He has a solution for the Mets hitting woes at Citi Field. This ballpark is a nightmare for his hitters.

Were going to move in the fences about 25 feet, Collins said before Wednesdays 4-0 loss to the Yankees when asked how the Mets could continue their home run onslaught against the Yankees.

The combination of Masahiro Tanaka and their own ballpark was too much for the Mets to handle. This was the Yankees first Subway Series win after six straight losses to the Mets.

Tanaka was spectacular, pitching a complete game, four-hitter and even picked up his first major league hit as he struck out eight.

Afterwards, Collins said this about the frustration of Citi Field.

You asked me about the home run barrage. We hit three home runs tonight, we were just in the wrong park, Collins noted of balls hit deep for outs by David Wright, Daniel Murphy and Curtis Granderson.

Cavernous Citi Field is not Home, Sweet, Home, and those long balls were only outs as Mets fans in the crowd of 35,577 groaned.

All you had to do was look at the home and road averages of some of the Mets to understand moving in the fences once was not enough.

Do it again, Mets, move in the fences more.

Lucas Duda came in hitting .196 at home with three home runs. On the road he is batting .333 with one home run. Chris Young was batting .184 at home with two home runs and .294 on the road with one homer. Granderson was hitting .141 at home with one home run and is hitting .279 on the road with four home runs two of those coming in those previous two games at Yankee Stadium. Wednesday nights starting catcher Anthony Recker was batting .160 at home with no home runs and .353 on the road with two home runs.

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BJP leader Narendra Modi gestures during his speech at a rally on May 8, 2014, in Rohaniya, near Varanasi India. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

WASHINGTON - Indian elections results due Friday provide a chance to repair relations with the U.S. that were strained by the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York in December. But there's a big catch: Washington's uneasy relationship with the man expected to become India's next prime minister.

Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 for alleged complicity in religious riots in 2002 that killed more than 1,000 Muslims. Exit polls show his Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies with a large lead over the ruling Congress party and its allies after voting ended Monday.

The Obama administration started mending fences in February, when, for the first time in Modi's decade-long tenure as the top official in Gujarat state, the U.S. ambassador met with him. Officials since have said whoever is elected India's next leader would be welcome to the U.S., leaving little doubt that if Modi becomes prime minister, he could visit Washington.

On Monday, President Barack Obama congratulated India on its national election and said the U.S. will work closely with India's next government.

"We look forward to working with the leaders chosen by the Indian people to advance this important partnership and to set an ambitious agenda," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

But the controversy over Modi's visa could leave some hard feelings.

The Bharatiya Janata Party says Modi got a clean bill when investigators appointed by India's Supreme Court in 2010 did not find prosecutable evidence that Modi had willfully allowed the 2002 communal violence, but rights groups maintain there's strong evidence linking his administration with the attacks, and he remains a divisive figure. Last year, plans for Modi to address by video a University of Pennsylvania conference on the Indian economy were scrapped following opposition from Indian-American professors, alumni and students.

Still, Modi has friends in America, including successful Indian-American businessmen with roots in Gujarat, and he's steered clear of religious politics in the campaign. U.S.-based analysts and congressional aides say Modi has little foreign policy experience, but his pro-business outlook and focus on reviving India's flagging economy could help the relationship.

"The State Department will have to be very careful in how they manage re-engagement, but in other areas the BJP looks to America as a strong natural partner for defense and economic issues. We saw that the last time the BJP was in power," said Rick Rossow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington.

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Nairobi Wire fences booby-trapped with beehives are being built in five African countries to prevent elephants from raiding farms, while also providing local people with honey.

'Beehive fences' are now being put up in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda by UK charity Save the Elephant, says Lucy King, leader of the Elephants and Bees Project in Kenya - and they are already in use at three communities in Kenya.

The project, which is a collaboration between Save the Elephants, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, studies how to use the African bush elephants' instinctive avoidance of African honey bees to avoid crop losses.

King says conflicts between farmers and elephants are a growing problem, with the animals' encroachment onto farms causing massive crop losses.

But she tells SciDev.Net that it is easy to construct simple beehive fences using local materials.

"Hives are hung every 30 feet and linked together," says King. "If an elephant touches one of the hives or the interconnecting wires, the beehives all along the fence swing and release the stinging insects."

She says that a pilot study she led involving 34 farms on the edge of two farming communities in northern Kenya found beehive fences to be an effective elephant deterrent compared with traditional thorn bush barriers.

King says that in the study, which was published in 2011 in the African Journal of Ecology, elephants made 14 attempts to enter farmland and 13 of these were unsuccessful. In each case the elephants were forced to turn away from the area after confronting a beehive fence or walk the length of the fence to choose an easier entry point through a thorn bush.

Only once did elephants break through a beehive fence to eat crops, according to the paper.

More than a decade ago, research found that elephants avoid feeding on acacia trees with beehives in them, says King. "This was followed by behavioural experiments demonstrating that not only do elephants run from bee sounds, but they also have an alarm call that alerts family members to retreat from a possible bee threat," she says.

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Local H frontman Scott Lucas and former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin had never played together before last summer's Hot Stove Cool Music fundraiser, yet there they were again early this month performing their own soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein's landmark 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin" at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival.

A little cross-pollination can go a long way, particularly when you merge the worlds of music, baseball and charity.

The date and lineup for Chicago's third annual Hot Stove Cool Music concert are being announced Tuesday with even more emphasis on finding new lineups on the city's deep musical bench. Imported from Boston by Cubs President Theo Epstein and scheduled for June 20 at the Wrigleyville club Metro, the show will feature an "all-star" lineup including returning players Chamberlin and Lucas as well as Rage Against the Machine/Bruce Springsteen guitarist Tom Morello, Wilco/The Autumn Defense bassist John Stirratt, Urge Overkill guitarist/bassist Eddie "King" Roeser, Shoes singer/guitarist Gary Klebe, the Ponys frontman Jered Gummere, Tributosaurus singer (and The Score 670-AM sports-talk co-host) Matt Spiegel and other veteran local musicians (Gerald Dowd, Phil Angotti, Jennifer Hall, Curt Morrison, Jon Paul, Max Crawford ...).

You can expect Epstein, a big Pearl Jam fan, to strap on his guitar as well, and Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper will be playing bass, primarily on the power-pop tunes that are in his wheelhouse, he said. Sports writer (and guitarist) Peter Gammons co-founded the Hot Stove event in Boston in 2000, and Epstein got involved upon becoming the Boston Red Sox's general manager in late 2002. After the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, Epstein said, he and his twin brother, Paul Epstein, established the Foundation To Be Named Later as a way to channel enthusiasm for the team into support for children and families in need.

"The original thought, and the thought that has sustained it from my perspective, was if there are people who have resources, who are that passionate about baseball and music, then you can put together an event in which you could transfer some of that wealth to nonprofits that really need it," Theo Epstein said.

The Hot Stove events still take place each January in Boston, and since the Cubs hired Epstein in fall 2011, Chicago has hosted a summer version, which includes the show and, the following afternoon, the Urban Baseball Classic game between Boston and Chicago youth teams.

The two cities' concerts are somewhat different animals: Taking place in the offseason, the Boston one attracts more players and has more of a "family reunion" feel, Epstein said. He recalled one year in which then-Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon removed his shirt onstage, auctioned it to an audience member for charity and then dove into the crowd.

"I can't approve of this," Epstein said, "but it sure makes this a hell of an event."

Smashing Pumpkins headlined the inaugural Chicago Hot Stove concert in 2012, and Poi Dog Pondering filled that bill last year. But the 2013 show also featured Epstein, Gammons and Kasper playing with local musicians, billed as the Hot Stove All Stars, and they played so long that Poi Dog didn't hit the stage till about 11 p.m.

"The All Stars took a bigger chunk of the night," Metro owner Joe Shanahan recalled, "and we said, 'Next year, let's just do this. This is the meat of the matter. This could be totally great.'"

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In an ongoing conflict over water rights in the Lincoln National Forest, the Otero County Commission adopted a resolution requesting the county sheriff remove or open United States Forest Service fences.

On Monday, the commission approved a resolution that requests Sheriff Benny House take measures to remove or open gates on fences placed by the Forest Service in the Lincoln National Forest.

The resolution was read by District 1 Commissioner Tommie Herrell, "Whereas, it has come to the Otero County Board of Commissioner's attention that the USFS has fenced around water sources to exclude cattle of which the USFS possess no right to act in such a manner.

"Whereas, the USFS has openly stated that they will not open the gates to grant access to the privately owned water rights," Herrell read. "Now therefore, be it resolved by the governing body that the county is entreating the Sheriff of Otero County to immediately take steps to remove or open gates that are unlawfully denying citizens access to their private property rights."

District 3 Commissioner Ronny Rardin, said he felt the commission was taking the necessary actions to defend the rights of its citizens.

Rardin said the issues about property rights and that he was intent on defending those rights.

"That constitution is in breach right now and it is our civil duty if we want to keep our nation free and keep our country as it was intended to be by our four fathers to stand up and take this kind of action," Rardin said. "So this is the next step we feel that is proper to take and I'm sad I have to take it and I'm proud I will take it because it's the right thing for this commission to do."

Lincoln National Forest Supervisor Travis Moseley said the Forest Service is currently seeking ongoing legal council from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on how to handle the situation.

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