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SPRING VALLEY — David G. Yepsen, 74, of Spring Valley, formerly of Peru, passed away Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Spring Valley Nursing Center.
He was born on Sept. 30, 1938, in Princeton to LeRoy and Martha (Mercer) Yepsen.
He was a manager at Warren Radio in LaSalle and later worked as an insurance salesman. He officiated for IHSA in several different sports.
He was a member of the First Congregational Church in Peru, where he served as church deacon.
He is survived by five children, Randy (Lisa) Yepsen of Stanfield, N.C., Michael (Dena) Yepsen of Spring Valley, Colleen (David) Kurkowski of Peru, David (Christine) Yepsen Jr. of Peru and Rick Yepsen of Peru; 10 grandchildren, Ryan Yepsen, Jeremy Yepsen, Timothy Yepsen, Richard Hanson, Jessica Kurkowski, Tanya Catalanello, Daniel Yepsen, Jamie Yepsen, Jeff Yepsen and Elizabeth Yepsen; eight great-grandchildren; and one brother, Lloyd (Peggy) Yepsen of Yorkville.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, LeRoy "Sonny" Yepsen Jr.; and one sister, Pat Hyson.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mueller Funeral Home, Peru, with the Rev. David Heidemann, pastor of First Congregational Church in Peru, officiating. Burial will follow in the Peru City Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be directed to the Spring Valley Nursing Center, St. Margaret's Hospice, Alzheimer's Research Foundation or to the donor's choice.
David Yepsen
SPRING VALLEY — David G. Yepsen, 74, of Spring Valley, formerly of Peru, passed away Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Spring Valley Nursing Center.


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At the factory store of Betsy Ann Chocolates, James Paras '80 notices when the aroma of fresh, handmade chocolates conjures powerful memories among his customers. "You can see on their faces these memories come alive," says Paras, president of the family business for more than two decades.
Founded in 1938 by Betsy Ann Helsel, the West View company supplied the candy shops in Horne's department stores. In 1968, when Helsel retired, she sold the business to Harry and Catherine Paras. The middle son of five boys, James grew up in the candy business. For him, the chocolate factory was always a place of work, not a Willy Wonka fantasy.
Just steps above the store, in the factory's kitchen, industrial mixers agitate gallons of molten chocolate. Workers pour and spread the smooth, brown liquid by hand onto grooved marble tables to prepare it for various confections. On one table, a inch-thick slab of chocolate meltaway seven feet long by five feet wide waits to be cut into bite-sized squares.
In the next room, underneath a photo from the iconic "I Love Lucy" chocolate factory episode, three ladies in hairnets keep pace with a white conveyor belt dotted with chocolate-covered caramels. The candies emerge from the coating machine, where their bottoms are first coated by a grooved metal belt drenched with molten chocolate, then a chocolate waterfall coats their tops and sides. The candies cool, and the ladies carefully place them into paper liners and pack them in boxes. The chocolates are "exactly the same as they were more than 50 years ago," Paras says.
He worked in the factory on weekends and school breaks since the age of 12, but he didn't initially plan to stay in the family business. After earning his accounting degree at RMU, he got a job selling mutual funds for a financial services company. One day a few months later, when he stopped by the chocolate factory to say hello, his father asked him to stay. Income from investment sales was unpredictable, but the factory offered steady pay. So Paras quit his new job and joined Betsy Ann full time, making candies, packing boxes, and helping wherever he was needed.
When his mother had a heart attack and could no longer run the company office, Paras stepped in to handle business operations. Since 1990, he has been president of Betsy Ann Chocolates. His brother, Bob, runs the factory now, while their father, now in his 80s, still comes in to make candies during busy times. Betsy Ann now has some 40 employees and produces 200,000 pounds of chocolates annually, with hopes to eventually double that output.
In addition to maintaining the company's high standards, Paras has helped it weather major changes. When Horne's stores began closing – the retailer shut down in 1994 – Betsy Ann rebounded by opening its own shops. That strategy worked until the economic downturn of 2001, when sales declined and never bounced back. In 2004, Betsy Ann was forced to close stores and rethink its strategy again.
"A lot of people thought after we closed all those stores that we were gone," says Paras. The company was just searching for the right way to grow again. Today, in addition to the factory store, Betsy Ann has a store in Allison Park and a franchise in the South Hills. The rest of the business comes from Internet sales, fundraising through schools and organizations, and most recently, a return to department stores. Since 2008 Macy's has carried displays of the chocolates at its Pittsburgh area stores.
Paras credits his RMU education with helping him navigate changes in the market. When he makes important decisions, he often thinks about a class he took in business policy. "I have drawn upon the case studies we reviewed in class to help with my decisions," he says.
The company's success is also due to a passion for fine chocolates, and the type of family traditions that their aroma can evoke. "Chocolate is almost always associated with the best times of your life," Paras says. "It adds a dimension to those occasions. It anchors our lives to good, wholesome things that they should be anchored to."
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We are pleased to share with you the individuals who will be joining us for the Celebration of 125 Years of Co-Education as speakers and panelists. Full bios can be accessed by clicking on the participant's name.
David Janda '80, Orthopaedic Surgeon, St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital; Founder of the Institute of Preventative Sports Medicine
Ann Kirwin Anderson '87, Attorney; Adjunct Professor at Quinnipiac University; Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame
Karen Horn Welch '97, Director, Public Equity, Stanford Management Company; Bucknell Alumni Board
Jane Brown Maas '53, Chairman Emeritus, Earle Palmer Brown Advertising & Public Relations; Advertising Executive responsible for "I Love New York" campaign
Elizabeth P. Smith '71, Director, Pacific Asia Petroleum, Inc.; Retired VP, Investor Relations and Shareholder Services, Texaco Inc.
Carolyn Neely Ainslie '80, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, Princeton University
Jeb Bachman '78, COO, US Audit Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sara Stoner Bachman '78, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Research, School of Social Work, Boston University
Susan Penecale Zolla '68, Owner/Operator, Hotels/Apartment Complexes
Frank Davis '82, President & C.E.O., Horizon Services Corporation; Bucknell Alumni Board
Anne Seibold Drapeau '88, Managing Partner, Center for Leading Organizations
Debra Zapotocky Rizzi '94, Partner, Rizco Design
Wendy Pangburn '78, Managing Director, Pangburn Partners, LLC
Mary Fetchet P '11, Founder & Director, Voices of September 11th
Mary Streep P '12, Founder and former President, Mary Streep Interiors. Current full-time board member, Trustee and volunteer for numerous organizations and executive director of the Streep Family, New Canaan, CT
Harriet Edelman '77, Director, Brinker International and Ariba, Inc.; Head of Information Technology and Advisor to the Chairman, New York Private Bank and Trust
Lisa Poulin '78, Partner, CRG Partners
Anne Seibold Drapeau '88, Managing Partner, Center for Leading Organizations
Jean Dobson Zappe '93, Owner, Jean Zappe Consulting
Cali Williams Yost '87, President and CEO, Work & Life Fit, Inc.; Bucknell Alumni Board
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Dawson Hodgson '00, Special Assistant Attorney General, Rhode Island Dept. of Attorney General
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Thomas Spitzer '70, Physician/Director of Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Bucknell Alumni Board
Mark Gebhardt '71, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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IRVING (AP) – Tony Romo's spectacular scramble provided a big boost for the Cowboys.
Many were impressed after Romo escaped the grasp of an Eagles pass rusher by starting backward and then reversing to go toward the line of scrimmage.
He made another defensive lineman miss with a quick cut to his right, which set him up perfectly to throw 25 yards to Miles Austin.
Something else was unique about Sunday. Romo had the play that changed the game, and avoided turnovers.
That's been an elusive combination, and one of the reasons the Cowboys (4-5) have struggled at times.
Without the play, Dallas would have punted and gone to the fourth quarter trailing 17-10.
Instead, Dallas tied the game, and the Cowboys pulled away for the 38-23 win.
They scored on a punt return, an interception and a fumble, a first for that trifecta in franchise history.
There was a sense, though, that everything could have been different without the play from Romo, who connected on a 30-yard touchdown to Dez Bryant three plays after the scramble — on another third down.
"Well, like I said after the game, in some ways you just kind of have a sensation that it's an important time to obviously try and get a first down, and that was a point in the game that I felt like it was in our best interest as a football team to take that chance," Romo said. "You know watching it back afterward, there are just some things you feel, see and react to."
Dallas coach Jason Garrett gets concerned about the sometimes freewheeling Romo, who has a reputation of carelessness when it comes to protecting the ball.
He leads the NFL with 13 interceptions, and he enters Sunday's home game against Cleveland (2-7) knowing he threw nine of them in his past two starts at home.
But Garrett, the former NFL quarterback, marvels at plays like the one Sunday. It wasn't the first from Romo.
"I know what a melee that whole thing feels like," Garrett said. "These guys are all around you. You feel like you're going the wrong way. He just has this great poise about him as an athlete where he can just kind of feel what the heck's going on, keeps his eyes up, sees down the field. It's pretty unique."
Garrett said Romo learns how to keep the ball close to his body while he's scrambling, and he did it with both big moves on the play against the Eagles.
The coach and his quarterback are always talking about the ad-lib plays — those that worked and those that didn't.
"You just have to be careful," Garrett said. "Is this really what you wanted to do? The risk and reward of this 3-yard gain as opposed to another play where you make the third-and-5 where he makes six guys miss and throws it to Miles for a 25-yard gain.
"It's a little bit of a balancing act, but again, we never want to stifle him to the point where he's not being who he is."
Romo threw nine interceptions in 2009 and had just 10 last season, when the Cowboys missed the playoffs by losing to the New York Giants in the regular-season finale.
The fact that he threw nine interceptions in just two of his home games this season also means he has only four in the other seven games.
"I don't know. I mean, how many games have we had at home? Three?" Romo said. "I think we're going to be better than the last two."
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$120,000: Money spent on new banners and wayfinding signs
400: Approximate number of banners across the city
6: Number of districts designated within downtown Chattanooga
Source: River City Co.
Colorful new banners are now hanging across downtown Chattanooga.
Banners in the North Shore carry pictures of Coolidge Park, the "Blue Rhino" sculpture and Walnut Street Bridge. Banners on M.L. King Boulevard have pictures of Bessie Smith and buildings on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Each banner represents a distinct downtown district.
"Our downtown area has organically grown into these districts," said Tiffanie Robinson, director of creative strategies at River City Co.
The downtown development organization launched a campaign to replace older banners across Chattanooga that were placed there two years ago for the "Chattanooga Happens Downtown" campaign. The new campaign put in the new banners and also wayfinding signs to help visitors find their way across Chattanooga.
But another thing happened.
River City decided to highlight six city downtown districts. The districts are UTC, City Center, Bluff View, North Shore, Southside and the Riverfront.
"We consider all these districts downtown," Robinson said.
She said there were two aspects of the campaign: education and branding. The new banners will allow visitors to know different parts of the city, and it helps instill an amount of community pride for those who live in the districts.
Karen Estes, a graphic designer for the Tennessee Aquarium, designed the banners for River City Co. on a freelance basis.
She said the illustrations were based upon an earlier campaign she did for wraparounds on Chattanooga Area Regional Transit Authority buses.
The idea was to look for things iconic within those neighborhoods and use them, she said.
"I tried to incorporate things from the community," she said.
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No Second City revue of the last 54 years has been held in more gorgeous surroundings than "The Second City Guide to the Opera," a summer partnership between the famed comedy theater and the increasingly open-minded Lyric Opera of Chicago — that allows audience members to ascend to the colossal stage of the Civic Opera House. There, a truly impressive array of couches, tables, themed cocktails and dangling chandeliers await, and one gains what one might think of as a soprano's eye view of one of Chicago's most essential treasures, illuminated for the occasion. No wonder audience members were lining up to take pictures with their phones. For summer tourists, few such elegant encounters await. Sketch comedy never looked classier.
A gilded setting, of course, does not a show make. Thankfully, "The Second City Guide to the Opera" is a generally entertaining mix of actor-improvisers (Joey Bland, Molly Brennan, Tim Ryder, Timothy Sniffen, Lili-Anne Brown, the standout Beth Melewski) and singers (Lauren Curnow, a mezzo-soprano, and the tenor Bernard Holcomb).
The ensemble pokes gentle fun at the noble art of opera, and the various codified conventions of its inarguably haughty culture, especially as it pertains to those in the seats. The revue, which was originally commissioned by the Lyric and directed by the talented Billy Bungeroth, is certainly a highly effective way for the Lyric to have a little summer-camp amusement along with its most loyal patrons, some of whom (seated, 'natch, in the $75 seats), were thoroughly enjoying themselves on Sunday night. Opera lovers feel part of a club — it is a crucial reason as to why the art form still thrives with such vibrancy — and rare is the chance to chuckle along with gags about supertitles; audiences who like to sing along, annoyingly; "The Magic Flute;" Wagnerian excesses; the stultifying homogeneity of the oeuvre of Philip Glass. That kind of thing.
One had the sense that some in the crowd were experiencing the manifestation of their wildest dreams: a chance to laugh, all night long, at a "Ring Cycle" curtain announcement ("now featuring previously unreleased material") and to see a takedown of "The Phantom of the Opera," wherein the populist masked interloper is confronted with the notion that his opera is not really an opera at all. On Sunday, that sketch didn't just get laughs but the applause of those who felt the raw pleasure of vindication on home field.
This show had its origins in a one-night-only event last winter that featured Renee Fleming and Patrick Stewart. Those good-natured luminaries aren't part of the summer run, although one of the major assets of the show is the idea of including bona fide opera singers along with the more typical cast. Both Curnow and Holcomb are strikingly engaging comics, with Holcomb a pleasure throughout and Curnow killing during one segment where she wraps her pipes around a decidedly questionable repertoire consisting of material made famous by Carly Rae Jepsen and the Empire carpet company. Such moments, along with Melewski's acerbic takedowns of the public master class, with its power structures and terrors, are when the show is at its best: when the operatic form and the improvisational art truly are integrated in a way that feels like it's pushing the envelope, formatively speaking.
Aside from not really getting under the skin of the repertoire — and not offering enough genuinely operatic improv, which would be quite the feat, I think — what is most lacking is good, old-fashioned, Second City edge. There are dangers for the satirist when the object of the satire is a full partner in the satiric enterprise. And while I'm sure that Lyric offered full creative freedom, the show goes pretty easy on the world of opera, even ending in a unfortunately milquetoast ditty suggesting that a visit to the opera is a cure for what ails us. And whadaya know? We're already there.
It's one thing to have fun in an opera house — a fine thing, actually, with clear audience-development benefits for the Lyric — but this show is aimed at the paying public, and thus it also should make it a point of pride that its genial hosts, the owners and operators of this grand venue, feel at least a little big uncomfortable at what they are hearing. Preferably, they'd feel burned like President Obama during a Jay Leno takedown. They can take it. The opera will survive.
When: Through June 30
Where: Lyric Opera of Chicago, 20 N. Wacker Drive
Running time: 2 hours
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It's so depressing how many people can't appreciate this collection from it's subtle use of tailoring, embellishing, fabrication and color. To see a house brought back to it's core from a brilliantly talented designer is such a thing to admire. Raf knew it wasn't about him. It was about the house of Dior and what it has stood for so many decades. In a time where whacky trends are coming in one after another, Raf has made probably the most wearable couture collection in the longest time, I always knew Raf wanted to make pieces that were wearable and he shows it beautifully in his first ever Couture presentation. I don't think clients pay crazy amounts of money for over-the-top couture pieces, I think they pay it for the custom tailoring of the clothes and to look perfect in them. Galliano's over-the-top pieces were always being altered one after another. I can't see any reason why the customer would want to alter any of these clothes...
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people please stop embarrassing yourselves and stop saying this collection isn't haute couture. HC is a way of making clothes, it's not a look.
i was as disappointed with the collection as most people are in this thread, but honestly.. what was he supposed to do?
it's his first season at a label that's practically an institution and he seems to be too humble of a designer to ignore all that. he obviously wanted to respect the codes of the house in this first collection which sadly resulted into a collection that wasn't very exciting/interesting, but i really feel like this had to be done.
now that he has gone to the core of what dior represents he can now build onto it and make it his own (this also seems the way he handled designing for jil sander, the first few seasons were very careful and safe but as he grew more comfortable with his creative director position he took it to whole new levels)
i'm just happy marc jacobs didn't get the position in the end because i doubt he'd be as respectful to the house's history as raf simons has been
I wonder if the audience were requested to keep a straightfor face regardless. Lighten up people, don't get too serious. Just fashion! There are people who are dying! Anyhow, I want to stress how much I adore this collection
Someone throw a bucket of cold water please! I need to cool off.
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For Gergin, I find him lazy because there is not a strong research on the cut, styling etc... Maybe he had a little time to prepare the collection, because he was still working for Jil Sander at the time. And you can feel it. Do I have to post pictures from the former Jil Sander shows to prove how can Raf Simons create unpredictible great silhouettes ?
And maybe I am old school, but the fashion world is full of designers who do ready to wear. Haute-Couture is art, craft, luxury and privilege. It has to make us dream.It has to stands-out, with all those thousands or annoying fashion shows where nothing happens.
This collection makes you dream ?
This collection is maybe "too subtle" and the difference between his RTW and H-C collections will be hard to find...
And to finish; I am a real Raf Simons fan, but this is not the point. I am not a hater of his oeuvre. I expect a lot from him. That's it.
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the funny thing is,in the 40's-60's,simplicity used to be a huge part of the HC context.....where the tailoring,made-to-measure approach was a focal point. it wasn't all about the ostentatious spectacle of it all. adeline andre's seems to come to mind.
honestly,i think we're being a bit too harsh at this point. it's his first collection here and one he had to put together with hardly any time. i would rather see the evolution into the P-A-P and the next HC to see how raf carves out his voice at dior before making hasty remarks about the work he's doing. for a first collection i think it's lovely.
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Are there still no photos of the backs of the looks?
I wish this show had not been live streamed on the internet.
Obviously Dior wanted to capitalise on this marketing potential with all the celebrities and the event being newsworthy. Couture is about detail and craft and quality....none of which could be seen or felt via a computer screen.
I feel haute couture, if anything in the fashion industry can be, should be about something slower, more exclusive. About a relationship between designer and atelier. Between designer and client. between cloth, fit and body.
Would it not have been enough for this have been a private presentation? In this internet age that would have been a luxury?
I wonder if people would be having a "it looks like J Crew" if they were shown images of the garments stood in a museum like space on refined mannequins.
Because a bespoke pair of John Lobb oxford shoes take 8 months to make and cost £2,500 yet resemble a traditional shape (and not a GAGA style piece of sculpture that satisfies the eye though not necessarily the wearer) mean they are not worth the money? or the awe in the craft? Or the abilities of the person who has spent their life honing that skill?
Given Raf had 4 months and he had never worked with Couture before I personally think the results are wonderful. I feel it is super relevant for the modern world. I'm so bored of fashion dramatics, that relate to the 1980's and 90's stereotypes of "FASHION". I want someone to bring us into the future and raf is certainly someone to BEGIN to do this. And begin is an important word. So funny to think people expected in 4 months someone,who built his men's line in the wilderness for 10 years, to just overhaul Dior overnight. Raf takes his time - I wonder if the internet generation can deal with that?
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Everyone's saying that this collection is good because of the craftsmanship and silhouettes, so I think we can thank the Dior atelier for being skilled dressmakers and we can thank Mr. Dior for the silhouettes. What can we thank Raf for? Aside from the atelier's work, I find this collection lacking all around. I'm not getting the big deal about the details either. What details? To me, it's boring and lacks substance.
I don't need people to tell me the definition of couture or show me the Dior archives. I'm pretty confident in my knowledge of fashion history and I think everyone in this thread can tell for themselves what they like and don't like.
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I'm sorry I know the clothes are good and very wearable and all of that but come on it's a haute couture collection. When it comes to couture I expect extravaganza, out of this world creations, craziest ideas, a show where my wildest dreams come true on the runway. This collection is beautiful, no denying that but it doesn't make me excited, or inspires me so much that I have to watch the show again and again and again like I used to do with Galliano shows.
I hope this is just the start and next collections will be exciting again!
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I must say I love this. It is so refreshing, like a lovely cleansing of the palate after the cacophony of loud, unpleasant flavors that was Galliano's more recent work, which was a parody of his earlier Dior work (I'm choosing to ignore the Gaytten interim because it was so bad).
The ultimate elegance is knowing when enough is enough and less is more and Raf understands this perfectly. I find the understatedness totally right for the austerity of our times too. Any eurotrash oligarch wife/girlfriend can pile tonnes of sequins, yards of unnecessary fabric, plus feathers, fur, leather and jewellery on every square inch of their body, but not everyone comprehends the maturity and class of minimalism done with the utmost skill and thought.
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Ive looked at all the HQ images and saw the HD video and I've decided how I feel about this collection. Dior is dead to me now, I am moving on.
I don't find anything refreshing in this collection other than the fact that it is simple.I feel like this collection is almost an exact replica of vintage Dior looks and contrived of any real thought or direction for
and I remembered why the ball gown bodice/ evening dress over pants looks were so familiar, Alicia Keys did it few years back for some red carpet event. It was really bad back then I didn't like seeing on the runway of a Haute Couture show.
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Miller the right man to fight the first fightUnion chief educated and led players, took on owners in winning important gains
Richard Justice By Richard Justice | Archive 11/27/12 3:27 PM ET
No union leader ever did more for his members than Marvin Miller. As legacies go, that's a pretty good one. Along the way, he helped change baseball forever, and every player owes him a debt of gratitude for his tenacity and fundamental belief that they should have the same rights as workers in every other field.
Would baseball have gotten to this amazing place of soaring revenues and record-setting attendance without Marvin Miller, who died Tuesday at 95?
That question could be argued late into the night. In the end, free agency certainly did not destroy baseball. But free agency as it exists today -- as part of a system of revenue sharing and luxury-tax payments for the biggest spenders -- is not the unfettered free agency Miller envisioned.
Miller was the right man to fight the original fight. He fought relentlessly for free agency, salaries, pension and healthcare. At times, he portrayed baseball players as being exploited as much as coal miners or migrant workers. As salaries soared, those analogies seemed laughable.
He also seemed to fight for the sake of fighting at times. For instance, he battled drug testing at every turn, saying it was a privacy issue, which is a ridiculous notion for an industry built on public trust.
Finally, baseball reached a tipping point of sorts after the crippling 1994-95 player strike. Miller had turned control of the Major League Players Association to Donald Fehr in 1982, but remained an influential figure.
Baseball was fundamentally different when the players and owners sat down to negotiate a new labor agreement in 2002. Commissioner Bud Selig had compelled the owners to speak with one voice, and that voice would be Selig's.
In previous labor negotiations, Miller and his successor, Fehr, believed if they held firm, owners eventually would buckle. They understood that big-market clubs and middle-market clubs and small-market clubs all had different objectives in a labor negotiation. Meanwhile, the players had just a couple: higher salaries and better benefits.
Miller may not have been able to bring himself to make the concessions baseball needed in 2002. That agreement was a factor in the explosive popularity of today's game because it transferred a significant amount of wealth from the higher revenue clubs to the lower ones.
That plan also included testing for performance-enhancing drugs. Some players resisted it at first, but owners simply drew a line in the sand. If the players were going to strike over PED testing, they were welcome to go.
It's difficult to understand the climate that existed when Miller began organizing players in the 1960s. In the beginning, Miller was disliked by almost everyone.
Many baseball owners believed he would destroy the game. Their hatred of Miller did them no favors. Instead of negotiating, they fought Miller in the courts and suffered loss after loss.
Reporters saw him through the same lens, wondering why the game needed fundamental changes when players seemed to have it pretty darn good. Even many of the players for whom Miller fought were skeptical.
Owners had always had complete control over the game, and the idea of challenging that control terrified many players. These were the players who had terrific relationships with their owners and believed they'd been treated fairly. If they sided with Miller, they worried they might lose everything.
Miller did a wonderful job of unifying the players and convincing them to allow him to speak for them. At times through the years, as work stoppages dragged on and players became uneasy, Fehr would summon Miller to rally the troops and explain how far they'd come.
Some wounds will never heal. To a certain generation of owners, Miller did not have the game's best interests in mind. They believed he so distrusted them that he cared more about winning than doing what was right for the game.
There's also the reality that in the years before Selig took over, several teams were drowning in red ink and some people thought the business model made less and less sense.
That model changed dramatically after the 2002 labor agreement, and the years since then have been good for everyone as baseball has been transformed across the board. Franchise values have skyrocketed, but player salaries have continued to rise, too, from an average of $2.4 million in 2002 to around $3.44 million this season.
No history of baseball can be written without several significant chapters on Miller's contributions and his legacy. Miller was not a lovable figure. At various times, he lectured, not just to owners and players, but also to those of us who covered the game.
He wanted us all to look at the game differently than we'd ever looked at it before, and it was not an easy sell at times. In those first days, when owners tried to ignore his existence, Miller probably couldn't have dreamed where the game would end up. Here's hoping players never forget all he did for them.


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With extinction of the middle class, another Great Depression and the rule of law on the line, you would think we'd be hearing just a little bit more about the race in the First Congressional District.
More succinctly, can all of you possibly think that this Wall Street rescue is a good thing?
Despite vigorous disagreement among the three First District candidates — Steve Fournier, John Larson and Joe Visconti — the campaign is passing with barely a ripple, not even a League of Women Voters debate that includes all viewpoints.
The absence of a living and breathing campaign is so disturbing that I invited the three candidates over for coffee. All were eager to attend.
"What will happen if we don't act and put new leadership in Congress is the extinction of the middle class. Period," said the Republican nominee Visconti, a West Hartford resident, when I asked him to sum up the stakes.
People are facing "whether they are going to have a home, have a job or whether they are going to have to move in with their relatives," he said.
U.S. Rep. Larson, the incumbent Democrat, isn't talking extinction. But he said at our little mini-debate that the economic crisis is one "we've faced at no other time than perhaps the Depression. It calls for a Roosevelt-like solution, especially in terms of investing in the American people."
"The constant theme that runs through all of this is deregulation, and the deregulation that has gone on for decades," Larson said. "Where was the administration? Where has the oversight been?"
Meanwhile, Green Party candidate Stephen Fournier of Hartford — who is all for government investment, just not for the bankers — called the Wall Street meltdown "way overblown." He has a more sinister take.
"The rule of law is at stake in this election," Fournier said. "What we've seen is criminality on a large scale, not just in the executive branch but in the legislative branch as well. This is a time to come down on criminals in government."
Whew. It was easy to see why none of us had much appetite for the pastry the other day.
Larson ranks fifth in seniority among House Democrats and is the favorite in a district that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress in decades. He has the confidence of a seasoned politician who would be at the forefront of Obama-administration reforms in Congress.
Visconti, a contractor, musician and town council member, rose to prominence through his opposition to the Blue Back Square development in West Hartford Center. His is a spicy stew of anti-tax Republicanism seasoned with a populist's distrust of corporate America.
Like the other Green Party candidates in Connecticut, Fournier, a lawyer and former Hartford Board of Education member, has been unable to garner much mainstream attention. Unrepentant, Fournier wants free public transportation, an about-face of our military policy and criminal indictment of top officials.
So it wasn't a surprise when Fournier sought, without complete success, to get his fellow candidates to agree that corporate power has fatally corrupted Washington.
Visconti, meanwhile, had even more difficulty finding support from the other two for his aggressive stance on immigration; he favors using federal racketeering laws to crack down on groups or individuals aiding illegal immigrants.
Perhaps not surprisingly, all three are mad as hell at corporate America.
Larson and Fournier want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. All support pumping hundreds of billions of federal dollars into the economy.
While generally supporting the Wall Street bailout, Visconti often emphasized his proposal for tax deductions for energy, college tuition and credit-card bills.
"We should let Americans keep more of their money. It would be foolish right now, in this economy, to consider more taxation," he said. "Who do you trust to be a leader that is going to represent the middle class? That's the question for this election."
Larson responded that " Barack Obama has it right. There will be a tax increase. It will be on people earning in excess of $250,000, but it will be a tax increase at the same levels that they were in Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's administration. There will have to be ensuing tax cuts ... that are targeted toward the middle class."
Fournier's solution would be to spend the $700 billion on a New Deal-style program to rebuild bridges, schools and public transit.
"People would work, they would get paid, they would be better able to pay their bills," he said of his plan, which would be paid for through new taxes on securities transactions.
When the talk turned to Iraq, I asked the candidates what "winning" would mean. This led to some of the most striking differences.
Larson said he favors a gradual withdrawal. The Bush doctrine of intervention is "the worst policy disaster in the history of the country," he said, saying that the nation must return to "the notion of diplomacy, deterrence and containment."
Visconti, who opposes a public timetable for pulling out, responded that a clear victory is essential because it "means everything for America."
To this, Fournier said, "There is no military victory ... the problems that both Joe and Congressman Larson seek to solve with military force cannot be solved with military force."
No interesting candidates? No issues to debate? I disagree.
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On the Web See a slideshow and hear the candidates at courant.com/candidates Stephen Fournier, Green Party >> "The rule of law is at stake in this election. What we've seen is criminality on a large scale, not just in the executive branch but in the legislative branch as well. This is a time to come down on criminals in government." John Larson, Democrat >> "What's at stake in this election is the economic stabilization of the middle class and the ability of Americans to prosper and move forward. It calls for a Roosevelt-like solution, especially in terms of investing in the American people." Joseph Visconti, Republican >> "What will happen if we don't act and put new leadership in Congress is the extinction of the middle class. They are wondering if they are going to have a home, have a job or whether they are going to have to move in with their relatives."


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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Spurrier Adds to Criticism of ESPN
Now that South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has had a chance to look things over, he has seconded the motion put forth by Auburn's Tommy Tuberville that says ESPN has simply become too powerful and has gone out of its way to promote a USC-Texas matchup in the Rose Bowl. "I wish they would say everybody is pretty good and leave it at that rather than maybe picking out some schools, saying how great they are and how wonderful it is there compared to other places," Spurrier said. Tuberville's comments last week brought a round of fire from ESPN newsreader Dan Patrick, only to be followed by cohort Chris Fowler's attack on Tuberville during last Saturday's "GameDay" telecast. And thanks to Ben Maller's sharp eye, Fowler is caught red-handed touting a USC-Texas matchup 19:09 into a multimedia segment for mackbrown.com (registration).
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Baseball drops two to Okanogan
Lake Roosevelt opened with a tough doubleheader loss to the Okanogan Bulldogs last Saturday in Okanogan.
An inability to close out innings hurt the Raiders.
"In game one, we gave up five runs (3,2) after committing an error that would have closed out the innings," Coach Ted Piccolo noted.
After the LR 8-4 loss in the first game, the Bulldogs played better defense in the second, allowing the Raiders to only score two runs to their seven.
The coach noted that Tim Loch "performed very well in his first games as the number-one catcher, and then provided three strong innings in relief pitching."
In his high school varsity debut, freshman Bubba Garcia's left field defense and plate performance impressed Piccolo. Garcia laid down a bunt to bring in Devan Black from third and then, "Garcia's bunt not only scored the run but his hustle also got him to second while taking advantage of an error," noted Piccolo, adding that he expects Garcia to keep up the good work.
Even though LR came away with a loss, Piccolo says, "Overall, I am pleased with the performance of the team; even with a lot of new players, they moved well."
The Raiders will look to rebound with three games this week against Central Washington North opponents. Last night the Raiders took on the Manson Trojans at Greene Field for the CWL season opener. On Saturday, the Raiders take on the Hornets in Oroville in a doubleheader starting at 11 a.m.


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There's a reason that Chevrolet's popular midsize musclecar-the Chevelle-is referred to as the "Heavy Chevy." It's not because of its lack of nimbleness or agility, mind you, but more accurately because of its girth. The truth is, despite being one of the most desired and fastest boulevard bruisers, the A-body, with its full frame, is a handful to haul down from speed. The stock four-wheel drum brake setup is a joke, and leaves a lot to be desired in the "whoa" department.
If you're in the market to upgrade the brake system on your Chevelle or Malibu, the folks at Master Power Brakes have a number of different kits to fit those models built from '64-72. And even though the '67 Malibu featured in this story may not be the same model you have, the brake system is basically the same, and will also fit your car.
Master Power Brakes, which has been in business since the early '60s manufacturing and remanufacturing brake components for the aftermarket, began building high-performance brake upgrade kits in 1983, and currently has a 50-page catalog loaded with disc brake systems for classic Chevys, plus a large selection of individual components such as master cylinders and power boosters.
If you've ever done a brake job on your car, you should have the skill level and tools needed for this job. It's a relatively simple remove-and-replace procedure.
The A-body kit features a 101/2-inch disc package with 2-inch dropped (Superior) spindles, or an 11- or 12-inch disc brake package with standard GM spindles. The kits also include all-new components such as rotors, spindles, calipers with pads, caliper brackets, master cylinder/booster, combination valve, brake hoses, bearings, seals, dust caps, hardware, and printed instructions, with a video! Everything comes in one shot, with nothing else to get.
Our donor '67 Malibu just didn't stop as good as its owner wanted, so we did a little test that you can do at home on any of your cars. As you'll notice in the last photo, we put a bathroom scale between our brake foot and the pedal to see just what kind of leg effort it really took to stop the car. Before we installed the new system, we took the car to a big parking lot, instead of the highway, just to be safe. There, we took the car up to 30 mph and did a few quick stops (no skidding involved), with the scale in position. The stock, non-power, four-wheel drum brake system took about 60 to 70 pounds of leg pressure to come to a stop. After the front-disc system and new dual-chamber master cylinder with a 9-inch single-diaphragm booster was installed, we repeated the parking lot test. This time it only required 10 to 15 pounds of leg pressure to slow the beast down. To say it was an incredible improvement is an understatement.
To see how easy the installation was, we photographed the complete job being done. Follow along as we improved the safety factor of this classic '67 Chevelle, and learn how you could easily do the same thing at home in as little as one weekend.


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PHOENIX FM launched an Australia-first radio program at the weekend, which will provide insight into living with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in regional Victoria.
The live radio broadcast - Real People ASD -was the brainchild of local mother-of-two and Phoenix FM radio presenter Beck Kelly.
The weekly segment will begin on September 8 and cover every aspect of the autism spectrum, featuring live interviews and guest speakers.
Phoenix FM board member Geoff Morris, published ASD author Lyndal Kennedy and Kerang motivational speaker Michael Whatham spoke at the event, which was hosted by Eaglehawk's The Star Cinema.
An autism spectrum disorder family-friendly screening of Dr Seuss' The Lorax accompanied the launch.
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fermion writes: I am sure most have heard about Michael Grimm, a US House of Representatives member from New York, who's campaign headquarters was vandalized. What has not been reported everywhere is that Linux was installed on one of his computer, erasing data in the process. Is this a new attack on democracy by the open source radicals, or it is just a random occurrence?


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TELL CITY—Pike Central banked in a shot in the final seconds to beat Tell City 46-44 in PAC girls basketball Saturday.
Tell City got off to a cold start and fell behind 32-17 at halftime.
The Marksmen battled back to tie the score 44-44, though, and had the ball with a chance to take their first lead of the second half.
They were charged with a five-second violation, though, setting up the Chargers' winning shot.
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WEST -The death toll from the powerful fertilizer plant explosion Wednesday night in West rose to 15 on Monday.
A source close to the investigation confirmed that one of the people injured in the explosion died at a hospital, but had no other details.
Meanwhile, authorities say they are conducting a "slow and methodical" search of the site of the massive plant explosion.
Officials on Monday did not update previous figures of at least 200 injured in last week's blast in the town north of Waco.
They are allowing residents who live on the perimeter of the blast zone -areas known as "Stage 1" and "Stage 2" - to come back to their homes. People who live closest to the site are not allowed in yet.
Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner says officials are still investigating how the explosion occurred as volunteer firefighters were working to put out a fire.
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Aguero to miss derby, Barca link denied
Sergio Aguero will miss Manchester City's game against rivals Manchester United, while Manuel Pellegrini has shrugged off stories linking the striker with Barcelona.
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Aguero, who is also a major doubt for the game against Arsenal as well as next Tuesday's Manchester derby, is happy at City according to Pellegrini.
Aguero suffered a hamstring injury during City's 2-1 defeat in the Nou Camp, and has been linked with Barcelona in the Spanish press.
But Pellegrini, who has endured a season of speculation as the former Atletico Madrid forward has been a rumoured target of Real Madrid, is tired of repeating that he expects Aguero to stay at City.
When asked about the Argentina international's future he told a news conference his answer was: "Exactly the same what I respond to all the other links during the whole year.
"We cannot talk every week about players that are [supposedly] coming here to Manchester City and the players that are going out. I think Aguero is a Manchester City player, he is very happy here and the club is very happy with him."
City have been linked with Liverpool striker Luis Suarez and Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes but manager Pellegrini refused to discuss either. "Same answer," he replied.
Aguero is set to resume training next week but the 25-year-old, who scored the winner at Old Trafford last season, will not return in time to face Manchester United.
"No chance for United," said Pellegrini. "Maybe next week he will start working with the squad but I think maybe he will start training with the whole squad at the end of the week."
Asked specifically about the Arsenal game, he replied: "I am not sure."
Aguero, who has been sidelined by calf and hamstring problems this season, will definitely miss Saturday's game against Fulham.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley won't be getting any
Oregon crab if his state's Auburn Tigers beat the Oregon Ducks in
the BCS Championship game.
Likewise, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski won't be eating any southern barbecue if his team wins college football's biggest game on Monday.
Kulongoski said Friday there will be no friendly wager between
the chief executives.
Riley is a gambling opponent who has moved to shut down electronic bingo halls.
He got into some hot water a year ago when he made a bet with Florida's governor over the Southeastern Conference championship game - and he eventually told Florida's Charlie Crist not to send the oranges he owed.


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A normed vector space automatically generates a topology, known as the norm topology or strong topology on , generated by the open balls . A sequence in such a space converges strongly (or converges in norm) to a limit if and only if as . This is the topology we have implicitly been using in our previous discussion of normed vector spaces.
However, in some cases it is useful to work in topologies on vector spaces that are weaker than a norm topology. One reason for this is that many important modes of convergence, such as pointwise convergence, convergence in measure, smooth convergence, or convergence on compact subsets, are not captured by a norm topology, and so it is useful to have a more general theory of topological vector spaces that contains these modes. Another reason (of particular importance in PDE) is that the norm topology on infinite-dimensional spaces is so strong that very few sets are compact or pre-compact in these topologies, making it difficult to apply compactness methods in these topologies. Instead, one often first works in a weaker topology, in which compactness is easier to establish, and then somehow upgrades any weakly convergent sequences obtained via compactness to stronger modes of convergence (or alternatively, one abandons strong convergence and exploits the weak convergence directly). Two basic weak topologies for this purpose are the weak topology on a normed vector space , and the weak* topology on a dual vector space . Compactness in the latter topology is usually obtained from the Banach-Alaoglu theorem (and its sequential counterpart), which will be a quick consequence of the Tychonoff theorem (and its sequential counterpart) from the previous lecture.
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The depth of prospect information provided in each league varies according to the relative strength of each league, and to a lesser degree the number of teams in the league. In the Cape Cod League alone, we have ranked the top 100 prospects.
We are providing information on each league in two stages. Initially, we provided a raw list (and relevant biographical information) on the top prospects in each league. That information remains available to PG Crosschecker Insider-level subscribers. Our second, more comprehensive instalment provides scouting reports on all the prospects in each league that we ranked. We've completed some leagues, and will be finish the balance over the course of the next 2-3 weeks.
That information will be available only to Premium-level subscribers, although we are providing the introduction to each league and the scouting report on the No. 1 prospect for free. Subscriber Information to access scouting reports on the balance of each league's top prospects is available elsewhere on the PG Crosschecker site.
We've provide a link to each league's top prospects list on the attached chart, both the raw version with a list of prospects only and the more comprehensive version with full scouting reports on each player. The number of players we've ranked is also noted. You can also link to each league's official website for more complete information on the 2008 season.


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As a message board, we needed to brace ourselves for the Jets drafting BPA, not on need. That would have made the shock of a couple of picks easier.
Not being a draftnik I can only really rely on what the experts think in assessing how we did. And though old as dirt, he's considered one of the best (if not THE best) expert in the media on college prospects.
According to his top 100, we got 3 of the top 13 players (Milliner 6, Geno 7, Richardson 13). And he rates Winters at #58 (we got him at 78). If he's right, there was not a single overdraft, and a lot of GREAT value. If he's even in the ballpark on his rankings, we still did very well. I know many of you will not agree with him -- and for those that studied film and spent lots of time analyzing, that's totally reasonable -- but it must be said that Brandt has a very good track record. For me, at least, it makes me feel a lot better.
As a message board, we needed to brace ourselves for the Jets drafting BPA, not on need. That would have made the shock of a couple of picks easier.
Gil Brandt @Gil_Brandt
The Jets got two really good first rounders in Dee Milliner and Sheldon Richardson. Offensive lineman Brian Winters was another good pick.
Really like what Jets, Vikings, Rams, Steelers, Packers, Lions and Jaguars have done in #NFLDraft so far
He also like the Geno pick
We had needs at CB with Revis gone, at RB with Green gone, at QB with Sanchez being a disaster, at Guard with Moore going.
Seems like we already filled some major holes already from a need perspective.
I hate listening to so-called "experts" giving their opinion as a method to stir the pot. Most experts are just people with egos that want attention. Gil Brandt is on of the few "experts" that I actually view as an expert. Not just saying that because what he said, just listen to him on Sirius and you'll know he actually understands the game.
Too much to like, not enough to whine about. Oh look at the boards, my mistake! Seems like every pick was a disaster... right? Forgot where I was!
Daniel Jeremiah @MoveTheSticks
Talked to several personnel execs around the league. Universal praise for the 4 players the Jets selected. Good value with each pick.
I like this draft much better after having taken Winters. Very solid prospect and you figure if he pans out he'll be cheaper in the long run than a Warmack or Cooper.
Still wish we could have managed to trade down at some point though. Would have been nicer if we could have traded for Ivory and still had another 4th in our pocket.
You know I think the 3 day draft makes you look at the draft completely differently. I HATED the first day (gave it an F), because it was defense/defense at what could be considered not our biggest areas of need. But after we drafted on day 2 I feel dramatically better, even excited about the draft so far.
Gil Brandt is really in a league himself in terms of talent evaluation. Mayock is awesome, but there is a reason the NFL uses Gil to choose who attends the NFL draft. He still works as hard on player evaluation as he did when he was a cowboy.
So to get three of his Top 13 players is pretty special. If he has Geno at 7 he thinks he can be a franchise type guy
Even the haters can't deny the Jets got good value at each pick, so I'm really kind of shocked how much the majority of our fanbase dislikes our draft.


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Janet Marilyn Freese, 76 of Sully, passed away on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.
A visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home in Marshalltown. There will be a private family interment at a later date. Memorials may be directed towards either the Make-A-Wish Foundation or to JDRF. Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Janet and her family.
Janet Burns was born on Nov. 11, 1936, in the Gilman area to Layton and Dora Paul Burns. On June 30, 1956, she was united in marriage to Clarence Freese in Marshalltown. They resided in Marshalltown for two years before moving to Gilman. Janet was employed with the Gilman School District as well as being a farmer's wife in the Gilman area and then retiring approximately 10 years ago where she and Clarence called Sully home. Janet was a member of the Gilman Auxiliary Club and also enjoyed cooking and being outside, whether it was fishing, camping or boating. Above all else, she loved spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Janet truly cherished her family.
Left to cherish her memory is her husband, Clarence; daughter Tana (Dale) Brand of Sully; grandchildren Eric (Faye) Brand of Sully and Cory (Heidi) Brand of Searsboro; great-grandchildren Carter, Abigail, Braxton, Breckyn and Brooks; sister Linda (Richard) Wilkening of Perry; sister-in-law Jo Freese of Baxter; brother-in-law: Elmer (Pricilla) Freese of Marshalltown; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Janet is preceded in death by her parents; a son in infancy; brothers Roger and Ronald "Butch" Burns; and a brother-in-law Jerome Freese.