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Coming off a 2018 season in which the team won 90 games but drew Major League Baseball's second-worst home attendance average (14,258), the Rays are hoping to improve the atmosphere at the Trop while they continue to seek a brand-new facility. Owned by former Goldman Sachs partner Stuart Sternberg, the Rays since 2005 ...
"These renovations mark our continued commitment to providing a first-rate fan experience at Tropicana Field," Rays president Matt Silverman said, as reported by MLB.com. "Together, in concert with the reduction in seating capacity, these investments will help create a more intimate, entertaining and appealing experien...
Intimacy over capacity has been a trend in sports venue design and renovation that AB has followed in recent years.
● Redoubling the organization's commitment to sustainable energy practices by replacing the existing field lights with energy-efficient LED lights, improving overall on-field playability and entertainment lighting throughout the ballpark.
In this Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, Larry King arrives at Trump Tower in New York. King says he battled lung cancer this summer but appears to have the disease at bay.
Veteran broadcaster Larry King says he battled lung cancer this summer but appears to have the disease at bay.
The former CNN host, who is 83, told Us Weekly that a spot on his lung was noticed this summer during a routine check-up. He said he had surgery in July. The tumor was malignant but King said it was found at such an early stage that his doctor told him he was lucky.
King has had health issues in the past, including a heart attack and prostate cancer. He was a smoker but gave it up after his heart attack in the 1980s.
King keeps working. He told the magazine that his secret wish is to do six months on Broadway, telling stories and taking audience questions.
Martha Stewart, who is no stranger to the Palm Beaches, says on her Instagram account she is stranded in Florida like so many other holiday travelers.
From all of her posts on Instagram (scroll down to view), she appears to be making the best of her plight by visiting the Palm Beach's most prominent places.
Today, she posted that she visited Florida Power and Light's Manatee Lagoon in Riviera Beach where more than 150 giant manatees are visiting because of the warm waters put out by the nearby power plant. In West Palm Beach she dropped by the ' Trindy Gourmet ' on North Rosemary even telling her friend Snoop Dogg that th...
While she has been in town she says she's visited the renovated spa at the Breakers, watched the Bahama's Paradise Cruise Line come in and out of port, visited Dr. Oz's Mizner home on Palm Beach, checked out rainbows, got a super colossal from Carmine's, visited Hall Hardware, watched kite surfers, and Morikami Museum ...
She even met a young baker who came over and introduced himself in Palm Beach.
Martha certainly knows how to get stranded in style.
Because we are out and about- waiting for a new flight- we are eating @trindygourmet on north Rosemary west palm beach Snoop where are you? This is your kinda place!!!!
I am stranded in Florida like many other holiday travelers and I am looking for great things to do here in semi frigid temperatures-? it is really inclement here And I am worried about the farm crops abd citrus crops! But I know it is even worse up north where people cannot even get to work and pipes are freezing and t...
The 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival has its program. The 32nd annual event, which runs February 1-11 in the coastal California burg, will open with the world premiere of director Phillip Baribeau’s Charged, a documentary about chef Eduardo Garcia, who lost a hand among other injuries after being shocked ...
The festival will offer films from more than 50 countries, including 51 world premieres and 64 U.S. premieres, along with tributes with the year’s top talent, panel discussions and free community education and outreach programs. Among those set for awards at SBIFF are Jeff Bridges, Denzel Washington, Emma Stone, Ryan G...
The closing night film was announced in October as Lone Scherfig’s period dramedy Their Finest. Check out the full lineup of films, galas, honors, panels and programs here.
A pair of young white-tailed sea eagles have bred for the first time in Ireland in over a century.
The breeding pair – a four-year old male and three year-old female reintroduced here from Norway – have chosen an island on Lough Derg to nest, and are currently incubating their young.
The pair had settled in the Mountshannon area of Clare early last year, and began to build their nest in early April.
Dr Allan Mee, Irish White-tailed Sea Eagle Reintroduction Programme project manager with the Golden Eagle Trust, told The Irish Times that it would be at least three weeks before the young hatched.
He described it today as a “truly momentous event for Clare and Ireland”, and appealed to the public to give the birds space. The trust has applied for an exclusion zone through the National Parks and Wildlife Service to ensure that the birds are not disturbed, and public viewing of the island will be facilitated at Mo...
The pair were released in Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry, and this is the first known nesting since the programme began in co-operation with Norway. The project is funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in partnership with Golden Eagle Trust.
Norumm Myklebust of the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), expressed delight at the development, and said that the institute was proud to have co-operated in the programme.
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan has also welcomed the development.
“Already the white-tailed eagles are a wonderful asset to tourism around Killarney and wider afield in Kerry, and their spread will benefit business as well as giving joy to anglers and naturalists around the Shannon,”Mr Deenihan has said.
White-tailed sea eagles, which were driven to extinction here in the early 20th century, are a protected species and it is an offence under the Wildlife Act to willfully disturb birds at the nest during the breeding season. To date, some 20 of the 100 birds introduced have been discovered dead, mainly due to poisoning.
The re-introduced birds have dispersed widely over the past four years, with at least six flying to Scotland, one flying over 2,000km to the Orkney islands and then returning to Kerry, and many crossing the border to the North.
A Melton councillor who was due to become Mayor next month says he is ‘disappointed’ he won’t now get the chance to perform the role after deciding not to stand in the upcoming local elections.
Tom Greenow was named as Deputy Mayor when Councillor Pru Chandler was elected Mayor last May and the deputy is normally appointed to the top civic post the following year.
But Councillor Greenow, the representative for Melton Warwick for the last four years, says his work commitments as head of sales at the town’s livestock market and his family life as the father of a six-month-old baby meant he did not have enough free time to serve for another term.
He told the Melton Times: “It wasn’t an easy decision to make to not stand this time.
“I am disappointed not to become Mayor because I was looking forward to it.
“But my workload is bigger at the market and we are working now with Louth livestock market which involves me being up there some of the week.
“I also have a young family and they have to come first.
A spokesperson for Melton Council confirmed that a new Mayor would now need to be sought and the role will be filled, through a vote by members, at the full council meeting on May 16.
Melton Warwick ward will now be electing two new councillors at the borough poll on May 2 with Councillor Julia Hurrell also not standing for another term.
Caroline Arkless (Green) will battle it out at the ballot box with Labour candidate Tim Litt and Conservative candidates Chris Fisher and Alison Freer-Jones.
Council leader Joe Orson, who represents the Conservatives, faces opposition for his Old Dalby seat in the shape of Green Party candidate, Kim Lee, a former Ruland county councillor and a deputy leader of that authority.
Melton Council’s deputy leader, Leigh Higgins, will compete or his Somerby ward seat with Liberal Democrat, Hamish McAuley.
Steven Carter (Ind); Ronnie de Burle (Con); Mal Sheldon (Con).
Pru Chandler (Con) & Donald Pritchett (Ind).
Alan Hewson (Ind) & Mike Hollingworth (Con).
Pam Baguley (Con); Christopher Evans; Mel Steadman (Con).
Rob Bindloss (Con); Jeanne Douglas (Con); Frank Duckworth (Ind); Mark Frisby (Ind); Marilyn Gordon (Ind); David Ogden (Lab).
Pat Cumbers (Con); Alan Pearson (Con); Philip Wood (Green); John Wyatt (Con).
Mike Brown (Lab); Peter Faulkner (Con); Sue Karran (Lab); Amanda Reeves (Green); John Reeves (Green); Rebecca Smedley (Con).
Margaret Glancy (Con); Simon Lumley (Con); Alastair McQuillan (Green); Pam Posnett (Con); John Scutter (UKIP).
Tej Bains (Con); John Illingworth (Con); Rosie Johnson (Green); Peter Karran (Lab); Jacob Wilkinson (Con).
Caroline Arkless (Green); Chris Fisher (Con); Alison Freer-Jones (Con); Tim Litt (Lab).
Kim Lee (Green) & Joe Orson (Con).
Leigh Higgins (Con) & Hamish McAuley (LD).
Elaine Holmes (Ind) & Keran Turakhia (Con).
Summary: The Russian Duma elections are scheduled for December 4. Carnegie hosted a media conference call with Dmitri Trenin in Moscow and Matthew Rojansky in Washington to discuss the election and its implications on Russia and its foreign policy.
The Russian Duma elections are scheduled for December 4. Carnegie hosted media conference call with Dmitri Trenin in Moscow and Matthew Rojansky in Washington to discuss the election and its implications on Russia and its foreign policy.
TOM CARVER: Good morning. My name is Tom Carver. I’m the vice president for communications and strategy at Carnegie Endowment. And this is an on-the-record media conference call on the upcoming Russian parliamentary elections on Sunday.
With me, I’m pleased to say, we have Matthew Rojansky, who is deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program at Carnegie and has worked on Russia and national security issues for a long time, and is also involved in the Dartmouth Dialogues. And on the phone from Moscow is Dmitri Trenin, the head of our Moscow Center...
So the way this will work is we’ll do – it’s all on the record. I’ll ask a couple of questions to Matt and Dmitri about the elections. If, at any stage, anyone wants to jump in and ask questions, please feel free to do so. The purpose is for your benefit, for the media, and as I say, it is on the record. And a full tra...
So maybe I could just turn to you both. You know, Dmitri, from your perspective, where you’re sitting in Moscow, and Matt here in Washington, how do you see these elections unfolding on Sunday? Do you think there will be any surprises that we haven’t, perhaps, anticipated? Matt?
MATTHEW ROJANSKY: Well, I’ll start. You know, I think this election is very much about continuity. It is, however, a test. It is an inflection point for Putin, and, I think, in a broader sense, as a shorthand for the Putinist system, if you will, which has now existed for more than a decade. It’s a system that depends ...
That’s not to say that it’s a fully democratic system, but that system can’t be sustained without, at least, the process – going through the motions of the election. And so how the process runs, whether it happens smoothly, whether Putin’s ruling United Russia party comes out of the elections appearing to be strong, ap...
It’s not a traditional political, democratic test, as we’d have in the West, but it is nonetheless, I think, a test.
DMITRI TRENIN: Well, Tom, let me make four very quick points. First, the nature of the Russian political regime and the importance of elections – I would agree with Matt that elections are indispensable for legitimizing the rule of those in power. But the regime itself is best described as mild authoritarianism rather ...
My next point would be that the Russian constitution makes Russia a presidential, or as some say, super-presidential republic, but the Duma election is important. And this is the election that will take place on Sunday. This election is important as a prelude to the presidentials, which will be in March, and as a gauge...
My third quick point would be that that doesn’t relate to the general forecast. The ruling party, United Russia – it’s not very much of a party. It’s more of a collection of government bureaucrats. It stands, probably, to lose its current two-thirds majority in the Duma. It may get a simple majority. The public opinion...
The Communist Party is 15-plus percent, followed by the nationalists who are incongruously called Liberal Democrats – that’s 10-plus percent. And the self-described social democrats, another Kremlin creation, which is called the Just Russia party, may get about the 7 percent threshold. Other parties will continue to la...
And my very last point, of the day after: I see a lot of resentment and grudging in the air. A lot of people are unhappy with the authorities, and they’re out to vent their anger against Mr. Putin’s party. The authorities are taking no chances. There are 50,000-plus policemen from around Russia who will be on hand on S...
There are many thousands of the younger followers of United Russia to make sure that there is no attempt to have a challenge to the official result of the election. So there is a fear of a mass rejection of the results of the poll. But again, I would conclude by saying that although you have that resentment in the air,...
MR. CARVER: And what is, (though ?), the biggest source of resentment? I mean, is it a sense that Putin has been in power too long, or is it the corruption? Is it the economy? I mean, what is driving people’s frustration, Matt, would you say?
MR. ROJANSKY: Well, you know, I would first point out that I do not think frustration is at a boiling point in December of 2011. And I agree with Dmitri that this is very much important as a prelude to March of 2012, the Putin return to the presidency. I don’t even expect that it’ll be at such a point at that point. I ...
That said, I think the frustration you have is certainly in the liberal camp, but that’s a relatively small and marginal camp. People would agree with what you said, Tom: It’s been too long. Putin’s got to go. He shouldn’t have come back in the first place.
But I think the broad swathe of folks in the middle, their frustration is about the perception that they may see economic stagnation – that the modernization, eliminating the corruption, making business more rationable (sic) and more accessible – the things that they wanted to make the entrepreneurial environment just ...
And they now don’t really see a light at the end of the tunnel. Medvedev, for a moment, was that sort of glimmer of hope. You know, Putin has adopted some of Medvedev’s rhetoric, but I think everybody is starting to feel that the reality is going to be continuity with a kind of negative twinge – continuity with a twing...
And I think that’s the frustration. But that’s not something that pushes people out into the streets as long as they can buy enough food, as long as they continue to get paid, they can put gas in their cars. And all of those things remain true in Russia for the short term. So it’s a mid-term to long-term scenario, and ...
MR. TRENIN: Well, I think I would agree with that. The thing is that for the wide majority of people, it’s their daily lives that are most important, clearly – not what they consider right for the nation. It’s not even so much the resentment against Putin as staying too long in power.
The way Russia is – the Russian political system is constructed – with monopolized power at all levels – if you have a problem, then you know that it’s the people in power who are responsible for your problem. At least that’s what you think. And then you vent your frustration against the ruling party, against the sitti...
And they’re trying to buy popular support by all sorts of promises, which are being made in a pretty lavish manner by both President Medvedev, who is the official head of the party list – of the United Russia party list – and by the former and future president Putin.
MR. CARVER: OK. Let’s just pause to see if anyone wants to jump in at this stage. Has anyone got any questions they want to ask now?
Dmitri, yesterday you had an op-ed in The New York Times about the – kind of what you call the asymmetrical relationship between the U.S. and Russia, and the way in which Russia continues to look at the U.S. through the, kind of, prism of the Cold War. Is there – is that, do you think – you know, now that we know that ...
MR. TRENIN: It’s an interesting question. So first of all, in an election season, you’re bound to have a bit more nationalism against – a bit more critique of U.S. foreign policy than you have between elections. And Medvedev’s remarks on ballistic missile defenses clearly have a domestic angle to them. However, I need ...
This opening, this outreach to the West, this talk of modernization and modernization alliances with the West, all this has been – the reset with the United States – all this has been approved by Vladimir Putin. So Putin is, above all, a pragmatist. He is a very conservative person. I think he bears a huge grudge, stil...
MR. CARVER: And Matt, from Washington end, I mean – is the kind of re-anointing of Putin a setback, a major embarrassment for Obama? Because they did kind of put their eggs in the Medvedev basket.
MR. ROJANSKY: I think it’s a challenge for continuity on the reset. You lose the – at least, the functional-level personal relationship that you had between Obama and Medvedev. Remember, these are two guys who have literally had more than a dozen hours of direct phone calls, one head of state to another.
You know, you can’t do that – you can’t call the prime minister, then, when you’re the head of state and Medvedev has been demoted to prime minister. You won’t be having these meetings at summits the same way you did, so the personal relationship is lost. And that was an important dimension.
The other thing is, I think, politically, it just becomes much, much harder on both sides to sustain the momentum of constant contact. You know, on the Russian side, you had officials at the mid-level, at the high level, who were taking part in these bilateral commission meetings on everything from health to energy to ...
If you’re anticipating the return of Vladimir Putin, somebody whose reputation, at least, is for not being particularly excited about engagement with Washington, you’re going to be much more cautious about, you know, how many trips you take to Washington, how much outreach you do. And we’re already beginning to see tha...
The other thing is, there have been some concrete steps lately that have been very troubling. You know, the United States has suspended cooperation on conventional forces in Europe, which basically means we’ve eliminated transparency about, you know, where NATO has got our conventional forces, and revealing that to the...
At the very same time, the Russians have said they’re going to position missiles to potentially threaten American missile defense in Europe, because they’re dissatisfied with our approach to cooperative missile defense. So we have a lot of very – we have storm clouds gathering. I think that’s really the problem. And th...
MR. CARVER: And do both of you feel that the Russian people, generally, are in a different position to Putin in regard to the United States? Are they kind of – do they feel warmer to the U.S. than Putin does?
MR. ROJANSKY: You have to remember that, you know, “the Russian people” is not a single actor by any stretch. You have Russians today who literally spend more time in Europe and the United States than they do in Russia, and that’s really different than in Soviet times. So Putin doesn’t have nearly the level of control ...
What that means is he can try to sell a message. He can, sort of, lay everything at America’s doorstep, or at NATO’s doorstep, and say, the problems you have are because of this outside force. There’s always going to be a set of the Russian population that disbelieves that, because they’re inherently skeptical and beca...
The problem is, the safety valve remains, which is that they can simply leave the society. And many of them do, you know, totaling millions of them. So I think for the bulk of the Russian population, which still has very limited prospects, economically, in terms of travel, education, et cetera, the message that they he...
MR. TRENIN: Well, I think I would distinguish between two things: U.S. foreign policy, on the one hand, and everything else about the United States, on the other hand. And I think that the attitude towards the United States as a nation, as a culture, as a civilization, is vastly more positive than the attitude towards ...
Typically, Russian public opinion, which, like public opinion in all countries, is primarily focused on – (inaudible) – typically, public opinion turns against U.S. foreign policy when there’s an international crisis in which the United States is using force. And that happened over Kosovo; that happened over Iraq. And ...
And I think that, again, there are very few people in Russia, even among the people who form the bulk of the Russian establishment, who really supported or thought positively of Moammar Gadhafi or his regime. Those people were not very supportive – let’s put it that way – of the methods used, you know, to help one side...
But again, even – I would still stress this point. It’s U.S. foreign policy versus the rest. Even the people who come over and spend time in the U.S. or in Europe who enjoy the good things of Western lifestyle, even those people can be very critical of America’s foreign policy.
I think that they are far less critical today than they were four years ago when the name of the United States president was George W. Bush. Obama has a better reputation among Russians across the board. But yet, it’s the fact that the United States has so much power, the fact that the United States exercises that powe...

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