had to go get it last night. I was going to stay for the Twins game, but decided I would be in enough trouble if I did not pick up the munchkins from school today.
Because they are so close, there will be more games in 2010 between these two teams. I actually think they make both teams better for the season. Good competition breeds good instincts at the plate and the mound.
Rays Renegade
I found a place where I can listen to the games…on an American radio station that I can get on cloudy days…sometimes I like living close to upstate NY…too bad the game was OVER when I found the station…
Oh well, I guess missing one spring training game won't kill me. It's the regular season that counts…right? Glad to hear Scott did well. :0) Neimann has impressed me. From all the reviews I hear of him, he's going to be a good addition!
All he has to do now is just be consistent and the Rays will love him. But considering he is a 6 foot 9 inch pitcher, the prospect of having someone throwing downhill at batters is a great thing for the 5-spot.
He was hurt for two years and almost got labeled in the minor leagues. I am glad he had put up great number ( 1.0 ERA this spring).
Rays Renegade
Wow the Renegade is now giving recommendations on stadium accoustics?! What can't this guy do?!
it is an outdoor stadium that you can not hear the game being called until a few seconds after the play. I think it is a good thing to have a speak down by the kids area so they can hear that a ball might be heading that way.
There are no spotter down there and I think it is only time until someone gets pegged either in B P or a game down there. I love sitting at the Tiki Bar, and they like the fact I have a MLB.TV feature so I can hear the game live. Make friends for you real fast.
As usual, they are suggestions that will never be seen by the team, so they might never be addressed until 2010.
Rays Renegade
Yeah, I think picking the kids up from school would be a good idea. Schools seem to frown on parents leaving them there. Although tempting for parents from time to time…(Joking)
Seriouly he's 6 foot 9? Ok, that's pretty much giant status to me…and I thought Lackey was tall at 6 foot 6!
Oh they are not mine.
I am just helping a neighbor out. Mine are grown and gone already. But I do watch them from about 1 :30 to 6 every day until baseball season starts..then they are on their own.
Rays Renegade
Hasn't baseball season started? Oh wait, the regular season, gotcha! :) I hear ya, I seem to be the resident babysitter around my neighborhood! LOL!
When are batting practices usually held? I want to take my son to a ball game this summer, but he really wants meet some of the Rays (ok, so do I!). Is there a way to find out when to get to the field for that?
The Rays are usually on the field when they let fans in on Friday and Sat night games 2 hours before the first pitch.
Sometimes for the other games we can see the last 15 minutes of the Rays B P.
Rays Renegade
The Ray's are my A.L. favorite! Gotta pull for these guys after their amazing season last year!
Back to the real business…Go Brewers!
Man I wish I can catch a spring game and have a hot dog and a beer. Instead I'm stuck working. lol
~King of Cali
I can honestly say they are my favorite too, but there will be some interesting battles in the AL Central and West this year too. The Twins, White Sox and maybe even the Indians and Tigers will battle it out for that division.
And I think that L A might have their hands full this year with a better Oakland and Texas team. And do not forget Seattle has a mountain of potential and will scare a few folks during the year.
It is going to be fun this year!!!
Rays Renegade
That is one of thrills of being unemployed.
I hate not working, but it gives me ample time to check out games. Thank goodness I did that 401K back in 1986, or I would be in a refrigerator box somewhere.
Not since I did the clubhouse deliveries and the stadium beverage needs have I spent as much time at the ball park in the spring. So far I have not burned my skin beyond recognition, or ran out of gas…both major plusses.
Rays Renegade
That's always good to know if I can ever get to Tampa! 2 hours before the game. check. But what about up here in Toronto? Will we still be able to find the guys before the game? Or will they close it to the public because they are on the road?
I do not know the answer to that.
I will get back to you later on it. I am going to ask a friend on the team about their Toronto usual game day activities and see if I can find out for you.
Up in Toronto, usually the home team takes B P last, so that might be the best answer. I will ask Scott when I see him in a few days.
Rays Renegade


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Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle
The Mechanism of Photosynthesis
As you know, plants and some bacteria and single-celled organisms use energy from the Sun in order to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. As a result of this reaction, the energy in solar rays is stored inside the resulting sugar molecules. Chlorophyll, a green pigment, plays an important role in the conversion of solar energy into useable chemical energy. (Pigment is the name given to substances capable of absorbing light.)
The entire reaction can be summarized in this formula:
For those who are unfamiliar with the language of chemistry, this formula may be translated as follows:
This general description appears very simple, but this formula shows only those substances that enter the reaction at the beginning and those that are obtained at the end. The production of these final products is carried out as a result of astonishing and exceedingly complex processes and mechanisms in the leaf.
In order for the carbohydrate molecules we commonly call sugar to be formed from carbon dioxide and water, exceedingly complex and delicate measures and processes must be implemented. These processes involve very complex systems working at the atomic level, and even at the level of the electrons orbiting around them.
In the process, there are a large number of elements, consisting of different pigments, various salts, minerals, trace elements (such as ferredoxin and adenosine triphosphate), sub-catalysts, and other substances and chemicals with various different responsibilities. Bearing in mind that plants need 30 different proteins just to produce a sugar molecule as simple as saccharose, you can see just how complex the entire system is.
Components of the Photosynthesis Process
Chloroplasts: Plant cells and animal cells possess the same general features, but the most important difference between these two is that plant cells also contain a green plastid, the chloroplast, in which it makes photosynthesis. These chloroplasts, which absorb solar light, are the heart of the entire system. With their structures resembling interconnected balloons, chloroplasts give plants their green color.
In the plant cell, photosynthesis takes place in the chloroplasts, small discs 2 to 10 micrometers thick (a micrometer is 1 millionth of a meter) and 0.003 millimeters (3/1000 millimeter) in diameter. There are around 40 chloroplasts in each cell.68 Despite being so small, these interesting units are separated from their parent cell by two membranes which themselves are unbelievably thin, just 60 angstroms, or 0.000006 millimeters (about 1/100,000 of a millimeter).The chloroplast contains structures known as the thylakoids, which resemble pancakes. These preserve the chlorophyll, photosynthesis's chemical unit, and are protected by thinner membranes. These thylakoids are arranged as discs known as grana, which are just 0.0003 millimeters in size, one atop of the other. There are some 40 to 60 of these grana in each chloroplast.69 All these complex structures consist of proteins and fats that have been brought together for a specific purpose.
Thylakoids: The second component in the chloroplast are these sac-like membranes that contain the green chlorophyll molecules that absorbs sunlight.
Grana: Thylakoids combine together to form grana.
Chlorophyll: The green pigment in the chloroplast that absorbs sunlight.
Stroma lameli: A pipe-like membrane that links the grana in the chloroplast.
Stroma: A jelly-like fluid in the chloroplast.
Photosynthesis and Light
In terms of both its functions and chemical structure, the atmosphere is a perfect covering essential for life. The Sun emits rays of many differ
ent wavelengths. Of these, however, only a very narrow range contains the wavelengths of light necessary for life. And here another great miracle is evident: Such is the structure of the atmosphere that it only permits light within the range necessary for life to enter, and all other harmful rays are reflected back. The atmospheric layer responsible for this filtering, of such vital importance for life, is the ozone layer, composed of oxygen molecules with the chemical formula O3. From among all the other 1025 wavelengths, the ozone layer absorbs 97-99 percent of the sun's high frequency ultraviolet light which is potentially damaging to life on Earth and admits only light in the visible that are essential for life—a miracle specially designed for us.70 If the atmosphere did not admit light in that range, or also admitted rays of other wavelengths, then life as we know it on Earth would be impossible. This is just one of the hundreds of thousands of conditions that must be met for life to exist. The fact that all these conditions are flawlessly met means that it is impossible for life to have emerged by chance.
Rays of Different Wavelengths are Perceived as Different Colors
All the colors we see have a specific wavelength and frequency. Red, for example, has a longer wavelength than violet. We can see colors because our eyes have been created in such a way as to perceive these narrow wavelengths and our brains in such a way as to interpret them.
A wavelength of light is defined by a unit called the nanometer—such a small unit that it is impossible for human beings to comprehend, the equivalent of 1 billionth of a meter. For example, the wavelength of red is 770 nanometers, and that of violet, 390 nanometers.71 These rays also have frequencies, measured in terms of Hertz, or number of cycles per second. A cycle is the distance between the top and bottom of a wave. Light travels at 300,000 kilometers/second (186,000 miles/second). If the wavelength is shorter, the photons must travel a greater distance in the same amount of time.
As you can see, the light used by plants possesses a very special structure. This light—moving at the fastest speed possible—is filtered through a sensitive sieve in the atmosphere, down to a narrow spectrum that we can perceive. In addition, since it moves both as a wave and in the form of particles known as photons, it also causes chemical reactions by striking the atoms that comprise matter.
When light, with its complex structure, travels enormous distances and reaches the plant, it is perceived by a special system, created in such a way as to process light in this very narrow spectrum. If the light had any other speed or frequency then the chlorophyll pigment would be unable to perceive it and the process would come to an end before it had even begun.72 The harmony between pigment and light is one of the examples of deliberate creation we frequently encounter. There are countless examples of such harmonious creation, such as the ear and sound waves, the eye and light, and food and the digestive system. Light cannot regulate its own wavelength, nor can the pigment select the wavelength of the light it is to perceive. Clearly, both have been created for this system to work.
The Miracle that Allows us to Live in a Colorful World
All substances, except wholly transparent ones, absorb light, and their colors stem from the wavelength of the light they reflect, and which is not absorbed by the surface in question. Chlorophyll, present in all photosynthetic cells and a variety of pigments, absorbs all visible wavelengths of light except green. This reflected light is what makes leaves appear green. Black substances absorb nearly all the light that falls on them. White pigments, on the other hand, reflect nearly all the wavelengths of light that strike them.
For example, the pigments in plants known as chlorophyll permit the color green to appear and are also where photosynthesis takes place. Pigment molecules are formed by atoms such as carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen and nitrogen combining together. Considering the properties of chlorophyll, which plays a vital role in the continuation of life, will afford a better understanding of the sensitive, delicate calculations on which it is constructed.
Organized in groups of 250 to 400, chlorophyll molecules constitute a structure known as the photosystem, which carries out vital processes. All the chlorophyll molecules within this system can absorb light, but only one chlorophyll molecule in every photosystem actually uses the chemical energy obtained in this way. The molecule using the energy installs itself in the middle of the photosystem. The other chlorophyll molecules are known as antenna pigments, which collect light for the reaction center (that is, "chlorophyll a") by establishing a network around it. When the reaction center receives energy from one of the more than 250 antennae molecules the energy boosts an electron out of place to a higher energy level. In other words, an electron belonging to the "chlorophyll a" moves to one of the other chlorophyll molecules arranged around it. Thus thanks to a chain reaction an electron exchange, photosynthesis begins.73 Therefore, the organs we call pigments play a vital role in the process of photosynthesis, while these molecules with their very special structure give rise to the green world of plants around us.
Pigments and Unrealistic Evolutionist Scenarios
Visible light, the colors produced by pigments, and our eyes that perceive these millions of hues have all been created through the infinite knowledge and artistry of Allah. The components in this three-part system, which will not function if any one component is missing, are all in perfect harmony.
The material used in the pigments of plants has also been used for the retina, the pigment in the human eye. Yet while the same substance initiates photosynthesis in plants, in the human eye it is responsible for transmitting messages about the image in the eye to the brain. It is extraordinary how a substance consisting of a combination of a few atoms can possess different properties and duties depending on its location.
The retinas are connected to the brain by 600,000 nerves that receive 1.5 million messages, arranges them and sends them on to the optical center at a speed of 500 kilometers/hour (300 miles/hour), at the same time to the brain.74 Like the complex system in the human eye, the task performed by chlorophyll in plants has a very complex structure. In describing these two systems, evolutionists never raise the fact that every part of the system's complex structure must have been created at the same moment.
According to the classic evolutionist scenario, plants felt the need to make use of solar energy and—in some way—produced pigments. Never forget, these plants had no prior knowledge of any substance such as pigments nor of any system in which they can function. The logical inconsistency in this theory becomes clear when evolutionists' beliefs are actually laid out. According to them, a single-celled organism, needing an energy source for its survival, possessed no awareness or intelligence. Yet somehow it determined that the Sun is an economical, constant energy source. It later "realized" how it could use this energy and, resolving problems which present-day scientists are still seeking to answer, planned a system to store solar wavelengths as chemical energy. To achieve that goal, it determined solving the wavelengths of the Sun and the chemical formulae that would establish the electron exchange, and then began production by combining specific chemicals in carefully calculated quantities to produce chlorophyll. That is the irrational scenario maintained by evolutionists.
Along with being irrational, this scenario also leads to an impasse in several ways. Recent studies have revealed that plants very definitely did not evolve from a common forerunner. This means that if evolutionists' claims were true, then every species of plant must developed the process of photosynthesis separately, quite independently of the others. This scenario strains the imagination, because it is impossible for even a single organism to acquire, by coincidence such a complex system as photosynthesis, which cannot be replicated with today's advanced technology and level of scientific knowledge. Even though this impossibility is obvious for all to see, evolutionists still maintain that it took place again and again. But as you shall see in due course, the chlorophyll that is such an important component and of the working systems of photosynthesis has such an extraordinary design and structure that it cannot possibly have evolved by coincidence.
The Factors Influencing Photosynthesis
As the following sections will show, photosynthesis is a very complex and delicate process, and every part of the plant has special structures for the task. However, the elements necessary for photosynthesis are not limited to the plant's structure. As you have already seen, the wavelengths of the light that penetrate the atmosphere have been created to be in complete harmony with photosynthesis. However, other factors also have impact on the process.
1. Light Intensity and Duration
Photosynthesis varies depending on the intensity and duration of the light, and whether the light arrives directly or in a diffuse form. There are significant differences between direct sunlight and that filtered or reflected by clouds, fog and other bodies. Direct rays constitute 35% of total light, and scattered light, between 50 and -60%. Since scattered light has a greater physiological effect, plants' needs for light are actually met in full.
Plants are divided into sun-loving and shade-loving species, according to their needs for these two types of light. Sun-lovers have been created to obtain maximum efficiency by receiving sunlight directly, while shade-lovers achieve maximum photosynthesis with light arriving more indirectly, as in forests or in cold and cloudy climates.
Trees such as beech, lime, elm, and ash trees have been created to be capable of living in both types of environment.
2. Level or Density of Light
The further north or south from the equator one goes, the longer the variation between periods of night and day—and the photosynthesis linked to this illumination. The duration of daylight causes increased photosynthesis with a result in faster rapid, short-term growth, flowering and leaf production. Flowers time their blooming according to length of day. For example, the chrysanthemum, a short-daylight plant, opens its flowers in the early autumn, when the days are growing shorter, and grows its shoots and buds in summer when days are longest. However, no matter how much light may reach the plant, photosynthesis still continues, at a greater or lesser degree.75
3. Heat
Plants need warmth to carry out photosynthesis and survive. Plants open their flowers, sprout leaves, and germinate their seeds and all at specific temperatures—vital activities that come to an end when temperatures drops below a critical level. For example, forest trees begin their growth stage when the general temperature rises above 10 degrees Celsius. This figure is 5 degrees Celsius for agricultural crops. Chemical processes increase by two or three times as temperature rises. But excessively low or high temperatures may stress plants, inhibit growth so as to create a spindly appearance, or cause foliage to wither or fall prematurely.76
When the stages of photosynthesis and the special conditions the process requires are examined as a whole, important evidences of creation can be seen. This system, which brings together so many sensitive and delicate measures, is a blessing placed at the service of mankind by All-Mighty Allah, the creator of all things.
4. Nighttime
Many requirements need to be met for photosynthesis to take place, and in the absence of any one of these, photosynthesis will not occur. The growth activities of plants are closely linked to the temperature differences between day and night. Some plants need warm days with low temperatures at night to form new growth. Others do not require such a temperature differential.
As the Sun rises, perspiration and in relation to that photosynthesis in the leaf increases. In the afternoon, photosynthesis slows down. As heat levels decline at night, however, perspiration slows down and the plant goes to rest. If there were no night over the course of just one day then most plants would die. In the same way that it is for the animals, night is a period of rest and renewal for plants.77
In the Qur'an Allah has revealed that He has placed day and night, Sun and Moon and all plants, at the disposal of human beings:
He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly Signs in that for people who use their intellect.
And also the things of varying colors He has created for you in the Earth.
There is certainly a Sign in that for people who pay heed.
(Surat an-Nahl: 12-13)
In other verses, we are told that Allah has created night, and that no other entity than He has the power to do this:
Say: "What do you think? If Allah made it permanent day for you till the Day of Resurrection, what Allah is there other than Allah to bring you night to rest in? Do you not then see?"
But part of His mercy is that He has made both night and day for you so that you can have your rest and seek His bounty, and so that hopefully you will be thankful.
(Surat al-Qasas:72-73)
5. Carbon Conversion
Plants may be thought of as factories that transform the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the oceans to produce organic compounds, and as purification units that cleans up the environment. They do produce low levels of carbon dioxide by way of respiration—especially at night—but during the day, use ambient CO2 for photosynthesis. The balance between the consumption of CO2 by plants and single-celled organisms and its exhalation by human beings and animals is established with the production of carbonates in the oceans. During this process, large quantities of carbon dioxide in the air and water are transformed.
Human activities raise the level of CO2 in the air to a considerable extent, leading to global warming and the resulting greenhouse effect. The emission of carbon dioxide and other harmful byproducts of combustion and factories also leads to acid rain. The most powerful antidote to all these harmful factors is living things that perform photosynthesis. Had such equilibrium not been established, organisms would soon die out from a lack of oxygen and from carbon dioxide poisoning. As yet, however, we never have faced such a problem, because there are no flaws or deficiencies in the creations of our Lord Who has infinite knowledge and wisdom, and has created all things with due measure:
He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. He does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly.
67. "Photosynthesis," http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html.
68. Kingsley R. Stern, Op cit., p. 38.
69. Ibid.
70. Solomon-Berg- Martin-Villee, Biology, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993, p. 190.
71. "From Photons to Chlorophyll: Some Observations Regarding Color in the Plant World," C.J. Horn, Botany column-November, 1997, http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/photointro.html
72. "The Photosynthetic Process,"
73. Kingsley R. Stern, Op. cit., pp. 167-168
74. "From Photons to Chlorophyll: Some Observations Regarding Color in the Plant World, C.J. Horn, Botany column-November, 1997, http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/photointro.html.
75. Malcolm Wilkins, Op. cit., p. 154.
76. Kingsley R. Stern, Op. cit., p. 174, http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/greenhouse/nursery/guides/ornamentals/light.html.
77. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/greenhouse/nursery/guides/ornamentals/light.html.

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Two Skeeter Pros are Passing Their Fishing Passion On to Their Family
By Craig Lamb
Marty Robinson of South Carolina and Todd Faircloth of Texas are veteran pro anglers competing on the MLF® tour and these two Skeeter Pros are passing their fishing passion on to their family. Both anglers have sons competing at the high school bass fishing tournament level in a competitive sport with exploding growth.
It's a "Family Affair"
Thousands of high school students compete in events from coast to coast in local, state, and national tournaments. Faircloth's sons Harrison, 12, and Hudson, 14 compete in the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (SETX) events for Jasper High School, located in Jasper, Texas. Robinson's sons Marshall, 15, and Mitchell, 13, compete in the Palmetto Boat Center (PBC) High School Trail, and Bassmaster® High School, which includes a junior division. The Robinsons compete for the Byrnes High School Rebels in Spartanburg, S.C.
"They would rather go fishing than anything else teenage boys would do," said Marty. "After school, they both come in through the front door and head straight for the back door."
The Robinsons are grounded by bass fishing and in their choice of boats. Marty, a Skeeter Pro, bought his sons a Skeeter to use in their tournaments. The family acquired an SX Series bass boat and repowered the rig with a Yamaha VF90 four-stroke outboard. Harrison and Hudson compete from their dad's Skeeter FX20 when he is not on the tour.
"Harrison will begin competing for next year and the urge to do it came from me and his older brother," said Faircloth.
Trophy rooms are expanding
Faircloth and Robinson have had to move their trophies aside to make room on the mantel for the awards claimed by their sons.
Faircloth's son, Hudson has placed in the money in seven of nine events fished. For the 2017-18 season, his points ranked him 12th in the angler of the year out of 600 teams. He also caught a largemouth weighing 7.58 pounds, the third biggest of the season.
Robinson's son, Marshall double-qualified for the 2018 Bassmaster® High School National Championship, after winning a regional qualifier on Lake Hartwell, his home lake in South Carolina. He also qualified with top 10 points fishing in the PBC trail. Mitchell was runner-up in the 2018 Bassmaster® High School Junior Championship. Marshall has qualified again for the 2019 championship.
The atmosphere at high school championships across the leagues is a cross between a college football tailgate party and a Saturday afternoon youth athletic competition. High school logos adorn popup tents manned by parents wearing team emblems. They grill food for hungry teenagers returning from a long day on the lake. Parents cheer for their children and everyone else. Undeniably the festive environment is like none other in competitive bass fishing.
Bass fishing youth's movement is growing
Today, the B.A.S.S.® High School Nation has over 7,000 participants enrolled at around 600 high schools, and the numbers are similar to other sanctioning tournament organizations.
State associations dedicated to coordinating and running tournaments are filling a vital void where the sport is not supported by statewide sanctioned high school athletic associations. SETX and the Texas High School Bass Association are an example, with events that draw up to 500 teams at both organizations.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California, confessed last year that he committed adultery with a staff member who worked for the family for 20 years, which resulted in a son. The affair had taken place over a decade ago.
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Watch Dogs Now Proactively Being Blamed For Traffic Sign Hacking By Apparent Pre-Crime Division
from the the-future-is-now dept
Blaming stuff is becoming something of a fad, I guess. If recent reports are to be believed, it's not all hip and whatnot to blame ghost stories for violence, video games for everything, and specifically Watch Dogs for teaching children how to hack Glenn Beck's iPad. And speaking of Watch Dogs, the game du jour, it apparently has such a target on its back these days that it's being blamed for pre-crime. Confused? Let me explain.
Earlier this week, news media in North Carolina reported that at least three highway signs there had apparently been compromised and re-worded to read "Hack by Sun Hacker." Similar incidents were reported between May 27 and June 2, 2014 in two other states, which spotted variations on that message left by the perpetrator, (including an invitation to chat with him on Twitter).Now, the article then goes on to note that the blame for this hack in part falls on the way the signs were set up to use SNMP, allowing for a fairly simple password hack to give the hacker control of the signage. The hacker is described as a Saudi that is essentially a tinkerer, not to be counted amongst the more nefarious types of international bad actors. The Multi-State Informational Sharing and Analysis Center report responsible for the above, however, also lets loose with this gem:
"…likely coincides with the May 27, 2014 release of the video game 'Watch Dogs,' in which game play revolves around 'hacking,' with a focus on hacking critical infrastructure-based electronic devices in particular. Watch Dogs allows players to hack electronic road signs, closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs), street lights, cell phones and other systems. On May 27, 2014, the malicious actor posted an image of the game on his Twitter feed, demonstrating his interest in the game, and the compromise of road signs occurs during game play. CIS believes it is likely that a small percentage of Watch Dog players will experiment with compromising computers and electronic systems outside of game play, and that this activity will likely affect SSLT [state, local, tribal and territorial] government systems and Department of Transportation (DOT) systems in particular."If you didn't just throw up, shame on you. What the report does is take a low-level script junkie and website defacer, who was already doing these things over the course of the past couple of years, and blamed his latest prank on Watch Dogs. Then, without missing a beat, it postulates that some unknown percentage of Watch Dogs players will put their controllers down just long enough to go out and try to hack all the things themselves. It's insane on its face. I don't recall any percentage of Nintendo players seeking out lines of turtles upon which to leap, nor do I recall any number of children or adults buying up all the hedgehogs at Pet Smart and then rolling them down long and complicated loop-to-loops to see how many rings they could collect. These are the kinds of allegations that only sound like they should make sense because games have become more realistic, but that doesn't mean they actually do make sense.
And in the end, the focus should be on improving the security of the systems in question, not demonizing entertainment as a scapegoat. The attempt to shift blame is a distraction from the real story: whoever put those road signs in place couldn't manage to protect them from a prankster. That's the entire tale, period, paragraph.
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- 1992: Harry overhears Quirrell arguing with Lord Voldemort, and assumes that Snape is threatening Quirrell.
- 1993: Professor Minerva McGonagall announces to her second year Transfiguration students that exams will take place on 1 June, shocking them, as they had not imagined exams still taking place given the atmosphere of fear at the school due to the attacks on Muggle-borns.[1]
- 1995: Harry, Ron and Hermione, sleepy from staying up discussing the strange events of the previous night regarding Bartemius Crouch Sr., suffer an especially dull History of Magic lesson. They then visit the individual they believe to be Mad-Eye Moody (secretly Bartemius Crouch's son), only for him to tell him that he was unable to find Bartemius Crouch Sr.[2]
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Not surprisingly, the deal reached last week failed to put the EMU economies back on track. I have always looked with suspicion, if not with outright fear, to policy agendas dictated by financial markets. But the fact that a simple attempt by the Greek Prime Minister to involve his fellow citizens in crucial decisions is creating a panic attack, shows how fragile the agreement was. With André Grjebine I wrote a piece for the French daily Liberation last week, in which we argued that all the crucial weaknesses of the Eurozone were not addressed.
To summarize:
- Address current account imbalances symmetrically, along the lines already outlined by Keynes before Bretton Woods.
- Focus more on quality of public spending, and not on quantitative targets. We mention the golden rule in its original meaning, i.e. the exclusion of public investment from numerical deficit targets. A study (working paper here) I made with some colleagues a while ago hinted that it worked for the UK.
- Finally, we insisted on debt monetization by the ECB, the only possible strategy to defuse speculation against sovereign debt of a currency union.
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As this is a common experimental observable, it doesn't seem reasonable to take the range from $[0,\infty)$ to $(-\infty,\infty)$ (For a particle emitted along the beam axis after collision $\theta = 0$ wouldn't be better to have a number that says how close it is to zero rather than one that says how large a number it is. I hope that makes the question clear.)


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During a top secret briefing, lawmakers said David Petraeus made it clear the CIA believed terrorists -- not protestors -- were responsible for the deadly assault in Benghazi. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
Updated 3:00 pm ET -- Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified Friday before congressional intelligence panels telling members that he had believed from the outset that the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was an act of terrorists.
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reported that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said after hearing from Petraeus that Obama administration officials made a decision to hold back as classified information an explicit depiction of Benghazi incident as an act of terrorists -- therefore that description did not make it into the "talking points" that the administration prepared for officials when they went on TV talk shows and spoke to reporters.
Instead, the initial talking points focused on spontaneous reactions to an anti-Islamic video as a spark for the attack. Five days after attack, the administration dispatched U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to speak on the Sunday news shows to offer a preliminary explanation of the attack, which she attributed to an anti-Islamic video that was circulated on YouTube.
In the attack Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans – Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith – were killed.
Keeping as classified the determination that the Benghazi attack was the work of terrorists may have been done in order to help pursue those very same terrorists.
"There might have been two tracks happening all along: the public statements that were reflecting part of what they may have known" and the classified information that terrorists had been the ones attacking the consulate. "The real question is if they knew it was terrorism all along – was there too much suggestion that a video or demonstrations may have been involved?" said O'Donnell.
House Intelligence Committee member Peter King, R-N.Y., told reporters Friday after Petraeus testified that the initial "talking points" from the Obama administration to prepare officials for what they should say publicly in the first days after the attack had been changed to delete references to any al Qaida involvement in the event.
Rep. Peter King said he was "satisfied" with Gen. Petraeus' testimony at the Senate hearings on Benghazi, though the former-CIA director gave, to King, a "different impression this time around."
King said he and his colleagues now needed to hear testimony from officials in the State Department, the Defense Department "and also people at the White House – to see if anyone at the White House changed the talking points."
King told reporters after Petraeus testified that "his testimony today was that from the start (immediately after Sept. 11) he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, that terrorism was involved from the start."
But King said that he himself "had a very different recollection" of what Petraeus had told the panel in the initial aftermath of the attack.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein comments following closed door hearings of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees regarding an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
"The clear impression that we (members of the House Intelligence Committee) were given (in the initial days after the attack) was that the overwhelming amount of evidence was that it arose out of a spontaneous demonstration and it was not a terrorist attack," King said.
Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC's Thomas Roberts after hearing from Petraeus that "I can't agree that there was entirely an intelligence failure" in the days leading up to the attack.
The Daily Rundown panel, which includes former DCCC spokesman Doug Thornell, The New York Times' Jackie Calmes and Roll Call's David Drucker talk about the latest in the hearings on Benghazi.
He said, "The intelligence community did put people in the area of Benghazi and in Libya generally. It was a hot spot, it was an area where you had to be on high alert – they did not pick up the actual attack itself. So we're evaluating whether or not it was or was not an intelligence failure."
Another House Intelligence Committee member, Rep. Tom Rooney, R–Fla., told MSNBC's Roberts that he'd learned from the Petraeus testimony how inadequate the protection at the consulate was on Sept 11.
"We had less than a handful of security there for the ambassador," Rooney said. "First of all, I don't know why the ambassador was there on 9/11 to begin with, but that's a whole other story. Second we were relying really on local Libyan militia who – if there was anything coordinated about the two attacks, at the compound and at the annex, it is that there was a coordinated absence by the people who were supposed to be protecting us." He said the Libyan militia "were nowhere to be found" when the assault occurred.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says Gen. Petraeus' briefing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, concerning he Sept 11, 2012, attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was "comprehensive" and "added to our ability to make judgments about what is clearly a failure of intelligence."
Rooney added that President Barack Obama has said "he did everything he could" to protect the consulate. "He may have done everything he could, but it wasn't enough because our people are dead."
The investigation into the Benghazi events has become a major focus for members of Congress returning to the Capitol after last week's elections. The episode has political implications not only for Obama but for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who may run for president in 2016.
Petraeus resigned one week ago after the revelation of his adulterous affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell.
Rice told NBC's David Gregory on Meet the Press Sept. 16 that "putting together the best information that we have available to us today – our current assessment is that what happened in Benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo – almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video."
She added that in Benghazi "opportunistic extremist elements came to the consulate as this was unfolding. They came with heavy weapons, which, unfortunately, are readily available in post-revolutionary Libya, and that escalated into a much more violent episode."
Rice is said to be in the running to be Obama's nominee to be secretary of state once Clinton departs.
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Meet the people who have been pulled into the scandal that caused Gen. David Petraeus to resign.
But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and other Republican senators have made clear they will use any means they can to block her nomination if Obama does select her.
"I don't trust her," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said of Rice, calling her "more a political operative than she is anything else when it comes to Benghazi."
Obama defended Rice Wednesday, saying she had "represented the United States and our interests in the United Nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace… Should I choose, if I think that she would be the best person to serve America in the capacity of the State Department, then I will nominate her."
McCain on Wednesday introduced a resolution to create a special eight-member select Senate committee to examine the attack on the consulate. But McCain's proposal got a mostly chilly reception Wednesday from Chambliss and other senators.
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Best FREE Topo Road Map For My Handheld Garmin
For me when I purchased my Garmin 60CSx the base map which is included seems a bit lacking. It contains the main interstates but does not include simple highways let alone standard streets. I found this unusual because my Garmin Vista's base map had more than the 60CSx.
Either way the purpose for my 60CSx GPS was for geocaching and overall it works great. Yet sometimes I really wanted to have a topo view that showed if a geocache was on this side of a stream, river, pond or that. Sure you can fork over $80 - $100USD for one of Garmin's North America maps but I was looking for a more inexpensive solution and I believe I found it.
If you go to GPSFileDepot and select your country and/or state several options for free map addons become available to you. These add ons work with the MapSource software that should have come with your GPS unit. Once loaded on your PC you can select the map areas you want and load them onto your GPS. I highly recommend you purchase an SD card for the advantage of extra storage space for the saved maps on your GPS.
One of the free street maps that I liked is called Ibycus USA Map. It works well with the Garmin 60CSx but the auto road features do not. It is more of a template that rides on top of the original base map.
For US topo maps and depending what part of the country you are in is a set of maps from different parts of the Unites States. For North Carolina was South East United States. It will be renamed for what ever state you choose. The reason I liked this one so much was because it shows all the water marks. Right down to the small streams, ponds and other water areas that sometimes get missed. Again it is an overlay that rides on top of the base map but it really makes the difference while geocaching.
So the choice as always is yours. You can fork over the money and get fine maps from Garmin or if you would like a nice solution that costs you nadda. This is a great way to go.
See you out on the trails.
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- ldrain said...
I do believe these caused problems for me.
Please post your findings there.
- June 15, 2009 at 4:57 AM
- Unknown said...
As always, your results may vary. Please contact a geocacher before doing any gps interaction.... Okay just kidding. What issues did you have and we can post them just in case. With all electronic gizmos, stuff happens.. I just want to give solutions that can help.
- June 17, 2009 at 1:50 PM
- D. Gudger said...
Does this free map software interface with a Mac? Garmin's handhelds (the vista HCx) software is PC only. I couldn't download the software from the CD onto my computer. Groundspeak was able to bridge the "download to GPS" gap for me.
Is anyone reviewing/testing geocaching/Mac interfaces? No one could pay me enough money to go back to a PC :) Macs rule. IMHO, of course.
- June 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM


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Waylon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 147 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
We are a team of real estate professionals that began our careers with large corporate firms (each of us from different firms) We are seeking to form our own new company specialized in the investment sale of large manufactured housing communities ie. "mobile or trailer parks" This has become a professional business, so even though we would certainly enjoy the designs, please no logos with rusty old trailers.
This is somewhat tricky. Our target audience is mainly large institutional investment firms, including banks, REIT's, and insurance companies. However, we do not want to completely remove ourselves from the owner that owns two or three large properties. Here are a couple of websites to visit from our taget audience.
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MHC in the industry stands for "manufactured housing community" but we wanted to utilize it as "manufactured housing consultants" or the "manufactured housing connection"
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We had some thoughts as to making our Logo designed around the acronym SMHC.
We did look at the sample logo's pertaining to Fish on Fire on the home page at 99designs. We liked the modernization look and feel of most of those designs. Our goal is for our logo and the name of the company to provide people with the understanding that we are Real Estate Brokers selling Manufactured Housing Communities without having the "cheesy" rusty old trailer. However, a modernization through design of a "trailer home" might work. Please google airstream trailers to get an idea of what we could potentially modernize into a retro fitted design.
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Abstract: The announcement of a convertible bond call is associated with an average con- temporaneous abnormal stock price decline of 1.75% and an ensuing price recovery in the conversion period. A price fall and the subsequent recovery suggest price pressure as the explanation for the announcement eect. However, in a perfect capital market the option to convert is not exercised early and hence, the increase in the number of shares outstanding does not occur at the announcement date. Instead, this paper ar- gues and provides evidence that hedging-induced short selling is causing at least part of the short-run price pressure. Key words: Convertible bond calls; Hedging; Short selling; Price pressure; Underwriting JEL Classication: G14; G24; G32 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7165
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NEW YORK—North Castle Partners of Greenwich, CT, and J.W. Childs Associates of Boston, have signed a definitive agreement to sell Equinox Holdings Inc. for $505 million to The Related Companies, a New York City-based real-estate development firm.
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No one is really sure about the origins of Irish coffee. Some say a County Limerick bartender poured whiskey into coffee to warm up some American visitors in the '40s. Then, somehow, the drink migrated to a San Francisco bar with a travel writer in the early '50s. Regardless, the specialty brew is on just about everyone's menu these days, including many Baltimore taverns. We asked Mick O'Shea's Irish Pub (328 N. Charles St., 410-539-7504) to share its popular version ($5). You can easily make it at home, but as Baltimore 21201's blogger pointed out recently, "Making our own isn't the point. Irish coffee is something best shared with others." So be sure and invite some friends.
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Manuel García Ferré was born in Almeria, Spain, and moved to Argentina at the age of 17. There he started out working in advertising, while studying architecture at the University of Buenos Aires. His career as a caricaturist and comic artist commenced with the publication of 'Pi Pio' in Billiken magazine in 1952. The 'Pi Pio' strip also saw the first apparitions García Ferré's famous characters 'Hijitus' and 'Oaky'.
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[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Wednesday's Season 9 finale of Criminal Minds. Read at your own risk.]
The episode promo did not lie. A BAU member indeed left on Wednesday's Criminal Minds season finale: Blake (Jeanne Tripplehorn).
Picking up right in the middle of last week's cliff-hanger shootout that saw Morgan (Shemar Moore) take a bullet in the vest and Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) get shot in the neck (watch it here), the Season 9 closer opens with Blake tending to a fallen Reid, telling him, "Ethan, open your eyes."
Get the scoop on 39 must-watch season-endersWho's Ethan? Blake's son, who died at age 9 of a mysterious neurological disease. She spends the rest of the episode staring at a photo of Ethan and feeling guilt-ridden that Reid (who survives) took a bullet while defending her. After the case closes and Blake has a heart-to-heart with Rossi (Joe Mantegna ) — during which he reveals that back in the day, his first wife kicked him out after he prioritized his job and forgot their anniversary again — Blake tells Reid about Ethan as she's dropping Reid off at his apartment. "He was ready to go, but I wasn't ready to say goodbye," she says. "The cruelest part was I could see who he'd be at 20, but I knew he'd never get there." As Blake leaves and hails a cab, Reid finds her credentials in his bag.As for the case, the unsub isn't just one person, but the entirety of a corrupt small-town Texas police force that's led by Deputy Owen McGregor (guest star Michael Trucco) in a plan to target prostitutes who witnessed a staged murder a year prior. Just how dirty are they? One tries to poison Reid in the hospital, but is foiled when Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) shoots him with Reid's gun. The BAU later takes down McGregor & Co. after an intense showdown in a car junkyard.So what's the story behind Tripplehorn's exit? Will she be replaced? What did the text message say that Hotch (Thomas Gibson) received on the jet? What can we expect in Season 10? Executive producer Erica Messer answers our burning questions.
How did Jeanne's exit come about? Did she want to leave? Was it mutual?
Erica Messer: As things unfold toward the end of the season, when contracts are up and all that stuff, she and I discussed what we wanted to do with the character. We landed on this and Jeanne wasn't interested in a big, flashy exit episode.For me, the character she's been most connected to emotionally is Reid. Hotch and Rossi have known her longer, but she's closer to Reid — she was the first to know about Maeve and everything. And I just started wondering, "Why is that?" The more I thought about it and because I'm always wondering what makes these characters tick ... I started coming up with she had a child who died and what did he die of and maybe he died of something that wasn't named. As a linguist, that would drive you insane. All of these things started happening and because those two hours [of the two-part finale] are so big and the stakes are high, I felt like the quieter Blake story line would be nice juxtaposition.Is that why you never announced she was leaving? I think almost everyone was surprised by the promo last week.
Messer: Yeah. Jeanne didn't want it to be a big deal and we felt like that was in line with Blake too. I think it makes sense given the character we've known for two years. She's not a splashy, loud character. She didn't come in with a bang — she was already part of the team when we meet her. She came in nicely and she left nicely.It's definitely the most low-key exit you've had, not counting Seaver.
Messer: Definitely. It's funny because on the page it might seem unclear [if she's leaving], but when you see it, you know she's gone. ... The song that we have, which is an original song by Lily Kershaw [the daughter of show director Glenn Kersahw], the very first line is "Let me go," and that plays as Blake's walking down the stairs away from Reid.Did the message that Hotch received on the jet come from Blake?
Messer: It was intended to be a text from her, but we won't know for sure until next season.Have you talked about a replacement yet?
Messer: Not really. We're sort of like, "Let Season 9 end for real and for the world to see it" right now. And then after the summer break, we can all talk about that and what it might be and the wish list and all that. Or maybe the show will continue on with six members. That is a big discussion with a lot of people that we'll have soon.So it's not definite that she will be replaced?
Messer: Right. Every option is possible right now.
Fall Preview: Get your first look at all the new showsBlake is the third BAU member who's lost a child. JJ (A.J. Cook) had a miscarriage and Rossi's son died the day he was born. Is that purely coincidental, or did you want that to be a common thread between them?
Messer: I obviously am aware that the other characters have lost children. Every loss is horrific, but it's a very different thing for a child to be healthy and fine through kindergarten and then all of the sudden they get sick. I have a friend who lost a child at 7 years old. What I saw there was a pain that I couldn't take away for her and I couldn't imagine having. It's a sadness and a way of living that is unlike any other loss. Rossi never got a chance to be a dad. He had an idea and nine months of hoping and wondering. JJ is a mom and didn't have a chance at the second one right then, but hopefully she will one day. So it's a different kind of sadness and you either live it or you know someone's who's lived it. I think it will resonate in a different way than just simply "they all lost a child." It's a very different sorrow that sort of defines her in many ways. That mothering instinct for her was there. You saw it with her and Reid, but like she said [about Ethan], "I could see what he would look like at 20, but I knew he'd never get there." She sees Reid and thinks her boy could've been like him when he was older. It connects the dots of their relationship. Her not emotionally connecting to cases — she's seen the worst possible thing she could've seen: her child die.It does inform her character more. She's private and closed-off and does long-distance with her husband.
Messer: Exactly. That's what we look at when we realize a character is going to go away. What did we know about them? What have we only thought as the writers? What did the actor think as the character? We've written a lot of people out at this point. [Laughs] So it only makes sense to look at the history of the character and what we know about them and what would make sense in their departure. For her, it was a more emotional exit.You've had a lot of cast turnover, but you've never killed anyone off.
Messer: Just Strauss! Jayne [Atkinson] wasn't a regular though. ... I think killing them off would be a hard thing to do and for an audience member to watch. It was hard with Strauss. I know how connected we are to the characters and fans of the show are too. I feel like it would be the death of a friend if we had to kill anyone off. That seems almost harsh. This way, they can always come back.What did you think of the promo spoiling that Reid survives and someone was leaving?
Messer: I know! I was like, "Wait a minute! We've got to milk that, guys!" [Laughs] But it is kind of a bummer that the promo gave that away. The [exit tease wasn't as bad] because you could still think it was Reid if it didn't show him awake. Obviously he was still in danger after he woke up. ... But I mean, given that any time there is a cliff-hanger like that, everybody watches the promo. The fact that it gave it away, I was like, "What?! Are you crazy?!" Have you settled on how this whole ordeal will affect Reid? Will he fall off the wagon and abuse Dilaudid again?
Messer: My hope is that he doesn't go down the Dilaudid path again! [Laughs] But that's stuff for us to discuss at the beginning of the summer when the writers all come back. That's certainly a very real thing we could make a story out of or just something that we're aware of moving forward. ... Same thing with Garcia shooting someone for the first time. It's interesting because I had written it and I was like, "I should talk to Kirsten before, to make sure she's OK with it." I said, "Here's why. You're saving Reid's life," and she was like, "Right on. Absolutely!" We'll deal with that, but truthfully, she didn't kill him; she just shot him and I feel like when you see the scene, you might be satisfied with the way it is.
Add new fall shows to your Watchlist!This could be a good link for Reid and his mom if Jane Lynch can come back.
Messer: Exactly. I really want to get Jane back again. This will be interesting to see how we pull that off and if it's right away. Because Glee's in its final season, maybe it's something we can't get to until later in the year. What do you have planned for next season?
Messer: Not much yet. There's a version where we pick up the next day. There's a version where we pick up and summertime's gone by just like in real life, so I don't know yet. We're just unplugging from the show in the next few weeks and the beauty of that is when the writers get back together, we can say, "I thought of this. What do you think?" We had such an amazing year. All of the writers are back for Season 10 and it felt like everybody needed to walk away for a bit. These last two episodes took a lot out of everyone. It's a lot of work, but the payoff is great. But everybody needed to enjoy their break this year because last year, we couldn't enjoy it as much since we didn't [get the early renewal], so everybody was afraid to go on vacation and afraid to do anything. This year, the minute we got that pickup, we were like, "OK, we're good? Who wants to go to Paris?" Not like that, but you know. I think Season 10 is going to hold a lot of fun stuff for us to do.What did you think of the Criminal Minds finale? Who would you like to replace Blake?(Full disclosure: TVGuide.com is owned by CBS.)


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