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Alexander Kozned, CEO of Aurora Communications, Illegally Filled Wetlands for Radio Towers

The Northwest regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled its complaint against Alexander Kozned, president and CEO of Aurora Communications International, Inc., for a number of significant violations of the federal Clean Water Act committed by Kozned on Aurora's property on Cook Inlet.

To resolve EPA's claims, Kozned has agreed to pay a penalty of $17,000 for the violations and to restore the wetlands, streams, and intertidal areas that were damaged by a number of road-building and mechanized land-clearing projects Kozned directed between July 1998 and September 2002. These projects resulted in the discharge of fill material to 2.71 acres of the property's aquatic areas and disrupted hydrologic flow over a larger area of the property.

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(3) establish an approximately 50 acre conservation easement at the site.

The work required by the Administrative Order on Consent is to be completed this summer with five years of monitoring to ensure that hydrology is restored and that the revegetation efforts are successful.

Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, comparable to rain forests and coral reefs. An immense variety of species of microbes, plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals rely on wetlands for food, water, and shelter, especially while migrating and breeding. Wetlands also provide many societal benefits such as water quality improvement, flood storage, shoreline erosion control, economically beneficial natural products for human use, and opportunities for recreation, education, and research.

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— When you think about counties growing too fast for their own good, much of the focus is on schools and roads. But it also puts a strain on firefighters, not just because there are more homes, but also because there are fewer hydrants.

The owners of a Clayton home returned from dinner to find flames and firefighters everywhere. The fire destroyed the home and everything inside.

"With the condition of the house when we got there, it was a challenge to put it out," said Clayton Fire Chief Lee Barbee.

What made the fire especially difficult was there were no fire hydrants in the neighborhood. Firefighters trucked all the water in with tankers.

"I don't think it would have made any difference in this case at all," said Johnston County Fire Marshal Paul Whitehurst.

Firefighters called in six departments from two counties to help.

"We never ran out of water. It was just a challenge to get it all set up and keep the shuttle running," Barbee said.

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Bell turned himself in, authorities said.

Williams drowned June 20 after the boat she was riding in with her 14-year-old sister, Tiffany, and a family friend, John Long, collided with a bass boat driven by Bell, authorities said. Investigators estimated Bell's boat was traveling about 35 miles per hour when it collided with the other boat.

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THOMAS RHETT at the Ford Center.

Thomas Rhett will appear live in concert in Evansville, Indiana on Thursday, September 28 at the Ford Center.

With "a sky-rocketing Country career” (TODAY), Thomas Rhett recently earned his seventh career No. One with the fastest-rising single of his career “Star Of The Show,” featured on his sophomore album TANGLED UP DELUXE (The Valory Music Co.), the track was co-written by Thomas Rhett, Rhett Akins and Ben Hayslip, and is the fourth to take the top position off his PLATINUM certified release. Filled with party anthems, dance tunes, drinking songs and love ballads, the 18-track TANGLED UP DELUXE (The Valory Music Co.) also includes his 2X PLATINUM Grammy-nominated six-week chart-topping smash "Die A Happy Man," which has garnered major trophies from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Billboard Music Awards, and CMT Music Awards.

AMERICAN MADE TOUR comes to Evansville.

Justin Moore & Lee Brice, two of country music’s most dynamic performers, will ring in 2017 with their co-headlined “American Made” tour. The two will be heading into Evansville, IN on April 21st at the Ford Center.  The show features special guest: Brett Young.

Moore released his fourth album ‘Kinda Don’t Care’ — his third #1 debut on the Country charts — in August. The lead single from the album, the Top-5 and-rising “You Look Like I Need a Drink,” lines up right alongside his chart-topping Platinum and Gold-certified hits “Small Town USA,” “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away,” “Point at You” and “Lettin’ The Night Roll.” This also follows two Gold-certified albums ‘Justin Moore’ and ‘Outlaws Like Me.’ He debuted music from his new album last month with a live performance during the Fox & Friends’ All-American Summer Concert Series.

Lee Brice is a multiple ACM and CMA award winner with a GRAMMY nomination, six RIAA platinum singles – and more than 10 Million singles sold —under his belt. The “melodically eloquent”

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Mike Johnson is reporting that former WWE NXT Diva Raquel Diaz (Shaul Guerrero) is looking to get back into WWE. She is planning on moving to Orlando where the WWE Performance Center is located in an attempt to return to the company. Diaz was signed back in 2011 and was a former FCW Divas Champion before leaving WWE last year to pursue an education.


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Lee Fields & Herb Welch1955/01/04Mobile, AL
Defeat Red Roberts & Mario Galento in tournament final.
Red Roberts & Mario Galento1955/02/08Mobile, AL
Awarded when Lee Fields is injured and unable to compete in title match.
Jack Curtis & George Curtis1955/05/24Mobile, AL
Red Roberts & Mario Galento [2]1955/07/05Mobile, AL
Don Fields & Lee Fields1955/11/16Mobile, AL
Awarded when Roberts is injured and unable to competein title match; title inactive after 56.

* Tennessee/Mid-America version is defended between 56 and 59.

John Smith & Tosh Togo1959/10/28Mobile, AL
Defeat Don Fields & Bobby Fields in tournament final.
Don Fields & Bobby Fields1959/11/11Mobile, AL
Corsica Joe & Corsica Jean1960/01/06Mobile, AL
Also recognized as champions in Mid-America territory.
Don Fields & Bobby Fields [2]1960/01/27Mobile, AL
Also win Mid-America version, defeats the Corsicas on 60/02/22 in Memphis, TN.
Great Bolo & Joe McCarthy1960/04/20Mobile, AL
Don Fields & Bobby Fields [3]1960/04/27Mobile, AL
Title inactive.
Mysterious Medics1961/02/22
Billed as champions on arrival.
Don Fields & Bobby Fields [4]1961/04/05Mobile, AL
Mysterious Medics [2]1961/04/12Mobile, AL
Jackie Fargo & Joey Fargo1961/04/26Mobile, AL
Mysterious Medics [3]1961/05/03Mobile, AL
Jerry Kozak & Nick Kozak1961/06/14Mobile, AL
Billy Hines & Bad Boy Hines1961/08/08Pensacola, FL
Don Fields & Bobby Fields [5]1961/10/06Dothan, AL
Billy Hines & Bad Boy Hines [2]1962/03/02Dothan, AL
Mysterious Medics [4]1962/03/28Mobile, AL
Tex Riley & Gus Taylor1962/04/18Mobile, AL
Mysterious Medics [5]1962/04/25Mobile, AL
Jackie Fargo & Jack Donovan1962/06/01Dothan, AL
Vacant on 62/06/20 when Donovan & Fargo split.
Lee Fields & Greg Peterson1962/09/26
Billy Hines & Bad Boy Hines [3]1962/10/26Dothan, AL
Mysterious Medics [6]1962/10/31Mobile, AL
Billy Hines & Bad Boy Hines [4]1962/11/07Mobile, AL
Jan Madrid & Jack Curtis Jr.1963/01/11Dothan, AL
Don Greene & Al Greene1963/01/16Mobile, AL
Lee Fields & Joe Scarpa1963/04/10Mobile, AL
Tiger Tomasso & Pancho Villa1963/05/01Mobile, AL
Lee Fields & Joe Scarpa [2]1963/05/03Dothan, AL
Vacant on 63/06/05 when Scarpa leaves the territory.
Mysterious Medics [7]1963/12/04
Lee Fields & Mario Galento1964/03/18Mobile, AL
Mysterious Medics [8]1964/04/01Mobile, AL
Vacant in 64/04/25 when Medics leave the territory.
Lee Fields & Bobby Fields1964/10/19
Corsica Joe & Corsica Jean [2]1964/10/21Mobile, AL
Vacant on 64/10/28 when the Corsicans leave the territory.
Terry Garvin & Chin Lee1964/11/09
Adrien Baillargeon & Tony Baillargeon1964/11/20Lafayette, LA
Terry Garvin & Chin Lee [2]1964/11/27Lafayette, LA
Lee Fields & Bobby Fields [2]1965/02/03Mobile, AL
Vacant on 65/08/01 when Lee Fields retires; the Fields are billed as holding both Southern and Louisiana titles as of 65/11/06 and continue to be recognized as Southern champions in Louisiana as late as 66/01/02.
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas1965/08/04Mobile, AL
Defeat Bad Boy Hines & Billy Boy Hines in a tournament final.
Mysterious Medics [9]1965/10/27Mobile, AL
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas [2]1965/11/17Mobile, AL
Mysterious Medics [10]1965/11/24Mobile, AL
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas [3]1965/12/17Dothan, AL
Don Carson & Mazie York1966/02/11Dothan, AL
Vacant on 65/02/23 when Carson suffers a broken leg.
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas [4]1966/03/26
Eduardo Perez & Rocky Montero1966/05/04Dothan, AL
Bad Boy Hines & Billy Boy Hines [5]1966/05/27Dothan, AL
Ramon Torres & Silento Rodriguez1966/06/03Dothan, AL
Rodriguez is injured and gives up his share of the title.
Ramon Torres & Bobby Fields1966/07/20
Fields replaces Rodriguez as Torres' partner; vacate on 66/08/01 when Fields moves to the Louisiana end of the territory.
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas [5] 1966/08/01
Awarded; have been billed as champions in Louisiana for winning the title "in Alabama last week", according to Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) on 66/07/19; held up after a match against the Golden Tornadoes: Don Carson & Maxie York on 66/09/27 in Baton Rouge, LA.
Ken Lucas & Chris Lucas [6]1966/10/04Baton Rouge, LA
Win rematch; title retired in 67/01; Playground Daily News (Ft. Walton Beach, FL) mention Lee Fields & Bobby Fields as the champions on 67/02/27.

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-- TNA is holding an event on July 29th, 2011 at the Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas. Tickets go on sale June 17th, 2011.

-- Sarita will be at "MPW Impact" in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on June 4th, 2011.

-- Carlito will be at PWD's Summerfest in Reno, Nevada on July 16th, 2011.

-- FOX4 in Florida has a story about Florida Championship Wrestling. In the article they note that FCW gets up to 2000 applications per week, and there are 70 wrestlers under WWE development from 14 different countries. Steve Keirn says that maybe five will end up making it. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat is shown training FCW wrestlers in the piece and Titus O'Neill from NXT and Brett DiBiase are interviewed in it. You can check it out by clicking here.

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David Otunga On The Wendy Williams Show; CW Anderson Accuses Vince McMahon Of Recommending Steroid Injection

David Otunga will appear today on the The Wendy Williams Show. He previously appeared on the show last year to talk about his engagement to Jennifer Hudson. Otunga will appear today with Kristin Johnson and Tia Carrere from "The Celebrity Apprentice." (Thanks to WNW reader Dave L for sending this in.)

- Mister Saint Laurent reporting:

ECW original and MLW Tag Team Champion CW Anderson once again joined Mister Saint Laurent on MLW Radio, the official podcast of Major League Wrestling.  MLW Radio drops a new show each and every week for FREE at www.MLW.com and on iTunes (search: MLW Radio).

Also, it was announced that AAA booker and former WCW/TNA star, lucha legend KONNAN will be on MLW Radio this week with MLW President/former WWE Creative Executive Court Bauer talking all things wrestling from booking to crazy stories to the various talent they've had the pleasure (or not) of working with.  It's gonna be a crazy, unique first of its kind.  Just 2 dudes talking about the biz, without a filter.  After Mister Saint Laurent detailed the upcoming MLW Radio show, he transitioned to today's subject: Part 2 of the conversation with CW Anderson!

CW spoke about his time in MLW as well as getting the call to go work for WWE's version of ECW.

"Tommy [Dreamer] called me one day and he explained to me what was going on. WWE was going to bring ECW back and he and Paul [Heyman] were going to have complete control."

CW also spoke about what led to his release.

"I injured my back working Kevin Thorne and I couldn't go to the next TV tapings because I'd slipped a disc in my back. They start paying for rehab because I can't work, I can barely walk. The WWE doctor calls me one day and says Vince needs you to come in and take these steroid injections in your back so you can come back to work. I said it wasn't going to happen."

"I was a baseball player for 15 years. I know what steroid injections in your back do. They numb your back, all it does is numb it. You go out there and think nothing is wrong and when the pain wears off you're worse off than what you were."

You can listen to part 2 of the CW Anderson interview at www.MLW.com

Other topics discussed with CW Anderson include:

-Working with JJ Dillon in the Extreme Horsemen

-CM Punk being the Extreme Horsemen's masked member - which is a secret revealed on the podcast

-The one wrestler that legitimately terrifies CW

-Being in the War Games match with Terry Funk

-Funny moments in the War Games match

-Going to Japan for the first time and wanting to immediately leave

-Feeling like Vince McMahon was sabotaging his matches

-Which WWE agents he got along with

-His thoughts on TNA/IMPACT Wrestling

-The views and opinions expressed in this podcast by Chris Wright/CW Anderson are solely his and are not the views and opinions of MLW Radio, Major League Wrestling, myself,  our parent company,  affiliates,  or subsidiary companies.  This his journey, his experience and we're just asking questions.

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    No offense intended to CW, its his choice whether to accept a steroid injection or not, but it does much more than simply numb the pain. Steroids are also anti-inflammatories and help injuries heal quicker.

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    But i can also understand why CW would object. As he probably doesn't want to end up abusing them, Some people take it quiet seriously.

    If the WWE wants superstars to heel quicker from injuries,they should say that steroids are fine:-}


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Conference Spotlight: Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Conference (May 3-5, 2012)

Coming up fast is the 2012 Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference in Oklahoma City (May 3–5, 2012). This is my first year instructing at the event, and it looks to be a grand event indeed. The OWFI is a huge writing organization with more than 600 members, and many of them turn out for the annual event.

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The Oklahoma writing event is held from May 3–5, 2012, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Oklahoma City, OK. This is a large conference, and features plenty of authors, editors, and agents.

At present, five literary agents are set to attend: Terry Burns (Hartline Literary); Stephen Fraser (Jennifer De Chiara Literary); Louise Fury (L. Perkins Associates); Emmanuelle Morgen (Stonesong); and Jessica Sinsheimer (Sarah Jane Freymann Literary). The agents look like they represent just about every category between them with plenty of overlap.

The keynote is author Steven James. Steven has received wide critical acclaim for his work including four Storytelling World Honor awards, two Publishers Weekly starred reviews, and 2009 and 2011 Christy Awards for best suspense. His thriller, The Bishop, was named both Suspense Magazine‘s and The Christian Manifesto’s 2010 Book of the Year. James’ newest book, The Queen, became available in September, 2011.

All the details are online (click “Conference Brochure” in the list on the lower left), but here are some interesting tidbits:

  • An authors’ autograph party
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Washington Gets a Second Chance

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Washington's dysfunction this summer has proven both embarrassing and costly to the economy, but the capital gets a second chance to prove itself this fall with the budget "super committee." Jerry Seib has explains on The News Hub.

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GB's ... I went back with all the news ... forget the second chance to redeem itself ... some of this function that according to Jerry Sithe joins us now ... on the phone from Washington DC aam agent Jerry aam we've been pretty appalled that of most of this it and that the news room ... about what the wave of the capital um well politicians that hate this um like this functionally W saving a chance to redeem themselves this fall on tells about that how they can and do it ... I think what's happening here is that ... you know that there isn't easy for us to set up in the deficit reduction deal that was ... out ... this one ... the second phase is about to begin with the Roos ... were set up a super committee ... in a net billion dollars owed ... to ... be on those to create a Ridgeway ... and this is this committee is going to be done by the evening ... Nintendo lost ... my panel last carried out ... yes ... I jumped are sought ... Ontario was what he sang ... when a second round of budget cuts ... and does all the promise of antimoney Annaly BAJobs to ... basically ... what makes Leacock so we needed to half of the money to supplement actually happened from ... Meidell will that some ... cynical nine am skeptical and awfully skeptical on but ... probably gonna be able to behave in a different way than what we soul of this sum up ... with a more general some politicians ... I read it ... more to see it in the bail revoked the view that could be a part of the body that would seem to be a recipe for gridlock but the people are all appointed by the leader of ... the by the White House ... but he'll ... be in either ... direction taken ... the first point to ... point to a good bet they'd been given ... instructions that allowed ... them to actually get something that replete ... with your unit ... the deficit ... reduction plan their ... majority in the house ... the DTV Super filibuster proof majority ... in the Senate to get something done that second point ... they're pointed to a ticket to the airport when there's an awful lot of pressure on these people to show ... the country that Washington can go up you know everybody involved in the process ... waterproof already dropped after the debacle this summer which ... this week to week of ... bargaining and uncertainty ... 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Chiquita's future in Charlotte in doubt after merger

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - City, county and state leaders spent millions to bring Chiquita’s global headquarters to Charlotte.

Less than two years later, Chiquita plans to merge with an Irish company and pull executives and its headquarters out of uptown.

Chiquita moved to Charlotte in 2012 and promised to keep its headquarters in the city for at least 10 years and to hire more than 400 people.

On Monday, there was no clear answer from local leaders if this moves violates the $22 million incentive package from the city, county and state.

TIMELINE: Chiquita Brand

Either way, some are calling this a major blow to Charlotte as it tries to portray itself as a home for global commerce.

County Commissioner Pat Cotham said she understands it's part of business, but this won’t help Charlotte recruit others.

“This is a disappointment for the city to lose a headquarters,” Cotham said.

Charlotte has some major questions to answer: Does the deal require Chiquita to keep its headquarters in Charlotte or just an office in the city?

And with expected reductions in its current 310 employees, will it ever reach its goal of more than 400 hires in three years?

On Monday, Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon said he doesn’t believe the move violates the deal, but the staff will continue to track it as the merger progresses.

Former City Councilman Andy Dulin, who voted for the incentives, said he has no regrets.

“They've come up with their part of the bargain as far as hiring, money unfitting their space, which goes into the construction end of the community,” Dulin said.

County Commissioner Bill James voted against the incentives.

He emailed Channel 9 saying, "I have been opposed to economic development grants for a long time. The biggest screw up was giving them moving expenses up front."

While the politicians debate the deal, some taxpayers are trying to look on the bright side.
“If the jobs are staying here I think that’s what they were brought here for, not the prestige of being headquartered here,” said Charlotte resident Mark Vanzandt.

Shareholders on both sides and federal regulators still have to approve the deal, but they hope to have this done by the end of the year.

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DeRenne student accused in stabbing appears in court - WTOC-TV: Savannah, Beaufort, SC, News, Weather & Sports

Middle school student charged in stabbing appears in court

A DeRenne Middle School student remains in custody after attacking a fellow student with a knife.

The 13-year-old suspect made an appearance in juvenile court Wednesday for a detention hearing.

Investigators say the suspect stabbed another 13-year-old girl student in the head, shoulder and right arm with a kitchen knife. The two teens are said to have had trouble in the past.

Police said there was an exchange between the students through social media over the weekend and that this was a case of bullying.

The student has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon on school property and disrupting public school.

The suspect will remain behind bars until her next appearance, which will be a juvenile arraignment hearing. The next hearing is set for 9 a.m. May 13.

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Vietnam reporter-historian Karnow dies at age 87

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In this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, author and journalist Stanley Karnow is seen at his home in Potomac, Md. Karnow, the award-winning author and journalist who worked on a definitive book and television documentary about the Vietnam War and later a won Pulitzer for a history of the Philippines, died Sunday. He was 87.
POTOMAC, Md. -- Stanley Karnow, the award-winning author and journalist who wrote a definitive book about the Vietnam War, worked on an accompanying documentary and later won a Pulitzer for a history of the Philippines, died Sunday morning. He was 87.Karnow, who had congestive heart failure, died in his sleep at his home in Potomac, Md., said son Michael Karnow.A Paris-based correspondent for Time magazine early in his career, Karnow was assigned in 1958 to Hong Kong as bureau chief for Southeast Asia and soon arrived in Vietnam, when the American presence was still confined to a small core of advisers. In 1959, Karnow reported on the first two American deaths in Vietnam, not suspecting that tens of thousands would follow.Into the 1970s, Karnow would cover the war off and on for Time, The Washington Post and other publications and then draw upon his experience for an epic PBS documentary and for the million-selling "Vietnam: A History," published in 1983 and widely regarded as an essential, even-handed summation.Karnow's "In Our Image," a companion to a PBS documentary on the Philippines, won the Pulitzer in 1990. His other books included "Mao and China," which in 1973 received a National Book Award nomination, and "Paris in The Fifties," a memoir published in 1997.A fellow Vietnam reporter, Morley Safer, would describe Karnow as the embodiment of "the wise old Asian hand." Karnow was known for his precision and research -- his Vietnam book reaches back to ancient times -- and his willingness to see past his own beliefs. He was a critic of the Vietnam War (and a name on President Nixon's enemies list) who still found cruelty and incompetence among the North Vietnamese. His friendship with Philippines leader Corazon Aquino did not stop him from criticizing her presidency.A salesman's son, Karnow was born in New York in 1925 and by high school was writing radio plays and editing the school's paper, a job he also held at the Harvard Crimson. He first lived in Asia during World War II when he served throughout the region in the Army Air Corps. Back in the U.S., he majored in European history and literature at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1947.Enchanted by French culture, and by the romance of Paris set down by Americans Ernest Hemingway and Henry Miller, Karnow set out for Europe after leaving school not for any particular purpose, but simply because it was there. "I went to Paris, planning to stay for the summer. I stayed for 10 years," he wrote in "Paris in the Fifties." He began sending dispatches to a Connecticut weekly, where the owner was a friend, and in 1950 was hired as a researcher at Time. Promoted to correspondent, he would cover strikes, race car driving and the beginning of the French conflict with Algeria, but also interviewed Audrey Hepburn ("a memorable if regrettably brief encounter"), fashion designer Christian Dior and director John Huston, who smoked cigars, knocked back Irish whiskies and rambled about the meaning of Humphrey Bogart. Friends and acquaintances included Norman Mailer, James Baldwin and John Kenneth Galbraith.Karnow's first book was the text for "Southeast Asia," an illustrated Life World Library release published in 1962, before the U.S. committed ground troops to Vietnam. It was partly a Cold War time capsule, preoccupied with Communist influence, but was also skeptical enough of official policy to anticipate the fall of a key American ally, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dihn Diem, an event that helped lead to greater American involvement.Like so many others, Karnow initially supported the war and believed in the "domino theory" that asserted one country's embrace of Communism would lead to others doing the same. But by war's end, Karnow agreed with the soldier asked by a reporter in 1968 what he thought of the conflict: "It stinks," was the reply."Vietnam: A History" was published in 1983 and coincided with a 13-part PBS documentary series. Like much of his work, Karnow's book combined historical research, firsthand observations and thorough reporting, including interviews with top officials on both sides of the war. Decades later, it remained read and taught alongside such classics as David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" and Michael Herr's "Dispatches."
"There are not many carefully delineated judgments in the book. But that is more a comment than the criticism it might be, for Mr. Karnow does not claim to have reached a sweeping verdict on the war," Douglas Pike, a former U.S. government official in Vietnam who became a leading authority on the war, wrote for The New York Times in a 1983 review."Because he has a sharp eye for the illustrative moment and a keen ear for the telling quote, his book is first-rate as a popular contribution to understanding the war. And that is what he meant it to be."The PBS series won six Emmys, a Peabody and a Polk and was the highest-rated documentary at the time for public television, with an average of 9.7 million viewers per episode. Along with much praise came criticism from the left and right. The liberal weekly The Nation faulted Karnow for "little analysis and much waffling." Conservatives were so angered by the documentary that PBS agreed to let the right-wing Accuracy in Media air a rebuttal, "Television's Vietnam: The Real Story," which in turn was criticized as a show of weakness by PBS.
Karnow completed no books after "Paris in the Fifties." He attempted a study of Asians in the U.S., which he abandoned; a history of Jewish humor that never advanced beyond an outline; and a second memoir, with such working titles as "Interesting Times" and "Out of Asia." He also cared for his ailing wife, Annette, who died of cancer in 2009. A previous marriage, to Claude Sarraute (daughter of French novelist Nathalie Sarraute), ended in divorce in 1955. Karnow had three children.He was often called on for speeches, panel discussions and television appearances and asked for his opinions on current affairs. One query came in 2009, through his old friend Richard Holbrooke, at the time the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan. Holbrooke wanted advice on U.S. policy in Afghanistan and put Karnow on the phone with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander. Karnow and the general discussed similarities between the wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam."What did we learn from Vietnam?" Karnow later told the AP. "We learned that we shouldn't have been there in the first place."
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Herd baseball, track beating the odds

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- THE FINAL weekend of the 2012-13 college sports calendar was one of the best ever for Marshall athletics, considering the odds.In track and field - and that can only be the women's team at MU - two athletes emerged as All-Americans. In baseball, pitcher Aaron Blair was picked 36th overall in baseball's First-Year Player Draft, with centerfielder Isaac Ballou following in the 15th round.Blair is the Herd's highest-ever draft pick, and can expect a seven-figure signing bonus from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ballou may be the program's highest-selected position player, and his affiliation with the Nationals should earn him a return to Appalachian Power Park at some point, perhaps next year.On the track, the Thundering Herd's Crystal Walker finished fifth in the long jump and Vanessa Jules placed sixth in the heptathlon. They combined to give the Herd seven points in the national meet - four years ago, the Herd scored that many in the Conference USA meet.Remember, Marshall doesn't have its own track. Or a viable baseball field.These aren't examples of former athletic director Bob Marcum's "doing more with less" line. We're talking about making something out of nothing.Track coach Jeff Small and baseball coach Jeff Waggoner, take a bow.A word about Small: He is one of two head coaches finishing their 18th season at MU. To tell you how long that is, he was coaching when Randy Moss took a break from his offseason football duties to destroy Southern Conference foes in the sprints.The other 18-year head coach is Bob Gray of men's soccer, and there's a story to be retold there. Gray's soccer program went on Marcum's chopping block in 2002, a potential move that was met with a monstrous protest from the soccer community. Instead, Small found himself minus a men's team.A few years later, about the time MU entered Conference USA, another shoe fell. More correctly, the shoes stopped falling on the Walter "Lefty" Rollins track, which was taken for new residence halls.Small has shown his love for Huntington and the Marshall area the hard way, suffering through some lean, lean years in C-USA - 12th and last place in the 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011 league outdoor meets; 11th in 2008, 2010 and 2012.This spring was a lot different.  Back in early April, the Herd defeated Ohio and West Virginia in a three-team get together in Athens. I hereby confess: I immediately asked myself, "OK, who did WVU leave home?"It wasn't a fluke. The Herd finished fifth in the C-USA meet, with its 63 points more than double the previous high of 28. Jules was named the Performer of the Meet after blowing away the heptathlon record, and Walker won the triple jump and placed in the high jump. Four individual performers and the 4x400-meter relay team qualified for the NCAA East preliminary meet.Walker qualified for nationals in the long jump, with Jules in the heptathlon. The seniors eventually became the first MU athletes to make the national meet since 2003, when Oak Hill's Erin Compton finished eighth in the discus.
Small's formula is simple, and necessary: Find undeveloped talent and develop it better than anybody else - for example, Walker has tacked on another foot to her long jump since transferring from Stephen F. Austin in the fall of 2011.He made a heptathlete out of Jules, who reluctantly accepted the role. The Silver Spring, Md., native qualified for the NCAA prelims in 2011 and 2012 in the high jump, but couldn't get much past 5 feet, 9 inches."We had to kind of push her into it," Small said. "She fought it for about a year. I just tried to convince her that she is a very good high jumper, but as far as being a national-class or a world-class athlete, she would have to improve her high jump 6 or 7 inches. That's pretty difficult.
"At the national meet, she comes up and tells us, 'Hey, some guy came up and told me I did a great job and I had a lot of potential.'  I asked, 'Where is he?' and she pointed to him. I said, 'That's Dan O'Brien, the former world-record holder in the decathlon."I said, 'Go get back to the hotel, 'Google' him and see if you can learn something from that guy.'"  Small's program will be one of the beneficiaries of MU's new indoor practice facility, which will include a 300-meter track. But Waggoner, finishing his seventh season, seems doomed to play home games in Charleston and Beckley forever. I'm sure he is thrilled that WVU entered the Big 12 and is getting a ballpark just for the asking.
Waggoner has taken his lumps - two last-place finishes in a row are just one example - but he has developed high-quality talent. The pros are starting to mount: Eddie Rush, Steven Blevins, Tommy Johnson, Ryan Kiel, Kevin Shackleford, Shane Ferrell, Victor Gomez, Ian Kadish, Arik Sikula, Rhett Stafford, Greg Williams, Joe Church, Jesse Fernandez, Mike Mason and ...Dan Straily, who has made 16 starts with the Oakland Athletics. But he was drafted in the 24th round in 2009, much lower than Blair was picked over the weekend."He was drafted 21st round in high school," Waggoner said of Blair. "He came to us throwing 88, 91 [mph], but he had some baby fat. He had to strengthen his body, strengthen his core. ... When he came in the program, he didn't have a good changeup; now he's got a great changeup. It's a big-league changeup."Ballou finished his four-year career as MU's all-time leader in triples (16) and walks (129) and was second in stolen bases (64), plus he covered a lot of acreage in center field. He benefited from the MU weight program, which needs no apology - he bulked up from 165 to 205 pounds.So how is Waggoner pulling this off, and how will he pull it off in a deeper C-USA lineup gathering in 2014?"We have to sell them on the fact that we develop players," Waggoner said. "Other schools will go against us when we recruit somebody about our field situation. But the one thing we come back with other schools is we're developing players, getting opportunities to play pro ball. We don't bring in a ton of kids - we bring in guys and develop them, and they get the opportunity to play right away, and play in a great conference."His team will benefit from that indoor facility, but sheesh - give than man a ballpark. Someday?
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  • There isn't a challenge that MU and New England Patriots great Troy Brown won't take on, it seems. Last week, he continued to branch out in his media pursuits.As you may recall, Brown spent the 2010 season as a radio analyst for Thundering Herd football games. He has performed radio and television duties in Boston, with WEEI and Comcast Sports, respectively.Last week, he willingly went to Toledo to participate in something called the NFL Sports Journalism & Communications Boot Camp. He and 22 other current and former players attended a Toledo Mud Hens game and took their turns at the keyboard.He won't say it in those words, but he found out you must have a few screws loose to do this for a living."Those kind of things are a little tough, a little out of my league," he told the Boston Globe. "The writing aspect, deadlines make it really tough. You don't know if they need 200 words, 300 words, whatever the space is, that's the challenging part."Brown has taken a ribbing or two about all this media work. It seems he was a little camera-shy in his years with the Patriots."I wanted no part of media," Brown said. "It wasn't that I was trying to 'dis' the media, I just didn't like doing it ... I didn't think I did a good job when I had a camera in my face."Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, dougsmock@wvgazette.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock.
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The digital clock manager (DCM) component implements a clock delay locked loop (DLL), a digital frequency synthesizer (DFS), and a digital phase shifter (DPS). The Library component used for Virtex®-4 and Virtex-5 is DCM_ADV. The Library component used for Spartan®-3A and Spartan-3E is DCM_SP.
Supported Devices
Virtex-II, Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-II Pro X, Virtex-4, Virtex-5, Spartan-3, Spartan-3E, Spartan-3A devices
Use the different functions for the following:
  •  DLL reduces the amount of clock skew to internal or external synchronous elements clocked by the outputs of the DCM.
  •  DFS derives new clock signals from the input clock by selecting a multiply and divide value to create an output clock of a new frequency.
  •  DPS offsets the phase of the output clock relative to the input clock in small increments.
This component can only be instantiated. You can instantiate the component as follows:
  •  For schematic designs, instantiate the DCM Xilinx® Unified Library symbol.
  •  For HDL designs, do either of the following:
    •  Use the instantiation templates provided in the Libraries Guides.
    •  Use the instantiation templates provided with the Project Navigator Language Templates, which are described in Working with Language Templates.
  •  You can use the Architecture Wizard to create a DCM instance with the needed functionality. For more information, see Working with Architecture Wizard IP.
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Podcast 106: Dark Souls 3 & Toilet Paper

Toilet Paper....what is it good for?? A surprisingly in-depth discussion ensues. Dark Souls 3 came out this week and we discuss our thoughts and impressions. Is it as good as previous titles? Does it live up to the hype or is it let down? We also discuss the big incursion patch for Division, as well as the news of the day. Finally, we get into an intense discussion regarding card games. Which are our favorite and which do we collect? As always it's another happy fun time with the best Xbox One community on the internet!

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Podcast: How the Gig Economy Is Changing the Workforce

Hosted by: David Weisenfeld

The rapid rise of services like Uber and Lyft has highlighted one of the most notable trends in employment law, the growing contingent workforce. In fact, the trend has led to a new term, "the gig economy," referring to contingent workers operating in the digital marketplace. But it has also brought with it a host of employment law risks.

On this podcast, Fisher Phillips employment attorney Rich Meneghello, of the firm's Portland, Oregon office, takes an in-depth look at the gig economy. "It's an absolute game-changer," says Meneghello. "The gig economy has opened our eyes to a third category somewhere in the middle between employees and contractors."

How the Gig Economy is Changing the Workforce

September 12, 2016

Meneghello, who co-chairs his firm's Gig Economy Practice Group, says the average employer is now facing an entirely new vein of competition far different from traditional rivals. "The way of thinking is the main competitor," he explains. "People can cobble together a lifestyle by doing a variety of discrete tasks." Meneghello adds that the average gig worker likes the freedom and does not want to be treated as an employee.

But Uber and Lyft's legal difficulties suggest there are some employment law minefields with these issues. And, Meneghello notes, those companies are far from unique, noting that the real concern is misclassification. "Every employer should be concerned. This issue will be on your doorstep soon, if it isn't already," says Meneghello.


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Carpet Buying Guide

The Ultimate Guide to Buying a Handmade Rug

Buying a rug is not only be a tedious process but can also be very tiresome. It requires a lot of time, money and effort to pick the right rug. Purchasing a rug is not like buying groceries from a vegetable store. It is like buying that perfect ring for your fiancé where there are no would have’s, could have’s or should have’s. Additionally, it is crucial to decipher the size, weave, material and most importantly the budget before making that big purchase.

Before venturing into buying that rug you have always dreamt off, it is extremely crucial to determine the exact size of the rug. Also, it is important to decide if one wants the leg of the furniture on the carpet or off the carpet and accordingly measure the size of the rug. For example, for a living room, a large area rug is ideal whereas for a bedroom a medium to small size rug would be perfect. On the other hand, for a foyer or entrance, a round or square carpet would look good.

Another factor to determine before making that purchase is figuring out what kind of weave of the rug one is looking for. For instance, one can choose from a hand knotted rug to a hand tufted rug or even a machine made rug. However, a machine made rug is not very durable as compared to a good quality handmade rug.

The most important variable to consider prior to buying a rug is to decide the material of the same. Most of the good quality rugs are made in New Zealand wool and are double weft. However, the fine quality rugs are made in pure silk and have high knots per square inch. In Silk as well, there are two qualities namely; silk on silk and silk on cotton. It is advised to avoid rugs made out of artificial silk since they are highly inflammable and polypropylene rugs are also not a goof choice since they smell of rubber and would stench the entire space.

After considering all these factors, the most crucial part is to set aside a budget. Rug prices can go upto couple of thousand dollars. A handmade rug is more expensive than a machine made rug. It should be noted that a lot of times, rug stores jack up the prices and then try to offer a discount on top of that. is one such store that offers great quality rugs at fair prices. The specialty of it is that each rug is One of a kind and has been meticulously handcrafted with a lot of precision.

To conclude, it would be right to say that that is important to keep the aforementioned factors in mind prior to making that bug purchase. There are a lot of rug stores who might tell their customers something that isn’t true about the carpet, however, the key is to trust your gut instinct and buy what suits ones’ interiors best.


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Recipe 8.13 Updating a Random-Access File

8.13.1 Problem

You want to read an old record from a binary file, change its values, and write back the record.

8.13.2 Solution

After reading the old record, pack up the updated values, seek to the previous address, and write it back.

use Fcntl;                          # for SEEK_SET and SEEK_CUR

seek(FH, $ADDRESS, SEEK_SET)        or die "Seeking: $!";
                                    or die "Reading: $!";
# update fields, then
seek(FH, -$RECSIZE, SEEK_CUR)       or die "Seeking: $!";
print FH $BUFFER;
close FH                            or die "Closing: $!";

8.13.3 Discussion

You don't have to use anything fancier than print in Perl to output a record. Remember that the opposite of read is not write but print, although oddly enough, the opposite of sysread is syswrite.

The example program shown in Example 8-4, weekearly, takes one argument: the user whose record you want to backdate by a week. (Of course, in practice, you wouldn't really want to (nor be able to!) mess with the system accounting files.) This program requires write access to the file to be updated, since it opens the file in update mode. After fetching and altering the record, it packs it up again, skips backward in the file one record, and writes it out.

Example 8-4. weekearly
  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  # weekearly -- set someone's login date back a week
  use User::pwent;
  use IO::Seekable;
  $typedef = "L A12 A16";         # linux fmt; sunos is "L A8 A16"
  $sizeof  = length(pack($typedef, ( )));
  $user    = shift(@ARGV) || $ENV{USER} || $ENV{LOGNAME};
  $address = getpwnam($user)->uid * $sizeof;
  open (LASTLOG, "+<:raw", "/var/log/lastlog")
      or die "can't update /var/log/lastlog: $!";
  seek(LASTLOG, $address, SEEK_SET)
      or die "seek failed: $!";
  read(LASTLOG, $buffer, $sizeof) =  = $sizeof
      or die "read failed: $!";
  ($time, $line, $host) = unpack($typedef, $buffer);
  $time  -= 24 * 7 * 60 * 60;         # back-date a week
  $buffer = pack($typedef, $time, $line, $time);
  seek(LASTLOG, -$sizeof, SEEK_CUR)   # backup one record
      or die "seek failed: $!";
  print LASTLOG $record;
      or die "close failed: $!";

8.13.4 See Also

The PerlIO(3) manpage; the open, seek, read, pack, and unpack functions in the perlfunc(1) and in Chapter 29 of Programming Perl; Recipe 8.12; Recipe 8.14

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Hacking (bypassing) Rogers's restrictions to download BitTorrent files

Recently, Rogers Communications Inc. implemented a mechanism (known as BitTorrent throttling -blocking-) to prevent the download of BitTorrent files from within its network. I guess they are trying to block illegal copyrighted downloads; but the fact is, BitTorrent is not an illegal technology, and it is used to share fully licensed materials as well.

If they were a fair company, they would allow their customers to cancel the contracts; nevertheless, they have put ridiculously high cancellation fees in order to prevent their clients from freely changing to a better ISP option.

Anyhow, enough from blah, blah, blah... this is the way to bypass Rogers's restrictions in order to download BitTorrent files:
  1. Install Vidalia in your computer. “Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for the Tor software”. You need to install the appropriate Vidalia's distribution, depending on your current Operating System (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  2. Specify the following proxy setting in your preferred BitTorrent client (uTorrent, Azureus, Vuze, Free Download Manager): Proxy address: localhost; Proxy port: 8118.
Take a look at the following video. I have recorded how to download and install Vidalia in Windows. Furthermore, I have shown how to configure Free Download Manager (this is my preferred BitTorrent client) in order to access the Internet through Tor. You can see how the Torrent file gets downloaded.

Please, notice this is a general guideline. It might require slightly variations depending on your OS and BitTorrent client. If you have any questions, write them in the comments section below, and I  will do my best to answer ASAP.

That's it! You can now download torrents from within the Rogers network with no restrictions.
Warning: BitTorrent downloading over Tor does not warrantee your anonymity. In other words, you could be busted if you download copyrighted materials. Again, if your purpose is to go undetected when downloading Torrents, then Tor is NOT for you (read the facts). Don’t waste your time with this post anymore: my ONLY purpose here is to teach you how to mock your ISP BitTorrent blocking (throttling).

  1. Interesante. Yo me conecto con Rogers y uso torrents a cada rato. Supongo que haran throttling solamente porque no parece que lo bloqueen completamente. Al menos no a mi. Yo uso Mutorrent para bajar los torrents.

  2. It might be Franklin. I use "Free Download Manager" and all my BitTorrent traffic is blocked. In any case, you are exceptionally lucky, because lots of fellows are having this problem. I guess it depends somehow on the BitTorrent client you are using. In any case, you now know how to bypass these restrictions :-D

  3. thanks for this blog post :) but the solution is not working. It starts downloading but after like 5 minutes, Rogers network gets disconnected.

  4. Hi techboard,

    Thanks for your feedback. I am no longer with Rogers, so I cannot follow up this issue anytime soon. Anyhow, I will try to get a workaround (if any) and in that case I will update the info in this post.

    One question though: which BitTorrent client are you using to download the files???

  5. How do I set this in Transmission? It only has a proxy port setting.

  6. ok I found it, was a bit different, but that port 8118 is blocked :(

  7. Please do not do this. Torrenting over the Tor network is strongly discouraged as the people donating their bandwidth and processing power for the project did not do it so that you could torrent your crap; they did it to ensure and provide freedom of information.

  8. Dear man mobile,

    I was tented to delete your comment, because I usually don't tolerate offensive words, like, crap, in my blog.

    Nonetheless, I decided to keep it so that I can share my point of view on this subject:

    One question for you: what do you consider "information"? BitTorrent allows you to download "information", be aware of that.

    "Information" can be shared in many forms: PDF files, videos, audio, etc., etc., etc. Such kind of mediums of information are very common in P2P networks.

    If the purpose of the Tor project is to grant access to the "information" freely, without censorship, then BitTorrent information can benefit from the Tor network as well.

    I use BitTorrent through Tor from time to time (2-3 times a month), BUT I always keep my Tor instance running as a relay. So I am contributing to the Tor network pretty much ALWAYS. Do you do the same?

    Yes, not every Tor-BitTorrent user behaves like I do, but that's a choice of their own.

    Everything is about freedom at the end.

  9. Thanks for a great post.

    "Crap" is offensive?

  10. You are very welcome Mambo.

    (I am not a native English speaker, but "crap" sounds offensive to me, especially in the context in which it was used)


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I just got home and looked through the various brochures I have for the 430 series tractors from early to late in the production run.....

Just like everything Case, the brochures show every possible combination. Some have the generator and starter painted Flambeau. Some have the starter painted Flambeau, and the generator painted black, and some have both painted black.

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Just looked through a sevice manual, and in the same manual I found 2 different combo's.

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Doesn't matter, as long as both are the same size. If one is bigger OD, that side will put out more seed than the other side. If you don't have the same size, you can adjust air pressure, till the center of the bearing cap on each side measures the same, from a flat, level concrete pad.

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Not to get to technical but the bigger one will put out less seed not more. Think about it.

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Three non-native trees, approximately 80 feet tall, loom over David Pilston’s Bird Key home. For two years, he’s been asking the city to remove the Norfolk Island pines, which sit on the public right of way, because he fears they may blow onto his home during a hurricane.

“These trees create a constant mess in my yard, pose a potential risk to my property and my neighbors’ properties and could block evacuation routes in a storm,” Pilston wrote in a plea to Commissioner Suzanne Atwell, also a Bird Key resident. “I have requested permits to remove these trees twice in the past few years, but have been denied.”

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The city has denied Pilston’s request, because it has a policy not to remove healthy trees unless they are invasive species. Todd Kucharski, a general manager in the public works department, said the Norfolk Island pines are exotic species, not invasive.

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by: Pam McTeer News Editor

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Kevin Neurer scans the horizon, his eyes resting on the 30-foot clock tower at the center of San Marco Plaza in Lakewood Ranch.

The clock’s fingers move forward slightly and a chorus of bells breaks the silence.

“That’s a sound you don’t hear to often (in Florida),” he says with a smile. “It’s like a piazza in Italy. This is what they do (there).”

After more than a year of silence, the chiming of the bells is back at the plaza off Natures Way in Lakewood Ranch, thanks to the handiwork of Neurer, a retired attorney who loves to tinker with technology.

Already, the sounds are drawing vehicles to the plaza. Often drivers are simply curious, so they circle the clock tower hunting for the source of the sound. But even if they aren’t stopping in stores, they are getting to see the plaza and what it has to offer, Neurer said.

Neurer and his wife, Victoria Roberts, opened a financial planning office in the plaza in August 2008. A fellow merchant told them of bells that used to ring in the plaza.

“That first tweaked my interest,” Neuer said.

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After making a few phone calls and testing some equipment, he discovered that someone had wired a live circuit into the amplifier.

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Refs' Difficult Job Made Harder

As U.S. Soccer works on improving the nation's refs, their job isn't made any easier by coaches, parents and TV commentators.

By Mike Woitalla, Soccer America Magazine

Of course, it's wonderful that there's so much soccer on American television. Young players watch high-level soccer, then take the field trying to emulate it.

Let's just hope they're not listening too closely to the commentary, which frequently encourages the kind of soccer that we don't want from our young players - or from any players, for that matter.

While providing color commentary for Olympic men's soccer, former U.S. national team defender Marcelo Balboa greeted a midfield foul in which a player was tripped while running at full speed before tumbling to the ground with, "Great play!"

Balboa has, after a foul in which the player needed to be stretchered off, praised the defender by saying, "You got to take him down. ... You got to kick him."

A player gets scythed down from behind and the defender gets hailed because, "You gotta do something to slow him down."

A soccer game starts off with a series of fouls that would leave anyone looking for the Beautiful Game sadly discouraged, but Balboa is pleased because, "That's a good start. Foul them and slow it down. That's how you slow down the game of soccer. ... You foul them and don't let them get their rhythm."

Balboa is just one of the many commentators who, instead of denouncing the cheats, heaps accolades on them. Spend a weekend watching MLS games and you'll hear transgressions described in positive terms. There are "intelligent fouls," "smart fouls" and "professional fouls." I've heard a dangerous tackle from behind described as a "veteran play."

"When I hear that, I'm like, 'Oh my god!'" says Paul Tamberino, U.S. Soccer's Director of Referee Development. "When one of our former national team players, whoever it is, makes comments like that, it does filter down to the grassroots.

"You've got young players who used to idolize the guy hearing that and they're liable to think that's how they should play. [The commentators] are teaching the negative aspects of playing and coaching and that's not how it should be portrayed."

The last thing we need is young players believing they should rely on fouling. In fact, the USA's dearth of players skillful enough to defend without fouling is a liability. Remember, at the 2006 World Cup the USA was poised to upset Italy before two Americans were red-carded for reckless fouls. Or more recently at the Summer Olympics, the men squandered a lead over the Netherlands because of a bad tackle.

In addition to condoning foul play, ignorance of the rules by TV commentators often has them criticize referees incorrectly. Among the common misconceptions passed down by the commentators is exonerating players for fouls because of a lack of intent, when in fact the rules require a punishment for fouls regardless of intent. (Only on handballs is intent still a criterion.)

For referees, "experts" encouraging foul play on national television or misrepresenting the rules only makes an already difficult job harder. Brian Hall, a four-time MLS Referee of the Year who officiated games at the 2002 World Cup, is now U.S. Soccer's Manager of Assessment and Training. Like Tamberino, Hall believes the large turnover in registered referees - about a third of the nation's 141,000 refs drop out every year - is caused in great part by sideline abuse that drives refs out of the game.

"To tackle the abuse problem, we've got to do a better job educating parents and coaches on the rules of the game and conduct," says Hall. "At the same time, we have to do a better job at the professional level, because that's the No. 1 thing they see. What happens at the top flows downward.

"And when they see something on television, they think it's OK. Or if they hear a comment from a former national team player or former top level coach, they take that as gospel when in reality it's not. And the people making those comments often have no clue as to what the heck they're saying."

Besides the TV commentators who misinterpret rules and encourage foul play, the behavior of coaches and players influences behavior at the grass-roots level. As does the manner in which referees deal with transgressions.

' In MLS, for example, dissent toward the referee commonly goes unpunished despite the rules being quite clear that a player must be shown the yellow card if he "shows dissent by word or action."

The English FA, recognizing that English Premier League players have gotten out of hand, has launched the "Respect" campaign.

"We have reached tipping point with regards to dissent and have to now say enough is enough," says FA chairman Lord Triesman. "It will be hard to change this culture in our sport but we've got to be consistent in our attempts to do so."

At the forefront of the FA Respect program are instructions to referees to deal "firmly" with dissent. In aiming to stamp out the swarming of referees by players, the FA is stipulating that only the captain address the referee. A key impetus for the program's launch was the dropout rate of English referees at all levels.

Besides hoping that better behavior by pro role models influences the grassroots level, the FA has also instituted guidelines for youth games, requiring that spectators watch from the opposite side of the field from the coaches and that they watch from a designated spectators' area two yards from the sideline.

Coaches, players and parents are encouraged to sign a Code of Conduct form, similar to what some American leagues use through the Positive Coaching Alliance.

Tamberino says U.S. Soccer is considering a similar campaign. A major concern is that many teenage referees, on whom youth leagues depend greatly, quit because of sideline abuse.

"As you referee through the years and get better, you train yourself to hear less and less from the sidelines and you're not be bothered by some parent barking at you," says Mark Thompson, a Northern California referee for 30 years who started officiating at age 12 and has whistled youth, college and pro games. "But if you're 12, 13 or 14, it might bother you a lot. And I would say that in 90 percent of youth games you hear at least some negative shouting from parents."

U.S. Soccer's Referee Program oversees refereeing education at all levels and has recently expanded the department. One of its innovations is a "Referee Week in Review" feature on ussoccer.com in which Hall assesses major refereeing decisions accompanied by video.

"We have increased sharply the resources behind our referee program in the last two years," says U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati. "First by adding full-time officials - we're one of only a handful of countries that have made this move - and more recently by reorganizing our referee department. Adding two highly respected former officials, Paul Tamberino and Brian Hall, has been a huge plus.

"Over the next year or two, we will continue these efforts at the top level and also initiate additional programs at developmental and grassroots levels."

Improving refereeing through education and by expanding the pool of refs is obviously crucial for American soccer. Changing the attitude of parents and coaches on the sidelines of youth games is an even bigger challenge.

(This article originally appeared in the September 2008 issue of Soccer America magazine.)