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Eastside wrestling soars at invitational
MCDONOUGH - The Eastside varsity wrestling squad placed second among 32 teams from seven different counties during the 36th Annual South Metro Invitational on Friday and Saturday at Union Grove High School.
Meanwhile, the Rams (3-9) did well with their young unit by placing 14th overall.
Eastside (15-0, ranked No. 1 in Class AAAA in the Coaches Poll by GASports.com) had six wrestlers to qualify in the semi-finals Saturday with five advancing to the finals.
"I'm really proud of the boys," said Eastside head coach Brandon Blakeman. "They put in a lot of work going into their first year at the South Metro."
Cody Durden (junior, 103 pounds) defeated Rockdale County's Jake Morris, while Ardest Carter (senior, 189 lbs.) defeated Union Grove's Stephen Bodiford in the finals to capture first place.
Trevor Bailey (junior, 135 lbs.) was defeated by Jonathan Pierce (Stockbridge) to take second place honors. David Bender (junior, 152 lbs.) fell to Kenny Kellerman (Whitewater) in the consolation match to take fourth.
Brandon Cole (senior, 130 lbs.) advanced to the semi-finals but fell to Richard Hughes (McIntosh) who went on to the finals.
Sophomore Dalton Temple (171 lbs.) wrestled well during the consolation matches only to fall to Roland Thomas (Lovejoy) heading into the finals.
"The South Metro is well-known," said Blakeman. "To come out with six (who) placed and we (as a team) placing second (in team points), that is just outstanding. The boys are seeing that the work is hard, but it's well worth it in the end."
Perhaps the best match of the night was during the finals of the 119-pound weight class between defending Class AAAA champion Joel Stafford against defending Class AAA champion Evan Warrington (Henry County).
It was a tremendous performance from Stafford (19-1) who traded move for move and slam for slam against Warrington during the entire match. Both wrestlers went all out toward the bitter end, only for Warrington to come up victorious and Stafford finishing with a second place finish.
At the end, 32 coaches voted the match as the best at the invitational.
"That was one of the best matches that you can get," said Blakeman. "You got two state champions going at it. (Joel) may have lost but he did everything that he could have done and (Warrington) did everything that he could have done."
The Eastside wrestling program was ranked No. 1 last season only to let the duel and traditional state title slip through its grasp. However, after this weekend's performance at the State Metro Invitational, Blakeman and the Eagles made quite a statement in trying to bring a team wrestling duel and/or traditional state title to Covington.
"We are serious about our work," said Blakeman. "When it's time to focus and it's time to work, we will be ready and we will show up."
For Newton, junior Cory Ware (119 lbs.) was the school's only medalist, placing fourth in his weight class after falling to Johnny Logan (Union Grove) in the consolation match.
"I didn't think I was going to make it (toward the finals)," said Ware. "I'm glad that I did well."
Newton second-year head coach Chris Andrews was pleased with the way his team performed over the course of two days.
"The South Metro is a great learning experience for our kids," admitted Andrews. "We are very excited for this, and our kids consider this like going to the state (tournament)."
Newton's best performer, Daniel Mendoza (senior, 135 lbs.) performed well by winning key matches against Ibraheem Walker (Mundy's Mill) in the first round and Zack Smith (Sandy Creek). However, he lost to Trevor Bailey (Eastside) heading into the semi-finals.
Senior Joey Joseph (140 lbs.), Hosea Hines (171 lbs.), and freshman Aaron Reynolds (130 lbs.) displayed a lot of heart during much of the Invitational, yet came up short heading into the semi-finals.
"I think that this is only a confidence booster," said Andrews. "The kids are looking really strong, and I am very pleased with what I saw."


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Elkhart bomb squad responds to situation at Cobus Green in Osceola
Posted: Dec 8, 2022 10:37 AM EST
OSCEOLA, Ind. - The Elkhart County Sheriff's Office and Elkhart bomb squad responded to a situation at Cobus Green in Osceola Thursday morning.
According to dispatch, deputies were called to the scene at 3 a.m.
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Distributed Systems - The Next Level
Prof. Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
As humans, things, software and AI continue to become the entangled fabric of distributed systems, systems engineers and researchers are facing novel challenges. In this talk, we analyze the role of Edge, Cloud, and Human-based Computing as well as AI in the co-evolution of distributed systems for the new decade. We identify challenges and discuss a roadmap that these new distributed systems have to address. We take a closer look at how a cyber-physical fabric will be complemented by AI operationalization to enable seamless end-to-end distributed systems.
Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, and University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands (2004-2010). From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.
From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards: World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovation award of the Austrian Chamber of Commerece (2002).
He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the new ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award (2009), the IBM Faculty Award (2012), an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016).
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EPR spectroscopy detects disease for the first time: finds abnormalities in mitochondria
MILWAUKEE — Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy for the first time has been used to directly detect and characterize disease. EPR of muscle and liver biopsy tissue detected abnormalities in mitochondria, the compartments found in cells that create most of the energy needed by the body to sustain life, the chair of Marquette University's Physics Department reported in a study published this month.
The study, written by Dr. Brian Bennett and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and University of Colorado, was published in the March edition of Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Bennett showed that EPR can detect how the respiratory chain is affected by mitochondrial disease, and the team propose a significant role for EPR in diagnosing and studying the disease.
Mitochondrial diseases in children often are fatal if not diagnosed early, Bennett said.
"This study shows that there is strong potential for EPR to be used as a diagnostic tool," Bennett said. "EPR is quick, uses rapidly frozen fresh tissue, and strongly augments existing methods.
"EPR provides direct information on the status of the mitochondrion as it was in its functioning state," he said. "Other tests require significant sample processing that destroys that time-dependent information."
Mitochondrial diseases are difficult to diagnose, and many of the children with the diseases are allergic to some anti-seizure medicines (valproate) and anesthetics (Propofol), Bennett said.
"Seizures are a symptom in some cases and administration of these medicines can be lethal," Bennett said. "So, it's very important that children with these diseases are properly diagnosed as soon as possible."
Bennett has more than 25 years of experience with EPR spectroscopy, a technique that measures the magnetic field-dependence of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, and can provide information on the structure, oxidation state, (bio)chemical environment, and amount of distinct forms of matter.
"This is a remarkable discovery by one of the world's foremost EPR spectroscopists," said Richard Holz, dean of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.
Marquette's Physics Department recently obtained a research-grade Bruker EMX EPR spectrometer and a National Science Foundation award to upgrade the instrument and provide cryogenic temperature control, expanding the research opportunities for physics and biophysics undergraduates, and investigators across campus.
The study was conducted using a rat model, developed by Dr. David Dimmock of the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin that approximates the human disease.
Bennett said the next steps scientists would take include developing new models to help distinguish the different types of the diseases, and translation of the technique to human subjects.
About mitochondrial diseases
Mitochondrial diseases result from the failure of mitochondria, specialized compartments found in every cell of the body except red blood cells. Mitochondria create more than 90 percent of the energy needed by the body to sustain life and support growth.
When they fail, less energy is created within the cell, causing cell injury and cell death. If it is repeated throughout the body, whole systems begin to fail and the life of the person is in danger.
The disease primarily affects children, but it is becoming more common in adults. Mitochondrial diseases cause the most damage to cells of the brain, heart, liver, skeletal muscles, kidney, and the endocrine and respiratory systems.


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Agorantogisha groaned. Every since the fires emerged from the sky, he'd felt sickly. He called to his neighbor and asked for help.
Goantoperanto raised an eyestalk, an appendage roughly the size of a redwood tree. This process took a week. The native Agopatons moved very slowly, being creatures composed of silicon-based substances. "Ah!" exclaimed Goantoperanto. "I see the problem.
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He could rid himself of the pests by chewing four cloves of garlic. That tends to clear out an infestation of humans pretty fast. Like when moochy relatives have overstayed their welcome.
Good old terra firma — I'm staying right here.
Nasty condition, a bad case of human parasites.
The bad news is, humans are really hard to get rid of. Even if you had managed to get rid of an infestation, chances are you've just called for a larger and nastier one.
And if it takes you a week just to move an eye, I'll say it's already too late.
Yes, that could work. The best way to get rid of humans is another humans.
It looks like the humans have a big shock coming. Interesting change of perspective!
Intestinal worms. So much for the colonists.
Yeah, maybe the planet isn't so lucky after all. Or at least, the colonist had better start making their "own" homes.
Sounds like a bad situation for the colonists. Nice write!
What tongue twister names. Nice story.
Humans are definitely parasites when it comes to colonising.


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B.C. man is Sports Turf Canada's first president from outside Ontario
For the first time in its history, Sports Turf Canada (formerly the Sports Turf Association) has a president from outside Ontario.
Tab Buckner, manager of parks operations for the Township of Langley, B.C., took over the organization's presidency in February, succeeding Hamilton, Ont.'s Tennessee Propedo.
In recent years, Sports Turf Canada has established new relationships with provincial organizations in New Brunswick and British Columbia in an attempt to turn the once Ontario-based organization into a national body.
Buckner is past president of the Western Canada Turfgrass Association which had signed an agreement with Sports Turf Canada, stipulating that if prospective members who lived in British Columbia or Alberta wished to join the national association at a reduced rate, they would have to become a member of the WCTA first.
The move was designed to grow both associations.
"My personal objective is to grow the association nationally through regional partnerships."
As part of his two-year term as Sports Turf Canada president, Buckner said he wishes to not only grow the national association, but develop relationships with such other industry organizations as the Southern Alberta Turfgrass Association and others, to work with them, help support them at the regional level and grow Sports Turf Canada.
"With the demographics of Canada, it's hard if the national association doesn't have a good relationship with the regional people and support them and then feed up from there."
In addition to Buckner, Sports Turf Canada now has directors in Atlantic Canada (Gordon Horsman, City of Moncton, N.B.) and British Columbia (Stan Kazymerchyk, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), and its treasurer is from Alberta (Ben Tymchyshyn, MMM Group Limited).
Buchner said he hopes to make some inroads from among the provinces currently not represented on the Sports Turf Canada board.
One strategy to boost a sense of national and regional cooperation is a first-ever joint collaboration between Sports Turf Canada and the WCTA this August for a field day in Calgary.
"Hopefully, maybe we'll see something come from Saskatchewan potentially, or at least make a start. Maybe we can have a field day the next year or year after in Saskatchewan and try to expose ourselves."
Another unique event Sports Turf Canada recently embarked upon was an educational program based on the First Green concept which uses golf courses as environmental learning labs for young school students. The "First Sports Field" event was held in May for Langley Secondary School Grade 9 students, providing an insight as to how sports fields are managed.
The project was a collaborative effort among Sports Turf Canada, the WCTA, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the Township of Langley's parks department.
"We're going to talk about how irrigation systems work with electricity, valves and controllers, and things of that nature," Buckner said in advance of the inaugural program.
The educational program allowed students to learn about a number of aspects of sports field management through hands-on involvement at a number of different stations. The irrigation component allowed students to take apart valves and test lines for voltage and breaks.
Other stations dealt with soil chemistry and analysis, fertility, and cultural practices. The sessions were designed to challenge students to deal with situations using academic skills they already possess. For example, students were to use their math skills to calculate the amount of topdressing material required for a particular aerated area.
"We'll keep it pretty basic," Buckner said.
Mechanical instructors from Kwantlen Polytechnic University taught students the proper use of such equipment as backpack blowers, even initiating friendly competitions among the participants.
"It's modeled after the First Green. We're changing it up a little so that it's more for sports fields than for golf. The basic concepts of fertility, soil science and cultural practices are somewhat similar, but not as intensive."
Buckner said the group of students involved in the First Sports Field program were pursuing vocational studies at their school and could potentially develop enough of an interest in the subject that they may wish to further their studies at Kwantlen or another post-secondary institution which offers turfgrass management training.
He said he hopes the program was successful enough that it might one day expand into other parts of Canada.
"It's very easy to put on. The difficulty with the golf course one is that schools generally have to bus the kids to the golf course, and there's a cost involved."
With school fields readily available, the program is much more mobile than its golf counterpart, Buckner said.
"You just have to have a willing teacher and a willing participant in the area to foster it."
Buckner played a key role in bringing Sports Turf Canada and the WCTA together. When he was vice-president of WCTA about a half-dozen years ago, the then named Sports Turf Association approached the western organization with the idea to grow nationally. When the Sports Turf Association held its first ever event outside Ontario—in Moncton—the WCTA thought it was in the association's best interests to fly Buckner to Atlantic Canada to meet with key Sports Turf Association officials.
Later, when Buckner became president of WCTA, he met with former Sports Turf Association presidents Propedo and Paul Gillen at the annual WCTA conference in Victoria to discuss ideas for which the two organizations could assist one another.
A membership proposal was drawn up by the Sports Turf Association which was agreed upon by both organizations, and the affiliation has continued since.
Buckner said efforts are being made to tweak some of the Sports Turf Canada literature so that it includes a better perspective on matters of relevance to both the east and west coasts of Canada.
He said he wonders if perhaps Ontario should have its own regional association if Sports Turf Canada is to continue to pursue its "bottom up" approach to growing itself. The WCTA already represents British Columbia and Alberta, but suggested the possibility of both a prairie and Ontario association that would allow them "to feed up to a higher level. That's a thought, and I'm not sure if that's the proper way to do it, but we need to rejig the board a bit so that we have more national representation."
In spite of the presence of four board directors from outside Ontario, Sports Turf Canada remains Ontario dominated.
"I want to be inclusive of everybody, but I want the regions telling us where they need the assistance. I don't want us dictating and saying we're going to do this and this and this. We want to work with them (provincial or regional associations) and hopefully grow both memberships to see the benefits of both."
Buckner said the association is well equipped to tap into today's technology so that board members don't have to be physically present during key meetings. With representation coming from both Canada's east and west as well as from Ontario, technologies such as Skype can be used to allow all board members to have their say in real time without having to travel halfway across the country to attend meetings.
In the Township of Langley, Buckner is responsible for 67 natural fields—of which 95 per cent are sand-based—and six synthetic fields. He said before the synthetic fields became affordable, the area's young soccer players were forced to practise on gravel, all-weather fields during the fall and winter. A couple of these fields still exist, but are being phased out.
The majority of the township's fields are used for soccer during the fall and winter and for baseball in the spring and summer. Only a few fields are stand-alone for one sport or another. Because of the Lower Mainland's moderate winter climate, soccer is a fall and winter sport, unlike in most other areas of Canada. Consequently, soccer and baseball are not played simultaneously.
Having synthetic fields at his disposal is another tool in the tool box, Buckner said. The synthetic playing surfaces are particulary attractive on the west coast because of its ample rainfall activity. This is especially true with soccer being a fall/winter sport.
"We need synthetic turf because we end up closing our natural grass fields quite a bit off and on."
Even though the natural fields are largely sand-based, they can instantly become mud pits when subjected to 50 to 60 millimetres of rain.
He said most municipalities on the west coast allocate only 12 hours of play each week on natural turf fields during the rainy months whereas upwards of 64 hours of usage are provided for synthetic turf fields.
The absence of synthetic turf fields would result in otherwise cancelled games if they were to be played exclusively on natural turf.
"We still have to close synthetic turf sometimes because, with the moisture content, they'll freeze and then they're rock solid."
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Roman Brooches
January 31, 2023 wintersen 4 Comments
1 Roman Brooch
Picture by JW
I'm taking this opportunity to do a little boasting. I happen to be big on nostalgia, looking back to our swinging days, and in this blog I feature a couple of Mrs John's finds. The future for us is not so clear a picture. Yes, we used to do it together mainly in the middle of fields. Moving on.
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The Fish and the Shekel
January 23, 2023 January 24, 2023 wintersen 3 Comments
Many detectorists have taken up the hobby via their love of angling. And that is why the anglers amongst you may find this story particularly interesting and thought-provoking.
The Israeli government has recently announced a ban on fishing, claiming that stocks have fallen to a dangerous low because nets with small holes have exceeded legal limits. The ban came into effect at the end of last year, thus ending a tradition that has continued virtually unchanged since Biblical times.
The Sea of Galilee – actually a freshwater lake – happens to be the site of several miracles described in the Bible, including the place where Jesus told his disciples that he would make them the 'fishers of men'. The area has long been known for its plentiful stocks of fish and the most common catches are known as St Peter's Fish, so named after the Bible passage in which Peter, one of the disciples, hooks a fish with a coin in its mouth. It was hailed as a miracle and enabled him to pay his temple tax. You can check out the story in the good book at Matthew 17: 24-2
Jesus said to Peter "But so that we may not cause offence, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours." – Matthew 17:27
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A Load of Baloney
being a typical metal detecting news story
A monumental hoard. How the press often report such stories
I remember when local and national media reported the finding of a 'monumental hoard' of more than 5,000 silver coins buried during the English Civil War, and uncovered in a Lincolnshire field. Maybe you remember this remarkable find. Paul Coleman, finder of the Lenborough Hoard, found the coins on a Weekend Wanderers rally in 2014. When he told the journalist first on the scene that he had shared petrol money with friends in order to attend, this was reported that he was on the skids and 'broke'.
Lenborough Hoard of 5,248 Saxon Coins found by Paul Coleman in 2014
When asked about his job, Paul said he was self-employed and looking to expand and that he was, 'between projects'. This was interpreted as 'unemployed'. The sad thing is that this mis-reporting was picked up by others and perpetuated! When Paul protested, the journalist said that was the sort of thing that sold newspapers and made the story more interesting. My advice is not to believe everything you read in the media. I hope my account in the The Searcher Magazine was fair and accurate.
Usually, in situations like this, the first journalist picking up the story concentrates on the find and embellishes his report with innocuous words like, 'the haul was found in a muddy field'. The guy who discovered the hoard is rarely, if ever, referred to as a metal detectorist and, as in this case, only the finder's name was stated, but with the appellation, local treasure hunter .
Speculation on the money the hoard or artefact is worth is also a perceived newsworthy factor. I reported the story of a detectorist who found a 'very rare' Roman ingot. The MailOnline, that arbiter of good taste and fine reporting, stated that the ingot would sell for £60,000. Buried in the text was the information that the auction wasn't until the end of the month! At the auction it sold for £25,000. Still a tidy sum, but way short of £60,000.
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