| Filling Dontrelle's shoes _ Marlins' Miller will try
The Florida Marlins' never-ending, attendance-deflating cycle of purging payroll and revamping the roster reaps an occasional gem, and Andrew Miller could be one. The 6-foot-6 left-hander looks impressive merely throwing bullpen sessions this week at spring training. He delivers a darting fastball with a fluid motion, which makes him quite a contrast to herky-jerky Dontrelle Willis, the pitcher Miller will try to replace in the rotation. "I've got a great opportunity," the 22-year-old Miller said. "I'm going to try and take it." He was one of six players acquired by Florida in the December trade that sent Willis and slugger Miguel Cabrera to the Detroit Tigers. The Marlins made the deal hoping Miller is ready for a starting role less than two years after he was taken by the Tigers as the sixth overall pick in the 2006 draft.
Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: Break away from baking the same old ...
Quick breads are so easy to make. You don't need yeast, rising times, kneading, or much fuss. Just combine the dry and the wet ingredients, stir just enough to moisten, pour into a pan, top with something like streusel or sugar, and bake. Unfortunately, we get stuck with the cliches of quick breads -- banana bread, date nut bread,and corn bread, plus maybe some blueberry muffins. And that's it. Boring!! If you're into creating something easy and imaginative, then you need a copy of "Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More." It's written by Carole Walter, winner of a James Beard Award, and she's provided 200 outstanding recipes. Most are quite simple, but she's also included a few challenges -- croissants, bear claws, Danish pastry and yeasted breads like babka.
Transition Housing Part I
Here's how their investment plan works.There are three parts:1. Dimension real Estate;2. Pinnacle Real Estate, the real estate management arm of New Hope;3. and then there's New Hope, the organization.Dimensions Real Estate is the matchmaker. When Dimensions finds a home, it line's up an investor. Then Pinnacle Real Estate comes in and buys the home. Then that same agency sells the property back to the investor. The investor then leases the house back to Pinnacle for five years, who then holds it for New Hope. New Hope uses the leased property for their inmate program, charging the ex-inmates what they refer to as program fees. "If we make this a successful model than other companies will do this also, they'll go look this works, it helps people, we create income and it's good for everybody," says Mayer.But new hope doesn't stop making money there, take a look.Each ex-inmate pays between 350-400 dollars to live in one of these homes.
Michael Pointer: Purdue Q&A
Question: When will the Purdue quarterback actually look off his primary receiver and go through his progressions? From what I saw Saturday, come-heck-or-high-water, Curtis Painter is going to throw to his primary, even if there is a crowd. And, on two of those interceptions, no Boiler receiver was in the area. I haven't seen anyone say that a receiver zigged when he should have zagged. Were those interceptions all on Painter? Quotes from coaches and Painter seem to suggest so. (Mike from Kokomo)
Answer: Mike, I have covered four quarterbacks since I've been on the Purdue beat: Brandon Hance, Kyle Orton, Brandon Kirsch and Painter. (I missed having the pleasure of covering Drew Brees.) I heard that complaint about everyone of them, including Orton, who had 31 touchdown passes and just five interceptions as a starter.
Improved Technology to Achieve Hydrogen Fuel by Mimicking ...
This is exactly what plants do during the photosynthesis: stealing the hydrogen of the water using light. Hydrogen would be a very clean fuel, and a recent Penn State research has made a step further towards this direction. "This is a proof-of-concept system that is very inefficient. But .
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