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Maps can be used to locate the places where your ancestors lived. They identify political boundaries, names of places, geographical features, cemeteries, churches, and migration routes. Historical maps are especially useful for finding communities and political boundaries that no longer exist.
- 1 Genealogical information in various types of maps
- 2 Where to get various types of maps
- 2.1 Atlases (and broad collections)
- 2.2 State Maps
- 2.3 County Boundary Maps
- 2.4 Township Maps
- 2.5 City Maps
- 2.6 Land Ownership (Plat) Maps
- 2.7 Census Maps
- 2.8 Military Maps
- 2.9 Slavery Maps
- 2.10 Topography
- 3 Research helps
- 4 References
Genealogical information in various types of maps
To select the right kind of map to solve a genealogical problem, it is helpful to know what kinds of information each type of map displays.[1]
- Atlases are bound collections of maps. Historical atlases are especially useful because they tend to plot historic towns and landmarks more accurately than old maps do in relation to jurisdictional boundaries and geographic features.
- Boundary change maps show shifts in borders of townships, counties, states and territories over time.
- Census maps. Spelling errors by census takers often make ancestors hard to find. If you know your ancestor's address (or general area of residence in rural areas), census maps showing enumeration district boundaries can indicate where in the census rolls to search for the ancestor.
- Chamber of commerce maps, which can usually be obtained for free from city and town chambers of commerce, show streets, government offices, courthouses, libraries, businesses, museum archives, and important landmarks.
- City and town maps show detailed street information, addresses, rail and mass transit routes, and landmarks.
- City and town locator maps plot a town and often give its coordinates so that it can be plotted in an historical atlas or map to determine the county, parish, or state in which it resided during a given year.
- City plans often demystify the renaming of streets, parks, neighborhoods, and other features.
- County, Parish, or Province maps show roads, cemeteries, landmarks, local boundaries, and physical features.
- Fire insurance maps (Sanborn maps) of 12,000 cities and towns yield street names and specific properties and addresses starting in 1867. Using these with city directories can help locate urban ancestors in a given year.
- Land ownership (cadastral) maps and plat books show boundaries of land plots, and usually the owners' names.
- Military maps show extreme detail regarding geographical features, terrain, landmarks, natural resources, place names, and landmarks.
- Railroad maps indicate preferred routes of travel during an era where the routes changed from one year to the next. These also aid in tracking the possible whereabouts of railroad employees since many railroads merged or changed names.
- Topographic or geologic maps show terrain, natural resources (forests, mining resources), and features that affected travel (rivers, rapids, canals, mountains, mountain passes, canyons).
Where to get various types of maps
Atlases (and broad collections)
An atlas is a bound collection of maps. Historical atlases cover boundary changes, migration routes, settlement patterns, military campaigns, American Indian reservations, and the development of towns. Historical atlases are especially useful because they tend to plot historic towns and landmarks more accurately than old maps do in relation to jurisdictional boundaries and geographic features. Many county atlases show the names of landowners and are usually based on county plat maps (see Land and Property).
- The David Rumsey Map Collection (free) contains an extensive online collection of historical atlases, maps, and other antique cartographic material. Downloads available.
- The Library of Congress American Memory Collection (free) includes cities and towns, conservation and environment, cultural landscapes, discovery and exploration, general maps, military battles and campaigns, and transportation and communication.
- The University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (free) has online state maps and atlases.
- The Norman B Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (free) is in the process of digitizing a significant portion of its 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases. The collection's scope is the World, Europe, and America, with particular attention to New England, Massachusetts, and Boston from the 15th century to the present day.
- Ancestor Tracks (free) has posted 19th-century Pennsylvania landowner maps and atlases covering about 80% of the land-mass of Pennsylvania. They can be used with the 1850-1880 censuses and published county histories.
- HistoricMapWorks.com ($) offers over 800,000 online historic maps from the 18th and early 19th centuries at $0.99 per download. Searchable by place name, family name, or street address.
- The Alan M. Voorhees Collection ($) at the Library of Virginia has maps, charts and atlases. The images online are thumbnails rather than usable copies, but larger prints can be ordered for a fee.
- Some important atlases in book form are Atlas of American History[2], The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History[3], and The Shaping of America[4]
- Brick-and-mortar sources for atlases include historical and genealogical societies, public libraries, and university libraries.
State Maps
- National Atlas Maps of the United States - Printable and other types of maps are also available from this site.
- The US GenWeb is a great resource for maps, including State and County Maps, the United States Digital Map Library and 67 maps from Indian Land Cessions in the United States.
- The National Archives—Cartographic Branch
The National Archives
841 South Pickett Street
Alexandria, VA 22304
and the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress have significant collections of a variety of maps, including land ownership, railroad, and fire insurance maps.
County Boundary Maps
To find records of an ancestor, it is necessary to learn the political jurisdictions that kept records in his area during the years he lived there. Town, county, parish, and state boundaries changed over time, so maps that show historical boundary changes help to quickly identify an ancestor's record jurisdiction.
GoldBug.com allows users to plot a town (even an extinct town) and show it on Google Maps.
State and County Boundary Maps:
- County Lines on Google Maps (randymajors.com), present-day county boundaries on a searchable, fully interactive Google Map. Includes counties for the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada.
- Historical County Boundary Maps (randymajors.com), allows users to type a current location and choose a year in order to display what the U.S. county boundaries were at that time and place, all on a fully interactive Google Map. You can easily change decades to see additional boundary changes. Clicking in the county area brings up a brief history of the last boundary change.
- Historical county border maps (Newberry Library) are available online for each U.S. state which are usable on GIS software and Google Maps.
- State and County Boundary Maps (mapofus.org) are available online. This is a very easy to use map collection that allows you to choose a state and click through the years as the state and its counties evolve. It also allows you to see a map of the state for specific census years (see the links below the map).
- 2003 US State and County Boundaries Map (US Census Bureau). This is a map that shows the entire United States broken down into counties. You can zoom in and read the county names, even counties in neighboring states.
Recommended Books
- Maps of county boundaries as they exist today and as they existed in each census year through 1920 are shown in Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. [5] This source also includes helpful information about the availability of census records.
- Maps of modern county boundaries are also in both The Handy Book for Genealogists and Ancestry's Red Book. These are available at most libraries and Family History Centers.
- Detailed maps and legal histories of county formations and changes are found in Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980. [6] The states included are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- The published states of Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania are found in the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries [7]The Family History Library has this work, but each volume is cataloged separately.
- The Original Cleartype Business Control Atlas, is a basic atlas that shows state and county boundaries, county seats, all places of 1,000 population or more, and some places with fewer than 1,000. [8]
See also the Historical Geography page for further help on tracing the histories of counties and their boundaries.
Township Maps
- Maps and an index of townships and other present-day civil boundaries are in Township Atlas of the United States [9]
City Maps
Ward Maps
The Library of Congress has detailed ward maps of major cities. These show the census districts and political divisions of large cities. Valuable finding aids for City Ward maps is on microfilm found at the Family History Library.
- Library of Congress Digitized Map Collection is a large online collection of digitized maps -- cities and towns, military battles and more.
- Ward Maps of United States Cities[10] A description of each map and a chart that shows which maps to use with each U.S. census is in: Ward Maps of United States Cities: A Selective Checklist of Pre-1900 Maps in the Library of Congress[11]
Fire Insurance Maps
- Sanborn maps ($) 1867-1970 have been digitized. This collection has more than 660,000 maps of 12,000+ cities and towns, and includes a map key.
- Some Sanborn maps are also available in the Websites listed in the Atlases section in this page, as well as on some sites listed at Images of Early Maps on the Web (free) by Maphistory.info.
City/Town Locators (GPS Coordinates)
- While the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is not a map, it yields latitude and longitude, current county, and elevation for towns and many geographic features. These coordinates can be used to plot towns on a historic map.
Land Ownership (Plat) Maps
Government or commercial agencies have created numerous maps showing the names of property boundaries and land owners in an area. These are often called "cadastral" maps. They sometimes include other helpful details such as churches, cemeteries, and roads.
- To access thousands of cadastral maps online, see the Websites listed in the Atlases section on this page.
- An inventory of many of the land ownership maps can be found at the Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress [12]and in Land Ownership Maps[13]
- For more information about land ownership, see Land and Property.
- Federal Land Patent Records and Associated Survey Plat Maps gives access to federal land conveyance records.
For further reading on land ownership, see Plat Map on Wikipedia.
Census Maps
- United States Census Bureau State and County Map - This map will allow you to zoom in on any State or County in the United States and read the names of all of the neighboring Counties. This makes it easy to see close by locations where other relatives might have lived. This map shows current Counties, consult the individual State Maps section to find out about historical maps. You can even type in a county name in the search box to locate the county on the map.
Military Maps
- The USMA Library's Special Collections and Archives has Civil War Maps, Colonial and Federal Era Maps, Maps of North America from the Colonial, Revolutionary and Federalist eras.
- Civil War maps by the Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, allows one to follow the footsteps of his ancestor in the battles. Nearly 3,000 Civil War maps, charts, atlases and sketchbooks have posted.
Slavery Maps
- Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States. Compiled from the Census of 1860, Drawn by E. Hergesheimer, Engr. by Th. Leonhardt. Published by Henry S. Grahm, 1860. Purchase at ReevesMaps.com; website includes a scaled-down version of the map.
- USGS: Topographical Maps
- USGS: Maps Overview
- USGS: US Topographical Maps for America
- USGS: Historical Topographic Maps
- USGS: Map Locator and Downloader
- National Maps
- National Maps: Quadrangle Topographic maps
- USGS: Geographic Names Information System - this site helps you locate a feature in any state. The website returns a table giving the elevation, county, map quadrangle name, and the latitude-longitude location of the feature.
Research helps
- Images of Early Maps on the Web (free) by Maphistory.info links to collections containing tens of thousands of historic maps online. Organized by state.
- Historical Boundaries of the United States, 1783–1912
- The Guide to U.S. Map Resources is an excellent inventory of the map holdings of 3,000 libraries and historical societies.[14]
- The Map Catalog has information about maps and how to obtain them.[15]
- The Family History Library has a small collection of loose maps of historical value, and a fine collection of printed historical atlases. These are listed in the Place Search of theFamilySearch Catalog under:
- ↑ Most of the information from this section is taken from More than One Kind of Map, by George G Morgan, Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 08 September 2000 http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article.aspx?id=2299
- ↑ Atlas of American History, Second Edition, revised. New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. (FHL Ref 973 E7at; 1943 edition on film 1415259 item 9.),
- ↑ The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History. New York, New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1966. (FHL book 973 E7ah.)
- ↑ Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Two Volumes. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1986. (FHL book 973 E3me; fiche 6125626-27.)
- ↑ Thorndale, William, and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987. (FHL book 973 X2th.)
- ↑ Long, John H., editor. Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980. Five Volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall, 1984. (FHL book 973 E7hL; fiche 60514226-30.)
- ↑ Long, John H., editor. [State] Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996-.
- ↑ The Original Cleartype Business Control Atlas, Annual. Maspeth, New York: American Map Corporation. (FHL book 970 E3b 1988.)
- ↑ Andriot, Jay. Township Atlas of the United States. McLean, Virginia: Documents Index, 1991. (FHL book 973 E7an 1991.)
- ↑ Ward Maps of United States Cities: Microfilm Reproduction of 232 Maps Described in Ward Maps of United States Cities. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, [1975?]. (FHL film 1377700; fiche 6016554-782.)
- ↑ Shelley, Michael H. Ward Maps of United States Cities: A Selective Checklist of Pre-1900 Maps in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Not published 1975. (FHL book 973 A1 no. 99; film 928120 item 16.)
- ↑ Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1967. (FHL book 973 A3Loc; fiche 6048262.)
- ↑ Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. Land Ownership Maps. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983. (On 2,010 FHL fiche starting with 6079238.)
- ↑ Cobb, David A., compiler. Guide to U.S. Map Resources. Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 1986. (FHL book 973 E74co.)
- ↑ Madower, Joel, editor. The Map Catalog. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 1986. (FHL book 973 E73ma.)


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Before Charles N. Huggins began working at See's Candies in 1951 as a manager inthe company's packingdepartment in San Francisco, his favorite candies were black licorice and, thanks to his World War II service as a paratrooper, Hershey's chocolate.
But as Huggins' sweet tooth remained a constant during his rise up the ladder to become the candy company's president and chief executive in 1972, his taste clearly underwent a See's-influenced evolution.
And like a kid in a candy store, he had no trouble reciting his favorites in a 1998 San Diego Union-Tribune interview: "Butter Creams, Pecan Buds, Candied Ginger, Chocolate Truffles, Chocolate Lollypops, Chocolate Nut Fudge, Victoria Toffee and Polar Bear Paws."
Huggins, who retired as the longtime president and chief executive of See's Candies in 2006 after 55 years with the company, diedSunday at his home in Larkspur, Calif., after suffering a stroke a week earlier, said his wife, Donna Ewald-Huggins. He was 87.
See's Candies was founded in Los Angeles in 1921 by Canadian immigrants Charles See, his wife, Florence, and hismother, Mary, whose original candy recipes were the foundation of their confectionary business and whose grandmotherly visage continues to grace See's trademark black-and-white candy boxes.
The company, which maintains its longtime factory on South La Cienega Boulevardin Los Angeles, is headquartered in South San Francisco.
Huggins was instrumental in the See family's 1972 sale of the company to Berkshire Hathaway Inc., whose chairman, Warren Buffett, appointed Huggins president and chief executive. "It took me about 15 seconds to realize Chuck was the person for the job," Buffett reportedly said at the time.
During Huggins' tenure in those positions, he led the company's expansion to more than 200 stores throughout the western United States.
As president, Huggins tasted all of the new candies that were introduced each year and had the final say.
See's "chief taster," as he called himself, also presided over the "retirement" of certain candies. And he occasionally took the heat for doing so.
In the mid-1980s when he asked store managers which candies weren't selling, Maple Walnut Cream earned the most votes and then disappeared from store shelves.
But it quickly became clear a mistake had been made.
"I got two-page letters with violins telling me how Maple Walnut Creams were important to people's lives," Huggins told the Orange County Register in 1996. He apologized to the letter writers but was not swayed — until more letters and even threatening phone calls led the company to give in to customer demand.
After Huggins wrote letters to the complaining customers saying the company had made a mistake — and included gift certificates — more mail came in from customers, this time offering their thanks for bringing back Maple Walnut Creams.
Said Huggins: "It's easy to make customers for life."
For those who worked at See's, the gregarious Huggins was known as a people person who remembered employees' names and details about their families.
"He was a charming man and extremely thoughtful," Margaret Moos Pick, author of the 2005 book "See's Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet Story," told The Times on Wednesday.
"He was one of those people who would approach everyone with the same respect and demeanor of care," said Pick. "Walking through See's Candies stores with him or through a factory with him, people just lit up when he came in because that level of personal touch and personal care was there. And it was absolutely genuine."
Huggins also was known for his corporate and personal philanthropy, including donating to the Family Service Agency of San Mateo County, Carson High School, the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation, the San Francisco Jazz Festival and the restoration of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Charles Newel Huggins was born March 2, 1925, to American parents in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in Portland, Ore.
After serving with the 17th Airborne Division's 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe during World War II, he majored in English literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Huggins' wife of 48 years, Mime, died in 1995.
Besides Donna, his wife of 12 years, he is survived by his sons, Peter and Charles "Chip"; his daughters, Anne Huggins Walton and Shelley Huggins Dutton; his sister, Ruth Slack; and nine grandchildren.
Even in retirement, Huggins never lost his sweet tooth.
"I always had to keep candy in the house for him," his wife said Wednesday. "We have a See's store right near our house, and they were always slipping him samples of new candies."

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Despite best practices and sophisticated equipment, factories occasionally will generate odors that reach local communities and become a nuisance. Why these odors occur and how to prevent them is an issue factories grapple with across the country and around the world. Investigating and mitigating community nuisance odors is a challenge because conventional instrumentation has a limited ability to detect odorous compounds at very low levels.
Professionally trained odor panelists can provide the detection sensitivity and guidance needed to help companies understand and control their industrial odors. These professionals have completed an intense training program (typically about a year long), in which they have learned how to consistently measure the strength and type of odors. Their training includes many hours of practice with odor reference standards that help calibrate them to a standard intensity scale while building their descriptive vocabulary. At the completion of the training, they must pass a rigorous final exam to qualify as a professional odor panelist. Odor panels usually consist of three to four of these professionals.
Facility managers must first ask the questions that will help them discover the source of the problem:
Odor panelists can provide answers where instruments fail. For example, instruments rarely help measure odors in communities located near factories. Odor panelists often help assess odors in these areas by conducting community odor surveys. During these surveys, they travel through the community assessing and documenting the location, intensity, and character of odors they detect. They record critical weather conditions such as wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, and cloud cover. Using these data, odor professionals can determine sources and track down a factory that is causing a problem.
Once the site is found, the panelist must sift through the complex maze of odors emanating from various roof stacks, exhaust fans, and fugitive emission sources such as open doors and windows. Even though something smells bad at a plant, it may not be causing a problem in the community. In fact, many odorous emissions at industrial sites never make it to local neighborhoods because of factors such as natural dispersion.
Conventional testing (collecting air samples at each source and analyzing them with instruments, such as gas chromatographs) can sometimes identify what is being released but often fails to measure important odor compounds at levels lower than 1 part per billion. The best way to assess odor emission sources at a factory is to collect air samples and use a professional odor panel to evaluate the intensity and characteristics of odors at various dilutions using a dynamic olfactometer. This instrument provides a known flow of clean air and meters in set volumes of air samples to achieve a range of dilution levels.
This approach creates a number representing the strength of the odor or how many dilutions it takes to reduce the intensity of the odor from the emission source to below known complaint levels. Odor release rates (ORRs) are then generated by multiplying the strength of the odor by the volume of air released at the plant source. Guidelines currently exist to use the ORR to predict if an emission source at an industrial plant is at risk of negatively impacting a local community. For example, if the ORR for a point emission source such as a roof vent or wall fan is less than 1 x 106, it has a low risk of causing odor complaints in a typical neighborhood. However, if that same source has an ORR greater than 10 x 106, it has a high risk of causing odor complaints.
In addition to generating risk potential numbers, odor panelists can smell source samples at various dilutions. Often, an odor changes with dilution and what an emission smells like in the community can be very different from how it smells at the industrial site. Panelists can determine which specific plant sources produce odors that when diluted match those found in the community.
Lastly, the professional odor panel can guide the plant by evaluating odor control technologies as they are applied to various sources on the industrial site. By conducting professional odor analysis on inlets and exhausts to these odor control systems, the panel can determine the percent reduction in odor, and more importantly, the risk of the new emission to cause community odor problems.
Whether a company produces food and beverages, chemicals, packaging materials, or just uses smelly ingredients, the stakes are high. Community nuisance odors can result in a decrease in property values, an increase in health problems, and/or the reduction of a neighbor's overall quality of life. Sometimes this results in angry telephone calls. In more extreme cases, it can lead to litigation and pressure from government agencies. In worst case scenarios, plants are shut down.
Professionally trained odor panelists can help you understand and control your industrial odorous emissions, and they can help you monitor local communities to ensure that you are not having a negative impact. In addition, they can protect you from being blamed for odors that are not from your plant.
Other EPonline articles on odor:
The Science of Smell
Pima County Wastewater Plant Installs 6 E-Noses
Firm Files Suit Involving Landfill Odors in Ohio
About the Author
Roy Desrochers is the sensory practice leader at Boston-based GEI Consultants, Inc., a geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering consulting services firm. Desrochers specializes in sensory analysis related to odor and taste and its practical application to environmental and consumer challenges. For more information, visit www.geiconsultants.com.


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Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage is nothing if not thoughtful and effusive, so many of his remarks during our hour-long interview Tuesday about the Cavaliers' football struggles are not included in my just-posted print column.
Ah, the beauty of blogging. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation.
Taking seats around a conference table in his office, we engaged in some holiday small talk before Littlepage said that football matters precluded any Thanksgiving travel.
Daily Press: That's as good a place to start as any. Talk about the present and future of the program. Clearly this has not been the type of season anyone here envisioned.
Littlepage: You can start downstairs on the second floor with the coaching staff and the team. They are right in the middle of it. … They are dissatisfied as anybody might be, and rightfully so. They had high hopes and thoughts that this would be a very, very solid year. Understanding the kind of disappointment that we share around the university and around the football program, it begins with the people directly affected, our players and coaches, and those of us that are shoulder-to-shoulder with them every single day.
We've had penalties at inopportune times, we've made mistakes at inopportune times. We've been one of those teams that seems to have had every mistake blow up and become a big mistake. Third-and-21 at Maryland with the game on the line, the plays against Miami this weekend. …
Those sorts of things have been the story of the season. I think the acclimation of the team and the acclimation of the talent so to speak to new systems, offensively and defensively. We've played a lot of young kids, but there a lot of teams playing young kids. We've had some injuries, but every team has injuries. I just think it's been kind of a combination of anything that could have gone south on us has gone south at one point or another … at critical times in the games.
DP: You have been very adamant in your support of Mike London and his staff throughout the season. Has anything you have seen over the course of the last couple of months given you cause to rethink?
Littlepage: No. I have been, as you said, consistent in my support of Mike. That continues. He is going to be our coach and he is going to be successful.
DP: Nothing you have seen this season gives you pause about game management?
Littlepage: I know our coaches and team have been through the preparation that allows for managing the type of situations to which you referred. Often in these cases, there are varying philosophies about how a team should handle things. Do you go with the onside kick or rely on your defense to come up with a stop? do you go for the PAT or do you go for the 2-point conversion? How and when are timeouts used? When you don't have success there will be some second-guessing, and that's a part of all sports. …
So I don't look at it just in terms of what happens in the game but what is it that's happening on the practice field? What is it that's happening in the meeting room? What is it that's happening in the video/film sessions? I firmly believe that Mike London is going to be successful here at the University of Virginia.
DP: How can you help him?
Littlepage: We'll take a look globally. What is it that other similarly situated programs might be doing that might be applicable to our situation? Where are we in terms of facilities? Where are we in terms of out-of-season programs, and where are we in terms of other support services? Where are we in terms of what are we doing from a technical standpoint offensively and defensively? And just making sure that there's not something that we're missing that other programs that are performing … are doing.
DP: Even in good times, I'm sure your inbox overflows. What's it like now?
Littlepage: I say one of the best parts of my job is I get a lot of free advice. I'd say there is a wide variance. There are those that understand what we're going through. 'We understand what these coaches are trying to do, these young people are good representatives and citizens.' There's a large group that's kind of in the middle, that's wait-and-see. 'We're hopeful. We trust that everybody knows what has to be done to get the ship on track.' And then there's a group that's very vocal that is fed up, frustrated, etc., and I understand all three categories, and I hear from all three. That's not all that unusual. …
Good things that come through in situations like this and the fact that people are expressing, even if they're expressing displeasure, they care. And that's a lot better than people that are just silent and walk away.
DP: How often do those above you, President Sullivan and the Board of Visitors, weigh in?
Littlepage: I talk to the president, and I'm in the vice presidents' and cabinet meetings on a weekly basis. I have access to her whenever it might be appropriate. We talk, but I have not heard from her or anybody else that would be alarming to me in terms of what I think needs to be done. This is not a decision that resides anywhere other than the athletics department and the athletics director.
DP: What is your interpretation of President Sullivan's view on football and athletics? She worked at schools with big-time programs, Texas and Michigan.
Littlepage: I would say that generally she is a fan of our program, of our athletics department and the football program, and she understands the value a top-performing department and a competitive football program can bring. So from that standpoint, I would say that her level of support is at a very good level, but not to the extent of trying to micromanage or make decisions or anything along those lines. She operates under the mantra, 'No surprises.'
DP: Many have wondered whether finances, the cost of buyouts, played a role in staff retention.
Littlepage: When we made changes last year, I think it was clear at the time, this was not looked at as a one-year, stopgap measure. We looked at the changes that were going to be made as being for the long-term. I have not gotten to the point of trying to put pencil to paper and figure out what the cost implications are. It's always a consideration, but it's not going to be a factor that's going to tip the scales. I think it's all about whether there's a belief that Mike will get the job done, which I (have).
DP: Is it commonplace in the industry for buyouts to include all income rather than just base salary?
Littlepage: It's pretty common, particularly among FBS schools. I wouldn't try to suggest every single one of them because I think within FBS there's a very wide range. But the schools in the major conferences are pretty common in that regard.
DP: Is there any second thought to any of your future non-conference schedules, and if not, do you think you're being too ambitious?
Littlepage: If we were performing better in the ACC and it was the non-conference schedule that was the hiccup, then I'd have more of an opinion that maybe we've overscheduled. But we've struggled both in the conference as well as out of the conference. So from that standpoint I don't think the strength of the non-conference schedule has necessarily made it more difficult for us. I think we have to get to a point where our performance in the conference games is at a level that is where we want to be. It's not that I'm focused strictly on the conference games, but certainly that's where we've got to show that we're a club that has something to offer.
DP: So there are no thoughts of paring back?
Littlepage: No, and here's another dimension of this. We've had seasons in which there's been some level of criticism that we've scheduled too soft in the non-conference. So you try to strike that balance, and it's not just at the University of Virginia, it happens at other programs, too, you're playing these guarantee games that nobody wants to see. … So we scheduled Oregon, we scheduled Brigham Young and some (others) down the road that people want to see, and now (it's), 'Did they overschedule?' I think that's just inherent in the job. You can't always thread the needle accurately unless you say we're going to schedule four wins without regard to how our fans feel.
DP: What will your expectations be next season?
Littlepage: That's part of what will be taking place as we have our conversations in the offseason.
DP: This is your fifth losing season in six years, the worst downturn since before George Welsh. What happened?
Littlepage: "I don't have an answer right now, but it would be my goal to figure out what that answer might be. All I know is that we have tried very hard to provide the necessary resources in terms of everything that we do here in terms of facilities, personnel. I don't have the answer, but there has to be something that we're not doing or we could be doing differently.
DP: How much does poor attendance bother you, in terms of the impression it gives and it's effect on the bottom line?
Littlepage: It bothers anybody in the seat that I occupy, but more so the fact that we're struggling on the field, and I think it follows that the enthusiasm of the fans is going to be impacted when you're having the kind of season we're having. But these things don't last forever. It is cyclical in many respects. … We will do everything that we can to reverse that trend and to build the enthusiasm again, but quite candidly, I think it's going to rely on what happens on the field. Wins and losses, but also, how you're playing, and quite simply, we've got to play better.
DP: There's an impression among fans that the administration in general, and (executive associate AD) Jon Oliver in particular, has perhaps micromanaged the football program, that the staff changes were mandated. Jon has been the driving force in scheduling. A fair point? An accurate point?
Littlepage: People don't understand the job that Jon does first of all, and the confidence that I have in him, based on what he has done here, based on his experience at Washington State as well. And here's an example. Somebody was upset that Jon is on the sideline. You look at lacrosse, (senior women's administrator) Jane Miller is on the sideline. You look at soccer, (associate AD) Valerie Richardson or Jane Miller, depending on if it's men's or women's soccer, is on the sideline. That's a micro look at the fans. They're just trying to find something. I don't respond to that other than to say Jon is doing his job, he's doing it very well, and his job is to support our coaches and support our program and to be proactive in terms of a lot of the things will be doing in looking at the global situation around the country.
The things we've done in terms of facilities. Jon has been involved. We would not have the kind of facilities that we have right now whether it's the indoor (practice complex for football), or Davenport Field, or the track, the work that was done on the John Paul Jones Arena, without Jon.
DP: Were the staff changes mandated?
Littlepage: Those are discussions and decisions that are made by mutual agreements and what is it that we have to do to get better.
DP: And Jon will continue to oversee football?
Littlepage: Yes. He plays a similar role with men's basketball. … Again, I have a great deal of confidence. He's one of the absolute best in the country and the work that he does not only for us, but the work that he does … in terms of NCAA work, he's outstanding.
DP: Is he the heir apparent?
Littlepage (smiling): I don't know.
DP: There's no understanding?
Littlepage: I have a great deal of confidence in him and when the time comes, I will let my thoughts be known about it. I have not been focused on anything other than, we've got to get this going in football.
We're trying to fix football, and that's it. This is important. I'm not focused on anything other than making sure that I'm doing everything that I can to get us back on that path to having a great program.
DP: You have mentioned looking globally at other programs. Can you expound? Looking from the outside, you wonder what else you all can do.
Littlepage: That's the big question. Stanford probably would be the model. Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, UCLA, schools that would be regarded as top tier and rigorous academic programs that also are producing on the field. Northwestern in most (years), the academies, Navy, Air Force in most years. If there is a level of consistent performance at programs like that, we're doing a lot of great things in our program, so we should not settle for anything less than a level of consistent performance as well. …
We also have to look at the ACC because that's our bread and butter right there. So you go around the country, you look at facilities, you talk to administrators, you talk to football coaches. You see what they're doing from a student services point of view. Is there something we're missing? Is there something we could be doing differently in recruiting? Those are the kinds of things we've got to take a lot of time to study and make some judgments on how we're operating.
DP: Mike's very good at putting on a brave public face. He's a glass-half-full guy. When you see him, is he still upbeat?
Littlepage: I can share with you that it's tearing him up inside and that it bothers him that we haven't had the kind of success that we would have wanted and that he feels he owes to us as a university community. … As you said, he's going to be upbeat to the degree he can, and when I say upbeat, I mean he's going to be positive in how he approaches his job, he's going to be positive with his staff, he's going to be positive with his kids, he's going to be positive within the community. He's not going to let us down in terms of lashing out and doing something that might cause greater concern about his ability to do the job in the way we want it done.
DP: Has he come to you and said, 'I need this'?
Littlepage: I can't think of any one thing that he has said he and his staff need. Certainly when we did not have the indoor facility, that was something that was important, not only for its value to the team on a day like this but for the message it sends in terms of institutional support. … It just takes one thing away from the ammunition that a rival recruiter might (use).
With high school prospects, a lot of it is based on what they see, and a lot of that is based on facilities. That's one of the things you have to be proactive in addressing and making sure you're not falling behind the competition.
DP: You're a former (basketball) coach who was fortunate enough to experience ultimate highs (the 1981 Final Four as a U.Va. assistant) and who was in it long enough to experience the lows. What advice do you give to Mike?
Littlepage: In this kind of situation in sports, when things get off the rails, as the head coach you must isolate and understand the issue , then gather your staff and other resources, and develop your plan. The plan is based on values, beliefs, and philosophies of how you do things. You don't stray from those core values and beliefs or your philosophy. Instead you stick to your plan.
In sports, you're always faced with the need for Plan B. Plan B is needed because there will be injuries, foul trouble, suspensions, how the scoreboard reads and a host of reasons that you must adapt to changing circumstances. So 'sticking to your plan' shouldn't imply inflexibility from adapting. Sports teaches that you have to adapt, but by sticking to your plan, your core values, beliefs and philosophy are consistent.
DP: What haven't I asked? What else is out there?
Littlepage: Well, there's been some attention to recruiting, particularly when you look at a situation like Andrew Brown [the nation's top-rated defensive lineman from Chesapeake's Oscar Smith High]. Here's one of the top kids in the country, and he wants to play for Mike London.
DP: What's that tell you?
Littlepage: I think that tells me an awful lot about our coach, that he is widely respected, again we're just talking about one kid now, but one of the best in the country and certainly one of the best in the state as well. They have gotten to know Coach London and they've gotten to hear all the naysayers and everything else, but he wants to be here and play for Coach London. He made a commitment and he will be here in a couple of weeks.
DP: You and Jon hired Mike. How vested are you in him? He's your guy.
Littlepage: All of our coaches have to be my guys, if you will. But with Mike specifically, because of the type of person that he is and the way in which he wants to coach and develop his young men, the way in which he wants to represent this university, I have no problem at all committing myself to Mike London as our coach. Again, if he had been here prior to me becoming the athletics director, I would feel the same way.
DP: Prior to the Chick-fil-A Bowl (in 2011) you extended Mike's contract and gave him a raise. Did you think you were going to lose him? Was it a reward?
Littlepage: Both. All of the above. There were some situations that were brewing in terms of some openings. … There was some bona fide interest. But as much as anything, the kind of season that we had. … I still feel as though that was a good decision, that it will bear fruit. You don't get a chance to second-guess in our business, and I'm not inclined to second-guess. We made the best decision at that time, and I think it's going to be something that in the long term is a positive thing.
DP: You have not wavered?
Littlepage: No. Have not wavered.
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MICHIGAN — Beginning in July, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will begin construction on a new "enhancement path" project along M-13 and US-23 through the Transportation Enhancement Program, a competitive grant program through MDOT designed to improve Michigan's transportation system.
According to MDOT Bay Communications Representative Anita Richardson, the 52-mile, two-year project will widen the shoulders to eight feet (from three) on both sides of M-13 and US-23 from M-247 in Bay City north to Pinconning, through Arenac County on US-23, ending on the Iosco-Arenac County border.
"It's a $4 million project and, this summer, construction has been scheduled to begin in June, 10 days after the project is awarded, and end around September," Richardson said. She added throughout the construction, drivers should expect lane and shoulder closures for short periods of time.
She also says the project will consist of curb and gutter work in downtown areas as well as minor rumble strip improvements.
According to Arenac County Heritage Authority (ACHA) Chairman Curt Hillman, MDOT applied for grants through the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund the project.
"MDOT knew we (ACHA) had been trying to raise funding for a few little bike paths in Arenac County and they kind of did this all on their own," Hillman said. "I'm not sure on the specifics of everything yet, or how it'll affect our (ACHA) projects, but there'll be an official from MDOT at the next Heritage Authority meeting to explain everything to us and I guess we'll go from there."
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Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell step out of a store while shopping for items for their unborn child on Thursday (January 31) in Venice, Calif.
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Evan took to Twitter that evening to post her feelings on love.
"Love is love. Its what we all want and need. If god is anything, god is love. And as long as you feel love, you feel god. No matter what," Evan tweeted. "Well, you can believe in that. this IS a choice. I believe love is never a sin. You should never stop or limit love. It is already lacking. Final thoughts, Its good to keep an open mind, and an open heart try not to fight hate with more hate. stay with love. approach with love. and if god didn't want me loving both men AND women then he shouldn't have made them both so god damn beautiful. ;) goodnight everybody!!"
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Accenture research reveals that less than one third of the customers who bought a new car in the past five years would do so again from a standard dealership in the future. Most prefer different options, regardless of whether they are premium or volume customers.
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- Joshua Katz used linguistic data from Bert Vaux's dialect survey to generate interactive maps of how people speak across the continental US. What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage? [url]
- Phonemica is a project to record the thousands of different Chinese dialects in order to preserve the richness of the language for future generations. It's run by volunteers who want to collect spoken stories, and it was started with an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. [url]
- There are several barriers that prevent various English dialects from becoming their own languages. Modern literacy and the increasing global mobility of people make it harder and harder for new languages to split off and develop. [url]


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Tim Fedroffhad four hits, including a home run, and Cord Phelps hit two home runs when the Clipper beat Charlotte 12-9 yesterday.
Tim Fedroff and Cord Phelps boarded the Clippers bus to Rochester yesterday afternoon on high notes.
Fedroff had four hits, including a home run, drove in three runs in the 12-9 win over the Charlotte Knights. Phelps hit his first two home runs of the season while adding a single and four RBI.
"Anytime guys have games like those two did it's a good feeling," Clippers manager Chris Tremie said. "They are those kind of hitters. We'll have to see how it carries over. But I"m assuming it will."
The first six weeks of the season have been a struggle for both players. Phelps opened on the disabled list with a neck injury. Fedroff just hasn't been hot. That changed yesterday.
"I felt good," Fedroff said. "I was able to get some good pitches and to stick to my approach. I got some pitches up in the zone and I was able to drive the baseball a little bit. It's a real good feeling. It's been a little frustrating - just being able to get some consistent at-bats throughout a game."
He credited hitting coach Phil Clark with helping him regain his form. Fedroff batted .325 for the Clippers last season and the Cleveland Indians put him on the 40-man roster.
"We've made a few adjustments that have translated into some success in recent games," Fedroff said.
Phelps was the International League All Star at second base last season and had strong spring training with the Indians before being optioned to Columbus. Hedeveloped a stiff neck in early April that resulted in his trip to the DL and delayed a Cleveland plan to develop him as a utility player.
Phelps made his debut as a first baseman during the just-concluded homestand and also is slated to play more in the outfield.
"I played five innings (at first) in the spring," Phelps said. "It's a little different getting used to certain angles and stuff like that. And you have different responsibilities. If I continue to play there, I think I can pick it up. You've got to do what you have to do to contribute at the major league level. If that's the best way to help that team out, that's what I'll do."
The Clippers made some expected roster moves today. They returned pitcher Brett Brach to double-A Akron and welcomed back reliever Scott Barnes from the Indians. (He was optioned after Cleveland activated outfielder Michael Bourn from the disabled list.)
Columbus plays Rochester at 7:05 tonight. Toru Murata (0-2, 6.00 ERA) is pitching for the Clippers against Samuel Deduno (0-0, 0.00). Lookfor risingIndianspitching prospect Danny Salazar to make his triple-A debut in this series. He is the owner of a 99-mph fastball and has fanned 51 in 33 2/3 innings for the Akron Aeros this season.


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Connecting locals and internationals in Chiang Mai.
Facebook Group: Mundo Lingo Chiang Mai
Facebook Page: Mundo Lingo
: : : : : What is Mundo Lingo? : : : : :
It's an event that unites locals and internationals every week in a bar to practice languages. It's not for getting drunk but nor is it a formal vibe. It's a great way for internationals to make local friends and for locals to practice their languages. The other participants are very open anf friendly.
- Native language at the top, weakest at the bottom.
- Stand to meet new people, sit to quit.
How do I meet new People?
Easy, we give you little flag stickers to represent your languages. Arrange them on your chest from native at the top to weakest at the bottom. Everyone is welcome wherever they're from. Don't speak a second language? no worries, just help others with your native language.
: : : : : The Bar : : : : :
We meet in Pa-Khao Restaurant. Reception is 7 to 8pm. When you arrive just look for the table with the flags and tell us what languages you speak and we'll get you started.
: : : : : The Reception 7 - 8pm : : : : :
Arrive between these times to get your free flag stickers. The bar also offers special prices exclusive to Mundo Lingo:


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NEW ORLEANS, La. – Even though it did not compete this past weekend, the MIT men's cross country team moved up one place to fourth in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III National poll that was released on Wednesday afternoon. The Engineers, who received the program's first-ever top five ranking in the poll that was released on Sept. 25, keep making program history as they continue to climb up the ranking's ladder.
For the second week in a row, MIT is also first in the New England region, ahead of Williams, Bates College and Bowdoin College. MIT is one of just two institutions on the top 10 list that is not part of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
The weekend before last, Tech finished in first place at the Purple Valley Classic with 41 points and was followed by Williams College with 59 points and host Middlebury College with 60. Williams moved up four places to fifth from last week to sit directly behind MIT in this week's rankings, while Middlebury fell one place to 24th. For his third place finish in the 8k, senior Roy Wedge (Lawrence, Kan.) was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Week.
MIT's women's squad remain ranked fourth nationally, after slipping one place in last week's poll. The Cardinal and Gray currently sits in second in the region behind Middlebury.
The Engineers will return to the cross country trail this Saturday, Oct. 12 when they travel down the road to Franklin Park to run in the NEICAAA Championships.


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Adolphe Arnold
Born: August 22, 1897
Kruth, France
Adolphe was born to Catholic parents in Alsace when it was under German rule. He was orphaned at age 12, and was raised by his uncle who sent him to an art school in Mulhouse, where he specialized in design. He married in the village of Husseren-Wesserling in the southern part of Alsace, and in 1930 the couple had a baby daughter. In 1933 the Arnolds moved to the nearby city of Mulhouse.
1933-39: I worked in Mulhouse as an art consultant for one of France's biggest printing factories. When I wasn't working at home or at the factory, I was studying the Bible, and enjoying classical music. Disillusioned with the Catholic church, my wife and I decided to become Jehovah's Witnesses. Under the French, we were free to practice our new faith.
1940-44: The Germans occupied Mulhouse in June 1940. While at the factory on September 4, 1941, I was arrested because I was a Jehovah's Witness and imprisoned in Mulhouse for two months. In January I was sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where I was beaten by the SS and subjected to medical experiments for malaria. My sister-in-law was able to smuggle to me some Jehovah's Witness literature hidden inside cookies. In September 1944 I was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Adolphe was liberated in May 1945 in Ebensee, a subcamp of Mauthausen. After the war he returned to France and was reunited with his family.


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ANGELINA JOLIE (AP Photo/File)
Angelina Jolie is used to creating a buzz in the entertainment world, but now she has crossed over into the health care field with her recent announcement in a New York Times op-ed article. On May 14, in the op-ed "My Medical Choice," Jolie announced that she had underwent a preventative double mastectomy after undergoing genetic testing and finding that she had a mutation of the BRCA 1 gene, which significantly increases her risk of developing breast cancer.
In her op-ed, Jolie wrote, "My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman. Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average. Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex."
Jolie underwent the mastectomy, which is the partial or complete surgical removal of one or both breasts, in her case both, then had reconstructive surgery.
While many are praising her for her preventative measures, others disagree with her actions, calling them extreme.
"I was a little surprised that she would take such measures to have that surgery with no diagnosis," said Debbie Norrell, a New Pittsburgh Courier columnist, but more importantly a more than 20-year breast cancer survivor. "I could see if she had been diagnosed with it in one or both breasts. I think it's a very radical method and I wouldn't advise it for everybody. And everybody couldn't afford what she did."
Norrell, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989, said after being diagnosed, she read up on her options and opted for a lumpectomy, a surgical removal of a lump, then underwent several weeks of radiation and took Tamoxifen.
She said that as years go on, people are doing a lot of the things to treat this disease, but she's happy with her decision. "I'm happy with my decision, the only this I wish I would have done is had reconstructive surgery."
According to the Susan G. Komen Foundation website, breast cancer is the most common cancer among African-American women and although incidence in African-American women is lower than in White women, for women younger than 45, incidence is higher among African-American women. The site also states that in 2013, an estimated 27,060 new cases of breast cancer and 6,080 deaths were expected to occur among African-American women.


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As part of my Advent preparations this year, I chose to re-read Pope Benedict's magnificent book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives. This beautiful reflection on the Gospel stories of Our Lord's birth is a wonderful way to prepare for Christmas.
On passage struck me this year, particularly in light of everything that the Church has been going through, and where I am in my own faith journey. The Pope wrote about Mary and Joseph's arrival in Bethlehem, where there was no room for them in the inn, so the Lord of Lords would have to be born in the most humble accommodations imaginable. Our Holy Father said:
This should cause us to reflect — it points toward the reversal of values found in the figure of Jesus Christ and his message. From the moment of his birth, be belongs outside the realm of what is important and powerful in worldly terms. yet it is the unimportant and powerless child that proves to be the truly powerful one, the one on whom ultimately everything depends. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path.
As the commemoration of the Lord's birth approaches, this is a powerful reminder of the fundamental choice that we all must make — for the ways of the world, or for the ways of God.
The choice is becoming more and more difficult. Around the world, Christians are being persecuted violently, for the mere fact that they believe in Jesus and wish to worship Him openly. Here in America, we are governed by an Administration that seeks to arrogate to itself the power to define true religion, and seeks to marginalize those who believe otherwise. Social stigma is increasingly being placed on Christians, in an effort to pressure us to conform to contemporary hedonism, consumerism and utilitarianism. Those who dare to speak out publicly for the immemorial beliefs of our faith are blacklisted, excluded, or punished. We are grieved because in our own lives, so many of our siblings, friends, and children are making wrong choices.
Yet the right decision is always there for us to make. Our Lord continually beckons from his humble manger, calling us to leave the "important" things of the world behind, to choose the right path, and to walk by his light. The challenge is to emulate Mary and Joseph, who lowered themselves to enter the stable, trusting that the will of God would prevail against the ways of the world. To follow the shepherds, who believed the angel and went down to see their Savior on his unlikely throne. To walk with the Wise Men, across boundaries and through the courts of the powerful, seeking the mystery of a God who emptied himself to take on human estate.
The King of Glory approaches, in the most unexpected way. What decision will I make?
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Alfredo Simon has spent most of his major league career as a reliever. He's going to get a chance to be a starter for the Cincinnati Reds, at least for now.
Alfredo Simon has spent most of his major league career as a reliever.
He�s going to get a chance to be a starter for the Cincinnati Reds, at least for now.
Mat Latos has been slowed by knee surgery, so manager Bryan Price has decided to use Simon as a starter during spring training. The idea is to get him ready to pitch more innings in case he�s needed when the season begins.
Latos had minor surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee when camp opened. He is making good progress, but the injury left him behind in his throwing program.
Simon made 16 starts for the Baltimore Orioles in 2011 and welcomes the chance to move into a starter�s role, even if it�s only temporary.
�I�m ready to go,� said Simon, who will start the exhibition opener against the Cleveland Indians today in Goodyear, Ariz. �I know it has been two years (since) I have started a game, but if I get the opportunity, I'm going to show Bryan Price that I can be a starter.�
If Latos is ready to pitch at the start of the season, Simon can move back into the bullpen.
�I like starting,� Simon said. �I am here to do whatever they want. All of my career (in the minors) I was a starter. Sometimes I would throw one or two innings. I can do more than that. I wanted to keep pitching. I miss it.�Indians� Bauer set to test new delivery
Trevor Bauer will get a chance to show off his new delivery with the Indians� first pitch of spring training.
The right-hander made adjustments in the offseason and is scheduled to start against the Reds today.
�I put in a lot of work,� Bauer said. �I'm looking forward to getting out there.�
The 23-year-old pitcher was out of sync last season. A groin injury with Arizona in 2012 forced him to change his delivery. He spent a lot of time in the past offseason trying to get it right again.
Bauer is among a group of pitchers competing for the fifth spot in the rotation. The competition includes Carlos Carrasco, Josh Tomlin, Shaun Marcum and recently signed Aaron Harang, who will follow Bauer to the mound today.
Bauer has had two bullpen sessions during spring training and gotten mixed results.
�The first bullpen, I felt bad,� Bauer said. �I looked at the video and it wasn�t that bad.�
The second one was disconcerting.
�His first bullpen was pretty good,� manager Terry Francona said. �The second was a bad one. He was frustrated. If it is going to happen, it�s good that it is happening now.�
Bauer split last season between triple-A Columbus and Cleveland. He started four games for the Indians and went 1-2 with a 5.29 ERA, giving up 15 hits in 17 innings. Bauer started 22 games with the Clippers, going 6-7 with a 4.15 ERA.
�They have been patient with me,� Bauer said. �Coming off my worst year, it�s good to be here and have some fun again.�Torre: Hits on catchers sometimes unavoidable
Joe Torre says Major League Baseball�s playing rules committee leaned toward banning all home plate collisions but concluded it would be unrealistic because contact between catchers and base runners is sometimes unavoidable.
Torre, MLB�s executive vice president for baseball operations, was at the San Diego Padres� spring training facility in Peoria, Ariz., to answer questions about the new collision rule, which was announced on Monday.
Torre, a former catcher, said when it came to the rule on home plate collisions he had to �put the uniform back on� because there is never a perfect play at the plate and throws can make contact unavoidable.
MLB could not have implemented the rule this year without approval from the players� association.