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After a big day yesterday that saw gold prices up nearly $10 an ounce, expect some profit-taking to kick in today.
In early trading gold is up $1.78 to $1,731.68 and silver is up $0.01 to $33.06 for a silver/gold ratio sliding to 52.3. Copper and crude oil are both lower while platinum and palladium are mixed on light volume.
On a normal trading week you could expect some profit-taking to kick in today on some commodities after yesterday's big day. I would not read too much into trends or pricing on this holiday-shortened trading week. Price changes at a low volume of trades are less significant over time, still there are some bargains here and there.
Gold prices are holding up well and finding good support in the $1,720 price range. We may have to wait until next week to find out if $1,730 for gold is the new floor or if this week is an anomaly based on low volume.
Either way, with the silver/gold ratio dipping toward 50, this might be a better time to shift some of your small, regular buys into silver. Look for bars and fractional rounds from name brands like J&M and Sunshine Mint. There are some good deals out there right now as your friendly neighborhood gold and silver dealer needs cash for the holidays like everyone else. This is a great time to go shopping if you have some extra money.
It's also good to review why you're investing in gold and silver. It's easy to get caught up in shopping because it's fun and easy to forget there are sound financial reasons for holding precious metals. Metals are your hedge against the diminishing purchasing value of the computer blips in your bank account. When you buy an ounce of gold or silver you are trading some of those computer blips for a physical commodity. That physical commodity is never going to change; 1 troy ounce going into the safe will be 1 troy ounce coming out of the safe.
What will change over time is the purchasing power of the computer blips and that will depend on currency policy at the national level. Right now currency policy is solidly on your side and has been since 2000. But a wise investor avoids all extremes; your inflation hedge should not be half of your investment portfolio. Currency policy may not stay on your side indefinitely, so stay alert to changes in market fundamentals.
Chris Poindexter, Senior Writer, National Gold Group, Inc


text: When you think of Android smartphones, "productivity" probably isn't the first word that comes to mind. But you don't have to use a BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 device or another boring "enterprise-friendly" handheld to get a lot done in a little timewhether it be for work or play.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotorola Atrix 4G\n\nThe following seven Android tips will help streamline your general Android navigation processes so you can move around your device, and access of your favorite apps, media and services, faster and more efficiently.\n\n\nAlso read my Android Battery Tips and Android Security Basics posts for more Android tips and tricks. And checkout my latest list of free Android apps for suggestions on new software.\n\n\n(Note: The Android tips and tricks described below all work on my Motorola Atrix 4G running Android v2.2.1, but some of them may not be available for all devices or operating system versions.)\n\n 1) Customizing Your Android Home Screens\n\nCustomizing the individual home-screen "panes" on your Android smartphone is one of the easiest ways to make it your own, as well as reduce the time it takes to access your most frequently used applications. And you can move any application to any home-screen pane. \n\n\nTo move an app from either your "app page," where all your Android software is stored, or from one pane to another, simply press and hold the application for a second or two, until a colored shadow appears beneath it. If you're moving an app from your app page to a home screen page, you'll immediately be returned to the last home screen page you were on before jumping to the app page. \n\n\nMoving apps around an individual pane, or between panes, is as simple as dragging your finger to the left or right, up or down, after holding the icon for a second to select it. And you can ditch unwanted apps from your home screen panes by holding their respective icons until they're selected, and then dropping them into the trash can, or other similar icon, that appears on-screen.\n\n 2) Create Home Screen Widgets for Favorite Apps\n\nOne of the coolest things about the Android OS is the ability to use a variety of "widgets," or icons that sit on your home screen and display information so you don't ever have to open the actual applications or services that they're associated with. Widgets can save time and show information you might have otherwise missed.\n\n\nTo assign an Android widget to one of your home screens, just press and hold a blank space on one of those home screens, i.e., a place with no other widgets or applications. And then choose the Android Widgets option for access to third-party app-widgets. On the following screen, scroll through all your third-party widgets and pick the ones you want to display on your home screen panes.\n\n\nYou should see another widget-option after holding your finger on a blank home-screen page, as well, for core system widgets. But its name will differ based on model, manufacturer and OS version. For in example, my Motorola Atrix 4G has another widget-option called Motorola Widgets that offers another set of widgets, including ones that let me toggle my various wireless-radios on and off, and quickly start and stop music, etc.\n\n\nNot all Android apps offer widget-functionality, but many do, so be sure to check to see if your favorite app has a widget. \n\n\n(Note: Android widgets that update themselves can drain a lot of battery power, depending on individual settings, so it's not a wise idea to pack your home-screens with widgets that you won't actually use.)\n 3) Create Android Home Screen Shortcuts for Favorites Websites\n\nJust as you can create home screen widgets for certain applications, you can also make home-screen shortcuts for your favorite Web pages, so you never have to launch your browser and navigate to those pages. \n\n\nTo assign a custom Android shortcut to your home screen, navigate to the Web page for which you want to create a shortcut, tap your Menu key to bring up additional options and then choose More. On the following screen, select the Add Shortcut to Home option. A new shortcut for the Web page of your choice will appear on the home-screen pane you were on last, unless there's no more room for another shortcut, in which case you'll be informed that you can't fit a new shortcut on that pane.\n\n\nYou can also create a shortcut to certain Android system options, such as your Android Settings menu or your Contacts, by pressing and holding a blank space on a home-screen pane for a second or two. But instead of choosing one of the widget-options, as described above, pick Shortcuts. Then choose the specific shortcut you wish to add from the options on the following screen.\n 4) Quickly View and Jump Between Your Last Used Android Apps\n\nOne of the best ways to quickly jump back and forth between frequently-used Android applications is by holding your finger on the Android Home Button for a second or two, until a set of eight application-icons labeled Recent appear on screen. \n\nYou can la\nunch any of these eight apps by simply tapping their icons on the Recent page. The apps included will change based on which ones you've most recently used.\n\n 5) See All Android Home-Screen Panes on One Screen\n\nThe Android OS lets you quickly view miniature versions of all of your home-screen panes on one page. But the process for accessing this all-pane-view is different depending on your device and OS version. To access this view on my Motorola Atrix, I simply hold down the circular, on-screen Home button until all of my home-screen pages appear. From there, I can easily click on any pane to quickly access it, instead of scrolling through multiple panes first.\n\n\nTo access this multi-pane-view on the HTC Droid Incredible running Android 2.2, you must double-tap your Home button--not the on-screen "key" but the actual button.\n\n 6) Employ Custom Android Folder to Organize Apps\n\nIn addition to customizing your home-screen panes and adding both widgets and shortcuts, you can add folders to your Android home screens to further customize and organize content on your smartphone. Create a new folder the same way you would a new shortcutby pressing and holding a blank space on your home screen until an options menu appears. Choose the Folders option, and a new folder will be assigned to your home screen. You can then fill up your folders by dragging applications over the folder-icons and dropping them in.\n\n 7) Double-Tap Your Android Home Button for Custom Functions\n\nSome Android devices, including the Motorola Atrix 4G, let you customize your home button, so it performs different functions when double-tapped. For instance, you can set the Double Tap Home feature to open up your camera or your phone's dial-pad, etc., whenever you double-tap your Home button. \n\n\nTo do so, open up your Android Settings, scroll down and click the applications option, and then, on the following page, choose Double tap home launch. Next, pick the function you wish to launch after double-tapping your home button, and you're good to go.\n\nAS\n\nAl Sacco covers Mobile and Wireless for CIO.com. Follow Al on Twitter @ASacco. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Al at firstname.lastname@example.com

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Part of our classic collection, these white fine linen napkins with a thick, hand painted bright sky blue stripe border are made to match the tablecloth by the same name.
They look great on any surface, though, adding a sophisticated and bold pop of colour to your table.
Wash at up to 60 degrees on a regular cycle (avoid "eco" or longer cycles).
Never soak for longer than 10 minutes and avoid using Vanish and other whitening products.
Tumble dry at 70 degrees for a soft effect, and 90 degrees for a more crushed finish.
We don't recommend ironing the full napkin in order to keep the linen's lovely crumpled texture intact, but we do like to iron the edges to give it a sharper edge.
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Protesters use 10 ft. inflatable pig outside La Crosse Walmart
LA CROSSE, WI — Protesters hope a giant caged pig will draw attention to their cause.
Members of Mercy for Animals stood outside of the Walmart on Mormon Coulee Road Tuesday along side a 10 foot inflatable pig.
They say an undercover investigation found one of the company's major pork suppliers confines pigs into narrow crates, virtually immobilizing the animal.
They're hoping people call out Walmart for what they describe as unacceptable animal cruelty. "If Walmart executives were to raise one dog or cat the way their pork suppliers raise, confine, and mutilate thousands of pigs every year, they would be jailed for felony level animal cruelty charges," said Jeni Haines, National Campaign Coordinator for Mercy for Animals.21257816
Walmart released a statement saying in part, "This is a complicated issue. We hold our suppliers to the highest standards and do not tolerate animal mistreatment […] and are currently engaged with pork suppliers, food safety experts and other organizations to work towards an industry-wide model that is not only respectful of farmers and animals, but also meets our customers' expectations for quality and animal safety."


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Keep reading. This is not spooky, it's a celebration of life.
I have a huge "Day of the Dead" collection, which includes pottery, dishes, carved wooden boxes, ornaments, dancing skeletons and an assortment of other oddities. Add that to my cactus obsession, mountain lodge look, ski memorabilia, antique furniture, massive book collection and you have an interesting, albeit a bit strange, decorating theme.
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican spiritual celebration connecting souls of the living and dead. Unlike our Halloween celebration, Dia de los Muertos is observed on November 1st (all saints day) and November 2nd (all souls day) and is a tribute to departed loved ones. Celebrated in Mexico, Central America and certain parts of the U.S. southwest, it's a ritualistic way in which people honor the dead by decorating gravesites with flowers, candles, toys, food and even tequila. They celebrate, eat, drink, party and converse with their loved ones. Others set up similar festive alters in their homes and play music and cook the favorite foods of the deceased.
It's interesting how celebrations of all kinds revolve around food, even celebrations for those who are only here in spirit. I love that!
Rather than attempt making sugar skulls (no thanks), which is a typical Dia de los Muertos treat, I'll leave you with one of my favorite recipe offerings.
Chicken and green chile soup ("launching pad" recipe, adjust to your liking)
what you need
1 32 ounce box Imagine Chicken Broth
2 cups water
a bunch of roasted, peeled and chopped green chiles (about a dozen)
2 russet potatoes, scrubbed and chopped into 1 inch pieces
1 small onion, chopped
1 can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 can corn, rinsed and drained
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 – 2 tablespoons ground New Mexico chile powder (I use Fernandez, medium hot)
1 teaspoon cumin
olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
* This is a guideline, you might want to add a little fresh lime juice, some chopped cilantro, diced tomatoes, a pinch of brown sugar or a teaspoon of agave. I have also added about a half a can of Eden Organic Pizza/Pasta sauce before and it was wonderful in the mix.
what you do
1. Heat the olive oil in a medium-sized soup pot. Sauté the onion for about 5 minutes and then add the garlic. Continue cooking for another minute or two.
2. Add the broth and water to the pot and reduce heat to low. If using, add the pizza/pasta sauce. Stir well to blend liquids.
3. Add potatoes, green chiles and chile powder.
4. Simmer for about 45 minutes to an hour, until potatoes are tender. Add beans, corn and other seasonings. Heat and serve topped with shredded cheese and diced avocado.
Go forth, celebrate with good food and share it with your loved ones!
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text: SOS Children's Village Tashkent Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has about two million inhabitants and is situated in the east of the country on the border to Kazakhstan. The name "Tashkent" means "stone city" and the history of the city dates as far back as the third century. It is known to be one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Central Asia. For centuries, Tashkent was an important stop on the "Silk Road", a trade route from Asia into Europe. The SOS Children's Village Tashkent was built on a four hectares plot of land close to the city centre, donated by the Uzbek government. The land is very fertile and is perfect for growing flowers and laying out kitchen gardens; formerly, it has been used as a vineyard. The local infrastructure is good and schools, hospitals and shops are easily accessible. A middle class residential area forms the direct neighbourhood of the SOS Children's Village. The official opening ceremony was held on 26 June 2001 in presence of Helmut Kutin, president, and Richard Pichler, secretary general of SOS-Kinderdorf International as well as numerous guests of honour. SOS Children's Village Tashkent comprises fourteen family houses, houses for the village director and the SOS aunts (who support the SOS mothers and take care of the children when the mothers are on leave), a multipurpose hall, a workshop, a small sports- and playground and an administration and service area. Up to 91 children can find a new home in the fourteen family houses of SOS Children's Village Tashkent, where their SOS mothers take lovingly care of them. The family strengthening programme offers access to essential services for children's development (eg. educational, nutritional and health support, social skills) and supports families to protect and care for their children. The programme also aims at linking families with income generating activities and offers help to improve the parents' parenting skills.


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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized.
"Sometimes you're lucky," he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference co-chair John Battelle.
Careful not to offend his search market partner, Ballmer put his comment in context, saying that any CEO would feel grateful for not making a major acquisition in the months prior to the global financial collapse that started in the second half of 2008.
"We would have been closing [the Yahoo deal right after] Lehman Brothers," Ballmer said, referring to the historical collapse of one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. Microsoft made its offer for Yahoo in early 2008 and withdrew it several months later.
Of course, Yahoo has continued to struggle since 2008, when Microsoft made its acquisition bid, and this year Yahoo's fortunes have taken a more steep downturn. CEO Carol Bartz was fired last month, and this week the company announced that CTO Raymie Stata has been replaced, as the company struggles to emerge from years-long financial and technology funk.
Although Ballmer made a point of saying that "there are a lot of great things about Yahoo" and that he's very satisfied with Yahoo as a search partner, it's clear that Yahoo would be worth much less than what Microsoft offered for it in 2008.
Since the ouster of Bartz, there have been unconfirmed rumors that Yahoo's board has been entertaining discussions about selling the company to AOL or Microsoft, and that Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has tried to round up investors to acquire the company and take it private.
Ballmer also expressed satisfaction with the progress of Microsoft's Bing search engine in the past three years both in terms of usage and of technical improvement in areas like result ranking and relevance, as well as user interface.
Although Google remains dominant in search, Bing's progress "sets the stage for reinventing the category," Ballmer said, indicating that Microsoft harbors hopes of eventually making a run at Google's leadership position.
Getting Social
Asked whether Microsoft plans to launch a social networking site in the style of Facebook and Google+, Ballmer said Microsoft views online social interactions as varied in nature, with different tools for different uses.
For example, Microsoft has products that play in the social space, including recently-acquired Skype, which he views as tailored for interacting with the people one is closest to, and its XBox gaming console, which allows for people to play over the Internet.
As for workplace cloud applications, Ballmer said Microsoft is "all in, baby," competing head-to-head against Google in the segment for communications and productivity suites, where Microsoft's Office 365 goes up against Google Apps and is "winning, winning, winning."
This market for communications and productivity applications is the most mature in terms of adoption by businesses, while other areas aren't at that level yet, such as cloud-based platforms and line-of-business software, he said.
Ballmer said Microsoft continues to work hand-in-hand with hardware manufacturers to make sure that Windows is present and optimized for a broad variety of devices, including desktop and laptop PCs, smartphones, tablets, and others.


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Hundreds came to Lyons Township High School with a purpose. Family, friends and even those that never knew 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin laced up their shoes and ran for her.
"It shows how many friends she did have. She never said she had one best friend, they were all her friends," her mom Brenda O'Laughlin said.
In October 2011, O'Laughlin was murdered when she interrupted a burglary at her Indian Head Park home.
It has been over a year since her death but it is still very difficult for her family. So they keep busy and keep her memory alive with events like "Run for Kelli".
"Run for Kelli" is a series of runs and a walk to raise money for the Kelli Joy O'Laughlin Memorial Fund. The fund aims to help provide education for others through college scholarships and other charitable activities.
It has already raised enough money to award scholarships to two seniors at Lyons Township, where O'Laughlin was a student, and for new uniforms for the tennis team, her father John O'Laughlin said.
The idea for the fund was inspired by O'Laughlin's love of helping people and giving back to the community, according to her father.
"It says volumes that they want to support the effort and keep Kelli's memory alive," he said. "I think that's one of the first things my wife always says, that she wants to keep Kelli's memory alive. We're doing a good job of that so far."
For her friends, this event is not necessarily about raising money but rather taking a moment to raise the community's spirit and to always remember their dear friend.
"It was fun, it was good to have all the friends around running and supporting each other," O'Laughlin's friend Elizabeth Johnson said.
"We have been doing all the fundraisers for her and we know we should support her and we did this for her," friend Melissa Marston said.


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Many of the people who pre-ordered the special edition of Ni no Kuni from publisher Namco Bandai's online store still haven't received their copies. There seem to be all sorts of issues surrounding inventory and distribution of the new PS3 role-playing game. A lot of people are pissed off.
Now there's a new wrinkle: some members of the Namco forums have discovered an eBay user selling the $99 Wizard's Edition for a very healthy profit. In fact, eBayer PlayCanada (an online store that's part of the digital auction house) seems to have pawned off more than 200 copies of Ni no Kuni's special box. All sold for far more than the listed price.
This might lead you to wonder: if Namco is having issues getting Ni no Kuni Wizard's Edition to the people who bought it directly, how has this one eBay user sold so many of them?
Good question. Some people say PlayCanada told them that the eBayers worked directly with Namco for this sale, which seems a little funky. And of course, people are heading to the Better Business Bureau to file complaints. There's also a Facebook group for people having issues with their pre-orders.
I've reached out to Namco once again to ask for clarification/comment and will update should they get back to me.


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry says he'll go to court to try to get his name on the ballot in the Kansas Democratic presidential caucus.
The Kansas Democratic Party determined this week that Terry is not a bona fide Democrat and won't be awarded any delegates from the party's April 14 Kansas caucuses
The Wichita Eagle reported Friday that Terry said keeping him off the ballot is a violation of the Constitution.
Democratic Party attorney Joe Sandler said Terry also failed to meet two mandatory deadlines, one for naming his state representative and another for filing a plan to encourage participation in the caucus by potential delegates.
Terry said the deadlines he missed were not meaningful because he was planning to act as his own representative in Kansas.


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Idaho Appellate Rule 44.1. Expedited Review For Appeals Brought Pursuant to I.C. 18-609A.
This rule governs procedures for an expedited review of an appeal brought pursuant to I.C. § 18-609A from an order of the district court denying a minor's petition for judicial bypass of parental consent.
(a) Notice of appeal.
(1) An appeal from any order denying a petition filed pursuant to I.C. § 18-609A (6) shall be made only by physically filing a notice of appeal with the clerk of the district court within five days, excluding weekends and holidays, from the date of issuance of the order. This filing may be made by facsimile machine process.
(2) If the district court denies a petition filed under I.C. § 18-609A, the district court must serve on the minor a copy of the order denying relief with the date and time endorsed, along with a "Notice of Appeal" form. The notice of appeal form shall include a request for the record and audio recording of the proceedings and notice to the clerk that the record and audio recording are to be immediately forwarded to the Idaho Supreme Court for filing. The district court shall advise the minor that the minor has five days, excluding weekends and holidays, from the date of issuance of the order to file the notice of appeal.
(b) Transmittal of record. Upon the filing of the notice of appeal, the clerk of the district court shall immediately fax to the Supreme Court a copy of the notice of appeal and a copy of the district court order denying the petition, along with any other documents or exhibits filed in the case. Arrangements shall also be made for the audio recording of the hearing to be sent to the Supreme Court or for the Court to otherwise listen to the audio recording. A complete copy of the record in the case shall also be made immediately available to the minor and/or her counsel, including a copy of or access to the audio recording of the hearing. Absolutely no extension of time will be granted by the Supreme Court.
(c) Fees. No filing or other fees shall be charged for appeals brought pursuant to this section.
(d) Briefing. Briefing is not required but may be submitted prior to the hearing. Formal briefing requirements do not have to be met.
(e) Assignment. All appeals filed pursuant to I.C. § 18-609A shall be assigned to the Supreme Court.
(f) Hearing. When the notice of appeal is filed pursuant to I.C. § 18-609A, the clerk of the Supreme Court shall set the appeal for hearing within 48 hours of the filing of the notice of appeal, excluding weekends and holidays.
(g) Decision. The Supreme Court, acting through a majority of the justices participating in the hearing, shall issue its decision at the conclusion of the hearing. If the Court fails to issue a ruling at the conclusion of the hearing then the petition will be deemed granted. No application for rehearing shall be filed.
(h) Confidentiality. All proceedings in this appeal shall be conducted in a manner that will preserve the anonymity of the minor, and the identity of the minor involved and all records pertaining to the appeal shall be kept confidential.
(i) Representation. The attorney appointed to represent the minor at the hearing before the district court shall continue on appeal unless other counsel is substituted. Any document or notice required to be served upon the minor shall be served on counsel.
(j) Guardian ad litem. If a guardian ad litem was appointed for the district court hearing, then that person shall continue on appeal.
(Adopted September 18, 2000; amended November 20, 2001, effective November 20, 2001; REPEALED March 19, 2007; NEW I.A.txte 44.1 adopted March 19, 2007, effective March 19, 2007.)
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By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
MIAMI (AP) — Struggling as a table-setter for the Washington Nationals, Denard Span thrived Sunday as a run-producer.
Span was dropped from the top spot in the order for the first time this season, and he responded with three hits in the No. 7 position, including a tiebreaking two-out RBI double in the 10th inning to help beat the Miami Marlins 5-2.
Span snapped a 1-for-20 slump with a two-out RBI double in the second inning, and singled in the fourth. The three hits raised his average to .260 and helped the Nationals head into the All-Star break at 48-47.
"I just said, `Hey, I'm going to try end this first half on a good note,"' Span said. "I couldn't play any worse than I have this first half. I just wanted to go out feeling good. I didn't want to go home feeling in more of a stale mood than I'm already in."
It has been a frustrating season so far for Span and the defending NL East champions, who averted a series sweep and snapped a three-game losing streak. They went 2-4 on their trip and trail division leader Atlanta by six games.
"I like this ballclub," manager Davey Johnson said. "We've had few hiccups with injuries and whatever, but I think we're in good shape going into the second half. We're an awfully good ballclub, and we just need to play like it."
On Friday, the Nationals begin their longest homestand of the season — 11 games.
They salvaged the series finale at Miami despite going 2 for 10 with runners in scoring position, and hit .087 (4 for 46) in those situations during their trip. They had four hits without scoring in the fourth inning, when right fielder Giancarlo Stanton threw out two base runners.
Bryce Harper replaced Span in the leadoff spot, batting there for the first time in his career, and went 1 for 5 with a double and a walk. Jayson Werth, Ian Desmond and Anthony Rendon each had two of Washington's 14 hits.
"We hit a bunch of balls hard, and I like the way it felt," Johnson said. "Everybody seemed to have a little energy in the new lineup, and I'll probably stick with it more."
Harper was pleased with Johnson's decision to bat him first.
"I loved it. I really did," he said. "Getting the ABs I did, five or six ABs, that was pretty awesome. I like doing it. I did it in high school. It was pretty cool. If he left it there, I would be absolutely comfortable."
With the score 2-all, Werth hit a one-out single in the 10th off Steve Cishek (3-5), and Span hit a double that landed on the warning track in center field to give the Nationals the lead. That ended Cishek's streak of 16 1-3 consecutive scoreless innings, the longest active streak in the major leagues.
Wilson Ramos added an RBI single, and pinch-hitter Chad Tracy doubled home another run.
"I flipped in a couple of lazy sliders that killed me," Cishek said. "I really wanted to finish on a strong note for the first half. Sweeping the Nationals would have been great."
Washington rookie Taylor Jordan remained winless in four career starts despite an ERA of 3.32. The Florida native allowed two runs in six innings before departing for a pinch-hitter.
Craig Stammen (5-4) pitched a perfect ninth. Rafael Soriano followed with a scoreless 10th for his 25th save.
Miami snapped the Nationals' franchise-record streak of hitting a home run in 86 consecutive series. Derek Dietrich hit a two-run homer for the Marlins, his ninth, but they squandered several scoring chances.
A line drive by Dietrich along the right-field line was initially ruled fair by first-base umpire Mike Estabrook, putting runners at second and third with none out in the second inning. But plate umpire Alan Porter reversed the call, Dietrich struck out and the Marlins didn't score. TV replays were inconclusive.
Notes: Miami LHP Duane Below was optioned to Triple-A New Orleans. RHP Chad Qualls will be placed on the paternity list. … Werth fouled a ball off the top of his left foot and left the game in the 10th. He was limping after the game and said he was unsure whether he might miss any playing time when the season resumes. … Washington RHP Tyler Clippard struck out the side in the ninth. In his past nine innings, he has allowed one hit with 11 strikeouts. … Miami SS Adeiny Hechavarria had two hits and is batting .412 (21 for 51) this month. … Marlins C Jeff Mathis has thrown out 13 of 18 runners on steal attempts.
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Live from Sónar
We are at the moment visiting the excellent electronic dance music festival Sónar in Barcelona. I'm writing this from the pro area where we today and yesterday have been meeting some of the most important people of the scene. But it's nothing like "all work and no play", the Beatport party at a hotel rooftop yesterday was one of the best ever and both Radio Slave and Sebo K was totally rockin' it. If you're in Barcelona, a music pro, and reading this, do give us a call. In the meantime, we will be in the clouds.
Update: The first ones to name at least two of the SoundClouder's that are in the picture will win a pack of our new kick-ass stickers.


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5 Reasons to be Worried About Health Security in Asia
The risk of contracting antimicrobial-resistant bacteria or emerging infectious diseases is higher in Asia than anywhere else in the world.
If you live in Asia and the Pacific, do you ever wonder how high your risk is of contracting antimicrobial-resistant bacteria or emerging infectious diseases such as a new strain of avian influenza? Unfortunately, I have to tell you that the risk here is higher that in any other region in the world.
1. South and Southeast Asia are epicenters for antimicrobial resistance.
South and Southeast Asia are home to the highest number of major bacterial pathogens for which there is antimicrobial resistance. Most developing countries in the region do not monitor or reinforce standards in antibiotic use and prescription, and the limited available data paints a picture of widespread non-compliance with antibiotic treatment regimen. Self-medication with antibiotics available over-the-counter is common throughout Asia, and an estimated 50% of patients fail to follow the recommended antibiotics course of treatment, mainly because it's expensive. Traces of antimicrobials used in the animal husbandry sector find their way into the food chain; so most of the meat that was not grown organically was likely treated with antibiotics. Even fish is often bathed in antibiotic solution in many commercial fisheries. And of course the water you drink might also be contaminated due to lack of adequate water treatment plants. Constant exposure to antibiotics increases the risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.
2. Asia is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases.
Asia as where new emerging infectious diseases are most likely to originate, particularly zoonosis (diseases transmitted from animals), vector-borne diseases and drug-resistant pathogens. This is evident in the increasing frequency of these events over the last decade and is correlated directly with socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors. Numerous outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have had a huge impact in Asia. SARS rapidly decimated tourism to the region in 2003, costing the industry $18 billion or approximately $2 million per person infected. The H5N1 virus had a profound effect on the poultry industry: in 2003-2004 Viet Nam culled 45 million birds and lost $118 million, while a Thai ban on poultry reduced the country's income from poultry exports by 93%, from $598 million in 2003 to $44 million in 2004.
3. Health risks are increasing in Asia.
Asia is one of the most globalized, mobile regions in the world, and trade facilitates the rapid spread of diseases that otherwise may have been contained by geographical boundaries. Climate change and the associated rise in temperature and flooding lead to more vector-borne diseases such as chikungunya, malaria and dengue. Pollution and natural disasters are also significant risk factors for respiratory tract infections and water-borne diseases.
4. Fragmented supply chains impact the efficiency of drugs and vaccines.
Too much medicine that needs cold storage but is exposed to heat and humid environments can lead to an overestimation of actual effective vaccination coverage and decreased efficacy of medicines – both contributing to increasing risk of disease outbreaks. You might have seen this affect in your own children, who have been vaccinated in Asia but still developed certain diseases they were supposed to be protected against because the vaccine probably wasn't effective anymore.
5. Unregulated health service providers.
Chronic under-investment in public health systems has resulted in private sector provision of health services, which are often unregulated (threatening quality) and not required to report routinely to health management information systems. A consequence of this data gap is that critical information on incidence of infectious diseases or drug resistance identified in the private sector takes much longer to reach public health sector officials.
The above risks can only be addressed with strengthened health systems and increased accountability, both of which arise from collaboration between countries and development partners to invest in public health services. To combat health threats and to avoid significant economic losses, we must step up health financing and redouble their efforts in cross-sector, cross-border and regional coordination on health policies and practices.
Investing in health systems today will yield not only direct health and economic benefits tomorrow, but will also help protect populations from emerging health threats both within and beyond the region. Donors outside of the region must continue to support health system strengthening in Asia, as weak health systems in any country can pose threats to their own public health and economic security.
Health is having the same disease as your neighbor – so make sure your neighbor has no diseases.


text: The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenAL, allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks.


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Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
The game uses a 3x3 square board. 2 players take turns to play,
either placing a red on an empty square, or changing a red to
orange, or orange to green. The player who forms 3 of 1 colour in a
line wins.
Some puzzles requiring no knowledge of knot theory, just a careful
inspection of the patterns. A glimpse of the classification of
knots and a little about prime knots, crossing numbers and knot


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Election Day 2013: Bill de Blasio is elected mayor of New York
Bill de Blasio was elected New York City's mayor in a massive landslide, making him the first Democratic New York mayor elected since 1989.
Bill de Blasio was elected New York City's first Democratic mayor in two decades Tuesday, running on an unabashedly liberal, tax-the-rich platform that contrasted sharply with billionaire Michael Bloomberg's record during 12 years in office.
With 6 percent of precincts reporting, De Blasio, the city's public advocate, had 71 percent of the vote compared with 27 percent for Republican Joe Lhota, former chief of the metropolitan area's transit agency.
De Blasio's campaign tweeted out a simple message soon after polls closed: "Thank you, New York City."
De Blasio, 52, will take office on Jan. 1 as the 109th mayor of the nation's largest city. He had been heavily favored, holding an overwhelming lead in the polls for weeks.
Bloomberg, who first ran as a Republican and later became an independent, guided the city through the financial meltdown and the aftermath of 9/11. He is leaving office after three terms.
De Blasio ran as the anti-Bloomberg, railing against economic inequality and portraying New York as a "tale of two cities" — one rich, the other working class — under the pro-business, pro-development mayor, who made his fortune from the financial information company that bears his name.
De Blasio, who hails from Brooklyn, reached out to New Yorkers he contended were left behind by the often Manhattan-centric Bloomberg administration, and he called for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for universal pre-kindergarten. He also pledged to improve economic opportunities in minority and working-class neighborhoods.
He decried alleged abuses under the police department's stop-and-frisk policy and enjoyed a surge when a federal judge ruled that police had unfairly singled out blacks and Hispanics. The candidate, a white man married to a black woman, also received a boost from a campaign ad featuring their son, a 15-year-old with a big Afro.
Despite his reputation for idealism, he has also shown a pragmatic side, having worked for both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and was known for closed-door wheeling-and-dealing while serving on the City Council.
He was expected to address a rollicking crowd of supporters at the YMCA in his home neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a far cry from the glitzy Manhattan hotel ballrooms that usually host election night parties.
Lhota called de Blasio to concede about half an hour after polls closed at 9 p.m, according to a spokeswoman for the Democratic candidate.
"It was a good fight and it was a fight worth having," Lhota told a crowd of supporters in a Manhattan hotel before offering a word of caution to de Blasio.
"We want out city to move forward and not backward, and I hope our mayor-elect understands that before it's too late," he said.
Lhota, 59, spent much of the campaign slamming de Blasio's "tale of two cities" appeal as class warfare and argued that de Blasio's time in the 1980s with the left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua as an aid worker and activist made him a Marxist.
Lhota also credited stop-and-frisk with contributing to the city's drop in crime. He charged that a Blasio victory would return the city to its crime-filled past, a point he made with a TV ad that depicted graphic images of violence from decades ago.
Though polling shows New Yorkers largely approve of Bloomberg's policies, those same surveys revealed the city was hungry for a change.
While registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in the city 6-to-1, the last time a Democrat was elected mayor was 1989, when David Dinkins, de Blasio's former boss, was victorious.
Lhota, a onetime deputy mayor to Rudolph Giuliani, announced his mayoral bid on a surge of acclaim for his leadership of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority during last year's Superstorm Sandy. But his campaign struggled out of the gate, and he was slow to raise money.
De Blasio was an afterthought for much of the crowded Democratic primary, spending most of the year in a distant fourth, trailing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Rep. Anthony Weiner and the Democrats' 2009 nominee, Bill Thompson.
But Thompson's campaign never ignited, and Quinn could not shake her role in the decision to amend the city's term limits to let Bloomberg run again in 2009. When Weiner's support imploded after another sexting scandal, many of his backers went to de Blasio.
Bloomberg also called de Blasio to offer his congratulations Tuesday night, according to the mayor-elect's campaign spokeswoman. Cuomo released a glowing statement, saluting his "true friend" on his victory.
Democrats also captured the other two citywide races: Letitia James, a Brooklyn city councilwoman, was elected public advocate, while Scott Stringer, the Manhattan Borough President, was chosen to be comptroller.


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Examining the Arizona Wildfire Deaths
Why were 19 experienced firefighters killed when an Arizona blaze blew out of control? Equally important: Can we prevent such a disaster from ever happening again?
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.
Nothing changes the direction of a wildfire quicker than a thunderstorm, and that is most likely what happened this past Sunday afternoon. As the sharp line of storms moved down canyons toward Arizona's then-800-acre Yarnell Hill Fire, the clouds produced no helpful rain but plenty of lightning, along with gusty, erratic winds. Unlike the prevailing breezes that blow across much of the desert Southwest in summer, thunderstorms create down drafts—mammoth, sustained exhales of cold air. When these 40- to 50-miles-per-hour winds hit the flames, the Yarnell Fire exploded. In moments, what was once a dangerous but relatively predictable fire was out of control. By Sunday evening, some 2,500 acres were blackened, more than 250 houses and outbuildings burned, and 19 members of Prescott's Granite Mountain Hotshots lay dead on the line.
Portraits of the Granite Mountain HotshotsPhotographer Jakob Schiller captured the crew as they fought a wildfire in New Mexico.
In the Line of WildfireA close look at an elite group of wilderness first responders.
This is the worst wildland firefighting tragedy in nearly 100 years. The most analogous incidents took place years ago, including the death of 13 smokejumpers on Montana's Mann Gulch fire in 1949 (the subject of Norman Maclean's 1993 classic Young Men and Fire), and Colorado's South Canyon Fire in 1994, when 14 smokejumpers and hotshots died. The details of what happened this past Sunday are still emerging, but for me, too many questions surround the event.
The Yarnell Hill fire started on Friday afternoon, when a lightning bolt ignited a thicket of chaparral about a mile and half from the 650-person town of Yarnell. Because the fire threatened buildings and infrastructure—thanks in part to chronic drought that had left the chaparral thickets tinderbox-dry—the fire was quickly made a national priority. Approximately 200 firefighters from around the country converged on the town, while a larger, more experienced incident management team was brought in to replace the local unit running the initial operation. As with any job where power is transferred from one group to another, there are always kinks in communications, logistics, operations. Wildfire fatalities have often corresponded with this transition period, when lapses in communication can have deadly consequences.
How much the change in fire leadership had to do with the firefighter deaths is yet to be known. So is how the presence of houses affected the hotshots' decision-making on the ground. In wildland firefighting, as with all firefighting, there's nothing more important than protecting homes from destruction, but in the past decade, more than 20 million people have moved into the lands that will eventually be threatened by wildfire. Was Granite Mountain's supervisor, the field general in charge of making calls on the ground, more willing to expose his crew to risk because houses were at stake? Did they lack information, unaware of the line of thunderstorms approaching from the northeast?
Early reports suggest the Granite Mountain Hotshots were building a "direct line"—a fuel break that chases the fire's jagged edge—along the eastern flank when the winds hit, changing the direction the fire burned and increasing the rate at which it spread. In the dry chaparral, the storm's sudden winds would have created a dire situation, the flames advancing faster than the team could escape. Even still, the last thing any firefighter wants to consider is deploying their shelters, aluminum pup tents that reflect heat. When it's absolutely clear that they cannot outrun the flames, and the firefighters are left with no other options, they look for a small clearing, scrape away anything flammable, dive under these Hail Mary tents, and pray. All 19 of the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their shelters.
It's hard to overstate just how horrific the next moments must have been. Inside the small shelters temperatures can quickly climb above 200 degrees; outside, winds can blow in excess of 60 miles per hour, spiking temperatures above 1,000 degrees. Survivors of such burnovers describe the experience in the bleakest of terms: there are moments when removing the shelter and surrendering to the flames seems preferable to being slow-cooked inside. Some of the bodies of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were found outside their shelters. Did these firefighters shuck the shelters off their backs, a phenomenon documented in previous wildland fires? Or were the winds so strong the shelters were torn from their hands?
It may never be known. What is known is that that fire shelters aren't designed to withstand direct flames. If the fire burns too close, the shelter's aluminum exterior is singed, the glue that keeps the heat shield intact melts, and the shelters crumble. Deploying the tents is a last-ditch attempt at survival. We learn early in our training that relying on them may mean it's too late.
Every trained wildland firefighter is forced to consider these scenarios during training, but the threat always feels distant. In the wake of tragedies like Yarnell Hill, it's easy to understand why the wildland firefighting community's reaction is so swift: we all understand the risks. Just hours after the announcement, a Facebook page, In Memory of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, had 56,000 likes. It now has more than a quarter million.
Over the coming weeks, pundits and firefighters alike will speculate about what these deaths mean. From my perspective, it's beyond tragic: It's wasteful. As Norman Maclean put it: "Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died… those who loved them forever questioning 'this unnecessary death,' and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one."
To me, these firefighters are heroes, and not just because they are colleagues: They are public servants dedicated to doing what they believe is right, willing to defend our communities at their own peril. But I simply cannot reconcile the loss of these 19 young men to save something as ephemeral as a house. I pray that we never see such a tragic waste again. But unless something changes in the way that we deal with wildland fires, until history becomes our teacher, I fully expect we will.


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Just 16 months ago, Leo Apotheker, the short-lived CEO of HP, proclaimed that HP would be a leader in cloud computing. With little to show in the way of HP cloud products or services, no one was quite sure what Apotheker was talking about.
Flash-forward to today, and HP has not only a real cloud strategy, but also a public cloud IaaS (infrastructure as a service) play, HP Cloud, which might eventually rival Amazon Web Services. It also has Zorawar "Biri" Singh, senior vice president and GM of HP Cloud Services, to keep HP Cloud and various other cloud services and solutions on track.
[ Earlier this year, Eric Knorr discussed the cloud in an exclusive interview with Oracle's Mark Hurd. | Also check out InfoWorld's PDF special reports: Our "Private Cloud Deep Dive," our "Cloud Security Deep Dive," our "Cloud Storage Deep Dive," and our "Cloud Services Deep Dive." ]
This is not Singh's first cloud gig -- prior to arriving at HP, he served as vice president of Cloud Computing for IBM. In his new position, Singh sees the opportunity to couple HP's pure-play IaaS cloud with private HP clouds that will "integrate very naturally" with each other. In that hybrid approach, Singh relies on OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, to provide the underpinning for HP's public and private cloud offerings.
From the outset of our conversation with Singh last week, he made it clear that he felt the "real opportunity" for HP was in serving developers, so that's where this edited version of the interview begins. InfoWorld executive editor Doug Dineley also participated.
Eric Knorr: What sort of developers do you feel will be inclined to adopt HP's cloud offerings?
Biri Singh: We're going after the enterprise developer, where there are a bunch of expectations about which production workloads are going to end up on the public cloud. We happen to think there will be tens of thousands use cases that are ultimately going to be driven by the need for a secure, SLA-driven, enterprise-class quality of service. Our focus is the enterprise developer, but also IT ops.
For production workloads enterprises may consider running, they want the scale, they want the advantage of cost efficiencies. They want the security. But most importantly, they want a vendor who understands what they're about, who they've done business with, who understands the need for innovative services yet can balance out SLA, security, and customer service -- and who provides choices in terms of being an open architecture, partnering with other stacks and not locking in customers.
If you look at infrastructure clouds, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is obviously at one end of the spectrum, but you also have a bunch of telcos that have tried this, and their notion of cloud is -- well, stand up a bunch of VMs and let's see what happens. I think that's such a 2009 phenomena; we've passed that. What developers and enterprises are looking for, they're saying: Give me a set of services. I want to be able to run workloads in a secure cloud environment. And I want the best tools, the most modern languages and frameworks to build those. We're trying to address the needs of developers and IT ops with a particular emphasis on the kind of enterprise, production-grade workloads are going to be running.


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Authorities found 39 people dead in a truck in an industrial park in England on Wednesday and arrested the driver on suspicion of murder in one of Britain's worst human-smuggling tragedies.
Police were reconstructing the final journey of the victims as they tried to piece together where they were from and how they came to be in England.
"To put 39 people into a locked metal container shows a contempt for human life that is evil," said Jackie Doyle-Price, a member of Parliament who represents the area where the truck was found. "The best thing we can do in memory of those victims is to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice."
The truck and the trailer with the people inside apparently took separate circuitous journeys before ending up on the grounds of the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of London on the River Thames.
British police said they believe the container went from the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet, England, where it arrived early Wednesday. Police believe the tractor traveled from Northern Ireland to Dublin, where it took a ferry to Holyhead in Wales before picking up the trailer at the dockside in England.
The truck's driver — a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland — was arrested on suspicion of murder. He has not been charged and his name has not been released.
The truck was registered in Bulgaria to a company owned by an Irish citizen, Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry said. It's point of origin was unclear. The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said it has opened an investigation.
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"We have no idea at the moment how long the lorry (truck) spent in Belgium," said spokesman Eric Van Duyse. "It could be hours or days. We just don't know."
A police motorcycle escort slowly led the Scania semitrailer out of the park as darkness approached Wednesday, taking it to a place where the bodies could be recovered. The driver of the trailer wore a full forensic suit and gloves as he guided the massive vehicle in the impromptu cortege past journalists.
Britain remains an attractive destination for immigrants, even as the U.K. is negotiating its divorce from the European Union. In Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson put aside the Brexit crisis and vowed that human traffickers would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
"All such traders in human beings should be hunted down and brought to justice," he said.
Ambulance workers discovered the bodies after being called at 1:40 a.m. It was unclear who called the ambulance service.
No cause of death has been made public. Police said one victim appeared to be a teenager but gave no further details.
The number of victims was shocking, although it has become sadly common in recent years for small numbers of migrants to occasionally be found dead in sealed vehicles after having been abandoned by traffickers.
The tragedy recalls the death of 58 migrants in 2000 in a truck in Dover, England, and the deaths in 2015 of 71 migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who were found suffocated in the back of a refrigerated truck that was abandoned on an Austrian highway close to the Hungarian border.
Groups of migrants have repeatedly landed on English shores using small boats for the risky Channel crossing, and migrants are sometimes found in the trunks of cars that disembark from the massive ferries that link France and England, but Wednesday's macabre find in an industrial park was a reminder that trafficking gangs are still profiting from the human trade. Police also were investigating a separate incident in which nine people were found traveling in the back of a truck in southeast England.
The National Crime Agency said its specialists were working to "urgently identify and take action against any organized crime groups who have played a role in causing these deaths." It said in May that the number of people being smuggled into Britain via cargo trucks was on the rise.
Veselin Toshkov, Raf Casert and Pablo Gorondi contributed to this story.


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Why there is a need of Project Management Software?
There are many reasons that your business could benefit from project management software. You're probably already aware of some of them. However, out of all of the reasons that you need project management software; there are seven that really stand out. Let's explore these reasons as we look at the most common problems that you may face as a project manager.
1. Improve Client Interaction
One really good reason to get a project management software solution is that they can immensely improve the interaction between you and your clients. For instance, without a project management tool the client management process of many businesses can best be described as sporadic. However, a good project management system can change this by making your client communication more systematic.
2. Smoother Team Communication
One of the biggest obstacles that project managers face is communicating with members of their own team. There are many reasons that it's difficult to communicate internally. Among them are differing schedules, differing levels of project commitment and differing workloads. The good thing about project some project management tools is that they help to smoothen the internal communications process by offering a central repository that houses each team mates comments, messages or notes.
3. Better Planning
A quality project management application can make it easier to plan your projects. For example, some project management solutions allow you to prioritize tasks, add dependencies and much more. These are the types of features that make it easier to consistently employ better planning than what could be done without a tool.
4. Consistent Record Keeping
When you're in the midst of a project it's easy to overlook the importance of sound record keeping. However, sometimes you don't appreciate the importance of record keeping until after the project is complete and you need to backtrack and review your records only to find that there are none. This is the type of problem that most project management applications are designed to solve.
5. Provide Snapshots
One of the best part about a well thought out project management system is that they provide easy to understand snapshots. This allows you to determine where the status, roadblocks and new developments on all of your projects are within a few minutes or less.
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When you don't have project management software, delegating tasks usually means having a face to face meeting, trying to do it over the phone, through a web chat or emailing that person and hoping that your message doesn't get lost in the fray. These are all things that you don't have to worry about once you get a project management tool because they usually have a centralized dashboard that sends each team member notifications – both internally and externally. This provides a better paper trail and sometimes a quicker path to your recipient.
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AGS Cup preview with U-17 Men's National Team head coach Richie Williams
U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team head coach Richie Williams spoke to ussoccer.com prior to leaving for the 2012 AGS Cup in Alicante, Spain. The U-17 MNT is paired with Azerbaijan, Georgia and the United Arab Emirates in group play of the tournament which runs from Sept. 29-Oct.6 and Williams said he expects the matches to be competitive.
The coach also touched on playing the UAE earlier in the year, the difficulties of selecting a 20-player travel roster from the Residency Program and the importance of international trips in developing the young players.
ussoccer.com: What are you expecting the level of competition to be like among your group, which includes Azerbaijan, Georgia and the United Arab Emirates, at the AGS Cup?
Richie Williams: "We hope it's good competition. We did play UAE in France and we were successful in that game and played well. We expect Georgia and Azerbaijan to be good competition also. We don't know exactly what they're going to look like and I don't think in this day in age that you can underestimate anybody on the soccer field. Every country is competitive and every game is going to be good. At the younger age groups, it's hard to tell which teams are going to be good. You never know which one might have a good age group coming through. We just hope that we have good, competitive games and that we're able to compete with these teams. The key is to get our guys competitive matches and experience so that they're ready for when we go to Panama next year for World Cup qualifying."
ussoccer.com: Having already played the United Arab Emirates once this year, what can you take from that match to benefit the team in Spain?
RW: I remember them being very good technically on the ball. We were more of a team than the UAE. We played more as a unit. I would say we were a little bit more organized than them. We were good technically too, but I remember them being individually very good technically on the ball and you have to be aware of that and those players. At the time they were in between coaches and they now have a new coach. We expect them to be a better team and a stronger team than the last time. You can't take anybody for granted. We need to concentrate on what we are doing and how we've been training and concentrate on ourselves so that we go out and show up and play at a high level. I think if we do that, we'll be fine and able to compete in the tournament.
ussoccer.com: There are a handful of players on the current roster that played in the AGS Cup last year including Golden Boot winner Wesley Wade. How do you think that experience will help the team this time around?
RW: "It'll help in terms of familiarity. I think with them just going through the experience and being in Residency for over a year now and having the past experience it will hopefully help us. It should. We hope that they can continue to develop and hopefully be better in the tournament than they were last year and play at an even higher level."
ussoccer.com: After spending lots of time with all the players in the U-17 Residency Program, what are some of the challenges you face when trying to select a 20-player travel roster for an international trip?
RW: It's hard because we think we have a pretty good group of players with us right now (in Residency). We currently have 31 players and there is a lot of competition among the team for the 20 spots that will travel. It's good and bad. It's good that they have to compete against one another leading up to the tournament, and it's bad at the end because you have to make some tough decisions and maybe leave some guys that you would like to take. You have to take the 20 that you see fit and you want to bring on the trip for whatever reasons that may be at that time.
ussoccer.com: What do you look for from a player leading up to the trip that might give them an edge to get selected for the travel roster?
RW: "We keep preaching to the guys about consistency and with anything we need guys that we can trust, guys who play consistently and guys we can trust to put in international games and go out and do a good job. That's what we keep preaching to the guys, that every day in training is important and training for the two hours on the field and all the other things we do at Residency that we're looking at – the way they handle themselves and go about training, preparing for training, school and their responsibilities at Residency – all those things go into us evaluating the players and seeing how they're developing and ultimately bringing them on a trip. We look for the 20 guys that give us the best chance of playing well as a team and winning competitions. In the same token, if we have certain tournaments we would like everyone to have the opportunity to get a chance to play in some kind of international competition so we can see them perform. That's something that we try to look at also."
ussoccer.com: Why are international trips, like the current one to Spain for the AGS Cup, important for the players and the team?
RW: "The most important thing is having our players get the experience of international competition, playing in foreign countries against foreign clubs. For us, usually we're home playing against teams from the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, now we get the international competition, the experience of traveling, the experience of the games and they are difficult games in sometimes a difficult environment. Especially for age groups like us, the U-17s and U-20s, when we have to go for World Cup qualifying it's a good experience to have."
ussoccer.com: Is there an overarching goal behind the trips as a whole, or does the main objective differ with each international training camp or tournament?
RW: "I think the main goal always is to go play well, to compete and work on the things that we want to work on and to get individuals experience in international competition. With all that being said, to go out and to compete and to win also is part of the development of our players and our team. To come together as a team to compete, develop and win the games is ultimately what you look for on these trips and hope to win the tournament. At the end of the day, we want to develop the players and for the players to become better and the team to become better, but they also have to develop into knowing how to compete and win certain tournaments."