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By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 06/03/11
Three-year-old Kindred Worrell, the youngest participant in the 19th Annual Varina Lions Canoe-a-thon, didn't have much choice when it came to attending. But she enjoyed the 10-mile cruise, looking at kayaks and fishing a feather out of the James, just the same.
Her father, Sgt. Timothy Worrell of the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries, visited Kindred frequently along the way as he escorted several dozen canoes and kayaks from Rocketts Landing to Osborne Landing.
And Kindred's mother, Jennifer, pronounced the journey a relaxing and much-needed episode of "tornado therapy" for herself and fellow teacher Angela Paust.
Paust teaches sixth grade at Page Middle School in Gloucester County and Jennifer Worrell is a reading specialist. On April 16, a tornado destroyed roughly half the school building, and Page teachers and students had to transfer to another county middle school. To accommodate the double load, home students and faculty now attend a morning shift, and the contingent from Page attends from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
In addition to the stress of being uprooted and adapting to the new schedule, Page faculty are also coping with reams of lost and destroyed records.
"My dad found a GED test in his yard," said Worrell, "four miles away [from the school]. And letters to the chorus teacher were found two counties over in Deltaville."
All of which made a leisurely paddle down the James sound pretty appealing to Worrell and Paust when they learned of the canoe-a-thon through Worrell's husband.
Pick your pace
Unlike the two teachers, Will Harlan has been coming to the canoe-a-thon for years. His neighbor, Buz Snyder, is the event's founder and a long-time activist in the sponsoring organization, the Varina Lions Club.
Asked to name his most memorable canoe-a-thon, Harlan said it would have to be his first, when he was still a new member of the Lions Club.
Assured by Snyder that the event was not a race, Harlan took his two young sons, whose ages he estimated at seven and ten.
"I had never paddled flat water before," Harlan recalled, anticipating a relaxing cruise with his boys. "We brought coolers, fishing rods, radios, and lots of food.
But from the moment Snyder and his son hit the water, said Harlan, they never stopped paddling.
"What do you mean, 'It's not a race?' he asked Snyder after his loaded-down boat finally arrived at the take-out and picnic.
The following year, said Harlan, he and his sons arrived in a stripped-down boat. "And we started getting competitive!"
That's the beauty of the canoe-a-thon, say its fans.
Paddlers can challenge themselves to try and beat their time from earlier years, challenge family members or buddies in a friendly wager, or even vie to be the first canoeist or kayaker to finish.
Or they can sit back and enjoy nature, the river, wildlife, and all the history floating by.
River's heritage
"Views from the river have not changed that much in over 400 years," pointed out Stephen Winks, the canoe-a-thon sponsorship chairman.
Noting that the 17th century Wilton Farm in Varina was called "World's End," because there was no known European habitation beyond that point, he added, "You can not only see the unchanged views . . . but imagine the history of native Americans, and at Wilton, with it literally being the end of the world as we knew it."
Both the put-in and take-out sites are historic spots, said Winks. Rocketts Landing was the largest seaport in the country prior to the advent of railroads, and Thomas Jefferson's grandfather and namesake lived at the town of Osborne, across from Osborne Landing, where he operated a ferry.
Just half a mile from Osborne Landing also lies Snyder's residence of Aarrahahatteck.
"It is the only named spot on Captain John Smith's 1610 map of Virginia," said Winks, "other than James Towne."
Although the canoe-a-thon may have originally been organized as a fun club activity and fundraiser -- proceeds contribute to community scholarships, middle school reading programs, after-school YMCA programs, and assistance for the sight and hearing impaired -- Winks views it also as a means of raising awareness about Varina.
Most people think of Varina as nothing more than a sleepy rural suburb of Richmond, said Winks. The canoe-a-thon gives organizers a chance to promote the community's beauty, as well as its "extraordinary history [as the] second oldest spot in North America, in the most historic city in North America: Richmond, Va."
'Family reunion'
In addition to the opportunity to get close to nature and history, the canoe-a-thon also provides what Harlan calls a "family reunion" atmosphere. Snyder returns with sons and grandchildren every year, and Harlan's two boys -- now in their twenties -- come back to town annually for the event.
For Dave Whyte, who paddled with Snyder because his usual partner couldn't make it, the event was a chance to spend a few hours with a role model and good friend.
"I keep coming back every year because Buz is like a father to me," said Whyte.
Whyte met Snyder in 1994 through his friend Billy Waldecker, who is a great nephew of Snyder's wife, Nelda. "Billy and I were big bass fishing nuts," said Whyte, "so naturally Buz's pond was a great place to visit."
In return for the chance to fish at Arrahatteck, Whyte would help out with tasks such as clearing brush or repairing the dock. Eventually, Whyte began attending the Waldecker family reunion each July -- a tradition he has continued since he married and had children.
"Over the years, Buz and Nelda fell in love with my family and vice versa, and we feel like part of their extended family," he said. "Arrahatteck is a place that my kids have grown up with and our memories there are very fond."
Since his own father's death in 2007, Whyte said Snyder's role in his life has taken on an even more special significance.
"I have great respect and admiration for Buz," he said. "[He is] someone I can model myself after in terms of attitude and integrity.
"It was an honor to paddle with him for the first time this year."
No tornadoes needed
As canoe-a-thon participants reached the take-out location at Osborne Landing and gathered for the barbecue lunch, it was clear that even the prospect of a few sore muscles would not deter anyone from returning the following year.
One woman, climbing stiffly from her canoe, managed a smile as she groaned, "I don't think I'll do this tomorrow, though."
Another woman, who seemed to take perverse pride in finishing last -- even with a helpful tow from the "sag wagon" boat -- showed off several treasures she had found along the journey.
"Look at this burly piece of driftwood!" she exclaimed, adding, "There were too many interesting things to see [to paddle fast]."
On the bus ride back to Rocketts Landing to pick up cars, Angela Paust was already nostalgic as she reminisced, "It was so nice to be out there on the river."
Her fellow teacher, Worrell, confirmed that it won't take a tornado to get them to another canoe-a-thon.
"We'll be back next year," said Worrell. "It was awesome."
Democrat VanValkenburg kicks off Gen. Assembly campaign
By Holly Speck and Hannah Matheson, Capital News Service 02/24/2017 General AssemblyGeneral Assembly 2017
Senior students at Glen Allen High School will get a personal touch when studying elections with their AP government teacher.
That teacher, Schuyler VanValkenburg, recently announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the 72nd District seat in the House of Delegates. If he earns the nomination, he will run against Del. Jimmie Massie, R-Henrico, who has been unopposed for 10 years.
VanValkenburg, a 2004 University of Richmond alumnus who majored in history, is running for office for the first time. Although he has lived in Richmond since he began his undergraduate studies, aside from one year spent in Seattle, he said he never felt it was his time to run. > Read more.
Construction begins on JA Finance Park at Libbie Mill
School and business leaders from around the region, including (pictured, from left) Simon Hodges of Dominion Resources, Daphne Swanso(president of Junior Achievement of Central Virginia) and Henrico County Manager John Vithoulkas, gathered at Libbie Mill Library Feb. 23 for the Junior Achievement Finance Park construction kickoff. > Read more.
Assembly poised to OK state budget on Friday
By Amelia Heymann, Capital News Service 02/24/2017 General AssemblyGeneral Assembly 2017
Finishing a day early, House and Senate negotiators agreed on a budget Wednesday that includes employee pay raises and more money for K-12 education and mental health.
The negotiators presented their budget to their fellow lawmakers in time for the required 48-hour review, which could be completed by Friday night with a chance to adjourn their 2017 session before Saturday's target date.
Republican leaders in the House and Senate praised the spending plan's conservative fiscal policies. > Read more.
Section of Charles City Road to close beginning Feb. 26
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A section of Charles City Road, from Lewis Road to South Airport Drive, will be closed beginning Sunday, Feb. 26 as part of a project to widen and improve the road.
The Henrico County Department of Public Works expects the closure to last for a few weeks.
Westbound traffic on Charles City will be detoured around the work zone by way of South Airport, Seven Hills Boulevard and Laburnum Avenue. > Read more.
ACLU urges McAuliffe to veto anti-immigration bills
By Rodrigo Arriaza and Maura Mazurowski, Capital News Service 02/24/2017 General AssemblyGeneral Assembly 2017
Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union called on Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday to veto Republican-backed legislation banning local governments in Virginia from designating themselves as sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. They also said they plan to fight federal and state policies that they believe violate immigrants' rights.
At a news conference, representatives of the ACLU of Virginia and other civil rights organizations criticized anti-immigrant measures passed by the General Assembly. They also condemned the recent spike in deportation raids on immigrant communities in Virginia by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as President Donald Trump's recent executive order banning immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries. > Read more.
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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Given the warm weather lately, Saturday's RVA Polar Plunge Winter Fest, benefiting Special Olympics Virginia, might actually be enjoyable! Other weekend events you're sure to enjoy include the 14th annual Richmond Kids Expo at the Richmond Raceway Complex, the Richmond Symphony and The Taters in concert at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, and the Richmond Ballet Minds in Motion Team XXL performing at the Henrico Theatre. This is also the last weekend to check out HATTheatre's production of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Tim Young of Socialcast considers how blending activity streams with existing applications can open the door to behavioral change inside enterprises.Interview conducted by Alan Morrison and Galen Gruman
Tim Young is CEO of Socialcast, an enterprise social networking company he founded in 2005. VMware acquired Socialcast in May 2011.
PwC: How did Socialcast get started?
TY: Socialcast is a company I founded a few years ago in Irvine, California. In the spring of 2009 we moved it to San Francisco, and as of May 31, 2011, we were acquired by VMware.
I grew up in Southern California watching my family build a fairly significant manufacturing business, and I was really intrigued with the concept of merging social software with data in a manufacturing context. Specifically, how do we make information flow more efficiently between shifts of manufacturing workers, between supervisors, between plant managers and executives? I wanted to help enterprises understand their informal organization, rather than just their formal org chart.
PwC: And so providing employees with the means to create and manage their own visible online identity is a part of that concept?
TY: Yes. These tools create an identity that's not just built on employees' yearly performance reviews or a subjective opinion of their manager, but on the merits of their work. This is very, very powerful. When people not only share what they're working on, but make that visible throughout the company, that's what we mean by online identity.
When you analyze that new information layer, it's allowing not only HR departments but also executives to find the people in the organization who are extremely passionate and making big contributions. All that collective knowledge becomes available directly rather than through the org chart.
By talking with middle managers and doing some analysis, we found that social technology is changing the role of middle management. Middle management is going from a command and control structure to much more like a coach or a mentor. Because more and more information is transparent, they're really helping employees understand how executive management's goals are attached to the specific items that individual contributors are working on, and they're interpreting the meaning of that and why it's important.
You can see these cultural shifts and how the shifts change roles. It is making middle managers much more critical to the success of organizations because they are micro-CEOs of their own domain. When you look at large companies that have hundreds of global offices, it's really important that they have passionate people.
PwC: What benefits are the executives seeing?
TY: From an executive level, I think many companies don't understand what is going on all the way down to the individual contributor level, and it's because there just haven't been tools that allow them to do that, especially qualitative tools. You can do surveys and polls, but you don't get the ability for consistent real-time feedback from everyone in the organization—and that feedback is necessary to harness the collective human capital of the organization.
Then there's the shared learning that goes on. When we talk to executives about advancing their organization from a human capital standpoint, shared learning is incredibly important, especially as they're trying to move faster, be more competitive, and do more with less. It's not necessarily destroying e-mail or trying to get rid of e-mail—it is taking over a part of the attention that we were giving tools such as e-mail.
PwC: How do users generally take to Socialcast initially?
TY: About 20 to 25 percent of users are early adopters. They tend to be people who are very active online both contributing content and connecting with friends, family, and colleagues through networking sites. There's really no modification you would need to make; they just love this new capability. And then as you go from that 25 percent to the remaining 75 percent of the organization, you start to see an interesting phenomenon.
Their lack of usage or their nonsupport of the tool falls into a few different categories. Some of the biggest ones are, "I don't want to learn a new tool," and "I don't want to learn a new way of working." Another one is, "It's not embedded in any of my workflows; it's this new thing."
When you look back at the history of KM [knowledge management], you see that many of those initiatives failed because they all tried to create a new kind of siloed area. Employees would say, "If I have an issue in my CRM [customer relationship management] or in my ERP [enterprise resource planning], I now have to switch context. I must go to this other external collaboration system and try to reframe the context of the problem, the comment, whatever I want to share, and then follow up in that system only to come back to my primary system and actually complete whatever action I needed to do.]
We looked at this problem in depth last year, and I think it's indicative in one of the products we launched in 2010 called Socialcast Reach. Instead of having this one big stream that you must feed off of all the time and contribute to, we decided to take those streams and make them context specific in these other applications—embed conversations in your ERP, in your CRM, in your project system, in your SharePoint. That way, we can address the 75 percent of users who don't want to learn a new tool. The social functionality they need is now within their workflow.
Now, when that user goes into that ERP application and pulls up that account screen, the activity screen for that specific account is right there within that app. They never have to go outside to another application. They can see who has worked on it, relevant conversation on it, who the expert is, and they can ask a question—all within the application.When they come back to that account in that account screen, all that information is there.
"What we've strived to do inside organizations is allow people to connect over the business objects that they deal with every day, whether that be a customer, a work order, a palette, a product, or a document that they're working on. That's really the difference."
PwC: What gave you the idea to make streams context specific?
TY: The consumer analog would be Facebook Connect. For a long time, Facebook had this one portal destination very akin to the suite approach that Enterprise 2.0 companies have brought out.
What Facebook figured out, very intelligently, is that your social experience online doesn't just begin and end with Facebook.com; it really goes everywhere—on CNN, on the blogs you read, everywhere. Adding Facebook Connect allows you to take your social graph with you in all those other places online. We provide basically the same thing. Socialcast Reach allows you to take that social graph—all the people you work with—with you in all your other apps.
PwC: It sounds like two things— one is that there's essentially a communication channel, and the other is what those communicating are doing. So I'm assuming you can see where a person is currently in their work, what they've actually done, what other people have done. Is that correct?
TY: In general it's correct. We've created what we would call social objects out of these business processes and workflows. A social object is something that two or more people connect over in the consumer world; it's like a photo on Flickr or Facebook. You post it, I see it, like it, you comment on it. Even just looking at it, I'm connecting with you through this object.
What we've strived to do inside organizations is allow people to connect over the business objects that they deal with every day, whether that be a customer, a work order, a palette, a product, or a document that they're working on. That's really the difference.
Let's say you're part of the workforce at a book publisher, and you're entering an ISBN [International Standard Book Number] in your inventory system. You actually pull up the whole record of information on that book title and get all that social information right there in that system. So you see all the people who have worked on it, whether it is the editor, the guy who ordered the paper, everybody. You also get to see all the conversation that's happening. So we're merging that business object and that conversation, where in the past it's been separated; it's either been done in e-mail or IM [instant messaging], and it's very hard to pull all of that together.
PwC: Does making both identity and conversation more visible lead to more accurate and complete expertise location?
TY: Yes. It all goes back to identity and what the employee is trying to do. It is one thing to locate a subject matter expert, and many systems have been able to do that, but the real value of expertise locations is getting feedback and getting a question answered or getting some insight on a subject. In that sense, the subject matter expert and the person who is seeking information must interact.
Both are trying to gain something from that exchange. In many of the previous systems, the subject matter experts store their information and build silos around themselves for reasons like job security because there's really not any value in that exchange. So I give you that information, but what do I receive as the subject matter expert?
By making that information expertise exchange more transparent and open, the companies—over time—see their subject matter experts move from domain experts to mentors because that exchange is now out in the open. You're not rewarded necessarily for being a subject matter expert as much as you are now rewarded for taking that information that you have and using it within the company to add value to the company, by sharing it appropriately.
In many cases, you'll have known experts inside the company. But we have found that knowing where that ultimate expertise lies often is not helpful for an individual trying to get a question answered. It's not helpful because typically the person who has the most expertise is not necessarily in a position or has the time to answer questions. So we can guide users to other people who might have less domain expertise, yet they are the most willing and able to actually help and get questions answered.
You really just need your question answered quickly, and in many cases you don't need to talk to the leading subject matter expert in your company to get the correct answer. We look at people who not just have the most information or share the most information, but people who actually answer other people's questions in that domain. Then we can point people who ask questions to those individuals.
PwC: So you can actually see the behavior to do this, and that changes the reward dynamic.
TY: Yes. Exposing the behavior changes a lot of things. We've seen CEOs go in, view a question-and-answer exchange, and they'll like it or they'll leave a comment. That action completely begins to change the mind-set of individuals. The SMEs' willingness to share increases over time with more activity.
PwC: What's the goal here?
TY: Obviously, one goal is that information flows extremely freely among people. But then there's the specific business goal. With most any activity stream, you may get a lot of interesting conversations, but you won't get repeatable value. People converse, but then what? What is the business goal of this? Organizations might say they're not getting any repeatable value, so how do they really know what it's doing? It's the same thing—you put workers in a factory and what are they going to do?
In the end analysis, the functions must support processes and mission that result in repeated value. That's the challenge and that's what Socialcast is working on. We're pushing the evolution of the tools and helping our customers, so they don't get stuck with four walls and a bunch of talented people and nothing for them to focus on.
PwC: How does the recent acquisition by VMware change your vision for Socialcast?
TY: Joining with VMware provides us with the opportunity to expand our vision and advance as a core technology.


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Just my way of sharing with family, friends, and anyone who will listen, the things that I have learned about my ancestors with a little bit about myself and my own little family in the mix.
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Okay...you may have guessed that my folks were not straight up from Africa.
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Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.ReplyDelete
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
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Author of "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories" and family sagas
and "Back to the Homeplace" and "The Homeplace Revisited"
I like reading your posts. I found you on the Geneablogger's site. I look forward to reading more of your story!ReplyDelete
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I think we're all more "mutts" than we even realize and love it when people embrace that.ReplyDelete


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Callum Armstrong plays the double chanter Scottish smallpipes
Two videos of Callum playing polyphony on the Scottish smallpipe double chanter.
The first is the tune he played at this year's collogue. The second is the tune published in the current issue of Common Stock together with the article on 'Expanding the Scottish Smallpipe'
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Her body grew weary but her spirit was still strong and cried out to be free. On July 15, 2004, the Heavens opened and into the arms of Angels and her waiting family and friends there, our dear Mother and Grandmother departed only to begin her most magnificent journey. Leaving behind the pain and sorrow, she is now at peace and reunited at last with the loved ones who have been waiting. Overcome with sadness, not a day will pass that we will not miss her, but we rejoice in knowing that indeed, her spirit has been set free and will forever dwell in our hearts to guide us in all that we do. So until the day comes that she too will be there waiting with open arms to welcome us, we must say "goodbye dear one."
Preceded in death by her parents James A. Oveson and Jane P. Stokes, three sisters, two brothers, a son-Lawrence Venoy Rasmussen, a daughter-Joyce Ann Tamllos, three grandsons, and two great-grandchildren.
Survived by a sister Marie Atwood, Elmo, daughter Evelyn J. (Cambron) Peterson, Brigham City, son Henry J. (Myrna) Rasmussen, El Paso, Texas, son Ronald Vaughn (Dauna) Rasmussen, Alpine, daughter Myrna Lee (Frank) Saccomanno, Spring Glen, son Tommy K. (Bonnie) Rasmussen, Spring Glen, 24 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services were held on July 19 at noon at the Spring Glen LDS Chapel. A viewing was held prior to the church services. Burial was in the Price Cemetery under the direction of Fausett Mortuary.
The family wishes to express our sincere thanks to Turnquist Retreat where Mom received such loving care and was known to all as "Aunt Thel."
AMERICANFORK-Inez Lavarda Johnson Defriez Jones left this earthly existence July 14, 2004. She had been living with her daughter Marva Peterson and later with her grandson Michael Peterson and his wife Janice of American Fork, who provided loving care for her for several years as her health failed.
She was born Jan. 30, 1911 in Huntington, the fifth child of J. B. Johnson and Alice Allen and spent her early years in Huntington graduating from Huntington High School. She married Charles Defriez, Nov. 23, 1931 in Price, and they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple March 27, 1933. Children from this marriage were Stanley Charles (Joan); Norval J. (Ann);Klora (deceased);Marva Lou Peterson (Jim);Sheldon Marvin (deceased); Roger Allen (Diana).Her husband, Charles Defriez, was killed in a coal mining accident, March 28, 1946.
She was left a widow with six small children, the youngest being four weeks old. She helped run the family farm and worked as a clerk in the local store to care for her family. She married Glenn E. Jones March 18, 1948. He and his children, Valaine Moffitt (Jack); Larry (deceased) (Dot); Catherine Nelson (Jim); Glenna Ann Kofford (Gary) joined her family.
Lavarda was an active member of the LDS church and held many leadership positions. She was a temple ordinance worker and filled a family history mission at the age of 80. She has outlived most of her friends, but is survived by sister Madge Guymon and Enid Miglorie. She will be missed by her family. Funeral services were held Sat., July 17, 2004 in the Hillcrest 3rd Ward, American Fork, Utah. Burial in Huntington City Cemetery.
SPRING GLEN-Lavon Shirley Juvan, age 79, passed away suddenly at her home in Helper. She was born Aug. 12, 1924 in Price to Alma and Mabel Jensen Greenwood. She married Andy Juvan June 17, 1943 in Castle Dale.
Mom liked to crochet, sew, cook, garden (she had the most beautiful Flag iris in the county) and go fishing, but her greatest treasure on earth was her family, by whom she will be dearly missed.
Lavon is survived by her children: Shirley Johansen of Las Vegas; and Frances and Jerry Price of Spring Glen; six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Also survived by brother and sisters: George and Carol Greenwood, Joyce and Nick Nelson, Ella Santi and Lois and Horace Thayne; and her dog Wilbur. Preceded in death by her husband Andy, who was killed in a mining accident in 1963; brother, Bob Greenwood; sister Ruth Pace and brother-in-law Leon Pace.
Graveside services were held July 16 at 10 a.m. in the Price City Cemetery.
PRICE - Virginia R. Hanks, 86, of Price, died Thursday in a local care center after a long illness.
Mrs. Hanks was born April 20, 1918, in Christopher, Ill., the daughter of Dominic and Anna Ronchetto. She married Michael Gamber on July 30, 1940 in Trinidad, Colo. Mr. Gamber died in 1955 and she was married to Howard P. Hanks from Aug. 18, 1963 until he passed away in 1997.
A graduate of the nursing program at St. Louis University, Mrs. Hanks was a nursing instructor at Carbon College from 1956 until 1958. She worked as a secretary in the U.S. Forest Service office in Price from 1958 until she joined the staff of the Bureau of Land Management in 1962. She eventually became the administrative officer for BLM offices of Price and Moab, retiring in 1978.
An active member of the Notre Dame Parish, Mrs. Hanks was a volunteer for more than 14 years at the Notre Dame School.
She is survived by two daughters, Linda G. (Brent) Keetch, Pismo Beach, Calif.; Martyanne (Mike) Donavan, Denver, Colo.; son, Michael R. (Stephanie) Gamber, Price; stepdaughter, Kayte Kirkwood, Baytown, Texas; five grandchildren, James and Richard Gamber, both of Price; Michelle Gillespie, Eagle Mountain; Gretchen Hains, Webster, Texas; and Lydia Scott, Baytown, Texas. She leaves four great-grandchildren. Her children express special thanks to the staff at Parkdale Care Center for the love and care given to their mother.
A Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, 10 a.m., at Notre Dame Parish Church. Visitation will take place one hour before the Mass at Mitchell Funeral Home, Price. Committal will be in the Price City Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made in Mrs. Hanks' name to the Carbon County Humane Society, 1419 Valley View Drive, Wellington, UT 84542, or to the Carbon County Animal Shelter, 3360 S. 225 West, Price, UT 84501.


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- The master of international intrigue and explosive action introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare . . . against a new kind of threat. Get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore. For years, ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn that neither Moore nor any of his bosses saw coming. Barely surviving, he tries to bring to safety a Pakistani colonel with information about the debacle, only to have that mission fall prey to forces more powerful and cunning than any he has faced before. Undaunted, and with failure not an option, Moore continues his quest for the truth, leaving many dead in his wake--killed by those for whom secrecy is the ultimate weapon. In a story that races from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U. S. -Mexico border, Tom Clancy once again delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality.
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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely young daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
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How Do We Win Again?
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Bob and Jean Dohnal, Publishers/Editors
This date is prophetic, the attack on Pearl Harbor, rallied the
Special Note to all of those Weenies and Wimps who want to give up. One battle does not constitute a war and it will go on. "When the going gets tough, tough men get going".
For those of us that have been in this battle for half a century, we know that just because you get knocked down once in a while, that if your message is on, clear and we work hard, we can prevail. If that were not true, we would all be wearing hammer and sickle flags these days. Thanks to patriots like Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Reagan and others we defeated the Commies. Look at Reagan, ran for president twice before winning. He destroyed the Soviet block, as Thatcher said: "Reagan defeated the Soviets without firing a shot".
So, those of you that want to quit, get off your rears, pick up the pieces, reassemble them, kick the leaders that lost, either out or in the butt, and put a new team together. We must put Pat Roggensack back into the Supreme Court and keep Scott Walker in the governor's seat. It will not be easy.
Where do we start? First, examine the GOTV for the last election. While it was better than we have had for decades, it did not match the opposition. We put the hands of the world into ORCA, a secret electronic system for GOTV and it failed. Bad Idea. "Keep it Simple Stupid". I heard that first in the training meetings to defeat George McGovern for president in 1972. Somebody proposed a complicated program for GOTV and the campaign chair, John MacIver, very simply said, "Keep it simple". And it is simple. Organizing a precinct means getting responsible people that understand the problems, train them and put them in charge of one area. Furnish them with the data they need on who are our votes, who we might work on and who are the enemy. You go to work on the voters in your precinct by going door to door to meet them, put up yard signs, ask them to go around the block, talk to their neighbors and hand out literature and then ask them to help GOTV. Doesn't take a genius, it takes hard work.
David Axelrod, according to Steven Welcenbach of Reality News, told his minions in
There is no doubt that we lost this election because they did a better job of GOTV. Real Clear politics asks: "Where were the 7 million white votes that were missing?" We can argue forever about Romney's candidacy and how much Tommy added to the ticket, but the fact is that we left our horses in the barn, eating oats.
The worthless GAB stated that we got 70% of the vote out, but that is deceiving. It was actually less. They take the number of registered voters and compare that to the numbers of people that voted, including the on site registrations. That is inaccurate. In order to get an accurate number, we had 120% or so in my precinct, you need to add the number of on site registrants to the number that voted and then compare. When we do that, we drop down to 60% or so. That 40% was our voters, sitting in their easy chairs while Obama romped to victory.
Did they stay home because they did not like the candidates, as they did in 2006 and 2008, or did we fail to motivate them???? Whatever the answer, that is why we lost.
Issue Problems:
Our conservatives fail to realize sometimes that there are really important issues and there are marginal issues. We get hung up on some marginal issues and let the elephant issues run right over us.
The real issues are: War, Economy, Jobs, Deficits, Debt, SS, Medicaid, Medicare and size of government. Why then do we get hung up on some minor things like immigration? Our society is barely reproducing at a replacement rate in this country at present. We need some hard working, dedicated people to help, get college degrees and become dedicated citizens. Those people are on our doorstep, just south. They want to come up here to work and raise families. Let us find an answer.
This issue is easy to solve. Rick Perry, down in Texas, has worked closely with these people, working to get the kids that came here, brought by their parents, into college and become producing citizens. What state would not like to have 30,000 or so college educated Spanish people? Immigration is not even their key issue, so why did we not go into the Latino sections and work for their vote. Voces de la Frontera, a Spanish group made 25,000 door to door contacts in Milwaukee Latino area. How many did we make??
We have a good message to take to them and have them join us. Not some figureheads, head of some committee, but forming a hard working group that makes a pitch for families, homes, economy, jobs, small businesses. We can get them on our side. We have to, if we ever want to win.
When Scott Walker ran for
Several years ago, when I was Milwaukee City GOP chair, Ken Clasen, 4th dist chair and I proposed a program to put together just such an effort in the Latino area. The state Chair laughed at us. The ideas are still there, we must utilize them.
Youth vote. We have the best message of all for our youth: jobs, family and a robust economy. Reagan won that vote. Where is our effort in that area? We can get in there and make an impression. We must do it for many reasons. We cannot just run ads and hope that these kids will watch them. We need to talk to them. We know where they are, let's go get them.
Young Women: this was the biggest disaster of the election, losing all of those votes. They want the same thing that we all do, jobs, families, economy. Why did we let it get hung up on birth control? Our idiotic talk show people, on this issue, demagogued this to death.
As a pharmacist, I have watched women fight to get their companies to add birth control pills to their companies list of allowed drugs. This has gone on for 50 years. Why was anyone surprised that Sandra Fluke wanted the school to do that? Yes, some birth control programs do cost over $100 per month, a dozen or so. Many of the old BC pills had lots of side effects, unacceptable to young women. We made her a heroine to that group by calling her all kinds of names and deriding her. A few little notes on the radio or TV would have sufficed. She helped them mightily to sew up that vote and win.
My Dad used to say that it helps to think a little bit before you open your mouth. We didn't and they won.
The Libs have looked at these groups as vulnerable to their messages, even if they never deliver anything. They were right. We ignored these groups, expecting that they would just love our stupid TV ads and run out and vote for them. They didn't and we lost.
GOTV Efforts in Future:
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We cannot lose because we do not get all of our votes out.
How do we do that? First look at the counties in which we lost that we have won before?
Get candidates in every possible race for Assembly, Senate and the courthouses and get them working together. That can happen. The more manpower the better.
Energize the Tea Party and other Conservative groups. These are our people. I work with them daily and they want to win. We no longer can do the same things over and over and expect different results.
Money put into winless worthless ads should be canned in the GOTV. Ads can do only so much. Energy put into phone calls, that produce little, needs to be put into direct voter contacts.
All around this state we had thousands of paid Union operatives, from all over the country, at every event with their little clip boards signing people up and then getting them out to vote.
For over a year I have warned everyone, in these columns, about this incredible effort, that the Libs were fielding, but the powers that be, in Mad city, still do the same old thing.
This Ruling class, in Mad city, consisting of political operatives, lobbyists, donors, layers and miscellaneous hacks cannot be allowed to own this state. We lost and they still walk with pockets of money, the commissions off of these endless ads.
If there is anyone that got a real kick in the butt this time, I hope anyway, is the Karl Roves of this world. Not only did their ineffective presidency cost us the White House but their 300 million dollars in ads, sucked up money that the candidates can use and put it into worthless ads that did more to turn out their base than ours. I actually liked to hear Tammy Baldwin say: "Damn right we're making a difference", it showed she has some cajones.
Tommy worked harder than any man I have ever seen run for office. I have worked with all of them, but his message never got through the clatter.
I believe that Tommy, a very positive person and problem solver, would have been far better off putting together a good message. A positive one and then sticking to it through the campaign.
All of us have to stay in and fight. The grass roots Conservatives, Tea Party leaders and others need to work with our local officials, assemblymen, and senators etc to make changes. If you know local GOP leaders, challenge them. Lots of them worked very hard, but we must work hard and smart to win.
The future belongs to the hardiest in this game. "Politics is a game for adults; all other games are for children".
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The Edmonton Oilers Top-50 Prospects
Jonathan Willis
April 25 2009 11:33AM
This is my ranking of Oilers prospects; every single prospect of note is included somewhere on this list. It differs significantly from similar efforts by The Hockey News and Hockey's Future - I'm much less concerned with draft position than I am in where the prospects are right now.
I use statistics a lot in my rankings, but I also take into account scouting reports and what I've seen of each individual prospect. The one exception I will make is that I don't place a ton of emphasis on Kevin Prendergast's public statements – sometimes they're blatantly wrong, often they contradict what he said in the not too distant past. Without further ado, here's the list:
1. Theo Peckham – Peckham has limited offensive upside at the NHL level, but he's got size and plays a mean game. More than that, he was an outstanding shut-down defenseman in Springfield this season, constantly playing the toughest minutes, and didn't look out of place in 15 NHL games. 2. Riley Nash - Nash has good offensive upside and plays a two-way game; unfortunately for the Oilers his development may be stagnating in Cornell and he still needs to add size. 3. Jordan Eberle - A natural goal-scorer, Eberle took a modest step forward in the WHL this year and starred for Canada at the World Juniors. He showed an ability to translate his offense to the AHL as well, scoring nine points in nine games. Will need more time before being NHL ready. 4. Linus Omark - The best offensive talent in the system right now, Omark had a phenomenal year in Sweden but is small and has never played in North America. 5. Devan Dubnyk - Dubnyk's AHL numbers aren't impressive, but he was playing for an absolutely abysmal team and lost more than twice as many games as he won. He was not part of the problem this season. 6. Gilbert Brule - His grit and offensive ability are undeniable; he is however both undersized and was injured (again) this season. Brule was rushed into the NHL and won't ever be the player he was projected as in his draft year. 7. Teemu Hartikainen - The gritty Finn was one of the youngest players in his country's top league and still managed 17 goals. His skating is still reportedly not very good and his -8 on a good team is cause for concern. Overall, he looks like a mid-round steal by the scouting staff at this point. 8. Philippe Cornet - Another pick that looks like a steal, Cornet actually put up more points than Eberle this season. He has a reputation as a smart, two-way player. 9. Ryan Potulny - Potulny's track record just screams "tweener" to me, but he was far and away the best forward in Springfield and scoring 38 goals was an incredible accomplishment in that environment. Looked good during his NHL recall. 10. Chris Vande Velde - Vande Velde has size and faceoff ability and has put up decent point totals in college hockey. At this point he seems like a decent bet to have a future as a checking forward. 11. Alexandre Plante - The massive defenseman bounced back from a poor 2007-08 and added an edge to his game. On the other hand, Calgary was such a dominant squad that it's questionable whether much of his offense will make it to the NHL. 12. Cody Wild - It was a strange season for Wild, who played a half dozen games in the ECHL this season and had trouble staying in the lineup under Jeff Truitt, but he was one of the few bright spots in Springfield. 13. Taylor Chorney - Kevin Prendergast swears that Chorney's a better player than Wild, but the fact is that he played similar competition, posted vastly inferior numbers and is smaller to boot. His -29 was the worst on the team, and his defense partners (notably Roy and Wild) were vastly better without him than with him. 14. Jeff Petry - The two-way defenseman's numbers dropped off this year as Michigan State was outscored nearly 2:1 by their opponents. That said, Petry's -31 was easily the worst on the team. 15. Liam Reddox - The dependable defensive player doesn't bring size to the NHL but he does bring willingness and smarts. He's been a coach's favourite everywhere he's been, but the change in coaches may mean he ends up back in the AHL. 16. Jean-Francois Jacques - Jacques finally notched an NHL point after being a dependable AHL scorer for years. He's a brilliant AHL player and adds size and energy to the lineup; if he's finally figured out how to translate his game to the NHL he could be a force. 17. Milan Kytnar - Displayed offensive capability this season in Saskatoon and reportedly plays a well-rounded game. 18. Tyler Spurgeon - Was tremendous in a defensive role in Springfield this season; his -4 was one of the best marks on the team and Spurgeon was consistently used against tough opponents. Injuries are still a major concern. 19. Rob Schremp - Schremp's season was an absolute disaster. He should have been on the cusp of NHL duty, but wasn't even a leader in Springfield this season. His -26 was the worst mark among forwards despite the fact that he was playing some of the softest minutes on the team. Still, this is rock bottom and he'll get at least one more year to try and turn things around. 20. Johan Motin - A big defenseman who was used sparingly in the Elitserien, Motin may not be developing as hoped. He would likely benefit from coming over to North America. 21. Ryan Stone - May have a career as an energy forward. Stone has never had a high-end offensive game but adds size and is a tough customer. 22. Colin McDonald - Played tough-minutes this season and showed some offensive talent down the stretch, where Rob Daum leaned on him heavily. He's a big man with a good shot who may end up having a career as a 4th-liner. 23. Vyacheslav Trukhno - For the second year in a row, Trukhno has failed to translate his junior offense to the professional game. He doesn't do enough other things well if he isn't scoring to make the jump to the NHL. 24. Andrew Perugini - The Oilers signed Perugini to a minor-league contract, and he responded by outplaying draft pick Bryan Pitton and stealing the starting job with Stockton. That said, his numbers aren't good enough at this point. 25. Josef Hrabal - This season went very poorly for Hrabal, who will be at Oilers training camp next fall. He was supposed to be one of Springfield's top defensemen but was injured early and then used badly by Jeff Truitt. On his third trip to Stockton he left for Europe where he had six poor games in Sweden. He needs to show something this year or I think he's done. 26. Alexei Mikhnov - Incredibly, Mikhnov's still in the conversation. The Oilers have been in contact with him and he's still interested in coming over, but likely only on a one-way deal. He would be ranked higher if I thought the Oilers were inclined to give him one. 27. Bryan Lerg - Lerg was injured this season, but comments from the Oilers have not been encouraging and it very much sounds like he may not be in the plans. A well-rounded player with a good NCAA career, Lerg is undersized and had a disappointing professional debut. As an undrafted player, he also gets less benefit of the doubt from the team. 28. Guillaume Lefebvre - Lefebvre, rather shockingly, led the Falcons in difficulty of competition and also contributed as the team's resident tough guy. He's getting older, but a fourth line job may yet be his. 29. Glenn Fisher - This player simply refuses to die. After being drafted he had lousy years with the University of Denver before blowing the doors off in his final NCAA season. Edmonton signed him; he responded with a middling ECHL year. He was signed to an AHL/ECHL deal and seldom used as Devan Dubnyk's backup, but when the acquisition of Dany Sabourin forced a move he posted phenomenal numbers with Las Vegas of the ECHL. He'll be 26 this week and is a bit of an enigma. 30. Tim Sestito - The organization's love for this player is baffling; he must be a heck of a character guy because he doesn't contribute at all offensively and isn't blessed with size either. He's a hardnosed guy who handles AHL tough minutes, but even a regular fourth-line job is probably not a realistic possibility. 31. Sebastien Bisaillon - Smallish, injury-prone defenseman showed a high-level offensive game in junior, but doesn't bring enough offense as a pro to justify his other deficiencies. 32. Ryan O'Marra - O'Marra has size and is still young. He managed one goal on the season in the AHL and is rapidly running out of time with the organization. 33. Mathieu Roy - At one point Roy looked like a good bet for a career as a #6/#7 defenseman, but injuries have taken a toll. He has size, some offense, and a nasty disposition, but I think he's already played the bulk of his NHL career. 34. Bryan Young - Big hitter has only average size and doesn't contribute at all offensively. He plays a safe reliable game against soft AHL competition and isn't a prospect of interest at this point. 35. Bjorn Bjurling - Bjurling had an off year, and will be thirty before next season. He doesn't seem to be in the organization's long-term plans. 36. Jake Taylor - Veteran minor-leaguer probably deserves to be ranked higher, but despite having size and playing a gritty game he's at the age where NHL teams stop looking. 37. Bryan Pitton - Had a disastrous professional debut in the ECHL, losing his starting job to Andrew Perugini. He got a second chance when Perugini was injured in game one of the playoffs, but imploded so badly that Parker Van Buskirk, coming off a middling season in junior, replaced him as Stockton's starter. Still has two years on his NHL deal, so he has time to rebound. 38. Jordan Bendfeld - A nasty defenseman with size and toughness, Bendfeld's an ECHL player at this point. 39. Geoff Paukovich - Has size and occasionally injures people by hitting them from behind. Not a prospect of note. 40. Stephane Goulet - A 50-goal scorer in junior, Goulet's a tall, lanky winger who has had three bad professional seasons and is probably done with the organization. 41. Charles Linglet - The undrafted 26-year old looked good in 21 games with Springfield and has some size but is realistically a career minor-leaguer at this point. 42. Alexander Bumagin - The 22-year old Russian seems to have peaked in his draft year. 43. William Quist - Quist hasn't followed the Oilers' recommendations and had a poor season with Nybro in Sweden's second-best league. The 6'5" enigma is not likely to ever where an Oilers' uniform. 44. Robby Dee - A part-time player with the University of Maine, it's very doubtful that Dee gets a contract offer when he finishes school. 45. Matt Glasser - The smallish Glasser has had three uneventful seasons with the University of Denver and is in much the same position as Dee. 46. Robbie Bina - Had a lousy professional debut and was outmatched at every level. The undersized defenseman is already one of the older prospects in the system. 47. Parker Van Buskirk - Undrafted goaltender has been OK as Stockton's starter in the ECHL playoffs but in all likelihood is only a stop-gap. 48. Mikahil Zhukov - Scored a career-high 5 goals in the KHL this past season. Not a player of interest at this point. 49. Jeff Lee - Big winger was rewarded for a fine season with the Oil Kings by being signed to a professional tryout; he was pointless in two AHL games. 50. David Rohlfs - Sometimes a forward, sometimes a defenseman, Rohlfs is almost always an ECHL player.
Some Elaboration
There were undoubtedly a few surprises on this list, so I'm just going to comment on those and a few other points. There are a couple of places where there is a real drop-off between players. I think Peckham has some space in the number one slot and is easily the surest bet in the system. Devan Dubnyk may be an elite AHL goaltender; with the quality of Springfield this season it's hard to be sure based on the numbers. I'd say there's a bit of a drop-off from Dubnyk in the number five spot to Brule at number six.
I have Jeff Petry rated quite low; THN ranks him as the second-best prospect in the system and Hockey's Future has him in the number three slot. He hasn't shown NHL-level offense during his NCAA career and his defensive numbers, both this year and last haven't been inspiring either.
Rob Schremp also fares badly on my list; THN has him ranked 10th overall and Hockey's Future slots him in the #6 spot. I tend to ascribe this to a difference in how we view probability – other outlets like him because he probably won't be an NHL'er, but he has a shot at putting up big points if he does make it. Personally, I rate that behind a guy like Tyler Spurgeon, who has a better chance at an NHL career but probably won't be a particularly special player if he does make it.
The other thing that I do is draw extensively on my AHL Quality of Competition rankings, which give us a better idea of which low-offense types are being elite AHL checkers and which ones are just being AHL grinders. For instance, Ryan O'Marra, who Prendergast tossed under a bus in his interview the other day, was frequently praised during the year as a shut-down player by Oilers' brass when it was obvious from his QualComp numbers that he was playing on the fourth line.
There are two more big drop-offs at about the #17 and #25 slots. Players below #17 are real long-shots, and players below #25 are probably write-offs at this point although one or two may surprise.
@ Ogden Brother: Gagner may have been a better example. All NHL teams bring up and use SOME young players. Developing Gagner at the NHL level has clearly been a priority of the Oilers... Most organizations, however, don't try to develop so many young players at once. Having multiple first and second year players in your top six, is in my estimation, a good way to purposely "ice an inferior team." It's been the same old, same old, for too many years. I would like to see a more steady, measured, conservative approach to player development. I hope Tambellini agrees with me. This whole thread has been one long argument about why the cupboards are bare. (I won't even seriously entertain the notion that they are not) Is it poor drafting, average drafting, slightly above average drafting, What? Are we as fans content with just above average drafting? Are the cupboards bare because Lowe traded away, or failed to sign key vetrans and rushed our prospects into early NHL service? Was it too early? Were all these guys really ready for fulltime roster spots? If they were, why can't the Oilers even claw their way into the upper half of the league standings and make a playoff appearance? More than HALF the teams make it you know. Nitpicking about whether Vande Velde is a higher ranked prospect than Plante isn't going to change the fact that the Oilers have been a poorly run organization for a number of years. So Oilers faithful... am I crazy for not being hugely excited by this list of prospects? Or do you agree with me that Tambellini has a lot of work to do?
April 26 2009, 05:23PM
Chris wrote:
So Oilers faithful… am I crazy for not being hugely excited by this list of prospects? Or do you agree with me that Tambellini has a lot of work to do?
You are free to have your opinion, but I haven't seen you assemble an actual argument using facts or statistics that suggest that the Oilers have a below average draft record. Whereas I have seen multiple sources suggesting that they are somewhat above the curve.
@ Smytty777:
Are you satisfied with drafting "somewhat above the curve?" Is that good enough for you? Also, could you please site YOU'RE "multiple sources" that suggest this? I sited an April 21st Lowetide article for your consideration that helped to qualify my opinions. (Comment #74)
The beauty of a draft record debate is that it's difficult to evaluate the performance of your chosen prospects until upwards of five to ten years later... Maybe that's why Predergast still has a job issuing apologies to the fans of the Sprinfield Falcons... And why Shawn Horcoff is still the Oilers number one center, and Hemsky still doesn't have a full time first line L.W and on and on...
April 26 2009, 07:32PM
@ Chris: Take off the OilerGoggles Willis: Peckham will only be a top four d-man on a team that either misses the playoffs or battles for eighth. Nash is an enigma that values his comfort zone more than developing into a serious NHL'er. Eberle will be lucky to develop into a twenty goal scorer who lacks physical dimenson. Omark will NEVER play in the NHL and Dubnyk is a big oaf who can't come across his crease fast enough to stop a Dale Weise wrist shot let alone an NHL grade slapshot
As I said you are free to your opinion, but hyperbole does little to further your argument. Willis has run a number of articles on the Oilers drafting and Coming Down the Pipe had a segment a few weeks ago as well, you have read the Lowetide article yourself. Everyone is free to their opinion, but if you want to be critical of the Oilers draft record than put together a cohesive argument that rebuts Lowetide's contention don't just rant and say that Omark will NEVER play in the NHL, because that does nothing to enhance your point and it seems like a foolish statement considering Omark's age and ability.
@ Smytty777: The Lowetide article suggested that the Oilers, under Predergast, will be below the league average at drafting both elite, and impact players. I never argued thier ability to draft large volumes of marginal and average NHL'ers... in fact that is how I'd assess much of this current group: a large number of these players are likley to be marginal or average NHl'ers. As for the golden boy Omark: if he was serious about playing in the NHL why sign in the KHL? Could it be that he's concerned his game won't translate well on smaller NHL ice? Is he just greedy? Or maybe he doesn't like his odds of legitimately making the Oiler squad out of camp when Tambellini has publicly declaired his intention to get the Oiler roster bigger. Whatever the reason... I do know this: very few players make it to the NHL without being 100% committed to that goal... Omark seems to lack that commitment. I've read many draft reports that peg Eberle as being a stretch to ever be an impact top six forward; and his game ALREADY lacks physcical dimension. (Was happy with his AHL debut though). Dubnyk IS slow laterally: that is a FACT... And I'm not the only one who figures Peckham is likely to always be a bottom pairing D-man.
Yes, it is fair comment that I'm prone to hyperbole. I'm an emotional guy, and have been disappointed with Oilers management for quite some time. My occasional overstatements tend to get conversation going though... and that is the purpose of this site. I do always have reasons for my views... And even if SOME of my commentary is colored by gut instinct; My gut has very rarely let me down. I've watched a lot of NHL hockey over a lot of years... I've sat through many draft days, prospect games, and held out hope for a lot of different Oiler prospects... My experience holds my expectations in check.
Sorry if I've offended you sir. Good day.
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Given that he was -31 this season, I'd say Petry's struggling with NCAA speed right now.
On a terrible team with the worst offense in the NCAA(62 goals for... NCAA average 100.. typical range 90 to 110). The entire team was brutal across the board except for IMO Lerg and Petry and maybe Leveille.
Being a key player and -20 was par for the course.
Heck look at Kopitar this season (near team worst in +/-) on a team that sucks at ES. Stoll was in the same situation on the Oil last season.
You gave Devan Dubnyk the benefit of the doubt with his mediocre stats on a Springfield team (Potulny scored 38 goals!) that was better than Michigan State (forwards were pathetic). Personally, I don't see anything special in Dubnyk myself. Purely objectively using stats, he's kinda a bust.
IMO Petry will be fine. He'll be a second pairing D-man in the NHL. Whereas Chorney and Peckham might be 3rd pairing / PP specialist types.
April 27 2009, 08:50AM
@ Chris: No offense taken, as I said you are free to your opinion (I don't personally agree with some of the conclusions), but the Nation is one of the best places around to debate the Oilers. If you do decide to do a more in depth look at the Oilers draft record let me know as I am always interested in reading up on these type of things.
Speaking of draft picks, the Oilers should be looking at size, grit, toughness and softhands in the 2009 draft. A guy named Zack Kassian. Man, can this guy be the power forward encompassing all the above traits the Oilers so desperately need. Check him out on Youtube. I don't think Kassian has ever lost a fight and HE FIGHTS ANYONE. He has the smarts and skills to be a scorer sort of what JF Jacques could be but not. Kassian could protect the smaller forwards and he is enthsiastic to play the game. Kassian is a blend of Nolan, Gary Roberts , Jason Arnott and Probert all wrapped in one. I hope Tambo picks this guy up.
April 28 2009, 11:07AM
Really underrating Paukovich, IMO he has the tools to be a physical 4th line center that's good on faceoffs and the PK.


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I hope to God Sasuke brings a plot twist.. That would be awesome, and a lot more worth with Sasuke's and Naruto's final battle. Just battling over the Hokage title seems kinda underwhelming really.
5 -- Excellent
4 -- Good
3 -- Average
2 -- Meh
1 -- Sucked balls
I hope to God Sasuke brings a plot twist.. That would be awesome, and a lot more worth with Sasuke's and Naruto's final battle. Just battling over the Hokage title seems kinda underwhelming really.
I've asked it a couple of times, but do you guys think the 5 Kage still have a part to play in this war? If so, do you think they will return battle ready?
I think eventually when then Juubi goes nuclear it will break the barrier like it was nothing, then all the Kages will have to step in. But I kind of thought the combo attack was lame. An enormous rasenshuriken mixed with a black arrow and it just looked like a black ninja star with no explosive damage -_-... Hashirama practically nailed the juubi to the ground all by himself while doing one of the strongest barriers around, and those two saviors/geniuses looked like they just threw a match at the juubi ugh.
Go Sakura Go! Break that glass ceiling and you do whatever you want, even at the cost of your masters life lol. If Sasuke did go bad then sage naruto should know a lot sooner than Sakura at the least, unless of course his massive boner for Sasuke gets in the way of him seeing the truth and doing what he has to do to Sasuke. But if he does go bad I think Naruto will use him to help take down Juubi and then deal with the sneaky bastard
A pie in the sky?
This Week's Issue:
I have postulated in the past that Madra didn't use Amaterasu against Hashirama because he knew it was pointless. Think about it like this, The Sharingan and Mokuton (Both of them), Get their origins from the Juubi.
If Amaterasu is a function of the Sharingan, and the Sharingan comes from the Juubi, THEN Sharingan powers will have no effect on the Juubi..............AND If The Juubi is Made of Mokuton (as it appears to be witness the tree Bulb on its back), then it follows that Amaterasu may not work on the Mokuton either.
Juubi is just gonna Absorb Sasuke's Amaterasu and add it to its already nearly immeasurable power.
Sasuke's PLOT.
To become the new Madara / Juubi's Jinchuuriki. He clearly does not trust Konoha, even if he no longer wants to destroy it.
Oro's Plot:
I think it's possible he's just out to save Tsunade for old time's sake. In the long haul, he's gonna sit back, relax and watch what happens with Sasuk's gambit (I think/hope), and maybe swoop in to take the spoils if an opportunity presents itself.
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^ LOL, spoils, I can already imagine that:
Orochimaru lvl 50:
- enter the scorched wasteland after the fierce battle ?
- search the rubble ?
- surprise, you found after war spoils, it's a "Living Body of the Last Uchiha"| Rarirty - EX | Description - the last living Uchiha with an EMS, it is a rare item of the greatest caliber | Special Feature - it's fuse-able | Worth - it's over 9000
Katsuyu said that Tsunade will be very happy yet she saw her split in half. I'm pretty sure Tsunade survived and is just exausted.
So when he said he didn't want to have the city destroyed Itachi gave virtually everything for, he really meant it. Sasuke may be up to something, but it won't be betraying Konoha. It would just be too predictable. My money is on him wanting to hear Madara's version of the story Hashirama told him.
I think Orochimaru will give Tsunade the info Kabuto had on how to suppress Hashirama's power. She can use that on Madara to perhaps weaken him enough to give them a chance.
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