Black Scout Tutorials - Escape and Evasion: Bypassing Fences
In this episode, we continue with the Escape and Evasion topics and give some tips on bypassing fences. Hopefully you can take some of these tips with you if you come to a fence in an escape...
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) Its a happy day for hitters.
Mired in a streak of six straight losing seasons and hoping to boost offense, the New York Mets are moving in their fences at Citi Field for the second time.
The Mets unveiled the new dimensions Tuesday, which bring in the fences 3-to-11 feet in front of the bullpens in right field. Right-center field will be 380 feet, down from 390 the past three years and 415 in the ballparks first three seasons.
Trying to take the dimensions of the park out of the conversation, so its not something thats discussed in the clubhouse, its not discussed in the media, its not something our fans have to talk about, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said. We want the ballpark to be fair, but a few more home runs for us wouldnt be a bad thing, and a little more scoring is I think something most fans enjoy not all, not baseball purists by any means, but there arent a lot of baseball purists left.
New right-center field fence being installed at Citi Field on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. (Credit: Peter Haskell/WCBS 880)
Speaking in front of the new fence on a blustery afternoon with the temperature below freezing, Alderson said the teams research projected there would have been 27 additional home runs this year under the new dimensions. The Mets would have hit 17, including nine by Curtis Granderson and four by Lucas Duda.
According to STATS, Citi Field was last in the major leagues in home runs during its first three seasons with an average of 1.43 per game. The Mets cut the dimensions by as much as 12 feet after 2011 and lowered the fence height from 16 to 8 feet in left, and Citi Field jumped to 19th in home runs from 2012-14 at 1.79.
New York has built its team around pitching, with Matt Harvey returning next year following Tommy John surgery to join NL Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom and Zack Wheeler as the nucleus of a young rotation. Alderson acknowledged some might find bringing in the fences counterintuitive.
Id say there is less of a conscious effort to build the team around pitching than would be apparent, he said. Thats what our strength is, and so thats something we want to take advantage of. But its all relative. So if we have the kind of pitching that wont be adversely affected by a change like this and our hitters can take advantage of it, then from a comparative standpoint were better off.
Because the changes are in right field, they may not restore David Wrights power. He hit 70 home runs in 4 1/2 seasons at Shea Stadium but has just 46 in six years at Citi Field.
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Andrea Howland - IHSA Intermediate Over Fences
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Fences "Arrows" Live @ Cattivo in Pittsburgh 11/13/14
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PITTSBURG -- The city is lifting its ban on electric fences for businesses in industrial areas after being asked to do so by a company that sells them.
The City Council voted 4-1 in favor of amending its existing ban on electric security fences to allow conditional use for businesses in industrial-zoned areas, provided those business apply for a permit and agree to meet certain standards.
Both City Manager Joe Sbranti and Councilwoman Nancy Parent alluded to problems the city is having with ensuring that business owners adhere to existing conditional use standards for a similar ordinance on razor wire fences. Razor wire fences are banned unless they adhere to certain standards, but city officials said some businesses have installed razor wire fences that aren't up to code. Specifically, Sbranti said that many of the fences aren't adhering to the city's requirement that such fences be at least six feet above ground level and that some have been installed in areas where they aren't permitted.
"(The razor wire ordinance) is already not enforced," said Parent, who cast the lone "no" vote. "Are we just doing this because we don't enforce razor wire and somebody wants to do something worse?"
Sbranti said businesses that have been burglarized will sometimes install razor wire for security without checking with the city first, and such code violations aren't as high a priority as graffiti or safety code violations, in addition to being harder to detect.
A city staff report states that the original request to lift the ban was submitted to the planning commission by Carol Bausinger of Electric Guard Dog, a company based in South Carolina that sells electric fences and other security equipment. Nathan Leaphart, a spokesman for Electric Guard Dog, said they made the request after hearing from a Pittsburg business that wanted a fence.
"This would give us an opportunity to go to some of those folks who request the use of razor wire -- because they don't feel they can secure their property without it -- and be able to say to them, 'If you want another alternative, you could take this approach, which would be wall/electric fence approach and would perhaps have a greater effectiveness,'" Sbranti said.
Another city staff report on the issue says lifting the ban was necessary because "incidences of theft have increased since the beginning of the recession in 2007," but FBI crime statistics show that theft rates have been steadily decreasing since 2008 and are approximately 33 percent lower than they were in 2007. Sbranti acknowledged this but said the city has had a consistent problem with metal thieves targeting storage areas and that he thought electric fences were a safe, prettier alternative to razor wire.
"If you have a storage yard that's housing copper or metal, that's going to be a target for a thief," Sbranti said.
The way the ordinance works, companies that want to install an electric fence must first obtain a permit from the city's planning commission and agree to adhere to certain standards. The electric fences must be surrounded by a nonelectric fence that's no shorter than eight feet tall and has no space or gaps. They're also only allowed to be activated when "the public does not have legal access" to the site, even though specific time parameters aren't outlined. Leaphart said electric fences are safe and designed to avoid causing medical harm -- though touching them will hurt momentarily -- and that they exist mainly to scare people from trespassing.
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Updated NOV 18, 2014 7:12p ET
NEW YORK --Mired in a streak of six straight losing seasons and hoping to boost offense, the New York Mets are moving in their fences at Citi Field for the second time.
The Mets unveiled the new dimensions Tuesday, which bring in the fences 3-to-11 feet in front of the bullpens in right field. Right-center field will be 380 feet, down from 390 the past three years and 415 in the ballpark's first three seasons.
"Trying to take the dimensions of the park out of the conversation, so it's not something that's discussed in the clubhouse, it's not discussed in the media, it's not something our fans have to talk about," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said. "We want the ballpark to be fair, but a few more home runs for us wouldn't be a bad thing, and a little more scoring is I think something most fans enjoy -- not all, not baseball purists by any means, but there aren't a lot of baseball purists left."
Speaking in front of the new fence on a blustery afternoon with the temperature below freezing, Alderson said the team's research projected there would have been 27 additional home runs this year under the new dimensions. The Mets would have hit 17, including nine by Curtis Granderson and four by Lucas Duda.
According to STATS, Citi Field was last in the major leagues in home runs during its first three seasons with an average of 1.43 per game. The Mets cut the dimensions by as much as 12 feet after 2011 and lowered the fence height from 16 to 8 feet in left, and Citi Field jumped to 19th in home runs from 2012-14 at 1.79.
New York has built its team around pitching, with Matt Harvey returning next year following Tommy John surgery to join NL Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom and Zack Wheeler as the nucleus of a young rotation. Alderson acknowledged some might find bringing in the fences "counterintuitive."
"I'd say there is less of a conscious effort to build the team around pitching than would be apparent," he said. "That's what our strength is, and so that's something we want to take advantage of. But it's all relative. So if we have the kind of pitching that won't be adversely affected by a change like this and our hitters can take advantage of it, then from a comparative standpoint we're better off."
Because the changes are in right field, they may not restore David Wright's power. He hit 70 home runs in 4 1/2 seasons at Shea Stadium but has just 46 in six years at Citi Field.
"I'm not sure how you can argue this is being done for David's benefit," Alderson said. "This is being done for the benefit of our team as a whole. Other players will benefit far more than David."
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"We put a lot of time and effort into analyzing this decision," general manager Sandy Alderson said. "We believe these modifications will increase the number of home runs for our team, without hurting our own pitchers."
Though pitching is expected to be a strength for the Mets in 2015, Alderson quashed the notion that moving in the fences would be playing against the club's own strengths.
"It's all relative," Alderson said. "If we believe we have the kind of pitching that won't be adversely affected by a change like this -- which we do -- and our own hitters can take advantage of it, then from a comparative standpoint, we're better off."
Alderson said the club reviewed all the data from 2014 and determined that the Mets would have hit an extra 17 home runs under the new dimensions, while their opponents would have hit just another 10. He added that the majority of those 10 would-be home runs were served up by pitchers who were not part of the Mets' regular rotation.
Aside from the hard numbers, Alderson said that eliminating the field dimensions as a constant talking point should also benefit Mets hitters from a mental aspect.
7/11/14: Lucas Duda launches a two-run blast into the upper deck in right field for his 14th home run of the season
"We're trying to take the dimensions of the park out of the conversation, so it's not something that's discussed in the clubhouse, it's not discussed in the media and it's not something our fans have to talk about," Alderson said. "We want the ballpark to be fair, but a few more home runs for us wouldn't be a bad thing."
According to the Mets' calculations, the majority of those 17 extra home runs would have come from left-handed hitters. Curtis Granderson would have had an additional nine homers under the new dimensions, while Lucas Duda would have racked up another four and Daniel Murphy would have had one.
That doesn't mean, however, that the changes won't also help the club's right-handed hitters, including David Wright.
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Mets moving in portions of Citi Field fences
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The government has proposed erecting three-meter high fences around a large portion of the Legislative Council complex in Admiralty. They would be similar to the ones outside the forecourt of the Government Headquarters next door, known as the Civic Square. The proposal, which sources said was far from conclusive, was discussed at a meeting of the Legislative Council Commission on Tuesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, multiple sources told RTHK that the suggestion to erect the fences came from the Architectural Services Department which deals with the maintenance of the building. The three-meter high fences would, if built, cover a good portion of the complex including the sides facing the Government Headquarters, Tim Mei Avenue and Tamar Park. For the covered demonstration area north of the Council complex, it was proposed that heavy barricades weighing 50 kilograms each be placed there. The sources stressed no conclusion was reached at the meeting and there was no timetable as to when the issue will be discussed again. It was understood that pan-democratic lawmakers who attended the meeting strongly opposed the idea. One lawmaker said the public should be consulted about the proposal since the legislature had held a public consultation over its archives last year. Other pan-democratic legislators said all 70 lawmakers should be consulted. A pro-establishment lawmaker at the meeting remarked that putting up the fences would not be enough and that the legislature should have security measures that could guard against "terrorist attacks". The fences around the Civic Square are currently subject to a court challenge. Before the Occupy movement started, some pro-democracy student leaders climbed over fences to enter the Square, saying it was public space where public demonstrations had been allowed in previous years. The government, however, argued that protest in the area had always been subject to regulations. --RTHK
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Updated: Tuesday, November 18 2014 5:50 PM EST2014-11-18 22:50:49 GMT
The subway runs 24/7 and so do the NYPD's counter-terrorism patrols. Fox 5 got an exclusive look at what cops and police dogs are doing to keep us all safe.Chief Joseph Fox, the NYPD's Transit Bureau chief, briefed his officers on the latest intel, including heavily armed police from the T.O.R.C.H. Team. At the Times Square station entrance, officers perform a random bag checks.
The subway runs 24/7 and so do the NYPD's counter-terrorism patrols. Fox 5 got an exclusive look at what cops and police dogs are doing to keep us all safe.Chief Joseph Fox, the NYPD's Transit Bureau chief, briefed his officers on the latest intel, including heavily armed police from the T.O.R.C.H. Team. At the Times Square station entrance, officers perform a random bag checks.
Updated: Tuesday, November 18 2014 5:20 PM EST2014-11-18 22:20:57 GMT
The brutal killings of five worshipers including three Americans in a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday by two Palestinians wielding meat cleavers and a gun appears to be a lone-wolf attack, Israel's national police commissioner says.The violence was met with celebration from Palestinians, as revelers in the Gazan city of Rafah handed out candy and brandished axes and posters of the suspects in praise of the deadly attack, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The brutal killings of five worshipers including three Americans in a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday by two Palestinians wielding meat cleavers and a gun appears to be a lone-wolf attack, Israel's national police commissioner says.The violence was met with celebration from Palestinians, as revelers in the Gazan city of Rafah handed out candy and brandished axes and posters of the suspects in praise of the deadly attack, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Updated: Tuesday, November 18 2014 3:21 PM EST2014-11-18 20:21:26 GMT
The New York Mets are moving their fences in at Citi Field yet again.The Mets unveiled the new dimensions Tuesday, which bring in the fences 3-to-11 feet in front on the bullpens in right field and right-center. All other dimensions will stay the same.
The New York Mets are moving their fences in at Citi Field yet again.The Mets unveiled the new dimensions Tuesday, which bring in the fences 3-to-11 feet in front on the bullpens in right field and right-center. All other dimensions will stay the same.
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By U-T San Diego Editorial Board4:07 p.m.Nov. 18, 2014
Though their cities are separated by forbidding fences and other security that symbolize the divisions of American politics regarding our bilateral relationship with Mexico, the leaders of San Diego and Tijuana have nevertheless pushed for stronger ties for more than two decades. Mayors Kevin Faulconer and Jorge Astiazarn pushed the friendship further Tuesday, signing the first formal agreement between the two border cities since 1994.
The memorandum of understanding, signed at a ceremony featuring political and business leaders from both sides of the border at the San Diego Central Library, lays out a shared vision of issues that the two mayors agreed to pursue, including water and other infrastructure, border crossings, emergency services and economic development.
The hope here is that this agreement will be more than ceremonial flash with little substance. The issues highlighted in the agreement truly are areas where the two mayors can work together and make progress.
Despite the border fence, a strong argument can be made that San Diego and Tijuana have never been closer. Recent improvements at the San Ysidro border crossing and the scheduled opening next year of a pedestrian bridge linking San Diego with Tijuanas Rodrguez International Airport symbolize the growing connection. We congratulate Mayors Faulconer and Astiazarn on the new accord. And we urge them to vigorously pursue its implementation and its spirit of friendship.
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San Diego, Tijuana: Divided by fences, united in vision