| Negro League baseball player finally gets time to shine
Joe Scott's heroes were Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. He once played in an all-star game against Joe DiMaggio, but he never lived the dream of playing in the major leagues as a teammate to baseball's idols. Scott had at least two strikes against him. He was black, and he was short. At 5-7 and 162 pounds, he was playing in an all-star game in Canada once when a recruiter for the New York Yankees scouted him. .
ABC's 'Supernanny' begins filming in Lincoln
A brisk wind blows from the west, making it feel much colder than 34 degrees.A TV boom camera focuses on the empty residential streets.Headlights glow against the dreary gray sky. A shiny black Lincoln Taxi with a lit up orange sign, "London," atop rounds the curve. .
Scavenging for Superdelegates
As we went to bed last night, the juicy New York Times headline "Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama" tucked us in. The story explained the soon-to-be defection of Georgia Rep. John Lewis from Hillary Clinton's camp to Barack Obama's. Lewis is a superdelegate and a civil rights leader whose district voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in Georgia's Super Tuesday primary. If he officially defected, his change of heart was thought to be a bellwhether for all of Clinton's superdelegates whose districts voted for Obama. The Times reported that Lewis "said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention," but that Lewis was still weighing whether to officially endorse Obama. But after changing his mind on Clinton, he may be changing his mind on Obama.
City Hall credibility wrinkling our noses
The $450-million waterfront baseball stadium in St. Petersburg might be dead already. But if it isn't, its credibility suffered a deadly blow last week at the hands of the City Council. Most likely, the city will still go through the motions. But in the end, the decision will be up to the voters. The trouble is that the voters will have to believe that what the city is telling them is, uh, true. Which is a problem these days. To paraphrase Hamlet and a bunch of other guys through the ages, after this past week, I smell a rat - but it might not be the same rat you smell. So, let's compare rats. Let's say the stadium doesn't happen. What happens then to the waterfront site, now occupied by Progress Energy Park and Al Lang Field? The future of that site was much on the minds of residents during public hearings last year.
NKorea winter threatens food supply
An abnormally dry and mild winter has hampered the growth of some crops in North Korea, state media reported Monday in a development that could exacerbate the impoverished country's chronic food shortages. Temperatures rarely dropped below minus 5 degrees, Kim Mun Uk, an official at the North's Hydro-Meterological Service told the official Korean Central News Agency. There was also scant snow or rain in the capital, Pyongyang, or in western and eastern coastal regions between mid-December and Feb. 21, the report said. "This abnormal climate phenomenon has seriously affected the growth of autumn wheat and barley," KCNA reported. Since the mid-1990s, about 2 million people are believed to have died in North Korea from famine caused by natural disasters and economic mismanagement.
Bright future, gloomy ending for Northern Illinois gunman
Colorado's concealed carry law has beed in effect for FIVE YEARS now, and there hasn't been one incident of someone shooting someone"over a parking space of a girlfriend", despite plenty of college-age people elligible for concealed carry. When you tell lies, it's difficult to believe anything else you say. ANYONE.....find a report, from ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, of a concealed carry permit holder mis-using their firearm. I'll post a link that shows tens of thousands of incidents where someone defended themself with a firearm. .
15 things to do with leftover turkey
Taste the sauce. If it's too tart, add more broth.Remove from the heat, and whisk in the heavy cream and salt. Let cool slightly before making the enchiladas.
3. Fill a large skillet with enough oil to submerge a tortilla.Warm the oil over medium heat until a drop of water sizzles immediately. Fry each tortilla briefly in the oil, about 10 seconds per side. The tortilla should stay soft; if it starts to harden, it has been in the oil too long. Drain on paper towels.
4. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. With a pastry brush, spread a thin layer of sauce on both sides of each tortilla. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of shredded turkey in each tortilla, and roll loosely.
5. Set the enchiladas side-by-side in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, pour the remaining sauce over them, top with cheeses and bake until bubbling, 15 to 20 minutes.
Apple takes a foothold in fledgling business of online movie rentals
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Apple Inc. has redoubled its effort to distribute movies online, gaining a foothold in a promising but unproven business that could eventually bolster its other core products.
The tech giant launched a movie rental service at its online iTunes Store Tuesday and won the alliances of all six major movie studios to supply content.
Under terms similar to those at other online movie providers, rental prices range from $2.99 for library titles, $3.99 for new releases, and $1 extra for high-definition versions. The movies are ready to watch almost instantly over a high-speed Internet connection, and users have a 24-hour period to watch each movie once they start it.
The service, which launched in the U.S. on Tuesday and will roll out internationally later this year, will work on Macs, Windows-based machines, iPhones, iPods or the Apple TV set-top box.
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
The George S. May Company is going to join Magedson's corporate advocacy program. (Kushnir declined to say how much he's paying.) Basically, Kushnir will pay Magedson to reveal the complainants against the company, and then Kushnir can do what he would have wanted to do all along address them. Good news for Magedson. But not such good news for the people who had anonymously blasted George S. May. After all, Magedson will be giving them up. And if they're current employees, they're probably going to be in trouble with a capital T. Kushnir says he won't sue anybody he's learned his lesson but if it's a disgruntled secretary who called the founder a pedophile, it's hard to imagine things will end happily for her. Kushnir says he's happy with how things ended. But the incident does raise some ethical questions.
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