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Rocket Scientist Albert Wheelon Led CIA Spy-Satellite Program
Albert Wheelon was a rocket scientist who developed the Central Intelligence Agency's network of spy satellites and then built Hughes Aircraft Co. RTN -0.42 % 's satellite-manufacturing business into what at the time was the largest in the world.
Mr. Wheelon, who died Friday at age 84, was named deputy director of the CIA in 1962 and put in charge of its newly established office of science and technology.
There he developed the nascent Corona satellite system, which changed spy craft by photographing Soviet and Chinese military installations from above, then dropping the film to be retrieved midair by conventional aircraft. More-limited photos could be taken by U-2s, but the highflying reconnaissance planes could be shot down, as the Soviet Union proved in 1960, causing a superpower crisis.
"It was as if an enormous floodlight had been turned on in a darkened warehouse," Mr. Wheelon wrote of the images produced by the new system.
Later versions of satellites he launched returned data in real time. The need for such information had been driven home during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the CIA couldn't always quickly provide pictures during daily presidential briefings.
Mr. Wheelon developed methods for intercepting flight data on Soviet missile tests as well as techniques for revealing the capabilities of enemy radar. He also worked on the SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance aircraft that replaced the U-2.
Born in Moline, Ill., Mr. Wheelon moved as a child with his family to Southern California and as a teenager worked testing seams and rivets on airplane fuel tanks at the Douglas Aircraft Co., where his father was a designer.
He earned a Ph.D. in particle physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at age 23 before working at Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., later TRW Inc. There he designed some of the first long-range missile systems, including the Atlas, Titan and Thor rockets.
In 1966, Mr. Wheelon moved to Hughes and built its space and communications group into the company's largest division, with 10,000 employees. He became chairman and chief executive in 1987, by which time the company said it had built more than half the communications satellites in orbit. But after just a year in the corner office, Mr. Wheelon left Hughes amid a federal investigation into allegations that the company had paid bribes to garner business. The company denied wrongdoing, and no charges were ever brought.
In retirement, Mr. Wheelon sat on corporate boards and produced scientific tomes on electromagnetic scintillation, which causes radar and GPS errors, and makes stars twinkle.
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When M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Sixth Sense' became a box office smash and received critical accolades, his name and work started to be mentioned in the company of another well-known director, Alfred Hitchcock. There are some intriguing similarities between the two.
Both directors have a talent for building suspense in their films, and both often appear in their own films, either as someone in the background of a scene, or as a principal actor.
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Part of the appeal of their films may lie in the fact that often the main character is taking part in a mundane daily activity, such as taking a train, when something unexpected happens. This may include a case of mistaken identity, which forces the character to face extraordinary situations. The character emerges from this situation forever changed, but perhaps stronger and more prepared to live in an increasingly unstable world.
In Alfred Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a Train' the main character, over the course of the film, must face the dangerous consequences which result from a conversation with a stranger. In M. Night Shyamalan's 'Unbreakable', the protagonist survives a terrible accident, and in the ensuing struggle to find meaning, uncovers their destiny and purpose in life.
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There is a humanistic element present in the works of both directors. Many of their films end on an optimistic, or hopeful note, though everyone will interpret a film in their own way.
In the films of both M. Night Shyamalan and Alfred Hitchcock, both directors realize that the greatest danger may lie in running away from the things we are afraid of, rather than facing them.
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CALERA, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Transportation will close the inside lane of Interstate 65 northbound on either side of Alabama 25 Friday night to prepare to reopen the on-ramp.
ALDOT crews closed the lane beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, beginning about one mile south of the Alabama 25 interchange through one mile beyond the interchange.
The lane should reopen by noon Saturday.
The department is preparing to shift traffic onto the newly built bridge, which has been under construction for several weeks.
Crews have been building a bridge as part of a $4.2 million project to extend the problematic merging zone for Alabama 25 traffic entering I-65 northbound.
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Terah Beth Baltzer Varga looked out across her street one day last summer and didn't like what she saw.
The 17,000 sq. ft. parking lot owned by the Calvary Lutheran Church, located between SE 80th and SE 82nd Ave. and SE Woodstock Blvd and SE Martin St., attracted "some unsavory things," says Baltzer Varga, 32.
"Some guy walked across there, and he definitely did a drug deal," she remembers.
She also witnessed people doing doughnuts in the parking lot, and others driving through the lot at high speeds to bypass the traffic signal at SE 82nd Ave. and SE Woodstock. She also learned that the parking lot attracted prostitution.
"You didn't feel like you were going to walk out the door and get attacked, but it didn't have a good community vibe," Balzter Varga says.
She decided to act to make her community more livable and vibrant.
She began attending Mt. Scott-Arleta community meetings, and she worked to create a Neighborhood Watch team. Out of that came the Our Happy Block initiative, which Baltzer Varga created to begin transforming the parking lot into an area that is safe, livable, sustainable, and adds to the surrounding Mt. Scott-Arleta, Foster-Powell and Lents neighborhoods.
"I want it to be a place where people care," Baltzer Varga says.
The parking lot's entrance and exit on Martin St. has been closed, stopping people from cutting through, and trees have been planted with help from Friends of Trees along Woodstock Blvd. and Martin St. to "beautify our streets, reduce traffic noise and improve air quality," says Our Happy Block's website.
Most recently, almost 70 native plants were planted on Saturday, February 19 in a 1,000 sq. ft. area that had previously been covered with sod. Baltzer Varga and a half dozen volunteers removed the sod the previous Saturday.
"It was a really fun project," Baltzer Varga says.
The native plants were picked up earlier that day at the East Multnomah County Soil and Water Conservation District's annual Bare-root Native Plant Sale. Nine volunteers, including neighbors and people not from the area, came to plant the natives, which Balzter Varga says are "tiny."
"It looks really bare," she says. "I can't wait to see how they do. We're still going to get some bigger plants in there."
Eventually, it will be a learning garden with a pathway and informational plaques.
Improvements to the parking lot continue. A portion of the lot will be removed by DePave this summer. Rain gardens will be installed, and native plants will continue to be planted in the learning garden. A mural is also planned for the wall of McCollum Automotive facing the parking lot.
Baltzer Varga is still working to raise money for the mural.The project has received funding from Portland Development Commission (PDC), SE Uplift, and the East Multnomah County Soil and Water Conservation District, as well as in-kind donations.
She also says that Our Happy Block seeks donations to help pay for lighting for the mural, paint, more native plants, signs and plaques for the learning garden.
Baltzer Varga has plenty of advice to Portlanders who see potential for a similar project in their neighborhood. "There are so many open spaces you could change," Baltzer Varga thinks. Time is essential, she says, although she admits that one reason she has time for Our Happy Block is that she is unemployed.
She thinks neighbors have to act on whatever feelings of dissatisfaction they may feel toward a situation. "I wasn't happy with what I saw was going on," she says. She figured that her only two options were to do something, or move.
Getting to know her neighbors also proved crucial, as did attending Mt. Scott-Arleta and neighborhood watch meetings. "We've made some friends we probably wouldn't have known," Baltzer Varga says. "It's just trying to meet your neighbors. You can talk about what you've seen, what's going on."
And from there, opportunities can abound.
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ALLEGAN, MI — Slippery roads, more snow and bitter cold are prompting schools in Southwest Michigan to take a snow day Thursday.
Most Van Buren County schools were closed Wednesday, too.
Newschannel3's site at 5:15 a.m. reported Woods Edge Learning Center in Kalamazoo County closed, as well as Delton Kellogg Schools in Barry County.
Other schools, churches and facilities may be added throughout the morning.
Schools generally notify students directly when classes are canceled, but closings are useful for morning commuters to note as well, because they suggest bad road conditions in their areas.


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SPRINGPORT, MI— The Springport Township Police Department is searching for two juveniles believed to be runaways.
Ashley Brooke Nolen, 15, and Austin Lee Asher-Burt, 16, left Springport High School around noon on Thursday, April 26, according to a release from the department.
A search for the teens is in progress.
Nolen is a 5-foot-6-inch white female and weighs 125 pounds, according to the release. She has curly, black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing black glasses and a navy blue hoodie with "Everlast" printed on the front.
Asher-Burt is a 5-foot-5-inch white male and weighs 140 pounds. According to the release, he has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a grey zip up hoodie and dark blue jeans.
If you have any information regarding their whereabouts, contact the Springport Township Police Department at 517-857-2233 or the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at 517-768-7901.


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What is a hard landing? Can you re-land hard if you've already landed hard? What about just landing harder? Or what about a long hard landing?
The phrasing here is getting awkward, as is the real point, which is the concern that the hardest Chinese landing is yet to come.
You can see why it's on people's minds: Chinese reforms have been less than impressive, there's a general consensus that its record breaking debt load is bad (for a given definition of bad that normally doesn't include an immediate crisis), and credit growth is still heading up. Take this from Bernstein's metals and mining team on Monday for example:
The response to the crisis of 2014/2015 appears to be greater than the response to the financial crisis of 2008/9. Between November 2008 and November 2009 total domestic credit expanded from 36.3Trn RMB to 48.4Trn RMB, a change of 12.1Trn or ~34.4% of 2009 GDP. Between February 2015 and February 2016 domestic credit has grown from 111.2Trn RMB to 139.2Trn, a swing of 27.9Trn, or ~40.4% of GDP.


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Google's advertising revenue jumps 18.1% in Q3
Paid clicks on ads across Google-owned sites and its advertising network jumped 33% during the quarter.
Google's advertising revenue jumps 18.1% in Q3
Paid clicks on ads across Google-owned sites and its advertising network jumped 33% during the quarter.
Twitter lays off 9% of its staff
The move comes as the social network struggles to grow its advertising revenue.
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Retailers and consumer brands are losing tens of millions of dollars each year in wasted advertising spending because of fraudulent clicks on online ads, according to research conducted by MdotLabs Inc., a startup firm that provides Internet-hosted software for identifying and blocking illegitimate sources of traffic hitting web ads.
MdotLabs, based in Madison, WI, uses proprietary software that places JavaScript code on web sites to monitor traffic clicking online ads. The JavaScript code sends data on that traffic to MdotLabs, where its risk management software determines whether traffic hitting online ads was generated by humans browsing a web site or by botnets and "click-farms" that use automated systems to send fraudulent traffic to online ads, says Paul Barford, the firm's chief scientist and co-founder. The software is also designed to block fraudulent traffic.
After it conducted a recent study of 10 online advertising networks that span hundreds of ad-carrying publishing sites and that charge advertisers by page views, MdotLabs estimated that those networks alone account for about 15 billion invalid ad impressions per month. "We estimate the cost to advertisers for this fraudulent traffic to be on the order of $180 million annually," Dr. Barford says.
MdotLabs grew out of Broadcast Interactive Media, a digital ad network, a company that was founded by MdotLabs CEO Timur Yarnall, who co-founded MdotLabs with Barford. The company charges fees based on cost-per-thousand ad impressions. For agencies that offer the company's service to their clients, MdotLabs offers its technology on a fixed-fee basis starting at $2,000 per month, Yarnall says.
MdotLabs, which operates with a staff of 14, recently received $1.25 million in venture capital in an initial round of funding led by investment firms Chicago Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital. Other investors include Ray Zemon, founder of ShopBop.com, an online apparel site owned by Amazon.com Inc., No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500.
"MdotLabs, helps advertisers and publisher networks identify and avoid invalid traffic which is now costing the online ad ecosystem billions of dollars every year in wasted ad spending," says Andrew Boszhardt Jr., founder and managing partner of Great Oaks Ventures. "Timur and Paul and the MdotLabs team have developed campaign security analytics that provide highly accurate and timely detection of invalid impression and click activity for both online and mobile traffic. We see almost no limit to its growth and potential to dominate the fraud protection market."
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October 09, 2009
The pagan and Christian West has a long tradition of hospitality toward strangers - a sentiment apparent in both the Odyssey and New Testament, as well as numerous other writings. This Christian sentiment, however, recently has been exploited by managerial elites, turning a code that largely dealt with guests and traders into a carte blanche acceptance of mass immigration. One need only look at yesterday's news to find an example: the Senate testimony of Rev. Leith Anderson, head of the National Association of Evangelicals. He argues:
We [Christians] believe that undocumented immigrants who have otherwise been law abiding members of our communities should be offered the opportunity to pay any taxes or penalties owed, and over time earn the right to become U.S. citizens and permanent ?residents. The process of redemption and restitution is core to Christian beliefs, as we were all once lost and redeemed through love of Jesus Christ.
Since when do redemption and restitution have anything to do with mass immigration? With religious leaders like Rev. Anderson, the West will be in for a real treat.
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Socialite dilemma: abandon yourself to the frantic partygoing of Art Basel Miami Beach, or stay home and get your Christmas shopping done? Luckily, Christie's is there to provide inspiration to those who choose the former when they finally get around to the latter. For the week of art fairs, the auction house is presenting "The Norton Christmas Project: A Retrospective" during Art Basel Miami Beach, a playful display of holiday gifts for the well-endowed.
If there's one person who knows the whole Christmas gift/fine art scene, its Peter Norton. Each year, the California tech entrepreneur, art collector, and occasional Santa Claus commissions an artist to craft an edition to send to his friends as gifts. Since its founding in 1988, the 23-year-old tradition has resulted in a wide range of inherently blue-chip objects, from a compact wooden music box by Christian Marclay in 2005, to "Oval," Takashi Murakami's 2000 floral, cartoonish figurine of a girl (not to be confused with that other "Oval," his "Oval Buddha"), and Kara Walker's 2009 "Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times," a deceptively whimsical-looking pop-up book of racially charged silhouette images. Over the years, Norton has also tapped Vik Muniz, Do Ho Suh, and a collaborative effort between Brian Eno and Pae White to serve as workshop elves.
To see objects from "The Norton Christmas Project: A Retrospective," click on the slide show. The show runs through December 3 at JW Marriott Marquis Miami.


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I live in Austin Tx. It is hot down here in summer.My plum tree has sap that just seems to bubble out near base.Small amounts about 1/8 ti 1/4 inch and then just dries up.I don't think it is bore worms cause I can't find any holes. It seems to be healthy except for this fact.Can anyone help me in finding a solution? This is a flowering purple plum.


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Dustin Brown has two young children. I have proof. For those who haven't seen it, Brown has posted a video of himself guest-starring with the crew of the kids TV show "Yo Gabba Gabba" during their recent appearance at Nokia Theater. Brown did something called the "peanut butter stomp." Here is goes…
Dustin Brown with "Yo Gabba Gabba"
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Huntsville police say a suspect in child abuse case turned himself in Wednesday.
Arthur Bernell Wesley, 33, is charged with torture or willful abuse of a child. He was released on a $2,500 bond later that day.
The victim in this case is a 10-year-old boy who is not related to Wesley. Sgt. Mark Roberts said the incident took place in a school sometime during the month of May. He said the abuse was physical and not sexual. Police could not say which school the incident occurred at because of the ongoing investigation.
Huntsville City Schools confirmed Wesley taught physical education at McDonnell Elementary School last year but was not slated to return to the position this school year. He will face disciplinary actions within the school board pending the investigation. Wesley currently holds a valid teaching license, acceding to the Alabama State Department of Education.


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PHILADELPHIA -- A sellout crowd of more than 45,000 settled into their seats Monday night at a rain-soaked Citizens Bank Park for what was supposed to be the end of a long, long road - only the second World Series title for the Phillies in 115 years of futility.
Fans planned for New Years Eve, the Fourth of July and the Second Coming all wrapped into one evening, but wandered out into the cold October night, wet and dejected, yet still hungry for a Phils victory.
Up in Section 310, George Wescott of Mantua braved the elements until the game was called midway through the sixth inning. Meanwhile, Wescott sat firmly in his seat, decked out in a raincoat and warm clothing.
"The wind was blowing right at us," Wescott said, noting his wife elected to move down to the upper concourse out of the harsh weather early on in the weather-shortened game. "The rain wasn't come straight. It was coming down sideways."
Others who weren't so prepared took refuge under cover, bundled up in sweatshirts, thermal underwear and the giveaway blankets given to those who sign up for credit cards at the stadium.
"It was really quiet," Wescott said of the upper levels. "I think most of them by the third inning went down the corridor."
They lined up by the dozens for the soup and hot chocolate sold at what during the summer months are water ice stands.
Water puddled on the basepaths within minutes of the game's 8:30 p.m. start time as the Phillies jumped out to a two-run lead until Tampa scored in the top half of the sixth.
But of course, in a typhoon, anything is possible.
Phils shortstop Jimmy Rollins flubbed an infield fly ball that eluded him thanks to a driving rain, resulting in an error on the play.
Many questioned the logic behind starting the game, let alone allowing it to go as far as it did.
Fans calling into sports talk radio today figured the powers that be at Major League Baseball would have seen the front moving from the south and rescheduled the game.
Even the experts were taken by surprise by the windswept rain and chilly conditions.
"If you look at the forecast from early in the day Monday, we weren't anticipating for things to occur as they did," said Dean Iovino, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly. "As we got closer to game time, it became apparent there was going to be an issue."
On the bright side, Iovino is saying computer models are predicting some better conditions to squeeze in three innings on Wednesday night.
"It's still going to be cold, with a big breeze and cloudy, but there won't be any rain," Iovino said.
That's of little consolation to those who came from a distance to take in the game.
Colin Daniels, a new Manhattan resident via Delanco, Burlington County, couldn't be kept from a chance to see his beloved Phillies capture the title.
"In New York City, there aren't many bars that are Philly-friendly," Daniels said. "On the cusp of winning the first world championship, I wanted to be near a big group of people."
You can't get much closer to the action without a ticket than to tailgate outside the ballpark, but as Daniels found out quick, he wasn't the only one who hoped to be at the center of it all.
"There were a lot of tents set up with their own TVs," Daniels explained. I was extremely cold, just getting drenched. Hadn't eaten lunch or dinner. It was definitely testing my devotion to the Phillies."
He was on hand inside the park for Game 4, in which the Phils drubbed Tampa 10-2. His parents flew up from Florida to watch the game with him.
"When I left I felt I really needed to come back for Game 5," said Daniels, who decided for sure Monday on his lunch break to take the train back to the Delaware Valley. A quick re-pack of his travel bag neglected to include rain gear.
For Daniels, it was the coldest he has ever been in his life.
"I just wanted to be as close to it as I could without paying $1,000 for a ticket," Daniels said. "We got to the lot just as the game was starting. It was great for the first few innings, then the rain started coming."
If being a human popsicle wasn't bad enough, just getting back to the Big Apple was a chore. Daniels planned to take PATCO from Philadelphia back to New Jersey to eventually connect with a New Jersey Transit train, but waited for more than an hour for a ride that never came.
DRPA spokesman Ed Kasuba said the delay came from a broken-down PATCO train in the subway at 8th and Market streets in Philadelphia.
After another hour trying to get a cab to take him across the bridge, Daniels, a friend and three strangers made it back to New Jersey.
Tonight he'll be watching the remainder of Game 5 in the land ruled by Yankees and Metropolitans.
"(Watching) Game 3 here was really exciting," Daniels said. "There were definitely people cheering, but it was nothing like being in Philadelphia or South Jersey."


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By Charles Guthrie
Austin Carbone scored four goals and Nick Kilkowski and Michael Badgley connected on two goals apiece as Summit, ranked No. 2 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, defeated Westfield, 12-1, last night in the Union County Tournament final at Johnson in Clark.
Summit, which has been in the final every year since the tournament started in 2003, won its eighth championship and fifth straight county title.
"Austin had a great game. He really let the game come to him," Kilkowski said. "He played liked a veteran and hats off to him for getting me into some good spots and getting himself into some good spots and communicating what the defense was doing."
Goalie Alex Salazar finished with seven saves and the Summit defense, led by Will Weber, Stefano Stadinger and Bill Hadley, allowed a season-low one goal.
Thomas Lackaye did an outstanding job on the draws, going 8-for-12, and Ryan Bringewatt also won all three of his face-offs for Summit.
The solid face-off work helped Summit build a 3-0 lead in the first quarter as Will Shamim and Carbone both scored off the draws, following Badgley's opening score.
David Kalin and Kilkowski pushed the lead to 5-0 in the second quarter before Jackson O'Leary got Westfield on the board with a diving goal on a pass from Paul DeVita.
Carbone then added two more goals in the third quarter, with Kilkowski scoring one in between, to extend the lead to 8-1.


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Issue 107
July / August 2009
Scottish dig has big surprise in the post
Urine to navel fluff: the first complete witch bottle
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Finding Lindow Man
Britain's only surviving "bog body" was found in Cheshire 25 years ago. With photos taken at the time – some not seen before – Rick Turner remembers the day when saving Lindow Man was entirely in his hands.
It began with a phone call. On August 1 1984, Rachel Pugh, a young reporter on the Wilmslow World, had been tipped off by a local policeman that a well-preserved human foot had been found that day. It had been taken off the elevator at the depot where they sorted out the debris from the usable peat dug from Lindow Moss. Rachel suspected the potential importance of this find and rang me as Cheshire's county archaeologist for a reaction. I had not been in the post for long, for that evening a retirement party was being held for my predecessor, Rhys Williams. He was an Anglesey man, and ironically given what followed, he was presented with a copy of a bronze mirror from the iron age votive hoard from Llyn Cerrig Bach.
My reaction to Rachel's questions was to say that I would visit the site the next day. Wilmslow was about an hour's drive from home. My excitement grew as I entered Manchester's richest dormitory town and drove past the Porsche garage, the designer dress shop and bistros. I turned along Moor Lane and into an unkempt stretch of countryside on the southern edge of Lindow Moss, where the peat company's depot lay. Here I met Ken Harewood, Eddie Slack, Stephen Dooley and Reg and Andy Mould, the five men who worked the site. Over the next few years they were to be inconvenienced, put upon and patronised by archaeologists, the police and the world's media, yet they were always helpful and deeply interested in what they had found and what it meant. They even nicknamed me Indiana.
Eddie showed me how he had found the foot. A narrow-gauge diesel engine hauled small trucks of peat from the moss a few hundred metres away into the depot. The trucks were tipped onto an elevator, which lifted the peat up to a milling machine. Here, it was chopped up before it was added to the pile in the yard. Eddie and a colleague had to take off the debris – normally bits of wood – which could jam the mill. The day before, it was a peat-tanned right foot with the skin of the lower leg.
Eddie then walked me down the railway line onto the moss. You pass through a fringe of birch trees, in which the morning mists regularly hang, into another world. The railway turned to run down the centre of the surviving moss. On either side 100–200m long "rooms", about 5m wide and 1m deep, were dug by a large excavator. The peat was piled on the adjacent bank or balk where it was left to dry for at least a year. It was then loaded onto the trucks and run back to the depot for milling. The foot had come out of these stacks. I began to walk the uncut section alongside what was left of the stack. Quite quickly I noticed what seemed to be a leather bag poking out of the base of the section. Its tip was blackened, but the rest was supple like a dark-coloured chamois. Being a trained archaeologist, my first reaction was to poke it with my trowel. From inside the bag, a recognisable human bone fell out.
Standing in the bog that August morning, I was convinced I was looking at part of a bog body. The layers of peat above the flap were intact and Eddie told me that over the years at least 3m of peat had been excavated from above the findspot. My problem was that I was also standing in a crime scene.
On May 13 1983, Andy and Steve were working the elevator. They picked off what they thought was a burst football. On hosing it down in the yard, they revealed a skull, softened by the peat, with some hair, an eyeball and part of the brain attached. They reported this remarkable find to the local Macclesfield police, who, bizarrely, were investigating the 20-year old disappearance of Malika Reyn-Bardt. Her husband, Peter, had admitted to a cellmate in prison that he had killed her, dismembered her body, burnt it and buried it in the garden. The house they lived in backed onto the peat farm at Lindow Moss.
The police had interviewed Reyn-Bardt, but he denied the murder. They had excavated the garden and found no human remains. Now, a few months later, this well-preserved human head, identified as a woman, of the right age and relatively modern in date by the pathologist, had turned up just a few hundred metres from the Reyn-Bardts' house. On being confronted with this discovery, Reyn-Bardt confessed to his wife's murder, and was committed for trial in Chester that December. Yet despite extensive searches out on the peat bog no more human remains were found. The investigating officer, Superintendent Neville Jones, was not satisfied and having failed to interest a number of archaeologists in the human head paid Oxford University for a radiocarbon date. The results came just before the trial: 1740±80BP, or around AD130–290 (uncalibrated) – the skull was Romano-British. Nevertheless, Mr Reyn-Bardt was convicted of murder, on the evidence of his confession alone.
So when the police came again to remove the foot, the investigation was re-opened and the coroner was given jurisdiction over the remains. I was standing on site with another part of a body, without the police's or the peat company management's knowledge. I needed a phone and a drink. It was just after 11.00am and I drove back into Wilmslow, sat in the Carter's Arms and had a double whiskey. From reading PV Glob's the Bog People some years before, I guessed I was the first archaeologist ever to find a bog body with its stratigraphic context intact. I needed back-up, so I rang my office then made an appointment to see Supt Neville Jones. For him, we were dealing either with the remains of Mrs Reyn-Bardt, or if I was to be believed an archaeological find of international importance. To his great credit, he trusted me and agreed that I would be allowed to excavate whatever the flap of skin represented under police supervision. I had the following day, Friday, to organise things, and then would return to Lindow Moss on the Monday, with the police guarding the findspot during the weekend. I spent the evening re-reading the Bog People.
Two things seemed paramount. Firstly before excavation began, the section needed to be fully recorded, and a full peat column for environmental analysis had to be taken. Secondly, given there was only one day available, I resolved that whatever the flap of skin represented it should be lifted undisturbed in a block of peat so that final excavation could be carried out under laboratory conditions. In 1984, there was no professional archaeological unit based in Cheshire. So for help, I rang Robina McNeil and Joan Taylor of Liverpool University, where environmental archaeologists Gill Yates and Nigel Richardson were based. Colin Shell from Cambridge University was staying with Joan and he came along too. Helen Lockwood, my partner and now wife, joined the team. Crucially I made two other calls, the first to Velson Horie, conservator at the Manchester Museum, famous for its work on Egyptian mummies, and secondly to the British Museum where I told Gill Varndell what I thought I had found.
On the Monday, we gathered at Lindow Moss. Robina and I got there first. Joan and her team were delayed because of problems with the department's minibus. Velson arrived safely but Helen was late, because a gas fitter she had agreed to let in at our house did not turn up on time. The police were there in force under Neville Jones's command. Also in attendance were Robert Connolly, the coroner's appointed pathologist, John Ellis, an ex-major who worked in my office and turned up with a van load of equipment, and Ken and his staff from the peat depot. There were a difficult couple of hours keeping everyone entertained, whilst Gill and Nigel drew the section and took two peat monoliths.
The five of us archaeologists then carefully cleared the overburden and cut around the margins of what was later to be revealed as Lindow Man without exposing any more of the body. John Ellis and Ken Harewood constructed a device to slide a plywood sheet under the block of peat we had cut out, and made a scaffolding cradle on which to carry it. By about 7pm, we carried off our trophy from the moss in triumph. When Glob recovered Tollund Man in 1950 in a similar way, one of his helpers collapsed and died of a heart attack. Glob whimsically wrote:
No such fate befell our team.
That evening the block of peat was taken to the mortuary at Macclesfield General Hospital. During the day, Robert Connolly had announced that he was going to return the following morning with the police to conduct an autopsy. I was horrified, as this would undo all my efforts to keep the discovery intact. Velson Horie came to the rescue. He and I resolved to be at the mortuary early next morning. Velson brought clingfilm, a sheet of plywood, a saw and the two chemicals needed to make polyurethane foam. We wrapped the block of peat in clingfilm, made four sides of a box to fit around the outside and then Velson mixed the foam. Just as it was setting, in walked Connolly and the police.
Velson's manoeuvre infuriated Connolly but it bought us time, in which we could discuss things more rationally. We had to determine whether this was part of a modern murder victim, or an archaeological discovery of the greatest importance, preferably without disturbing the contents of the foam-filled box. On the archaeological side, there was the evidence of the intact stratigraphy, the great depth of peat removed from the site since 1960, the similarity of the preservation of the remains to Glob's bog people and the date of the head recovered the previous year. On the other hand we had the potential to confirm a modern murder, the power of the coroner, the police's authority and the pathologist's expertise.
However it was the local pathologist, Dr Williams, who came up with the best idea: X-ray the block of peat. Nearly every modern person, he argued, has metal on their body even if they are naked – fillings in their teeth! It was the radiologist who gave the body the nickname Pete Marsh as she had to fill a name onto the form. The X-ray gave us the first inkling of what we had got, showing clearly the curve of the backbone, the two arms and the skull. There were no tooth fillings.
About this time Ian Stead of the British Museum turned up. He brought the gravitas of a great national institution and lot of good Yorkshire common-sense to the case. He brokered a deal with the coroner that if a radiocarbon date of a sample from the foot proved to be ancient, then the BM would take responsibility for the remains, their scientific investigation and conservation. A sample was sent to Harwell, who, after a fortnight were able to say that the body was over 500 years old. It was released and transferred to London where Ian directed its true excavation.
With 25 years reflection, we can see that Lindow Man's discovery led to three great advances. The first was to put a face to British prehistory. Here was a body whose last and horrific 24 hours could be reconstructed in great detail, whose appearance was so memorably reconstructed by Richard Neave, yet whose death leaves many mysteries. Secondly, 20 years after Glob wrote the Bog People, it reawakened scientific and archaeological interest in bog bodies across northern Europe, deepening and widening our understanding of this remarkable phenomenon. Finally, it helped the police embrace the archaeological method in dealing with scenes of crimes, and saw the birth of forensic archaeology, now used across the world to look at modern as well as ancient tragedies.
See Bog Bodies: New Discoveries & New Perspectives, ed RC Turner & R Scaife (British Museum 1995); Lindow Man: The Body in the Bog, ed IM Stead, JB Bourke & D Brothwell (British Museum 1986); The Bog People, by PV Glob (Faber & Faber 1969, from a Danish original 1965). Rick Turner is an inspector of ancient monuments with Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government.
Jody Joy, curator of iron age Britain and Europe, describes one of the British Museum's most popular exhibits
Lindow Man caused a media sensation. One of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 1980s, he is our best bog body, preserved for nearly 2,000 years with a furrowed brow and close-cropped hair: the first face from prehistoric Britain. His appeal continues. He is a prehistoric celebrity, appearing in numerous television documentaries. Visitors to the British Museum are fascinated by the remarkable preservation. He was recently loaned to the Manchester Museum for an exhibition (Spoilheap, Jul/Aug 2008) and soon will appear at the Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Lindow Man: Body of Evidence, Aug 1–Nov 29) in its first major special exhibition.
The remains of Lindow Man, like other bog bodies dating from around 500BC–AD100 found in Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands and northern Germany, offered many opportunities for research. Only around 20 such bodies are as well-preserved, and fewer still have been the subject of such a thorough investigation. Yet there are still many unanswered questions.
Naked except for a fox-fur band on his left arm, he was 1.68–1.73m tall (5ft 6ins–5ft 8ins) and around 25 years old. He had mild arthritis in his lower spine and intestinal parasites. He was well groomed. At only 1–9cm, his hair was longest at the neck, providing the effect of a well-styled mullet! (The present red colour was caused by chemicals in the bog; originally it was dark brown.) His beard and moustache had been trimmed with shears, and his fingernails were filed: at 1,000× magnification they resemble those of a female manicurist. On the day or the day before he died, he ate finely-ground wheat and barley. The wheat had been heated to 200–250°C: his last meal was not the boiled gruel of some other European bog bodies, but probably a flat unleavened griddle cake baked over an open fire.
Medical and forensic investigations revealed numerous injuries. Iain West of Guy's Hospital suggested Lindow Man had been struck on the top of his head twice with a heavy object; a blow to the back of the chest broke a rib; a loop of animal sinew had been used as a garrotte, marking the skin and breaking the neck, then a deep cut was made at the side of the neck, severing his jugular vein. Finally he was placed face down in a pool in the bog.
This is the story told for many years beside the British Museum exhibit. Robert Connolly, a lecturer in physical anthropology at the Department of Human Anatomy, University of Liverpool, presented an alternative. According to him, Lindow Man died from a series of vicious blows to the top and back of the head. All other potential injuries, Connolly argued, can be explained by changes after death, including marks from a neck ornament (the sinew) as the submerged body bloated in the pool.
None of this explains why he was killed. Was he an executed prisoner, or had he died during combat or after a violent robbery? The multiple and extended sequence of injuries might have had religious significance: was Lindow Man a sacrifice victim? Mistletoe in his gut could be interpreted in the light of the Roman historian Pliny's comment that the plant was used by Druids – or, with only four pollen grains, it could be there by chance. These different "deaths" have been related to various gods mentioned in classical and medieval Irish and Welsh texts.
In 2004 Ronald Hutton questioned the sacrifice idea in the Times Literary Supplement, arguing that alternative theories cannot be excluded on current evidence. Critical to why Lindow Man was killed, is when? Radiocarbon dating places the death at 2BC–AD119, largely after the Roman conquest of this part of Britain. Despite this, as Hutton pointed out, most interpretations presume he died in a pre-Roman cultural context.
At least two other bog bodies were deposited at Lindow Moss. Worsley Man, found only 20km from Lindow Man, also shows signs of "overkill": he had received heavy blows to the head, had a cord around his neck and was decapitated. These other bodies are Roman in date. Iron age bog bodies are up to 400 years earlier, but if Lindow Man was Roman, the possibility that he was sacrificed to the gods cannot be completely excluded. His body was placed in the bog because it was significant to the religious beliefs of people in the region. It was important to them that his death was violent – and we should judge that brutal end from their perspective.
Lindow Man, by Jody Joy, was published by the British Museum Press in April (£5 pp64 ISBN 978-0714128177 PB).
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Your ball, JaCoby Jones. Let's see what you do with it now.
LSU coach Paul Mainieri will put the enigmatic junior back in the starting lineup to start a huge series against South Carolina.
Back at second base and batting somewhere in the bottom third of the batting order.
Back where he belongs. Or should that be, back where he belongs?
Should is the key word with Jones. Seems like it has been the last two seasons. As in should LSU fans expect more from a kid oozing with ability?
Ever since he put together a freshman All-American season in 2011, it seems like treading water has been as much as Jones could manage since then.
His average tumbled last season -- from .336 as a rookie to .253 -- but the Mississippi native built like a gazelle played almost flawless defense at second base and flashed an occasional flair for the dramatic.
Which created a lot of optimism that he could turn things around this season, knowing he was playing for draft position in June. His five-tool potential alone makes big league scouts drool, so surely he could add a solid season to that, right?
Not so much. Not yet anyway.
Instead, a 1-for-27 swoon from March 22-31 sent Jones' batting average careening to a career-low .188. He's rarely come through in the clutch this season, and run production has curtailed to 18 RBIs, and worse, only 27 runs.
But the defense remained. He's been as good as anybody in the country at his position.
And from all accounts, Jones has been a good teammate. Unselfish and willing to do whatever he could.
A bad weekend last week at Alabama thrust all that into limbo, though.
To be fair, Jones might not have been at his best at any point in Tuscaloosa. He sat out Friday with a stomach bug, but came back Saturday night and was back in action.
After sitting out Friday, he played all 16 innings. But his error on a routine ground ball in the 9th inning contributed to a three-run Alabama rally that forced extra innings.
The next day, he rolled out to third base and didn't run the play out. In the Crimson Tide 4th, another simple ground ball headed his way and Jones out and out whiffed.
That was enough for LSU coach Paul Mainieri, who pulled Jones and that wound up costing the Tigers, because senior Casey Yocom was 0-for-3 with runners in position.
Jones also sat out the first 6 innings against Tulane as an apparent attention-getter and it couldn't have worked out better for Mainieri. Mason Katz started at second base and looked very comfortable and effective there, creating on the surface the realistic idea that Jones could stay on the bench.
It certainly should've gotten Jones' attention and made him realize that a senior who is hell-bent on doing whatever he can to get his team to the College World Series is willing -- and more importantly very able -- of taking his spot and opening the door for somebody else to jump into the batting order.
Was Katz as fluid as Jones at second base, or would he be as good long-term? Hard to tell on the first question, and no the second. Katz is a diamond rat who will work hard to make himself good at whatever his team needs him to be. Jones is a freakish athletic talent who makes things look ever-so-easy when and if his head is in the right place.
That 'when and if' is what LSU needs Jones to eliminate. Mainieri and his Tiger teammates need Jones to be 100% every time he pulls his jersey on. If he's not hitting the ball, that doesn't mean he can't provide the magnificent defense he's shown his entire career at second base.
The ball is in his hands now. Time to see if the message his coach was trying to deliver was loud and clear enough.


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MOBILE, Alabama – The Alabama Music Box has launched an online fund-raising drive, seeking help from supporters to meet costs associated with a long-running lawsuit over noise complaints.
The downtown club has been sued by neighbors who allege that sound from its shows makes nearby residential space unlivable. The case has been convoluted, and recent developments have included an eviction notice from the club's landlord. Club operators remain defiant, stating in their www.indiegogo.com pledge drive that they "have no plans to vacate our current location and want to do whatever it takes to ensure that we can continue to operate" at 455 Dauphin St.
The pitch alternates between such defiance and a more somber tone about the cost of the ongoing legal battle, describing it as "incredibly difficult and financially draining," and referring to "times of desperation."
It adds that "We can also promise you that if in the unforeseeable future we are forced to move, we will use all of your contributions to relocate as soon as possible so that we can continue to provide quality music to our city."
The drive aims to raise $30,000 to cover the cost of soundproofing the building. As is commonly the case with online fund-raising drives, donors are offered a variety of perks and premiums. In this case they range from entry to a fundraiser finale party on Dec. 14 (for donations of $10 or more) up to a package including free admission to a year's worth of shows plus a $10 bar tab at each (donations of $1,000 or more).
Under the conditions of the Indiegogo drive, the campaign will receive all funds pledged even if it does not reach its goal.


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Droughts are a farmer's worst nightmare: Crops meant for the dinner table wither away in the dry heat leaving people hungry and farmers broke.
Not all plants are as sensitive to drought, though, and it is the genetic makeup of these more resilient plants that is of interest to scientists who feel the need to develop crops that can handle drastic shifts in their environments.
U.S and Finnish researchers recently discovered the specific gene responsible for controlling the amount of water released by the plant as it absorbs carbon dioxide-more specifically, the gene that controls the plant's stomata.
|The stomatic pore in a tomato leaf.
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All leaves are covered with stomata, which are tiny pores used to suck up carbon dioxide and to release water vapor back into the air.
Some of the 'hardier' plants close up their stomatal pores when ozone levels increase.
This reaction also reduces the amount of water lost during the harsher seasons. (It is interesting to note that plants suffer from excessive amounts of ozone rather than thriving in a CO2 rich environment when they use this specific gas for growth.)
The gene in question controls when the stomata are open or closed. Unfortunately, with their stomata closed, plants are unable to absorb the excessive amounts of CO2 in our atmosphere.
Up to 95% of water loss occurs through these pores while they are open, so manipulating the genetic makeup of plants to increase their sensitivity to droughts (forcing them to close their stomata) could have a positive effect on their survivability: A little water lasts much longer.
This may slow plant growth since CO2 is a necessary component for photosynthesis and plant development (with the stomatal pores closed, less CO2 makes it into the plants' system), but a smaller plant is still better than a dead one.
Researchers claim that within the next few years plants could be genetically modified to hold on to the precious water that is so hard to come by during a drought, while still being able to absorb the CO2 they need for photosynthesis.
This is a win-win situation: It will allow crops to survive in arid regions while also sequestering the atmosphere's CO2.
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I would never oppose such bills, for fear of being painted as anti-veteran, anti-vacation or anti-dog. But I do hope the Legislature can supplement these low-budget, symbolic gestures with more substantive ways to support veterans and their families.
"Anything we do to honor the sacrifices veterans have made, it matters more than we know," says former Marine Cameron Smith, nominated by Gov. John Kitzhaber as the next director of the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs, subject to state Senate confirmation.
"But if that's all we do," Smith adds, "then yes, we've fallen short."
At least three dozen bills related to veterans are working their way through the Oregon Legislature. The most aww-inspiring got a hearing last week: House Bill 2159 would create a pilot program to pair therapy dogs with Oregon service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other nonphysical injuries.
The effectiveness of therapy dogs (versus regular pets) for treating PTSD isn't clear, which is why the federal government decided last year to stop paying for service dogs for veterans with mental or emotional challenges. It's unlikely that Oregon could resolve the question with a pilot this small. But the price is right: For just $75,000, lawmakers can cover at least five dogs and burnish their records as pro-veteran AND pro-mental health.
Other bills provide similar political payoff for little money or effort. Senate Bill 461 would designate a stretch of Interstate 84 as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway. Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senate President Peter Courtney, would require companies to give veterans paid or unpaid time off on Veterans Day.
Both bills are well-meaning. The risk is that they will satisfy Oregon's collective desire to do something for veterans without actually accomplishing much.
Veterans make up about 9 percent of the Oregon population. Vietnam veterans are needing more assistance as they age, and veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan face unique challenges while rejoining society after multiple deployments: Mental health problems related to war trauma, brain injuries and sexual assault are common. Oregon is trying not to repeat the mistake of the Vietnam era, when the nation failed to welcome its veterans home.
The intent, according to a legislative task force on veterans' reintegration, is to meet veterans' needs before they develop into costly crises.
"Billions of dollars have been spent in social services and jails because society did not take care of those wounded by war in previous generations," the task force said in a 2010 report.
Oregon lawmakers can pitch in by funding the state's small Veterans' Affairs agency, which brings big money into the state by helping veterans access their federal benefits and educational aid. They can also assist by passing smart legislation aimed at helping veterans and their spouses gain their career footing: Frequent moves and deployments can wreak havoc on spouses' employment prospects, which hurts families' self-sufficiency.
The end game isn't to maximize the dollars earmarked for veterans ("I'm not an empire builder," Smith says), but to make Oregon as a whole -- its colleges, businesses, health clinics and the like -- get better at lending veterans a well-timed hand.
As war efforts wrap up, public attention fades. Yet the challenges facing veterans remain, and problems often don't manifest until months or years after the last deployment. When the overseas combat ends, the work at home is just beginning.
Renaming highways and paying for five therapy dogs -- heck, 50 dogs! -- are nice flourishes.
They're just not a fair trade for military service. If such niceties are used as an excuse to skimp on the state's obligations, veterans might be better off without the help.
-- Associate editor Susan Nielsen, The Oregonian


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Just as voting demonstrates to your child how you feel about your civic responsibility, so does Thanksgiving give you a chance to help your child learn about your feelings about charity. Your preschool child doesn't know a lot about Thanksgiving but he does understand about giving and receiving. He knows that he likes it when you give him things. By now you have undoubtedly taught him this part about giving. Now it is time to teach him about the other part-giving.
School food drives are one way to teach your child about charity. You have been hearing a lot about United Way as another way of giving. Once again, the only way this teaches your child about giving is for you to talk with him about why you are writing the check. Tell him who is going to get helped because of what you are doing.
But the best way to teach a young person about giving is to let him be involved in the process. Take something to an older person in the rest home who has no visitors. It can be a cupcake or a bouquet. You need to check in with the rest home to know what would be appropriate and who would be a good person to get something from your child.
Bring your extra cans of food to the food bank. But have him bring the package in. Talk with him about giving and who it helps and why we should do it.
Being generous and charitable is something we need to teach our children. If your older child doesn't know about giving, it is time for her to learn. Actually, it is something we all need to learn. The place a child usually learns about these kinds of things is at home. Once again, you are your child's first and most important teacher. Don't skip the lesson about giving.
Cynthia Martin is the director of Parenting Matters Foundation. Reach Martin at email@example.com or at 681-2250.
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PORTAGE, MI - Down 24-19 to Mattawan at halftime, Portage Northern boys basketball coach Jim Horn said he didn't ask his team to change the game plan, just its intensity.
"Mattawan came out and they wanted it more. We didn't even have a foul with a minute left in the first half, that told me we weren't playing aggressive enough," Horn said.
The message was received. The Huskies (11-10, 7-7 SMAC West) held Mattawan to just 13 second half points and found an offensive rhythm to earn a 48-37 win in the first round of the Division 1 district tournament.
"I asked them to step it up in the second half and they did. I thought our defense was much better in the second half."
It was a back and forth early in the game, with the two teams trading baskets. Brandon Bye scored with 3:15 left in the first quarter to tie the game at 6. Over the next eight minutes, Mattawan (4-16, 1-13 SMAC West) went on a 14-5 run to lead 20-11 with 3:06 left in the second quarter. Five different players scored for Mattawan on that run.
"(In the) first half, we came out a little slow," said Bye, who finished with 10 points. "They came out and hit a couple shots early and caught us off guard."
Portage Northern was able to close the gap to 24-19 heading into the locker room. Coming out of halftime, Portage Northern went on a run, scoring the first seven points to take a 26-24 lead.
"In the second half, it was pretty much night and day, we stepped it up and came out hard," Bye said.
The run was led by Portage Northern's two leading scorers this year, Daryn Snow and Adam Ashbaugh.
Snow and Ashbaugh scored 11 of the Huskies' 12 points in the third quarter while the Huskies were able to grab the lead. Snow finished with a game-high 12 points to lead Portage Northern while Ashbaugh added eight.
"They are our leading scorers," Horn said. "It's the inside outside game."
Portage Northern also got a big game out of Bye, and Mattawan coach Ward Helakoski said it made the difference.
"Brandon Bye took the game over on both ends. He's a smart player and a good athlete," Helakoski said. "He started to bother everything that we tried to do, regardless if it was his man or not his man."
Horn agreed, adding that Bye has been key to winning 11 games this season.
"Brandon Bye has been fantastic all year," Horn said.
In the fourth quarter, Portage Northern was again able to go on a run, scoring the first six points and extending its lead to 37-29. Down the stretch, Bye was able to score six points, including four of five free throws, to seal the win.
"It's perfect," Horn said of Bye's free throw shooting. "He's going to have the ball in his hands, so he has to knock them down."
Helakoski said in addition to Bye's game, the Wildcats ran out of gas in the second half.
"We got tired. we were a little undermanned with some injuries," Helakoski said. "(In the second half) we had to start chasing and that takes your legs away. We've done that before and it's tough to hang on."
Mattawan was led by Gabe Pelak, who had nine points, while Caleb Doonan had eight and Darek Ditto added seven. While the Wildcats finished with a 4-16 record, Helakoski said the team played better than the record indicates.
"I thought our kids battled them real well," Helakoski said. "They did a lot of good things. I'm proud of them and I'm going to miss them."
The next step for Portage Northern is Kalamazoo Central on Wednesday, which is hosting the district tournament and has a 17-3 record on the season, but one of those losses came at the hands of the Huskies.
"We're ready for Kalamazoo Central," Bye said. "We just keep fighting and keep playing. We focus one game at a time but we'll be ready."
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St. Paul's senior linebacker Ed Duplessis committed to McNeese State this week, where he will join teammate Jay Washington, who has already pledged earlier in the school year.
Duplessis, 6 feet 3, 215 pounds, finished the season with 57 tackles, 39 solo, a sack, two interceptions, four passes defensed and averaged 6.3 tackles per game in helping lead the Wolves to the District 6-5A title. He was a first-team all-district selection.
In one of his best games of the season, Duplessis had 10 tackles, four assists, two tackles for loss and a sack against district rival Slidell.
"He's got tremendous speed and is great sideline to sideline," St. Paul's Coach Ken Sears said. "There is so much upside to what he can do in the future."
Washington finished with 30 tackles, 23 solo, five interceptions and three passes defensed. He was an honorable mention All-District selection, despite missing part of the season with a shoulder injury.
"Jay is a very physical player" Sears said. "He's one of the most physical players we've ever had in our program. He's very aggressive and a smart player. He'll do well at McNeese State."
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There's no sure way to track their day-to-day safety. Those of you who are preparing to send a child away to school still have time to implement strategies to help reduce his or her risk of injury and illness. With just a few last minute purchases, information-gathering and other actions, you can help your child have a safer school year away from home.
*Check to see what type of electrical devices and heating appliances are allowed in the dorm room. Many colleges prohibit plastic lamps, microwaves, toaster ovens and other items that may increase fire risk.
Items such as hair straighteners, irons, and other heat-producing devices may not be prohibited, but a few last minute words on fire safety would be in order.
*If your child is living in off-campus housing, check to see if smoke alarms and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms are well-placed, in working order and have fresh batteries. If you're not sure, purchase new ones. There are some good models that provide early warning for both smoke and CO.
*When it's time to drop your child off at school, make some time for the two of you to get familiar with where the emergency exits are located in the dorm or off-campus housing. Most colleges will have dorm fire drills during the first few weeks, but this isn't necessarily provided for those living off campus.
*Your child should also have his/her own insurance cards for medical, dental, and prescription plans. Before they go away, make copies of all of these cards.
*Get the names, phone numbers, and locations of clinics, a dentist, pharmacies, emergency rooms and doctors in the vicinity of the college campus. Check to see, for example, if the pharmacy delivers prescriptions to the campus. Some do. Give this information to your child to store in his or her cell phone, and store it in your phone also.
*Find out where the campus health office is located. Who is the nurse or physician's assistant? What are their hours? Store this number and campus security numbers in cell phones, too.
*Get the name and phone number of the resident assistant of your son or daughter's dorm. This information may be necessary in case of illness, but do not use this to check up on your child. Use it for emergency only (that is, if the college allows it). You may only be able to have access to the security staff.
*It might also be helpful to have the phone numbers of room mates and the family of his or her room mate. But again, this contact information should be used only in emergency.
You and your child might need to have a discussion about what constitutes an emergency. Chances are, your idea of an emergency will not parallel your child's idea of an emergency.
Going away to college will be a learning process for both you and your son or daughter. Keep communications open so you can identify problems as they develop but give your child (who is really a young adult), the benefit of the doubt when it comes to learning how to take care of himself.
Gail Larkin's column on Emergency care appears Monday in the Health section. Questions and comments can be addressed to her in care of the Advance.


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Discussion in 'Chicago Bears' started by mdbearz, Oct 1, 2013.
I'd love for us to use this on both sides of the OL/DL.
After 4 games I couldnt predict what THE CHICAGO BEARS need ...
JJ's not that good.
Baby steps it will take a little time but with Emery I feel we will get there.
That's my thought too.
I just get frustrated sometimes with the wait. I'm a typical hunny bun fan. I want it all, and I want it now :)
I do believe the team is headed in a great direction.
Agreed and I think we need to be patient this season and watch just how the team gets better. There will be some bumps in the road but eventually things will come together.
Definitely agree with this. I've said before, Trestman has a season plan, not just game plans. He will be adding plays, and the plays will be performed better as the team builds experience. What's the old saying - it takes 2-3 years for players to really get used to a new system. This team will get better as the year progresses. And I can't wait till next year after Emery fixes the DL like he did the OL this year. Never forget what Emery said - Steady progress in the goal of winning championships. We're off to a good start.
Yeah I'm not in a panic after one loss. If we string together a series of them and key people get hurt ... then I panic.
Look at what happened to Clevland despite their win ... you had a hot QB in Hoyer and good FB in Ogbonnaya,
and Hoyer is gone for the year and Ogbonnaya got concussed.
It could all change like that in one game.


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If you're a...Couple
There's nothing like a 19th-century mansion to inspire a little romance. Make your way to the charming Swann House B&B to find all the makings of a memorable escape: claw-foot tubs, fireplaces and private outdoor decks.
If you're with your...Girlfriends
Feel glam with your buds downtown at Donovan House. After a day of play, slip on some cute heels and head up for cocktails at the rooftop pool and bar. Hungry? You can order dishes from Zentan, the hotel's fusion restaurant from Top Chef Masters finalist Susur Lee.
If you're an...Architecture Buff
The marble four- level Hotel Monaco Washington, D.C., building has housed the General Post Office, the International Trade Commission and even Congress back in 1814. Add in the fact that it was designed by the architects of the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome, and you've got the design fiend's sweet dream -- just look at the high vaulted ceilings and long windows!
If you're a...Pet Lover
Is your pup in tow? Book it to Hotel Palomar, where they'll welcome your four-legged friend with open arms (and maybe even a tasty treat). Look for the Bark Bar water station inside the front door, and ask about the Dish pet lounge.
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WASHINGTON — The odor of smoke from a brush fire in southern New Jersey could be smelled as far away as New York City.
The fire burned about 30 acres along Batsto Road in Wharton State Forestin Burlington County on Sunday.
UPDATE: Fire has burned 1,500 acres, is only 30 percent contained
The smoke could be seen for miles.
NBC 10 in Philadelphia reports crews dropped water from airplanes and used backfires to contain the blaze. The station said the fire spread to more than 1,000 acres.
New York City's emergency management office alerted residents in Brooklyn and Staten Island that they might smell smoke from the blaze, which is about 90 miles away.
The fire did not threaten any structures and there are no reports of injuries.


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2012 Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for April 20
Bodemeister rocketed to the top of the charts following his overpowering victory in the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. He was so impressive that Mike Watchmaker, Daily Racing Form's national handicapper, has made him the 9-2 favorite on his future line for the May 5 Kentucky Derby. Dullahan, who rallied strongly to win the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, is down to 10-1 this week after being 30-1 a week ago.
Wrote was removed from consideration for the Derby, so he is the lone defection from last week's top 20 list. Hansen, the co-third choice at 6-1 on Watchmaker's line last week, is now the co-fifth choice at 10-1 after finishing second in the Blue Grass. Union Rags, Creative Cause, Gemologist, I'll Have Another, and Alpha all had their odds raised just a tick to account for the price on Bodemeister.
Castaway has a chance to vault into the top 20 for earnings in graded stakes races if he can capture the Lexington Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland. Trinniberg is not on the Derby Watch list, because his connections are leaning against the race, but he has enough money to run should they reconsider. If Castaway does not win, and Trinniberg stays out, then Reveron, the Florida Derby runner-up, would be one defection away from making the field.
[DERBY WATCH: Top 20 contenders | Matz unsure where Union Rags should work]
Thank you Bodemiester for beating a host of Arkansas dogs and looking good doing it, you have made tools like MW practically wet their pants over you. You have made competent handicappers able to get better mutual payoffs.
ROUSING SERMON will rise victorious at the end !!!! xxxxxxxx
For those of you , who don't know the difference between a race horse and a tractor. Hansen is the horse for the derby.
Not too Concern reguarding Mike Watchmaker opinion at this point of the game for the KENTUCKY DERBY . I never have believed much into second guessing ! My point is : Two months ago , MW did all the talking in reguards of his opinion of how great - awesome GEMOLOGIST , BODEMEISTER were . I agreed also that they both desrved to be noticed . Then afew weeks ago , when push came to shove , M W decided to lean towards other Colts in the Wood Memorial and did not pick GEMOLOGIST as his Winning pick hummmmmmmmm . Last week , the same thing . M W went away from BODEMEISTER by picking other Colts to Win the Arkansas Derby . So , by my point of view at this stage reguarding M W , I did not like how he had built up his listeners so far , only to leave them some-what confused in M W wisdom . I Myself believe in my way of thinking . I do not follow other analysis selections nor advice much - without doing my own follow up home work , then if the shoe fits - then I wear it . It does no matter to me like W O W W W W Look who M W has on top now ! IF GEMOLOGIST - BODEMEISTER WAS TO BE TRUE ( ALL THAT ) M W would have never gotten off neither . So to all readers - be very carefull in what you see and believe
Gomez is going to "nose" out Union Rags. It will be the BC Classic all over again.
This Derby is so set up for Creative Cause! For those who can truly analyse horse-racing, look at his steady preparation and the last race he ran and should have won. The poor ride plus the experiment with blinkers didn't help. My safe quinella for the derby is Creative Cause/Gemologist!
well people look at the numbers i mean bode has posted 100 beyers in every race not even the horse of the year last year or the year before that has done that n god so we even look at the 3yo's this year or the last 3or 4 i mean 100 beyers where the norm in the past for good horses rags has yet to break 100 numbers dont lie in horse racing n he did that with easly smith had never asked him......
take charge indy! Calvin Borel wins number 4!
BODE?? ur wrong!! cant hang up a 48+ half clip in the DERBY!!!!!!!
Dullahan is a sucker horse. He got trounced in the Breeder's Cup the one time he tried dirt. I hope they pound this horse in Lou-ville. Everyone loves a closer. This ain't the Keeneland rubber. This is DIRT, braus!


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Skip to comments."You Didn't Build That": Picture Posting Vanity Thread
Posted on 07/19/2012 6:11:48 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Everyone post your favorite picture deriding 0bambi's "You Didn't Build That!" quote!
It's a Free For All!
Fun for FReepers of all ages!
But remember, even if you photoshop the best pic of all, "You didn't build that!"
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but without the spaces after the leading carrot and before the trailing carrot.
Those are EXCELLENT, Uncle Miltie. But you didn't make them. Someone else did that.
haha! stolen! posted on FB lol!
Union built!
Re Steve Jobs, he was such a lib that he might have found a way to agree with Obamalamadingdong.
Even more pix here.
Love it!
If you build it,
They will come > the EPA, the IRS, OSHA, .....
You know, any great undertaking is fair game to poke at the great {expletive} - lets just go with pretender.
I don't have a picture but an idea for one, playing off of the Nobel Peace Prize one:
[background image of Obama in Oval Office]
You didn't earn that.
Somebody else made that happen.
[symbols for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS at bottom of pic]
...to hell with him!!
Thats the best one yet!!
His comment is proof liberalism is a mental disease not so much as he said it but believes it. Too lazy to even think through his dumb @ss statement. Too lazy to even have a job or work his way through anything - he has to deceive his way though expecting points for color.
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Authorities responded Tuesday about 5:40 p.m. to a shooting in Terrytown. The initial 911 call reported a man in the 600 block of Terry Parkway had been hit in the arm by a single shot. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
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Personal finance blog Budgets Are Sexy pulls together a list of five things they always keep in their car that'll save you time and money. Now we're wondering: What must-haves do you keep in your car?
Budgets are Sexy's timesavers include a handful of $US1 bills [that'd be $2 coins for us Aussies – AU ed] , stuff you need to return or donate, coupons and a "power CD" that can help motivate you when you're not feeling up to the day. It's a good list of suggestions, but it certainly doesn't exhaust the matter of handy things to keep in your car. For example, I love a convenient USB power supply, like this cigarette-lighter-to-usb power adaptor.
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As a boy, Alex Butterworth dreamed about one day wearing gold and black and playing any sport for the Purdue Boilermakers. The Indianapolis native assumed it was in his future to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and uncles and somehow, someway attend Purdue.
A large part of Alex's childhood was spent attending Purdue football and basketball games with his dad, grandfather and brother. He heard stories about his grandfather's playing days as a Purdue baseball player in the 1950s and learned how to play football with the help of his two uncles, both former Boilermaker football players in the 1980s.
Fall Saturdays spent tailgating outside Ross-Ade Stadium were customary during the four years the Butterworth's lived in Lafayette. Alex's grandfather and uncles were season ticket holders and even when Alex's family moved north of Indianapolis to Carmel, Alex's sights remained set on Purdue.
"You're out tailgating before the game and you look around and you've got two of your boys and they're passing the football out there and they have their jerseys on and they're going to the game," Alex's father, John recalled. "I never even thought ever, beyond that moment. All of a sudden you look out on that field now, and your boy is out there in a Penn State uniform. When I look back on that memory now, I just think 'wow.'"
This weekend is going to be full of surreal moments for the Butterworth's. John anticipates 30-40 family members and friends will attend the Penn State vs. Purdue game to cheer on Alex. It's Alex's first time on the field at Ross-Ade Stadium since he stood there in 2009 as a Purdue recruit. If it weren't for an unusual roster predicament at Penn State three years ago, the Lions most likely would've seen Alex on the other sideline this weekend.
The moment Penn State defensive line coach Larry Johnson called the Butterworth's April of Alex's senior year, the punter reconsidered a new plan. At the time, he was set to become a perferred walk-on at Purdue but questioned whether or not the Boilermakers were committed to him. He had a chance to compete for Purdue's starting job and if he won the spot, he'd earn the scholarship.
The uneasiness he felt from Purdue was erased when Penn State offered Alex the same chance to compete to become their punter.
"He knew he could contribute right away and that was huge," Jennifer said.
The Nittany Lions desperately needed a punter after their former specialist, Ryan Breen, packed up his apartment and left the team in the middle of the night. Breen wasn't coming back and Penn State didn't have a reliable punter on the roster. Specialist Anthony Fera was in Joe Paterno's dog house for underage drinking citations, leaving Butterworth and former walk-on Russell Nye competing for the job.
Butterworth listened to Johnson's recruiting pitch, talked with linebacker's coach Ron Vanderlinden and made the 2010 Blue-White game his official visit. The size of Beaver Stadium left Jennifer a little uneasy. Alex kicked in Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium for the State Championship game, but this atmosphere was a little different.
"I looked down and sort of wanted to encourage him somehow because I, personally was feeling a little overwhelmed," Jennifer recalled. "I said, 'You know Alex, it's really not so bad.' Meaning, it's not so big. He goes, 'Are you kidding me, Mom? It's awesome.' That's when I knew it was the right place for him."
After then wide receiver Graham Zug struggled in the scrimmage, averaging 37.5 yards on three punts, it was clear that Alex could step in immediately and make an impact at Penn State.
Butterworth started college that June and around the same time, his grandfather decided he too would make a change. He gave up his Purdue season tickets and decided this way it'd be easier for him to tag along with his daughter and son-in-law to attend Alex's games. The family stayed together at his new home in Florida and watched Alex punt in the 2011 Outback Bowl.
In a season where Penn State's special teams and specialists have been criticized, the Butterworth's are proud of the way their son has handled himself. Despite an average of 36.6 yards per punt this season, Alex is coming off his best performance. Against Ohio State he booted a career best 58-yard punt and had a season-high four punts downed inside the 20 yard-line. Jennifer and John hope their son is getting in a rhythm.
"I know there's going to be pressures and I'm watching how he's handling it. It's never going to be perfect but there's nothing wrong with that. Life is filled with pressure," John said. "It's a tough game. ... Alex knows what his strengths are, the coaches know what his strengths are and it'll be okay."
Game weekends for the Butterworth's now consist of family members driving eight hours to Penn State to watch Alex punt, or heading to the airport and catching him on the road.
Jennifer said the family plans to set up a large tailgate this weekend and will move into the stadium early so she and John can watch Alex warmup. Since specialists take the field first, the Butterworth's said they'll be able to spend a few minutes with Alex when he has breaks during warmups.
During the game the Butterworth's will proudly wear blue and white and sit in the family section. Many of Alex's relatives and friends will be scattered throughout the stadium in the home team's section, season ticket locations and in the student section. Some proud Purdue alums will wear Penn State hats and jerseys, showing support for their grandson and nephew.
Even when the Penn State players receive their post-game meal, they'll do so with the help of the Butterworth family. Alex's grandmother and uncles have a family KFC business and are in charge of preparing the post-game meal for the visiting team.
"It's going to be sort of one of those, 'Wow, look how far we've come' kind of weekends," Jennifer said. "It was going to be that way for him at Purdue but life is always a little different than the way you think it might be and that's okay. It worked out wonderfully and Alex has never looked back."


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CAMDEN — Two violent deaths occurred blocks apart from each other on Monday night in Camden, according to a report on CourierPost.com.
Officials said one person was shot and killed in the the city's Gateway section, while the other was stabbed to death on North 24th Street in East Camden, according to the report.
Officials said the deaths occurred at about the same time but did not know if they were connected, according to the report. Camden had eight homicides so far this year.
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Regehr to the Kings
As originally reported by Darren Dreger and carried by multiple sources, Buffalo Defenseman Robyn Regehr has been traded to the Los Angeles Kings for a pair of second round draft picks.
Regehr, who turns 33 in April, is 6-foot-3 and weighs 225 pounds. He has two assists, 21 penalty minutes and a minus-4 rating in 29 games for the Buffalo Sabres this season. A member of the Calgary Flames from 1999 to 2011, Regehr played under Darryl Sutter and was a member of the 2003-04 Flames team that took the Tampa Bay Lightning to seven games in the Stanley Cup Final.
As there were 23 players on the Kings roster prior to the trade, either another trade would have to be made to satisfy the roster limit or a player would have to be assigned to AHL-Manchester.
The Kings were not yet in a position to comment on the trade, but that may change shortly. Stay tuned for more news as it develops.
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