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Joshua Tree National Park
Two desert systems, the Mojave and the Colorado, abut within Joshua Tree, dividing California's 794,000 acres southernmost national park into two arid ecosystems of profoundly contrasting appearance. The key to their differences is elevation. Joshua Tree National Park is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the park. Joshua trees themselves are supposedly so named because, upon seeing them, Mormon settlers were reminded of a biblical story of Joshua reaching his hands to the sky. The Colorado, the western reach of the vast Sonoran Desert, thrives below 3,000 feet on the park's gently declining eastern flank, where temperatures are usually higher. Considered "low desert," compared to the loftier, wetter, and more vegetated Mojave "high desert," the Colorado seems sparse and forbidding. It begins at the park's midsection, sweeping east across empty basins stubbled with creosote bushes. Occasionally decorated by "gardens" of flowering ocotillo and cholla cactus, it runs across arid Pinto Basin into a parched wilderness of broken rock in the Eagle and Coxcomb Mountains.
Many newcomers among the 1.3 million visitors who pass through each year are surprised by the abrupt transition between the Colorado and Mojave ecosystems. Above 3,000 feet, the Mojave section claims the park's western half, where giant branching yuccas thrive on sandy plains studded by massive granite monoliths and rock piles. These are among the most intriguing and photogenic geological phenomena found in California's many desert regions. Joshua Tree's human history commenced sometime after the last ice age with the arrival of the Pinto people, hunter-gatherers who may have been part of the Southwest's earliest cultures. They lived in Pinto Basin, which though inhospitably arid today, had a wet climate and was crossed by a sluggish river some 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. Nomadic groups of Indians seasonally inhabited the region when harvests of pinyon nuts, mesquite beans, acorns, and cactus fruit offered sustenance. Bedrock mortars—holes ground into solid rock and used to pulverize seeds during food preparation—are scattered throughout the Wonderland of Rocks area south of the Indian Cove camping site. A flurry of late 19th-century gold-mining ventures left ruins; some are accessible by hiking trails, or unmaintained roads suited only to four-wheel-drive vehicles and mountain bikes.
How to Get There
Established on 31st October 1994, the west and north park entrances are at the towns of Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms. From Los Angeles, take I-10 east to Calif. 62 (Twentynine Palms Hwy.) to Twentynine Palms (about 140 miles total). The south entrance is located at Cottonwood Spring, approximately 25 miles east of Indio off I-10. Call +1 760 367 5500 for recorded directions. Airports: Palm Springs, Los Angeles.
When to Go
All-year park. Temperatures are most comfortable in the spring and fall, with an average high and low of 85°F and 50°F. Winter brings cooler days, around 60°F, and freezing nights. Summers are hot, with midday temperatures frequently above 100°F, and ground temperatures reaching 180°F. The Mojave Desert zone on the park's western half is on average 11 degrees cooler than the Colorado. In winter, snow may blanket the Mojave's higher elevations. Spring blooming periods vary according to winter precipitation and spring temperatures, usually beginning in February at lower elevations and peaking park-wide in March and April, although cactuses may bloom into June. (Check with park headquarters.) For up-to-date recorded wildflower information, visit www.nps.gov/jotr.
How to Visit
The park's premier attractions, forests of giant branching yuccas known as Joshua trees, massive rock formations, fan palm oases, and seasonal gardens of cholla and ocotillo, can be enjoyed on a leisurely half-day auto tour that includes both "high" and "low" desert zones— although most of your time will be spent in your car. Scenic paved roads lead to viewpoints, all campgrounds, and trailheads. Roadside interpretive exhibits have pull-outs and parking areas and offer insights into the region's complex desert ecology, wildlife, and human history.
If you plan to explore the park by mountain bike, you would be wise to avoid the main paved roads, which are narrow and without shoulders. You'll find far greater solitude and safety cycling the park's backcountry dirt roads, many of which, like those in Queen Valley, date from the area's 19th-century homestead and gold mining era. Be sure to acquire reliable information from headquarters about your route, however, as soft sand and occasional steep climbs can make for arduous pedalling.
For a half-day visit starting from the park's northern boundary, take the Park Boulevard loop either from the town of Joshua Tree through the West Entrance Station, or from Twentynine Palms, by way of the North Entrance Station. If the air is clear (ask at the entrance about haze conditions), take the 20-minute side trip to 5,185-foot-high Keys View, which overlooks a vast panorama of arid desert basin and range stretching south into Mexico. If you are starting from Joshua Tree, return to Park Boulevard and continue east over Sheep Pass to Jumbo Rocks, turning right (south) onto Pinto Basin Road for the drive down into long vistas in the Colorado Desert zone. Be sure to stroll the self-guided nature trails through the Cholla Cactus Garden and the Ocotillo Patch. Backtrack to Twentynine Palms and the Oasis Visitor Center, which features a small cactus garden and superb desert ecology interpretive displays. It adjoins the historic Oasis of Mara (one of five spring-fed oases within the park's boundaries), where Indians once found water, shade, food, and game. If you are starting from Twentynine Palms and the Oasis Visitor Center, proceed south as far as the Ocotillo Patch, then backtrack to Park Boulevard and follow it westward to Joshua Tree. Credit: National Geographic Society.


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Three Bisons players received special recognition. Redshirt sophomore center Justin Glenn received the Academic Award for his 3.28 average in Management.
Redshirt freshman forward Brian Wright was presented the "Most Improved Player" Award.
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Sanderson also honored guard Mike Lusk and center Thomas Pfaff, the only seniors on the team.
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Marion County Commission went back to square one Monday for an emergency communications tower, approving an alternative design to be submitted to Marion planning and zoning officials.
"We still need a tower by the jail, that's not going away," Marion County Commission Dan Holub said. "We've been looking at other options."
Sheriff Rob Craft and Communications Director Linda Klenda researched alternatives with TBS Communications.
"It would be 40-foot, which would be in their regulations," Craft said.
Craft explained that the reduction from the original 92-foot tower comes from the use of a piece of equipment, called a combiner, that handles all 13 emergency channel signals for broadcast to the tower west of town.
"Instead of that spread of 13 antennas, it's just one piece of equipment they all plug into and somehow it's combined into one," Craft said. The combiner eliminates the extra tower height necessary to install 13 separate antennas.
Holub said the $46,000 cost of the tower will be significantly less than other alternatives.
"We're going to save money on the tower because it's a little less than half of what we were looking at before, but the price of the combiner is going to drive the cost up somewhat, so we're going to be spending about the same amount of money," Holub said.
Craft said the tower won't make a difference in the communications problems experienced in several areas of the county.
"From here to that tower (west of town) isn't our communications issue. Our issue is from that tower out there to other locales sometimes," Craft said. "Being able to get to Florence or Tampa, that's not this piece that we're dealing with here, that's not this tower."
Commissioners continued to express concern regarding uncertainties in the planning and zoning approval process.
"I've got a call in with Marty Frederickson with the city to get an answer to where that puts us in the zoning regulations," Craft said.
"Since we're going back to step A and hopefully we get through step C, through the city planning and zoning, I guess I'd like it written down," commissioner Randy Dallke said. "I think we need to formally apply. We need to go right down to the city office and pay our fee so that some of the comments that have been floating around over the past situation do not start."
"We already know what's going to happen," Holub said. "They haven't changed their book, so what they couldn't do before they can't do now."
Dallke said the contract with TBS should include a quality guarantee.
"If we take a written contract with this company, I'd like a 10 percent retainage for a guarantee for 30 days or 60 days after it's complete that everything works as good as what we have today. I think that's only good business," Dallke said.
"I'm worried about time frame. Maybe on this 40-footer it wouldn't take as long. I'm dead serious about going ahead and getting this ordered, getting it done," Dallke said.
"I think we need to find out a delivery time and find out what our response is here from the city," commissioner Roger Fleming said. "I would rather wait until we have permission to know that it's going to be a go-ahead. It's one of those things that we've got to have, but we have to have permission to do it."
The commission approved the contract with TBS Communications for $45,957, and instructed Craft and Klenda to follow through on subsequent steps to apply for a conditional use permit from the city.
In other business:
- Based on a recommendation from Greg Leslie of the Garland Company, commissioners decided to re-bid a contract for courthouse roof repairs. Leslie was retained to develop bid specifications and review proposals for compliance.
- Amber Hancock was promoted to Appraiser II at a salary of $2,179 a month.
- Jeff Bender and Garrett Clay of Foley Equipment Company outlined options for two road graders for which five-year balloon payments are due. Commissioners asked the pair to return Friday with cost estimates on extended warranties for the equipment, and deferred a decision on refinancing or purchase of the equipment until that time.
- Two 5-minute executive sessions to discuss personnel and a 15-minute executive session to discuss acquisition of real property resulted in no action by the commission.
The next meeting of the commission is 9 a.m. Friday.


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Twenty years of the parish of Saint Sava in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands
Their Graces Kyr Luka, Bishop of Western Europe, and Kyr Andrej, Bishop of Remesiana, participated in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, at the 20th anniversary of the founding of Saint Sava Parish.
The celebration began on Friday, 2 November 2012, with the Holy Liturgy in the church of Saint Sava. Later on, Bishop Andrej held a lecture on the theme of celebration of the 1700th anniversary since declaration of the Edict of Milan, in Serbia.
On Saturday Bishop Andrej of Remesiana served the Divine Liturgy and Bishop Luka and the clergy concelebrated. The celebration was continued with the assembly of the faithful people from the Dutch parishes and with the cultural programme.
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The Banks County Leopards mat men competed in the Morgan County Christmas Tournament this past week and came home with top honors scoring 238 points.
Morgan County placed second with 223.50 points and Oconee County third with 220 points. A total of 12 teams competed for the title.
The Leopards had two first place finishers in the tournament, Francisco Hurtado (126 weight class) and Mason Patton (120 weight class). Patton remains undefeated on the season and is one of the strongest competitors for the Leopards.
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BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (AP) -- The city council in a southwest Ohio suburb has scrapped the annual Fourth of July parade and fireworks as a cost-cutting measure.
The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1hy4Onr ) reports that the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek did away with the festivities to save money after significant reductions in state funding.
Mayor Brian Jarvis told city council this week that operating expenses in the city of about 45,000 have been cut about 5 percent since 2011, but more budget reductions are necessary.
Jarvis said the decision was made he visited businesses and individuals looking for sponsors for the July Fourth activities. While he spoke with people willing to contribute, it wasn't enough money to cover the expenses.
Last year the city spent about $22,500 on the festivities.
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I've gotta say that if it wasn't for the hardcore/punk scene, I wouldn't have discovered veganism......well actually I would have eventually but I wouldn't be as confident and sure of a lot of things if it wasn't for the influence if many people I consider role models from hardcore bands and the scene in general.
So can I get a shout out from the other tattooed misfit punks and hardcore kids workin their asses off stayin fit and setting an example to the world that the terms hardcore and compassionate are NOT mutually exclusive!!


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We have a 7 year old shih tzu dog and he loves to play with stuffed bears. Last night he chew the ear off so had to go to town today to find him another bear. I found one! He loves bears. He carries them in the house. He licks on the bear as he is giving them a bath. so cute
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Easy for you and me to say. But for 7.1 million U.S. school children it's not. Childhood asthma rates continue to rise and from 2001 through 2009 those rates were the highest for African American children, almost a 50 percent increase. Asthma accounts for 10.5 million school absences each year. The main trigger of asthma in school children are the same contributors to poor indoor air quality. Yeah, that's right … open a window.
Air is mostly composed of nitrogen (78 percent) and oxygen (20 percent), air also has about 1 percent of water vapor and tiny amounts of argon and other gases. For most of us, air quietly passes through our nasal passages into our lungs and out again; taking in the oxygen needed for our blood supply during inhalation and disposing the carbon dioxide by-product during exhalation. We do this without thought, without effort–unless you are a child with asthma.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by inflammation of the airways. Recurring symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Asthma develops in childhood as early as 6 months of age and lasts a lifetime. About one in 12 Americans are living with asthma and over one third of them are children. In adults women are more likely than men to have asthma and more boys than girls among children. Those with asthma pay a huge price, about $3,000 per year per person to be exact. This figure includes medical care, medications, lost work/school days and deaths.
Various triggers not easily controlled can cause an asthma attack such as changes in weather. However, there are other triggers that can be controlled such as the presence of dust mites, roaches, pets, and mold affecting indoor air quality. Asthma is particularly more prevalent to those living in poor neighborhoods. A recent episode of NBC Dateline revealed that the childhood asthma rates in East Harlem run at 19 percent compared to the adjoining Upper East Side neighborhood at 7 percent. They breathe the same New York City air, so what accounts for the difference?
Water leaks, pest infestation and general contract repairs are the responsibility of a rental unit's landlord. As economically disadvantaged families tend to reside in these units, they are at the mercy of their landlord. Water damage leads to mold; pest infestation carries allergens; both of these conditions create a significant trigger for asthma in children. Even a child without an asthma history may become asthmatic as a result of repeated and chronic exposure to such poor indoor air quality.
School absences are of particular concern; children who miss more than 18 school days are year are more likely to drop out of school. Children with asthma miss more days of school due to their disease compared to children without asthma. The number of missed days rises with severity—on average a child with severe and persistent symptoms misses 11.5 days of school in a year. That's a lot of missed homework and make up speech sessions. Asthma also affects a child's sleep quality, which in turn affects a child's ability to pay attention in class and lowers their quality school work.
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- Know which children on your caseload have asthma and know how to deal with an asthma emergency, including the location of the child's inhaler.
- Take a look at your therapy treatment room or classroom. Are the floors hard wood or are they carpeted? If hard wood, hooray! If carpeted, make sure they get vacuumed every day and shampooed at the end of the school week.
- Got pets? If there are in your classroom, better to send them to another home. Animals carry dander that can trigger asthma. If you have a pet at home, make sure your work wardrobe is free of pet hair.
- Are you working out of a trailer or portable classroom? These type of environments generally trap moisture than can turn into nasty mold. Make sure spills and leaks are taken care of quickly.
- Skip the perfume spritz and after shave before leaving the house for work. Fragrances can trigger an asthma episode.
- Refrain from fuzzy or scented materials, pillows or upholstered furniture; these can collect dust mites, which are (surprise!) asthma triggers. If the furniture must stay, vacuum it frequently.
- No clutter! Cockroaches and dust mites love clutter … and produce more asthma triggers.
- If your room has a window that faces high volume vehicular traffic, keep it closed during the vulnerable morning hours and cold temperatures.
- Stay away from phthalate-based toys as phthalates are known triggers for asthma.
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- Like team work? Collaborate with your school nurse and district's administration to develop an asthma management plan at your school if one does not exist. Another excellent resource is to adopt ideas from the IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit. Work with your district's transportation department to monitor school bus engine exhaust near open windows.
Although asthma is prevalent, with some forethought and preventive measures, it can be controlled. Now breathe a sigh of relief!
Anastasia Antoniadis, MA, is with the Tuscarora (Pennsylvania) Intermediate Unit and works as a state consultant for Early Intervention Technical Assistance through the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network. She earned a master's degree in speech-language pathology from City College of the City University of New York and a master's degree in public health from Temple University. She was a practicing pediatric SLP for 14 years before becoming an early childhood consultant for Pennsylvania's early intervention system. Her public health studies have been in the area of environmental health and data mapping using geographic information system technology. You can follow her on Twitter @SLPS4HlthySchools.


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(Yonhap Feature) S. Korean Navy offers insight into demanding submarine life
By Kim Eun-jung
JINHAE, South Korea, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- Life aboard a submarine can be tough. Operations are hectic, quarters are cramped and the health of crew members can suffer as a result.
Captain Hyun Chang-hoon used to have strong teeth before he joined the submarine fleet more than 20 years ago, but now the 47-year-old suffers from dental disease, which is a common health problem for veteran submariners due to the higher-than-normal amount of carbon dioxide inside a submarine.
"Think about artificial teeth left in a can of Coca-Cola, which contains carbon dioxide. Teeth will dissolve a couple days later," Hyun said. "My bad teeth are just one example of life in the deep sea where there's no light."
Hyun, the captain of a 1,800-ton submarine named after a famous independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (1877-1910), was speaking of the intense lifestyle of soldiers in this unit during a Yonhap reporter's visit to the ninth flotilla submarine base in the southeastern port city of Jinhae.
Poor dental hygiene is just one of the hardships crew members face when living in cramped quarters for extended periods of time.
"When I returned to home after completing months-long missions, I went to a public sauna to get rid of all kinds of body odor. But it didn't go away," said a vice admiral who had served in the submarine unit for nearly 30 years.
Due to confined space, no women have been allowed in the unit since its establishment in the early 1990s.
The Navy recently revealed the Type 214 submarine -- the third of its kind in operation since 2010 -- to give the public a very rare insight into various aspects of its weaponry, machinery, confined spaces and life aboard.
The atmosphere in the unit is derived not only from the nature of its missions, which require about 40 men to remain together underwater in an iron tube for many long days, but also because very few soldiers serve in the unit.
Secrecy and noise reduction is important to the submarine crew so they won't be detected by the sonar of other submarines. Wearing boots with layers of soft-cushions on the heel is one way they reduce noise.
The Diesel submarine is operated by Air Independent Propulsion (AIP), which extends the ship's submerged endurance compared to conventional submarines. The AIP system enables the crew to carry out underwater missions for several weeks without the need to access atmospheric oxygen.
It is equipped with ship-to-land missiles and torpedoes as well as an advanced sonar system for anti-submarine warfare, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
South Korea currently operates over 10 submarines, including 1,200-ton Type 209 subs and 1,800-ton Type 214 subs.
The Navy plans to acquire nine 3,000-ton level heavy-attack submarines after 2020 with significant improvements in their radar and armament systems compared to their predecessors. A total of nine 3,000-ton submarines are expected to be built in South Korea with indigenous technologies, according to officials. By 2020, there will be over 20 ships operated by the Navy.
As the flotilla is expected to receive more ships in coming years, it is due to become South Korea's submarine headquarters in 2015.
The procurement plan reflects the intensifying hidden underground battle with North Korea after a South Korean corvette Cheonan was sunk by a suspected North Korean submarine attack in March 2010. A total of 46 sailors were killed in the incident.
Navy officials stressed the need to beef up the submarine capabilities, citing growing naval tensions around the Korean Peninsula that could turn into an armed conflict.
China's growing naval presence and Japan's military build up to counter it also highlight the need for better anti-submarine warfare capabilities, they said.
"We will play a key role in deterring North Korea's naval provocations and protect national interests in the deep sea," Hyun said.
The biggest challenge for that goal is attracting and retaining skilled officers and crew members, as fewer cadets have applied for the intense submarine unit in recent years as the recruiting system was changed.
When the flotilla was first launched two decades ago, top-ranking cadets were selected for the submarine program and joined the ranks of the submarine flotilla to operate strategic naval weapons against North Korea. The communist country has operated a large submarine fleet since the 1960s.
After the recruiting system came under criticism for depriving cadets the opportunity to choose other units, the Navy now accepts applications for volunteers who want to become submariners. Instructors say they have difficulties enticing cadets and non-commissioned officers in joining the crew.
To tackle the manpower problem, the Navy is seeking to increase the pay of submariners, but receiving more government funding is no easy task, said a Navy captain in charge of the submarine training unit.
"We need more crew with in-depth knowledge and passion for the role submarines are expected to play in maritime strategy," Hyun said.
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Cards' bats keep quiet as Pirates even the series
ST. LOUIS -- The sidewalks and streets surrounding Busch Stadium were packed dozens deep hours before Tyler Lyons threw his first pitch on Saturday, as fans clamored for the limited number of Yadier Molina replica jerseys being given away at the gate.
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ST. LOUIS -- The sidewalks and streets surrounding Busch Stadium were packed dozens deep hours before Tyler Lyons threw his first pitch on Saturday, as fans clamored for the limited number of Yadier Molina replica jerseys being given away at the gate.
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Molina had the opportunity to help send those folks home with the added amenity, but his inability to twice come through with multiple runners on base served as a microcosm for the Cardinals' ongoing offensive futility. With the offense unable to capitalize against flu-stricken Francisco Liriano and the Pirates' relievers that covered the final seven innings for him, the Cardinals were sunk by one troublesome inning for Lyons.
The Pirates' four-run fourth keyed them to a 6-1 win, evening the series in front of a sellout crowd of 46,254.
"There's really no sugarcoating," Matt Carpenter said afterward. "We're not clicking on all cylinders. I think we're having good at-bats, guys are competing, just stuff is not falling in for us. … We just couldn't get the big hit when we had an opportunity to."
The club's run total through its last nine games (3-6 record) sits at 15, and it has now gone 10 games (354 at-bats) without connecting for a home run. All that magnified the scoring opportunities missed on Saturday, as the Cardinals went 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position and couldn't help themselves in a couple of situational-hitting spots.
Four players in manager Mike Matheny's starting lineup -- Allen Craig, Jhonny Peralta, Mark Ellis and Peter Bourjos -- are still peering up at the Mendoza Line.
"I don't think that there's any doubt about it that if you look back at this game, we hit some balls hard and it just didn't work out," Craig said. "It's been a little bit slow lately, but I think we're going to stay optimistic and keep grinding out at-bats. I feel like we've had good at-bats. The results haven't been there."
The Pirates, meanwhile, made the most of an ambush against Lyons in the fourth.
Lyons opened his second start of the season by retiring the first nine batters he faced on 26 pitches. He then lingered on base during an extended bottom of the third that slowed when Liriano had to leave because of a bloody nose, dizziness and flu-like symptoms. Stolmy Pimentel was given all the time he needed to get warm.
He then threw 23 pitches before closing the frame.
"It's not ideal, obviously, having that much time in between innings and being out on the bases," Lyons said. "But it's not an excuse. You go back and you walk the leadoff hitter, and that is what starts that."
After a leadoff walk to Starling Marte, Lyons was peppered with three straight hits to push three runs home. Jose Tabata's RBI single with one out added to Pittsburgh's lead.
It took Lyons 29 pitches to navigate through the eight-batter inning. He did not allow a baserunner in any of the other five innings he pitched.
"The leadoff walk, those end up typically giving us trouble," Matheny said. "Overall, he had good stuff. He got into trouble with the wrong part of the lineup is what happened."
"Overall, I've been alright, but I have to eliminate mistakes to stop beating myself," Lyons said of his two-start assessment. In his season debut he was stung, in particular, by an error and walks.
That fourth inning served as a shift in momentum also because of what had immediately preceded it. Lyons had opened the bottom of the third by drawing a walk, and Carpenter joined him on base when Pimentel inherited Liriano's 3-0 count and delivered a ball.
Neither Peralta nor Matt Holliday could advance the runner, though Matt Adams loaded the bases with a single to bring up Molina.
"You see Liriano leave the game and all of a sudden we have guys all over the bases and it looks like here might be our spot," Matheny said. "We're sitting there in that situation thinking that the thing is going to turn around right there."
Pimentel squashed that anticipation, winning a nine-pitch battle against Molina with a strikeout.
"As big an inning as we've had pitched for us all year," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "That situation ... two on, no outs, 40-plus [thousand] on their feet, 3-2 count on Molina on jersey day ... and to get the swing and miss and be able to carry it deeper -- a big-time push from Stolmy today."
"I don't want to say that took the wind out of our sails because we still had a lot of game left and at that point nobody had scored yet," Carpenter said. "But it's always nice to score first and we weren't able to do that. We couldn't find the way to get the big hit."
The clutch-less trend continued.
Two innings later, after Holliday plated a run with a double to left field, neither Adams nor Molina could find a way to push home two runners in scoring position. That was one of two innings the Cardinals opened by drawing consecutive walks. Holliday's hit was the only time they took advantage of the generosity.
In total, the Cardinals stranded three runners at third and four more at second in the loss, the team's fifth in its last seven games. A leaping catch by Tabata and a well-planned shift thwarted a scoring opportunity in the seventh. It would be the last time the Cardinals threatened.
"We just have to keep pushing," Matheny said. "It's not going to happen by us wishing it. We're going to work our way through it. … We've had some opportunities, and, like I said, it sometimes takes a couple big ones, someone to step in and get the one that kind of breaks the ice and we start rolling."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Ah, for yesteryear and the chance to shoot a real .22 rifle at the county fair.
"The slide-action gained rapid popularity through the early twentieth century. In carnival and amusement park shooting galleries, the slide-action became the "gallery gun." These were chambered for the .22 Short and provided many a young shooter his first live-fire experience. Television, and later gun control, reduced and soured interest in gallery shooting, with the video-game arcade finishing the job."—C. Rodney James, Gun Digest Book of the .22 Rifle, from the chapter "What Kind of Rifle?"
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NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. – The Yellow Jacket baseball squad traveled to Manchester University on Thursday for the opening round of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament. In a game that came down to the final play, the Jackets lost by a final score of 7-6.With the Purple and Gold trailing by two runs heading into the top of the ninth at 7-5, the Defiance bats staged a rally in attempt to tie the game at 7-7. With one out and no one on, Gary Levengood roped a single into center to put the tying run at the plate.Matt Staels then came in as a pinch runner for Levengood and Ben Weber was called upon to pinch hit. The freshman hit a shot deep to right field before it was caught at the wall for the second out of the inning.With the Jackets down to their last out, Ryan Kohlhofer kept the team alive with an infield single to second to put runners on first and second. Aaron Helland then stepped up and delivered a single into left field to score Staels and move the tying run into scoring position at second.Defiance's number two hitter in the lineup, Chris Donese, sent a pitch into left field for a single. Kohlhofer, the tying run, was waved home on the hit, setting up a decisive play at the plate.Manchester's left fielder Cody Schell fielded the ball cleanly and fired home. The ball narrowly beat Kohlhofer to the plate and Spartan catcher Elliot Ford put the tag on the runner to prevent the Jackets from tying the game and securing Manchester the victory.To begin the game, the Purple and Gold got off to a strong start against the No. 13 team in the country by opening up the scoring in the top of the second. Joel Musser led the inning off by lacing a double into right field. Levengood singled into center to drive in the first run of the game and give DC an early 1-0 lead.The Yellow Jackets tacked on another run in the third after loading the bases with one out. Levengood came through once again with a base hit into centerfield to pick up his second RBI of the game and extend the DC lead to 2-0.Manchester's potent offense woke up in the bottom of the third to the tune of a six-run inning. The Spartans used four singles and one double along with a DC error to plate the six runs and grab a commanding 6-2 lead after three. The hosts scored four of its six runs with two outs.After going down by four runs, the Jackets showed the mental toughness the team has displayed all season and began to fight their way back into the game.Defiance immediately answered with a run in the top of the fourth to draw within three at 6-3. The Purple and Gold's Aaron Helland led off the frame with a single and then stole second to give the Jackets a runner in scoring position. Pat Masopust came through with a two-out single into right to score Helland.After a scoreless fifth frame, the Yellow Jackets offense was back at it in the sixth. Helland got things started with his second single of the afternoon. The junior then swiped his second base of the day and subsequently moved to third on a groundout from Chris Donese.Starting pitcher Darin Waterman then came through with a big two-out single to score Helland followed by a double courtesy of Masopust to bring the Jackets within one run at 6-5. The two six inning runs gave DC five in the last five frames.Manchester then stretched the lead back to two runs in the bottom of the frame, scoring an important insurance run in the bottom of the sixth off back-to-back two-out triples from Brad Murphy and Corey Marchant to give the hosts a 7-5 advantage.DC and the Spartans each failed to score in the seventh and eighth innings setting up the aforementioned dramatic finish in the top of the ninth.Despite the loss, the Jackets outplayed the top-seeded Spartans for much of the game. Defiance recorded five more hits than the hosts, including two more base-knocks with runners in scoring position. DC also drew more walks and left more men on base than Manchester. The game marks the first time all season that Defiance has lost a game in which it recorded more hits than the opposition.The Yellow Jackets had five hitters who recorded multiple hits. The team was led by Levengood, who had a career day by going 4-5 at the plate with two runs driven in.Even while giving up six earned runs, Waterman had a solid performance on the mound for the Purple and Gold. The junior went 7.2 innings and struck out seven, while holding the Manchester bats scoreless in six of the eight innings he pitched.With the loss, the Jackets will play the loser of Anderson and Franklin in an elimination game on Friday, May 10. The game has a tentative start time of 12:30 p.m.
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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - Five men wanted by the Horry County Sheriff's Office have been taken into custody, marking the 23rd Horry County Most Wanted arrest.
Alexis Chestnut, 28, was wanted for a burglary on Dick Pond Road just before Christmas 2011, but he failed to show up for court. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was captured by Aynor Police on Friday, June 21.
A bail bondsman brought 31-year-old Shawn Lynn Emmanuel to J. Reuben Long Detention Center. He was wanted for failure to appear in court for a criminal domestic violence charge.
An Horry County Sheriff's deputy is credited with the arrest of 35-year-old Timothy Spain. He was wanted for failure to pay child support, according to the Horry County Sheriff's Office.
Antonio Goodman has been located in North Carolina, and is being detained in a prison there waiting to return to Horry County and face charges. He was wanted for armed robbery.
Authorities located Kevin Farischon in Virginia on June 24. He will soon be extradited back to Horry County to face domestic violence charges.
The warrants for his arrest state Farischon had a court order to leave his wife alone for previous alleged abuse, but he violated that order and showed up at her home. While there, the report says he locked her and a six-month-old child in the room and he put his hands around her neck attempting to choke her, before she managed to get loose.
The Horry County Sheriff's Office is working diligently to bring over 22,000 wanted suspects to justice. For the see the latest profiles of wanted individuals, captured individuals visit the Horry County Most Wanted web page on wmbfnews.com.
Tune in WMBF News on Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Fridays at 6 a.m. for a weekly profile of the men and women your tips could help get off the streets.
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MS Office 40-bit key searching on GPU
In one of the first notes in this blog I have already spoken about the encryption details used in different versions of Microsoft Office. Certainly it was interesting for me whether it is possible to apply technology of general-purpose computations on video cards (CUDA) to speed up the process of key recovery for MS Office. The most important bottleneck was the RC4 algorithm which is basic in almost all Office versions encryption. In the Internet I saw responses that RC4 implementation on CUDA was almost more slowly than on CPU which meant that RC4 algorithm did not fit for optimized GPU implementation. Read more »


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EXETER — Learning the lines for a Shakespeare play, says Eben Ritchie, 12, of Durham, is like learning "a whole 'nother language," but he's done it before and he knows it's well worth the effort. He'll be playing Benvolio when the Oyster River Players bring "Romeo and Juliet" to the Exeter Town Hall on April 12, 13, and 14. A year ago he played a comedic role in "The Tempest" and enjoyed hearing the reaction of audience members "who laughed till they cried."
This time his character, Romeo's cousin, is "sort of the peacemaker in the play," says Eben. It is, of course, the feud between the Montague and Capulet families that dooms the young lovers, and director Kelly Eggers has set the play in contemporary times on a school playground to emphasize that the problem of gang violence is still very much with us. "Gangs don't have to be from inner cities," she says. "There were the two famous feuding hillbilly families, the Hatfields and the McCoys. Gangs can be countries. It's deep in American culture and it's in English culture. It's everywhere."
The lessons of "Romeo and Juliet," says Eggers, are lessons that need to be learned again and again, and the play is especially good for a youth theater company. In this production, with actors ranging from 8 to 18, even the youngest players can make Shakespeare's language their own.
"The kids love that they're taking this meaty, gritty story with these beautiful words and putting it together," she says. "And once they get their tongues around those words, there's a real magic. You love it forever and you own it, and it expands your universe."
Oyster River Players present "Rome and Juliet," on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 13, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, April 14, at 1 p.m. Suggested donation: adults, $8; children, $5. Tickets at the door only. For more information: 603-312-2228 or email@example.com. On the Web: www.oysterriverplayers.org.


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I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
Posted by TheShot on 31 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Not entirely unlike my recent reviews of Chicago espresso, one of the upcoming articles in the works for TheShot concerns my largely unsuccessful quest for quality espresso in New York City earlier this year.
Without giving too much away in advance, in it I lament why a city that could economically support the upper eschelon of just about anything — a city with a deeply entrenched heritage of fine food and Italian culture — could be such an absolute wasteland when it came to quality espresso. The better places required a trip to Brooklyn, and even they were nothing special when compared with San Francisco's modest standards. Meanwhile, any place in Manhattan that once earned accolades for its espresso seemed to shut its doors within a year or two of opening.
A glimpse into why this might be comes from Michael Idov's recent article for Slate: Bitter Brew – I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
Sadly, the economics of high rent real estate and other employer costs are a large factor why espresso is in such a sad state of affairs in New York City. With the proliferation of convenient competitors and a consuming public that's too often blissfully ignorant of (or indifferent to) what differentiates a good cup from a bad one, the odds are heavily stacked against any coffee idealist hoping to survive in Manhattan's cutthroat retail environment.
But I think it's more than just the New York City consumers that lack discriminating coffee tastes. When Michael Idov writes, "Vienna roast from Vienna! It's lighter and sweeter than bitter Italian espresso—no need to drown it in milk!," he illustrates a wealth of intention. But he also clearly demonstrates common ignorance about what constitutes a true espresso, Italian or otherwise. That kind of poverty of thought only comes from a culture that has been beaten down for decades to accept only the most philistine notions of quality standards.
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[…] As I've referenced before, the coffee quality in New York City is seriously unbefitting a city of its size and stature (Gorilla Coffee, cited below, along with Ninth Street Espresso, being the only noteworthy exceptions in a city of so many elites). The article wisely steers clear of New York City's coffee wasteland and instead interviews some heavy hitters in the quality coffee trade: Duane Sorenson, Ted Lingle, David Schomer, and James Freeman. […]
[…] The article goes on to detail the growing number of retail outlets for espresso, citing the profit margins on espresso beverages as a main business attraction. However, without sufficient sales volume, many a dreamy-eyed café owner is destined to wind up broke and in tears. For example, Tom Wood, who co-owns Black Tie Coffee, said his stores need to sell at least 200 drink and food items a day to turn a profit. […]


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Game of Thrones: Alfie Allen's dad tries to get in on the act
Keith Allen could be joining his son in fantasy drama Game Of Thrones after auditioning for a role in the bloodthirsty show.
The actor told The Times he has gone for the role of a slave who leads a rebellion "like Spartacus".
He said: "Every scene is a bloodbath. Frankly I think I'm cut out for that."
Allen also revealed he had previously auditioned for the part of his son Alfie's on-screen father but said he deliberately failed the screen test.
He told The Times the offer was "a bit cheesy, a bit obvious" so he "did a rubbish audition".
The epic tale of treachery among a series of families vying for power in a medieval-style world is currently on its fourth series - shown on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
Alfie Allen, who plays Reek in the show, has appeared in every series.
The show could have been even more of a family affair after Allen's daughter - and Alfie's sister Lily - was approached to play his on-screen sibling Yara.
She told fans she turned down the role because she "felt uncomfortable" with a storyline featuring incest.
Other famous faces in the current cast include Lena Headey, Charles Dance, Aidan Gillen and Diana Rigg.
Alfie Allen later denied his sister's claim about the role.
He told entertainment website Vulture: "I heard about this, yeah. The only thing I'm going to say on that is that it's not true."
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