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From The Files Of July 16, 1992
Southern Fulton School Board, by a vote of seven to two, approved a motion at its July 7 meeting to accept the resignation of secondary prinicpal Gary C.Wenzel effective August 15.
Workmen changed the signs from Exxon to Citgo on Monday as Cameron Lowry officially took over the proprietorship of the longtime McConnellsburg business located at the intersection of Rts. 16 and 30.
The former Murphy's Store property in downtown McConnellsburg has been bought by a Little Orleans, Md., couple who will open a "everything for one dollar type" store within the next six weeks. Judy and Kemp Miller, under the corporate name J.B. Miller Associates Discount Fair, bought the store last week for a reported $65,000 from the bankrupt McCrory Corp., which closed the local store January 31, 1992. The local G.C. Murphy Store, which was a venerable downtown institution, first opened its doors at its location on Lincoln Way East in 1949. It was closed here January 31 of this year when the parent company, Mc- Crory Corp, ran into financial trouble and closed 229 stores nationwide.
Miss Tiffany Martz, 16, daughter of Norman and Pat Hoachlander Martz and a student at McConnellsburg High School, was named Miss Pennsylvania American Coed Hostess at the annual state pageant which was held July 4 at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gordon of Needmore announce the birth of their second child and son, Seth Forrest, July 7, at Washington County Hospital.
Deaths: Kenneth Brown, 81, Huntingdon; Beatrice Karns, 89, Chambersburg; Viola Smith, 69, Hagerstown.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Brett Burger of Fort Littleton on July 3; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Randy Cohenour of Three Springs on June 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Sim Grimes of Everett on June 28.
Lyndora Morris and Jeffrey Seville exchanged wedding vows June 13 at Pleasant Grove Christian Church in Needmore. Parents of the bride are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Morris and parents of the groom are Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Seville, all of Big Cove Tannery.
Marriage licenses: George Valentine, Waynesboro, and Wilma Palmer, Warfordsburg; Perry Mellott, Warfordsburg, and Wendy Witchley, Warfordsburg.
30 Years Ago
From The Files of July 22, 1982
A tractor-trailer driver reportedly looking for Interstate 80, crashed into a shed on the Gerald Bivens farm Saturday night. The driver suffered minor contusions and was charged with reckless driving. He turned onto Cito Road from old Route 30, shearing off the street sign and flattening his tires. He continued down Cito Road on the flat tires and then turned onto the Bivens farm. While attempting to turn his rig round he hit the shed.
Close to 2,000 people attended the firstever Needmore parade last Thursday.
Rumor has it that a pair of bald eagles has been spotted nesting at Lake Raystown.
Specials at the IGA: Campbell's pork and beans, 3 for $1; potatoes, $1.19, 10-lb. bag; tomatoes, 69 cents lb.; ground beef, $1.29 lb.; Chicken of the Sea tuna, 89 cents; Velveeta cheese, $1.69 lb.
Howard Mellott, Forbes Road's 13-yearold track star, has ranked once again in the TFA/USA Track and Field Association National Meet. He placed sixth in the nation with the javelin. He is the son of Ralph and Doretta Mellott of Hustontown.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Montgomery of Three Springs on July 9; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Shimer of McConnellsburg on July 10; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hoffman of Mercersburg on July 11; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Duffey of McConnellsburg on July 12; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Melius of Fort Littleton on July 14; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Seihamer of Mt. Union on July 15.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sipes of McConnellsburg have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Vickie Sipes, to Michael J. Deshong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Deshong of McConnellsburg, on May 22.
Deaths: Dr. Jean Johnston, McConnellsburg; Lola R. Mellott, Warfordsburg; Merrill Cook, St. Thomas; George E. Younker, Rochester N.Y.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 3, 1972
The fifth annual Tuscarora Hillclimb will be held on old Route 30 near McConnellsburg on September 16 and 17. The hillcimb is sanctioned by the Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association and is sponsored by the Franklin County Sports Car Club and the Fulton County Jaycees.
The McConnellsburg Lions Club has announced that its members will again collect old eyeglasses for people overseas. These glasses will be fitted by qualified optometrists for persons who are unable to purchase their own.
William L. Mosebey Jr. of Wells Tannery recently completed a three-year tour of duty as economic and commercial attache on the staff at the United States Embassy in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia. He has now returned home and, with his wife, Carolyn, and their children, Tracy and Geoffrey, is enjoying 60 days of leave.
Plans have been finalized for a Jaffa Caravan parade in McConnellsburg on August 5. The Fulton County Shrine Club has arranged for and will be in charge of the parade.
The Bedford Fair will be held this year from August 7 through August 12.
Miss Carol Ann Mellott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Mellott of Needmore, and Percy Wilbur Rock, were married Saturday, June 17, at the Free Brethren Church near McConnellsburg.
Marine Lance Cpl. Stephen M. Truax, who was involved in an automobile accident while home on weekend leave from Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, was transferred on Sunday from the Carlisle Army Hospital to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He suffered a broken jaw and possible shoulder fracture in the accident.
A skillet left on a burner on the kitchen stove caused extensive damage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Shimer on South First Street on Saturday.
Deaths: Edna M. Kerlin, Mercersburg; Mrs. Virgel Hann, Needmore; P. Clarence Mellott, McConnellsburg; Harry Hoch, Mercersburg.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Shannon Wright of Breezewood on July 22; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gaisior of McVeytown on July 26; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Brown of Burnt Cabins on July 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Deshong of Greencastle on July 28.
Wedding vows were exchanged by Melissa Jane Lodge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lodge, and Roger Paul Horton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Horton of Wells Tannery, on July 22.
Mr. and Mrs.Ralph Mellott and sons of Hustontown spent a few days at Niagara Falls and Canada.
Robert House Sr. of Hustontown still remains a patient at Washington County Hospital.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 9, 1962
D.A. Washabaugh III, president of the Fulton Industrial Development
Association, has announced the final approval of a $325,000 low-interest loan from the Small Business Administration, and Mr. Washabaugh has been assured of a loan of $260,000 from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Association to be used for building the New Frederick Tailoring plant in McConnellsburg. Stanley Sagner, president of the company, has requested that an agreement be made ensuring the company that no inducements or offers will be made to solicit other female-employing industries to locate in the community.
William H. Barnhart, 70, Hancock, a Bethel Township resident, was killed almost instantly, and Carl Smith, 43, of Union Township, and his children, Ruth M. Smith, 12, and Roger Lee Smith, 9, were seriously injured in a car accident in Buck Valley caused by foggy weather conditions.
H. Lyle Duffey has been appointed a director of the McConnellsburg Borough School Board to complete the unexpired term of Harry R. Brantner, who has moved to Todd Township. Other board members are D. A. Washabaugh, Kenneth G. Richards, B. Hiley Shimer and Albert G. Diegelman Jr.
A marriage license has been issued to Charlie LeRoy Wible and Zelda McCora Carbaugh, both of McConnellsburg.
Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced bounty payments were paid in Fulton County from June 1961 to June 1962 on 126 gray foxes, 109 red foxes and 10 great horned owls, totalling $990.
Local doctors are expecting a widespread outbreak of Asian flu this winter and immunization shots are advised. The Public Health Service blamed up to 20,000 deaths on Asian flu and its side effects last winter.
A Japanese beetle contest is under way in the county with 60,000 beetles collected to date. The Farm Women Society and the two local banks are sponsoring the contest.
Applications for a postmaster at Needmore are being accepted by the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
John Carbaugh, 79, of Big Cove Tannery and Mrs. Lil Locke, 77, of Shade Gap, both fell on Friday and are patients in Chambersburg Hospital with broken hips.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Terry McKee, Warfordsburg, on August 2; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wible, McConnellsburg, on August 2; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilkie Mellott, Harrisonville, on August 3; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bennett, Mercersburg, on August 3; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Varner, Shippensburg, on August 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carlin, Burnt Cabins, on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Grissinger, Hustontown, on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Doyle, McConnellsburg, on August 4; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Souders, Warfordsburg, on Aug. 4.
Marlin M. Lynch, Warfordsburg, is serving with the USAF at Chanute AFB, Ill.
The opening of The Wonder Shoppe at 126 Lincoln Way West, a ladies and children's clothing store, is announced.
Deaths: Mrs. Martha B. Henry, Clear Ridge; Lemual H. Hendershot, Clear Spring, Md., formerly of Warfordsburg; Mrs. Claude Stenger, McConnellsburg; Mary Lou Ramsey, newborn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ramsey of Hustontown; Frank William Barkman, Coral Gables, Fla., formerly of Crystal Spring.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 7, 1952
After polio tests at Chambersburg
Hospital last Friday proved negative, Larry, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Black of McConnellsburg, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday for observation.
John Allen Hollenshead, son of Rev. and Mrs. David Hollenshead of Needmore, who received his B.S. degree from Shippensburg this year, is attending Penn State this summer, working towards a master's degree.
McConnellsburg has a mystery on its hands! Last Thursday, Leslie Harr and Joe Doyle were digging a hole for a septic tank on the Mason property, about 75 feet behind the Mason home, and they discovered two skeletons. Pieces of rotted wood near one skeleton indicate it was interred in a casket, but it is believed the other was not. One puzzling fact is that they were buried in a north-south direction: today, all bodies are interred in an east-west direction. The bones are now being studied by Dr. E.H. MacKinlay and Dr. W.E.B. Hall.
Robert, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Eisman of Waterfall, received concussion, possible skull fracture, lacerations of the head, a puncture wound of the heel, body bruises and moderate shock on Monday evening when he fell from a moving automobile. He is a patient in the Medical Center.
General Douglas MacArthur turned his back on soldiering and politics last Thursday to begin a new career as chairman of Remington-Rand, a $225-million-a-year industrial corporation.
Charles Palmer, 24-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Palmer of Warfordsburg, is a patient in Harrisburg Hospital, suffering from polio. He is the father of two children.
Redith Fix, 10, and Robert Truax, 9, two other polio victims, have retuned home from Harrisburg Hospital.
A former Fulton County man, Cloyd Z. Watkins, 56, was found dead last Tuesday in the yard at his home at Broad Top City. He died of a heart attack.
Births: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bain of Big Cove Tannery on July 31; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Ford of Wells Tannery on August 4.
The postmaster vacancy in McConnellsburg, temporarily being filled by Robert Raker, will be filled by an open competitive examination.
Eston Paylor and Beulah Bivens were married August 2.
Willis F. Doyle and Lela June Pittman were wed June 4
Deaths: Mrs. Minnie A. Barton Wink of McConnellsburg; Berkeley Sipes of Hustontown; Samuel Robert Wilson of Fort Littleton; David Irvin Winegardner of Hustontown; Foster L. Strait of Manns Choice.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 6, 1942
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin J. Mellott of
Webster Mills have announced the engagement of their daughter, Martha A. Mellott, to Harold Painter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Painter of Philadelphia. The wedding will take place in September.
Death: Mrs. Ross W. Stains of St. Thomas.
Sugar-rationing stamp six and seven are now valid, each worth 2 pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stadler of Silver Spring, Md., announce the birth of a daughter on Wednesday, July 29.
Due to the metal shortage, Pennsyvlania's 1942 license tags will be kept good for 1943 by means of a small metal tab attached to the license.
Joseph H. Hess has been elected to fill the vocational-agriculture vacancy in Bethel Township created by the resignation of G.W. Gienger.
Local IOOF members feted Finlay J. Wible at a buffet luncheon at McLaughlin's Drug Store after the regular meeting last Thursday evening. Finlay left for the Army on Wednesday of this week.
Dean Cooper returned home on Saturday from the Willis Eye Hospital where he had been a patient for 10 days for treatment, and his sister, Thelma, returned home on Monday after undergoing an appendectomy at Chambersburg Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Chesnut moved on Monday to their new home, recently purchased from Sanner Ray.
Recent weddings: Fred Arthur Spancake and Marian Malinda Mellott on July 30; Carl D. Hann and Eunice M. Garland on July 28; Howard L. Sipes and Bonnie Asenath Cutchall on August 1.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 4, 1932
Deaths: Miles L. Hann of Tejunga,
Calif.; David Quinter of Huntingdon; John C. Adams, A Civil War veteran of Hustontown, a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams.
A large barn, with all its contents, was destroyed on what is known as the Chesnut farm in Bethel Township, owned by Willard Litton and tenanted by Theodore Mills. The loss was estimated at $4,000.
Miss Nellie Hays will entertain the village Garden Club at her home here on Friday evening.
Rev. Thomas P. Garland and Mrs. Garland were re-elected as superintendent and matron of the Carversville Christian Orphanage at the annual supper meeting of that institution last Thursday.
A house owned by Henry Miller and tenanted by Roy Schetrompf, Black Oak Ridge, was completely destroyed by fire last week.
The local Odd Girls Club met at Eagle's Eyrie on Friday.
Tom Sloan, Frank Alexander and Walter Woodal, recent graduates of the local high school, will go to Chambersburg on Friday to take the aptitude test for entrance to Penn State.
More than 100 people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. McCoy Truax of Amaranth last Wednesday evening to honor them at a kitchen shower.
Saturday was a lively day in McConnellsburg when the "Bonus Army" passed through town on its march to Washington.
Russell W. Hurly and R. Leona Gable were wed July 27.
McCoy Truax and Julia Bennett were married July 21.
Leonard Fraker and Iva Leota Kelso were wed July 30.
George Herbert Long and Frances Hammers were married on July 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Decker announce the birth of a daughter on Tuesday.
At Harry Johnston's: ladies' silk stockings, 25 cents; men's and boys' dress shirts, 49 cents; ladies' oxfords, $1.98; men's work shoes, $1.75; ladies' house dresses, 49 cents; bathing suits, 50 cents.
William McClain has moved from Robertsdale to his farm at Waterfall.
Frank Thomas of New Grenada has leased a mine from the Rockhill Coal and Iron Co. and is preparing to take out coal.
Eggs that had been going all summer at giveaway prices have taken a jump to 16 cents.
Mrs. Harry Bolinger of New Grenada is quite ill. She ate some ice cream at Six Mile Run and got ptomaine poisoning.
Glen Foster's little 3-year-old daughter of New Grenada severely injured her neck when she fell about 10 feet in her father's barn last week.
At the A&P: brooms, 19 cents; toilet tissue, 6 for 19 cents; Rinso, 19 cents; sliced pineapple, 10 cents; peas or corn, 4 for 25 cents; pink salmon, 3 for 25 cents.
Paul A. Boyer and Valra E. McIntyre were wed July 28.
Mrs. Bruce Miller of Webster Mills advertise minced cucumbers at 10 cents a dozen.
At the Pen-Mar: flour, 12 pounds for 22 cents; grapenuts, 17 cents; Rice Krispies, 9 cents; motor oil, 2 gallons for $1.


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HIV Education in the Military
By Brian Ledford
December 3, 2013
I found this site made by a fellow HIV Positive Marine A Positive Tomorrow and it is a really well made site (might have to get him to give me some site building tips). On his site he has a video called "HIV Education in the Military" where he and his partner have some very valid points about the HIV education Military members are receiving and how HIV effects not just the individual but the whole unit. Please take the time to watch.
He is correct that HIV infections are on the rise in the Military and in main part due to the lack of education the Military offers on HIV. Of course we all got the safety briefs and were told "if you tap it, wrap it", but how much does that really help?
As a whole, HIV is not really talked about that much in the Military except when you are told you are due for a test which was every 2 years while I was in or if you were about to deploy, which is how I found out. I think now it is really important that these subjects be talked about because of the repeal of DADT and the fact that service members are now able to openly serve. Service members in all branches are putting themselves at higher risk of being infected with HIV because nobody wants to talk about it and lay down the facts; and because most service members have the mindset that it could never happen to them. It is that mindset that needs to be changed and the only way of doing that is through education.
When a service member test positive for HIV, it not only effects them but effects their unit as well. It happened to me and my unit right before we were scheduled to deploy. HIV Positive service members are not allowed to deploy to a combat zone right now, even if they have the ability to still perform their job to the best of their ability. These restrictions can mean that a unit is either deploying without essential personal or that they are having to find people to replace that service member at the last minute. This can have a huge negative impact on the unit's readiness and cohesion. It is also harmful to that service member when they all of a sudden can not deploy with their unit and have to face either telling them the truth why they were pulled off the deployment or come up with some kind of story to tell. All of this could be prevented if the Military would step up and start offering better education to service members about the risk of HIV.
Yes service members who test positive for HIV are still allowed to stay on Active Duty and can serve a full 20+ years if they choose to, but they are unable to be assigned to a deployable unit and have many restrictions on where they can be stationed and what jobs they are allowed to do. Not being able to deploy also hurts a service members chances of promotions and advancements because they lack the experiences which others may have. No matter how well they are able to perform their duties they often times get over looked because of their nondeployable status.
HIV education in the Military needs to be revised so that service members are not receiving out of date facts and so they know the true risk of HIV. Those service members who may be at risk for HIV need to take the initiative and talk to their Dr. about PrEP (pre-exposure prohylaxis) and what they can do to keep themselves and others safe so they are able to keep fighting for and defending this great nation of our.
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Colibri Fuchsia Single Travel Hammock with Suspension
- Bed width : 150 cm
- Bed length : 250 cm
- Carrying capacity : 180 kg
- Country of origin : India
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Despite being lightweight, the fabric is extremely strong and dries quickly. In addition, the Colibri travel hammock can double as a practical picnic blanket or sunshade in just a few easy steps.
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Travel hammock for 1 person. Tip: It's most comfortable when lying diagonally – giving your back the best possible support and opening the hammock with your body.
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DEBERT, Guita Grin. The dissolution of adult life and youth as a value. Horiz.antropol. [online]. 2010, vol.5Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0104-7183.
Three intertwined social processes give a special configuration to the dissolution of adult life in contemporary societies. (1) the extension of the age range of the young segment of the population; (2) the creation of new categories to demarcate the later stages of the life cycle 3) the transformation of youth into a commodity, a value that should be attained at any stage of life through the adoption of adequate forms of consumption and lifestyles. Based on how these changes are represented in the media and analyzed in the academic literature, the central argument is that the adulthood acquires different meanings in contemporary Brazilian hierarchical society: when referring to the privileged sectors of our society that figure indicates a "failed consumer" who are incapable of adopting appropriate lifestyles and forms of consumption targeted at ensuring youthfulness; when referring to the poor it indicates a sort of "unattainable fantasy", because the poor are discriminated as individuals unable to reach a stage characterized by maturity, responsibility and commitment.
Keywords : adulthood; life course; life cycle; lifestyles and consumer.


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Baruch College Explores the Ethics of Recovering Assets from the Madoff Scheme
New York, NY, May 9, 2011 — Baruch College's Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity will host the 3rd Seminar in the David Berg Foundation Series on Ethics and Accountability titled The Madoff Clawbacks: Whose Money Is It? on Tuesday May 10 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. This lunch discussion will examine the ethical issues surrounding efforts to recover assets lost by the thousands of victims of Bernard Madoff's colossal Ponzi scheme.
Bernie Madoff left thousands of investors in financial turmoil when he was arrested for his Ponzi scheme on Dec. 11, 2008. While some investors were able to profit by withdrawing their money prior to his arrest, others lost most or all of their funds. Most experts agree that these victims should be allowed to proceed with "clawback" lawsuits, but debate rages over who should be able to recover, from whom, and how much.
Leading the discussion will be The New York Times DealBook blogger and Wayne State University of Law School Professor Peter Henning. Professor Henning graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1985, where he served as a Notes and Comments Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal. He clerked for Chief Judge Murray M. Schwartz of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, was a Senior Attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1991, and a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1991 to 1994. Professor Henning joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty in 1994 where he teaches courses in Corporations, White Collar Crime, Professional Responsibility & the Legal Profession, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Securities Litigation. Additional biographical information for Professor Henning can be found here.
The discussion will be moderated by Seth Lipner, Professor of Law at Baruch College. Professor Lipner is a renowned private arbitrator specializing in investor grievances in the financial services and securities industries. He is a nationally recognized scholar who has achieved multi-dimensional success in education, law and professional writing while representing high net worth investors. Professor Lipner began teaching at Baruch College in 1982 and has served in a collaborative role on three Zicklin AACSB accreditation committees. He has also been involved as Chair of the Zicklin undergraduate curriculum committee for several years.
WHAT: The Madoff Clawbacks: Whose Money Is It?
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10th
From 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Baruch College
Newman Vertical Campus
55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-220
For more information or to obtain press passes, please contact:
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General brewing information, questions and discussion. Topics that do not seem to fit elsewhere.
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dropdowns in recipe creator
i have a couple of hop varieties that are not listed in the dropdowns and i was wondering if there could be an 'other' category created so you can type in your hop variety and list it's alpha percentage?
no big deal if that's a no,but it would be nice
no big deal if that's a no,but it would be nice
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Have you tried clicking on "New" just above the ingredients list? It will bring up a box where you can input info ingredients that are not in the database. Or did I not understand your question?
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The defending NCAA champion Nebraska bowling squad topped the 2013-14 preseason poll conducted by the National Ten Pin Coaches Association released Wednesday.
The Cornhuskers received 19 of the 26 first place votes to tally 744 poll points, well ahead of second-place Vanderbilt, who was last year's national runner-up. NU returns four starters from the national championship team, including All-American and Junior Team USA member Liz Kuhlkin, as they begin their chase a fifth national title since the sport since the NCAA began sponsorship in 2003-04.
Kuhlkin returns as one of the top bowlers in the country after recording a team-high 214.9 average throughout her sophomore season. She had a pinfall average of 219.8 at the 2013 NCAA Championships, earning the NCAA Championship Most Valuable Bowler honors.
Senior Yan Ling also returns for the Huskers, and could be one of the key bowlers as Nebraska looks to repeat as national champions. The senior from Singapore came through in a big way on the season's biggest stage at the NCAA Championships in 2012-13. She finished with a 200.5 average in the NCAA title match.
The Commodores received two first-place votes and had 671 points. Central Missouri, which was No. 1 much of last season, came in third and received three first-place ballots while Arkansas State was fourth after receiving the other two first-place votes. Maryland-Eastern Shore was fifth. Rounding out the Top 10 were Sam Houston State, Fairleigh Dickinson, Wisconsin-Whitewater, Stephen F. Austin and Saint Francis University.
The poll marks the beginning of the 2013-14 NCAA bowling season, as the Huskers opened up practice at the Nebraska East Campus Bowling Facility Monday afternoon. The Huskers' first competition is Nov. 8, when they travel to the Crusader Classic in Valparaiso, Ind.


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text: Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) was one of the towering American military leaders of the first half of the 20th century. After serving as an infantry school instructor, the West Point graduate took charge of the Eighty-second and Twenty-eighth Divisions during World War II. He commanded the Second Corps in the Tunisia and Sicilian campaigns, and as commander of the First Army he was instrumental to the success of the Normandy campaign. Bradley was appointed to head the Veterans Administration after the war, and at the end of his career he became a five-star general and the first-ever chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


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This is the first post in a series taken from Robert Bishop's scholarly essay "Recovering the Doctrine of Creation: A Theological View of Science", which can be downloaded here.
In teaching at an evangelical liberal arts college that holds firmly to the inspiration and authority of Scripture, I find most of my students think the biblical doctrine of creation (DoC) is limited to two points: (1) God created out of nothing (ex nihilo) and (2) God created the world in six days (whatever they think "days" is supposed to mean!). My students are fairly representative of contemporary evangelicals' understanding of the DoC. This contemporary understanding is problematic, however, because it is much narrower than the full doctrine as it was developed by the Patristic fathers. Given that the DoC is perhaps one of the most helpful pieces of theology for thinking about science, it's worthwhile recovering it in all its glory. What follows over the next few parts of this blog is a brief tour through the elements of this amazing doctrine.
Two preliminary comments to get started. First, we have a tendency to cut up doctrines into chunks like the DoC, the doctrine of providence, the doctrine of salvation, the doctrine of eschatology, etc. Nevertheless, we need to realize that this is somewhat artificial on our part as we strive to understand one grand doctrine of God and His activity. All of these doctrines interpenetrate and inform each other as can be seen in what follows (e.g. much of God's ongoing work of creation is continuous with His providence in creation; likewise, if God hadn't created, there would be no providence, salvation or sanctification).
Second, all of the elements composing the DoC have been hard fought, won and then lost over and over in the history of Christian thought. If many of the following elements seem surprising or new to you, that's largely because since the eighteenth century the DoC has suffered significant decline such that contemporary Christians usually only have a very atrophied version of the doctrine in mind when they think about creation, God's work in creation, and science.1
Creator/Creature Distinction
Let's start with the creator/creature distinction, something that is familiar to us and that we recognize as part of the DoC when we think about it. This distinction actually has some important yet often missed implications. For example, the distinction implies that God intends for creation to be something different from rather than similar to Him. God didn't make creation with the same infinite being or nature as Himself. Creation's being distinct from God implies it is to be distinctly itself, literally to become uniquely what God calls it to be in Christ.
Moreover, the creator/creature distinction implies that all of creation is valued—it has the kind of nature and functionality God intended it to have. After all, "God saw all that he had made and it was very good" (Gen. 1:31), is a proclamation of His valuing all of creation. The Hebrew term in Genesis 1 and 2, tob, often translated as "good," has a variety of meanings in different contexts including moral goodness and craftsmanship. However, it is commonly used in the OT in the sense of functioning properly. For example, "It is not good [tob] for the human [adam] to be alone, I shall make him a sustainer beside him" (Gen. 2:18). The man isn't fully functioning without a sustainer appropriate to his created nature. So the repeating refrains of "good" in Genesis 1 and 2 primarily mean value, as in properly functioning or working as intended, fulfilling assigned purposes. From the beginning, God is telling us that creation does—and will do—what He intends.
Moreover, we see God's valuation of creation especially in Jesus' incarnation: what higher affirmation could there be of the value of the material order than the second person of the Trinity taking on the material nature of creation and inhabiting its order, an order that Jesus Himself established and blessed in the beginning?
A final implication of the creator/creature distinction is that creation has what theologians call contingent rationality. Creation is contingent in two senses: (1) it is utterly dependent on God such that if Christ ceased sustaining creation it would disappear instantly and (2) God could have made any kind of creation He wanted but chose to make this particular creation. God didn't need or have to create anything. He was under no compulsion or necessity. Rather, being a loving communion of three persons, out of the overflow of that love God brought into existence a particular kind of creation for His glory and for its own sake. Furthermore, creation has its own rationality, its own particular order, structure and functionality, which is at least partially intelligible to us.
The creator/creature distinction has implications for science as well. First, since creation is so valuable to God, its study is a worthwhile human activity. Second, the contingent rationality of the created order is what science seeks to uncover and understand (whether or not scientists realize that both this order and its intelligibility are good gifts from God).
Ex Nihilo Creation
That creation was made ex nihilo—literally out of absolute nothing—is implied by the creator/creature distinction. The Patristic fathers inferred the ex nihilo nature of creation from this distinction and various passages like John 1:1-3, 1 Cor. 8:6, Col. 1:16, Heb. 11:3, Rev. 4:11 in their struggle with ancient Greek natural philosophy (the latter maintained that matter was eternal). This element of the DoC was not easy to achieve and required the Patristics to "think away" what was false from the Greek philosophical ideas that so permeated their world and their education.
The theological significance of ex nihilo creation is hard to overestimate. For one thing it protects God's sovereignty showing us that all things in creation are subject to Him. Moreover, it distinguishes God's creative activity from all other religious creation stories. There is no pre-existent matter giving rise to divinities as in the other ancient Near East creation accounts. Creation is pictured as originating in covenantal love (Jer. 33:25) rather than conflicts among deities. God is never once seen to be struggling to shape recalcitrant matter (a constant theme in other ancient Near East creation accounts).
Another important implication of ex nihilo creation is that there can be no creation out of nothing without purpose. Creation was no accident on God's part. He has reasons for what He's doing, one of which is for creation to become what God destines it to be in Christ (more in part 3).
Finally, a creation made out of nothing is particularly fragile! Its tendency is to always fall back into nothing meaning that creation requires God's constant preserving care. Here, there is a clear connection between God's creating out of nothing and His general providence sustaining the being and order of creation.
Sovereignty in Creation
God's sovereignty in creation contrasts with all the ancient creation myths and cosmologies, where divinities are always struggling with each other and with recalcitrant matter. Instead, the Bible pictures God as in control of all things: "See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power and his arm rules for Him" (Is. 40:10a), "He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in" (Is. 40:22b), and
Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all (I Chron. 29: 11-12a).
From Genesis 1 to Revelations 22, God is king and ruler over all! One of the most relevant implications of this for thinking about science: God rules over all natural processes! Therefore, anything a scientist says about processes in creation can only be describing something that is sustained by God and subject to His sovereignty.
1. Although not his main theme, James Turner's masterful history, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, Johns Hopkins University Press (1986), reveals much of the DoC's decline during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


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Whether you are still basking in the success you enjoyed in cruising
to your fantasy league's title, still smarting over your teams'
inability to close the deal in your fantasy postseason or just
aren't ready to hang up your owner's hat quite yet, playoff fantasy
football may be just the thing you need to end this season right.
I'll be the first to admit that playoff fantasy football doesn't
appeal to me quite as much as the usual 16-week animal, but that
doesn't mean I don't still enjoy it. And coming off my most profitable
fantasy season yet, I'm looking to make a great season even better.
For better or for worse, I want to share my experience with you
(no matter which category mentioned in the first paragraph you
may fall under) in hopes that some of you can end this season
on a definite high note.
For the first time in my "fantasy career", I'll be
taking part in multiple playoff leagues this year. I will compete
in one free league with CBS Sportsline and two money leagues with
Fuzzy's Fantasy Football. My goal over the next four weeks will
be to help each of you through your decision-making process as
you attempt to boost your bottom line.
Offensive Statistics
All TDs = 6 points
Passing Yards - 1 point for every 25 yards
Rushing/Receiving Yards - 1 point for every 10 yards
Two-point conversion = 2 points
Interception - 2 points
Fumble Lost - 2 points
Field Goals 0-49 yards = 3 points; 50+ yards = 5 points
Extra Point = 1 point
Defensive/Special Teams Statistics
Touchdown = 6 points;
Safety = 2 points
Interception = 2 point
Fumble Recovery = 2 points
Sack = 1 point
Points Allowed
0-6 = 8 points
7-13 = 6 points
14-20 = 4 points
21-27 = 2 points
28+ = 0 points
Yards Allowed
0-49 = 12 points
50-99 = 10 points
100-149 = 8 points
150-199 = 6 points
200-249 = 4 points
250-299 = 2 points
300+ = 0 points
The Rules
Choose a starting lineup of eight NFL players. You will have
300 units (or salary cap dollars) to "spend" assembling
your team. You will be able to change your lineup, without penalty,
until the lineup setting deadline for the Wild Card Playoff Round.
Once your lineup locks for the Wild Card Playoff Round, you will
have eight lineup moves to make for the remainder of the postseason.
You may use as many of the moves allotted in any round as you
would like, however, you will not be able to exceed the eight
moves allotted for the remainder of the postseason. In case
there was any doubt, the number listed by each player is their
"cap number".
What this means for you: Pick
as many winners (team, not individual) as you can for your lineup
this week. For the most part, it's not good strategy to use any
more than three players from any one team simply because an upset
or two can severely hamper your ability to make roster moves later.
Of course, you are also trying to score the most points each week,
so there is a delicate balance between the present and the future.
Generally speaking, if you can get at least four players on your
Wild Card week roster that you would be willing to keep on your
roster all the way through to the Super Bowl, you'll probably
be in good shape. Ideally, I'll need about three roster moves
next week, two for the AFC and NFC Championship Games and the
last three for the Super Bowl. But at least for this week, the
goal is to get the highest-scoring lineup out there that the cap
will allow and contemplate the future when this week's games are
Position Requirements: 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 K,
1 Defense/Special Teams
Aaron Rodgers, @ARI 90
Tom Brady, vs BAL 76
Tony Romo, vs PHI 72
Donovan McNabb, @DAL 64
Kurt Warner, QB GB 63
Carson Palmer, vs NYJ 60
Joe Flacco, @NE 58
Mark Sanchez, @CIN 36
First cuts: Rodgers, Brady,
McNabb, Palmer, Flacco, Sanchez
The final choices: Romo, Warner
The call: Warner. In this salary
cap format, budgeting at certain positions is the name of the
game. Right now, it wouldn't shock me if Aaron Rodgers is the
unanimous QB1 in fantasy drafts in 2010. At the very least, he's
done enough to join the elite at his position (Peyton Manning,
Brady, Drew Brees). He is a scoring threat on the ground and through
the air, he does a great job of limiting turnovers and he doesn't
miss games, but his price tag is roughly 30% of my budget - a
pretty sizeable chunk of change and too much for an owner who
wants big scoring potential at more than 2-3 positions. Brady
may have been a consideration, but the loss of Wes Welker pretty
well scares me away. McNabb has one total TD in two games vs.
the Cowboys this season and has been far from a yardage machine
in those two meetings. You can forget the bottom three players
on this list: the Bengals don't seem all that interested in using
Palmer unless they need a fourth-quarter comeback, Flacco has
thrown for less than 200 yards in six of his last 10 games and
Sanchez may not even attempt 20 throws this weekend. So, in a
fairly close call, I'll opt for Warner over Romo as I believe
the Cardinals will have a harder time running the ball consistently
vs. Green Bay than they have in recent weeks. I think Romo's ceiling
this weekend is about 250 yards and two scores - totals which
should be fairly easy to reach for Warner, with or without a hobbled
Anquan Boldin. In this year's wide-open Super Bowl chase, I may
be tempted to stick with Warner for as long as the Cardinals remain
in the playoffs (to save on roster moves) because he's a great
bet to be productive and he's going to be cheaper than Romo or
any of the QBs on a bye this week.
Running Backs
Ray Rice, @NE 56
Thomas Jones, @CIN 50
Cedric Benson, vs NYJ 48
Ryan Grant, @ARI 47
Marion Barber, vs PHI 34
Wells, vs GB 33
Laurence Maroney, vs BAL 31
Tim Hightower, vs GB 28
LeSean McCoy, @DAL 28
Willis McGahee, @NE 26
Kevin Faulk, vs BAL 19
Felix Jones, vs PHI 19
Leonard Weaver, @DAL 17
Tashard Choice, vs PHI 16
Larry Johnson, NYJ 14
Sammy Morris, vs BAL 14
Brian Westbrook, @DAL 13
Shonn Greene, @CIN 13
First cuts: Benson, Maroney,
Hightower, McCoy, McGahee, Bell, Faulk, Weaver, Choice, Brown,
Johnson, Morris, Westbrook, Greene
The final choices: (RB1) Rice,
Thomas Jones, Grant (RB2) Barber, Wells, Felix Jones
Jones: A lock for 20+ carries.
The RB2 call: Beanie Wells.
Typically, during a normal 16-week fantasy season, I play the
matchups and count on yards from my players and hope for TDs.
In playoff leagues, we are often not lucky enough to have an every-down
RB face a bottom-10 run defense. Therefore, it is fairly good
strategy in playoff leagues to aim for backs that are good bets
to score and hope for the best with yardage totals. Also, with
the 300-unit salary cap, there's a fairly good chance that an
owner in this kind of league setup will have to enter this week
with at least one halfway risky option. In a non-PPR scoring system
like this league is, I'll take that risk with a RB like Wells
who plays in a top-notch offense which has allowed him to steal
more and more carries lately while also getting a few cracks at
the end zone from time to time. While Felix Jones has been getting
more work leading up to the playoffs, his scoring opportunities
come only when he breaks long runs, something I don't like to
bet on happening all that often.
The RB1 call: Thomas Jones.
As much as I like Rice, he has scored only once since Week 10
(vs. Detroit) and I don't benefit nearly as much in this league
from his work in the passing game as I would in a PPR setup. So
my choice comes down to two fairly similar fantasy RBs: Jones
and Grant. Jones hasn't seen fewer than 19 touches since Leon
Washington's injury while Grant's usage can be very inconsistent,
often depending on the quality of the opponent's run defense.
Wide Receivers
Randy Moss, vs BAL 47
Miles Austin, vs PHI 45
DeSean Jackson, @DAL 44
Larry Fitzgerald, vs GB 43
Chad Ochocinco, vs NYJ 37
Derrick Mason, @NE 34
Greg Jennings, @ARI 33
Donald Driver, @ARI 32
Anquan Boldin, vs GB 30
Roy Williams,
vs PHI 24
Jerricho Cotchery, @CIN 23
Jeremy Maclin, @DAL 23
Braylon Edwards, @CIN 21
Steve Breaston, vs GB 21
Laveranues Coles, vs NYJ 19
Jason Avant, @ DAL 18
Patrick Crayton, vs PHI 18
James Jones,
Andre Caldwell, vs NYJ 14
Mark Clayton, @NE 14
First cuts: Jackson, Ochocinco,
Mason, Jennings, Driver, Boldin, Jones, Caldwell, Clayton, Williams,
Cotchery, Maclin, Edwards, Coles, Avant, Crayton
The final choices: Moss, Austin,
Fitzgerald, Breaston
Austin: He catches the ball.
The WR2 call: Austin. What
kind of year is it when a WR has five catches for 81 yards and
a score through a quarter of the season in a reserve role only
to use the next 12 games to end up with a salary cap number higher
than Fitzgerald? Part of that answer lies in his recent target
numbers (which look much like a six-week line Fitzgerald would
post): 11, 12, 8, 13, 10 and 8. Unlike the starting WR opposite
him (Williams), when Romo throws the ball in Austin's direction,
the ball usually stays in his hands. The breakout WR's worst
game over that time (catch and yardage-wise) was a six-reception,
71-yard performance vs. SD in Week 14. While it's safe to never
bet against Boldin playing through an injury, that should be the
very reason why owners should not choose him or Breaston this
week. Long story short, a fantasy bargain like Breaston isn't
a bargain if you don't know if he's going to start,
keep his usual WR3 role or something in between.
The WR1 call: Fitzgerald. I
was leaning in this direction even before I knew of Arizona's
playoff matchup and felt even better about it after learning that
Boldin would be somewhat limited - if he even plays at all. There
are very few receivers who answer the bell as routinely as Fitzgerald
and he's one of the few receivers in the league who has shown
he can handle the extra defensive attention that often comes with
Boldin's absence. The talk of the Ravens double-teaming Moss this
week will get a lot of talk this week with the Pats minus Wes
Welker, but that was going to happen anyway. I like Moss to be
productive this week, but I expect New England to run a few more
times and use Ben Watson, Julian Edelman and Ben Watson to help
fill the sizeable void left by Welker's season-ending injury.
Tight Ends
Brent Celek, @DAL 32
Jason Witten, vs PHI 24
Todd Heap, @NE 22
Jermichael Finley, @ARI 20
Ben Watson,
vs BAL 16
Dustin Keller, @CIN 15
First cuts: Heap, Watson, Keller
The final choices: Celek, Witten,
The call: Finley. The cat is
pretty much out of the bag on Aaron Rodgers' favorite red zone
target. While he has been an absolute stud in PPR formats since
his return from a knee injury in Week 11, he also been pretty
solid in non-PPR leagues as well. From Weeks 13-16, Finley has
finished each game with 70-80 yards receiving and, in Week 17,
he chipped in one of his four TDs over the last five weeks in
the Packers' blowout win vs. Arizona. It's funny, because opponents
have to know by now that Rodgers will be looking for Finley to
out-jump his defender in the end zone - they just can't do anything
about it. He's much too big for any CB or S to defend and defenses
are leery of putting a LB out wide, especially in the red zone.
While Celek could easily match Finley's overall numbers this week,
he's too pricey for my tastes and Witten just isn't scoring TDs
with any regularity this year, mostly because of Miles Austin.
David Akers, @DAL 34
Mason Crosby, @ARI 30
Stephen Gostkowski, vs BAL 28
Jay Feely, @CIN 26
Shayne Graham, vs NYJ 24
Neil Rackers, vs GB 20
Shaun Suisham, vs PHI 19
First cuts: Crosby, Gostkowski,
Graham, Rackers, Cundiff
The final choices: Akers, Feely,
The call: Suisham. Akers always
seems like a good pick as a fantasy kicker, but much like the
rest of the Eagles' offense, his numbers haven't exactly been
stellar vs. the Cowboys this year and I can't justify such a high
price for a kicker anyway. I feel better about Feely than Suisham,
but my budget doesn't allow for that luxury. Plus, I can't say
with any degree of certainty that the Bengals-Jets game will be
anything more than a 17-14 game anyway. Thus, I'll roll the dice
on Suisham, who will benefit from kicking inside the Cowboys'
fancy stadium and (most importantly) comes cheaper than the other
viable options this week.
vs GB 28
Jets @CIN
vs NYJ 26
vs PHI 23
vs BAL 23
First cuts: Eagles, Cardinals,
Ravens, Patriots
The final choices: Packers,
Jets, Bengals, Cowboys
The call: Cowboys. Much like
kickers, it's often a good idea in salary cap fantasy football
leagues to take the most affordable option that has a good chance
at success in order to leave yourself with as much room under
the cap as possible to splurge on the most likely point producers
at QB, RB and WR. In this case, any owner of the Cowboys' defense
gets to benefit from the fact (cap-wise) that Dallas didn't put
together a full season of the dominant defense it has shown recently.
Following up an impressive effort in New Orleans in Week 15, the
Cowboys have posted consecutive shutouts. I'm not going to predict
another bagel in this rematch vs. the Eagles, but Dallas is playing
arguably the best defense of any team still in the chase for the
Super Bowl. The fact the 'Boys are tied with the Patriots as the
lowest-priced defense in this league is just a bonus. As for the
runners-up, Arizona is just too scary for me to chase the expensive
Packers' defense and both the Jets and Bengals defenses have some
key injuries that scare me a bit. Plus, with both teams running
the ball so much, the likelihood that I'll benefit from some turnovers
is pretty low.
Fuzzy's Playoff Leagues
Fuzzy's playoff format is much more streamlined than Sportsline's.
Fuzzy's uses traditional PPR scoring (all TDs worth six points)
with no salary cap, no limit on roster moves between rounds and
no yards allowed bonuses for the defenses. In short, your goal
is to pick the highest-scoring lineup each week with no strings
attached. The main difference outside of the ones I've already
mentioned is that Fuzzy's leagues contain no more than 50 teams
whereas Sportsline employs a one-man-against-the-world approach.
As a result, 20% of the entrants into Fuzzy's playoff leagues
will - at the very least - recoup their entry fee, with first
through ninth place receiving a nice bonus for their troubles.
Position Requirements: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 K,
1 Defense/Special Teams
(Because the players/matchups are same as they are above, I'll
skip the step of mentioning each player again and get right to
my choices.)
QB: Rodgers. For all the reasons
I mentioned above - he is a scoring threat on the ground and through
the air, he does a great job of limiting turnovers and he doesn't
miss any snaps - I'm going to go with the QB who pretty much performs
regardless of the matchup. While Rodgers was held to 15 fantasy
points or less in two of the last three weeks, both games came
against opponents who could not stop the run. So even though I
recognize that Arizona's run defense has slipped lately, it hasn't
fallen to the depths of Chicago's and Seattle's run defense. Packers
HC Mike McCarthy runs a QB-friendly offense and, quite honestly,
every player eligible to catch a pass from Rodgers is a viable
receiving threat. Without a salary cap to worry about in this
league, I'll opt for 2009's top fantasy QB and expect roughly
275 passing yards, 30 rushing yards and three total TDs.
Rice: A no-brainer in a PPR format.
RBs: Rice and Thomas Jones. In
this league (with no salary cap and PPR scoring), I'd be foolish
not to pick Rice. In Baltimore's game vs. New England back in
Week 4, Rice accounted for five catches and 152 total yards, numbers
that I could see him approaching this weekend as Joe Flacco continues
to fade from his early-season prominence. Jones, on the other
hand, is a much tougher call. With only 10 catches on the season,
the PPR scoring hurts his stock in this format. But this weekend,
there just are not a lot of quality RB options, plus, it's hard
to argue with the fact that Jones has seen at least 19 touches
in every game since Leon Washington went down. Furthermore, Jones
has posted only one single-digit fantasy point performance since
Week 3. Ryan Grant has been just about as consistent, but he is
not the center of the Packers' offense like Jones. Marion Barber
has come on as of late, but he looks to be in a fairly equal committee
with Felix Jones now. Cedric Benson should be rested, but doesn't
score enough for my liking. Lastly, Beanie Wells doesn't inspire
the same confidence in me that Doug does, especially when you consider
the presence of Hightower and how quickly HC Ken Whisenhunt has
pulled any one of his RBs after they have fumbled this season.
WRs: Fitzgerald, Austin and
Moss. I'm going to let my explanations above do the talking for
my first two selections, but the identity of my WR3 will take
a bit more research. The decision ultimately comes down to Moss,
Julian Edelman, Donald Driver and Steve Breaston. My first thought
was Edelman, who many have likened as a Wes Welker clone. While
that isn't exactly untrue, Tom Brady trusts Welker implicitly
and that kind of trust doesn't happen overnight with a rookie
WR who played QB in college. He's going to be a fine WR, but who
do you think Brady will go to when it matters the most? Driver
would be a wonderful, steady choice as well, but much like many
other players, he just doesn't find the end zone enough for my
liking. Breaston is a natural choice if Boldin is unable to go
this week, but his second-half fade has weakened my faith in him,
at least for the rest of this season. In the end, I obligated
to go with Moss for a number of reasons: 1) he's always a threat
for a huge game, 2) he's going to be Brady's favorite target the
rest of the way and 3) Baltimore has been shredded by deep threats
all season long, especially during the second half of the season.
TE: Finley. I am torn between my
new favorite TE and another TE who I didn't rank near as high
as my heart told me I should in the preseason, Brent Celek. Over
the last three weeks, Celek and Finley are ranked 2-3 among TEs
in scoring, respectively, while Finley has the advantage when
the period of time is extended to five weeks. In the end, I'll
lean toward the fact that Arizona is in the top 10 in regards
to allowing the most points to opposing TEs and the fact that
Finley is more of a matchup nightmare than Celek. This could go
either way, but I'll put my chips on Finley this week.
K: Feely. After being Mr. Consistency
prior to the Jets' bye week, Feely has been either way up or way
down since then. Since Week 10 (according to Fuzzy's scoring),
Feely has posted 11, 2, 6, 14, 17, 1, 8 and 13 fantasy points
in succession. Of course, like most defensive teams that run the
ball, the kicker is either going to suffer or benefit based on
the offense's ability to punch it in when they enter the red zone.
There's little chance the Jets put up another 37-point effort
in Cincy this week, but it is a good bet they will stall on the
Bengals' half of the field more often than they score touchdowns.
Feely has a big leg, so unless the weather is horrible, he should
be one of the better - if not the best - option this week at a
highly unpredictable position.
D/ST: Cowboys. I explained my case
for the Cowboys above, but the case for the Dallas defense gets
stronger when you consider how much the Eagles will miss C Jamaal
Jackson against Jay Ratliff, who has quickly become one of the
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to the Cowboys' 20-16 win in Week 9 in which the Cowboys sacked
McNabb three times and picked off two passes. Quite honestly,
I envision a 17-10 type of game and with the way their defense
is playing recently, I have a feeling the Cowboys will be the
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KWinTV: Future Vision
Richard Moore has been
The KWinTV Rewrite
Richard Moore
March 19, 2002
(edited by Dre)
This document is an overview of the changes I have been making to the
I have been hacking at the newly imported KWinTV3 (Qtvision) code,
Current Plans
Channel Wizard
There are a number of obvious improvements that can be made to the
Improved Code-Reuse
I would like to provide a range of ways this code can be used, the things
Wouldn't It Be Nice If...
There are a number of things my ideal TV application would have:
Detailed Changes
I have made various cleanups to the code while I have been working on it,
Main Window
I converted the QMainWindow of the embedded code into a KMainWindow
Most of the basics are now in place and working, so it might even be
Channel File Handling
I have written a generic API for loading and saving channel files. The
The filters currently working are:
The only other formats I see a need for are the XawTV format and the
Channel Wizard
The channel wizard in the embedded version of Qt-Vision could afford to
I have started adding the ability to use the region the user is in to
Developer Documentation
I have put a copy of the
The code is in the KDE cvs in the directory kdenonbeta/kwintv3/ which
This is a great tool that builds a ChangeLog file by analyzing the
The End
Rich get back to work!
I dont want to see anything out of you until you have Xmelegance done!
Although the kickerapplet with my webcam on is tempting too... Time to check out the source and start hacking.
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
It's always good to see roadmaps for applications.
I hope it will remain a true KDE application though, instead of a KDE-enhanced Qt application which QtVision sounds like,
By Rob Kaper at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
What is more impressive is the source backend though, unlike more RFCs we see on the list this one has a formitable amount of code allready there. Even some of the hardest parts are done. It looks like once the backend is complete implementing video frontends should be relitively painless.
just my 2c from the code here...
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
Wow! This is really impressive. This is the kind on thing I really didn't think we would see on Linux for some time - but this looks great!
Keep up the good work.
By AnCow at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
Don't worry, Rob. It's going to be a true KDE app. I've already made that very clear, and I don't think anyone disagrees. The reason it was called QtVision was that I originally made it with qt-e. The design was "close" to what we wanted for the kwintv rewrite so we decided to use it for an experiment, to see how to evolved as we brought it up to the desired kwintv structure. So far it's going quite well, and within a month, we hope to use these pieces to assemble the new kwintv.
In addition, there are 3 other developers. Mortiz Wenk, original author of kwintv, has joined us and I expect we'll start seeing commits from him soon. Michael Reiher and Stefan Hellwig also expressed interest in working on this rewrite.
At least Michael and I have very little time until the beginning of May, so I expect that development will pick up to an even quicker pace then. Hopefully we can start releasing functional "betas" starting this summer.
By George Staikos at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
Where can I find QtVision?
By Raphael Wegmann at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: Rich get back to work!
It's not a useful application, sorry. You could check out the code from kde cvs and revert back to the initial checkin, then build it inside qt-embedded. But basically it barely works. It only does grab+blt (no overlay) and it doesn't work well for scanning channels etc. I don't recommend wasting time trying to use it unless you want to finish developing it. :)
By George Staikos at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
tv out?
very cool.
By anony at Wed, 2002/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: tv out?
This is a TV-in, camera-in application. TV-out is a whole different game. Sorry...
By George Staikos at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: tv out?
A bit off-topic, it would be soooooo nice to be able to enable TV-out without restarting X. Can it be done somehow using a Nvidia card?
By Ciryon at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: tv out?
como configurare trabalhar com tv out ?
agradecia que me mandasse um tutorial
By rui at Sun, 2004/01/04 - 6:00am
Small mistake in the report
It seems there is a small error in the links to screenshots. The 2 Channel Wizard links go to http://www.kde.com/dot/kwintv/new-channel-wiz2.png and the first one had to point to http://www.kde.com/dot/kwintv/new-channel-wiz.png
By Andy Goossens at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: Small mistake in the report
fixed. thanks.
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Teletext/videotext features
does anyone of you know AleVT?
Features I've come to appreciate:
- caching of pages, also for multi-pages
By cm at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: Teletext/videotext features
I suspect we will use something like this for our teletext/videotext/closed captioning support. I haven't tried it so I don't know exactly what it can do, but we'll be sure to look soon.
By George Staikos at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Reg. Teletext
Dear All,
Can anyone help me to know the difference between teletext, videotext and closed captioning. And I also want to know the format and transmission of Super Teletext. Please help me.
Thanks And Regards,
By Anand at Thu, 2003/03/20 - 6:00am
Why KWinTV?
Why is it called KWinTV and not just something like KTV? Isn't this kind of close to WinTV, a copyrighted program? Also the Win part just makes it sound like we are just copying some Windows based program.
Sorry to nitpick. Just my two cents.
By adam at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: Why KWinTV?
You would have to ask Moritz Wenk that. He wrote the original one. I think it was called "ktv" at one time too. I don't know....
I just took over maintenance for a while. :)
Regardless, I don't think Hauppauge would complain. For one, this is positive advertising for them since it makes their brand name more popular (and they do nothing on the linux front).
For two, KWinTV is a TV application that runs under KWin so I think we're ok too. :) But I'm not about to test something like this in court.
By George Staikos at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: Why KWinTV?
Good point, using "win" isn't a good idea. But why post an article over somenting like a name?
By Adam at Wed, 2002/03/27 - 6:00am
mabey i've been smoking to much crack
How about a program that with the help of a TV program listing would determine what shows you watch on a regular basis and then automaticly searches through up comming shows and notifies you when something you might be interested in watching is on.
By adam at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: mabey i've been smoking to much crack
Well I don't think this functionality belongs inside kwintv, but I do want to have at least 2-3 different plugin points. I'm considering plugins for input (like IR remote), and for channels (listings, etc, and for other channel file formats). This would make an interesting plugin.
By George Staikos at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: mabey i've been smoking to much crack
KWinTV is one of my favorite apps on KDE, implementing the mentioned features will make it a Killer app. It will be a murderous app when the device plug-in architecture allows for video streams to come from file (like Aktion,MPlayer) and also from WebCams and even better DV-out devices on firewire ports (like Kino). Is the framework flexible enough to handle this? (Rename the app to get rid of the Win as well as the TV bit and call it KScreamer!)
Does KDE have a generic codec repository, etc?
By Rob Olsthoorn at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: mabey i've been smoking to much crack
You mean like digiguide (www.digiguide.com)?
I wouldn't want this bound to a TVcard app - it's part of my life scheduling
-- Peter
By Peter Jones at Sun, 2002/03/24 - 6:00am
nice work :-)
nice work, best of luck in to future. you might consider taking a look at gstreamer at some point in time (sooner rather than later would probably be more useful :-) because some features would be really nice to have -- for instance, a togglebutton that would turn on 'capture' or recording for what's on the screen, etc. such changes would be relatively painless to implement with gstreamer. ronald bultje has done some interesting work with gst-record in gstreamer cvs -- http://gstreamer.net/cvs/ -- while it's written in gtk, the backend stuff is toolkit-independent.
just a thought. best of luck with this project.
By andy wingo at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
ummmm.... no
the best thing to do would be to see if arts can do it allready.
i know it can record audio allready, i also know that there are developers working on better video support. we dont need to keep re-inventing the wheel when we allready have a good start. afaik captureing the video is very easy with the v4l api, it is compressing the bugger into an mpeg or avi that is the painful part. i am sure one could use a pipe to an exsiting encoder to do this but i am not sure about the details.
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: ummmm.... no
We will definitely use some sort of backend for video capture. The old code made this somewhat difficult to do well, but we have a better design for the new code. I suspect we will again use plugins for this kind of thing, so that we could implement various backends such as gstreamer, ffmpeg (another much requested backend), arts, etc.
It doesn't make sense to write compression/encoding backends anymore. I think this much is pretty obvious.
As for storing stills, Qt does a nice job so I think we'll stick with that.
By George Staikos at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: ummmm.... no
Hi George,
Just to offer a bit of perspective, GStreamer actually wouldn't be all that useful as an output plugin. It's more of a way to make an application; the v4l stuff would then be internal to the gstreamer pipeline. Your Qt widget would actually embed an XWindow provided by a gstreamer element for the video, and you could even output sound to artsd if you like. But there's no real way to insert video that your app already has internally to a gstreamer pipeline. It's better to keep it all in gstreamer in the first place.
Also, GStreamer doesn't offer any new codecs (other than i guess tarkin, which other projects haven't picked up yet -- it's not exactly usable at this point though :) -- it's a framework. we have elements for ffmpeg, mpeg1 and 2, open quicktime, dv, mjpeg, rtjpeg, everything supported by avifile, and that's just on the video side of things.
You could still offer the ability to choose output and encoding methods with GStreamer, rather easily i might add, but it should probably remain internal to a GStreamer pipeline.
best regards,
By andy wingo at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: ummmm.... no
We will not be making an application that requires other applications in order to work. I dont' have gstreamer... and I don't want it. Why should I have to have it in order to use kwintv? V4L is all of a few thousand lines of code for full support anyways.
By George Staikos at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: ummmm.... no
i'd have left the thread as is a while ago, but misconceptions keep popping up -- gstreamer is not an application.
it's a library that can be used to make applications. your situation is another example of the 'why should my app have to depend on anything at all' problem -- one just has to assess the advantages and disadvantages of lib dependencies versus wheel reinvention. i'm sure that your v4l stuff works great, that's not in doubt. gettting back to my initial post, i just said that if you wanted an extensible solution, for instance for easy pvr behavior, you might want to look at gstreamer. that's all.
By andy wingo at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: ummmm.... no
you've expressed a preference for arts, which is of course fine. the technical, let's-not-reinvent-the-wheel part of your argument is, however invalid i think; it is gstreamer that has the wheel made, and arts that is remaking it. the storage and compression of the video stream is a solved problem, and you'll find that raw video requires much more metadata than pipes easily allow for.
choosing some other solution might be perfectly valid, but not for the reasons you have given, other than any existing integration of some other system with the app.
cheers, wingo.
By andy wingo at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Hey, my name here?
v4l capturing is easy :-). See the v4l API docs.
The point in video capturing is indeed the encoding to as many formats as wanted and all that. That's the hard part. That's why I chose to use gstreamer as my framework, because they offer a complete solution to this. You don't need to use gstreamer for capturing per sé, but it'd probably be a good idea to at least don't reinvent the wheel for encoding. I hope artsd (this will be your media framework?) or kWinTV will not try to reinvent a complete framework for capturing to as many formats as possible etc, that's exactly what gstreamer's core is trying to do (and they're doing a pretty good job). It's independent of Gtk, Gnome and everything else, so... I hope there can be cooperation, it'd definately be a good thing. Try looking at gstreamer, it's worth at least a read :-).
B.t.w., do you guys have a kwintv chat/mailinglist somewhere for discussions?
That's hard. The more formats you're gonna support, the more annoyed you'll get because of the differences between the encoders and all the work required for this, which is exactly why you should give gstreamer a chance, it solves this problem.
About kWinTV as such: nice job, especially the device selection and channel detection part (from the shots I saw), exactly what I wanted gst-recorder to do as well (it's still under development, some parts are there, some aren't). That's how good applications are supposed to work!
By Ronald Bultje at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: no?
I've tried different programs to record video, but everything i found was not useable at all (too slow, no a/v-sync, lost frames, own fileformat, ...)
So if this is helpfull for this porject, you can get it at
By Christian Tusche at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: no?
that's what gstreamer does too ;-)
By Ronald Bultje at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
More information can be found here:
If you want more information, you can look on these sites...
If you have questions about the rewrite, please forward them to the kwintv mailing list so that the other developers can see them too.
By George Staikos at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
What about OSD - menue for remote control via ir
I'd like to see a nice OSD menue overlayed the tv-frame to select a channel or some options from KWinTV with a remote control. Every good tv-set has such a menue so why not KWinTV.
See the images on this site to understand what i mean:
Regards buhzi
By buhzi at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: What about OSD - menue for remote control via ir
That's on our TODO list already.
By George Staikos at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
only TV window
By Milan Svoboda at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: only TV window
That's why we included the option to turn all the decorations on and off (there's a single 'hide all the fluff' option). Allowing you to specify the window position is possible already using the commandline switches, but I agree having this in the config file too makes sense.
By Richard Moore at Thu, 2002/03/21 - 6:00am
Re: only TV window
Does that option also turn off window manager's stuff? (bar with minimize, maximize, help, close buttons).
By Milan Svoboda at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: only TV window
Not at the moment, but there will be a way to do that eventually.
By Richard Moore at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Re: only TV window
I've been messing around with running programs in the desktop, as part of learning kde programming, and I found that this:
kstart --type Desktop kedit
will start kedit full screen in the desktop with no title bar. Replace kedit with kwintv I guess :)
By Roger Henderson at Sat, 2002/03/30 - 6:00am
Nice indeed but beware of this...
This looks incredible. It looks like this could become the Linux killer application for TV. At least it looks as a central place.
And here are my concerns/whishlist (sorry, email defunct atm, I'd mail otherwise):
Please make sure you add support for MHP/DVB. This is a big thing in Europe !
There is excellent DVB card drivers for Linux available at http://www.linuxtv.org as well as the latest versions of the DVB recorder VDR (which plays DVD and MP3&Co. as well). This company also gets sponsored by NOKIA (MediaTerminal, Linux STB) for doing the MHP Linux implementation.
Also related to these two companies is http://www.ost-dev.net a NOKIA sponsored OpenSource development-framework for Linux on TVs.
Also I see many projects coming up which allow for http-hosted TV programs. Not only the nations have different formats, the publishing TV Guides have their own formats also.
Also, data-retreival (VT and other) is different for analog and digital streams.
Thus I would recommend to make this application as modular as possible.
DCOP is very important ! It allows for many many good things.
A clever plugin architecture would allow for different backends to be installed to get the TV program.
It would allow for interfaces to 'at' and 'cron' as well as the different cideo disk recorders out there.
I for one have stored my TV program in a MySQL database which gets updated daily. I heard someone is working on an LDAP frontend to the TV program.
So it would be nice when the Channel and Program listers could iport data realtime from plugins/scripts/DCOP calls.
Also I would be happy to see not only the channel list being a kpart but also the 'screen' itself. Or did I overread it ?
By Jester at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
While thinking about conversion routines... It would be very nice to be able to share channel list with zapping TV viewer...
By Pavel Machek at Fri, 2002/03/22 - 6:00am
Will it work on FreeBSD?
By fura at Sat, 2002/03/23 - 6:00am
Videorecorder functionality
Hello Richard & George,
Nice document, there are a lot of good ideas in it.
Best regards,
By Eric Veltman at Sat, 2002/03/23 - 6:00am
Nagra support?
what about support for nagra in kwintv?
By fred at Sun, 2002/03/24 - 6:00am
TV Sync
I don't even have a TV card, but I do have a TV-out on my GeForce. Even if it is way too complicated to switch resolution (desktop size) in X I at least managed to get it working in no time. But - Xine and other players do not seem to sync to the TV correctly. Maybe it's the fault of the nvidia driver, all I know is that it is very disturbing.
My question to you is: does this KwinTV sync its drawing intelligently when using it in a multi monitor setup? Maybe it's X's job to do this but then it might still be possible to force good sync from the app.
I'd also like too see temporal filtering when "resizing" 24/25/30 fps video to 50/60/75/whatever hz output devices :) Even if syncing is perfect there is a very noticeable jitter when just flipping frames on a "nearest neighbor" basis. Linear interpolation should be good enough and not eat too much CPU. On fast computers you could probably update the picture at the speed of the monitor sync producing an extremely smooth output. On slower machines you could go down to every second refresh when there is a mismatch like 30->75 or 24->80 and still get an improvement.
Oh, another wish to all video player gurus: Please include an option to force software rendering (in RGB space)! Overlays on my card seem to have worse colors, and they also do not use the same calibration mechanism as normal graphics. I also experienced this same fenomena on my old computer - in Linux hardware overlays did not work making the video look much better than in windows!
By Johan at Mon, 2002/03/25 - 6:00am


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ATLANTA -- After their third consecutive dominant starting pitching effort backed by a home run exhibition, the Braves appear to have perfected the formula for a blowout over the last few nights, at the expense of the Rockies.
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ATLANTA -- After their third consecutive dominant starting pitching effort backed by a home run exhibition, the Braves appear to have perfected the formula for a blowout over the last few nights, at the expense of the Rockies.
Braves starter Julio Teheran matched his career high with 11 strikeouts and Justin Upton notched his second multihomer game of the season to power the Braves to a convincing four-game sweep of the Rockies with an 11-2 win.View Full Game Coverage
Teheran struck out the side in the first, third and fifth innings on the way to tying a mark he set when he one-hit the Pirates over eight innings in a 5-0 win on June 5, but his night was cut short by a fast-rising pitch count. The 22-year-old right-hander allowed one run on five hits over five innings, exiting after 103 pitches only to watch Upton and Jason Heyward pad the lead with home runs that put the game well out of reach.
Teheran may have been able to last deeper into the game if not for a string of hard-working at-bats put together by the Rockies in the early going. He walked leadoff man Dexter Fowler and allowed a pair of weakly hit infield singles in the first inning to load the bases before recovering to strike out the next two batters.
"Julio wasn't as sharp as we've seen before, but boy, he battled," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "I thought the first inning after he gives up a couple infield singles, bases loaded, you see the miles per hour really really elevate. I think it was 93-94 against [first baseman Todd] Helton and then the next guy. He really did a nice job."
The Rockies loaded the bases on Teheran again in a 37-pitch second inning, but after allowing one run to score on a sacrifice fly, Teheran caught Troy Tulowitzki looking at a curveball low in the zone to end the inning, and Tulowitzki was ejected for arguing with home-plate umpire Marvin Hudson.
Colorado's offense offered little protest over the next three innings as Teheran retired nine of the last 10 batters he faced.
"I was mixing really good," Teheran said. "I didn't use my two-seamer like I did earlier in the season, so today I was trying to make my pitch and use my four-seam, and that was coming out good from my hand tonight."
Upton got the Braves off to another hot start with a two-run shot with no outs in the first to send a big league welcome to Rockies starter Chad Bettis, who was making his Major League debut.
"You know it's his first start and I haven't seen him, he hasn't seen me," Upton said. "You go out and hopefully the adrenaline makes him make a mistake, and then the next two at-bats once he settled in, he got me. So you kind of try to look for a pitch in the middle of the plate and something you can handle."
"Oh, yeah, there were some nerves there," Bettis said. "First time out there were definitely some butterflies there. I was trying to minimize those as much as I could. After three or four batters, I started settling in there and felt better."
Heyward became the seventh Braves player with at least 10 home runs this season when he ripped a two-run shot to right field in the fifth after Teheran collected his second hit of the night to lead off the inning.
After the Rockies cut the Atlanta lead to three on Jonathan Herrera's RBI single in the seventh inning, the Braves got the run back in the bottom half of the frame thanks to an RBI single off the bat of Chris Johnson, who raised his league-leading batting average to .346 and recorded his seventh consecutive multihit game.
Then in the eighth, Upton cranked a three-run blast to left-center to match his season high with five RBIs. He has hit safely in seven of the last eight games, and he needed only one game in the month of August to equal his combined home run output from the past two months.
"It comes and it goes," Upton said. "You have to enjoy it when it's going well for you and when the ball's carrying out of the yard for you. You ride it out and then continue to try to get your hits."
Brian McCann and Johnson drove home the final two runs in back-to-back at-bats in the eighth to give the Braves 40 runs over the course of their four-game sweep of Colorado, the most they have scored in any one series this season by a wide margin.
With the win, the Braves capped off their first perfect homestand of at least seven games since 2000 and only the second in the franchise's Atlanta history. They also extended their first-place lead to 11 1/2 games in the National League East ahead of a six-game road trip against division foes Philadelphia and Washington, which they will enter with a surge of confidence and an opportunity to all but bury their next two closest challengers in the division by the end of the first week of August.
"I really felt like no matter how many runs they scored, we were going to outscore them," shortstop Andrelton Simmons said. "Everybody looked good at the plate, everybody seems comfortable -- Justin's hitting the ball well, Freddie [Freeman] is doing what he's been doing the whole year, Jason's crushing the ball, [Brian McCann's] doing the same thing. Everybody's pretty much doing well at the plate. It's fun to see."
Eric Single is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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