June 16, 2014 - South Atlantic League (SAL) Delmarva Shorebirds Salisbury, MD - The South Atlantic League has announced several additions to the All-Star rosters, honoring two more Shorebirds, Trey Mancini and Dylan Rheault. Mancini and Rheault will join their five teammates already selected to the game in Hickory: Mike Yastrzemski, Drew Dosch, Hunter Harvey, Sebastian Vader and Jimmy Yacabonis.

Mancini finished the first half with the Shorebirds' best batting average at .317, which also ranks seventh in the league. The first baseman has been a consistent force in the lineup, playing in 68 of the team's 69 games thus far. Mancini's 85 hits are second in the league, behind only Hagerstown's Wilmer Difo. The Orioles 8th round pick from 2013, Mancini is second on the Shorebirds with 42 RBIs.

Getting off to a slow start, Mancini turned his season around after April. On April 23rd, Mancini was batting just .208 through the first 18 games of the year. The Notre Dame product batted .373 in the month of May. From May 22nd to June 6th, Mancini caught fire as he strung together a 17-game hitting streak in which he batted .429 with 11 mult-hit games in a three-week span. Mancini also reached base safely in 29 consecutive games from May 9th to June 6th, the longest such streak in the South Atlantic League this season.

Dylan Rheault has been a crucial part of the Shorebirds' stellar bullpen unit. In 16 relief appearances, the right-hander reliever is 6-1 with a 3.41 ERA and two saves to his credit. On April 4th, Rheault recorded his first save of his professional career, helping Delmarva to their first win of the season. From April 10th to April 26th, Rheault rattled off five consecutive wins in five relief appearances. The Canadian native pitched 12 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings from April 14th to May 7th, lowering his ERA to 0.98 at one point.

With seven selections to this year's contest, it will be the most All-Star participants for Delmarva since 2005. Previously, the Shorebirds sent five players to the 2011 All-Star Game hosted at Perdue Stadium. The Northern and Southern Divisions will square off on Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm at L.P. Frans Stadium in Hickory, North Carolina.

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NEWFANE -- When it comes to NewBrook Elementary School's energy future, voters sent a mixed message during a lengthy, sometimes-contentious meeting Thursday night.

Residents from Newfane and Brookline turned down a 250-kilowatt solar-panel system that would have been constructed on school property. But voters later approved a companion project, which calls for a loan of up to $330,000 to install a new "air-to-air" heating and cooling system at the school. That electric-powered system is expected to be installed in time for winter, with the school's aging, oil-fueled boilers relegated to backup duty on only the coldest days.

"The voters want to see a different source other than burning fuel in there, which is a good thing. It will reduce our carbon footprint," said Ken McFadden, chairman of the Brookline-Newfane Joint School Board.

At the same time, however, McFadden is hoping voters will eventually reconsider the solar project, which had been envisioned as a power source for the new heating/cooling system.

"I don't think the solar part of it is dead. I just think it needs to be revisited with some clarification," he said.

With the elementary school's boiler and ventilation system in need of an overhaul, officials have spent more than three years looking at options including wood-fired and geothermal systems.

"I came into a situation where boilers were on their way out," NewBrook Principal Chris Pratt said Thursday. "I felt the need to explore alternative options rather than just replacing the boilers we already have."

Former school board member Kim Friedman, who still serves on an Energy Committee investigating the issue, said a primary goal was to "go as green as possible, but in a fiscally responsible way."

Other goals, listed on a handout at Thursday night's meeting, included:

-- Reduce or eliminate the school's carbon footprint.

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FILE - In this July 21, 2012 file photo, Chinese people chat in front of an administration office building for the Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha islands on Yongxing Island, the government seat of Sansha City off the south China's Hainan province. China is building a school on the remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, deepening the facilities in the city it created in its campaign to claim the world's most disputed waters. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

BEIJING (AP) The Philippines said Monday it would propose a moratorium on construction in the South China Sea, two days after China began building a school on a rugged outpost it created to strengthen its claims to disputed waters.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said he will propose that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations call for a moratorium a move that China is likely to ignore or dismiss.

"I think we would use the international community to step up and to say that we need to manage the tensions in the South China Sea before it gets out of hand," del Rosario said.

China began building a school on the largest island in the disputed Paracel chain to serve the children of military personnel and others on Saturday, two years after it established a city there to administer hundreds of thousands of square kilometers (miles) of water where it wants to strengthen its control over potentially oil-rich islands that are also claimed by other Asian nations.

The island, known as Yongxing Island and Woody Island, is 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of China's southernmost province. Vietnam also claims the Paracel chain.

Del Rosario told ABS-CBN News that China is accelerating its "expansion agenda" in the South China Sea to get it completed before ASEAN countries and China draw up a code of conduct that sets rules to prevent incidents in the South China Sea.

He said a suggestion from Danny Russel, the U.S. top diplomat in East Asia, for a freeze in activities which escalate tensions in the area while a code of conduct is being worked out is "a reasonable approach" and one "I would like to initiate."

When China created Sansha city on Yongxing Island in July 2012, the outpost had a post office, bank, supermarket, hospital and a population of about 1,000. By December, it had a permanent population of 1,443, which can sometimes swell by 2,000, according to the Sansha government.

Now it has an airport, hotel, library, five main roads, cellphone coverage and a 24-hour satellite TV station, according to the government. It also has its own supply ship that brings in food, water, construction materials and people.

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Updated: 06/13/2014 4:36 PM Created: 06/12/2014 5:51 PM KSTP.com By: Tom Hauser

The last legal and political hurdles have been cleared so construction can begin on a new office building for the Minnesota Senate.

However, the building could bea significant issue for Governor Dayton and House Democrats as they run for re-election. According to our KSTP/SurveyUSA poll, 68 percent of Minnesotans disapprove of the building that will cost taxpayers $77 million. Just 18 percent approve and 14 percent are "not sure."

"They don't really surprise us," Republican Senate Minority Leader David Hann said of the poll numbers."None of the Republicans supported this building. We all thought it was a crazy idea."

DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk defended the building and pointed out what he considers a flaw in the poll. "The SurveyUSA question fails to provide context to respondents," he said in a statement provided to 5 Eyewitness News. He says Democrats and Republicans supported the Capitol renovation that will reduce space for senators in that building.

Bakk says a new office building is the "most cost-effective, long-term solution" to the space crunch.

Still, there is broad opposition across the political spectrum. Among 2,200 Minnesotans surveyed, 77 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of independents and 62 percent of Democrats oppose construction of the building. The total cost is projected at $90 million, with $77 million from taxpayers and $13 million from user fees paid by Senators and staff who will park in a 265-stall parking ramp inside the building.

A separate public parking ramp that was originally part of the project was eliminated to cut the cost of the project.

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FILE - In this July 21, 2012 file photo, Chinese people chat in front of an administration office building for the Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha islands on Yongxing Island, the government seat of Sansha City off the south China's Hainan province. China is building a school on the remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, deepening the facilities in the city it created in its campaign to claim the world's most disputed waters. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

BEIJING (AP) China rejected a suggestion by the Philippines on Monday for a regionwide ban on construction in the South China Sea after Beijing began building a school on a rugged outpost it created to strengthen its claims to disputed waters.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said he will propose that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations call for such a moratorium. "I think we would use the international community to step up and to say that we need to manage the tensions in the South China Sea before it gets out of hand," del Rosario said.

In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that the Philippines was making "irresponsible remarks." She said China was committed to resolving issues with countries on a bilateral basis, and that island disputes between China and the Philippines were not an issue for ASEAN.

Hua said the Philippines was constructing its own facilities in the Spratlys, an island chain which is claimed by both countries, having announced plans to upgrade a runway and naval facilities and build an airport.

"The Philippines has been taking provocative actions to escalate tensions on the one hand, and making irresponsible remarks about what China has legitimately done within her sovereign rights on the other," Hua said. "That is totally unjustifiable."

China claims virtually the entire South China Sea, and parts of it are also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia. Some see the competing claims as a possible flashpoint for a major conflict.

On Saturday, China began building a school on the largest island in the disputed Paracel chain to serve the children of military personnel and others, two years after it established a city there to administer the South China Sea area it claims, including potentially oil-rich islands.

Vietnam also claims the Paracel chain. Tensions in the area have escalated since China placed an oil rig last month in waters about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the islands, leading to confrontations between Chinese and Vietnamese vessels.

Del Rosario told ABS-CBN News that China is accelerating its "expansion agenda" in the South China Sea to get it completed before ASEAN countries and China draw up a code of conduct that sets rules to prevent incidents in the region.

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State infrastructure spending helped the countrys construction output increase 27.2% year-on-year in April, the Hungarian Central Statistics Office (KSH) announced today.

KSH reported that construction of buildings increased 9.6% between April 2014 and the same month last year, while civil engineering work increased a healthy 46.5% in that period.

Construction output actually dropped 1.3% between March and April of 2014, but the trend of new orders looks positive, KSH reported.

According to KSH, the bulk of construction work in the period between April 2014 and a year earlier involved railway-reconstruction, road construction work and public utility projects.

Based on seasonally adjusted indices, the construction of civil engineering works rose by 3.5% between March and April. Meanwhile, construction of buildings actually decreased 11.1% from March to April, after a sharp rise in February-March.

The volume of new orders in April increased 35.1% as compared to April 2013. The number of new contracts for building construction rose by 49.3% in the same period, due to some large contracts for industrial and educational buildings, KSH said. New orders for civil engineering work grew year-on-year by 26.9% due to high-value contracts for public utility projects, according to the office.

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When former Deere & Co. Chairman William Hewitt envisioned a new administrative center more than a half century ago, he wanted a building that not only would honor the farm equipment maker's sturdy Midwestern roots but set the tone for the global company that Deere wouldevolve into.

This month, employees at what now is called John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, observe the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed architectural gem. Like the company itself, the building has stood the test of time and even some reinventions of space.

''We're very fortunate, this building is very adaptable to a change of the times," said Craig Mack, Deere's manager of general office facilities.

While the Cor-Ten steel building's exterior has changed very little in its five decades, its interior has had to accommodate the shifts in office functions and culture. Mack recalled how the company's computer once filled the entire ground floor in the East Office building, but today, updated infrastructure must power a computer on every desk. In 1964, the idea of teleconferencing was science fiction lore. But today, Deere employees around the globe meet face-to-face in a Telepresence Room in the West Office building.

Mack, who in 1979 joined Deere mid-career as an architect in the engineering department, sees his role as "maintaining the stewardship of the building'' while overseeing necessary modernizations.

''For the Quad-Cities, this was quite a facility 50 years ago," he said during a recent tour.

In the past six to seven years, the three-building complex has undergone a major overhaul with new energy-efficient windows, carpeting, LED lighting, Wi-Fi capabilities throughout, a telephone system upgrade and reconfigured work spaces.

"We're trying to be as green as we can be but still keep the image of the building," Mack said.

Under construction from 1961 to 1964, the headquarters was built to accommodate the company's growth and unite 900 employees from six separate Deere locations under a single roof. The staff and 250 vanloads of supplies and files moved in on April 17, 1964, but the official grand opening was held June 4-5 of that year.

With 400 guests on hand at the celebration, Deere unveiled themulti-million-dollar center. The event was described as "the greatest gathering of top-flight business personnel in Quad-City history," according to the Davenport Times-Democrat, a predecessor of the Quad-City Times.

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State infrastructure spending helped the countrys construction output increase 27.2% year-on-year in April, the Hungarian Central Statistics Office (KSH) announced today.

KSH reported that construction of buildings increased 9.6% between April 2014 and the same month last year, while civil engineering work increased a healthy 46.5% in that period.

Construction output actually dropped 1.3% between March and April of 2014, but the trend of new orders looks positive, KSH reported.

According to KSH, the bulk of construction work in the period between April 2014 and a year earlier involved railway-reconstruction, road construction work and public utility projects.

Based on seasonally adjusted indices, the construction of civil engineering works rose by 3.5% between March and April. Meanwhile, construction of buildings actually decreased 11.1% from March to April, after a sharp rise in February-March.

The volume of new orders in April increased 35.1% as compared to April 2013. The number of new contracts for building construction rose by 49.3% in the same period, due to some large contracts for industrial and educational buildings, KSH said. New orders for civil engineering work grew year-on-year by 26.9% due to high-value contracts for public utility projects, according to the office.

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