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From The Files Of June 11, 1992
Fulton County Medical Center announced plans this week to build a new five-bay emergency room inside the existing hospital on the ground floor. The $150,000 building project is scheduled to be completed by the end of September. Plans call for the new emergency room to be built inside the north end of the hospital next to the laboratory where the snack bar and a meeting room now exist.
Fulton County Area Vocational-Technical School's second student-built home was sold for $70,000 at a public auction held last Thursday evening, June 4, at the home site along Cooper Lane in the Cold Springs Development in Todd Township.
The 1992 Needmore Volunteer Fire Co. Princess was crowned last Thursday evening prior to the company's parade. Named as princess was Amy Spade, daughter of Jim and Dee Spade.
Local students receiving degrees from Penn State are: Tonya Trueax, Crystal Spring; Nichole Hall, McConnellsburg; Christopher Palmer, Needmore; and Steve Smith, Warfordsburg.
Wilson and Beulah Rhodes celebrated the 59th anniversary of their wedding which took place at a private ceremony at Hagerstown May 29, 1942.
Navy Ensign Michael T. Wilson, son of Diane Y. Wilson of McConnellsburg, graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., May 27 and was commissioned to his present rank in the United States Navy.
Deaths: Scott Sipes, McConnellsburg; Frank Bivens, Big Cove Tannery; Lee Madden, Three Springs; Terry Seville, Shippensburg; Clair Decker, Fort Littleton; Dora Myers, Williamsport; Judith Edmonds, Alum Bank.
Birth at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Forsyth of Mercersburg on May 29.
Five area women are among the class of February 1993 of the Franklin County Area Vocational Technical School's practical nursing program. They are Tammy Cook, Three Springs; Christina H Kerlin, Harrisonville; Ronda Wilson, Burnt Cabins; and Carol Kelso and Melissa Vogt, both of McConnellsburg.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 17, 1982
Weathermen say more than 10 inches of rain has fallen since the middle of May, which is the normal amount expected during the three-month period of May, June and July. Could be we are due for some fine weather in the weeks ahead.
A 5-year-old Saltillo girl, Susan McCarty, was killed early Sunday evening, the victim of an accidental shooting. The child was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Jimmy McCarty of Three Springs. Huntingdon state police said the little girl was playing in her bedroom with some other small children when a 12-gauge shotgun was accidentally discharged. Suffering a wound in the left side, the child was taken to J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A new produce stand has been built at the Tastee- Freez at the Warfordsburg exit of Interstate 70.
Specials at the IGA: San Giorgio macaroni, 2 for 99 cents; Hershey chocolate syrup, $1.29; Dawn, $1.09; Downy, $1.99, 64 ozs.; Banquet meat pies, 3 for 99 cents; lettuce, 59 cents a head.
McConnellsburg Spartan Kim Spriggs won a medal in state track competition this year by placing third in the 300- meter hurdles.
Deaths: Mildred Bigler, McConnellsburg.
Marriage licenses: Ray O. Mellott, Needmore, and Patricia Lee Hess, Hancock; Tony J. Walck, McConnellsburg, and Brenda Lee Miller, McConnellsburg; Ross Buterbaugh, McConnellsburg, and Lisa Buterbaugh, McConnellsburg; Cedric Diffenderfer, Chambersburg, and Jocelyn A. Keebaugh, McConnellsburg.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 29, 1972
Elton Britt, world-famous country music singer who had made Fulton County his home for the past several years, died on Friday, June 23, 1972, at Fulton County Medical Center. Mr. Britt was en route from Florida to the New England states on an engagement tour and had stopped to visit with friends at Crystal Spring when he became ill. He suffered a heart attack on his way to seek medical help in McConnellsburg on Tuesday afternoon and was taken to the Medical Center by ambulance. A second heart attack on Friday proved fatal to the 58-yearold celebrity. Friends from all over the United States attended his funeral, which was held on Tuesday of this week from the Kelso Funeral Home in McConnellsburg. Burial was made in the Broad Top IOOF Cemetery.
Compared to adjoining counties and vast other areas of Pennsylvania, Fulton County suffered relatively little damage as a result of tropical storm Agnes, which left flood devastation in its path as it travelled north last week.
Word was received here this week of the death of Lucy Ott, widow of the late Paul Ott of Iowa, who was born and reared in Fulton County.
Marriage licenses: William Harold Woodal of Needmore and Satricia Adele Deneen of Warfordsburg; Terry Leroy McGowan of Hustontown and Janet Louise Zeger of Chambersburg.
Ruth Ellen Lane is one of approximately 225 girls representing the junior classes of high schools throughout Pennsylvania who are spending this week on the campus of Shippensburg State College to participate in the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State.
Deaths: Raymond O. Kerlin, McConnellsburg; Mrs. Ronald (Karen) Selig, Appleton, Wis.; Leonard L. Schultz, Silver Spring, Md.; Dewey B. Fisher, Warfordsburg; Mrs. James Hockensmith, McConnellsburg; Ruth R. Bohn, Everett.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elvey have retuned home after spending a 10-day vacation touring the New England states.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Mellott of Mercersburg on June 16; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dennis Henry of McConnellsburg on June 17; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barnett of Needmore on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. George Sigel of Warfordsburg on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Crawford of Fort Loudon on June 21.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 5, 1962
Jerry Lee Beatty of Buck Valley entered the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado on June
25. He is a graduate of Southern Fulton High School, Class of 1962.
The Fulton Democrat Publishing Co. of McConnellsburg, formerly owned by E.V. Lynch, has been purchased by Guy F. Oakman of Harrisonville, who took over its operation on July 2. Bernard M. Gress, editor and manager of The Ful- ton Democrat for more than 20 years, has terminated his association with the paper due to ill health.
Leonard Ford, 15, of Wells Tannery, suffered crushing chest injuries on Monday when the farm tractor he was operating overturned and he was pinned beneath it when he tried to jump clear. He underwent emergency surgery at Chambersburg Hospital where he remains a patient.
A street dance, sponsored by local businesses, will be held in the parking lot at the rear of the McConnellsburg High School on July 12.
The marriage of Joan F. Truax of Harrisonville and Ronald P. Swope of Needmore on June 23 is announced.
Holis Wible, longtime managing pharmacist at the Rexall Drug Store in McConnellsburg, retired on Saturday after 22 years of service.
Fulton County has been allocated 2,100 doe licenses for the December 17, one-day hunting season.
Kathy L. Golden, 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Golden of Warfordsburg, was slightly injured when the car in which she was travelling with her parents was struck in the rear by a truck, east of Fort Loudon.
Kenneth R. Eichelberger, Wells Tannery, has received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Penn State University.
Edgar Carbaugh was treated for injuries to the arm and leg at Chambersburg Hospital on Friday after falling from a tree.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander left this week to visit the World's Fair in Seattle, Wash.
Rudolph Smith underwent major surgery at Harrisburg Hospital on Tuesday.
News of men in service: Roy Miller, McConnellsburg, is presently serving aboard the submarine rescue, USS Chanticleer, out of San Diego, Calif. Clifford E. Rotz, Harrisonville, enlisted in the Air Force on June 11. Paul John Snyder of Burnt Cabins was discharged from the Army on June 14 after serving two years of active duty. Calvin Philip Ramsey, Harrisonville, was discharged from the Army on June 12 after two years of service. Ray Eugene Lear, Harrisonville, was discharged on June 12 after two years in the Army. Don Henry Chubb is spending a 30-day furlough at his home in McConnellsburg prior to leaving for a tour of duty in the European Theatre of Operations. Sheldon Quay Deshong, Harrisonville, is serving with the Army in Germany. Gerald Orlando Wible, McConnellsburg, was discharged from the Air Force on May 28 after four years of service.
Rev. George Thayer is the new Methodist minister for the Knobsville, Fort Littleton, Burt Cabins, Fannettsburg and Metal Methodist churches.
Ruth Gordon and Robert Reeder were married on June 30 at the McConnellsburg Methodist Church.
A poem entitled "A Salute To McConnellsburg," by Erdman S. Bowders of Chambersburg, appears in this issue.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bookwalter, McConnellsburg, on June 25; a son to Mr. and Mrs. William Seburn, Warfordsburg, on June 25; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Miller, McConnellsburg, on June 26; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weller, Warfordsburg, on June 27; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David Seville Jr., Carlisle, on June 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Slates, Three Springs, on June 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Souders, McConnelslburg, on June 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Otis Mills, Hustontown, on June 28; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCullough, Mercersburg; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Deshong, Harrisonville, on June 29; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Melhorn, Willow Hill, on June 30; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Neuder, Harrisonville, on July 1.
Carl Strait of Hustontown graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, on June 23.
Rev. Gerald D. Wagner is the new minister for the Mc- Connellsburg and Cito Methodist churches.
Deaths: Clarence R. Shore, McConnellsburg; Mary Agnes Sponslor, East Riverdale, Md., wife of Clyde Sponsler, Harrisonville.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 3, 1952
Miss Zoe Mason of Akron, who usually spends her summer vacations at the Mason home here, will spend her vacation this year in Seattle, Wash., with her brother, Witz Mason, and family.
Robert Raker of McConnellsburg took over his duties as postmaster at the local post office this Tuesday.
Nancy Glazier retuned to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, where she is a public heath nurse.
Miss Helen Linn is now a student nurse at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown.
Mrs. W.H. Greathead suffered a broken wrist on Tuesday when she tripped and fell over a croquet peg at her home here.
Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Black of Waterfall on June 26; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnston of Knobsville on June 27; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. McDaid of Hustontown on July 1.
According to the State Tax Equalization Board in Harrisburg, the market value of all taxable real property in Fulton County in 1951 was $9,246,165.
Judge W. Clarence Sheely, president judge of the Fulton County Courts, was installed last week as president of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association.
Roger Elvey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elvey of Mc- Connellsburg, has turned down the state scholarship which he won by competitive examination this year. A 1952 graduate of McConnellsburg High School, he has now decided to learn a trade. The scholarship, worth $100 a year for four years, will now be awarded to the senior making the nexthighest grade.
Clarence W. Livengood and Marie B. Heeter were married last Sunday.
The Fulton County News announced a boost in subscription rates this week – $2 in the county; $2.50 elsewhere.
Bruce Douglas, president of the Fulton County Medical Center, announced this week that Harry M. Crow Jr., a native of Pittsburgh, has been named superintendent of the local hospital.
Three McConnellsburg men escaped serious injury on Friday evening when the car in which they were riding rolled over three times on Tuscarora Mountain. They were John Albert Lowans, Paul King and Malcolm B. Helman.
Robert M. Brenneman, 66, prominent Saxton businessman and president of The First National Bank of Saxton, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home last Tuesday morning.
Samuel Mayne has been elected president of the Fort Littleton Cemetery Association.
Death: Mrs. Leslie A. Markley, former postmaster at Warfordsburg for about 45 years.
Jere Knepper Jr. of Center is now stationed at Camp Meade.
Deaths: Ross G. Correll of Needmore; Mrs. Naomi T. Runk of Shirleysburg; James Henry Truax of Fort Littleton; Mrs. Stella Maude Barber of Riddlesburg; William Lee Charlton of Warfordsburg; William Walker Carbaugh of Waynesboro.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 1, 1942
Mrs. J. Irvin Raker returned home by ambulance on Sunday from Waynesboro Hospital where she had been a patient for four weeks following an operation for the removal of a tumor from her stomach.
Death: Mary Elizabeth Swisher of McConnellsburg.
Harvey Goddard and Maxine Carolyn May were married on June 22.
Family men and key war workers will be the last men to be drafted, according to orders sent from Washington this week.
Dale Clevenger and Myrtle F. Mellott were wed June 12.
Of the 193 pupils who participated in the recent eighth-grade exams in Fulton County, 180 of them passed, qualifying them for entrance into high school. The best showing was made by Charles Zilch of Dublin Township, who scored 360 points out of a possible 400. Other high scorers were Gerald Mellott, Brush Creek, 328; Max Truax, Belfast, 327; Doretta Mellott, Dublin, 326 Audrey Mellott, Brush Creek, 320; Dorothy Frehn, Dublin, 313; Rose Mosebey, Wells, 312; Phyllis Sprowl Wells, 311 and Max Helman, Dublin, 306.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Truax have moved into the A.J. Pittman home.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hann of Baltimore are the proud parents of a 9-pound baby son, Edmund Jr., born on June 24.
Mrs. Albert Deshong is seriously ill at Bedford Hospital.
Misses Dorothy and Joan Alloway returned to their home at Hustontown on Saturday after a week's visit with their aunt, Miss Myrtle Alloway of Philadelphia.
Bertha Orth of Fort Littleton left for Atlantic City on Tuesday to spend some time with her sister, Mrs. Bart Bullock, and family.
Corp. Alvin Kerlin Jr. of Knobsville returned to his camp in Texas on Thursday.
James Deshong, Harold Hann and Robert Hann of Harrisonville are employed at Herman Mellott's construction job near Saxonburg.
80 Years Ago
From The Files of June 30, 1932 '32
Gov. Pinchot called a special meeting of the legislature on Monday of this week to consider measures for unemployment relief in the state.
Deaths: Mrs. Susan Jane Truax of Juniata; Henry I. Fraker of Clear Ridge; Mrs. Ellen Garland of Cumberland.
A new telephone line has been completed north from McConnellsburg, adding at least 20 customers to the rapidly growing local exchange.
George A. Comerer was elected Republican County chairman at a meeting on Saturday. Mrs. James H. Kendall is vice chairman; C.E. Seville, secretary; and Grant Spade, treasurer.
Matthew Lewis and Mrs. Susan E. Black were wed June 25.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lake of Needmore had the unique honor this year of having four of their grandchildren graduate from various schools.
Burgess Charles B. Stevens warns that no fireworks will be allowed to be sold or put off prior to July 1 nor after midnight on July 4.
Mrs. Mary B. Martin and children have moved from Yeagertown to McConnellsburg to make their home with grandfather C.J. Brewer.
Miss Emma Sloan has enrolled for the fall term at Clark University at Worcester, Mass.
President Judge Donald P. McPherson and associate judges Charles Fore and Ross G. Correll presided at the June term of court. The only business before the court was the presentation of several petitions and the settling of various estates.
A large barn on the W.O. Hendershot farm in Buck Valley burned last Tuesday after being struck by lightning.
Harold Baumgardner and sister Mary Jean entertained a large group of their friends at a lawn party at their home at Wells Tannery last Thursday.
At the A&P: hams, 14 cents lb.; cigarettes, $1.25 carton; salmon, 23 cents; peanut kisses, 3 lbs., 25 cents; Palmolive soap, 4 cakes for 25 cents; beans, 4 cans for 25 cents.
J.A. Cohill of Hancock planted 45,000 tomato plants this year.
Mrs. B.J. Hixson of Brush Creek Township received word on Monday that her father, Aaron Deshong, had died suddenly in Johnstown.
Leslie W. Seylar, Republican candidate for the general Assembly, was the principal speaker at the Republican Committee meeting on Saturday.


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The first time I tried starting the android emulator, I quit it and never used it again. Starting up took about 5 minutes already and it wasn't too responsive afterwards. Now Matthew Casperson posted a nice howto for using the snapshot feature of the android emulator to start it up quickly. Now all I need is a trick to have it running faster as well... But that's not going to happen as long as it relies on qemu to first translate everything from x86 to arm code. ;)
Being based on Java, you'd think it would be possible to create a much faster emulator by just leaving out the arm cpu emulation. And it seems some people have done that with youwave. Unfortunately, that's windows-only.
Another line of improvements would be to speed up the graphics, as reportedly displayed with impressive results at Google I/O 2011.

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British singer-songwriter and amazing guitarist Richard Thompson is coming to the Bardavon, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie, on April 17 at 8 p.m. for an acoustic evening.
Tickets range from $40 to $50, depending on location.
Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Friday (members have been able to buy them since 11 a.m. today)
You can buy them at the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie or by calling (845) 473-2072; at the Ulster Performing Arts Center , 601 Broadway Kingston or by calling (845) 339-6088; and online at www.TicketMaster.com or by calling (845) 454-3388.
You might remember him from his time with Fairport Convention.
And, as you know, he never stopped.
Check this out:
In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Thompson as 19 on its list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (the winner was Jimmy Hendrix).
His work includes more than 40 albums and some of his songs have been recorded by his fans, like Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne and Elvis Costello.
He scored Werner Hertzog's 2005 documentary, "Grizzly Man."
His Web site, http://www.richardthompson-music.com/, has tons of stuff you'll love.


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Smart products and devices tend to be very complex. Customers demand products whose functionality is just right for them. They also want products that look good and demonstrate their individual values. That often means creating a product that the customer can customize. This wide scope of possibilities causes complexity. There are many requirements, and it's difficult to envision all use cases. The implementation of such a product that fits the requirements at a competitive price involves more engineering disciplines and specialities than dumb products. Finally, product testing and verification is challenging.
In the Victorian era, a product was often created by an individual inventor. Those days are long gone, and products have steadily grown in complexity. Smart products and devices represent a step change in complexity.
In the 1960s and 1970s, engineering management popularized the idea that design projects could have better outcomes if they were tackled by multi-disciplinary teams. References to this approach date back to the 1920s, when it was realized that organizing into departments and firms, each of them specializing in a particular expertise, tends to create barriers. Assembling a single team of individuals with all the necessary expertise produces a more innovative approach to solving design problems. The common purpose focuses effort on the project outcome and discourages suboptimization.
In the past 10 years, smart products and devices have added a new discipline to the mix: software engineering. That adds complexity and new modes of thought from the world of software development. In the short term, it creates some communication difficulties, especially when the software people come from a pure computer science background. However, we should also see this as an opportunity. Different engineering disciplines can learn best-practices from one another.
The world of software development has learned how to cope with rapid change in requirements and underlying technologies. As well as the traditional waterfall development model, a technique called agile software development has emerged. In this approach, requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing multi-disciplinary teams. The software development is iterative. Incremental solutions are released to users, who provide feedback and help develop requirements for the next iteration.
This technique could sometimes be applied to other engineering disciplines. The prerequisite is that different disciplines use a common language for requirements (especially derived requirements) and solutions.
Systems engineering and systems modeling allow better communication of a solution's architecture to the requirements by dividing the solution into manageable chunks. Simulation and visualization of solutions allow each discipline to communicate its solution to its peers.
The main mechanical engineering software suppliers are expanding their portfolios to include systems and software engineering tools. Dassault bought Geensoft, PTC acquired MKS, and Siemens PLM bought LMS. These tool sets are evolving rapidly. There are potential problems with agile development techniques. How do you test for safety when a product is used outside the use cases in the requirements? If the solution iteration triggers a change in a mechanical or electrical artefact, then costs can increase dramatically.
We do expect all these software engineering techniques to change the design workflow. There are things software engineers could learn from mechanical engineers, such as using more off-the-shelf components, rather than writing all code in-house from scratch.
We will be watching with interest this first encounter with alien software engineers to identify best-practices in the design workflow.
Mike Evans is the research director for Cambashi.
Related posts:
- Siemens PLM Uses Rapid Start to Speed Product Development
- GrabCAD Integrates AutoDesk Tools Into Cloud Collaboration Environment
- Using Simple Language to Program Computers
- We Know What the IoT Is, but How & When It Arrives Is Unclear
- Engineering Creativity Peaks in Kindergarten
- Report: 3D Printing Will (Eventually) Transform Manufacturing


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Dow AgroSciences has announced the Enlist Weed Control System, which is a herbicide tolerant trait system that provides tolerance to a new 2,4-D product as well as glyphosate tolerance. Pending regulatory approval, commercial launch of the product in corn is anticipated in 2013, with other crops to soon follow.
"In a recent grower survey, 96 percent of growers said they wanted a system that improves on the glyphosate-tolerant system they have integrated into their operations," says Damon Palmer, Dow AgroSciences U.S. commercial leader, Enlist Weed Control System. "Enlist Weed Control System will offer growers new technology to enable them to advance modern farming."
The company says the new technology will be available in elite germplasm and be stacked with the glyphosate-tolerant trait as well as insect-resistant traits.
More information is available on the web at: www.EnlistWeedControl.com.


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Wainman Joke is a beast at landing soft but a slower board. I'd recommend if you try one go a size bigger, and that goes for any of the wake style boards. I had a high kite loop on the joke with a gust on a light day and as i fell from the sky i just knew i was going to the hospital with a blown knee. The board absorbs so much energy.
My knees are not the best either. Years of heavy weight lifting has taken it's toll on my joints. I'm rehabing both shoulders from ac arthritis surgery. At 33 I'm with OldNBroken if you can fix the knees do it. I know I'm going to love my refurbished shoulders!
All so try bringing your stance in so your feet are closer. Same for your duck it helps a lot. I found that my knees stopped hurting once i did those 2 things on my wake board.


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Pipeline Perspectives: Allow for dealing on Draft day
There's a good amount of subjectivity regarding baseball prospects. With the evaluation of talent being in the eye of the beholder, finding consensus is often difficult. Even Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo at MLBPipeline.com don't always see eye-to-eye. They'll be discussing their viewpoints regularly in a feature called Pipeline Perspectives. Submit a topic for them to debate.
We here at MLBPipeline.com can't help ourselves. We can't stop talking about the First-Year Player Draft.
There's a good amount of subjectivity regarding baseball prospects. With the evaluation of talent being in the eye of the beholder, finding consensus is often difficult. Even Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo at MLBPipeline.com don't always see eye-to-eye. They'll be discussing their viewpoints regularly in a feature called Pipeline Perspectives. Submit a topic for them to debate.
We here at MLBPipeline.com can't help ourselves. We can't stop talking about the First-Year Player Draft.
In last week's Perspectives, Jim Callis and I picked which teams we felt had the best 2013 Draft haul. This week, we're looking at the Draft itself. Simply put, it's our favorite time of year. If anyone were to come up to Jim or I and tell us it's our Super Bowl, or our [insert favorite holiday here], we wouldn't argue.
That doesn't mean we don't think there are things that can be done to improve the Draft. And that's our topic for the week -- the one thing we would do to change the Draft.
It's come a long way as an event, no doubt, with more coverage of Draft prospects around the Internet than ever before, more people paying attention to who's going to go where and, of course, the expansive TV coverage that is still in its nascent stages. (The Draft was an Internet-only happening prior to 2007). But we want it to be the best event possible, one that interests the most people and, more importantly, allows teams to build successful farm systems.
That's what Jim is arguing for this week: A return to a Draft system that allows teams to spend whatever they want, as he feels that's the best way to level the playing field for all organizations. Me? I'd like to add something that not only would allow teams to be more creative and flexible in how they build their teams, but would also add more interest and intrigue to the event as a whole. I believe teams should have the ability to openly trade Draft picks.
This isn't as huge a leap as it may have seemed a few years ago. The recent rules changes to the Draft, which added the Competitive Balance Lottery, also allowed teams to trade those lottery picks. And teams haven't hesitated. The first Competitive Balance Lottery took place in 2012, and it took just five days for there to be a trade involving those picks, with the Tigers and Marlins exchanging their picks in the Anibal Sanchez deal. It allowed the Tigers to move up from pick No. 73 to No. 39 in a deal that would have otherwise just been about players. It also increased their allotted pool for the 2013 Draft's top 10 rounds, another bonus.
The Marlins also got the Pirates' Competitive Balance Round A pick in the 2013 Draft in the Gaby Sanchez deal, and there's already been two deals involving '14 picks. When the Orioles got Bud Norris from the Astros at the non-waiver Trade Deadline last July, they gave Houston their Round A pick, which currently is pick No. 35. The D-backs received the Padres' Round B pick (No. 70) in the Ian Kennedy deal, giving them back-to-back Competitive Balance Round B picks.
This may not sound overly exciting to anyone but hard core Draft fans or front office staffs, but I see it as Major League Baseball dipping their toes in the pick-trading waters. Now it's time to go all-in with a huge cannon ball.
As someone who tries to project the first round of the Draft, I've seen interest in what's going to happen on Draft day increase over time. Imagine what would happen if, at any time during the Draft, we could see the commissioner stride the podium and say, "The Philadelphia Phillies have traded the seventh overall pick of the 2014 Draft to the ..."
That of course, is just an example, but you get the point. Having Draft-day trades would add exponentially to the intrigue of the event. (So would not having any games the night of the Draft, but I could only pick one topic.) I firmly believe there would be a lot more eyes glued to TVs if trades were opened up.
Beyond that, it would be a way for teams to use the Draft in different ways to build what they think will be a winning team. I know there's some concern that teams would potentially punt their picks to save money, or at the very least, not use the Draft for its intended purpose. There could be some safeguards, at least initially, to protect against that, if it would ease the transition.
Perhaps teams selecting in the top 10 shouldn't be allowed to deal their picks. Or there can be limits placed on the number of picks or Draft pool money that can be traded in a given year.
Personally, I'm not in favor of those limitations. I firmly believe the Draft is the best way to build an organization (along with international scouting and player development, of course). If a team wants to shed all of its picks and try to get better in the short-term, it's the organization's own long-term funeral. This is where Jim's change and my change intersect: Teams should be allowed to do with the Draft how they see fit.
General managers in this game are smart and get the importance of the Draft, so I think they've provide their own internal safeguards. I don't see the free-for-all some fear ever actually happening.
I already love the Draft. But it's missing a team moving up in the Draft to get an amateur it really wants; a team packaging picks with prospects or other players to get a big leaguer it thinks can help immediately; rumors and intrigue swirling around on Draft Day. All of these would help make the First-Year Player Draft a can't-miss event.
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Friday, September 21, 2007
World War II Living History Project (WW2LHP)
Here are a few quotes taken from World War Two veterans:
"My co-pilot was sitting in the escape path, so I put my foot in his back and shoved him out. I immediately followed. Just as I cleared the plane, she blew. All I saw was a huge flash and felt some of the concussion. I was in the clouds and got scared and knew that if I opened my chute, it would be damaged by air currents. I decided to delay opening until I broke out into the clear..." Earl Morrow, B17 pilot, shot down over Germany, POW
"I remember this one time, we were under heavy German fire, and we jumped into a foxhole. The officer in charge said to me, " Are they still firing, Dashnaw?" I replied to him, " Go stick your head up there and see, sir!" Alfred Dashnaw, US Army, French Interpreter
"We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad that we didn't, because they had attacked us there with 6 carriers, 3 battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. The planes alone would have taken care of us, so I was grateful that we never found them. We were out there searching for 36 hours... When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor..." Barney Ross, U.S. Navy, Pearl Harbor
I wish my high school had been this innovative back in the 80s when I was in the secondary grades. A lot of World War Two veterans I grew up talking with are now gone. There stories were probably not recorded. I wish my history teacher had thought to do something like this. I hope other schools consider getting students involved in similar projects.
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- Jennie W said...
Two things:
First, if you like this, you should also check out the LOC's Veteran's History Project - really awesome.
And remember...the War premieres on PBS this Sunday! I'm looking forward to it...such a geek, I know!
- Peter Britton said...
Dear Milland,
I'm afraid this is not a comment on this particular post, but I am trying to contact you on another matter. If I'm going about this the wrong way, many apologies.
I am managing a new project which is creating an online atlas of world history. It is in its very early stages of development (it so far only covers history up to AD 1 in any dept at all), but we're wanting comments on it now from interested parties before we go too far down the wrong lines.
I am wondering whether you would put up a post with a link to our site (which would be the first external link we've actually asked for), and ask your readers to send us their comments and suggestions.
The atlas will be a free online resource. The idea will be to give people (and not just students and teachers) access to the "Big Picture", so that they can see how different episodes fit into the broader framework, both chronologically and geographically. In due course we'll be looking for other contributors, but we haven't got the admin capability to handle that at the moment.
The address is: www.timemaps.com/atlas
Thanks very much indeed.
Peter Britton
- M said...
I wish you luck with your project. I will not devote a post to this but I am happy to publish your comment here. This blog does get read and you will get some traffic from this comment link. I hope it helps you.
Best wishes,
- Peter Britton said...
Dear Milland,
Thanks very much indeed. Much appreciated.
When the atlas is in a more complete state I'll let you know. In the meantime, if I could get some constructive feedback on the site from readers, that would be great.
Best wishes,
- lorraine.oback said...
San Jose Public Library invites Santa Clara County (CA) residents, past and present, to upload personal photos depicting their experience of the World War II era at www.flickr.com/groups/wwii sanjoselibraries/. It's part of a series of programs - "The War: Reflections on WWII @ San Jose Libraries" - designed to encourage sharing and discussion in relation to Ken Burns' PBS film series, "The War."
- Peter Baird said...
On Ken Burns PBS "War" series, The Battle of Peleliu will be featured on Sunday September 29. That battle has special meaning to me because my father, an army surgeon, was wounded there and came home with a semi-claw for a left hand, impaired surgical skills, a refusal to talk about it and a bad case of PTSD, involving booze, depression, rages and violence. The battle not only damaged him but our immediate family and succeeding generations.
Consequently,I wrote a novel, Beyond Peleliu (Ravenhawk Books) about the generational impact of that battle and also about the importance of truth in achieving understanding and forgiveness. My royalties go to charity.
My novel has been generously reviewed nationally and, as Sister Helen Prejean, author of Deadman Walking, wrote: "This book can be a source of forgiveness and healing for those who inherited the demons of war."
Thomas Childers, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "World War Two: A Military and Social History" wrote, "Peter Baird's Beyond Peleliu is a hauntingly powerful novel of compelling honesty and skill, a moving reminder tht wars do not end when the last shot is fired." Peter Baird
- Matt said...
Hello, Matthew Rozell here, the teacher responsible for the World War II Living History Project. I appreciate your attention to this site- I am also World History teacher. I can't compete with the VOHP but I'll bet I've been at it longer. I'll be meeting Ken Burns this month and I hope you can read the "remember" section on my site. Kind of explains it all.


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Moyers & Company "Elections for Sale" One of the reasons Moyers & Company frequently returns to the theme of money and politics is because it's absolutely necessary to do so. Nothing corrupts our political system more than the ability of the rich and influential to spend limitless amounts of money -- often in secret -- with the intention of creating preferred political outcomes. And far from being a regulator of campaign finances, our political funding laws -- aided by a corporate-friendly Supreme Court and self-interested politicians -- only facilitate the process of empowering the few while subjugating the many. D
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Monday, again? Oh, dear. I am not ready for another week.
So how about a quick recap as I sip my coffee and gird myself for the day?
There has been knitting and stitching …
… and trips to the post office to mail birthday boxes to a certain sister of mine.
I hate going to the post office, but I do love this particular branch with its Wall of Country Stars. All of whom apparently … frequent the Post Office? In any case, there are a number of recognizable faces, but the real star of this photo was Ronnie Milsap (smack in the center). My sister loves some Milsap.
Finally, Alice has been busy with some craft-closet mountaineering (cat-a-neering?). This is a horrible photo, but I had to act quickly. Luckily, we avoided a wool avalanche.
And that brings us to Monday.
I think I've finally managed to clear up all the ailments that have plagued my summer — knock on wood — and spent the weekend lying low. Now, it's back to work. Here's to hoping Monday is treating you all well!


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OctopusBill needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 174 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Hallmark Home Building & Remodeling
Here is the old website: http://www.davethh.com/
We are in the process of revamping the website but needed a new name and an updated look and feel. The company has been around for 20+ years and is successful but we are looking to attract higher end clients and take our business to the next level.
A Local Company That Stands Behind Its Work - With so many siding, window and roofing companies to choose from, how do you decide which one will provide the best value? Many chains and franchises offer package deals and one-time specials, but can you count on them to deliver a quality product and stand behind their work? Who will actually be performing and over seeing the work? What is their experience level?
At Hallmark Homes Assoc., Inc. owner David Tomolillo personally oversees all remodeling projects performed by his company. A native to the North Boston area, David brings his passion for quality, strong work ethic and twenty plus years of experience to HHA. His in-depth product knowledge, craftsmanship and practical approach ensure that his customers are delivered quality, cost effective solutions for their home improvement needs. We have hundreds of satisfied customers to prove it.
We will be reaching back out to our established clients but we are also looking to attract some higher end clients. We have not specifically targeted higher end in the past but feel that we are at a good point to do so now.
We are looking for a new look and feel...our last icon was a red pitched roof with two capital letter H's under the roof. The icon was one that could have been designed in Microsoft Word...it looks very basic. The colors we have used in the past have been red, black, white and blue. I am open to other suggestions but I may ask to see the new look and feel in one of the colors or colors schemes mentioned.
Being honest, the current icon makes our company look less than we really are and we want to upgrade the look. The word hallmark means a quality of excellence or finished look and this is the direction we are looking to head.
From an artistic standpoint, we are flexible just keep in mind we are a home building and remodeling company. I am not looking for a guy holding a hammer but would like to see something regarding the name come to life. Thank You!!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. military contract that drew fire for creating profiles to rate the output of journalists as well as coverage of the Afghanistan war is being terminated, according to U.S. military officials.
Journalists run at the site of a gunfight between gunmen and Afghan police in Kabul on August 20.
The U.S. military had contracted with the public-relations firm The Rendon Group, which created profiles of journalists that rated their stories as "positive," "neutral" or "negative." The military said it did not use the ratings to influence coverage or deny reporters access to cover the war.
"It was clear this issue had become a distraction to our main mission here," according to Rear Adm. Greg Smith, head of communications for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. "This does not imply that we found any improprieties. In fact, our use of the contract since my arrival in June was completely appropriate and in no way exemplified the allegations made by Stars and Stripes."
The flap started last week when Stars and Stripes -- an independent newspaper aimed at U.S. troops but partially funded by the U.S. government -- reported it had obtained documents prepared for the U.S. military on contract by the Washington-based communications firm that analyzed journalists' work.
The paper had also said the contractor was looking for ways to put a positive spin on stories.
Rendon was working with the U.S. military's communications division in Afghanistan analyzing media coverage of military operations. Reporter profiles, officials said, were to give commanders some background on who would be interviewing them or embedding with their units.
Stars and Stripes said differently and reported it had documentation showing reporter profiles from last year were used to limit access of journalists who had produced unfavorable coverage of U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan.
A statement on the Web site of The Rendon Group said the company does not recommend to the military which journalists should be granted or denied access.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that while the Pentagon makes the media policy for the military, commands around the world are able to make decisions on their own on how to approach media planning.
He said it does not appear that any policy violation has occurred with The Rendon Group contract.
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Congratuations to players, coaches and parents for making the Spring 2014 season our most successful season ever. The program expanded to 5 leagues with 420 girls and 95 volunteer coaches. We look forward to continued success in Spring 2015.
Below are the Spring 2014 champions:
4th-5th Grade House
1st Place: ESL-2 Phoenix (Friedman)
2nd Place: ESL-7 Purple (Kleinberg)
3rd Place: ESL-4 Surf (Chapman)
6th Grade House
1st Place: ESU-5 Turquoise (Lesan)
2nd Place: ESU-3 Dawn (White/Anthony)
3rd Place: ESU-1 Rainbow (Cleary)
7th-8th Grade House
1st Place: MSH-3 Dawn (Severn)
2nd Place: MSH 10 Blue (Toth)
3rd Place: MSH-1 Rainbow (Musgrove)
MS Select
1st Place: MSS-6 Pink (Salkoff)
2nd Place: MSS-4 Surf (Anderson)
3rd Place: MSS-2 Phoenix (Musgrove)
9th-12th Grade House
1st Place: HSH-2 Phoenix (Gilmer)
2nd Place: HSH-4 Surf (Rogers)
MYV selected 9 teams of exceptional players for All-Stars. All teams did well in their respective events with MSS-AS1 (Awad) taking first place of 9 teams in the Northern Virginia Middle School All-Star tournament.
4th-5th Grade All-Stars
6th Grade All-Stars
7th-8th Grade House All-Stars
MS Select All-Stars
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Allen Kanner's article "Why Extinction Matters at Least as Much as Climate Change" comes as world leaders gather in Durban, South Africa, for the round of UN climate talks known as the COP 17.
Also gathering are pan-African and South African civil society and international climate justice activists. Some are coming to Occupy, protest, and critique the continuing failure of the UN process itself to reach agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. Others are hoping to influence negotiators on minor concessions.
Although we live two continents and nearly 11,000 miles apart, as community organizers, Desmond D'sa and I look at climate change from similar perspectives — with our eyes on the ground in the places where we work. From these places, we see the results of the market-based global economic system as it transforms our communities and ecosystems into sacrifice zones for corporate profit. From these places, climate change is perhaps a bit of an abstraction, a byproduct of a colonial mindset that treats nature as property and values the production of "endless more." As Kanner correctly notes, "The center of the ecological crisis is not the weather but the ongoing and wholesale destruction of life."
Despite the physical distance between California and South Africa, we both work in the midst of communities where unwanted and dangerous corporate projects including oil refineries, natural gas "fracking," massive water withdrawal, incinerators, industrial farms, forest clear-cutting, and the like are sited. Real places in time where society's inventions leave polluted rivers, cancer clusters, poverty, and tons of carbon emissions in their wake.
Currently, U.S. state and federal law says that corporations don't need community permission to drop pesticides overhead, or to site a toxic dump in town. We are told we cannot say "no" to the unwanted project because that would be a violation of the corporation's Constitutional rights. We are also told that the ecosystems upon which we depend for survival are mere "property" under the law — human property to be owned and dominated, destroyed at will. But that is changing.
As a rights-based organizer in California, I along with my legal and organizing partners at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) assist communities to pass groundbreaking new laws that place the rights of residents and nature above the interests of corporations.
Desmond D'Sa lives and works in Durban South Africa, the dirtiest city in South Africa, and ironically, host city to the COP 17. There, he is the director of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), an environmental justice network. Over 300 toxic industrial plants — including two oil refineries — operate in and around the city, particularly concentrated in the neighborhoods of south Durban, an area particularly disadvantaged by the legacy of apartheid.
Desmond, who was to write this article with me, was called away to tend to community needs following yet another serious explosion at one of the refineries in his neighborhood. Explosions, accidents, spills, and other toxic exposures are part of daily life there, and the reason why Desmond has begun to introduce the idea of rights for nature and residents in South Durban.
Desmond is also the official convener/coordinator for the civil society gathering for the COP 17. As I meet these activists, I have been compelled to put Kanner's theory to the test: I took a small informal poll on the notion of self-interest as a motivator for responding to climate change. So many of the civil society participants come to talk about climate change in the context of the tangible work they are doing to stop dams, incinerator projects, food sovereignty, indigenous rights, deforestation, and yes, species extinction.
Kanner asks us to grieve for what has been lost, and through grief, find connection to the rest of species of Mother Earth. Kanner is right, because changing our fate is not an intellectual task to be met merely with facts and logic. That's what the climate-change-as motivator framework asks us to do. But we cannot feel the burden of atmosphere weighted by carbon storage, and therefore it elicits no real connection. And we soothe ourselves with the notion that a problem of such magnitude is not ours to solve — other than mentally promising to drive less, and buy greener consumer goods.
But can we engineer grief? Grief is an emotional response, a genuine heart-connected feeling of loss personal or otherwise. A prerequisite for grief is caring, compassion, and connection. It could be as simple as missing the once plentiful butterflies that were a common part of childhood or, as residents of south Durban see it, a loss of fish and aquatic life in the river, the loss of clean air and water, and the loss of access to healthy local food.
From the refinery fenceline in South Durban, the gathering of international experts offers no solutions on the ground. Inside the official space, negotiators speak in arrogant clinical terms of climate change "adaptation" (get used to it) or "risk assessment" (what are we willing to lose next to feed the economic status quo). As Kanner points out, this is "the expression of a cultural mindset in which society believes it can overpower nature with inventions so potent they force the world to its knees. It is no coincidence that most modern technology is ecologically harmful, for it was designed from within a system that seeks to subjugate the natural world rather than operate in harmony with it."
Those of us working on the rights-of-nature framework are seeking to reconnect humanity with the rest of species. We seek to change human law that can only "see" nature as a thing — separate and apart from us, property to be owned and destroyed at will. We seek to change the law because our own salvation can only come from a cultural mindset that we are a part of nature.
Slaves and women were once considered property, but through massive shifts in law and culture they moved from being "right-less" to being rights-bearing. The cultural quest before us is this: can we envisage a future other than that which has come by enslaving Nature and treating all other life as mere "resources" for human exploitation? The time has come not just to intellectualize the recognition of Nature's right to flourish and evolve organically, but also to breathe this recognition deeply into our culture. How different would our human societies, economies, and structures of law look as part of a connected, Earth-centered community?
(To read other environmentalists' perspectives on extinction, climate change, and the rights of nature, click here. Also don't miss this video of grassroots environmental activism at COP 17.)


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MILAN (Reuters) - Versace expects to finalize a shortlist for buyers interested in a minority stake in the Italian fashion house by mid-October and decide on a partner by the end of 2013, Chief Executive Gian Giacomo Ferraris said on Friday.
The fashion house, whose glittering gowns are worn by stars such as Lady Gaga and Madonna, is seeking to strengthen its balance sheet to help fund expansion in overseas markets such as Asia before a possible listing further down the road.
"The process is very disciplined," Ferraris said before its spring-summer 2014 fashion show, which included T-shirts with biker print logos, soft dresses with chain-mail details and vertiginously high platform sandals.
Ferraris added that Versace had started to look for a new investor a year ago.
When asked whether it was true the company was selling a 15-20 percent stake, as reported by Reuters, he said: "this is correct".
A source said last week that Versace was planning to sell a stake of up to 20 percent through a reserved capital increase in a deal that would value the group at more than 1.2 billion euros ($1.62 billion).
A listing of the group was foreseen in three to five years, Ferraris has previously said.
The family owned fashion house, founded in 1978 by the late Gianni Versace, hired banks Goldman Sachs and Intesa Sanpaolo's Banca IMI as advisers in May 2012.
The company is entirely controlled by the Versace family: Gianni Versace's sister Donatella has a 20 percent stake, her brother Santo has 30 percent while Donatella's daughter Allegra has the remaining 50 percent.
Last year Italian fashion brand Valentino was snapped up by Qatar's royal family in a deal that valued the company at 31.5 times 2011 core earnings. In 2012 Versace had core earnings of 44.5 million euros.
Italian luxury groups such as Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Missoni and Ermenegildo Zegna have been reluctant to sell and are still controlled by their founding families.
The strong performance of luxury brands has made them a target for cash-rich buyers seeking recognition as well as returns. ($1 = 0.7402 euros)
Writing by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Anthony Barker


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Author Profile
Joel Bleifuss
Joel Bleifuss, a former director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the editor & publisher of In These Times, where he has worked since October 1986.
Bleifuss has worked at In These Times for 24 years, including as managing editor and senior editor. He tackles the state of national and international events with a blend of critical insight and humor, and over the years has developed a niche for investigative reporting.
His reporting on environmental health issues, national security scandals and the Iran Contra affair has landed in newspapers and magazines around the country, including the New York Times, the Utne Reader, the Capital Eye and many others.
He is the co-author of the book "Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?," with Steven F. Freeman.
Before joining In These Times, Bleifuss was director of the Peace Studies Program for the University of Missouri, a features writer for the Fulton Sun in Fulton, Missouri, and a freelance journalist in Spain.
Bleifuss currently serves on the advisory board of The Public Square, a program of the Illinois Humanities Council.
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Though no Oceania teams reached the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, the qualifying campaign saw a host of new milestones and achievements created that will live long in the memory. New Zealand's failure to progress to the world-stage as Oceania representatives in the intercontinental play-off may seem a lack of progress for the region but dig a little deeper and it is clear there were a series of breakthrough achievements. Most notable, was Tahiti who won the second stage of qualifying which doubled as the Oceania Nations Cup; a maiden title for a Pacific Islands nation. There were also significant milestones for American Samoa, New Caledonia and others. FIFA.com looks back at a four-stage qualifying journey which lasted almost exactly two years to the day.
The qualified teams
None (New Zealand lost the intercontinental play-off to Mexico 9-3 on agg)
Five memorable moments
*Good things come to those that wait
* Seventeen years, 30 defeats and 299 goals conceded – including a world record 31-0 defeat against Australia in 2001 – were American Samoa's bare statistics since making their international debut. However, they enjoyed a momentous moment on the very first day of Oceania qualifying in November 2011 with a second-half winner from teenager Shalom Luani ensuring a momentous and hugely celebrated 2-1 win over Tonga. It was also redemption of sorts for goalkeeper Nicky Salapu, who was in the firing line during that infamous record-breaking defeat. Needing a win in the final group game, American Samoa hit the post in the dying moments only for Samoa to break upfield for a 2-1 victory to earn the only ticket into Stage 2.
*Young coach leads the way
*Tonga were guided by possibly the youngest coach ever to lead a team into FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. 25-year-old Australian Chris Williams was not only making his international coaching bow, but he was in fact debuting as a senior coach when he oversaw the Polynesians in Stage 1 qualifying. Quirkily, some of the Tonga players were older than Williams, most notably 38-year-old Lokoua Taufahema, a veteran of the France 1998 qualifying campaign.
*Polynesians' time to shine in the sun
*Honiara's sun-baked Lawson Tama stadium in the Solomon Islands capital provided the stage for a landmark moment in the confederation's history. June 2011 saw Tahiti top the eight-nation Stage 2 to be crowned Pacific kingfishers with the tournament doubling as the continental championship. Tahiti knocked over the host nation in the semi-final before dispensing with Francophone rivals New Caledonia, conquerors of New Zealand. Never before had there been a winner other than New Zealand or former OFC member Australia, as Tahiti earned passage to the FIFA Confederations Cup.
*The rise and rise of New Caledonia *
Though one of FIFA's newest members, having joined the global football family nine years ago, the French-speaking Pacific nation of New Caledonia has a rich and vibrant football history dating back to the first half of last century. In 2012 they reached a second successive Oceania Nations Cup final and, but for the bounce of the ball in a knife-edge contest, it could easily have been New Caledonia representing the continent at the Festival of Champions in Brazil earlier this year. *Les Cagous *enjoyed a best-ever campaign and in Stage 3 they finished well clear of Tahiti and Solomons, and remained in the hunt for the intercontinental play-off berth until the penultimate game.
*Dig the new breed
*New Zealand fans will lament their failure to reprise World Cup qualification heroics from four years ago. The All Whites hefty aggregate defeat should not, however, mask the growth the team has made in four years, as evidenced by a wave of dynamic new players. New Zealand have long been blessed with an abundance of strong athletic players, but now in the likes of twinkle-toed duo Marco Rojas and Kosta Barbarouses, plus the technically proficient goalscoring of Jeremy Brockie, the All Whites boast a cross-section of attacking options like never before.
*Three players to watch
*Georges Gope-Fenepej (New Caledonia) – The burly forward or attacking midfielder came to the fore in Stage 2 qualifying and took his side to within a whisker of continental glory. He picked up a move to Troyes featuring, albeit fleetingly, in France's Ligue 1 before the club were relegated this year. Gope-Fenepej combined with the likes of Bertrand Kai and Cesar Lolohea to give New Caledonia one of the continent's most threatening attacks. Eight goals saw the 25-year-old earn himself a small slice of history as the continent's top scorer in Brazil 2014 qualifying.
Steevy Chong Hue (Tahiti) – Rarely has the continent witnessed a more pivotal goal that that delivered by Chong Hue in the early minutes of the Stage 2 final against New Caledonia. It proved to be the winner and sent Tahiti to the FIFA Confederations Cup and a dream-like opportunity to mix with the world's best footballers. Hailing from one of the more remote locations on earth – the island of Raiatea located a couple of hundred kilometres from the main French Polynesian landmass – Chong Hue is blessed with searing pace and a nose for goal.
Marco Rojas (New Zealand) – The diminutive Wellington-born, Chilean-heritage Rojas has both pace and innate technical ability. After earning the A-League player of the year at the age of just 21, he become one of New Zealand's few players in a top European league with a move to German Bundesliga outfit Stuttgart earlier this year.
*What they said
*"He was crying, and said 'I can now tell my children that I'm a winner', and that is bigger than the game itself quite frankly." American Samoa coach Thomas Rongen about Nicky Salapu who finally enjoyed the sweet taste of success having been in goal when his team suffered a world record defeat in 2001.
"I'm going to wake up in the morning thinking the game is in a very healthy position. I go out with my head high and very, very proud." Outgoing New Zealand coach Ricki Herbert.
The stat
* *36 – New Caledonia were easily the continent's top goalscorers with their 36 goals leaving them eight clear of New Zealand (including their play-off matches).
*The top scorers
*Georges Gope-Fenepej (8 goals), Jacques Haeko, Chris Wood (both 7)


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Crankshaft wrote:Am I correct in assuming that this season, any positive coaching changes will be the result of J. Martin and anything bad will be Byslma's fault?
As was said above:
In 4 seasons, we've seen minimal changes from Byslma, so yes, any noticeable changes would lead one to believe that it was a result of Martin.
People are going to believe that after Bylsma has failed 4 years in a row while being stubborn that he's finally seen the light and will implement his own changes and that Martin has nothing to do with it?
We will see a new look defensively, one from the book of Martin and hopefully the elimination of the stretch pass. We don't need to play open, run and gun hockey. We have enough scoring talent up front to take advantage of miscues and hopefully play a sound defensive game instead.


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BASKETBALL: Wapak hoping to keep Kenton winless in WBL
"Friendly confines" are not exactly words one might use to describe playing at Kenton High School.
And don't let their winless 0-8 Western Buckeye League record fool you.
The Wildcats (4-13 overall) aren't going to be a pushover when the Wapakoneta Redskins visit Friday night for the varsity boys basketball season finale for both teams.
"Kenton is a really dangerous team, despite their record," Wapak coach Matt Bradley said.
The Wildcats got a late start to the season thanks to their run to the Division IV state championship game in football.
Senior forward Maty Mauk, Kenton's standout quarterback, has been battling nagging injuries from football all season but is now healthy.
"They have two Division I athletes in Mauk and [Brice] Fackler that are underrated and underappreciated basketball players," Bradley said. "We have to know where [Mauk] is at all times because he will make shots from nearly anywhere across half-court. We have to match Fackler's toughness inside. A good start is crucial for us."
The Redskins can expect to see a lot of man-to-man defense from Kenton.
Wapak is coming off a pair of wins at home over Shawnee and Coldwater last weekend and has a chance to finish with four league wins for the first time in five years.
The Redskins are 7-10 overall and 3-5 in league play.


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Michael Wright '13 had a summer internship which may help Wabash students better understand personal finance.
Wright presented his four short videos on campus Thursday afternoon. Webisode Wisdom: A Guide to Financial Management is a series of four brief videos featuring Wright's off-beat humor.
He wrote, edited, acted, and produced the four pieces with his father and a handful of Wabash student friends.
"My goal was to make it funny and entertaining," he told the noontime audience. "Obviously making a budget and managing your finances isn't that exciting."
The four videos focus on creating a budget, credit card use, reading a credit report, and financial investing. The videos will be available on the Wabash YouTube channel. The video may be made available to schools which are a part of the ICI.
Wright's internship was funded by the Independent Colleges of Indiana and PNC Financial Literacy Campus Initiative. Wright credited the Colleges' Financial Aid staff, particularly LaToshia Everson along with Betsy Knott and Deborah Woods for their supervision and assistance.


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UVU's Orem Campus sits adjacent to I-15's busiest interchange in the state, so any disruptions to the highway or University Parkway invariably have a high impact on UVU visitors — especially during the UDOT project, which is slated for a December 2012 finish.
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Nine out of ten experts agree: having a pool gap in your backyard will indeed improve your wakeskating! That, and a boatload of natural talent, of course. And since Ben Horan has both, it's really no surprise he rode away with the first Toe Jam title of 2009 in the winch stop of the tour. Ben stomped a perfect frontboard shuv, which was enough to best both rail and super kicker maneuvers by the other riders.
The set up at OWC was a true testament to the fine line between building something riders want to hit, and building something the crowd wants to watch riders hit. With options to go either up or down, there was much discussion about whether a motocross-style super kicker is really what wakeskating needs at this point. But when Andrew Fortenberry stomped a shuv indy, Danny Hampson rode out of a 180 and Brian Grubb put down a late shuv over the box at the top of the kicker well, the crowd, as they say, went wild.
The requisite group of drunk idiots, wakeskate enthusiasts, scantily clad women, and an unlikely appearance by The Corey Duffel made up the excited audience. The riders in the semi final consisted of five pre-qualified past champions (Aaron Reed was there, but opted not to ride) and 8 riders who made it through the semi finals earlier in the day. It took three hours to whittle down four heats of 6 to those top 8, then a two hour break (perfect for visiting the nearby Chipotle) before the finals action got started.
Fourteen were cut to 6 and than an hour of jamming took place to determine the final rankings. As I've already said, Ben Horan came out on top. Ben only used the hubbas on his way to victory, except for a perfectly executed cannon ball off the kicker. Brian Grubb, on the other hand, did a little bit of everything. It was the late shuv off the kicker that took home second place for him though. In third was Danny Hampson who still does frontside big spins better than anyone else.
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NEW YORK — New York City FC will play homes games at Yankee Stadium during its first season in 2015.
Yankees chief operating officer Lonn Trost said at a news conference Monday he anticipated the upper deck would be closed off, leaving capacity at 33,444, down from the ballpark's baseball capacity of 49,642.
Trost said it will take three days to convert field from baseball to soccer, although in a rush it could be cut to 2 1/2, and the same amount of time to switch it back. The pitcher's mound will be removed each time with a claw-like structure, stored and replaced.
The soccer field, which runs from the first-base dugout to left field, will be 110 by 70 yards, slightly shorter and narrower than the preferred 115-by-74 yards. NYCFC is working on plans to build a permanent soccer-specific home in New York City and hasn't given a timetable for how long it will play at Yankee Stadium.
Retired Yankees closer Mariano Rivera attended the news conference in his role as NYCFC's first season-ticket holder.
NYCFC, co-owned by Manchester City and the Yankees, joins MLS next year along with Orlando as the league expands to 21 teams. Atlanta joins the league in 2017 and David Beckham has been given a Miami team that starts play at an unspecified date.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil futures declined on Friday to lose more than 6% for the week, as an expected recovery in Libyan production and increases in weekly U.S. distillate and gasoline supplies helped push prices to their lowest settlement in a month.
The price pressures outweighed support from a much bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. crude supplies.
February crude oil CLG4, +0.00% fell $1.48, or 1.6%, to settle at $93.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures prices were down 6.3% from last week's close and they settled at their lowest since Dec. 2, according to FactSet data tracking the most-active contracts.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Friday said crude supplies decreased by 7 million barrels for the week ended Dec. 27. Analysts polled by Platts were looking for a fall of 1.5 million barrels, while the American Petroleum Institute late Tuesday reported a drop of 5.7 million.
Crude briefly tried to rally on the "seemingly bullish" EIA report, said Matt Smith, author of energy and financial-market newsletter The Daily Distillation.
"But given the near-4 million barrel draw from the Gulf Coast, it would appear end-of-year destocking has something to do with this," Smith said in emailed comments. "Combine this with builds to both distillates and gasoline and this report is much less bullish than what first meets the eye."
Distillate stockpiles, which include heating oil, rose 5 million barrels, while gasoline supplies rose 800,000 barrels, the EIA said. Distillate supplies were seen up 600,000 barrels, and gasoline stockpiles were expected to climb 2 million barrels, according to the Platts poll.
Against that backdrop, February gasoline US:RBG4 shed nearly 5 cents, or 1.7%, to $2.65 a gallon, down 5.7% for the week. February heating oil US:HOG4 lost almost 5 cents, or 1.6%, to $2.94 a gallon, for a loss of 4.9% on the week.
Selling in the oil market accelerated into the close "as the bearish global news of Libyan [crude] flows returning have been compounded by a bearish domestic inventory report, especially for the [petroleum] products," said Smith.
Libya's National Oil Corp. said Thursday a major oil field would resume production within two to three days after protesters agreed to end a monthslong blockage. Libya's oil output has slumped since July, when protesters stopped work at many of the country's major oil facilities.
On Thursday, Nymex oil prices plunged $2.98, or 3%, to settle at $95.44 a barrel on Nymex. It was the sharpest one-day decline since Nov. 6, 2012.
"Libya still needs to reopen some oil export terminals and follow through on ramping up actual production, but for now it looks as though the production trend is up," Tim Evans, an energy analyst for Citi Futures wrote in a recent note, seeing the global oil market as "relatively well supplied, particularly over the first half of the year."
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On ICE Futures Friday, February Brent crude LCOG4, -0.06% the European benchmark crude oil, fell 89 cents, or 0.8%, to $106.89 a barrel, down about 4.7% for the week.
Back on Nymex, natural gas for February delivery US:NGG14 fell almost 2 cents, or 0.4%, to $4.30 per million British thermal units. The February contract lost 1.5% from the level it closed at a week ago.
It was a volatile trading day for natural gas. Prices had been in negative territory early Friday, then briefly added to its losses after the EIA reported a smaller-than-expected decline in supplies, before reversing to the upside then falling by the close.
The EIA said supplies of natural gas fell 97 billion cubic feet for the week ended Dec. 27. Analysts were looking for a decline of 116 billion cubic feet to 120 billion cubic feet, according to a survey conducted by Platts.
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This year they have more to be thankful than ever before, as Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed their baby girl Blue Ivy into the world in January.
And the Crazy in Love singer, 31, decided to share her and 42-year-old Jay-Z's joy with her fans by tweeting a couple of gorgeous shots of them with the beautiful child.
The proud mother uploaded a picture of her kissing Blue's forehead to her website.
Mother and daughter were both appropriately glad in blue, and the darling girl's face was protected from too much scrutiny as she faced away from the camera.
She also added another artistic vignette showing her rapper husband carrying the precious cargo through what appeared to an orchard.
A black and white treatment was used for this one, and you could just make out Blue's face in the distance.
The former Destiny's Child star also posted a Thanksgiving message to her fans, which started: 'From my family to yours.'
But it's not just the three of them.
Her sister Solange Knowles recently spoke about the family's close bond.
She said her eight-year-old son Julez with ex-husband Daniel Smith is like a sibling to little Blue.
Solange told New York Magazine: 'Blue comes over, I babysit. Beyonce takes Julez sometimes for the weekend. Blue and Julez are going to grow up more like sister and brother than cousins.'
Beyonce has had a fairly low-key year following Blue's birth but she's set to return to the spotlight in a big way when she performs at the Superbowl next February.
The star and husband Jay-Z were spotted at the Brooklyn Nets basketball game in New York together on Friday.
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Mayor Don Wesely is one of eight mayors who will participate in the 27th meeting of the Mayors' Institute on City Design April 26 through 28 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The Mayors' Institute on City Design is an award-winning program which works to ensure that design issues are addressed in the formulation of public policy in American cities. The leadership initiative was established by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986 and is carried out in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Architectural Foundation.
The mayors will present case studies from their own cities and will work with a resource team of design professionals in examining a broad range of design issues that arise from those studies.
"I look forward to working with design and development experts on issues specifically related to Lincoln and its growth, especially the Antelope Valley Project," Mayor Wesely said. "I expect to return with more ideas on how we can best shape our city's future."


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As expected, Budget 2017 shows the Government's books are very healthy.
Also as expected, the Government has chosen to lift the income tax thresholds.
However, there remains a streak of conservatism, particularly in the focus on long-term debt reduction.
Since starting out in 1997 as an economist, it's fair to say Nick has seen a few hair-raising moments over the years, including the Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis.
One of Nick's strengths is his ability to communicate complex ideas in a readily understandable and entertaining way. He thrives on helping people understand the economic environment to help enrich the quality of their business or personal life. He's proud to lead a team that has won two Forecast Accuracy Awards from Consensus Economics, and has a strong track record with their Official Cash Rate and dairy price forecasts.
Nick grew up in Christchurch and graduated with a Master of Commerce degree from the University of Canterbury. He learned his economic ropes at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand before a long stint as a Senior Economist at Westpac, and joined ASB as Chief Economist in 2007.
Originally hailing from sunny Nelson, Jane moved to Auckland to join the ASB team in 2008. As Senior Economist, Jane's main focus is co-ordinating the team's macro-economic forecasts. In this key role, Jane was thrilled by the team's twice consecutive win of the Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy award.
During her decade-long career in economic forecasting, Jane has gained a thorough knowledge of the New Zealand economy. Her current focus is on New Zealand GDP growth, including both manufacturing and the construction sectors. She has spent time forecasting most sectors of the economy, including inflation, trade, housing, labour and financial markets.
Prior to joining ASB, Jane honed her macro-economic forecasting skills at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Jane is a qualified scarfie, attending Otago University and graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics with 1st class honours. In 2014, she took a career break from ASB to travel the world and learn to snowboard.
Daniel has the knack of turning what may appear as a block of random numbers into a story, be it trends in migration and tourism, to consumer spending patterns. In addition to telling the story behind the numbers, Daniel has an ability to estimate what the next economic chapter may be and who stands to gain and lose from it.
He joined ASB after moving to New Zealand from London, where he spent five years analysing Latin American economies for Informa Global Markets. Although New Zealand and South America may appear as quite different economies, there are a surprising number of similarities. Countries such as Chile, Peru and Colombia are small, open economies with free-floating exchange rates, a strong commodity export focus and inflation-targeting central banks, while also dealing with the impact of much larger regional neighbours.
Daniel has also worked in foreign exchange markets for a number of years, including time spent with ABN AMRO and Lloyds Bank. He is the author of a number of ASB reports, including the NZD Barometer and Markets Monthly. When he's not working, Daniel can often be found running, cycling or swimming along the seafront, a novelty after living in London.


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