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by Dr. John R. Edlund, Cal Poly Pomona
Over 2,000 years ago the Greek philosopher Aristotle argued that there were three basic ways to persuade an audience of your position: ethos, logos, and pathos.
The Greek word ethos is related to our word ethics or ethical, but a more accurate modern translation might be image. Aristotle uses ethos to refer to the speakers character as it appears to the audience. Aristotle says that if we believe that a speaker has good sense, good moral character, and goodwill, we are inclined to believe what that speaker says. Today we might add that a speaker should also appear to have the appropriate expertise or authority to speak knowledgeably about the subject matter. Ethos is often the first thing we notice, so it creates the first impression that influences how we perceive the rest. Ethos is an important factor in advertising, both for commercial products and in politics. For example, when an actor in a pain reliever commercial puts on a doctors white coat, the advertisers are hoping that wearing this coat will give the actor the authority to talk persuasively about medicines. Of course, in this particular instance the actors ethos is a deceptive illusion, but the character, background, and authority of the speaker or writer can be a legitimate factor in determining whether we find him or her credible.
A writers ethos is created largely by word choice and style. Student writers often have a problem with ethos because they are asked to write research papers, reports, and other types of texts as if they have authority to speak persuasively, when in fact they are newcomers to the subject matter and the discourse community. Sometimes students try to create an academic image for themselves by using a thesaurus to find difficult and unusual words to sprinkle throughout their texts. Unfortunately, this sort of effort usually fails, because it is difficult to use a word correctly that you have not heard or read in context many times.
Sometimes a writer or speaker will use what is called an ad hominem argument, an argument against the man. In this strategy, the writer attacks the character or personality of the speaker instead of attacking the substance of his or her position. This kind of argument is usually considered to be a logical fallacy, but it can be very effective and is quite common in politics. This type of argument undermines a speaker or writers ethos. When you are writing a paper, consider the following questions.
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In our society, logic and rationality are highly valued and this type of persuasive strategy is usually privileged over appeals to the character of the speaker or to the emotions of the audience. However, formal logic and scientific reasoning are usually not appropriate for general audiences, so we must rely on a more rhetorical type of reasoning.
For Aristotle, formal arguments are based on what he calls syllogisms. This is reasoning that takes the form:
All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
However, Aristotle notes that in ordinary speaking and writing we often use what he calls a rhetorical syllogism or an enthymeme. This is an argument in which some of the premises or assertions remain unstated or are simply assumed. For example, no one in ordinary life would think that Socrates could be immortal. We would simply assume that Socrates could be killed or that he would die of natural causes after a normal lifespan. As a result, we can logically say the following: Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. Not all assumptions are as obvious as this one, however.
For example, when the bubonic plague swept through Europe and parts of Asia in the 14th century, killing as much as three quarters of the population in less than 20 years, it was not known how the disease was spread. At one point, people thought that the plague was spread by cats. If one assumes that cats spread the disease, the obvious solution to the problem is to eliminate the cats, and so people began killing cats on sight. However, we now know that the plague is spread by fleas which live on rats. Because cats kill rats, killing off the cat population led to an increase in the rat population, a corresponding increase in plague carrying fleas, and thus an increase in cases of plague in humans. Killing off the cats was a logical solution to the problem of plague, but it was based on a faulty assumption.
Rhetorical arguments are often based on probabilities rather than certain truth. The people of medieval Europe really had no way to determine what the real cause of the plague was, but they felt that they had to do something about it, and the cat hypothesis seemed probable to them. Unfortunately, this is true of many of the problems we face even today. We cannot know with absolute certainty what the real solution is, yet we must act anyway.
Persuasion, to a large extent, involves convincing people to accept our assumptions as probably true and to take appropriate action. Similarly, exposing questionable assumptions in someone elses argument is an effective means for preparing the audience to accept your own contrary position.
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Most of us think that we make our decisions based on rational thought. However, Aristotle points out that emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions.
Anger is a very powerful motivating force. Aristotle says that if we want to make an audience angry we need to know three things: 1) the state of mind of angry people, 2) who the people are that this audience usually gets angry at, and 3) on what grounds this audience gets angry at those people. While the actual causes of a war may be economic or political, and thus related to logos, the mobilization of a people or a nation to war inevitably consists of appeals to pathos. Leaders mobilize their followers to go to war by reminding them of their historical grievances against other groups or nations, blaming other groups for economic difficulties, and focusing on perceived insults, crimes, and atrocities committed against their own citizens by others. In the twentieth century, such appeals to pathos inspired the Holocaust in Germany, genocide in Rwanda, and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Individuals were inspired through pathos to attack, rape, or kill neighbors who had lived near them all their lives, simply because of their ethnicity or religion.
Many political decisions have an emotional motivation. For example, when a gunman with an assault rifle shot up a schoolyard full of children, people were suddenly interested in banning such weapons. In this case, several emotions are involved, but perhaps the strongest one is pity for the small children and their families. The logical arguments for banning or not banning assault rifles had not changed at all, but people were emotionally engaged with the issue after this event and wanted to do something.
Of course, not all appeals to pathos result in violence or political action. Advertisements for consumer goods often aim at making us insecure about our attractiveness or social acceptability and then offer a remedy for this feeling in the form of a product. This is a common strategy for selling mouthwash, toothpaste, chewing gum, clothing, and even automobiles.
Appeals to the emotions and passions are often very effective and are very common in our society. Such appeals are not always false or illegitimate. It is natural to feel strong emotions about tragedies, victories, and other powerful events as well as about ones own image and identity. You may find it effective to use pathos in your own writing.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
British Prime Minister David Cameron is due to make a key speech on the future of Britain in Europe on January 18 in Amsterdam. The exact details of the speech are as secret as they are eagerly anticipated.
Not any longer is the content secret:
Peter Brookes (b. 1943) is an English cartoonist who has produced work for numerous publications, including the New Statesman, The Spectator and most notably The Times, for which he is the leader-page cartoonist.
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A wonderful evening at this gala event to raise funds to support the Center for Spectrum Services (a not-for-profit school). The evening includes hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, silent and live auctions, a complete dinner with your choice of delicious entree and all the trimmings, and wine on each table. Tables seat 8 – 10 guests.
While you're enjoying dinner, auctioneer, George Cole, will entertain as he brings the auction to life.
Honorees for the event, Ulster County Executive, Michael P. Hein, and Corporate Charitable Friend, Prestige Toyota of Kingston, will be present to help celebrate the ongoing work that the dedicated educators, staff and professionals have been doing with these special children.
Reservations are required. Ticket price is $50 per person. Donate an extra $25 to be entered into an exclusive raffle for a special prize.


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Ted Bassman, chairman of the Green Brook Flood Control Commission, was first to arrive at this month's public meeting, which by coincidence came 10 days after Hurricane Irene.
"They'll be coming in with their pitchforks and sticks," Bassman said. The tall, elderly gent has been a commissioner long enough to know each new flood brings a new flood of anger directed at the commission. He saw it after Tropical Storm Floyd in 1999 and the 2007 nor'easter. Now here was Hurricane Irene, with Tropical Storm twins Lee and Katia on its heels, and Bassman was ready for the pitchforks and sticks.
Instead, they came with cellphone pics. Of water over washers and dryers. Of water up to windowsills. Of furniture piled on front lawns.
But they came not so much with anger but a waterlogged weariness that seeped down to their bones.
"I'm so tired," said Christine DiNizo of Middlesex Borough, a town often overlooked in the flood-prone Raritan and Green Brook basin. "This is the third time I've been flooded out in five years. I'm living like a hoarder. Everything is packed upstairs."
Leonard Jackson told the commission the water in his basement was 6 feet deep.
"I'm 6-5, and it was up to here," he said. He held his hand at his throat, the universal sign for "I've had it up to here."
The meeting, held Wednesday night at the Scotch Hills Country Club, drew a crowd of 103 people, most from Middlesex Borough.
Past meetings were mostly attended by people from Bound Brook, but new levees and rolling floodgates have abated the downtown flooding there. The people of Middlesex say work by the Army Corps of Engineers has only made their flooding worse.
The project, 30 years in the making and with no end in sight because of funding, will stretch along the basin with a series of levees, flood gates and pumping stations. The Bound Brook phase is almost complete. But Middlesex Borough residents fear the water restricted from entering Bound Brook by the new levees and flood gates is spilling over on their shores, and backing up the Green Brook, which runs through the borough.
And just as Middlesex Borough is often overlooked in the flood annals of neighboring Bound Brook and nearby Manville, so is the Green Brook, which has a gentle name but can become a ravaging, even a killer, river in storms like Irene, or Hurricane Doria in 1971, which left six dead.
The Green Brook begins in Berkeley Heights, joined by the Blue Brook in the Watchung Reservation. It starts out at an elevation of 410 feet above sea level; when it joins the Raritan in Middlesex Borough, it is only 18 feet above sea level. That's a 392-foot drop, most of which occurs as it comes down the bottom ridge of the Watchungs.
A drive up that ridge — up Voessler Avenue, up Morning Glory or Warrenville Roads, or any of the other winding mountain roads — reveals three things: the steepness, the destruction of water and wind from Irene, and the building spree that adds to the torrential water runoff.
"The intensity and sheer volume of (Irene's) rain was literally washing the mountain down toward Route 22," Ray Murray, a commissioner who works for the township of Green Brook, told the crowd.
A catch basin at the base of Washington Rock park was inundated with enough rock, mud and silt to fill seven tandem dump trucks during the cleanup. The same combination hit a storm drain main along Voessler Avenue with such force that it burst a 32-foot section of concrete pipe.
Woodland Terrace, about halfway up the mountain in Bound Brook, looks like a lumber forest. Huge, hardwood trees, upended by wind and waterfall, fell on both sides, bringing down more trees and power lines. Parts of the road washed out.
Along other roads, the jagged scars of erosion were still oozing mud. Chunks of asphalt mixed in with hunks of the mountain's natural traprock.
That was all from Irene. Katia and Lee just rubbed it in.
From Bound Brook and Middlesex Borough and the other 11 towns in the 65-square mile Green Brook flood zone, the ridge of the mountain is a scenic backdrop. Up the mountain, development continues. Castle Ridge, a development of 24 French chateau-style homes, is less than 10 years old. Emerald Pond is another one. Greenwood Meadows is a development of 200 homes. Wyndmere, another 200. That doesn't include a few million square feet of retail and corporate development in Berkeley Heights, Warren Township and other towns high on the ridge.
Down below, people like Claudia Mejia of Middlesex Borough, see two culprits: The mountain and the flood control project, which held water in downtown Bound Brook to 4 feet during Irene.
"Where'd all that water go?" she asked. "We didn't get anything during Floyd. Not a drop. Now three times in the last five years, I've lost everything. So raise us up or buy us out."
"I want out," Linda King said. "Instead of spending the money on flood control just buy us out."
Good point. The price tag on the entire project still sits at $400 million. That could buy a lot of houses in the floodplains it is designed to protect.


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ABC Partisan Wars & 9/11 Myth Maintenance
W. David Kubiak / 911 Truth.org | September 11 2006
This last week 911truth.org has received many emails and phone calls asking why we are not at the frontlines of the protests against ABC's fictitious Clinton smear, The Path to 9/11. I don't pretend to speak for the organization, but having been close to the heart of this debate I'd like to offer a few answers of my own.
The bad answer is schadenfreude.
Many of us are in fact rather ironically enjoying the uproar as Democratic Party defenders of the 5-year cover-up are now finding their own ox gored. You will notice that most of the ruckus is not about 9/11 truth at all, but whose political mythology will prevail.
Once the GOP Rove clones recognized how easily they and their corporate media pals could sell the 9/11 Commission fantasy to protect their ass and defend their assaults on international law and the Constitution, what on earth could stop them from using that reality-fabricating power offensively to destroy a few measly Democrats?
Betrayals among criminal cliques are usually conducted at the point of a gun. Our ruling corporate parties seem to prefer media assassinations to get the same job done. Once the Democrats bought into the 9/11 lies and actually helped confect and sell the official story, they stepped over to the dark side where the strictures of truth, law and decency no longer are enforced. The Path to 9/11 mêlée is thus like the Iran-Iraq war or a drug deal gone bad. There is nobody to root for. All the players here are "bad actors" fighting in the shadows for yet more illicit gains.
The good answer is continuing education.
9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean's coming out as a lie-abetting consultant for ABC's little travesty should help millions more Americans learn that he is hardly married to truth, integrity or the reality of history. Co-chairman Lee Hamilton sold his bona fides decades ago for a mess of pottage perks when he personally quashed and crippled the Iran-Contra inquiry that threatened Bush the First. Kean's affable, avuncular and ubiquitous media persona, however, inspired public confidence and helped sell the Commission's damaged goods to countless inattentive folks.
The blatant slanderous fictions of Path to 9/11 that Kean so blithely signed off on should thus awaken at least a few of the lulled to his willing role as a smooth script pimp for whoever's running (and writing) the show. In other words, Kean's continued shameless flacking for ABC's partisan smear is wonderful public education since it so clearly reprises his star marketing role for the Zelikow-crafted fiction of the 9/11 Commission Report. So I can only say, Go, Tom, Go! And Go ABC! Let the chips of shattered credibility fall where they may...
The ugly answer is "who gives a damn?"
Amid the relentless drench of 9/11 disinfo that pollutes this anniversary, what is one more media spigot spouting truth-toxic BS? How can apologists for one cynical fantasy complain when an edgier partisan faction decides to push the deceit a little further down the line? Can they really shout "Foul! This is the myth we agreed upon, no further embroidery is allowed!" Rationally or not, I guess they can because that's exactly what we're hearing, and the hypocrisy is rank enough to make the 9/11 dead roll over and the truth-aware throw up.
So don't look to 9/11 truth lovers for much solidarity in this lame Dem revolt against ABC's version 2.3 lies. As long as the conflict is confined to dueling fairy tales, we've just got no dog in this fight.
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This was my first project based on a 1:1 car that I actually knew. Revell-Monogram did a good job with this kit; most of the work I did was detailing what was already there. The only problems I had with the manufacture of this kit were that the tail lights were incorrect, and there was a slight twist in the chassis. Otherwise, this is a great kit to work with.
To start, the chassis received upper control arms, upper A arms, fuel and brake lines, stiffeners, and new coil springs. I also relieved all of the holes and slots in and between the frame rails. I detailed the engine with wires, hoses, and the full compliment of life-support equipment found on all modern cars.
For the interior, I removed the third brake light and power window and mirror controls, then added window cranks, a headliner, visors, a dome light, and seat belts. Outside, I replaced the wheels with a set from AMT's 1969 Oldsmobile 442, and added an antenna, vinyl air dam, and mud flaps. The tail lights were not quite right for an '84 (or an '87-'88, for that matter). On the earlier cars, the rear fenders of the surrounded the outer edge of the tail light lenses. From 1987 on, the lenses extended to the edge of the body. The model had the correct appearance, but the lights were assembled more like the newer cars. To fix this, I glued the tail lights in place before painting, and filled in the seam where the body meets the lens. I masked off what should actually remain red, and painted the rest body color. Finally, I opened up the grille by sanding through from the back of the nose piece.
To finish the model, I painted the body using the appropriate Plasti-Kote's GM blue and clear coated it with Rust-Oleum's Glossy Clear Coat. All of the Monte Carlo graphics were custom painted directly onto the car, and the stripes are painted strips of thin tape.
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by Jeff Miller of Artisan Family of Wines (Seven Artisans, Sly Dog Cellars, Red Côte)
Every Wednesday I post my recommendations of the best of last week's postings concerning wine, whether blogs or news. I list them in the order I read them, so you shouldn't infer anything about the order in which I list these posts.
Why I score Chardonnay higher than Sauvignon Blanc–and why I wonder about it
Steve Heimoff
Heimoff ponders the question why he generally prefers Chardonnay to Sauvignon Blanc. The answer, in a nutshell, is that he prefers the style of Chardonnay, especially its richness. To me, it basically says that personal preference is at the heart of how good you think a wine is. Someone that prefers the attributes of Sauvignon Blanc would rate them higher than Chardonnay, exactly the opposite of Heimoff's ratings.
Rosés for Summer, and All Year Long
The focus of this article is the rosé from López de Heredia, a Rioja producer. He releases his rosé wines about 10 years after the vintage, putting the lie to the belief that rosés must be drunk young.
Are Petrol Notes In Aged Riesling A Fault? (Thoughts On A Clare Valley Master-class)
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Older Rieslings tend to develop a scent that is variously described as petrol or kerosene. Is this a fault? I personally like this aspect of Riesling, but whether it's a fault is in the eye of the beholder.
Five wine facts that aren't necessarily facts
The Wine Curmudgeon
Five "facts" about wine that just aren't true.
What's in YOUR library?
This is largely a review of Home Winemaking for Dummies. But the post points out the paucity of resources for the home winemaker. I think that most winemaking books are either too academic or too simplified for the home winemaker.
Is minerality the key to age worthiness in wine?
This post suggests the possibility of some vague quality identified as minerality as a factor in wine's longevity. I tend to doubt it, but it makes for interesting reading.
For keeping up to date with what's going on the in wine world, the best all around source is http://winebusiness.com.


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DETROIT, MI - Heavy metal isn't the genre of music on display here at Metallica's Orion Music + More Festival on Belle Isle.
There's also plenty of electronic/techno/dub step music that's drawn thousands of young people to this two-day event, and specifically the "Sanitarium" stage.
"I feel like this is the kind of thing that could evolve and get better ever year," said Steve Gutterson, a 23-year-old Wayne State student. "People are definitely taking interest in the city."
Gutterson and his friend Simrin Batth, a 22-year-olld Wayne State student, are electronic music fans who appreciate the importance Metallica has put on that style of music.
Want to see some of it? Check out some dub step from Detroit area performer Matt Clarke, who kicked off Saturday with a show at the Sanitarium.
Gutterson said he's impressed with the fact electronic music has its own stage and one that's larger than most he saw during last months Movement Electronic Music Festival in the city.
"I didn't think this festival in Detroit would use Lollapalooza-sized stages," Gutterson said. "This is something that should be here every year."
Gutterson and Batth got free tickets for the festival because Batth was the winner of a Metallica-sponsor contest that planted tickets at different locations throughout Metro Detroit.
Batth, a senior psychology major, got her free pair of tickets in the Detroit Institute of Arts fountain facing Woodward Avenue and found them within minutes after festival organizers posted Wednesday an Instagram picture of them.
"It only took me about three minutes to find then," Batth said smiling. "I really like this festival's mix of electronic and rock. Metallica is and older band and its nice to see them embrace some music of younger fans."
What do you think of the Orion festival being in Detroit? Let MLive Detroit know in our comments section.


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For more information, see this blog post and this one by a user.
The module presents the Masoretic notes appearing in Codex Leningrad, arranged alphabetically by "link-words" (= scripture words to which the notes refer). The "link-words" are arranged alphabetically according to lemma. The entries are discussed and explained (in Hebrew) in the footnotes provided by the editors, Prof. Aron Dotan and Nurit Reich. Hypertext links have been added to the Scripture references and the Masoretic entries cross-references.
The 3.0 update (3/20/14) adds many corrections and cantillation marks. It also reformats the entire thesaurus:
In the previous format of the module, the link-words were given once, as a heading under which all the verses containing relevant Masora notes were listed. In the new format they are repeated before each verse. This brings two advantages:
The 4.0 update (9/8/14) completes the process of careful proofing, and adds an extensive English Introduction by Prof. Dotan which explains the history and structure of the module. This introduction will help any user to mine the depths of this unique and massive database.
The 5.0 update (12/11/15) changes the manner in which articles page; they now page between link words as opposed to between lines.
This paper explains the value of the Masora to a variety of studies of the Hebrew Bible text: What is Masora and How Can it Serve the Biblical Scholar? by Prof. Aron Dotan: Notes from a Workshop at the 17th International Congress of IOMS in 2003 in Cambridge, UK.
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In a few words, what would say Ben Asher, Ben Neftali or even Ginsburg by gazing this amazing and extraordinary Accordance work? I do not hesitate this module will be extremely useful for our Spanish-Hebrew Interlinear Project. Thanks so much Ms. Brown and Lord bless you all.


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Historic Fort Vancouver
In this short video from www.howtogardenvideos.com, Yolanda Vanveen visits with park volunteer Shelly in period costume at the Ft. Vancouver Heritage Garden in Vancouver, Washington. In this series of quick sustainable tips, Yolanda learns tips from a historical garden from the past to use in the future. Fort Vancouver was originally built in 1825 further away from the river on the bluff. When it was determined that the plain did not flood, they moved the fort to the current location by the Columbia River. The garden was originally much larger. The original settlers sustained themselves on stews and soups with vegetables from the garden. Eventually they experimented with and grew many warm climate plants including lemons and cotton in a summer house. When the Whitman's stayed at Fort Vancouver, Narcissa Whitman described it as the New York of the Pacific because they had such a variety of foods. Vancouver, Washington was the first settlement on the West Coast following the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The sustainable gardens are not the only attraction. Inside Fort Vancouver there are museums, demonstrations and artifacts to discover.
Ft. Vancouver Heritage Garden Facts
Established in 1825 by the British Hudson's Bay Company, Fort Vancouver was once the headquarters of all trade in the Northwest. To feed the population, the fort operated farms and had a 7-acre garden filled with vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers. Today, the fort and vegetable garden have been re-created. All the vegetables in this garden, including British soldier beans, citron, yellow pear tomatoes and dozens of others, are heirlooms. So are the herbs and flowers. For that matter, so are some of the gardeners. They dress in period attire and bring to life some of the original workers of the Hudson's Bay Company.
According to Oregonlive.com, the one-acre re-creation of the garden that once flourished outside the Hudson's Bay Co. stockade gate greets visitors to the national historic site, thanks to the work of 50 or so gardening volunteers who ensure that its historical roots are preserved. Teeming with potatoes, currants, pumpkins and beans, the garden also features ornamental flowers and herbs. All are grown with heirloom seeds, some from historical seed catalogs, but many collected by volunteers and all linked to the fort's early days. Produce fuels the fort's interpretations of pioneer cooking, and the surplus is donated to a Vancouver food bank.
When the growing season begins to wane, Pat Green and others begin collecting flower and produce seeds. Some, such as scarlet runner and 'Jacob's Cattle' beans, are saved for planting in the garden next spring. Others are packaged and sold at the visitors center of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust to support the garden. Fort Vancouver's heritage garden is balanced with geometric beds of herbs, flowers, and fruit- and vegetable-bearing plants like those grown during the fort's heyday in the mid-1800s.
Green began collecting seeds at the fort 18 years ago. She takes some home and starts them in flats every spring until, free from the threat of frost, they are ready to plant in the fort garden. "We use heirloom seeds just like the ones grown here in the 1800s," says Green, who maintains the garden's authenticity by supplementing collections with seeds from heirloom seed banks throughout the country.
The original Hudson's Bay Co. garden, started in 1825, was about eight acres. It helped make the fort less dependent on food from London, which was costly to ship. Today's garden features representative samples of the kinds of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers grown at the fort about 1845. "The garden at the fort played a pivotal role as far as what was ultimately grown in the Northwest," says Jim Pestillo, another volunteer. "Early settlers came off the Oregon Trail starving and exhausted. They saw what was grown here at the fort and took the idea with them when they set up their own farms in the Willamette Valley."
Most of the volunteers have their own gardens at home, and some are master gardeners. But a sense of stewardship keeps them coming back to the fort. "It's a connection with the Earth," says Green, "and all those who will come after me." Oregonlive.com http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/
Whether you have a small backyard garden or are a serious Prepper, don't forget to learn from history and use organic material in your garden including compost and mulch and add heirloom vegetables such as cabbage, fruits and perennial flowers to attract butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators.
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Youth unemployment in the Bay of Plenty dropped by more than 60 per cent last year and Tauranga's buoyant economy was likely to see the trend continue, Tauranga mayor Stuart Crosby says.
Mr Crosby said the key to combating youth unemployment was building a strong local economy instead of a "bottom of the cliff" approach.
"When people are unemployed it creates a whole lot of other social issues ... for my mind the best outcome is for every single person to be employed."
About 1600 Bay of Plenty young people aged 15-19 are out of work, according to Statistics New Zealand's Household Labour Force Survey for the December 2013 quarter. However, the number of unemployed youths not in education or training has dropped from 2500 in December 2012 to fewer than 1000 in December 2013.
Nationwide 8.1 per cent of 15-19 year olds are unemployed and not in education or training, while the current overall unemployment rate sits at 6 per cent.
The nationwide Mayors Taskforce for Jobs, a network of all New Zealand mayors, held its first workshop last month to create an urgent plan to address regional youth unemployment.
Mr Crosby said the Taskforce often took the "bottom of the cliff" approach, but a stronger approach was to build a local economy that would create employment opportunities.
"Youth in this area tend to be last on the employment ladder and first off if something goes wrong, so that can be very challenging for them to get some stability. In Tauranga and the Western Bay we're very fortunate that our economy is rapidly picking up."
The booming Tauranga construction industry would require youths of all abilities, he said.
Perseverance pays off for excited teen
After a year of job hunting and about 500 job applications, a Tauranga teen is thrilled to finally have work.
Jason Young, 19, got a job cleaning the machines at North Island Mussel Processors about seven weeks ago. "It's really enjoyable. It's the people there and the type of work. I'm able to save up for things."
There was also plenty of room for him to learn new things and move up the ranks, he said.
The Matua resident completed a 13-week travel and tourism course at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic but still had no joy.
Mr Young said he applied for anything and everything. "No one was looking [for staff] ... they wanted more experience ..."
The key to getting a job was perseverance, he said.
"Just never give up."
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Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever
National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols is one of the world's foremost wildlife photographers. But he recently said that he'd happily spend the rest of his life photographing trees. Of course, the folks over at National Geographic would almost certainly never hear of it. Nichols' newfound love developed after a serious, yearlong relationship with redwoods.
National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you've ever photographed in a forest, you'll understand the challenge this presented. There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.
In a recent lecture at National Geographic in Washington, D.C., Nichols described his frustrations. Eventually, though, he devised a way to do redwoods justice. It involved three cameras, a team of scientists, a robotic dolly, a gyroscope, an 83-photo composite and a lot of patience. (And, OK, maybe it's not the Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever — but it's the biggest one I've ever seen.) Here's how they did it:
The photograph appears as a huge foldout in the the October issue of National Geographic magazine, which hits newsstands today and is definitely worth reading. The magazine, with the help of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Save The Redwoods League, also sent explorer-in-residence Mike Fay on a transect from the southernmost redwood in Big Sur to the northernmost tree near Oregon's Chetco River. It took him and his hiking partner, Lindsey Holm, more than a year of non-stop hiking to complete the trek of more than 2,000 miles. It also took three pairs of shoes.
Hide captionRockefeller Forest is the world's largest contiguous old-growth redwood forest. An old-growth redwood dwarfs younger redwoods in California's Bear Creek Watershed.Michael Nichols/National Geographic
Hide captionBotanist Marie Antoine (right) passes a core sample of this tree's wood — 750 years of redwood biography — to canopy ecologist Giacomo Renzullo. Research has shown that the older such trees get, the more wood they produce, a strong argument for preventing deforestation of young trees.Michael Nichols
Hide captionMike Fay is an explorer-in-residence for National Geographic. He recently spent more than a year hiking the entire length of the redwood forest, from the southernmost redwood in Big Sur to the northernmost tree near Oregon's Chetco River. Focusing his research on forest management, he notes the size of a truckload of logs.Michael Christopher Brown/National Geographic
Hide captionNational Geographic photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols also spent a year in the redwood forest. A tagged northern spotted owl swoops toward a researcher's lure in a young redwood forest.Michael Nichols
Hide captionFay emerges from a hike down Little Lost Man Creek in Redwood National Park. He and his hiking partner, Lindsey Holm, finished the first comprehensive transect of the redwood range, covering 1,800 miles of Pacific coastal forest, in 2008.Michael Christopher Brown
Hide captionHumboldt State University scientist Steve Sillett (center) is a pioneer of redwood research. He and his team measure a fire cave in a massive redwood.Michael Nichols
Hide captionClear-cuts eat into stands of 55-year-old spruce, fir and redwood trees in Humboldt County, Calif.Michael Nichols
Hide captionActivist Amy Arcuri lays her hands on a giant she says is nearly 2,000 years old. After a long struggle, many trees such as this one have finally been declared off-limits to loggers.Michael Nichols
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Redwoods have been heavily forested over the past few decades and are only just now beginning to replenish in numbers. With the enormous collection of data compiled by Fay and other conservationists, we now know more than ever about this thin stretch of ancient forest along the California coast. To learn more, check out the extensive coverage on ngm.com.
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Cat Issue
Dear Editor,
To the St. Clairsville Park Board, SHAME ON YOU … for sending threatening letters to the kind people who have been taking care of the poor defenseless cats. Do you know how these cats came to be in the park?
By thoughtless and uncaring people who dumped them. Are these the kind of people on the board? If it had not been for the good people of St. Clairsville who voted to pass a levy a couple or so years ago, there would be no need for a board. I don't know who is on the park board, and I don't think I want to know them, also, I don't know the people who received the nasty letters.
These people should be applauded and thanked for the compassion and commitment to caring for the cats, not kicked out of the park, fined and or arrested. GOD BLESS YOU.
The cats depend on these people for survival. They have taken care of them for 11 to 15 years and have trapped, spayed, neutered, paid vet bills and fed them in all kinds of weather.
If the cats survived this past horrible winter we had, they deserve to live and be left alone.
Our family has rented a shelter for family reunions, but will no longer do so or make donations to the park.
We never saw a cat all the times we were there.
If you don't like animals or cats . . . it's your loss.
Jackie Gretzinger
St. Clairsville


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With the struggling economy and price of gas, long out-of-state trips may no longer be feasible, however, there are plenty of options here in Michigan to entertain the kids. Mackinac Island, Sleeping Bear National Park, Traverse City are just a few options for a quick, rather affordable summer trip. However, my choice would be catching a ballgame at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit.
There are plenty of options to entertain kids of all ages and midweek tickets can be found at bargain prices on stubhub.com, ebay and craigslist. And as an added bonus, the Tigers finally are playing up to expectations.
Here is brief look at the top kid-friendly things to do at Comerica Park.
1. The Tiger statue.
2. Batting practice.
Get to the park early, have a hot dog and enjoy the players aiming for the outfield fences. Kids can chase down a home run or often get an autograph from their favorite player for a memory worth keeping. Gates generally open two hours prior to the listed gametime.
3. Promotions.
There are promotion days throughout the season and a schedule can be found at www.detroittigers.com. However, free ballcaps, t-shirts, jerseys and even bobbleheads are available for the taking during the year. Remember, these dates often draw larger crowds, so get there early. The free jersey promotion honoring the 1968 World Series champions in late June had lines backed up to the major roads around Comerica Park and were gone within minutes. Other promotions include fireworks on Friday and Saturday nights and Kids can run the bases after most Sunday games. In addition, the park is kid friendly offering an identification bracelet to help avoid lost children, and for a fee, the Tigers offer a Kid's Club membership program.
4. Amusement rides.
5. Detroit activities.
Make a day out of Detroit and take the Peoplemover around the city, or even make a visit to the Detroit zoo. The Peoplemover costs just fifty cents per person, per trip, but you can see many of the sites in downtown Detroit via the monorail-type transport. There are convenient stations located just a couple blocks from the Comerica Park gates and it winds through Greektown, down by the Detroit River, and has stops at the Renaissance Center, Cobo Arena and the Joe Louis Arena. The Detroit zoo is located 15 minutes north of Comerica Park and is open from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
And if you're lucky, you may see the Detroit Tigers begin their end-of-season surge with the postseason in sight.


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Love that java? Can't break your morning date with joe? Young Dr. Mike knows how you feel. That's why we're excited (no, it's not the caffeine, just the good news) to report even more data that indicates coffee could be saving your life, if you drink it right.
By right, we mean minus a zillion calories of syrup flavorings and nondairy creamers. These last actually undo a chunk of coffee's benefits by binding up its inflammation-fighters (called polyphenols), which keep your cells young and fierce. Add skim milk instead, because caffeine makes you excrete about as much calcium (40 mg) as you get in 2 tablespoons of skim.
Or drink it black, like Dr. Mike does; just remember your daily calcium/magnesium/vitamin D-3 tablet. And use a paper filter when brewing; it traps a compound that increases lousy LDL cholesterol. There are other ways regular, instant and decaf, too, help you live longer and healthier. Among them:
Coffee ...
1. Protects against heart disease. One to two cups daily makes your blood vessels limber; they'll expand and contract better with every heartbeat.
2. Cuts cancer risk. A daily cup of joe halves your chances of mouth and throat cancers, compared to coffee abstainers.
3. Reduces strokes. Two to three cups a day (versus less than one a month) can cut your stroke risk by 19 percent.
4. Zaps diabetes. Four cups daily improves insulin's effects, reducing your diabetes risk by a third.
5. Fends off dementia/Alzheimer's. Three or more cups of coffee a day can cut your threat of these memory-robbers big-time -- by up to 65 percent.
The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, are authors of "YOU: on a Diet." Want more? See "The Dr. Oz Show" on TV (weekdays at 3 p.m., KATU/2). To submit questions, go to www.RealAge.com.


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LANDISVILLE — On the prowl Friday night for their first Lancaster-Lebanon League section championship in nearly four decades, Tom Smith's Cedar Crest Falcons made their journey to Hempfield High School a successful venture.
In other words, Crest's lengthy dryspell without an L-L boys' basketball title of any sort finally has come to an end. Finally.
Getting a game-high 25 points and a terrific floor game from sophomore catalyst Evan Horn and 11 from Andrew Eudy, Smith's Falcons turned away McCaskey 59-51 and took home the L-L's Section 1 championship. Crest also earned a home date with Northern Lebanon when the L-L tournament opens Tuesday.
Just to put things in perspective, Crest went home with an L-L section title for the first time since the 1976 Falcons captured an L-L 2 championship.
And what adds even more perspective is that only one week earlier, Crest was sitting in third place in the L-L 1 standings after dropping a one-point decision at Warwick. Three victories later, the Falcons were cutting down nets.
Kobe Gantz netted 15 points for McCaskey (15-8), while Antanee Pinkard and Randolph Speller each posted 12. Steve Powell's Tornado, which lost to Crest for the third time this season, will visit Manheim Central Tuesday night.
Below you'll find some post-game reaction and additional notes from Friday night's L-L 1 playoff scrap.
(Horn on the progression of the Crest program) "We've been down in the dumps for a while, I'll tell you that much. We really came together as a team this year. We knew we were gonna have a really good team this year, coming up all throughout the year. Even when we were younger, we knew we had a good team so we knew we just had to come together as a team this year. And that's what we've done so far. We're not done yet, we've still got leagues to go through so we'll see."
(Horn on playing three "playoff" games just to win the L-L 1 championship trophy) "Coach always stresses that it's never as bad as it seems and it's never as good as it seems. And that's really what the name of the game was tonight. ... We just kept on playing. We could only control what we could control, so that's what we did."
(Horn on Crest effectively employing its spread attack) "Coach isalways stressing about tempo, that we've got to play at our tempo. McCaskey's a team that likes to run, they're super athletic. With a team like that, you've got to slow things down and play at your own tempo. You can't play at their pace. You play at their pace, they're gonna beat you every time. They're just way too athletic for that. So what we really tried to do – not that we're not gonna push the ball – but we really had to pick our moments and we picked them right tonight."
(Smith on Crest finding a way into a playoff and winning) "It doesn't surprise me with this group that that's what we did, but we talked all season about taking one game at a time. Unfortunately, a few got away from us and we weren't playing our best basketball. We were like, 'We still control our own destiny.' That's only because the guys focused on it, came to practice every day and we did it."
(Smith on Horn's contributions offensively and his work on Pinkard defensively) "Kid's a solid kid. When he's on the court, I just don't need to worry about much. He does it in a different way every night. Tonight we needed him to score and he did. We needed him to handle the ball tonight and he did. He's an intelligent athlete and an intelligent basketball player. And he knows, like tonight, as the flow of the game is going, he figures out what do we need him to do. I don't need to tell him, he just goes and does it. Special athlete. … He knows game in and game out, he's going to get the other team's best player."
(Smith on finally winning a section title) "We don't have a boys' basketball banner hanging in our gym, so one of the goals this group made as freshmen was let's hang a banner in this gym. And now we've done it."
(Powell on the outcome) "I thought they made some big shots, but I thought the officials didn't make some calls either. … They hit some big shots, especially [Josh Bucher]. He hit some big shots, they were timely."
(Powell on his club's play/maturity) "You would think after 23 games you would be past that. Twenty-three games in, we've played some good competition. We missed opportunities. I can't complain about what they did on the defensive end. And I can't complain about the effort. They showed up tonight and Crest just won it."
McCaskey defeated Crest in last season's L-L tournament championship. … Crest's last L-L tournament title also arrived in 1976, when the great Steve Kuhn still was sporting Falcons blue and white. … Both sides will play in the District 3-AAAA tournament once the L-L's postseason event comes to a close. …
The 6-2 Horn finished with eight rebounds, two assists and a blocked shot. ... Bucher scored all nine of his points — including two clutch treys — in the second half.
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Pope Clement V, by the Bull "Regnans in coelis" of 12 Aug., 1308, called a general council to meet on 1 Oct., 1310, at Vienne in France for the purpose "of making provision in regard to the Order of Knights Templar, both the individual members and its lands, and in regard to other things in reference to the Catholic Faith, the Holy Land, and the improvement of the Church and of ecclesiastical persons ". The Bull was sent to the kings of the respective Christian countries and to the archbishops of the various church provinces. The archbishops of every church province with two or three bishops, as designated in the individual Bulls, were to appear in person at the council, the bishops remaining at home were to transfer their rights to their colleagues who had been personally called. The bishops and prelates of all kinds were also to bring to the council proposals and motions in writing concerning the points to be improved in church life. A special Bull of 8 Aug., 1308, directed the Order of Knights Templar to send suitable defensores to the council, before which the grand master and the other chief officials had been commanded to appear in person. The council, however, could not open at the appointed time, on account of the trials of the Templars which were begun in the various countries, and the process respecting Boniface VIII which Clement V had undertaken at the appeal of the French king Philip the Fair. The Bull "Alma mater" of 4 April, 1310, postponed the opening of the council until 1 Oct., 1311, on account of the investigation of the Templars that was not yet finished. In September the pope went to Vienne with the cardinals and on 16 Oct., 1311, the first formal session of the council was held in the cathedral there. This was the Fifteenth Ecumenical Council. In his opening address the pope again designated the three following points as the main tasks of the council: the matter of the Templars ; the assistance to be given the Holy Land; and the reform of the clerical order and of morals.
The Acts of the council have disappeared, with the exception of a fragment which Father Ehrle, S.J., found in a manuscript in the National Library at Paris (see below). Consequently there is no positive certainty as to the course of the synod. The number of its members is also variously stated by the authorities. Villiani ("Chron.", IX, XXII, ed. Muratori, "Script", XIII, 454) enumerates 300 bishops, while other authorities whose testimony is more probable give 114 bishops, to which should be added a number of abbots and proxies. The best known proceedings of the council are those respecting the Templars. A commission was appointed to examine the official records concerning the order, in which commission the various classes of participants in the council and the different countries were represented. From the members of this commission was formed a smaller committee of archbishops and bishops presided over by the Archbishop of Aquileia, which was to examine exhaustively the official records and the abstracts of these. The pope and the cardinals negotiated with the members of this commission respecting the matter. The majority of the cardinals and nearly all the members of the commission were of the opinion that the Order of Knights Templar should be granted the right to defend itself, and that no proof collected up to then was sufficient to condemn the order of the heresy of which it was accused without straining the law. As early as the beginning of December, 1311, the cardinals and commission had voted to this effect. The pope was in a difficult position, on account of the insistence of the powerful French king. In February, 1312, the king himself appeared with a great retinue before the gates of the city of Vienne, and vehemently demanded the suppression of the Templars in a letter of 2 March, addressed to the pope. Clement now adopted the expedient of suppressing the Order of Knights Templar , not be legal method ( de jure ), but on the plea of solicitude for the Church and by Apostolic ordinance ( per modum provisionis sen ordinationis apostolicae ). The pope announced this decision in an assembly of the cardinals, on 22 March, 1312. On 3 April the second formal session of the council was held; the French king and his three sons were present, and the decision respecting the suppression of the Templars was promulgated. The Bull of Suppression "Vox clamantis" is dated 22 March, 1312. The pope had retained for himself the decision as to the persons and the lands of the Templars ; two further Bulls were issued to cover these points on 2 and 6 May. During the council, apparently at this second session, Boniface VIII was declared to have been a lawful pope, and absolved from the accusations brought against him. Nevertheless, an earlier Decree issued by Clement V was renewed, whereby the King of France was absolved from all responsibility for what he had done against Boniface and the Church.
The synod also took up the question of the Holy Land. In the third formal session, held 6 May, a letter from the King of France was read aloud, in which he promised to take the cross, together with his sons and large numbers of the nobility, and to begin the Crusade within six years. If he should die before this time his eldest son would undertake the expedition. Upon this, it was decided to lay a church tithe for six years for this purpose, which was to be raised throughout Christendom for the Holy Land. Concerning the raising of this tithe, cf. Kirsch, "Die papstlichen Killektorien in Deutschland" (Paderborn, 1894), 18. In France the revenues drawn from the tithe for six years were given to the king, who used the money for the war against Flanders. The Crusade never took place, although both the Kings of England and of Navarre had agreed to it at the council.
As already mentioned, the bishops were directed before the meeting of the council to bring with them written suggestions as to the reform of the Church. The pope renewed this demand at the opening of the council. Only three of the proposals sent in are known up to now, namely the treatise of William Durandus, Bishop of Mende, on the holding of the council ("De modo celebrandi generalis concilii"), that of Major, Bishop of Angers [in "Collection des documents inedits sur l'hist. de France. Melanges historiques"; II (1877), 471 sqq.], and that of James Dueze, later Pope John XXII [published by Verlaque, "Jean XXII" (Paris, 1883), 522 sqq.]. This material was divided into two parts for discussion by the council: improvement of morals and protection of the independence of the Church. The countless complaints, opinions, and suggestions that were handed in by prelates as well as by secular nobles were systematically arranged and treated. Still it is not known what decrees on these questions resulted from the discussions of the council itself and were promulgated in the third and last session. All that is certain is that a number of decrees on these subjects were proclaimed. These were issued later on 25 October, 1317, by John XXII, together with other decrees of Clement V, which the latter had been prevented by death from promulgating. John published them as the collection of the laws of the Church, the Clementines, "Corpus Juris Canonici". The decrees passed at the council which are found in this collection refer to the disputes concerning the Franciscan Spirituals (condemnation of the three propositions attributed to Petrus Johannes Olivi), the dispute about poverty among the Minorites, the mendicants, the visitation of convents by the bishops, the Beguines, the observance of the ecclesiastical hours, administration of religious foundations, matters relating to benefices, the founding of professorships for the Oriental languages at the Curia and at the four chief universities, the management of the Inquisition, and various ordinances respecting the clergy. The council closed with the third formal session, 6 May, 1312.
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FOLEY, Alabama -- Police Chief David Wilson has confirmed to AL.com that an Orange Beach police officer was killed in a two-car accident Tuesday night.
"At approximately 9 p.m. tonight, police responded to a motor vehicle accident at County Road 12 and the Foley Beach Expressway," Wilson told AL.com. "It was revealed there was a fatality. It was an Orange Beach police officer, who was just off duty and on his way home."
The identification of the officer will not be released until the Orange Beach Police Department has notified family and friends.
Wilson said the veteran officer was driving an unmarked Orange Beach police vehicle, a white Chevy SUV, when a collision occurred with a sedan.
The driver of the second car was uninjured, Wilson said.
About midnight rescue crews continued to investigate the accident that left the SUV overturned about 40 yards north of the intersection while the sedan remained at the center of the crossroad with a smashed front end.
Because it is an ongoing investigation, which will be conducted by the Foley Police Department, no other details were released.
(Updated at 1:15 a.m. to include additional information about the scene of the accident.)
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SPRINGFIELD -- Police are investigating a gunpoint robbery at Pine Point Variety, 139 Boston Road, late Tuesday.
The robbery was reported just before 10 p.m., Springfield Police Capt. William Collins said.
The clerk reported that three men, one of whom brandished a gun, entered the store, then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash from the register, Collins said.
The armed suspect was described as a black man who was about 5 feet, 7 inches tall. He was wearing blue jeans and a hooded sweatshirt of an undetermined color.
A second suspect was described as a black man with braids. He was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and a red hat. The third suspect was described only as wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and a hat with an 'S' on it.


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Syracuse Crunch defenseman Evan Oberg is creeping closer and closer to scoring his first goal of the season.
Now, all he needs is a little luck.
Oberg nearly broke through against Hershey on March 3. But after originally getting credit for the goal it was recently changed to the credit of teammate Tyler Johnson, who had the shot clang off his skate first.
"I knew it was him,'' Oberg said after Syracuse's morning skate on Friday. "It was pretty obvious. I told him, I can't take this. He was generous enough to offer it to me. I said no, I can't have it.''
Then against St. John's last weekend Oberg thought he had another, but it was waived off because of goalie interference.
Last season, Oberg potted seven goals in the regular season for Norfolk and two more in the playoffs.
"This is the lowest (total) of my career,'' he said. "You get the forwards the puck. A lot of forwards are scoring a lot. They are not saving any for me.''
- Syracuse hosts Norfolk tonight in its first game since losing its best defenseman, Radko Gudas, and leading scorer, Tyler Johnson, on recall to Tampa Bay this week. The moves have also eliminated Crunch coach Jon Cooper's need for an alarm clock.
"When you wake up in the morning and look at your phone and wait for the text message that someone will get called up, it's hard to get into a rhythm with your team,'' Cooper said. "What we've been ingraining there is how we operate down here. You are trying to keep that mental continuity together.
"That's our challenge, to get that on-ice chemistry. In this last little stretch (2-4), you could have made an argument we could have got all 12 (points). But we didn't. Our effort was outstanding. We're getting optimum effort from all the guys all the time. When you have that, anything is possible. We just have to make sure our execution is better.''
- Igor Bobkov is expected to get the start in goal for Norfolk tonight, against Syracuse's Cedrick Desjardins. The Admirals have been one of the AHL's hottest teams, on a 7-2-1 stretch.


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April 2013
4/23 Cubs lineup
Cody Ransom gets his first start of the season on Tuesday when the Cubs face the Reds and lefty Tony Cingrani at Great American Ball Park. Here's the lineup:
Sappelt CF
Castro SS
Rizzo 1B
Soriano LF
Castillo C
Hairston RF
Ransom 3B
Barney 2B
Villanueva P
4/23 Extra bases
* David DeJesus' leadoff home run Monday was the 13th of his career.
* Starlin Castro singled in the third to extend his hitting streak to 14 games, tops in the Major Leagues and matching his career high.
* Carlos Marmol threw two scoreless innings, and now has six straight scoreless outings dating to April 8.
* Luis Valbuena has hit safely in nine of his last 13 games.
* Cubs starting pitchers rank third in the NL with a 3.11 ERA, but they have a 3-10 record. The relievers rank 12th in the NL with a 4.86 ERA. The team is batting .147 with runners in scoring position.
* Matt Garza will make a Minor League rehab start Wednesday for Double-A Tennessee, weather permitting.
* Ian Stewart was 1-for-3 with two RBIs Monday for Triple-A Iowa, and now is 2-for-20 in six games.
* On Tuesday, Carlos Villanueva faces Tony Cingrani at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
— Carrie Muskat
4/22 Reds 5, Cubs 4
Every loss is tough to take, but Monday hurt a little more for the Cubs because they did nearly everything right. Cesar Izturis hit a walkoff RBI single with two outs in the 13th to spark the Reds to a 5-4 come from behind victory over the Cubs, who had taken a two-run lead in the top of the inning on Luis Valbuena's two-run home run.
"We battled all game," Travis Wood said. "They're a good ballclub over there and their guys did what they needed to do to pull out a win."
Valbuena connected off Alfredo Simon in the 13th, scoring Welington Castillo, who had reached second on an error by third baseman Todd Frazier. For once, it looked as if the Cubs' could capitalize on another team's mistakes.
But Xavier Paul singled to lead off the Reds' 13th against Michael Bowden, and advanced to third on a double by Brandon Phillips that right fielder Dave Sappelt missed.
"In my mind, I knew I had to make a web gem to win the game," Sappelt said. "I came up short."
Paul and Phillips both scored on Jay Bruce's double into the gap in right center. Did Cubs manager Dale Sveum consider walking Bruce?
"I did," Sveum said. "I didn't want to put the winning run on the base and he hadn't been swinging that good anyway."
One out later, Izturis lined a single over shortstop Starlin Castro for the game-winner.
"I'm proud of the way they played today," Sveum said. "They had good at-bats all night long, played good defense, pitched, and came up short. [The Reds] hit the ball hard the last inning. Besides the one blooper that fell in and changed things, other than that, they swung the bats there. No walks — they swung the bats to beat us."
The Cubs had opportunities, stranding 12 runners in the game.
"It's hard to be down," Wood said about the loss. "It's easy to be down, but also hard to be down. It's not like we're getting blown out every game. We're right there. We just have to come together as a team and figure out how to pull them out."
Fifteen of the Cubs' 18 games now have been decided by three runs or less, and the Cubs are 4-11 in those close games.
"They are tough just because you know you're doing everything you can and for some reason the ball isn't going our way," Wood said. "You just have to hang in there and ride it out. Tides will turn."
— Carrie Muskat
4/22 Sveum: We're all accountable
The Cubs' slow start certainly bothers manager Dale Sveum. Does he think about his job security?
"I'd be lying if I didn't think about [myself] through some of this stuff," Sveum said Monday. "That's stuff you don't have control over. I have control over my job and my coaching staff to prepare everybody every day, and that's all I can do."
In his second season at the helm, Sveum said he has full support from GM Jed Hoyer and Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations.
On Sunday, Sveum said no one on the team was "invincible" and that the Cubs would find "options" if needed. On Monday, he said he wasn't charging Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo with responsibility for all the mistakes.
"You guys asked me," he said of the media's questions. "Those guys couldn't get sent down, and I said nobody's exempt. They're not the only ones [making mistakes]."
And everyone has had a part in the 5-12 start.
"Like I said, nobody's exempt," Sveum said. "Pointing [Castro and Rizzo] out, it doesn't mean they're it. … I'm not pointing fingers at them or anything, I'm just saying, hey, we're all [accountable] in this. I'm [not] exempt [from] being fired, so is my coaching staff. We're all in this together as a team. As coaches, manager, we try to get people better on the team."
— Carrie Muskat
4/22 Cubs lineup
Here's the lineup for Monday's Cubs vs. Reds game:
DeJesus CF
Castro SS
Rizzo 1B
Soriano LF
Schierholtz RF
Castillo C
Valbuena 3B
Barney 2B
T. Wood P
4/22 Cubs vs. Reds
* On Monday, the Cubs open a three-game series against the Reds, and it will be the first head to head match up between reigning Gold Glove second baseman Darwin Barney and Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips. Barney leads the Majors in nearly every defensive category at second base since the start of the 2012 season. He tops all ML second basemen with a .997 fielding percentage, an .852 ultimate zone rating, a 5.20 range factor per nine innings, 5.21 total chances per nine innings and 321 putouts in that span. Last season, Barney tied a ML record with 141-consecutive games at second base without making an error.
* Barney's teammates haven't been as successful. The Cubs rank second in the Majors with 17 errors this season, trailing only the Nationals (18). Those miscues have led to 14 unearned runs, tied with the Astros for the most in the Majors. All of the unearned runs have occurred behind the starting pitchers.
* The Cubs went 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position in three games vs. the Brewers, and now are batting .140 (17-for-127) with RISP, lowest in the Majors.
* Looking ahead, here are the pitching matchups:
Monday: LHP Travis (1-1, 1.83) vs. RHP Mike Leake (1-0, 4.26)
Tuesday: RHP Carlos Villanueva (1-0, 1.29) vs. LHP Tony Cingrani (1-0, 1.80)
Wednesday: RHP Jeff Samardzija (1-3, 3.38) vs. RHP Mat Latos (0-0, 2.73)
— Carrie Muskat
4/22 Minor matters
Brian Bogusevic extended his hitting streak to seven games, but it wasn't enough as Iowa lost, 1-0, to Memphis on Sunday. Drew Carpenter started and did not get a decision, throwing 5 2/3 scoreless innings. He struck out six. Ian Stewart went 0-for-4, and now is 1-for-17 in five games.
Matt Szczur drove in two runs in Tennessee's 9-6, 11-inning loss to Montgomery. Anthony Giansanti was 2-for-2 and Rubi Silva had two hits and one RBIs. Trey McNutt struck out one in two perfect innings in relief. He has held opponents scoreless in five of his six appearances.
Ryan Searle gave up five runs over four innings in Daytona's 9-1 loss to Dunedin. Jorge Soler extended his hitting streak to 10 games, and was batting .378 overall.
Trey Martin had three hits, including a double, and drove in a run in Kane County's 7-6 win over Peoria. Rock Shoulders had two hits, including a double, and Dan Vogelbach walked, stole a base and scored a run.
* On Wednesday, Cubs pitcher Matt Garza was scheduled to make a rehab start with Double-A Tennessee. He's coming back from a strained left lat injured Feb. 17 during a live BP session in Spring Training.
— Carrie Muskat
4/21 Brewers 4, Cubs 2
The errors and the losses keep adding up for the Cubs, and may lead to some changes on the roster. Ryan Braun smacked a three-run home run to lift the Brewers to a 4-2 victory Sunday and complete a sweep over the mistake-prone Cubs, who committed two more miscues.
"You out-hit a team every day and you lose," Dale Sveum said. "It doesn't happen very often."
The Cubs did just that, out-hitting the Brewers, 22-16, in the series, including a two-run homer by Anthony Rizzo in the third to back Scott Feldman. But Feldman also made a critical error, which led to Braun's home run. The Cubs rank second in the Major Leagues with 17 errors, trailing the Nationals, who have committed 18.
"We keep shooting ourselves in the foot and that's something we can't do — I don't think we're good enough to be doing that," Rizzo said of the poor defensive play. "We need to play good baseball. That's the game of baseball, though — guys are going to make errors, and it's not going to be the last error we make today, we're going to make plenty more but we're going to make plenty more good plays, too."
In the Milwaukee fifth, Yuniesky Betancourt doubled off David DeJesus' glove as he tried to make a leaping catch at the center-field wall. Two outs later, Jean Segura hit a comebacker to Feldman, who couldn't get his glove on the ball for an error. Braun then followed with his home run.
"This is one of those games that falls squarely on me," Feldman said. "If I make that play [on Segura], we're up 2-1, and my pitch count is down. It's just a shame I didn't make the play. … It's like a Little League play."
Unfortunately, it's not the first time the Cubs have made an error that led to a run and a loss. The Cubs were 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position, charged with six errors in the series, and now have given up 14 unearned runs over 17 games.
"Going into a season, I don't care if you're the best team in baseball, you're going to have a week to 10 days that you play [sloppy] baseball," Sveum said. "That's a given going in. Obviously, good teams have really good streaks and long streaks. Hopefully, we're getting this out of our system. We know this team is a lot better than we've played."
The mistakes have forced Cubs starters to work even harder, dealing with the extra outs. Chicago starters have ranked among the top in the National League this season, and their combined ERA actually dropped to 3.13 after Feldman's outing. He has failed to post a quality start in his three outings.
Before the game, Sveum said the Cubs would look for other options if play didn't improve. It would seem that players like Castro and Rizzo were set, but Sveum didn't exclude them.
"You have to perform," Sveum said. "The bottom line is you have to perform."
"You can't think about that," Rizzo said about the possibility of being sent down. "Everyone in here is in the big leagues and everyone wants to be in the big leagues, no one wants to go to the Minor Leagues. Whatever happens, happens.
"This team is going to have a lot more transactions throughout the year," Rizzo said. "Guys are going to come and go, that's part of the game. You can't worry about getting sent down — I've done it before and it never works out when you think about that. You just have to go out and play."
Castro, whose error in the fifth Saturday led to two Brewers runs, did talk to Sveum in Chicago.
"I feel bad," Castro said of his mistakes. "Those errors make the team lose. That's why the team is losing now because of the errors. We have to keep it together, work hard and it's going to be all right.
"The talent is here," Castro said. "The only thing is the whole team is trying to do too much because everybody feels bad about the way the team is playing now. That's why everybody is trying to do too much."
Players aren't hiding from the mistakes.
"It's frustrating," Rizzo said, "but everyone is competitive and that's why I think it's so frustrating. We're young and we want to win and we're hungry to win and we just have to keep fighting and keep believing in ourselves and each other and keep the line moving when we're at the plate and don't try to hit a five-run home run when you just have to get the next guy up."
— Carrie Muskat
4/21 Castro extends hit streak to 13 Gs
The hits keep coming for shortstop Starlin Castro, who singled to center with two outs in the third inning Sunday to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, the longest active streak in the National League. Castro now has eight hitting streaks of 10 or more games since the start of the 2011 season, tied with the Yankees' Robinson Cano for the most during that stretch.
— Carrie Muskat
4/21 Sveum: "You have to perform"
Manager Dale Sveum is losing patience with the way the Cubs have played recently, and the players can understand that.
"I think everyone is losing a little patience," Anthony Rizzo said Sunday. "Everyone needs to have fun. That's the main thing — have fun and everything will take care of itself."
The Cubs headed into Sunday's series finale against the Brewers having won three of the last 13 games. They are among the Major League leaders in errors, adding three more Saturday in a 5-1 loss, and also have the lowest batting average in the Majors with runners in scoring position. They're wasting solid starting pitching. Chicago's starters have a 3.19 ERA, fifth-lowest in the National League.
The errors are both physical and mental, and are a surprise after how well the Cubs played in Spring Training, Sveum said.
"Some of these errors, they look physical but they're maybe a lack of awareness at the time or the situation at hand or they're trying to be too quick, or sometimes we don't have enough aggressiveness on balls or whatever it is," said Sveum, whose voice was hoarse after his argument with an umpire Friday that resulted in being ejected. "Sometimes defense is a rhythm and we're obviously not in any kind of defensive rhythm. Just like offense can be contagious, defense can, too.
"From top to bottom, we did outstanding in Spring Training, so to start out like this is obviously disappointing," Sveum said. "The bad thing is we're not picking each other up after these things happen."
"We're not overcoming our mistakes," Sveum said. "Good teams overcome those mistakes. A guy gets a ground ball double play and nobody thinks about what just happened."
Rizzo was charged with an error Friday and bobbled a ball on Saturday.
"We've got to make those plays and I think people are maybe putting too much pressure on themselves to make the plays," Rizzo said. "It's a long season and we need to start having more fun. Everyone says we're young — let's play and have fun like we're young, too. Take it one pitch at a time."
Sveum said they can make changes if players don't perform.
"You find options," he said. "If people keep playing like that, you have to find options and give people playing time in Triple-A to figure this stuff out."
He's looking for more consistency, game-changing plays, and better performance on the field.
"You have to perform," Sveum said. "The bottom line is you have to perform. Whether they need more development, you decide all those kind of things."
And no one, he said, is invincible.
"It's not about what we think can happen in three, four years from now," Sveum said. "Guys who have played a lot of baseball, it's time to perform on a consistent basis. Not a good game, and then three bad ones, that's not what we want. That's why there is player development. Guys are rushed to the big leagues, and sometimes you see a lot of this stuff happen. That's why it's very important to play 500 Minor League games."
— Carrie Muskat


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Fort Wayne (Indiana's NewsCenter)- The Erie BayHawks finished with six players in double-digits as they defeated the Fort Wayne Mad Ants 113-106.
The Mad Ants came out of the gates running as they quickly went up 7-0 in the first minutes of the game.
Erie quickly countered the attack and stole the lead halfway through the period. Mychel Thompson scored 13 first period points to give the BayHawks a 37-30 lead.
The BayHawks maintained a 7 point lead through the second period and led 60-53 going into the locker rooms at the half.
The Mad Ants outscored the BayHawks 33-27 in the third behind 15 points from Cameron Jones. They trailed 87-86 going into the final twelve minutes of the game.
D.J. Kennedy hit back to back 3 pointers to give the BayHawks the boost that they needed to extend their lead to double figures giving them their largest lead of the game of 11. The Mad Ants could not counter the hot shooting of the BayHawks and fell for their 6th game in a row.
Kennedy finished with 28 points and Thompson with 21. Tirrell Baines finished with 18 off the bench for the BayHawks.
Darnell Lazare led the way for the Mad Ants with 28 points while Ron Howard added 20 off of the bench and Jones contributed 19.
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Syracuse, NY - A local man accused of shooting two other men at an April 2009 house party in Cicero was sentenced today to six years in state prison.
Dustin Hall, 22, had nothing to say before being sentenced by Onondaga County Judge Anthony Aloi.
Hall, for whom authorities listed addresses on Burnet Avenue in Syracuse and Winchester Road in East Syracuse, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for having a loaded 9-mm pistol in the incident.
Hall was accused of shooting Adam Davis, 30, of Central Square, and Craig Wells, 25, of Salina when a fight broke out at the party at the Library Street home of Joshua Lannie.
Lannie, 21, pleaded guilty in April to second-degree assault, admitting he struck Davis with an unloaded handgun during the fight. He was sentenced last month to serve one year in the Onondaga County Correctional Facility in Jamesville.
Authorities have said the fight at Lannie's house stemmed from an incident a week earlier in which a marijuana dealer was robbed at the residence.


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Karl Momrik, Eric Muszynski and John Pintar all had tremendous levels of success during the 2013-14 basketball season, whether it was leading their teams to conference titles or a measure of success in the state tournament.
Now all three have a chance to be recognized for their success.
The trio is among the nominees for the Region 15 coach of the Year Award from the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM).
"It's cool because it means your team had a successful season," Pintar said. "You get the respect of your peers and it's good to get that recognition."
All three are representing region 15, which comprises 16 counties in Northern Michigan and school in all four of the state's classes. A coach must be a member of BCAM and be nominated by other coaches for the award. One coach is picked from each of the state's 16 regions and BCAM selects an overall boys and girls coach of the year and coaches of the year for all four classes.
The award will be given within the next few weeks.
Pintar coached the Alpena High boys basketball team to one of its best season in school history as the Wildcats went 20-2, put together a 20-game win streak and won their first Big North Conference title since 2008.
Pintar was nominated for the award last year and said this season was as enjoyable as any he's ever coached. The main reason for this Pintar said was Alpena's players. Pintar consistently referred to his team's will to win during the season and their belief that they were the best team on the floor no matter who they played.
"This is a really unique group. I started coaches these guys in fourth and fifth grade, so I had a lot of knowledge of them as players. There were some things that were easier to coach because I knew them as players."
Muszynski coached Hillman to perhaps the greatest season in school history. Under Muszynski, the Tigers set a school record for wins (21), won a second consecutive district title and won the North Star League title outright for the first time. On top of all that, the Tigers reached a regional final for the second straight year and have a good chance to do it again next year as they're losing just two seniors.
Muszynski won the award in 2010 and was also nominated in 2009. He said his players are already looking forward to next season.
"This is one thing as a coach that you dream of: to be expected to do well year in and year out," Muszynski said. "It's something the coaches and players want. It takes a combined effort from the community, the parents and the players. When the team has a great season, everyone gets rewarded."
The other boys coaches nominated for the award in the region are Sanford-Meridian's Mitch Bohn and Beaverton's Ray Johnston.
Momrik has been nominated for the award several times including last season when the Posen girls basketball team advanced to a regional final and finished the season with one loss.
With sky-high expectations again this year, Posen rose to the occasion. The Vikings were ranked No. 2 in Class D all season and finished the regular season with a 20-0 record for the second straight year. They wrapped up another North Star League title as well as a fifth straight district title before going on to win their first regional title in school history with a win over Brimley.
Posen's season came to end in the quarterfinals against No. 1 Crystal Falls Forest Park, but Momrik was proud of his team's efforts all season, particularly on defense.
"It was different than last year. We lost a couple of really good guards and it was hard to judge how we were going to do," Momrik said. "The backbone of it was a lot of hard work and we couldn't be prouder of the girls."
The other girls coaches nominated for the award are: Gaylord's Frank Hamilla, Arenac Eastern's Butch Beckham, Standish's Kevin King, Midland Bullock Creek's Justin Freeland, Clare's Matt Rodenbo and Midland's Elaine Mahabir.
Several local players were also named to the BCAM's Best All-State Lists for the 2013-14 season. For the boys, Alpena's Andy Marwede and Hillman's Mason VanPamel were named BCAM's Best in their respective classes and Alpena's Tyler Pintar, Alcona's Trenton LaVergne, Fairview's Logan Winton and Onaway's Lexi Szymoniak were all honorable mentions.
The Alpena boys team achieved the highest team GPA in Class A with a 3.658 GPA. Hillman was an honorable mention in Class D at 3.074 as was the Fairview girls team (3.287). Marwede, Pintar, LaVergne, Alcona's Karina Cole and Posen's Korynn Hincka all received academic all-state awards.
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Even this impressive list is only a fraction of what runners in our community are doing. Just tally up the races you can think of that raise money for scholarships for runners: The South Coast Half Marathon, the Red Lizard Five Miler, and the Vancouver Lake Half, for example.
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This may sound strange, but you're still not pregnant! Fertilization of your egg by the sperm will only take place near the end of this week — read more about fertilization in the Your Body section below.
Although you'll have to wait to find out what color to paint the nursery, your baby's gender will be determined at the moment of fertilization. Out of the 46 chromosomes that make up a baby's genetic material, only two — one from the sperm and one from the egg — determine the baby's sex. These are known as the sex chromosomes. Every egg has an X sex chromosome; a sperm can have either an X or a Y sex chromosome. If the sperm that fertilizes your egg has an X chromosome, you'll have a girl; if it has a Y chromosome, your baby will be a boy.
Your uterine lining, which will nourish the baby, is developing, and your body secretes follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), which stimulates an egg to mature. At the end of this week, you will be at the midpoint of your menstrual cycle (if you have a regular 28-day cycle), and ovulation will occur (your ovary will release an egg into the fallopian tube).
This is when you're most likely to conceive. If you have sexual intercourse without protection around the time that you ovulate, you can become pregnant. After your partner ejaculates, millions of sperm travel through the vagina, and hundreds make it to the fallopian tube, where your egg is waiting. One sperm generally succeeds in penetrating the egg, and fertilization takes place. When that happens, you will be pregnant — although you will not be feeling any body changes just yet.
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text: "As Keith Richards says, 90 percent of everything is crap." Kurt Loder reviews movies for Reason.com and Creators Syndicate, quotes the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist to explain why most of the reviews in his new book, The Good, The Bad and The God-Awful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews are negative. Loder says he loves movies, but because of the constant demand for new product, the bad movies will inevitably outnumber the good ones.


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One month ago, on the evening of Feb. 28, Coast Guard 6535 — an MH-65D "Dolphin" helicopter — went down in Mobile Bay during a training mission. Lost in the crash were four outstanding American military men and public servants.
Lt. Cmdr. Dale Taylor, Chief Petty Officer Fernando Jorge and Petty Officer Drew Knight were assigned here in Mobile at the Aviation Training Center, while Lt. j.g. Thomas Cameron was on temporary duty here as a student pilot from Air Station Borinquen, Puerto Rico.
The loss of our four heroes — sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, friends, shipmates — was obviously devastating to our families, to the commands affected and to the entire Coast Guard.
Almost immediately, however, we and our families were surrounded and embraced — truly engulfed — by the love and support of the local Mobile community. To a level some would have not believed possible, the citizens, public officials, organizations and businesses in the greater Mobile area made our tragedy their tragedy, our loss their loss, our grieving their grieving, and went out of their way to help.
The magnitude of support given and the depth of caring shown to us were simply amazing. From the partner agencies and volunteers who tirelessly searched with us for our fallen brothers, to the businesses who quickly and without solicitation provided us food, coffee, cards, flowers and words of comfort; from the local churches who treated us to a wonderful picnic on the day after our memorial service, to the hundreds of schoolchildren who made banners and signs and cards to show us their love; from the dozens who left flowers and remembrances at a makeshift memorial at our front gate, to the local media who respected our grieving and stayed away from that same gate — the people of Mobile made clear that they support their military, appreciate their Coast Guard, honor our fallen and love their neighbors.
On behalf of the men and women of ATC Mobile, our families and the entire Coast Guard family, I offer my deep and unending appreciation. Thank you — our Mobile area friends, neighbors and supporters — for being who you are, and for standing with us faithfully during this last, difficult month.
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