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| + | "If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will," Obama pledged. "I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take -- now and in the future -- to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy." | ||
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| + | As part of the deal, Obama said his administration "will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits." | ||
| + | Similar ideas have surfaced on Capitol Hill before. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, included a plan for using drilling revenue to fund clean energy research in unveiling her "20/20" vision for U.S. energy policy last week. And two years ago, as a handful of senators tried to fashion a compromise on climate change legislation, one possible deal hinged on expanding offshore drilling in exchange for new limits on carbon emissions. | ||
| + | "The president was clear about the magnitude of the challenge and resolute in his determination to use his executive authority to take action, especially if Congress won't," said former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. | ||
| + | But some oil and gas industry leaders were skeptical. | ||
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| + | <html>The Toronto Blue Jays will try to replicate a stellar performance when they meet up with the Minnesota Twins at Rogers Centre on Saturday. | ||
| + | A brilliant pitching performance from Mark Buehrle and another blast from Jose Bautista lifted the Blue Jays to a 4-0 win in the first game of this series Friday night. | ||
| + | Buehrle pitched seven scoreless innings and did not walk a batter to earn his fifth win of the season and stop a three-game losing streak for the Blue Jays. | ||
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| + | Brian Dozier and Oswaldo Arcia each went 2-for-4 for the Twins but the rest of the team was a combined 3-for-26. Kevin Correia allowed all for Blue Jays' runs on 10 hits in his six innings of work. The Twins have lost six straight games and have yet to earn a win in July. | ||
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| + | The no-decision marked the eighth straight start in which Pelfrey either took a loss or did not factor in the outcome. | ||
| + | This start marks the first ever appearance for Pelfrey against Toronto. | ||
| + | Toronto will answer with their ace as R.A. Dickey gets the ball on Saturday. | ||
| + | Dickey certainly hasn't lived up to the expectations that were put on his shoulders this season after his NL Cy Young season a year ago. However, Dickey has still been the Blue Jays' best pitcher. | ||
| + | The knuckleballer's 8-8 record and 4.59 ERA are both the best of any starter for the Blue Jays while his 82 strikeouts are also a team-high. | ||
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| + | == BEIRUT- Syrian prison shelled, part of Aleppo battle == | ||
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| + | The U.N. warns the some 4,500 residents in besieged, rebel-held areas of Homs face a humanitarian catastrophe. On Friday, the divided U.N. Security Council failed to approve a statement calling on the Syrian government to allow immediate access to trapped civilians there. Russia, Syria's closest ally, demanded that the statement should also call for immediate access to the towns of Nubul and Zahra. | ||
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| + | == Jets' Burmistrov leaves for Russia == | ||
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| + | Groaning as he feebly tried to brush flies from his face, Kahuze said he and others from the Mai Mai militia also had been armed for battle by the Congolese army. | ||
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| + | The Red Cross, though, was only allowed to intervene and treat him after a phone call was made to an M23 spokesman. Now a prisoner of war, M23 said Kahuze would be taken to a hospital in their zone. | ||
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| + | <html>You can probably spend days coming up with different ways to fix Major League Baseball. But because we sit on the precipice of the All-Star Game, we might as well start there. | ||
| + | Actually, I never really had a problem with the game. It is an exhibition, and as a young kid growing up in New York there was nothing better than getting to see Don Mattingly hit against Doc Gooden. | ||
| + | It was an event for the fans and pretty much picked by the fans. | ||
| + | In fact, the All-Star Game has always been one of the few things MLB does right. In relation to the other major sports, the Mid-Summer Classic is the game that actually resembles a real contest. | ||
| + | But then came the 2002 contest at Miller Park and everything changed. Of course, commissioner Bud Selig called that game a tie after 11 innings because both teams had run out of substitute players. | ||
| + | Still, all these years later, it's amazing that actually happened. | ||
| + | But, it's even more mind-boggling that we are now going on 11 years since Selig decreed what should be a mindless exhibition game actually count and the winning league of the contest actually gets to host the World Series. | ||
| + | We all know why Selig initially created the "This Time it Counts" campaign. He wanted to drum up some interest in the event that had been globally mocked thanks to the events in his hometown of Milwaukee in 2002. | ||
| + | For one year, it would have been fine. It was something different. And let's face it, it made just as much sense as just alternating home field advantage year after year between the leagues. | ||
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| + | To the fans' credit, they have gotten it right more often than not the last few years, but would anyone have been shocked had Derek Jeter emerged as the AL's leading vote-getter at shortstop this year? | ||
| + | And if Selig wants to have fans believing that this game has some sort of extra meaning, shouldn't the players treat it as such? | ||
| + | Remember last year when AL starter Justin Verlander got rocked in the first inning? He admitted after the game that he was overthrowing because the fans wanted to see him throw 100 mph. | ||
| + | Now, he gets it. This is an event for the fans. That's why I try not to carry on over who gets snubbed in fan voting. But you can't have that sort of thinking dictate who gets home field advantage in the World Series. | ||
| + | And he was on the team that actually had to start the World Series on the road. | ||
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| + | If the game is going to be that important, you have to eliminate the ridiculous rule that states every team needs a representative. Are you trying to tell me that viewership for the game would have been any less in San Diego had Everth Cabrera not been chosen as an All-Star? | ||
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| + | Selig can't have it both ways. If you want to make it an exhibition for the fans, then you can't have it "count". | ||
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| + | On Sunday, a winnable game against an inefficient Rangers club that coughed up a 3-0 first-inning lead and allowed the Astros to tie the contest at 4 in the top of the fifth ended up being washed away by mental miscues and aggressive baserunning that backfired at the worst possible times. | ||
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| + | String of costly miscues | ||
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| + | In the second inning, rookie Marc Krauss blasted a 3-2, 92 mph fastball 404 feet to deep center field for his first MLB home run, pulling the Astros within 3-2. With Rangers rookie Justin Grimm (four innings, six hits, four runs, 83 pitches) clearly struggling, Brandon Barnes took off for second base with one out. Matt Dominguez swung through a 2-2 pitch, and Barnes was easily thrown out at second to end the inning and the Astros’ threat. | ||
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| + | In the fourth, the Astros again pulled within one run when J.D. Martinez’s two-out RBI single to right-center field made it 4-3 Rangers. But Martinez was picked off at first, again allowing Grimm to stay in the game. | ||
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| + | The fifth was a repeat of the second. Two Rangers throwing errors allowed the Astros to tie the game at 4. Reliever Cory Burns took over for Grimm, but Brett Wallace struck out and Jake Elmore was thrown out at second to finish off the Astros’ best opportunity of the day. | ||
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| + | “Those are situations where you’re putting the guy in motion based on the fact that you believe a guy’s going to put the ball in play, and it’s more of a run-and-hit than it is a hit-and-run,” Porter said. | ||
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| + | The Rangers (51-37) answered in the bottom of the fifth with a Nelson Cruz RBI single — a run set up by leadoff hitter Ian Kinsler’s reaching first on a ball that went beneath second baseman Altuve’s glove — and the Astros spent their final 12 outs striking out six times and leaving two men on base. | ||
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| + | “I felt like we had some chances offensively,” Porter said. “We just weren’t able to come up with the big hit.” | ||
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| + | There were two highlights for the Astros. Martinez went 3-for-4, raising his average to .256 during a season in which he’s quietly continued to assert himself as an everyday player. | ||
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| + | Krauss had the best moment. The rookie, a June 20 call-up from Class AAA Oklahoma City when Trevor Crowe was placed on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, is 4-for-8 during his last two games with four RBIs and seven total bases. | ||
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| + | Not all negative | ||
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| + | During a day dominated by former No. 2 starter Lucas Harrell’s demotion to the bullpen, the 25-year-old Krauss offered a reminder of what the Astros’ 2013 season was supposed to be about. | ||
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| + | As Krauss answered questions from reporters about his first big league homer — the ball was placed in a Ziploc bag, then safely stuffed inside an Astros travel bag — teammates Chris Carter and Barnes stared up at the 6-2, 235-pound former football player, trying to get the large rookie to break his concentration. | ||
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| + | Krauss deftly played along, smiling, laughing and joking back. | ||
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| + | He also embraced his personal victory during the Astros’ loss. | ||
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| + | “I’ll never forget that moment,” Krauss said.</html> | ||
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| + | The Senate repeatedly has approved a bill that would do just that, but representatives have gone back and forth on what is appropriate punishment for a juvenile. | ||
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