washington nationals
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
On a day when one Washington pitcher was performing in vain to keep his spot in the starting rotation, the poor showing of another Nationals arm may have brought its owner’s role on the team nearer to jeopardy.
Closer Matt Capps gave up three earned runs in the ninth inning Sunday at Nationals Park. He blew his fourth save in his past six chances, and although the Washington bats kept him from also being charged with the loss, the Nationals did eventually fall to Cincinnati, 5-4, in 10 innings.
“I [stunk] today,” Capps said. “There’s no if, ands or buts about it. I missed on a lot of pitches. That one’s on me.”
Washington tied the score in the bottom of the ninth on a two-out, two-RBI double by pinch hitter Mike Morse. The Nationals’ brief offensive spurt atoned for a poor outing by Capps, but it could not be sustained long enough to provide a cheerier end to a solid outing by starter Craig Stammen.
When his day — and perhaps temporarily his time in the major leagues — was through, Stammen stole a brief glance at the Nationals Park scoreboard. Through 6 2/3 innings, he had thrown just 66 pitches. He had allowed just one earned run. He had recovered successfully from a shaky first inning.
For the past several weeks, Stammen had known the start would come in which he would be forced to declare — at least for the time being, if not once and for all — whether he deserved to keep his spot in the team’s pitching rotation when the organization’s most prized prospect, Stephen Strasburg, finally was called up from the minor leagues.
With Strasburg set to debut on Tuesday, that start for Stammen came Sunday. With an ERA approaching six and the burden of a pitcher that had not been credited with a win in nearly seven weeks, Stammen took the mound cognizant that even a strong performance against Cincinnati — one of the top-hitting lineups in the National League — might not be enough to alter his fate.
“The proof is in the pudding,” Stammen said. “I knew I was kind of one of the guys that was in line for that. I haven’t been very consistent, and that’s just the way it is.”
blank check
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
If a mortgage banker who handed out irresponsible loans during the housing bubble were now to send each client a small check toward a new nest egg, the gesture would feel a lot like “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” an act of restitution for prior misdeeds of reality television. The series (beginning on Wednesday on Bravo) submits practitioners of fine art to the gladiator competitions of lowbrow culture, giving painters and sculptors and photographers a shot at the celebrity now enjoyed by so many service professionals and idle wives in Orange County. This is cable television as a National Endowment for the Arts grant.The comparison makes “Work of Art” sound vaguely tedious, which it is decidedly not. The series puts 14 creative people in competition with one another and presents them with the requisite challenges that bruise and banish the unworthy. You could say that this subjects potentially high-minded cultural visionaries to the coarse commercialism of “Shear Genius,” or you could more generously analogize the project to traditions of the ancien régime. Beginning during the reign of Louis XIV, the Prix de Rome awarded money and prestige to artists who proved themselves through similar contests of elimination. The only difference: the process was never shown in one-hour increments right after “Top Chef Masters.”
nm game and fish
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
SANTA FE, N.M. – A state Supreme Court hearing on June 23 will center on whether to remove Public Regulation Commissioner Carol Sloan from office because of felony battery and burglary convictions. The court will consider Attorney General Gary King’s to oust Sloan, who was found guilty of attacking another woman who she alleged was having an affair with her husband.
HOBBS, N.M. – A Hobbs man has been ordered to pay the state $10,000 for poaching a trophy mule deer in 2007. State Game and Fish officials say 
27-year-old Bradley Smith contested the civil judgment and two criminal counts of poaching but state District Judge Don Maddox of Lovington determined evidence established the value of the deer was at least $10,000 and ruled in the state’s favor.
SANTA FE, N.M. – Starting tomorrow, the New Mexico Game and Fish Department is putting the results of hunting license drawings online. Hunters who applied for 2010-2011 deer, elk, antelope, ibex, javelina, bighorn sheep and Barbary sheep licenses can check drawing results on the department’s website, www.wildlife.state.nm.us.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico’s tax department has a new tax amnesty program that will allow New Mexico businesses and residents to avoid interest and penalties while catching up on unreported taxes due prior to 2010. State tax officials estimate the amnesty program could bring in $7 million.
GALLUP, N.M. – Gov. Bill Richardson has appointed Cynthia Sanders to the Magistrate Court bench in McKinley County. Sanders retired from the McKinley County Magistrate Court in 2006 after a twenty-five year career that included work as clerk and judicial manager. Sanders replaces John Carey, who resigned after 30 years on the bench.
CARLSBAD, N.M. – The Carlsbad City Council is expected to make its final decision today on a new police chief. Three finalists include Thomas Whitten, who was a chief of police in Iowa and assistant chief of El Paso police. The other two are Carlsbad resident David Edmondson, who’s currently commander of The Pecos Valley Drug Task Force, and Louis A. Medina, who’s a licensed private investigator in Rio Rancho.
FARMINGTON, N.M. – The Four Corners Regional Airport in Farmington has had five consecutive months of increases in passenger boardings. City officials attribute the rise to advertising and added destinations plus flights to Las Vegas that were added in early April. The uptick follows a 31 percent decline in passenger boardings in 2009 from the year before.
Acadia national park
Acadia national park, Acadia National Park Off the Atlantic coast of Maine, Acadia National Park is made of up 30,300 acres of mountains, shoreline, woodlands and lakes… adventures in nature. Petrified Forest National Park (image credits: Ze Eduardo , HoomaHooba ) Petrified Forest National Park can be found in the Four Corners of the Southwest. Here, you can find… National Park Found in practically a paradise, Haleakala
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