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Inactive and active railways run from Traverse City and Petoskey to all their surrounding communities. There is a line from Traverse City through Interlochen, Benzonia and Beulah to Manistee. There is a line to Cadillac through Kingsley, Buckley and Mesick. There is a line to Williamsburg that could be extended to Kalkaska, which can already be reached through Cadillac. Lines to Suttons Bay, Empire, Elk Rapids and beyond would need to be rebuilt, but not reacquired. From Petoskey, all of Charlevoix, Boyne City, Walloon Lake, Alanson and Harbor Springs could be served. Traverse City and Petoskey could sprout fingers -- hands of transit that would hold the entire region together in the years to come.
Currently, the active railways in Northern Michigan are used for freight. The rails would need improvement to accommodate passenger service, and the biggest problem is of course: how to pay for it? Currently MDOT (the Michigan Department of Transportation) spends an average of $10-$12 million every year on the six-county Grand Traverse region for road improvements alone. An additional $4 million is spent on maintenance, yearly. And half a million dollars is appropriated every year for what are deemed special projects.
Railways should be maintained by the government as well, but are the responsibility of the generally unassisted train companies even though the State of Michigan owns the tracks. This while roads are maintained by the government, which also subsidizes car companies.
With MDOTs resources, improving railways and building new railways could be paid for if voters are willing to allow road improvements to slow and not by much. It would come down to a vote. Yet MDOT is moving towards selling its railway property. Senator Jason Allen and a committee at the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce are working to keep these rights-of-way intact. Show them your support!
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, quoted in The Detroit News, wants Michigan to be the most nimble and business-sensitive state in the nation without sacrificing our environment. That is a heavy goal. She wants to revitalize urban areas, create high tech jobs and reverse the flight of young well-educated workers [who want to see] affordable housing and family oriented walk-able neighborhoods, job opportunities and solid public schools, better local stores and services, scenic beauty and a sense of community.
If Granholm wants to create high tech jobs, then the field of railway locomotion is just what shes looking for. Engineers will be needed to fix the track from Traverse City to Williamsburg. Clever negotiators and appropriators will be needed to continue that line to Kalkaska. Researchers will wanted to find cheaper forms of energy. Thousands of jobs would be created solely in the transportation industry.
According to MDOTs traffic counts, approximately 43,600 cars commute into Traverse City every day, from an average distance of 16.8 miles. That's an approximate total of 732,480 miles traveled twice every day. Using an average of 20 miles per gallon, Traverse Citys commuters are burning 36,624 gallons twice
every day. That's $220,000 spent on fuel consumption alone, every single day, by the regions citizens. Oil is being pumped from the scenic land around the old northern railways, and nearly $100 million is spent every year to buy it back.
If a station served Northwestern Michigan College, and only half of its students and faculty decided to commute by train (and if a train existed that charged just 15 cents per mile), then $2,000 could be made every day by that station alone. If just 10 percent of the 43,600 cars that MDOT claims enter T.C. every day, were emptied into passenger rail cars (assuming each commuter previously drove alone) then the railways could bring in almost $11,000 per day. Thats almost $4 million per year.
Its simple currently automobiles plague society. City streets are filled with noise and pollution. An entire income can be spent on gas and insurance, registration and maintenance. Inflation rises when cars are bought on credit. Drunk and ill-prepared drivers are killed every day. And now, as gas prices rise, the future may leave Northern Michigan unprepared to adapt.
That's one alternative. Or, we can lead the way into this new era of American conservation and community with a project to implement a light rail system in the region.
Jack Bileaux is a student at Northwestern Michigan College who's interested in light rail transit.


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Mike Tannenbaum has to be one of the smartest guys in the NFL. Other than sticking with Shotty for too long, he's been almost perfect. In an off season the Jets had the strictest restrictions on them, as we saw in yesterday's game, he has made magnificent moves to improve them!
Just consider the Jets shut out one of the best offenses in the game without their 3 top defenders: Pace, Jenkins and Revis!
Who stepped in for them: Cromartie for Revis, J. Taylor for Pace, and Devito and Pouha for Jenkins (as they did last year).
Cromartie and Taylor were picked up this past off season. Additionally, Mr. T. drafted Wilson to replace Cromartie this past year too.
On offense, he picked up LT (who is lightning) to replace Jones and the Jets still have Holmes coming in another 2 games!
The biggest knock on the Jets has always been their depth; remember 1999 when Vinnie went down and so did the season?
Mr. T. has created a team that is really deep and he has done it under the severe restrictions! Genius? I think so!
We give praise to the people in front of the microphone, but were would the Jets be today without last year's pickups? 0-2 and heading for a losing season!
Think about how good Jet fans feel today? And, Holmes has yet to play a snap!
As far as I'm concerned, Mr. T doesn't get enough credit and that's too bad!
Well, this one fan will give him his due!
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The Fabulous Beekman Boys Get Married
The Fabulous Beekman Boys, aka Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, finally took the plunge nearly fourteen years after first meeting each other. The couple, famous for their reality series and for winning The Amazing Race, held a fabulous (like there is any other kind with them) country wedding at their farm in Sharon Springs, NY.
According to US Magazine, Martha Stewart (Ridge's former employer) was among the estimated 300 guests in attendance. But Stewart was put to work as she broadcast the nuptials live on her Sirius XM show and provided 100 hard-boiled eggs.
The wedding day was the perfect end-result of a 14-year courtship that saw them splitting time between Manhattan and the countryside. To remember the early days together, the two wrote poems to each other.
"We hadn't looked at these books in almost 14 years, so right before the wedding — literally like three days before the wedding — we both got out the books and we each chose three poems from the very beginning of our relationship," Ridge told US. "Then for the ceremony we alternated reading these poems back and forth to one another to kind of capture how we felt at the very beginning of our relationship."
For more details, check out US Magazine's exclusive coverage.
I here they served Jamaican curried goat with rice.
Just kidding, lol. I love the Beekmen.
The should now legally change their last names to Beekman.
Now send me some damn goatmilk soap.
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I want to get married too but I live in shitty Arizona where it is not legal…
I wish all these gay couples would stop flaunting it everyone's face because they
live in a legal state…The Supreme Court should have made it legal in every state
to promote consistency…
I tried to watch the show but the dark haired one was such a nasty, poisonous queen that I couldn't take it after a few episodes.
They seemed better on The Amazing Race, maybe the publicist told him to stop being a tool. Either way, 14 years, they must fit together well so congratulations to the couple.
@Mark: Don't worry. It's coming. Baby steps. We have to be gentle with the poor conservatives. The south, to this day, has not given up on slavery or desegregation. Texas gov Prick Perry still want to secede from the union. And the other face wants to be president.
@Mark: If you want to be married that badly go and do it. My best friend and his mate live in California and didn't want to wait until the whole Prop 8 issue was settled so they flew off to Vermont and got legally married there. If the situation as is is embittering you this much, get married elsewhere and then sue Arizona for recognition of your nuptials. Justice Scalia in his dissent gave you all the arguments you'd need to have Arizona to recognize your marriage. Hell, Lambda Legal's The Marriage Project is looking for people they can help to stand up and sue.


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Portland Drummer's Killer Let Off Light
Portland Drummer's Killer Let Off Light
By Andy Doerschuk Published November 19, 2010
In the early hours of November 4, 2009, Portland Oregon drummer Kipp Crawford died in a particularly grusome manner. The 31-year-old was robbed while riding his bicycle home and left in the street after being assaulted, where he was then run over by two automobiles. The drivers knew each other and were on their way home after a night of drinking.
Yesterday one of the drivers, Felisa Larae Washington, pled guilty in the Multnomah County courthouse to driving under the influence, and was sentenced to 15 days in jail, three years of probation, a $1,000 fine, and treatment for addiction. Sadly, the district attorney's office believed that it was the only change for which they could prosecute Washington. The other driver, Carlos Tyrone McCall, is contesting the drunken driving charge filed against him. Police are still searching for the robber. Crawford played with the band Celilo.


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"One good turn deserves another," John said.
The boy is selling sweet corn in front of his home on North Main Street in the village of Jordan to raise money to help out a local family, the McCabes. Matt McCabe, 51, has a rare heart defect and needs a transplant. Currently, he is in Boston receiving treatment. He and his wife, Gayle, have five children and care for two others.
The McGinns and McCabes both attend St. Patrick's Church in Jordan. When John heard at church that the McCabe family needed money because Matt McCabe was sick, he asked his mother if he could help.
Suzanne McGinn, John's mother, said her son always has shown an interest in farming. This summer John got the chance to grow and care for sweet corn at a farm in the town of Elbridge. He was given more than 2 acres of sweet corn to tend.
"John's really taken the lead with the corn," said Suzanne McGinn. "We are out there every morning picking the corn."
John and Nancy Hourigan own the farm and told the boy he could have the profit for selling the corn. John and his siblings have been selling the corn for $3 a dozen at a stand in front of their home since Aug. 2. The proceeds are going to the McCabes.
"It turned out to be a great experience for everyone," Suzanne McGinn said. "You don't have to be a millionaire to help people out."
John's father, Terrence McGinn, is a Syracuse police officer. Terrence and Suzanne have six children, and Suzanne said she believes the family's strong faith has taught their children to be caring and giving.
"I've always taught them that we are fortunate to be able to help others," Suzanne McGinn said. "And we should always help when we can."
Gayle McCabe said she greatly appreciates John's act of kindness.
"We think he is an amazingly sweet little boy," Gayle McCabe said. "We feel extremely fortunate to live in a community that has such a wonderful spirit of helping."
Gayle McCabe said her family's health insurance will not cover all of the expenses for her husband's heart transplant, and the family is struggling with other medical costs.
"When someone needs something in this community, we all pitch in together to get through it," she said. "Even the children pitch in."
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Martin Kaymer joined the set of The Golf Channel about an hour and a half after he won Sunday's The Players Championship and had yet to see the tournament's defining stroke. "What a putt,'' Kaymer said with a smile after finally viewing the replay.
What a putt, indeed. But, hey, this is old hat for the 29-year-old German.
If you've watched enough golf then you probably figured Kaymer and his one-shot lead at The Players were in serious peril on TPC Sawgrass' famous 17th island green. His ball lay 28 feet, six inches from the hole and the putt was anything but straight.
With Jim Furyk watching in the locker room – for the second week, no less – and holding the clubhouse lead, Kaymer looked headed for a three-hole aggregate playoff against the 2003 U.S. Open champ.
Then Medinah came to mind. It was in the fall of 2012 that Kaymer broke America's heart by sinking a putt from eight feet to defeat Steve Stricker in a match that clinched the Ryder Cup for the European team in one of the great comebacks in the event's history.
Even though The Player's putt was considerably longer, Kaymer was as cool as in 2012.
He calmly delivered his clutch putt, went on to 18, pared that hole and collected the lovely crystal trophy presented to the winner of golf's "fifth major.''
"It was a good day,'' Kaymer said.
For him, it certainly was. Kaymer, the 2010 PGA Championship winner and a former No. 1-ranked player in the world, displayed the kind of game that put him on that lofty perch in 2011. He's struggled at times – don't all golfers – but his imagination and ability to hit fairways and greens served him well all weekend.
It was emotional. He won the event on Mother's Day. His mother died six years ago.
For most of Sunday, he even made it boring, bolting out to a four-stroke lead through 14 holes. That's when PGA Tour officials halted play because of lightning in the area.
And Kaymer did the worst thing you can do during a lull in the action; he started thinking. He said he hardly glanced at the leaderboard for the first 14 holes. But when he went back out, he realized the tournament was his to lose.
After the 90-minute rain delay, Kaymer double bogeyed the relatively easy par-4 15th hole. He was shaky on the par-5 16th, saving par, then went to 17, the car-wreck of a hole that everyone loves to stop and investigate.
Kaymer used a gap wedge – "I was in between clubs,'' he said – and hit the green. But the spin almost sent the ball into the water. It went sideways to the edge of the green and if not for some thick, scraggly rough, it would have been wet.
Kaymer's chip was not PGA Tour quality, leaving him almost 30 feet from the hole.
But he did what champions do on the putt, sinking it. The 18th had a little drama as he failed to reach the green in regulation, ending up about 10 feet short. But his chip stopped three feet, seven inches from the hole and you knew he wasn't going to miss that.
Sunset at TPC Sawgrass was 8:11 p.m. Sunday, the exact moment Kaymer dropped his putt. It was his biggest victory since winning the PGA Championship and has him back in the conversation to make the 2014 European Ryder Cup squad.
But it wasn't exactly a banner weekend for pro golf.
While he does have some golfing cred, Kaymer, a regular on the European Tour who plays sparingly in the States, isn't a sexy name. His win won't bump up the ratings.
Tiger Woods, the 2013 Players champ, is still hurt and wasn't there, Phil Mickelson faltered again, failing to make the cut, and Masters champ Bubba Watson was never really in contention.
Jordan Spieth was impressive again for the first three days and joined Kaymer in Sunday's final group. But, just like in the Masters, he faltered in the spotlight. It's clear the 20-year-old former Texas Longhorn has great skill but the mental part eludes him when the spotlight gets brightest.
Whether or not he's golf's next biggest thing remains to be seen. But he'd do with a sit-down session with Bubba to learn about imaginative shot-making. Maybe they could discuss it at a Waffle House.
Meanwhile, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem probably would love to have a long talk with NFL counterpart Roger Godell. The draft – really the second biggest ruse perpetrated on the sporting public by the NFL, ESPN and the NFL Network (the four-game exhibition season is the runaway winner) – sucked all the air from the sporting world.
The Players has never had to compete with the draft before and usually found its way to the top of the top headlines along with the NBA Playoffs.
Not this year. Add in the rain delay, which pushed the finish well into prime time and viewers on to something else, and it wasn't exactly how you draw it up.
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Cape May County Prosecutor Robert Taylor has reported an additional 18 arrests in connection with an ongoing drug sweep by law enforcement agencies here, according to the Cape May County Herald.
All were charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled dangerous substance (cocaine). The arrests announced today follow 31 announced last week on similar charges.
Detectives from the county prosecutor's office Narcotics Task Force worked with officers from Lower and Middle townships, Cape May and North Wildwood police departments in making the arrests.


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The TCH has reopened following what appears to be a single vehicle accident in the westbound lane at the Witless Bay Line overpass. The car appears to have struck the shoulder of the road and the embankment under the overpass. The vehicle was removed by a tow truck. There is no word on injuries at this time.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- The neighbor who was babysitting a 9-year-old Indiana girl when she went missing last week will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, a heartbreaking turn for the girl's relatives who considered him a family friend.
Authorities said Monday night that Aliahna Lemmon had been found dead and Mike Plumadore, who was watching Aliahna and her two sisters when she went missing Friday, was being held on a murder charge. He and Aliahna's family lived in the same mobile home park in Fort Wayne.
"He was a trusted family friend," Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, told The Associated Press late Monday, saying he was surprised by the arrest.
Plumadore, 39, is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.
Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said Plumadore told investigators on Monday where the girl's body could be found, ending the hopes of authorities that Aliahna would be found safe.
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It's time to free Jimmer Fredette.
"The Sacramento Kings and guard Jimmer Fredette are finalizing a buyout agreement on his contract, league sources told Yahoo Sports," reports Adrian Wojnarowksi. And if he's no longer with the Kings, he'll finally have an opportunity to shine elsewhere.
Ever since reaching mythical status at BYU and getting thousands of basketball fans to yell out "Jimmer range!" as they launched a deep three-pointer, the point guard has been unable to stick in the Sac-Town rotation. The Kings selected him with the 10th pick in the 2011 NBA draft, but he's started just seven games in his three-year career.
Despite showing improvement each season, Jimmer has been employed by a Sacramento organization that staunchly refuses to give him much of a chance to show off his skills over a lengthy period.
Until now.
Intrigued by his incredible talent from beyond the arc and the untapped nature of his game, plenty of teams will come calling once the buyout is completed. Assuming he clears waivers, he'll be free to sign wherever he sees fit.
The "Free Jimmer" movement will finally be complete. And due to the combination of need, off-court appeal and stylistic fit, these five teams would make the most sense of all when it comes to his next landing spot.


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DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock hopes that moving Valtteri Filppula to center on the third line will boost his team's offense.
If anyone can use a spark, it's Filppula. After a breakout 2011-12 season, Filppula is experiencing his most frustrating season. He has only seven goals and 14 points in 32 games and has just one point (a goal) in his past 10 games.
"It's definitely been, points-wise, really a struggle this year,'' Filppula said. "We'll have to wait and see how that goes, if that helps.
"I feel like I've been playing a lot and getting chances and the puck hasn't gone in this year. Obviously, there's still games left and we're fighting for a playoff spot, so hopefully I can do more to help the team.''
Filppula has been playing the wing on a top-two line for the past two seasons. In Tuesday's practice, he centered a line with Damien Brunner and Daniel Cleary. Babcock said he'll use that line in Thursday's game against San Jose at Joe Louis Arena.
"By doing this we can generate more offense,'' Babcock said. " We feel Fil, Brunns, Clears, that's a pretty good line. Fil's been a good centerman for us. We like what Mule (Johan Franzen) has been doing (centering a line with Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller) and we're just going to spread our lineup out and go a little bit deeper.''
Filppula has played center most of his career.
"Center plays a little more down low in your own end, so I have to be good defensively,'' Filppula said. "When you're a wing you have to be good defensively, too, but you do that a little more when you're playing center. I don't think I have to change too many things.''
Filppula, who is in the final year of his contract, racked up career highs in goals (23) and points (66) last season, playing mostly with Henrik Zetterberg and Jiri Hudler.
This year has been a struggle from the start for Filppula, who sprained his knee while playing in Finland during the lockout. His average of .44 points per game is his lowest since his rookie season in 2006-07 (.23 per game). His current minus-5 rating would be the worst of his career.


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CARRINGTON Kelly Lund, 54, Eden Prairie, Minn., formerly of Carrington, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in his home.
He was born June 9, 1958, to James and Inez Lund, in Carrington.
Survivors: wife, Tina; mother, of Carrington; brother, Larry.
Funeral: Oct. 27, 3 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Carrington.
Burial: Lunde Cemetery, rural Woodworth.
(Evans Funeral Home, Carrington)


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SKUA Web
Executive summary
SKUA architecture
Project architecture
Case studies and completion scenarios
Tagging resources and sharing bookmarks
Application: Spacebook – semantic VRE
Application: Suggestions server
Other use-cases
Addendum on Skuas
In June 2007,
submitted a proposal into the JISC Capital Call 01/07 to develop SKUA (Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy). In October 2007 we were advised that the project was accepted by JISC and would be funded from Jan'08 to Jun'09 at the requested level (£310K). The project will involve both principals (Norman @ 50%, Tony @ 33.3%) and we'll be looking to hire an additional PDRA (Level 7) for the 18 months. A separate web site will be developed for this project as well as an informational page at JISC and we will post links as soon as these are available. For now, we'll post a few details from the proposal:
Executive summary
We propose the creation of a semantic infrastructure for astronomy based on the organisation of assertion services with relatively simple interfaces. Astronomy has been part of the UK's e-Science effort since its inception, the majority of this under the
project. The focus of this effort, in the UK and within projects in at least 15 other countries, is the creation of a worldwide Virtual Observatory (VO), making astronomical data and applications easily available to astronomers regardless of their location and affiliation. The VO will, by defining and implementing standard interfaces, make it possible to access common resources from multiple applications. These resources are located via a globally distributed resource registry, which has been defined and working for over two years now.
To date, relatively little work has been done within the VO effort on semantic systems development. An ontology of object types has been developed by VO-France and one of us (Gray) has developed an access control system based on OWL inferencing and a mechanism for converting the standard VO registry XML format to RDF triples. Our project will provide a semantic infrastructure with toolkit and API which will make it possible for many more VO developers to engage with Semantic Knowledge Organisation Systems (SKOS). The key benefit of this proposal is that it engages with an existing vibrant development and user community, and builds upon working infrastructure, making it possible to demonstrate and prove both concepts and tools as we develop them. In doing so, we engage with key outcomes of the Capital Programme and its e-infrastructure programme.
The core concept of SKUA is that of a Semantic Assertion Collection (SAC). A SAC is a service combining an RDF triple store with an interface providing the ability to:
store, modify and delete assertions (RDF triples);
return the result of SPARQL queries; and
optionally federate its queries to one or more other SACs.
This simple extension to proven tools forms the basis of an infrastructure which supports federating tags and queries across multiple collections, covering perhaps a user's personal collection, that of a project they are working on, the department they belong to, and the worldwide VO. This allows for the construction of very personalised queries.
On top of this layer of capability, we will construct a few sample applications to demonstrate some of the additional functionality that it might provide. We expect other developers to build many more such examples. This layer and the SAC components will be packaged as a toolkit for these developers. In addition we will take part in JISC and astronomy meetings to promote the technology.
The Semantic Web has, with startling speed, graduated from wild-eyed vision 5 to deployable engineering. The goal of letting computers 'understand' has solidified into established practice and competing implementations, so that now, with the bleeding edge moving off into yet more exotic directions, is the ideal time to bring the core technologies to practical application. Europe has a world-leading role in the world-wide Semantic Web (SW) community, the fruit of years of heavy EC investment in the technology. The SKUA project will embed this expertise in a UK project, thus disseminating it from the UK to the worldwide VO community, and within the UK to the other metadata projects supported by the JISC.
The SKUA Project (Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy) will implement a distributed architecture of semantically aware RDF stores. This 'semantic layer' will support a cluster of applications which will either directly support users in finding and recovering useful resources, or indirectly support them by supporting user-facing applications. We describe the architecture and an initial set of applications below. Although the system we build will be specialised to astronomy, and proved by its interaction with, and eventual embedding within, the Virtual Observatory, the bulk of the semantic knowledge is localised in the RDF store, with the design goal that it could be replaced if desired by the analogous semantic knowledge of a different domain.
SKUA architecture
Project architecture
The core component is a network of Semantic Assertion Collections (SAC) providing rather generic semantic Web Services. For performance reasons, we expect the semantic reasoning within the SACs to be rather simple, with more elaborate reasoning either performed in the background and separately asserted, or simply retained within value-adding clients. The optimal level of integration with, or even replacement of, the VO registries, will become clear during the course of the project.
This structure integrates with e-Infrastructure outcomes by supporting new ways of retrieving data, and by integrating with key initiatives in the wider research community.
We conceive the semantic layer as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of SACs, each of which can store a greater or smaller number of RDF triples and, crucially, federate queries to a configurable list of partner stores, in such a way that a query against one SAC is effectively made against the RDF triples stored in that SAC and all the SACs that it federates to (Fig. 2). Thus the personal SAC, which may be a local desktop service or a personal section of a remote service, will typically store user-specific annotations or notes, and the global SAC will store VO-wide information such as an RDF mirror of the VO Registry. Information is transparently shared by being copied from a local SAC to an appropriate one of the SACs shared within a research group, or an ad-hoc group of collaborators, with this copy process being managed, directly by the user, using a small UI, or as a part of a separate user-facing application's functionality.
Each SAC has a (standard) SPARQL endpoint which will respond to queries both from clients and from other SACs which federate to this one. Each SAC will also support a simple RESTful API for managing its RDF data.
A SAC must not respond to queries indiscriminately, since to do so would expose possibly private annotations; each SAC will keep a list of those SACs to which it has permitted federation. The topology of federations is specified exclusively by the SACs which do the federation; the permission to query or to write to a SAC is the responsibility of the SAC being federated to. The VO is deploying a SSO/Security infrastructure which this project would make use of. This infrastructure would handle the authentication issues involved, but we anticipate leaving the SAC access-control as the responsibility of the SACs themselves (either internally, or at the HTTP layer if appropriate).
We believe these three functions – querying, updating and sharing RDF information 17 – will support a flexible and open-ended array of user-supporting client applications, and we will validate this assertion by developing an initial set of such applications, as described below.
The SKUA project uses standard standard technologies and protocols, composed in an innovative way. The SACs will build on one of multiple available triplestore implementations; they will be queried using the
-standardised SPARQL query language (
as at June 2007). The VO security infrastructure realises JISC investments by building on the Shibboleth infrastructure. The simple SAC management interface will be specific to the SACs, but there will be no requirement for this to go beyond the standard REST interaction pattern. Our goal is to produce a simple, open-source, and easily composable,Web Service, proved by applications. This builds on the PIs' experience with generations of application/service deployments in the VO and other projects.
Case studies and completion scenarios
The core of our proposal is the SAC architecture described in Sect. 3.1. The SAC servers will comprise a relatively thin layer on top of currently available triplestore technology, and so we do not expect the server implementation to be challenging.
Deployment and user buy-in will be at least as large a problem. The PIs have a long and continuing involvement in the VO community, and so can lead this deployment and react quickly to user requirements. However, user acceptance can be encouraged by producing exemplar applications, which illustrate how the architecture can be used, and which are independently useful. We describe two such applications here, which we will implement during the course of the project.
Tagging resources and sharing bookmarks
The most basic use of the SAC network, used by both of the applications below, and most immediately usable by existing user-facing applications, is to allow users to tag and bookmark resources on the web or within the VO (since tags and bookmarks are technically identical, and differ only in how they are used, we will talk only of tags below), and share those tags with other users. Web- 2.0 services such as del.icio.us and Flickr have shown how very successful simple tagging can be, both to let users re-find resources they have found useful, and to be told of resources they had not found before. We can do better than simple tagging, however, since a tagging application can make use of the semantic context available from the SAC to suggest and interpret tags both when tagging and when querying. At least one existing VO application uses a private tagging framework, demonstrating that the demand is present.
Application: Spacebook – semantic VRE
As the name suggests, Spacebook has an interface and (liberal) sharing model styled on the very successful social software application, Facebook. In the case of Spacebook, though, individuals will be able to create and share queries, workflows and assertions about VO resources, in addition to supporting a professional/social network. In this, Spacebook will be a type of Virtual Research Environment (VRE) with additional semantic functionality. The VRE aspect will include portlets which embed components from the
VO project including: query construction and submission, workflow construction and submission, virtual storage and jobs status; all these components are available now. Analogously with Facebook, Spacebook will have the concepts of Person, Institute, Group and Project, with Institute membership keyed to a user's institutional email address. Individual users may create Groups, and Spacebook administrators may create Projects.
Claire logs into Spacebook and sees a summary of activities in all the areas to which she belongs including current status of long-running jobs that she has submitted. One such job was a complex workflow which has completed. She verifies the results are valid, tags the workflow script in order to describe it and then pushes the script into her project area [Spacebook will transfer the script from Claire's virtual storage area to the project's, it will then pick up all the assertions in Claire's SAC associated with this workflow and push them to the project's SAC, with her agreement; this will also move assertions relating to the workflow's components]. In a blog she reads about a new paper published in her field so tags that for later reading [Spacebook adds assertions about the paper (via an arXiv URL), and passes the paper to a text mining tool which parses the paper for terms in the VO astro-ontology, her SAC and federated SACs, adding them to the assertions for that paper – Claire can review and change them when she later reads the paper]. She then moves into her Project area in Spacebook (where the workflow appears as a new item added). One of her colleagues has created a new version of a data analysis tool that implements an algorithm the project has developed. She makes this tool accessible to 'friends' in a Group specially created to test the tool [Spacebook copies assertions about the tool to the Group SAC]. Finally, Claire wants to execute a query that a colleague has placed in the Project area but over a different set of data sources. She begins typing into a search box; as she types each term, a graphical representation of associated terms appears with tags often cited together appearing closer. One term in the tag-cloud catches her eye as crucial and she clicks and adds this to her list of terms. In a window separate to the tag representation, a list of data resources appears and is refreshed as she enters each term [as she types, Spacebook conducts searches on each term or set of terms through Claire's personal SAC, the project SAC and all SACs to which these are federated; data resources associated with highly cited tags will appear on the resource list]. Claire picks the data sources she wants to use, submits her query and heads off for a coffee.
Application: Suggestions server
A continuing problem within the VO is that of browsing or searching the existing 24 registries for resources of interest, since the obvious ways of doing this produce either too few, or far too many hits. The situation is improving with the arrival of better interfaces, but the semantically rich information available within the SAC network (the user's local SAC plus those it delegates to) would allow for richer query support. We have preliminary designs for a 'suggestions server', acting as a web service, which would take a list of one or more resources of interest, and return other sets of resources related to the initial ones by an open-ended set of algorithms, using semantic relationships, connections to existing astronomical controlled vocabularies, and statistical cluster analysis, implemented as plugins to the server.
Jules is writing an application to help users find new VO resources. His user has already identified a few useful resources, and Jules would like to find more similar ones. He makes a simple query to a suggestions server, listing the known resources, and asking for 'more like this'; the server responds with groups of resources which are 'like' the initial set in various more-or-less heuristic ways, leaving Jules to display these to the user in whatever way best fits with his UI.
Other use-cases
tools, and other specialised text-mining tools developed with the VO, we can conceive of one or more SAC client applications deriving information from text sources and adding it to a personal or group SAC.
Another value-adding client application would be an access-control service, managing role and group information asserted within, and distributed amongst, the SACs. We have outline designs for such a service, which would build on the distributed nature of our semantic layer, but do not intend to implement it in this project, simply using it as one of the potential use-cases to drive the design.
Addendum on Skuas
Check out this
wikipedia article
I don't know how long this link will be valid but there is a
short video clip here
of the BBC
Nature of Britain
programme showing the
Arctic Skua
: best bit shows them dive-bombing Alan Titchmarsh.
Moral of the story: when choosing project names, it helps to read
of the relevant Wikipedia entry. Skuas are scavengers (we'll take information from anywhere and process it into muscular goodness – good connotation); it turns out, however, that skuas are also short-tempered psychotic kleptoparasites who, when they've finished stealing other birds' food, will bully seagulls for fun – not such a good vibe. Hmm: can we change the project name to Helpful and Knowledgeable Fluffy Bunny Rabbit? Please?
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Free clinics won't cure health care problem
The governor favors what he calls free clinics.
These clinics are an excellent aid to the health care crisis caused by the for-profit health care industry, but they are not a large-scale answer to our health care problem.
The governor supports state funding to clinics labeled free, which actually operate on a sliding scale of cash, insurance payment or no charge if the patient can prove low income or that Medicaid has turned them down due to income.
This type of clinic usually operates in close connection with a federally operated clinic that is fully free to low-income working poor who cannot receive Medicaid due to income.
One sliding scale clinic in Blair County then asks patients to buy hospital insurance for $99 a month.
I understand that these clinics must finance themselves to operate, and I look highly upon what they are trying to do to help the working poor.
These clinics, however, cannot reach as many people as Medicaid can through the Affordable Care Act.
By refusing the expansion of Medicaid through the ACA, Corbett is again favoring the corporations at the peril of the 41 percent uninsured people of Pennsylvania whom ACA would help.
The struggling working poor help to pay for Gov. Tom Corbett's and his family's health care.
So why does he refuse to return the favor by denying them Medicaid that would help them survive? Instead, he predictably chooses to prop up the profits of the private healthcare cartel.
Louis Anthony Mollica


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One of our very unscientific reader poll questions back in early May asked: "Do you think the Donkin mine will ever reopen?"
Of those who registered an opinion, 10 per cent responded "not sure," 16 per cent stated "yes," and a whopping 74 per cent opted for "no."
It could be argued that such polls are more apt to draw in the "nattering nabobs of negativism" of the anonymous online world, especially in a place where folks are generally gun-shy about industrial giants and their plans for local resources.
But optimism around the Donkin mine project has indeed appeared to wane, especially since Nov. 20, 2013, when global mining giant Glencore Xstrata — which is trying to sell its 75 per cent stake in the project — announced it would seal the mine and allow it to flood in order to reduce its annual maintenance costs from around $3 million to $500,000.
"To be honest, since waiting for seven or eight years now since the whole Donkin conversation began, I don't blame people for being skeptical and losing hope," Geoff MacLellan told the Cape Breton Post in early May. "What people don't understand is when the lease expires next year — May 2015 — (Glencore) loses all the money they've invested. They don't want to wait, they want to sell it right away."
MacLellan was referring to a "special lease" for the Donkin mine due to expire May 1, 2015. The provincial government could extend the lease, but it could also cancel it at that time.
So, there's apparently increasing pressure on Glencore Xstrata — which deems the Donkin mine too small for its purposes — to find a buyer for its stake (Morien Resources Corp. of Dartmouth holds the remaining 25 per cent of the project).
As well, it's been rumoured that Glencore Xstrata wasn't in a great rush to sell its stake in the project until rebounding global coal prices increased its value, and that's reportedly the current trend.
Perhaps due to one or both of those reasons, Morien Resources recently received notice that an "arm's-length" third party has agreed to terms on the purchase of Glencore Xstrata's stake in the mine.
Now is the time for cautious optimism. A working mine is not around the corner.
A purchase still has to be finalized, and Glencore Xstrata has offered the same deal to Morien Resources, which has two months to consider the offer. There's no guarantee that a new deal will result in immediate development. The mine has been allowed to flood, so that water would have to be pumped out. And how the coal would be transported could prove contentious, especially the proposal to barge it across valuable lobster grounds to waiting ships.
But there's progress on a project that reportedly has the potential to create hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in provincial royalties. And that's a good thing.


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Human Neonatal Brain MRI
102 normal infants with age of 30 gestational weeks to 45 gestational weeks will be recruited in partnership with Division of Perinatal-neonatal Medicine which consists of neonatologists and pediatricians providing services in Parkland Health and Hospital System (PHHS) and Children's Medical Center (CMC) at Dallas. among 102 normal infants, there are 17 subjects at each following subgroup, 30-31 gestational weeks, 32-33 gestational weeks, 34-35 gestational weeks, 36-38 gestational weeks, 39-42 gestational week and 43-45 gestational weeks. once these infants are identified, structural and functional MRi data will be acquired with Philips 3T located at Radiology of CMC. The sequence details are as follows:
DTi: a single-shot echo-planar imaging (ePi) sequence with SenSe parallel imaging scheme (SenSitivity encoding, reduction factor [?]2.5) will be used. The imaging matrix will be 112x112 with a field of view of 168x168mm (nominal resolution of 1.5mm), which will be zero filled to 256x256. axial slices of 1.5mm thickness will be acquired parallel to the anterior-posterior commissure line (aC-PC). a total of 65 slices will cover the entire hemisphere and brainstem without gap. The diffusion weighting will be encoded along 30 independent orientations and b value will be 1000s/mm2. imaging time for each sequence will be 5 minutes and 30 seconds. To increase signal noise ratio (SnR), two repetitions will be performed, resulting in DTi imaging time 11 minutes.
T1/T2-weighted imaging: Co-registered T2 weighted image, using a spin echo sequence, will be acquired with the echo time 120ms. Repetition time (TR) will be 4,500ms. The imaging resolution will be same as that of DTi. Co-registered FLaiR (Fluid attenuated inversion Recovery) T1 weighted image will also be acquired with the same field of view as that in diffusion tensor imaging. The T1/T2 weighted imaging time will be 5 minutes.
Resting state fMRi: Time series of 240 volumes of BoLD (Blood-oxygenation-Level-Dependent) images will be acquired with a single-shot gradient-recalled T2* weighted ePi pulse sequence. The details of the sequence are as follows: TR [?] 1500 ms; flip angle [?] 90o; slice thickness[?]2.5mm; matrix [?] 68 x 68; FoV [?] 168 mm x 168 mm; voxel size[?]2.5x2.5x2.5mm.
aSL and TRuST: Pseudo-Continuous aSL (PCaSL) sequence combined with a phase-contrast sequence will be used to obtain voxel level CBF estimation in units of ml blood per 100 g of tissue per min (ml/100g/min). The PCaSL sequence will be: field of view [?] 168x168mm, matrix[?]84x84, slice thickness[?]2mm, 50 axial slices acquired with zero gap, voxel size[?]2x2x2mm, SenSe factor[?]2.5. The phase contrast MRi will be performed with the slice location perpendicular to the four major feeding arteries (left/right internal carotid and vertebral arteries) at the level of cervical spine 3 (C3). Baseline venous oxygenation (Yv) will be determined in the sagittal sinus using a recently developed T2-Relaxation-under-Spin-Tagging (TRuST) MRi technique. The imaging parameters will be: voxel size 3.44x3.44x5mm3, four different T2-weightings with Tes of 0ms, 40ms, 80ms and 160ms, duration 1 minutes and 12 seconds. The imaging slice will be positioned axially to intersect the superior sagittal sinus at the level of approximately 10mm above the sinus congruence.
Single voxel MRS: Single voxel proton MRS with short Te will be acquired. PReSS (Point ReSolved Spectroscopy) will be used.
Participant Eligibility
1. Normal infants of both genders
2. Any race or ethnicity
3. Inborn preterm delivered from 30-45 weeks gestation
4. Medically stable for transport i.e. requiring at most a nasal canula < 2 liters for respiratory support.


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NEW YORK -- With Derek Jeter making his first visit to the Bronx this season, Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and the New York Yankees used a flurry of early long balls to outslug the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Thursday night.
Vernon Wells homered again against Mark Buehrle, and Francisco Cervelli also connected for New York in its third win over the Blue Jays in a week. The Yankees took two of three in a weekend series in Toronto.
Derek Jeter, out until probably mid-July because of a brolen ankle, watched a no-frills New York lineup improve to 12-9. The Yankees captain said he was meeting some of his teammates for the first time.
National League
Nationals 8, Reds 1
WASHINGTON -- Gio Gonzalez allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Denard Span and Danny Espinosa drove in three runs each to lead Washington to the victory over Cincinnati.
Gonzalez, who allowed 12 runs in his previous nine innings, retired the first 11 Reds batters before Joey Votto homered with two outs in the fourth. He struck out seven and walked two.
Pirates 6, Phillies 4
PHILADELPHIA -- Gaby Sanchez homered and drove in three runs, and Garrett Jones hit a go-ahead, two-run double to lead Pittsburgh to a comeback victory over struggling Philadelphia.
Justin Wilson (2-0) pitched two hitless innings in relief of James McDonald, and the Pirates won their third straight and 10th in 13 games.
Ryan Howard went 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs and Domonic Brown had a pair of doubles with an RBI for the Phillies, who have lost three straight and eight of 11.
Marlins 4, Cubs 3
MIAMI -- Luis Valbuena hit a tie-breaking solo home run in the ninth inning to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 4-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night.
The Marlins fell to 5-17, matching the worst start in franchise history through 22 games according to STATS. Miami had the same record in 1995.
Dodgers 3, Mets 2
NEW YORK -- Andre Ethier hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and Los Angeles, boosted by a sharp outing from Hyun-Jin Ryu, defeated New York.
After Ryu and Mets starter Jeremy Hefner each threw seven impressive innings and left with the score 1-all, the Dodgers won a game decided by the bullpens.


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GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- If you're looking for the hopeful side of the General Motors story in Flint, look away from the numbers that have shown a steady, devastating reduction of workers and plants.
Instead, look deeper inside the corporation's nine facilities in the county.
Because even though each has its own long-term questions and uncertainties -- some harder to overcome than others -- there is diversity in what each one does in the process of making, packaging and selling automotive parts and vehicles.
From the white-collar marketing of GM and ACDelco parts -- right down to replacement wiper blades at the Service and Parts Operations World Headquarters in Grand Blanc -- to the creation of a Corvette door hinge, a small piece churned out inside an old jet engine component plant at Powertrain Flint North -- not all of Flint's GM eggs are in one basket.
"It will never be back to the 80,000 GM jobs -- no city or location is going to see that -- (but) I'm optimistic about (GM facilities in) Flint," said UAW Region 1-C Regional Director Duane Zuckschwerdt. "It isn't all gloom and doom."
True, workers at the Flint Truck Assembly Plant were holding their breaths before the GM shareholders' meeting in June, and the area's last assembly plant did lose one of three work shifts on its extended-cab pickup line.
But the plant survived when others closed, and on the same day, GM confirmed what already had been spelled out generally in the national UAW contract: that Flint will get a new engine plant that will produce engines for a new compact Chevrolet car.
"It gives us a little more diversity," said Bill Jordan, president of UAW Local 599, which is expected to represent workers at the new engine plant.
Local 599 members still the build the 3800 V-6 engine that powers Buick Lucernes and Buick LaCrosses, and workers also produce component parts for Corvette and Cadillac makes as well as parts such as transmission gears and shafts in the remaining buildings at the old Buick City complex.
Even on a site where millions of Buicks were made and most jobs have disappeared, workers still win awards for productivity and quality and believe they have a future making more fuel-efficient engines.
Production of the 3800 engine is expected to end this year.
"The work that the people do on the floor -- the quality they put out definitely has an impact on where (future) work goes," Jordan said.
GM has not announced where the new engine plant will be located, but Flint Mayor Don WIlliamson has said it will be located near the Flint Engine South plant that opened in 2000.
Engines account for two of the nine GM facilities and plants remaining in the county. Three others are a part of GM's Service and Parts Operations, including the SPO World Headquarters in Grand Blanc.
Built in 1996, the $43-million complex is home to 1,440 white-collar workers who market GM parts worldwide. Two other SPO facilities -- SPO Flint-Swartz Creek on West Bristol Road and a new Davison Road Packaging Center -- handle some of those parts by packaging, sometimes painting and shipping them.
Swartz Creek City Manager Paul Bueche said that even though employment has dropped from nearly 2,800 to barely mor than 400 at the West Bristol Road site there, the facility remains a key tax base for the city.
Bueche said there's usually speculation about what might happen to the operation.
"I feel OK about its future. I don't know if I feel good," he said. "It would be absolutely devastating if that tax base disappeared."
Swartz Creek doesn't collect an income tax but does bring in property taxes.
The Davison Road SPO facility is being staffed with employees who will earn a second-tier wage, making them part of a group of up to 16,000 new workers nationwide who will earn about half the hourly rate of existing workers. Last year's national contract between GM and the UAW allowed for that cost-saving change.
The last plant in the area where vehicles still are built -- the Flint Truck Assembly Plant -- is in the midst of huge changes, including the abrupt drop in customer demand for its products as gasoline prices shot past $4 per gallon.
Shut down for months by the American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. strike this year, Flint Truck survived plant closings announced June 3 by GM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner, but it also lost one of three shifts that had been operating on the line that produces crew cab Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.
There is instability on the second line at Flint Truck, too.
Late last year, GM agreed to sell its medium-duty commercial truck business, which still operates on a second line at Flint Truck.
The sale is expected to be completed this year, resulting in the loss of about 500 jobs.
Another plant that could be vulnerable to deeper job cuts is Flint Metal Fabricating, an automotive researcher said this year.
Flint Metal makes stampings for most full-size pickups and sport utility vehicles, both of which are in low demand, and the national UAW contract offers little job security protection for any stamping operations.
The Flint Tool and Die Plant is a small facility with 210 employees, but it is expected to double its work force because of a consolidation.
Tool and Die and Grand Blanc Weld Tool Center are unusual facilities for GM -- both with relatively few employees and both of which produce work not duplicated elsewhere.
Weld Tool builds and installs tool systems for GM's other plants, while the Tool and Die plant builds the patterns that are used to create the dies that stamp vehicle body parts.
Even in the plants that appear to have the brightest futures, however, there are no rock-solid guarantees.
Communities such as the Flint area can only try to diversify -- inside and outside the auto industry, said Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University.
"I think there's a really good chance that auto industry employment in Michigan will sort of stabilize, but I don't see much chance it will ever return to what it was," said Ballard. "I don't think we should look at it as a long-term jobs machine.
"I don't think it's going to disappear, but the growth in jobs in the future is likely to be mostly elsewhere."
General Motors 100th Anniversary
William C. "Billy" Durant was a leader among auto pioneers
Flint's General Motors eggs not all in one basket
General Motors parade to feature 100 years of history
General Motors 100th Anniversary calendar of events
General Motors celebration 'salutes the working people'
UAW sit-down striker Arthur Lowell: 'I'm proud of what we did'
Strikers forged union history: 44-day standoff changed working conditions forever
In 1954, The Flint Journal publishes 204-page special section for General Motors' 50th anniversary
High-tech skills now key for auto workers
General Motors' concept cars can be electrifying
Automotive consultant: Future cars will be smaller, self-directed
Photos of GM cars, truck exhibited at Flint Institute of Arts
Heller: Accuracy not the forte of auto seers
Community supporters made Flint Cultural Center a reality


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Wow 33 games since the last newsletter. SS is still holding a commanding lead, they added 15 more points to their total score. A battle for second is beginning to form. TSB still holds second place with 14 points but Lines and HoX both have 13 points and are hungry to win more games. Elite a relatively young team upset both Freedom Fighters and TSB picking up two victories. Team Mast3r are true underdogs itching for a win, they have played 19 games so far and have came close to winning on a number of occasions. This is the team to route for.
Ace of Spades now has 6 steam cards for you to collect or sell to friends. There are currently 6 cards for you to get and once you have all 6 you can get a badge and a nice reward as well, you might even get a deuce emoticon with your badge. Though there are only three card drops in the game.
Thepolm3 has been up to his usual pyspades tinkering.
Brief disclaimer, the scripts below haven't been thoroughly tested on a full server
by Thepolm3
- The MIXED script allow the serverowner to change the gamemode of a server without restarting the server. This means that server owners don't need to host ~5 different servers just to present a tiny bit of what custom ace of spades gamemodes has to offer.
This will also mean that a lot of the lesser played gamemodes will get some more playtime! There are some great gems that a lot of players have sadly not yet experienced.
izzy wrote: This is an exciting milestone.
by Thepolm3
- But wait, there's more!
Because not every gamemode fits with the same amount of players, ThePolm3 has also created Intellimode.
This script changes gamemode based on the amount of players that is online on the server.
So get ready for this, server owners
by Thepolm3
- The worldedit script which allows for map editing ingame in a similar way for the equivalent mod in minecraft has been updated!
It now supports Schematics. As well as the lighten and darker function everyone who has use voxed would be familiar with! If you take a look at the source code you'll notice that it's a huge script, so a lot of work has been poured into this.
Map Merger
by Thepolm3
- Next up is Map merger!.
A weird script that can merge two maps into one, this can lead to some crazy looking maps.
Take Bridgeway as an example:
If you hadn't guessed it already, it's a mix between Hallway and Bridge Wars
So get mixing!
Build n' Kill
- Another smaller gamemode he created was Build n' Kill!. This is a gamemode where every 10 minutes, killing and building will be toggled. Meaning that there will be 10 minutes of build-only, and then 10 minutes of killing only!
This could work well on some maps like pinpoint. Where no mans land areas are often occurring.
Ping Kicker
- Next up is a script that kicks a player from a server if that players has more than X amount of ping.
You can download it from here.
This could be useful as it's not always fun playing with laggy players.
by harlsberg
User harlsberg has created an amazing looking vietnam themed pack for ace of spades! It's very extensive and includes all new KV6 files, sights, gun sounds and splash screen.
Check it out here!
The July map competition is now on to voting! Click here to vote. Current submissions are:
-Deuceforts by Lostmotel
-Golf by Influx
-Desert by lelue
-huehuehue by thepolm3
-Hot Islands by [DI]Elrohir
by Lostmotel
Gobi is an island based map like isle of war but big enough to allow you to not get sniped. It has low points on the sides and higher points in the middle. You can also see the cacti which are stronger then the cacti you see on most maps so it will take them a while to take down. There are also two caves in the middle of the map so you can tunnel if you want. Click here to download.
If you're planning on making an ace of spades map, you should know how to create a heightmap. Making one is pretty simple, but creating a good one is not. But fear not, influx has created an extensive tutorial on how to do exactly that!
Read about it Here!.
Big Cheecho's Trailer competition is over. Congratulation to Pancake for winning the competition and making an awesome trailer.
Starmade is a minecraft inspired space ship building and asteroid mining game. If you can run minecraft you should be able to run Starmade. Come check out the server at starmade.aloha.pk:4242.
Starmade is free for the time being, you can download it here.
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By STEPHANIE BARRY
SPRINGFIELD - Friday evening's murder victim had a history of grisly violence in his family before he was shot once in the face at close range, police confirmed today.
The victim was Alexander Gautier, 31, of 174 Massasoit St., according to Sgt. John M. Delaney, aide to Commissioner William J. Fitchet. Gautier was the father of a 3-year-old boy who was tortured, raped and beaten to death by a 12-year-old in 2004.
His son, Jeremy Rosario Millan, was terrorized by the son of his baby-sitter, Marisol Alverio, over several days in December while Millan's mother was in Puerto Rico. Medical personnel said Millan died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Alverio was sentenced to 5 to 9 years in prison for failing to prevent the abuse. Her son was in 2006 committed to the Department of Youth Services until his 18th birthday.
Delaney said Gautier's death appears unrelated to his son's. An investigation into Gautier's death is ongoing.
"Police have been working around the clock since the murder was reported," he said.
Gautier was found behind a building at 258 Locust St. around 5 p.m. on Friday. Neighbors heard a shot and called police, Delaney said.
Gautier had just returned to the city from Puerto Rico, according to police. They were investigating Saturday what led him to that neighborhood where he was killed.
The slaying was the second in Springfield in two days.


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So this is how it started...we got off a plane, went to paddle some rivers and did some stuff while filming it all.
This is part one of three magical videos, specifically tailored towards people who like kayaking. In this installment Finn and Hugh take you from Santiago airport to Pucon and do some kayaking with a bunch of great people.
Times were had, things were done and it all happened in Chile.
Filmed on: Canon 550D, 600D, GoPro Hero2
Filming: Hugh Graham, Finn Burrows
Editing: Finn Burrows
Graphic design: Adam Dumolo
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And the Yankee first baseman of the glory days of the 1950s and early 1960s isn't afraid to say so.
"Look at this ballpark," the six-time big league All Star offered by way of example Saturrday morning, taking in the greens and blues of Richmond County Ballpark at St. George. "It's beautiful."
The Staten Island Yankees' home field is not quite the same as High Rock Park in downtown Norfolk, Va., where Skowron broke into the minors in 1951.
"It was a little bandbox," Skowron remembered of the wooden-bleachered home of his first professional club -- the Piedmont League Norfolk Tars -- which almost burned to the ground a few years previous, when someone left a wood stove unattended under the stands.
The Tars were the rough equivalent of today's short-season teams like the Staten Island Yankees.
And Skowron was a bonus baby. A football star at Purdue University who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns but opted for what, in those days, was an astronomical $25,000 check from the Yankees.
"I figured I'd just get myself hurt playing football," he laughed of the decision. "Baseball was a better deal."
Even without new-era ballparks like the one in St. George, with its majestic views.
"We played in a lot of old places that were falling down," said Skowron, now 78, who does public relations work for the Chicago White Sox in his hometown -- when he's not traveling far and wide to events like Saturday's third-annual Old-Timers Day festivities in St. George, that is.
"Baseball was different back then," he said.
Skowron was one of close to 30 ex-Yankees on the Island yesterday.
From Dr. Bobby Brown, who played third base in the Bronx in the late 1940s before becoming a cardiologist, and was the American League president from 1984 through 1994, and Don Larsen, who threw a perfect game against the Dodgers in the 1956 World Series, to younger guys like reliever Jeff Nelson and third baseman Charlie Hayes.
He was also one of the players who received the loudest reception from the 4,000 or so season ticket holders who were invited to the nine-year-old stadium for the four-inning game played against local politicians.
He, and Don Zimmer.
The Yankee Old-Timers won, by the way. No one got hurt. And city councilman Jim Oddo made a couple of nice plays in centerfield, which may or may not say something about his legislative talents.
But the best part of any Old-Timers Day is listening to the stories.
And if Skowron, who hit 28 home runs batting behind Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in the Yankees lineup of 1961, looks at the St. George Ballpark as an extra, and perhaps unnecessary, perk for new-age minor leaguers, he has a right.
When he was breaking into the game there were more minor league stops, fewer big-league spots available, and no major league teams west of the Mississippi. And, in an organization that stockpiled talent as the Yankees did, playing in ramshackle ballparks and waiting your turn was part of the business.
It was not unusual for a good, solid player to be stuck in the minors for years.
Johnny Blanchard, who batted .305 and hit 21 home runs for the '61 Yankees as a back-up catcher, spent his career behind Yogi Berra and Elston Howard; he played long enough in the minors to collect 2,481 at-bats.
In 1952, Skowron was named the minor league Player of the Year after hitting .341 with 31 home runs for Kansas City, the Yankees' Triple-A affiliate.
He was a phenom.
But he still couldn't get a shot at playing his regular position, first base.
In the minors, that is.
Neither could Vic Power, another Yankee farmhand who would go onto to win seven American League Gold Gloves as a first-baseman.
"They had us in the outfield with Bob Cerv and Bill Virdon," Skowron said. "A guy named Don Bollweg played first for us."
And the Yankees didn't bring Skowron up to the big club following that breakout year, either. The didn't have to.
They'd won the World Series that season.
They'd win it again the next.
But Skowron continued to believe in what the great Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had told him during a winter ball stint in Puerto Rico.
"Just keep hitting, kid," was the advice. "Sooner or later, they'll have to find a position for you."
Skowron did just that.
Hit .315 the following season.
The Yankees finally brought him up in 1954.
He hit .340 as a rookie. And .319 the following year. He went on to be the regular first-baseman in the Bronx for seven seasons during an era of Yankee domination that included four World Championships.
He still wears his 1961 ring.
"Three different people offered me $61,000 for it," he said in the dugout Saturday. "I turned them down."
When the Yankees traded Skowron away, he came back and bit his former club by hitting .385 in the Dodgers 1963 World Series sweep. And in 1965, at age 34, he made his last All-Star team as a member of the Chicago White Sox.
In 14 years in the Bigs, he batted .282 with 211 homers and 1,566 hits.
That's a full career by anyone's standards.
"No regrets," he says.
And that, I'm assuming, includes the bad ballparks.


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Terrific seats in the Founders Circle, which are the best seats, balancing view and sound, in the Chandler.
This Rheingold is controversial (traditionalists may be offended) but a very quick two and a half hours - well-sung and gorgeous, with lots of theater magic. Not your father's Ring.
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This was a fantastic evening of opera. As it was the first chapter in a four chapter story, the pacing felt a bit slow. I don't think this had to do with the production but the story itself. The production design was great, even though it got a...continued
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One hour prior to each performance in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Grand Hall, Maestro James Conlon will be interviewed by Alan Chapman.
Gods, goddesses, giants, and dwarves struggle to be lords of the ring, but as Wagner's mammoth music drama unfolds, the ring's curse unleashes its vengeance.
From the opening sounds of the River Rhine's rippling waters through the majestic "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla," you'll be swept away by Wagner's magnificent music. Wagner's Ring creates a vivid world and a musical experience never to be forgotten.
James Conlon conducts an extraordinary cast of internationally acclaimed Wagnerians. As the chief god Wotan, Vitalij Kowaljow, a powerful Ukrainian bass, promises to "dominate every scene he is in" (The New York Times_). Making her Company debut as Wotan's insistent wife Fricka will be Michelle DeYoung a "remarkably powerful mezzo" (_Opera Today), who has already performed the role at The Metropolitan Opera. Other notable debuts include Arnold Bezuyen as Loge and Gordon Hawkins as Alberich. Making a welcome return from previous seasons will be Jill Grove as the earth goddess Erda, Eric Halfvarson as the giant Fafner, and Graham Clark as Mime, one of his signature roles.
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Harrisburg School Board members accepted President Arlene Burno's resignation last night but opted not to elect her successor or a new vice president yet.
"We want all the people on the board have a say and an opportunity to make sure their vote matters," said Board Member Brendan Murray. The seven board members at the meeting voted unanimously to table the elections.
Vice President Jennifer Smallwood will remain in her position until a new school director is appointed. The board then has 30 days to elect new officers.
Burno resigned from the board after taking a job in Massachusetts. "It was a difficult decision to make knowing that I have such a passion for the children of Harrisburg," she said in an email. Burno was elected board president Dec. 5, 2011. She was appointed to fill an open spot in 2010 and elected to the board in November.


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COACH: Jamie Walborn (3rd season; 21-26 overall).
ASSISTANT COACHES: Ken Barlett, Roger Hayes.
LAST SEASON: 8-8 Section 4, 13-10 overall (Lost to Camp Hill 45-41 in a District 3 AA first-round game).
KEY PLAYERS LOST TO GRADUATION: Abbie Mailen (0.7 points per game), Victoria Siebecker (11.3, 12 3-pointers).
KEY PLAYERS RETURNING: F Gabby Battle (Jr., 0.9), G Barb Inman (Sr., 0.9), G Kayla Parks (Jr., 6.4), G Alex Siebecker (Jr., 9.9, 15 3-pointers), F Elaina Wanamaker (Sr., 10.3, 13 3-pointers).
G - Alex Siebecker
G - Kayla Parks
G - Barb Inman
F - Elaina Wanamaker
F - Gabby Battle
STRENGTHS: Varsity experience.
WEAKNESSES: Depth.
QUOTABLE: Jamie Walborn - "I'm eager to see our team grow together this season. I think our team has the opportunity to be contenders in Section 4, but our seniors and juniors need to really step up and take on leadership roles and lead our team."
NOTABLE: Little Dutchmen will miss 1,000-point scorer Victoria Siebecker, a four-year contributor to the program - a program coming off a 13-win season, which included a trip to Districts while A-C hung with the lead pack in Section 4 - which included L-L League finalists Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite, plus District 3 A champ Lebanon Catholic - last winter. … The good news in A-C County is that there are a lot of familiar faces back in the fold, including a trio of reliable scorers to build around in sharpshooter Alex Siebecker and wingers Kayla Parks and Elaina Wanamaker - who all had breakout seasons last winter. … Barb Inman and Gabby Battle also have plenty of varsity minutes under their belt, and newbie Meredith Bachman is expected to provide minutes off the pine. … Walborn is the former Jamie Podjed, the seventh-leading scorer in the history of Lebanon Catholic's girls' program.
REINHART SAYS: In a season where Section 4 stalwarts Lancaster Mennonite and Lebanon Catholic will be undergoing changes, Annville-Cleona has the weapons here to make a run at the No. 2 spot in the section. Reigning L-L League and District 3 champ Lancaster Catholic is the runaway favorite; Little Dutchmen, if Walborn can find some reliable depth, will make some major noise. Keep an eye on Annville.
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