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400 relay: 1, Tussey Mountain, 46.2. 1600 relay: 1, McConnellsburg (Booth, Hann, Gable, Strait), 3:57.1. 3200 relay: 1, Bellwood-Antis (T. Miller, Kustaborder, DeArmitt, VanKirk), 10:10.4. High jump: 1, Engle, BA, 5-6; 2, DeShong, BA, 5-4; 3, Rhodes, TM, 4-10. Long jump: 1, Engle, BA, 18-1; 2, Hale, BA, 17-6.5; 3, Mall... |
100 dash: 1, Molosky, TM, 13.6; 2, Hess, TM, 14.0; 3, Speigle, M, 14.8. 200 dash: 1, Molosky, TM, 29.0; 2, Speigle, TM, 30.2; 3, Hollingshead, TM, 30.5. 400 dash: 1, Perry, M, 1:05.2; 2, Altobelli, TM, 1:14.6; 3, Cowfer, BA, 1:18.1. 800 run: 1, Yingling, BA, 2:57.8; 2, Perry, M, 3:05.4; 3, Heisler, BA, 3:09.0. 1600 run... |
400 relay: 1, Tussey Mountain, 56.2. 1600 relay: 1, McConnellsburg, 4:05.0. 3200 relay: 1, McConnellsburg, 12:11.7. High jump: 1, Mercer, BA, 4-10; 2, Perry, M, 4-6; 3, McNemara, TM, 4-4. Long jump: 1, Mercer, BA, 18-0; 2, Harnish, M, 17-4.5; 3, Molosky, TM, 13-9. Triple jump: 1, Mercer, BA, 31-3; 2, Nenschot, M, 27-5.... |
SPRING MILLS — The Central boys team lost to Tyrone (115-35) and Penns Valley (107-42). |
The Golden Eagles got doubles wins from Nick Vasbinder (high jump, long jump). Zach Kohler won the 1600 while his brother, Joe Kohler, won the 800. Both teamed up to help win the 3200 relay while Vasbinder was part of the winning 400 relay team. |
The Tyrone girls defeated Central by a 106-39 margin as neither team recorded a double winner. The Lady Eagles did win 14 events. The Lady Dragons also fell to Penns Valley, 103-41. The Lady Dragons won only two events. |
Informix Software said yesterday it has slapped its chief rival, Oracle, with a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets. |
The latest round in an escalating duel between the two makers of business database software was sparked on Wednesday when Oracle hired away a dozen Informix engineers in Portland, Ore. |
Menlo Park-based Informix says the engineers were key employees working on one of its most important products. |
"We think we've got a significant lead on Oracle and their only solution was to go up and pirate away some of my best engineers," said Phillip White, CEO of Informix. "They think they can come in and buy the technology and I'm going to stop them." |
In a telephone interview yesterday, White called Oracle "sleazy and unethical," and denounced its actions as "slanderous and blatant." |
White also said he tried to discuss the issue with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, even going to his home in Atherton and knocking on the door. He said he was told that Ellison was out of town. |
An Oracle spokeswoman called the charges "ridiculous." The Redwood Shores-based company says it hired dissatisfied Informix workers who were shopping for a better employer. |
"These employees voted with their feet and if they hadn't come to Oracle, they would have gone somewhere else," said Jerry Held, senior vice president of server technology at Oracle. |
The suit, filed in federal district court in Portland, seeks unspecified damages. |
Informix on Thursday also obtained a temporary injunction barring the former employees from giving trade secrets to Oracle or recruiting former colleagues, Informix said. |
Informix also singled out Gary Kelley, former Informix product development vice president, as the alleged ringleader of the group. The suit accuses him of breach of fiduciary contract. |
A hearing is scheduled for February 7. |
The spat underscores the fierce rivalries that mark the database industry and often erupt into public disputes. |
For example, Informix rents a billboard in front of Oracle's headquarters. It says: "You have just passed Redwood Shores. So did we. Informix." |
Industry analyst Donald DePalma called the blowup a tempest in a teapot, particularly in an industry that often grows by acquiring knowledge from other companies. |
He said the engineers in Portland originally worked for another database company that was bought by Informix. |
When they joined the company, "Informix went from being a weak third place in databases to a really strong contender for second place," said DePalma, a senior analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. |
But he said the Portland engineers felt pushed aside when Informix bought an Oakland database company last year and made its database into a flagship product. |
"They (the Portland engineers) were previously the royalty within Informix, then all of a sudden, they were the Cinderellas before the ball," DePalma said. |
Oracle's Held said the Informix employees made the first overtures about working at Oracle. And he said Oracle will not let the new employees bring any documents from Informix to their new jobs. |
"We have absolutely no interest in Informix trade secrets," Held said. |
However, employment law experts say intellectual property can be anything from a secret document to an unpublished idea or invention. |
It is a hot topic in Silicon Valley. "For high-tech companies, theft of trade secrets is a huge issue because intellectual property lies at the heart of what those companies do," said Jeffrey Wohl, partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco. |
What's Inside A $40 Million Yacht? |
Luxury yacht makers are sailing their boats to Singapore to target the growing number of Southeast Asian millionaires. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to reporter Shibani Mahtani about why it's not all about China. |
The retail giant admits that the breach may have affected 40 million credit card accounts. |
U.S. retailer Target quite literally has a target painted on itself, and it's one that attackers are now confirmed to have hit in one of the largest data breaches on record. |
Target admitted today that approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts are at risk from the breach. The affected accounts were compromised between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, over the crucial Black Friday and Christmas holiday shopping period. |
Though full details on the breach have not yet been made public, Target has confirmed that the data breach affects customers that shopped in physical Target stores in the United States. Target also has an online store as well as operations in Canada, though the company has not confirmed that those operations were impac... |
The data that the attackers were able to obtain includes customer names, the debit/credit card number, card expiration date as well as the three-digit Card Verification Value (CVV). |
Target has also stated that the issue has been resolved at this point and the company is working with financial institutions and law-enforcement agencies. |
"Target’s first priority is preserving the trust of our guests, and we have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with confidence," Gregg Steinhafel, Target chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement. "We take this matter very seriously and are working with law enforcement to bring those respons... |
In an open letter published by Target today to its customers, the company provides a number of recommendations on what potential victims of the breach should do. Target recommends that retail customers should review their credit card account statements as well as monitor credit reports. Target advises retail customers ... |
Target also suggests that customers visit the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s ID Theft website at www.consumer.gov/idtheft for additional information and tips. |
The Target breach is likely the largest breach of a U.S. retailer since at least 2006 when TJX reported a data breach affecting 46 million of its customers. A year after the TJX breach was first reported, the scope of the TJX breach widened, and as many a 96 million consumers were impacted. |
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2015. |
“Reconciliation” is a feel-good word. Who wouldn’t want to say yes to restored friendship, to resolving conflict, to reunions and harmony and peace? Yet, the experience of much of our lives suggests that the ideal is more attractive than the reality. Reconciliation is often a good idea that we’d be glad to enjoy, but a... |
McNeil defines reconciliation as “an ongoing spiritual process involving forgiveness, repentance and justice that restores broken relationships and systems to reflect God’s original intention for all creation to flourish” (p.22). The definition is at pains to acknowledge the need to heal historical wounds, and to ackno... |
Grounded in theology and social science, McNeil’s approach comes out of her own years of experience of working for reconciliation among church communities. While the primary focus of the book is racial reconciliation in the United States, the roadmap applies to all manner of broken relationships whether in families or ... |
The central metaphor for reconciliation is that of a road trip, complete with key landmarks and distinctive phases. The roadmap has five main movements: catalytic events, realisation (where we come to understand a new reality), identification (where we recognise that ‘your people become my people’), preparation (where ... |
Like all good road trips, the journey is not linear, but one that winds and turns, and where the option to turn around is ever-present. Where will we find the power to stay the course? McNeil points both to the practical challenge of trusting the process, developing the skills that keep us moving forward on the journey... |
This isn’t a book to be read on your own. The work of reconciliation belongs to a whole community and each chapter concludes with discussion questions and practical actions for a community to pursue together. |
More than just a good idea, reconciliation is our calling. God who has made one new humanity in Christ calls us to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace (Eph 2:15, 4:3). McNeil offers us a practical way forward. This book removes much of the uncertainty about what to do, leaving us with the challenge t... |
Dr. Graham Stanton, Lecturer in Practical Theology and Dean for the Center of Children’s and Youth Ministry. |
The Eagles chose Oregon’s Chip Kelly. And Bradley went from that interview with the Eagles in Georgia on Jan. 12, 2012, into his first head-coaching job with the Jacksonville Jaguars five days later. |
The anecdote is timely this week. Carroll confirmed Monday some of the NFL teams that have fresh head-coaching vacancies — San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta and the New York Jets — have contacted the Seahawks about talking to Dan Quinn. Carroll brought back Seattle’s former line coach from the University of Florida to be... |
“Yes, we have. We have,” Carroll said Monday about whether the Seahawks had heard from other teams concerning Quinn. |
The question came a day after Seattle (12-4) secured its third NFC West title in five seasons and the top seed in the conference playoffs for the second consecutive January by beating St. Louis. |
NFL rules allow teams doing interviews for coaching jobs to contact coaches from top-seeded playoff teams during this bye week, which the Seahawks are on through Sunday before they play their first playoff game at home Jan. 10. |
Last year during this Seattle playoff bye week, the Washington Redskins interviewed offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell for their head job. It eventually went to Jay Gruden. |
Multiple reports Monday said the 49ers have asked the Seahawks for permission to talk to Quinn; Jim Harbaugh parted ways with San Francisco on Sunday after its final game and is expected to be introduced Tuesday as Michigan’s coach.The New York Daily News and others reported the Jets, who just fired Rex Ryan and genera... |
Oakland is the market for yet another new coach. Many Raiders veterans still adore their former head man, Seahawks offensive-line coach Tom Cable. |
Unlike some NFL head coaches, Carroll is more than happy to let anyone talk to his deputies. |
Even in the middle of his team’s postseason. Or the night before a divisional playoff game. |
“It makes it hard at times on us, but I want the next guy coming in to know the exact same thing: If you come here, we’re going to help you be the best that you could possibly be,” Carroll said. “That doesn’t mean it comes during recommendation time. This is in the process of trying to help guys find their best manners... |
Carroll does it this way because he didn’t have it this way all the time when he was an assistant. He twice became a head coach out of defensive coordinator jobs, with New York in 1994 and with New England in 1997. |
“I wish it would have been like that for me,” he said. “Sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn’t. |
Almost from the hours his assistants arrive on the job in Seattle, Carroll begins talking to them about their career goals, and if they want to be a head coach how to get there. |
Throughout each season, Carroll quizzes his assistants on nuances normally the domain of a head coach. Game situations. Deciding when to go for first downs or kick it. Team scheduling. Practice routines. |
All to keep their head-coaching minds sharp and ready for whenever the calls like Quinn is getting this week may come. |
Seahawks players love Quinn for keeping the defense relatively simple in concept and allowing them to perform fast and free. Carroll thinks he could be a head coach tomorrow. |
EXTRA POINTS: The Seahawks will practice Wednesday and Thursday and be off Friday through Sunday. … Carroll said emerging DT Jordan Hill (knee) and SS Jeron Johnson (elbow) have “significant” injuries. But he didn’t rule them out for the Jan. 10 playoff game. … Carroll said C Max Unger, CB Tharold Simon and TE Cooper H... |
LeBron James scored 26 points, rookie point guard Norris Cole came up with 14 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, and the Miami Heat nearly blew a 20-point lead before beating the Boston Celtics 115-107 on Tuesday night. |
Ray Allen scored 28 points for the Celtics, while Rajon Rondo finished with 22 points and 12 assists. |
Through two games, Miami (2-0) has trailed only once -- by two points, for all of 14 seconds. |
NEWARK, N.J. -- Marvin Williams had 14 points and nine rebounds and Atlanta opened a double-digit lead early and cruised over the sluggish Nets in their final home opener in New Jersey. |
Bucks forward Drew Gooden was suspended without pay for the team's first home game Tuesday for his flagrant foul in the season opener. Gooden was ejected late in the third quarter Monday for clocking Gerald Henderson in the head with his arm as the Bobcats guard attempted to make a driving layup in Charlotte's 96-95 wi... |
Warren Buffett may still be hunting elephants, but he\’s bagged his bear. |
Monday, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman told CNBC he\’d found the third member of a panel of financial analysts slated for the company\’s annual meeting in May. |
Buffett tapped Douglas A. Kass, who runs Seabreeze Partners Management. \”I am flattered, honored and surprised,\” Kass told the New York Times Deal Book blog. On Friday, Buffett said in his letter to shareholders he was looking for someone negative on the stock to join the panel. |
Buffett also offered advice for Apple\’s Tim Cook, in his CNBC appearance, urging the iPhone maker\’s CEO to ignore the likes of hedge fund manager David Einhorn and focus on generating long-term shareholder value. |
Buffett fell to fourth place in Forbes\’ annual ranking of the world\’s wealthiest individuals Monday. |
This year’s crop of dancers is the strongest in years, keeping mountain traditions alive. |
It’s about having fun while you dance. That’s what young cloggers say about dancing on a traditional clogging team. This year’s crop of dancers is the strongest in many years, keeping mountain traditions alive and ensuring it will be there for the next generation. |
“I really like the cow’s tail, a step where you just bend your knee and throw your foot in a circle while the other leg stays straight,” said Tommy Miller, a nine-year veteran of the Cole Mountain Cloggers. |
Now 15 and a sophomore at West Henderson High School, Tommy’s been dancing since kindergarten, when parents Mike and Kathy Miller took him to see the Cole Mountain Cloggers perform at Shindig on the Green. |
Grandparents Judy and E.J. Miller have both served on Asheville’s Folk Heritage Committee, charged with the task of defining, presenting and preserving regional traditions on summer Saturday nights downtown at Shindig on the Green and the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival every August. |
He says it’s not the awards and ribbons that are the big draw, it’s the flat-out fun of dancing with other kids, a tradition that almost died out in the 1980s. Prior to that, every mountain school and community center sponsored teams. Asheville’s famed Youth Jamboree, hosted by Hubert Hayes, packed Thomas Wolfe auditor... |
Atkins had been learning line and precision dance, but knew he was seeing the real thing and wanted that. Attending Mars Hill College on a clogging scholarship, Atkins worked to bring traditional clogging, big circle and smooth dance back to the college team, who at the time were only performing more modern precision c... |
Traditional clogging had given way to modern competitive precision clogging, and while adult teams were surviving, youth teams had disappeared. Atkins got permission to teach family groups at the college and eventually had enough participants for a full youth team. |
Piecing traditions together, the Bailey Mountain Cloggers once again became the premier dance team in the region. Atkins fell in love with teaching kids and by 1996 was teaching formal classes in studios and the roots of Cole Mountain were in the works. From 1997-2001 they performed as the Dimension Cloggers (named for... |
“Many people didn’t realize it had slipped away,” said Atkins, who is a past director of Asheville’s Folk Heritage Committee and still volunteers with the nonprofit organization that falls under the umbrella of the Chamber of Commerce. “Our motto was keeping the mountain tradition thriving. We’ve been kind of looking t... |
“Locally, people who had danced all their life had began having families and have started teaching kids again.” The committee asks for adherence to traditional costumes, style and choreography. A slow but steady revival spread across the mountains. |
The Fines Creek Flatfooters started when dancers like Keith Silver from the Southern Appalachian Cloggers encouraged youngsters in the region. Tiffany Perkins directs that group; they appear at Shindig July 18. |
Paul Cagle started the Mountain Tradition Cloggers, in Waynesville, about eight years ago with Christy Warren as his assistant. Cagle’s son Zac began dancing at age 5 and now, at 15, leads the team as caller. |
Both Cagle and Warren dance with the Dixie Darlin Cloggers. Cagle has danced for 50 years, since age 4; Warren’s been dancing since she was 3, for 43 years. |
Kristie Autrey and Atkins work together coaching the Mountaineer Cloggers, an after-school team in Mitchell County. Atkins met the Little River Cloggers from Eastern North Carolina while Cole Mountain performed at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh years ago. This will be their 4th year performing at Shindig. |
The Avery County Smooth Dancers are a youth group preserving the original form of mountain dance, with no taps and a smooth sashay step instead of the more boisterous clogging. Siblings of different ages dance together on the same team; boys and girls work together, developing friendships and leadership skills. |
Atkins agrees it takes a community to raise a clogging team. |
•See youth teams at Asheville’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, Aug. 6-8 at Diana Wortham Theatre and at Shindig on the Green, Saturdays on Roger McGuire Green in Pack Square Park. |
•The Shindig youth team schedule is July 18, Fines Creek Flat Footers; Aug. 15, Little River Cloggers; Sept. 5, Mountaineer Cloggers and Cole Mountain Cloggers. |
•Learn more about all these events online at www.folkheritage.org. |
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The city of Myrtle Beach is coming off a year of rapid growth in both residential and commercial building. |
The city issued nearly 7,300 building permits in 2018 and leaders said the growth in development is part of an ongoing trend. |
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