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Festive Friday for March concentrated on giving the attendees ideas for writing their life stories or just tidbits of information from their lives to preserve memories for future generations. Marlene Miyasaki, of Huntington, was the featured speaker as she shared experiences from her life and how she wrote about them. She is currently meeting with a writing group and they use key words to trigger memories. Another way to trigger memories is from scent. One of the writing methods they are using now is to pick a particular spice like cinnamon, cloves, salt, pepper and other spices. They think about the spice and the memories it evokes and then write about the experience.
Miyasaki said she is passionate about journaling and keeping a personal history. You can also write about other people and help preserve your memories of them. "Your writing says something about you. We are all different. It's important for our children to help them know us and to know more about us. It's important for the grandchildren, too. In addition, to spices, we sometimes write about seasons and how the changing seasons can trigger memories."
She also mentioned how day planners can help reconstruct a life and the things that happen from day to day in our lives. Miyasaki talked about arranging photos in chronological order. You don't have to be a scrap booker, but keep pictures in some type of order. Label them. Sometimes people can write and use artwork in their journaling. You can draw a picture or place a photo and then tell about it, which records memories and times and places important in our lives.
While Miyasaki lived in Salt Lake, she kept a gardening journal of where she planted her plants and what kinds of plants and also weather conditions on certain days. She took pictures as the yard progressed over the years and now it's fun to look back on that progression of her yard projects. Another type of history preservation is to keep the letters people send to you. Also the letters that you write to others can be copied and you can save a copy for your own history. These types of records help preserve records of the happenings in your life.
Another suggestion was to have grandchildren draw pictures at family reunions and save them and make them into a coloring book to send to all family members.
She told of a lady who kept a recipe box with a card for each of her children. Each day she would record a small happening in her child's life to help her remember the small things.
"Write who you are, I like to add humor to my stories. I like little tidbits and anecdotes," said Miyasaki.
She then led the attendees in a writing exercise where they took the spice cloves and wrote about it. Participants related stories of visits to the dentists and other memories.
Miyasaki told a story of the spice cinnamon and how it brought back a memory from her childhood where kids would make cinnamon flavored toothpicks and hand them out at school. There never were enough to go around and someone was always left out. It always bothered her, that some kids were left out and didn't receive a cinnamon stick.
During the writing activity, this writer wrote down her story of a memory evoked from the spice cloves. "Cloves brings to mind for me the smell of Thanksgiving, as cloves is one of the spices to be included in a pumpkin pie. My mom, of course, makes the best pumpkin pie. It's homemade from start to finish. She begins with the crust. She measures everything precisely and mixes all ingredients with care. This isn't one of my specialities to measure and mix properly, but that's how mom cooks. The eggs for the pumpkin pie must be beaten with the egg beater. All the ingredients are mixed to perfection. The pies are baked the right amount of time at the proper temperature and turning the temperature down after 15 minutes is essential. My mom has shared many Thanksgivings with our family her speciality is the pies and her Grammie Rolls are world famous. I always say Grandma's cooking is world famous because when my sons were on missions far from home, they took memories of Grandma's rolls and pies with them," wrote Stoddard.
Miyasaki encouraged everyone to start writing and get those memories down on paper before they fade away.
Dottie Grimes from the Emery County Archives said they are having an oral history work shop on April 7 from 10 a.m.-noon to learn the method of getting people to talk and give their histories orally so they can be recorded and turned into a print version. They will learn the promptings and methods to use to get people talking to relate their first hand experiences. Grimes said how important it is to record the memories of the older generation, because they remember buildings and things that used to be in place and are no longer there. They remember life in Emery County the way it used to be. The archives is also looking for volunteers who would like to be involved in collecting these oral histories. They can help to take histories or transcribe them. Grimes said to contact her at the Archives office if they would like to be involved.
Another participant this day, told the class of a three word journal where you right down three key words that trigger a memory or an incident. If you don't have time to write at that particular time, just recording those three words will help bring back the memory when you have time to write about it.
It doesn't matter how you go about it or what your style is, Miyasaki said just get busy writing and preserving memories.
Festive Friday is held once each month at the county building in Castle Dale.


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The best movie so far coz oda will be the writer, unlike the previous movies..
Here's the teaser =====> YouTube - One Piece Movie 10 Trailer
The best movie so far coz oda will be the writer, unlike the previous movies..
Here's the teaser =====> YouTube - One Piece Movie 10 Trailer
Woah… I can't wait till this comes out. Honestly, I was disappointed with movie 8 and not really looking forward to #9 either. Those two movie seem to only dance around the original manga story so it's just kinda repetitive and blaaaaaaah.
So glad it's Oda's new plot for this new movie. ^^b
Will the movie be considered part of the "real" story or something? I haven't seen all the other movies, but I think it's the first time there're so many "high ranked" known characters in a One Piece movie (Straw Hats, Shanks, Sengoku, Whitebeard...).
It's gonna be more interesting than the rest for sure. Besides, Luffy looks awesome with his new captain coat.
probably, coz oda will be the writer. Garp will also be there and an admiral i think, the one garp talked to
OMG this looks amazing!!!! I can't wait to see this, SH crew so badass at the end!!!
Not much is known about this film except a few details. The movie will be fully written by the author and creator of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda. It also seems that the Strawhat Pirates may be in the Marines due to wearing Government Agent clothes, Nami appears to leave the crew for an unknown reason, the Main Villain's name is "Gold Lion" and Sengoku, Garp, Shanks, and Whitebeard seem to know him well, and for the first time Brook will appear in a movie.
Confirmed trailer of Movie 10: YouTube - Original Full OP Movie 10 Trailer Subbed
Awesome!!! ^^,\m/
the Straw hats look so awesome in suits. I think its gonna be released in 2009 in japan so we would get it in 2010. Im really looking forward to it.
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Wow, this one is going to be interesting, and number 9's barely been out in the cinemas in Japan, good effort as they continue to make films.
the tenth movie already?! -_-'
How were the nine first?


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Sachi Parker's famous mother, Shirley MacLaine, was so absent from her life that she sometimes could only connect with her just as the Oscar winner's fans did: on an airplane movie screen.
Working as a flight attendant, "I would look up, and the in-flight movie would be The Turning Point or another (MacLaine) movie. And it would be a moment that I would find that I could be with her. She was right there. And I would just yearn for her," Parker told ABC's 2/0 in an interview to promote her new Mommie Dearest-esque memoir, Lucky Me: My Life With -— and Without — My Mom, Shirley MacLaine.
Yes, the daughter of a Hollywood legend worked as a flight attendant — as well as a maid and waitress, all to pay for college.
"My mother was — is very old-school regarding money and tough love," she told the show.
When Parker, who was sent to Japan to live with her father starting at age 2, asked her mother for $500 to buy a used car, she says MacLaine loaned it to her — with interest.
Parker saw the Downton Abbey star only during holidays and over the summer. Nonetheless, when she came home from European boarding school one Christmas, neither of her parents bothered to show up. And when Parker did spend time with her mom, MacLaine's tolerance for her lasted all of four hours.
"I was very lonely — very lonely. Definitely. And I still struggle with abandonment issues and loneliness," she said.
She last spoke to her mom last summer. She sent her a copy of the book with a note inscribed, "I love you."
"I try to understand her," she told 2/0. "I find myself wanting to protect her so badly, because I so love her. ... And yet the pain is very deep. I would hope that she would own it and apologize. That would really, really be wonderful."
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By SPENCER WRIGHTSalt Lake City
In her June 12 Editor's Notes, Patsy Stoddard gave an endorsement for giving Mitt Romney "fair consideration" for the office of President of the United States without counting his "religious preference" against him. Ironically, she spent nine of her 17 paragraphs describing (or rather proselytizing for) the LDS church.
Stoddard did say, "Whatever our religious preferences are shouldn't come into play when we are seeking a public office." I heartily agree, but coming from one of only three states that voted for Romney in their state straw poll, I would say that Utah is hardly concerned about Romney getting a fair shake in spite of his religion. In Utah, Romney's getting more than a fair shake "because" of his religion. The problem in Utah is, Romney should not be given any greater consideration because of his religion, either.
Stoddard stated, "I think Mitt Romney did a good job on the Olympics 2002 in Utah. But pulling off the Olympics and running a country are two different things." Good point, Ms. Stoddard. Herein lies the true test of a president. Not whether they believe in God, but rather, whether they can actually run the country. George Bush swayed people to vote for him because of his religious belief. When I ask members of the LDS faith why they voted for President Bush, I hardly ever hear, "because he had such a great track record of executive leadership." Almost invariably, I hear, "because he is a man of faith."
As long as we're talking about religion and government, it might be useful to mention that I am a faithful member of the LDS Church. I attend church weekly and by every "measurable" standard, would be considered a true blue believing Mormon. As a member of the LDS church, I find it deplorable how many members don't believe in the separation of Church and State. Our LDS doctrine teaches that. Don't believe me? How about the following church-authorized quotes:
D&C 134:9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.
True to the Faith, Civil Government and Law, 38
One key element of the separation of church and state is the government's responsibility to grant freedom of religion. Latter-day prophets support this principle, as stated in the eleventh article of faith: "We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may." Consistent with the separation of church and state, the Church does not endorse any political party or candidate. It does not permit the use of its buildings and facilities for political purposes. The Church does not participate in politics unless there is a moral question at issue, in which case the Church will often speak out.
The most important "Presidential test" for me is whether the person elected as president of the United States will actually perform the job of protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States as they swear to do when they are inaugurated. I do not want them tearing apart our foundational liberties and eroding the fundamental rights we have in the form of the Bill of Rights. Recently at the second Republican Debates, Romney said the following:
"I am glad [detainees] are at Guantanamo. I don't want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they're on our soil. I don't want them in our prisons, I want them there. Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo."
The US Supreme Court has already declared that holding prisoners without trial is unconstitutional. They are protected by the constitutionally sanctioned Geneva Conventions. Even George Bush has said, "I'd like to close Guantanamo". But Mitt Romney intends to continue the erosion of the Constitution started by George Bush. Recently, when asked whether Guantanamo detainees should get access to lawyers, General Colin Powell stated, "So What? Let them.... America, unfortunately, has 2 million people in jail, all of whom had lawyers and access to writs of habeas corpus.... We can handle bad people in our system." Like General Powell, I trust in our American system of government and its judicial process. Apparently, Mitt Romney does not. But frightfully, he wants the biggest chair in that government.
Mitt Romney should certainly be given a fair shake whether or not he is Mormon. Unlike George Bush, he has shown great Executive Leadership. Unlike George Bush, he actually seems competent and has a positive business track record. But like George Bush, Mitt Romney believes that the ends justify the means, and that means restricting fundamental, Constitutional rights to carry on the "crusade" of an unfounded, public-deceiving war in Iraq.
Warren Jeffs, the incarcerated prophet of the FLDS, claims to believe in the Book of Mormon God and marries off 14-year-old girls. Muslim extremists claim to believe in God and fly airplanes into the World Trade Center. I agree, Ms. Stoddard: the test of presidential qualification should not be whether the person believes in God or any other such mixture of Church and State. So let the Mormons be the first to stop making it such.
By the way, Ms. Stoddard mentioned not knowing what the other candidates' religions are. Here are the top three from each major party, including the current president:Hillary Clinton is a Methodist, John Edwards is a Methodist, Rudy Giuliani is a Roman Catholic, John McCain is a Baptist, Barack Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ, Mitt Romney is LDS, and George W. Bush is United Methodist (although he was raised Episcopal).
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Just browse seinen manga then.
Just browse seinen manga then.
Well saying something that is good is always prone to biases. To start it off, try checking One Manga's list of Mature mangas. Then try to read Seinen too. Different manga categories can also be considered mature, that is, upon your context.
Let's see... I think Shamo is a bit good. I don't really know, I'm reading lots of manga, too many to remember at once.
Yakuza Girl. It's a shounen thats more mature than most seinen.
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I've just finished reading Voyeur. It's about people who watches other people having sexy sexy time. It's good :B
Hmmm...I don't normally read Seinen but I happened to have picked up two books from the series "The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross" at the library. It's not bad, I might get out some more when I have the time. Here's a link to what it's about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinshi_Doumei_Cross :3
I highly recommend Dorohedoro which is becoming my favourite seinen manga.
It's funny, thrilling, violent, unpredictable, full of good ideas, has great characters/universe...
Gotta admit the wiki's description kinda sucks. You got to read at least 2 volumes to make your mind.
You can find downloads at manga underground.
Anyone can tell me where to read Chū-Bra!! ? I watched the anime n its kinda funny so was wondering where to read it but the standard places like OM n mangafox dont have it so could anyone help?


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Chapter 9
Paul explains how the law of election (foreordination) operates—The people of Israel are chosen (foreordained) to receive the adoption, covenants, promises, and blessings of the gospel; yet they are not all Israel who are of Israel—They must seek their blessings by faith—The Gentiles also attain to righteousness and salvation by faith.
1 I say the truth in Christ, I
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the
6 Not as though the word of God
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a
10 And not only this; but when
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to
12 It was said unto her, The
13 As it is written, Jacob have I
14 What shall we say then? Is there
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
18 Therefore hath he
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that
21 Hath not the
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
23 And that he might make known the
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
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Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 7th round of the 1979 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 29, 1982 (Age 20.124, 12,191st in MLB history) vs. OAK 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER
Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1982 season [*]
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Athletics/Royals/Tigers/Padres 1982-1994
Agents: Ron Shapiro [*]
Last Game: August 11, 1994 (Age 32.228)
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The Chiefs were made to work for their 22-21 win over the Force, with ill-discipline costing the visitors in Pukekohe.
The Chiefs were made to work for their 22-21 win over the Force, with ill-discipline costing the visitors in Pukekohe.
Despite the Force giving a good enough account of themselves in the first half and showing some towering defence in the second half, the Chiefs were allowed to keep the scoreboard ticking over almost every time they got into the Force 22 in the opening period as a consistent string of infringements gave Aaron Cruden easy three-point opportunities.
After a scrappy start to the game in which both teams exchanged rather aimless kicks, the Force opened the scoring courtesy of a try from Pat Dellit in just the third minute. With a poor pass from Sias Ebersohn grubbered towards the sideline, Dellit ran onto the ball and booted it down the touchline before out-pacing the Chiefs defence to dive over for the score.
It was the last of the scoring the Force would contribute for some time as the Chiefs proceeded to run in 16 unanswered points.
A Cruden penalty got the hosts on the board before Lelia Masaga picked up the Chiefs first five-pointer. The winger rounded off an impressive period of play in which the defending champions worked the ball through eight phases of pick and goes before spreading it wide for Masaga to cross over.
Cruden kept his side moving in the right direction with three further penalties, two of which were cancelled out by the boot of Jayden Hayward to see the Chiefs take a 19-11 lead into the break.
The Chiefs number ten extended the lead by three more points but the Force began to show more of an attacking edge after warming up in the second half.
They were rewarded for their efforts first with a Hayward penalty and then a second try, with Dellit again the man crossing the whitewash. Nick Cummins was the man to provide the required spark, breaking through the midfield and into the 22 before the ball was worked out wide to his fellow winger to make it a one-point ball game.
The try saw Chiefs coach Dave Rennie ring the changes and the replacements had the desired effect with the hosts putting down the gas and taking charge of proceedings.
For the final quarter it was all the hosts but as the Reds found out last week, the Perth outfit's defence is tough to breach, with attack after attack repelled.
Despite being reduced to 14 men after Kieran Longbottom was sent to the sin bin following three scrum-related penalties five metres out from the line, the Force would not budge.
With the Chiefs advantage remaining just one point, there was always the danger that the visitors would sneak a late score to steal the spoils and Ebershon had a shot at goal from 55 metres out with just two minutes on the clock but he was well short with the effort.
The Chiefs were able to hang on to see out the victory, with the Force's mammoth defence not enough to grab a surprise win.
The scorers:
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Tries: Masaga, Cruden
Con: Cruden
Pen: Cruden
For Western Force:
Tries: Dellit 2
Con: Hayward
Pen: Hayward 3
Chiefs: 15 Robbie Robinson, 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Save Tokula, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 Patrick Osborne, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 8 Matt Vant Leven, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Craig Clarke, 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 Hika Elliot, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Mahonri Schwalger, 17 1Ben Tameifuna, 18 Michael Fitzgerald, 19 Tanerau Latimer, 20 Augustine Pulu, 21 Charlie Ngatai, 22 Asaeli Tikoirotuma.
Western Force: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Patrick Dellit, 13 Ben Jacobs, 12 Kyle Godwin, 11 Nick Cummins, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Brett Sheehan, 8 Ben McCalman, 7 Chris Alcock, 6 Matt Hodgson (c), 5 Sam Wykes, 4 Toby Lynn, 3 Kieran Longbottom, 2 Heath Tessmann, 1 Pek Cowan
Replacements: 16 James Hilterbrand, 17 Tetera Faulkner, 18 Rory Walton, 19 Richard Brown, 20 Alby Mathewson, 21 Junior Rasolea, 22 Sam Norton-Knight.
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Nairobi, 21 February 2012 - A radio journalist from Nigeria has won the United Nations Environment Programme's Young Environmental Journalist Award (YEJA), beating over 120 entries from reporters across Africa. Ugochi Anyaka (29) received her award at a special ceremony held during the 12th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. The winning report, entitled Saving the Trees for Paper Briquettes, was broadcast on ASO Radio in Nigeria, where Ms. Anyaka works as a journalist and presenter. The radio feature profiled a project in a low-income suburb of Abuja that manufactures briquettes from waste paper, in order to provide an alternative fuel to traditional firewood. The project aims to reduce the health risks associated with indoor use of wood fuel, reduce deforestation and provide a source of income for the briquette makers.Ms. Anyaka's report also discusses the role of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). "This story was done to show the opportunities in a changing climate - and not just the woes," said Ugochi Anyaka. "It also seeks to show the conflicting view points about the Clean Development Mechanism. But ultimately, it tells the story of what some Nigerians are doing to protect their vulnerable environment and save their very existence. Winning the UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award is the greatest moment of joy in my career. It is such an honour to be recognised in this manner," she added. The YEJA jury described Ms. Anyaka's winning entry as a "well-researched report that clearly explained the essence of reducing green house gas emissions and the need for creating environmental development in Africa". The winner was presented with her specially-commissioned trophy by Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, Joseph Murphy, US Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN-HABITAT and Patricia Okoed-Bukumunhe, the winner of last year's Young Environmental Journalist AwardMs. Anyaka hosts an environmental radio show "Green Angle" on ASO Radio and also works as a producer, reporter and continuity announcer with the station. She writes an environmental blog, Eco Nigeria, at www.greennigeria.wordpress.com.She lists her main interests as sustainable development and climate change. As part of her prize, Ms. Anyaka will take part in a professional exchange visit to the United States, following a specially-designed "green itinerary". Last year's YEJA winner, Patricia Okoed-Bukumunhe of Uganda, took part in a week-long placement with Voice of America in Washington DC, spent time with National Geographic magazine, the US Environmental Protection Agency and attended an environmental journalism conference in Florida. "With less than four months to go until world governments meet at the UN Sustainable Development Conference (Rio+20) in Brazil, raising public awareness of today's environmental challenges is perhaps more critical than ever," said UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner."The large number of entries received from journalists from Cairo to Cape Town and Dar es Salaam to Dakar for this year's award, showed that young journalists are becoming an increasingly vital voice for telling the story of Africa's changing environment - and showing the many solutions that are available on the continent. On behalf of UNEP, I congratulate Ugochi Anyaka on her achievement and wish her continued success in her work." Launched in 2010, the UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award aims to showcase excellence in the field of environmental reporting and nurture new talent that will help to shape opinion on the environment in Africa, and beyond, in years to come. The award is made possible though funding support from the US Department of State. This year, a total of 127 entries were received (in English and French) from television, radio, online and print journalists in 28 countries. The diverse topics covered included the economic and environmental impacts of invasive species in Lake Victoria, efforts to reduce plastic bag use in Togo and the breeding of climate change-resilient chickens in Namibia. The winner was chosen by the YEJA jury, which brought together four experts from the worlds of journalism, development and science. They were Amie Joof, Executive Director of the Senegal-based Inter-African Network for Women, Media, Gender and Development (FAMEDEV), Diran Onifade, journalist and manager with the Nigerian Television Authority and President of the African Federation of Science Journalists, Stanis Nkdundiye, Steering Committee member of the Federation of African Journalists and Sunday Leonard, Special (Scientific) Assistant to the Chief Scientist of UNEP. Notes to EditorsUNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award website: www.unep.org/yejaFor more information, please contact:Bryan Coll, UNEP Newsdesk on +254 762 3088, Mobile +254 731 666214 or e-mail: email@example.com


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Brookfield East trailed by nine points with three minutes left in the third quarter and it looked like first-year boys basketball coach Matt Malett wasn't going to get his first victory Nov. 20 against Franklin at home.
After all, the Spartans were playing without two of their top returning players (Brian Smith and Mike Novak) because of injuries, and star point guard Ryan McBride picked up his fourth foul with 6:47 left in the game.
So with the Sabers leading, 45-36, the Spartans went on a 17-0 run, the last few minutes with McBride on the sideline, and rolled to a 66-58 victory.
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First sophomore guard Kyle Martin drilled a 3-pointer and then big Jonathan McGinley hit a jumper and a layup to cut the lead to 45-43 at the end of three quarters.
But the carnage continued as Jake Wiesmueller opened the final quarter with a 3-pointer, Steve Tongas nailed two free throws, Mike Eberle hit a jumper, Josh Bryd hit a free throw and Wiesmueller stole the ball for a layup to end the 17-0 run.
"Obviously we have a lot to do on the defensive end," Malett said. "We wanted to try a 1-3-1 and disrupt their rhythm a little bit. They had it going a lot and they were a tough team to guard. No. 44 (Chad Kanugh, 6-foot-6) is a house and he moves very well. So we just wanted to slow momentum.
"I think the big thing is you try to get deflections. Once those deflections start, those loose balls happen then a little momentum. I think the disruption of the rhythm was the biggest thing."
Colin Ksobiech hit a 3-pointer at 5:46 for Franklin's first basket in almost six minutes but by then the Spartans led 53-48. East finished up the game with 7-of-8 from the free throw line, with McBride coming back in the game to sink 5-of-6 and Eberle 2-of-2 to close out the Spartans' scoring.
"It's great to get the first game under your belt, let alone victory," Malett said. "Winning is so much better than losing."
Room for others to shine
There's a positive with winning without Smith and Novak.
"I think it's great because it opens up doors for other guys to step up," Malett said. "Guys like McGinley and Eberle. We're going to be strong when we get our horses, so to speak, back."
The Spartans were also more aggressive in the second half.
"That's on the kids," Malett said. "We talked about it at halftime and said we had seven offensive rebounds at the half. Defensively it comes down to those fundamentals that you block them out. When they shoot you go get the ball. I think our guys just stepped up on their own. Our senior leadership was good.
"The writing is on the wall for the seniors. They have a couple months left. I thought they did a great job stepping up in different roles they might not be used to."
McBride led the way with 20 points, including 9-of-10 from the free throw line. Eberle had 12, including six in the fourth quarter, and McGinley had 11, seven in the second quarter, and Wiesmueller had 11, five in each of the last two periods. Kanugh had 16 points, but only two coming in the second half. Evan Kruczynski added 15, nine in the fourth quarter on three 3s.
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Until the early 21st century, most innovation was closed. That is, it occurred within the boundaries of an organization and was performed by the company's own employees within its internal R&D function. This model is based on a number of assumptions that have changed radically in today's marketplace. These include the notions that internal resources are most reliable and trustworthy and always superior, and that closed doors stave off competition.
However, in 2006, the concept of open innovation was popularized by Professor Henry Chesbrough in his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Under the open innovation model, by inviting customers, partners, and other stakeholders to participate in the innovation process, companies can and should take advantage of the wealth of knowledge that exists outside of the organization, and, conversely, share their knowledge when doing so does not jeopardize their own competitive positions. Open innovation employs such techniques as crowdsourcing, whereby large numbers of people are invited to contribute ideas around an innovation goal. Open innovation is greatly facilitated by the meteoric rise of social media, blogs, wikis, and other Internet-enabled communications.
Both models are employed today and each has its place, depending on a company's innovation goals. Have you thought about which model is right for you?
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So how is this mix configured? One approach is to analyze each innovation project through the prism of three questions: 1) What parts of the project are open to whom? 2) For what purpose? 3) Who gets to extract the value? If these questions are asked and answered in advance of an innovation project, both closed and open innovation practices can be selected and adjusted to accomplish your innovation objectives.
These questions are actually derived from three design principles associated with innovation: 1) architecture of participation;¹ 2) minimum efficient scale; and 3) value extraction and control.
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Architecture of participation Basically, this is a set of rules governing who can participate in a system (in this case, an innovation initiative) and in what capacity. The higher the level of participation, the more open the approach to innovation. Not limited to innovation, the concept has broad application. For example, the classified ads section of a newspaper has a very clear architecture of participation. While within certain bounds customers have control of content, the newspaper can exclude inappropriate content and controls the format. Products like Internet music and movie services also invite participation, but there are rules. Depending on your product or service, market-based innovation always involves an architecture of participation. It is one way of determining how open or closed your approach to innovation can or should be.
Minimum efficient scale Minimum efficient scale involves the lowest cost at which a product or service can be produced and helps determine how competitive the product or service will be in a given market. This impacts the innovation investment and how open or closed the innovation initiative will be. For example, if the innovation is likely to involve millions of dollars and result in an innovative product in a market with a large number of competitors, the approach is likely to be more closed than open.
The idea of minimum efficient scale can be related to many things, and in particular R&D. So, for example, when the CAT scanner was first invented, a huge amount of R&D investment was needed to get the first one out the door. Some sharing of risk occurred, but the innovation process was open only in a limited sense. The same is true with, for instance, drug development, where there is sometimes limited sharing but gated openness at best.²
Scale also comes into play when the cost of creation runs high. Companies like Intel, for instance, spend millions creating new chip plants, so some sharing is bound to occur. However, such companies are not in the business of sharing their vast process and manufacturing knowledge in any truly open way.
Value extraction and control Innovation is, ultimately, about value. Depending on the product or service, value can flow to a number of constituents, including creators, investors, platform hosts, participants, users, and customers. The direction of that flow determines how open or closed the approach to innovation will be. For example, if the innovation involves an open-source software product dependent on collaboration for development, the approach will be very open and all of the value will go to consumer surplus (what's left when value produced exceeds consumer cost). If, however, the innovation involves a service that solicits customer ideas that are then approved and distributed, then the value derived is more dispersed and the approach is likely to be more of a balance between open and closed.
The bottom line is that while in theory it's easy to silo approaches to innovation, in reality innovation is a complex dance with many steps and rhythms that intersect and interplay as the process moves forward. Deciding how to use the optimal blend of open and closed systems to invite participation and innovation while maximizing economic value is the job of the highest levels of leadership. In any organization, understanding this is essential if meaningful innovation is to take place.


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Oilers Sign Abney
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In a draft cluster that features Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle, it's easy for an enforcer like Cameron Abney to get lost in the shuffle. A meandering season filled with injury and growing pains didn't help, but a strong showing in the playoffs probably saved Abney's status as an Oiler prospect. Can Abney help the Edmonton Oilers?
On his draft day, Stu MacGregor told us about Abney: "He's a big kid who had a huge growth spurt in the last couple of years. A kid that has to improve skating, obviously, when you grow that much you're going to have to improve your skating. We needed to try and get some physicality and he's a young guy who we think is going to be a huge advantage for us."
Abney's independent scouting report talked about a large frame, good fighter, surprisingly good skating ability and a hitter. Doing things to help win hockey games would be the major negative for him in any assessment that projected him into the future.
Abney had an uneven junior career. This past season he set personal bests in goals (7) and points (20) while fighting less due to injury.
Kent Simpson, commentator for Oil Kings broadcasts on Team 1260 had some interesting thoughts when we chatted on Nation Radio in late March. Simpson: "Abney's playing some of the best hockey I've seen in a year and a half. I think the biggest thing that's changed is he's starting to move his feet. He's starting to realzie that if he moves his feet and makes a good pass he might get it back. It's night and day the way this guy is skating. Early in the year he was a little to late getting in on the forecheck, but now he's playing like the light's turned on."
Abney was battling a hand injury for most of the season and there was also a much repeated theory that even when healthy the kid wasn't going to get into too many fights because his reputation preceded him. It may be a blessing in disguise, as the young man appears to have devoted time to improving foot speed and thinking the game at a higher level. In his last 18 regular season games, Abney scored 3-7-10 points. As Simpson stated, a light appears to have turned on.
I think it's likely Abney spends at least some of next season in the ECHL. Although the WHL is a strong junior league, the speed and size of the AHL has ground a lot of new pro's into a fine white powder. 40 games in Stockton to adjust to the rigors of the pro game might be just what the doctor ordered.
Abney's possible roles as a pro player (enforcer, tough winger with some skill) rely on his ability to move his feet and adjust to new challenges as he moves up the ladder.
He's got an opportunity. Coach Tom Renney sent away Zack Stortini because of foot speed issues and the organization has only Steve MacIntyre (a UFA July 1st) as a real NHL enforcer option. Unless someone already in the system starts to fill that role (Alex Plante has been fighting more, as an example) there's a major void. The quicker Abney learns his lessons in the minors the faster track he's on for an NHL career.
The kid has a shot.
April 23 2011, 11:09AM
Lol, I'm confused on your elegibility comment. These kids are all from the same draft year/same age. Well Connoughtan is actually a 90's Birthday but that doesnt really matter.
Cody Eakin looks like a sweet kid and put up some sick numbers in his 4th and 5th years in the W for sure...
BUT he is 5'11 AND still under 190 pounds, so if the majority of Oiler fans are humming and hawing over RNH simply because of his current weight I don't see how everybody would be crying over this kid.
I can honestly see why this organization took their reach picks on a kid over 6feet and with other intangibles then being small and putting up points.
Connoughtan put up some amazing Jr numbers, ok. But he didn't repost them as a rookie in the A so why hold on to them at all? Patty O had that AMAZING AHL year, should we rush out and pick him up? Connoughtan had a good rookie season, I'll give you that, he has middle of the pack size and looks like he could possibly make the jump in the next couple years.
Sure the Oilers could have had 2 prospects looking decent on the numbers, but again weighting enforcers/4th line potential versus a kid who HAS to produce to stay in the line-up is an apples to oranges gig. I'm not crying myself to sleep because we don't have any of the next 5 kids in our organization. If Abney can fight, keep the puck out his net, play 7-9 minutes a game and agitate the heck out of the opposition that is a win for a that type of pick.
@ Madjam Never stop being please... Oh I love your posts, have you ever thought of becoming a hockey comedian? Have you ever noticed Nashville's HUGE problem they can NEVER address is scoring depth? No matter how hard they try, they can't seem to locate a decent scoring forward? Yeah there is a reason for that...
April 23 2011, 11:30AM
Camerons best Dave Brown impersonation.
Czerwonka > Abney. If we sign guys like Abney it's time to flush guys like Jacques and MacIntyre.


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A conference was held in Moab on Dec. 13-14 2002 which was sponsored by the newly formed Utah Range Coalition, which consists of five soil conservation districts, Castleland Resource Conservation and Development Council, USU Extension Service, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Emery County Public Lands Council, ranchers and other concerned citizens, all within the Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties area of the state. There were more than 120 people in attendance; 50 percent of attendees were made up of ranchers and the others were local state and federal agency personnel. Environmentalists and some interested citizens were also in attendance.
The purpose of the conference was to discuss modern day ranching and innovative ideas pertaining to grazing and maintaining rangelands. Roger Barton, Ferron resident, and chairman of the Utah Range Coalition greeted the conference goers. He said they formed a union or an alliance in July to get the people here involved. They called their new organization the Utah Range Coalition. "It is still an infant in its existence. The Quivira Coalition from New Mexico has been involved in the same thing for a few years now. We wanted to get them to come to Utah to present their ideas and survival tools for running a ranch in the 21st century. There was a willingness to work together among the different parties and the Utah Range Coalition Committee met in Moab to begin planning. Our goal is to sustain and/or improve rangeland health, with grazing used as a management tool to accomplish this. We also want to keep the ranching industry alive in Southeastern Utah. We scrambled for funding for the conference because the cost of the conference exceeds the registration costs," said Barton. Some background information was shared concerning the Quivira Coalition. The Quivira Coalition deals with sharing common sense solutions to the rangeland conflict. They are a nonprofit organization which began about five and a half years ago. They began working to find some common ground in dealing with rangeland issues. They viewed fighting over issues as crazy and began to work with the radical center to solve problems. The Quivira Coalition is working with new ideas and new thinking. They introduce new ideas at their conference held yearly in Albuquerque, N.M. Their next conference will be held Jan. 16-18. This conference brings ranchers and conservationists together. Courtney White, cofounder of the Quivira Coalition said they met with Roger Barton and the others and they are doing a great job encouraging people to come together to help solve the crisis. Barton invited White to come to Utah to help spread the message. White said, "This is a good opportunity to pass on information, I view it as a tool in my tool box. Roger has worked hard to bring this conference together and we're glad to be here to help."
Jim Howell was next to speak to the conference. He is a rancher and educator from Montrose, Colo. He said he is a small scale rancher with an outfitting business and he also works custom grazing cows for other people. In 1996 he toured Africa and viewed grazing there. He has also visited Argentina, Australia and other countries and studied their particular situations.
Howell began with a discussion of the brittleness scale and environments which are nonbrittle on the low end of the scale and those highly brittle environments. He talked about the annual growth of each environment and the breakdown of the vegetation there. The ultimate question was how much biomass is that land capable of producing. He described the spectrum from tropical rain forests to true deserts. Plant growth is determined by the rainfall patterns and the length of the growing season. He described the vegetation which grows in an area where they receive 30-60 inches of rain per year. The vegetation grows between 7-10 feet and they have a lot of material to work with.
These grasses are sometimes only 2 percent protein. Another challenge is a hard soil cap. The vegetation is so thick that the rain cannot reach the ground and a hard soil cap forms. If the decadent material is not removed then the rainfall cannot reach the ground. Howell described the major herbivores in Africa like the elephant, rhino and hippo. They can exist on high quantities of this low quality feed. They have adapted to feed of this type. The grazing succession and patterns of these migratory animals begin with the large animals going into the grasses when they are the tallest and the smaller animals follow them. One hundred percent of the growing surface has been covered by the animals and the soil is ready for the coming rains.
He described how the ranchers there go to extreme lengths to assure the physical disturbance which breaks the material down. They use electrical fences which are portable. They keep the cattle moving constantly in the dormant season. Some of the plants are almost like wood in their density. In Africa in September and October they will burn off the unused feed. There are layers and layers of smoke during this time. The cattle are also managed during the wet season. The cattle want the freshest feed and through control they are moved to new areas and away from watering points where they have a tendency to linger.Plants that are not grazed will die out. It is vital to keep soil surfaces covered.
Howell explained that in our country rainfall is spread out and not reliable. He described a ranch in Wyoming where they worked to bring back the willows and the beaver and revitalize the riparian areas. When the new pattern for vegetation growth had been established the moose also came back to the area. "It is hard to maintain soil cover in the environments we deal with," he said.
A ranch in New Mexico with a mild steppe environment or desert might typically have two growing seasons whenever the rain comes....both are unreliable. Patches of green appear here and there depending on the rains. There is a predictable spring greenup, but how much vegetation actually grows depends on the previous winter's precipitation. There are challenges in keeping the soil covered and maintaining plant vigor.
Howell went on to explain the migratory patterns of the ruminant animals. He called them migratory grazers. He described the animals in the cold steppe country. The Tibetan antelope is a highly migratory animal. Their migration patterns are based on the predators. In our area mule deer show migratory patterns. The buffalo were also huge migrating animals before their numbers were reduced. Huge herds of antelope also used to cover our areas. The migratory patterns do not lead the animals back to the same area at the same time each year.
Howell also described the animals that used to be on our continent. All of the animals came with predators. One of the predators was man and the big game hunting culture which manipulated the habitat and caused changes. Wherever man has been introduced there has been a change to the landscape. The plants here now are the same ones the prehistoric animals used. The significance of the research that has been conducted on the wildebeest is they do not graze in an area the same each year. Their migration leads them to different corridors with different impacts on different grazing areas. They spend the winters on the dry plains and they are in the wetlands during the growing season. Their patterns vary dramatically from year to year. Areas that are grazed intensively varies.
The caribou had rested one of their summer ranges for five years and their winter ranges vary. They return to the same calving area each year. Animals migrate to get away from their predators. The predators don't travel long distances and they go where the predators can't survive. The wildebeest goes to the high plain to give birth to get away from the predators.
There are areas where we have kept cattle out for a year and a half to allow the grasses to recover. The standing forage, older materials and the soil surface recovered just after a year and a half. Heavy grazing can help the recovery period by reducing the old growth. Recovery can also be enhanced by a couple of good growing seasons. Areas that had been grazed heavy were coming back after the September rains of this year. Plants need to get all the old growth out. Cattle do that by knocking of the old growth with their mouths while searching for the green growth.
Howell worked with a ranch in Texas that had been overrested since they got rid of the sheep. For 25 years it hadn't been grazed and the country needed grazing. Plants will be reinvigorated if they are grazed off. A pasture can be grazed once and then you can come back and graze it again during the dormant season. Then the pasture can be taken out of the grazing plan for the extended recovery period which would be enough time to ensure periods of significant regrowth. Time, frequency and intensity are the keys. Good use of the electric fence as a cow herder can utilize a pasture to its full capacity. The portable electric fence ads flexibility. The wire can be strung through the brush which eliminates the need for a lot of fence posts.
You can control the intensity by keeping them in a tighter bunch. A back fence is not needed because the cows will always move to the freshest feed. Howell encouraged the ranchers to make a long term grazing plan, dividing their grazing allotments into several pasture units. Each pasture unit would be grazed differently during a six year cycle. Year one would include heavy grazing, year two, no grazing, years three, four and five; light to moderate grazing and year six, heavy grazing which would begin the cycle again.
He said they are in the third year of doing this and have increased the litter cover on the soil. Grazing plans ensure that if you grazed an area last June you won't graze it again this June. If fall plants survive the winter they can green up early in the spring. Fall grazing can hurt an area which might show good spring green up. "Frequency, timing and intensity can over time improve the looks of your ranch. Keeping good records is vital; record pasture size and give each pasture a rating. Include maps of where the animals were and where the fences were. We can learn from migratory patterns how to heal landscapes and make them better than they are," said Howell.
(This article begins a series of articles on rangeland health and issues)


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