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Children in the Waynesville School District enjoyed a special guest performance on Wednesday from former "American Idol" contestant and Springfield native Pfeifer Brown.
Children in the Waynesville School District enjoyed a special guest performance on Wednesday from former "American Idol" contestant and Springfield native Pfeifer Brown.
"Have any of you every heard of Springfield?" the 20-year old singer asked audience of Wood Elementary students.
Hundreds of tiny hands raised quickly in response.
"That's where I'm from. Now have any of you ever heard of Hollywood?" she asked.
"That's where I live."
The Wood Elementary gymnasium lit up with high-pitched oohs-and-awes.
Brown is currently pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles. She was on American Idol in 2010 and moved to Hollywood soon after she graduated from Springfield Central in 2010.
Pfeifer told the crowd of elementary students that she was in Taylor Swift's "Never Getting Back Together," music video, to which the children were incredibly impressed with.
Brown has an agent in Los Angeles and will be in a movie coming out called "Stage Fright," made by the producers of Paranormal Activity.
Though she is doing more with acting now, singing is Brown's number one passion. She spent nearly all day Wednesday singing for students in the Waynesville School District at Partridge Elementary, the Waynesville Career Center, Wood Elementary, and Freedom elementary. She even road the bus with students for a while.
Joe Pfeifer, a teacher at Wood Elementary, discovered Pfeifer Brown while Googling himself one day, and organized Brown's trip to sing in Waynesville schools. He told the students at Wood Elementary that he knows many of their parents are overseas during the holidays, and he wanted to give them a special Christmas treat to make things a little better.
Students enjoyed Pfeifer's performance of "Mean," by Taylor Swift, "Call Me Maybe," by Carly Rae Jepsen, and sang "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
"I love kids, so today was so much fun," Brown said. "It's great to see how excited they get, you don't get that with other audiences."


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Pelini: Gregory is Probably Ahead of David
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Three-fourths of the way into his press conference Monday, a reporter asked Bo Pelini about Randy Gregory, and Nebraska's sixth-year head coach was more than willing to use the ultimate bench mark to compare one junior college transfer to another. Even though Gregory is a defensive end and Lavonte David was an All-America linebacker before becoming a starter with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Pelini didn't flinch an inch putting those two Huskers in the same sentence. "Lavonte is a special player and did some special things when he was here," Pelini said before indicating that Gregory is "probably ahead" of where David was in his development after four games. "It didn't happen for Lavonte right away. It took him a little bit of time," Pelini said. "Obviously they play some different positions but I feel really good about Randy Gregory. I think he's going to be outstanding. There's a ton more out there for this kid. He's a talented guy who can do pretty special things. I like him."
A 6-foot-6 sophomore from Fishers, Ind., Gregory has started three of Nebraska's four games and has 17 tackles. He also has a sack, five tackles for loss, one pass broken up, four quarterback hurries and an interception that he returned 33 yards for a touchdown. He's the first Husker defensive lineman to return an interception for a TD since Ndamukong Suh against Colorado five seasons ago. "He's a very bright kid," Pelini said Monday of Gregory. "He understands football. He's an instinctive guy. He's just got some natural football instincts to him." When Nebraska's head coach was recruiting last week, he talked to some high school kids about the instincts required to play defense. "High school football is so much different now. It's kind of really spread out," Pelini said. "One thing I saw was where one team was empty the whole game and the other team was running a veer scheme the whole game. There's a lot of spread out there. You wonder why it's easier to have freshmen come in offensively because everyone is doing the spread. Defensively, you see the spread but you don't see as much variety."
Defensive Players Require More Development
That's why "it kind of hit me when I was sitting there watching the game," Pelini said. "Defensive guys kind of have a lot more development that needs to happen. On offense, you can have a guy and put him in a scheme to run plays and do all those types of things. You run out 10 yards; you run an out route. It's kind of more assignment football on offense." It's a different story on defense. "You have to be able to react to things," Pelini said. "You have to be able to understand concepts and make quick decisions fast. Guys are a little more prepared to play offense at a young age and prepared to have success than you are defensively. It's more reactionary. It's more finding your keys and reacting to what the other team is doing than just playing assignment football.
"Don't get me wrong. It takes some instincts to be able to play offense, too, and even special teams," Pelini said while adding that the growth curve is a little bit higher on the defensive side. "Even though you're seeing spread in college, you're going to see some variety defensively. That's just the way it is. The growth curve is a little bit higher. I think that's one of the reasons you're seeing a lot more offense out there."
Martinez's Availability Remains Questionable
The Huskers had a productive bye week and got a lot of work done while using the opportunity to heal up. Taylor Martinez, Nebraska's four-year quarterback starter and career total offensive leader, did not practice last week, but he's "getting closer" to the 100-percent description needed for him to play against Illinois Saturday in a nationally televised game at Memorial Stadium. "I would assume Taylor wants to play," Pelini said. "At the same time, I deal with the doctors and the trainers. Taylor knows I've talked to them. We're not putting him out there until I know he's going to feel 100 percent."
If Martinez is unable to play against the Illini, practice will determine Saturday's starting quarterback. "Last time (before the South Dakota State game), it was what we saw in practice that led us to Tommy (Armstrong) being the guy to start the game," Pelini said. "That's probably where we would lean right now going into it … a lot of it depends on the next three days of practice, too." Pelini sees the Huskers' sense of urgency "going up" in terms of how they execute in practice, how they respond to details and how they're competing for playing time. "Sometimes, you have to get hit in the mouth to take notice, in a number of different ways," he said. "I'm not talking about the score, or yards. I'm just talking about being able to have success and that understanding. Also that level of commitment you have to have when you walk on the practice field to give yourself the best opportunity to play well on Saturday."
'If It Was Simple, Everybody Would Be Doing It'
Pelini had a conversation with a couple of his young defensive players last week about competing, succeeding and having fun. He told the players that confidence is based on learning, preparing and understanding defensive keys and reminded them that it's not fun when you're guessing. The only way the game becomes fun is when it slows down, and the only way it slows down is when players learn their keys. "It would be like anything else," Pelini said. "The more success you have, the more fun you're going to have doing it. If it was simple, then everybody would be doing it. This goes back years and years, and that's why you practice. It takes time, discipline, focus. It takes failure. It takes a lot of different things. Every single guy is probably at a little bit different level of development. That isn't just defensively. That's offensively, special teams and that's football. And, in my opinion, that's sports."
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It's her 13th birthday tomorrow, but my poor Luna is in severe trouble. :(
It began two and a half weeks ago when she was in the window sill and tried passing a flower pot. She slipped and fell down, right onto her kitty bed below the window. When she landed, her hind legs were giving in, it's been a scary sight. I brought her to the vet the same morning who examined her and couldn't find any palpable injuries. Luna got a pain med injected, and I was told to give her some pain meds for the next days. I did, and she started doing better. A few days ago, I started - in accordance with my vet - reducing the meds.
This morning, she jumped from the same window sill, onto her bed again, and after that, she could barely walk! Her entire backside was down, she literally crawled towards me; all wobbly and buckling; it's been scaring the hell out of me. :( She climbed into my bed, sat beside me, her tail twitching in pain and discomfort, but she allowed me comforting her and started purring. When she jumped down about 10 minutes later, her legs were back to normal, even though I could tell she was walking carefully and a little stiff. I put her on pain meds again, which was, according to my former vet whom I've called later today, the right thing to do as they do not only take the pain away but also prevent further inflammation from the trauma.
Both her and my new vet (to whom my former vet gave her office two years ago when she retired) agree that it's going to be hard to find out what's actually wrong with Luna. We know that nothing's broken, and anything else wouldn't be shown in an x-ray shot which is why we haven't done this so far. Most likely, Luna is dealing with arthritis (I can hear her joints making cracking sounds for years, and she's always a little stiff when she's getting up. Over the last years, I have also noticed that one of her hind legs is giving in when she's turning around on a small spot, like the space between my keyboard and my monitor where she loves to walk). She always had weak musles in her hind legs, even as a kitten, she's never been an athletic cat. And now she has gained so much weight from her struvite crystal diet, which makes things worse.
I'm really worried about her, and at the top of it, Lily started attacking her today, taking advantage of Luna's weakness. And I cannot keep Luna from jumping! She's still jumping onto that window sill, and even from her scratching post onto the top of the cabinet! She's a brave little girl. But I fear the day I find she can no longer walk at all! :(


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The city of Atlanta owes a huge debt to Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.
During the latter stages of the U.S. Civil War, Sherman famously marched his army across Georgia destroying everything in its path, in an effort to cut supply lines to Confederate troops farther north. His "march to the sea" left the state, along with the booming metropolis of Atlanta, in ruins.
Georgia's largest city at the time, Savannah, was left intact and later "presented" by Sherman to president Abraham Lincoln in an 1864 Christmas card.
Atlanta, however, had to rebuild from scratch. Money poured in throughout the period of Southern reconstruction as several major corporations chose Atlanta for their headquarters. The result was a modern city that quickly became the economic centre of the South.
Coca-Cola, perhaps Atlanta's best-known company, was first formulated and served in 1886. Created in response to local prohibition laws, the drink was an instant hit at local soda fountains. The Coca-Cola corporation quickly set up shop in Atlanta, forever safe-guarding its "secret formula" of the drink's ingredients.
Today, the World of Coca-Cola museum attracts millions of visitors every year. Exhibits and videos detail the company's history and worldwide appeal. The company's iconic advertising history is vividly displayed via hundreds of signs, pushcarts, billboards and nearly every other advertising medium one can think of. The highlight for most visitors is the Taste It! exhibit, where visitors can try samples of Coke products from around the world.
Next door to the World of Coca-Cola is the gargantuan Georgia Aquarium. Opened in 2005, the aquarium was the brainchild of noted Jewish philanthropist Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot hardware stores.
In 2001, Marcus travelled to 13 countries and more than 50 aquariums in order to research designs that would appeal to visitors worldwide. His $250-million gift to the city of Atlanta resulted in a stunning edifice, home to more than 100,000 species of animals. Kids will especially enjoy the stingray petting tank and the incredible Dolphin Tales show.
Atlanta was home to noted U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His childhood house and church are now part of the American National Park system and have been designated a National Historic Site. The museum guides visitors through the leader's childhood in fiercely segregated Atlanta through to his adulthood as a noted Baptist preacher and civil rights activist. King and his wife, Coretta, are interred nearby.
Not to be missed is Atlanta's infamous Stone Mountain Park, the site of the 1915 revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Daughters of the Confederacy organization commissioned a massive carving on the face of the mountain as a civil war memorial in 1916. The detailed relief depicts Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis, along with generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Today, Stone Mountain Park is home to numerous attractions, including an amusement park, a historic Georgia plantation and countless miles of hiking trails.
The city's Jewish community dates back to before the Civil War. Although they made up just a tiny percentage of the city's population, by the start of the war, Jews owned a disproportionally large number of the city's retail shops.
During the early 20th century, Jews were routinely excluded from many professions and social clubs by other Southern whites, but usually didn't experience the racism felt by African-Americans. This changed dramatically in 1913 during the trial of Leo Frank. Frank, a Jewish factory worker originally from New York, was tried and convicted for the murder of a white female co-worker. His conviction was based mostly on the testimony of a black janitor; something that would never have occurred had the defendant been Christian. Frank was later abducted from prison by an angry white mob and lynched in the nearby city of Marietta.
Throughout segregation, Jewish storeowners in Atlanta were among the only whites that employed black workers and extended credit to black patrons. Atlanta's Jews were generally very supportive of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, much to the ire of their white, Christian neighbours.
Today, more than 100,000 Jews live in the Atlanta metropolitan area, making it the largest Jewish community in the "Bible Belt." While Jews are mostly centred in the North Druid Hills area of town, there are numerous smaller communities spread throughout the region. Outreach groups Chabad and Aish HaTorah have a strong presence in Atlanta and have contributed to a religious resurgence in the last decade.
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NTSB issues safety recommendations for signal maintenanceWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued four recommendations addressing safety issues related to ongoing railroad accident investigations near Madison, Ill., and Niles, Mich., involving the use of jumper wires during railroad signal maintenance operations.
As a result, NTSB recommends the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Transit Administration provide railroad employees with the best practices regarding the use of jumper wires when performing signal maintenance operations on active rails.
On Feb. 28, 2012, a southbound Amtrak train collided with an automobile at a highway-rail crossing near Madison, Ill. As a result of the accident, the automobile driver was fatally injured. At the time of the accident, two Union Pacific employees were working on the grade crossing warning system. Preliminary information resulting from the NTSB's investigation indicates that the highway-rail grade crossing warning system had been temporarily removed from service for testing, inspection and maintenance. The warning system did not activate as the train approached the crossing.
On Oct. 21, 2012, an eastbound Amtrak train was routed onto a yard track while traveling 61 mph on a mainline track in Niles, Mich. The train derailed about 254 feet beyond the power-operated switch and traveled about 1,086 feet before stopping on the yard track. The four cars and two locomotives derailed upright and in line with the track. On board the train were 165 passengers and four crewmembers. During the ongoing investigation, the NTSB investigators learned that an Amtrak signal employee was performing troubleshooting activities with jumper wires inside the signal bungalow just prior to the derailment. This action circumvented the signal system's ability to verify that the power-operated switch was properly aligned and locked in the correct position for the displayed signals.
"Required safety precautions were not taken by railroad employees during maintenance and repair activities that resulted in one fatality and put hundreds of passengers at risk," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "In railroading, what may seem like a small oversight can have deadly consequences, that is why we issue our recommendations, to shine a light on problems that need attention."


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After getting some advice I decided to just take the mags outside and do some on the grass shots as I've seen done by so many of you. They all have level x's. Don't knock the speed collars, I used to spill more paint than I shot somedays
After getting some advice I decided to just take the mags outside and do some on the grass shots as I've seen done by so many of you. They all have level x's. Don't knock the speed collars, I used to spill more paint than I shot somedays
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ehh thats really nice. i like the mini body, but only on the emags
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Other mags, and yeah that one is a Tunamag!
meh i wish i had your pay checks
Nicley done i like what you have done with them keep up the good work !
Hes hardcore, hardcore, nothing less nothing more
So does my wifeOriginally posted by PzYcO
meh i wish i had your pay checks
Those speed collars are pimp man. How much extra do they hold....I am gunna hook a extra long warp hose to a backpack full of paint....Same difference anyway with pods =_)
The emag can hold over 270 if you load the warp and hose and then put a few in the top of the collar and shut the lid!Originally posted by Bubonic Plauge
How much extra do they hold....
Where have I seen that tank before? The emag is lookin' good. I looove the mini bodies on emags. If you ever go for a sluggo, let me know, I'll take it off your hands.
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Very nice stuff...thanks for sharing with us.
"Out on the grass" heck, it snowed here today...AGAIN!
Nice guns. Quistion whay kind of front is that on the classic no rise. I swear that is a Bommstick front on a Freak back. Also how did you get the Blade trigger on the E-mag? Is it a drop in mod and how much? Thanks man.
I'll answer;
1. it is a boomstick tip; White Wolf Airsmithing makes them,
2. its a TL63 blade trigger, about 35 bucks
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Where do you buy the TL63?
send a PM to Timmy63 he is the one that makes it; you can get one from him
Yeah, like lawfox said, the trigger is not the easiest thing to install but well worth it. That boomer tip is actually a raw one but it came out pretty shiney in that pic. I plan on getting it and the micro annoed in the future. I ordered a nickel one back in Dec. and should be getting it soon, I'll take more pics then!
If your no-rise goes missing, it wasn't me.
I noticed you used a plastic hose for your nitro tank in the first gun(with the warp feed) instead of a stainless steel one. Was that so you could get to the trigger easier?
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No, thats SS hosing, its just a cover for the hosing, so it dosent scratch the gun.
Yeah, like slipknot mentioned it's just a cover. I picked up the idea from Army quite a while back. I have one on my z-gripped mag also. There's a pic of that and Army's emag here, http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...threadid=81605 It's actually a keychain thingy but it works good to avoid scratches and look neatoOriginally posted by *Exit><Wound*
I noticed you used a plastic hose for your nitro tank in the first gun(with the warp feed) instead of a stainless steel one. Was that so you could get to the trigger easier?
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I envy you. So many nice mags. Seeing as you have so many, want to give one to me
Quick someone get me a towel..I need to wipe up the drool on my desk!
Anyhow, they are all VERY VeRy NICE markers! If you cant find any of them, I'll be willing to sell em back to you free of charge, but shipping will be $2000 LOL
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I have a question. Why aren't your pictures in the bathroom or in your refridgerator?!?!?!?!?!
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Very nice chuck, I'm loving the red (as it is my fav color). Nice setup you got happening there.
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Grrrrr, z-grip, well im not a fan of them, but its a nice setup you have there.
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Chuck where in VA are you located? If youre in No. Va lets go out one day, preferably soon. I have this uncurable itch to play lately.
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ROCKFORD — A 45-year-old Rockford University residence hall has been empty for 10 years and soon it will be gone entirely as the university sets its sights on new housing developments.
McGaw, which could house as many as 210 students, closed in 2004 because the housing no longer was needed, and the seven-story building was in need of several costly upgrades.
Starting today, McGaw Hall will be taken apart, reusable parts will be salvaged and the rest will be torn down and hauled away. The building will remain standing through mid-September.
Some of the building's remains will be used to fill the swimming pool at the Seaver Physical Education Center, which the university plans to turn into a multipurpose room for sports like basketball and volleyball.
University leaders have been debating renovation versus demolition for several years. Damage to the roof this past winter, which caused flooding throughout the building, helped seal the building's fate.
Another strike against it, explained Rita Elliot, the university's director of communications, is the building's dated-design.
"It's not the modern space that today's students want," Elliot said.
Renovation estimates have neared $5 million.
According to a press release issued Monday, the university's 2015-18 strategic planning process calls for construction of new residential housing. The university has five other residence halls.
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I want my refunds as well but doubt thats going to happen
I want my refunds as well but doubt thats going to happen
i hope goose is ok,
havnt heard from him anywhere in a while, pertaining to these items.
i love my stuff i got from him,
still waiting on items but chaulked them up to a loss, no hard feelings.
i would say the averange price of participating in a pre-order.
I hope he gets these done...I might be interested in one of each what with people dropping out and all.
Originally Posted by Xmagterror
have you heard from Mongoose at all or have any updates about the parts being finished???
maybe someday they will get finished...maybe someday
has it really been 2 years?!
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what a joke. i think he was counting on AO crashing so he had an excuse not to get this done EVER
well now he's probably hoping the 2012 thing comes to pass... You don't have to give out refunds if we're all dead!Originally Posted by river031403
he as a bunch of parts 4 sale on Ebay? so someone from VD must still be alive????
yeah its the hydro'd parts.Originally Posted by need4reebs
im still waiting on a hydro'd snatch, panels, trigger and 2 forgrips.
i saw that stuff made me laugh alittle. it would be really nice to get my green hydro parts like i thought were coming.
<b>mongoose<b/> if you see this post hit me up.
Dear blackkryptonite819,
hello, I haven't been able to sign into AO. Everyone on AO and BEO that are waiting will be getting their orders this week if they havent already. Just about everything is back with the exception of the last bodies...we are still waiting on them to complete. All Existing Orders will be Fulfilled. The BEST way to contact us is at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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From the horses mouth. Let's hope it all comes through.
Got some ocean front property in arizona for sale?
Be great if this is true
I'll give you a free balloon for a dollar
looks like most of the stuff your waiting for are on ebay except the trigger.Originally Posted by knownothingmags
I've read that post so many times this past year.Originally Posted by Carnage reigns
looks to be good this time.
Maybe we should start a pool.
I was asked to provide the email: firstname.lastname@example.com
and tell everyone who is waiting on parts to please email Mongoose.
he is getting things ready to send parts out to people,
i am not 100% on what he has and doesnt have.
email him and he will explain and talk with you one on one to get things worked out.
so I emailed him and was surprised I got a response but this is what he saidOriginally Posted by knownothingmags
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we are in full production on the bodies V.2 and V.3. Due to all the money already invested into making these we cannot give out refunds at this time. however this will be our last and final attempt to get these bodies finished. If we cannot get these done soon we will refund everything you have paid. We have your V.1 done and ready and your rail is currently at anno and is expected back soon. i can go ahead and ship out these two parts to you and owe you the body or refund on body.
I guess I'm not a getting a refund yet.
Can't you report this to eBay? This way maybe they would finally take care if you guy's? Basically if they can't sell on eBay maybe they would nut up and do what they say they were gonna do in the first place? Or maybe they would just change there business name and do the same thing over and over and over again and again
not really too worried about it.Originally Posted by river031403
there have been way longer waits for parts on AO then this.
every once in a while you get a ray of hope.
it will be nice to get the stuff soon.
Just emailed with him to confirm my address for sending me my grip...
Here's hoping this is at the end!
I got mine, just message him. If you're waiting on hydro stuff, you'll have to wait
I doubt I get mine before Saturday. Bummer because it'll be the last time I play for a while
I emailed him yesterday and we messaged each other back and forth a few times. Today, he sent me the tracking number for my parts
got my parts in today and they look great!
i know its been quite the process for people, but hopefully it turns out ok for everyone else, too.
We received some of our parts back and are shipping things out. Your Part(s) are still in production. i will contact you as soon as they are completed."
This was all I got after contacting him. No mention of what parts hes got left to do, no mention of my multiple demands for a refund. His response makes me wonder if he even remembers what "part(s)" he owes me.
The Response I got was positive for a refund on my products. with a promise of pp money being sent soon.Originally Posted by Spazmok
can we get some pics put up of parts received?


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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Senior Brinson Paolini fired a season-best 67 (-5) to guide 10th-ranked Duke into the lead at the Wolfpack Spring Open with a two-under 286. The Blue Devils enter tomorrow's final round at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course with a three-shot advantage over host N.C. State.
"Brinson did an outstanding job of staying present out there," said head coach Jamie Green. "He kept himself in position all day long and when you have the right mindset you can finish strong. Obviously, we are proud of him and the team is thankful for him carrying the way a little bit."
Paolini and senior Adam Sumrall each played under-par golf in leading Duke to its 10th under-par round of the season. N.C. State is second at +1 (289) with Clemson (+3, 291), St. John's (+6, 294) and Francis Marion (+9, 297) rounding out the top five.
Paolini and Clemson's Miller Capps share the individual lead after posting five-under 67s. Ryan McCormick (St. John's) is one shot back with Sebastian Backlund (Francis Marion) three shots off the pace at two-under. Sumrall and Albin Choi (N.C. State) are tied for fifth after shooting one-under 71s. Duke entire five-man lineup as well as its two individuals closed the opening day of play inside the top 20 on the individual leaderboard.
Beginning the day on the back nine at the Lonnie Poole GC, Paolini sat a one-over after three holes of play. He moved back to even-par with a birdie on the par 3 14th hole before moving to two-under after birdies on No. 16 and No. 17. The Virginia Beach, Va., native added a birdie on the par 5 third hole but suffered his second bogey on the day on No. 5. Paolini recovered quickly with birdies on No. 6 (par 3), No. 7 (par 5) and No. 8 (par 3) to move to five-under. He parred the par 4 ninth hole to put a cap on his team-leading 11 under-par round of the season.
"I was fortunate to hit it well all day," said Paolini, who birdied all four par 3s in the round. "I focused on staying present and patient and it paid off with some good birdies to close out the round. As a team, we're excited to be in contention with a good opportunity to win tomorrow."
Sumrall got off to a good start with a pair of pars and a birdie on par 4 12th hole. His round took a drastic turn with a double-bogey and two bogeys over the final four holes of the opening nine. After the turn, Sumrall played flawless golf with four birdies and five pars for his 10th round of even-par or better golf. He began the turn around with a birdie on the par 5 first hole and added birdies on No. 3 (par 5) and No. 4 (par 4) to climb back to even-par. After collecting a birdie on the par 3 sixth hole, Sumrall closed with three straight pars to record one of six under-par rounds on the day.
"I cracked my driver on the second hole of the day and like an idiot I kept trying to use it for a few more holes because of the length of the Lonnie Poole Golf Course," said Sumrall. "I finally shelved the driver after the double on No. 15. On the second nine, I had to accept that I couldn't play with a driver and I was able to get back to playing solid golf."
Seniors Tim Gornik and Julian Suri, both playing as individuals, each posted one-over 73s and are tied for 13th. Gornik recorded 13 pars, two birdies and three bogeys on the day, while Suri recorded four birdies and nine pars.
The trio of Austin Cody, Mads Soegaard and Motin Yeung is tied for 19th after each player registered a two-over 74 in the opening round of action. Cody and Yeung were both at even-par before suffering bogey-bogey finishes Saturday. Soegaard played his opening nine holes at three-over. He bounced back to birdie both par 5s after the turn to climb into the top 20 of the leaderboard.
Complete stats as well as final round tee times are available at www.golfstat.com. Duke is paired with ACC foes N.C. State and Clemson for tomorrow's final round with tee times beginning at 9:30 a.m.


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quote:A good trade for Toronto would be getting Mats Sundin and Garth Butcher for Wendel Clark, Todd Warriner and Slyvain Lefebre.
quote:Originally posted by AlexI couldn't find the story ... maybe want to copy and paste it? It could be that I am a sped. reader Habs get number 25 this year
quote:Originally posted by hkalirahI just thought of another one. In 1993, the Winnipeg Jets traded Kris Draper to Detroit for $1. Yes, One dollar.A couple more years and Draper will have played 1000 games, won an olympic gold medal, and became one of the best penalty killers in the league.Go Wings Go!
quote:Originally posted by AntromanBarry Pederson from Boston to Vancouver for Cam Heely...OUCH!!!
quote:Originally posted by AlexGuys do me a favour and stop with the codes. I'm ignorant, sue me! Who is number 12?Habs get number 25 this year
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The discussion thus far establishes a baseline of what developers are used to having when they work against data sources. What happens when the schema changes? You can easily recognize the changes and you can write your queries in accordance with the newly added column names as soon as the IntelliSense engine refreshes the data. It's easy and transparent.
Statically typed languages have an impedance mismatch problem and they don't provide an elegant way of handling schema changes. F# is a statically typed programming language that includes type abbreviations and units of measure that make it easy to specify primitive data types. However, there is an outside world with typed data that is dissociated from your F# code. Different kinds of tools generate wrappers in order to allow you to write code with types that are friendly for your programming language. In some cases, you end up including separate assemblies compiled from C# code or other .NET languages in order to consume data sources in F#.
Consider my simple database. No matter the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) you might use in your application, you need to run some kind of automatic or manual process to update the mappings. However, that isn't the only problem; you also need to consider that task's impact on both the build process and source control. In some cases, you don't have to leave the IDE to perform those tasks, but in other cases, you have to use external tools, such as command line utilities.
The problem is worse when you have to consume big data in the cloud: Different Web services and APIs that have extremely complex schemas that are continuously changing. In those cases, it is necessary to use different kinds of code generators to acquire the necessary type translations for the programming languages. In addition, there is often a loss of type information. Think about your usual procedure to consume a Web service in .NET languages. Whenever there is a schema change, you need to update the service references. In some cases, because schemas are changing all the time, it is a big problem to continue using that mechanism. In other cases, it becomes impossible because the code generation tools take too much time and too many resources to build entire schemas, and there are schemas that are truly huge on the Web.
The problem fundamentally is: Why spend time analyzing and solving the impedance mismatch problem of statically typed languages and their way of handling schema changes? F# 3.0 type providers come to the rescue and enable you to focus on your code without having to worry about schema changes and updates.
F# 3.0 type providers generate the necessary wrappers at design time while you're writing code in either the IDE or the FSI (short for F# Interactive) window. As I'll show, everything magical happens under the hood and you don't have to maintain extra source code.
Accessing a SQL Server Database with a LINQ to SQL Type Provider
F# 3.0 provides the four different type providers to connect to SQL databases:
DbmlFile(LINQ to SQL)
EdmxFile(Entity Framework)
SqlDataConnection(LINQ to SQL)
SqlEntityConnection(Entity Framework)
In this first example of type providers, I'll use
SqlDataConnection (LINQ to SQL) to consume data from the sample database. After creating a new F# project, it is necessary to follow the next steps before using the
SqlDataConnection type provider:
- Right click on References in Solution Explorer, and select Add Reference… The Reference Manager dialog box will appear. Click on Assemblies | Framework in the left pane, check both
System.Data.Linq(see Figure 4).
Figure 4: Adding the necessary Framework references.
- Click on Assemblies | Extensions in the left pane. Then, check
FSharp.Data.TypeProviders(see Figure 5).
Figure 5: Adding the necessary Extensions reference.
The Type Provider Security dialog box will appear indicating that you've opened a source code file in a project that references a type provider (see Figure 6).
Figure 6: Warning dialog box.
- If you trust the type provider assembly, click Enable (in this case, you trust it, but you must be careful with providers from untrusted third parties). Your project references will include the
FSharp.Data.TypeProviders(see Figure 7).
Figure 7: The project references after you finished added the necessary assemblies to use the Microsoft SQL Server type provider.
If you prefer the F# script and you want to work in the FSI window, the following lines will do the same thing. Note that you will have to execute them if you want to test code in the FSI window related to the SqlDataConnection type provider.
#r "System.Data" #r "System.Data.Linq" #r "FSharp.Data.TypeProviders"
As soon as you specify a value for
ConnectionString at design time, the type provider will try to establish a connection to the specified database server. The type provider must retrieve data for the Intellisense engine. This way, the type provider will display an error when you enter an invalid connection string. For example, the following lines won't establish any connection:
open Microsoft.FSharp.Data.TypeProviders type SqlServerConnection = SqlDataConnection<ConnectionString = @"WrongConnectionString">
Of course,
"WrongConnectionString" is an invalid connection string; therefore, the IDE will display the following error at design-time:
'Microsoft.FSharp.Data.TypeProviders.DesignTime.DataProviders' reported an error: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0 (see Figure 8).
Figure 8: The type provider reporting an error with an invalid connection string.
If the type provider isn't able to retrieve the schema, it provides detailed information at design time that allows you to easily troubleshoot the problem. For example, I'm using a SQL Server instance running on system WIN8X64, and the initial catalog should be Retrogames. The following lines specify an incorrect
Initial Catalog: RetrogamesWrong:
open Microsoft.FSharp.Data.TypeProviders type SqlServerConnection = SqlDataConnection<ConnectionString = @"Data Source=WIN8X64;Initial Catalog=RetrogamesWrong;Integrated Security=True">
The IDE displays the following error at design time:
The type provider 'Microsoft.FSharp.Data.TypeProviders.DesignTime.DataProviders' reported an error: Cannot open database "RetrogamesWrong" requested by the login. The login failed for user 'WIN8X64\gaston' (see Figure 9).
Figure 9: The type provider reporting an error with a wrong initial catalog specified in the connection string.


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Raymond father and son front Christian rock bandBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent March 06. 2013 10:48PM
The father-son duo of Mike, right, and Jordan Tarmy, both of Raymond, formed Cryin' Shame, a Christian rock band that recently signed a recording contract. Their first album is due for release on April 23. (COURTESY)
RAYMOND - If someone had asked Mike Tarmy 10 years ago what his life would look like now, he probably would not have said he expected to sign a record contract or that he would be performing Christian rock music with his son.
A lifelong music lover, Tarmy played guitar in various bands in the 1980s, but after his children were born, in 1986 and 1989, he put down the guitar and focused on his duties as a dad.
Then, about seven years ago, he began attending NorthRidge Church in Derry with his second wife and, he said, something just "clicked."
Tarmy came home from church one day, wrote a song he called "Blood of Christ" and invited his son Jordan, 24, over to sing it.
"We had never done anything (musically) together before this," Mike Tarmy said. "(Jordan) saw the title and wasn't really too thrilled."
Nevertheless, Jordan Tarmy sang the song, and it sounded good - so good that his father sent the recording to a bunch of recording companies.
Four days later, Mike got a call from Tate Music Group.
He told the company he had eight songs ready to go (despite only having one), signed a contract and got to work.
Cryin' Shame's first album is scheduled for release on April 23.
Tarmy said if it were not for a conversation with Pastor Mike Mills of Derry's NorthRidge Church seven years ago, his dream might not have been realized.
At the time, Tarmy was a jack-of-all-trades who worked repairing and cleaning boilers while running his own video-recording business. He was assigned a boiler job at Mills' home, and the two got to talking about God, religion and the Bible, all subjects that had fascinated Tarmy since he was a 9-year-old boy reading "Revelations." Mills asked Tarmy if he would film a session at NorthRidge Church, and the rest, as they say, is history.
"I ended up going and filming a session for (Mills) at the church, and I was going to get paid for it at the end of the session," Tarmy said, "and I was just so intrigued I didn't charge him."
Raised in the Catholic faith, Tarmy said he always had many questions about God, church and religion.
The church music to which he was accustomed didn't sound like rock and roll, but it did at NorthRidge.
"I'm thinking Christian music is 'Kumbaya,' and I'm hearing guitars and metal and drums and saying, 'What is this?' So it brought out my Aerosmith and Van Halen, and I said, 'I can do this'," Tarmy recalled.
Since the father-son duo recorded that first song together, Mike Tarmy said, Jordan has joined him at church faithfully each Sunday.
It may be Tarmy's greatest gift. For three years while Jordan was an adolescent, the two did not speak.
"Now we're tighter than ever," the elder Tarmy said.
The band also has a drummer, Bill Melanson, with whom they performed their first gig outside of church recently at Joker's in Manchester to a packed house.
After their album is released, Cryin' Shame will do a bit of promotional work in the area, including CD signings and a bit of playing at the Be A Blessing Christian Bookstore in Seabrook on April 27 from 1-3 p.m.
The name of the album is "Too Late." Tarmy said the message is that there is a hell, and there is a heaven, but if one sits back and listens to the stories of Jesus and the Bible, one can be saved.
"It might sound like I'm a real fanatical Christian; I'm really not. I'm more down to earth, but at the same time, I would like someone to say, 'That could change my life ... This could be different for me,'" Tarmy said. "I was a rough-looking guy at some point, and here I am doing Christian rock."
Another song on the album, titled "Hell," talks about someone living a hard life but finding a way out. That one, Tarmy said, is at least partly autobiographical.
"For me, (church) changed my life," he said.


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If you can't compete, litigate. This train of thought has been quite prevalent among major technology companies as of late, most notably by Apple and Microsoft, who both cannot compete with Android on merit, so they have to resort to patent lawsuits and FUD. Both Asustek and Acer have revealed that Microsoft plans to impose royalty fees upon the two Taiwanese hardware makers to prevent them from shipping Android and/or Chrome OS devices.
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"Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
If you've ever used that line during a disagreement, you might want to think again. Forcing eye contact when trying to change someone's mind may actually cause listeners to become more stubborn, a new study shows.
Researchers found that subjects made to hold eye contact with a speaker were less open-minded and held steadfast to their original opinion, more so than those who looked elsewhere.
"Eye contact is a very intimate thing," said Julia Minson, study author and a Harvard University social psychologist. "So when you're in a situation that feels confrontational, I think it's more likely to put people off."
Locking eyes with another person can feel bonding or threatening, depending on the context. Between a mother and her infant, eye contact helps build a stronger connection. Exchanging flirty glances across a crowded bar heightens attraction and activates pleasure centers in the brain.
But in other situations, a head-on stare can be the human equivalent of a bull getting ready to charge. Think of those old Western movies where two gunslingers have a stare-down amidst the tumbleweeds before a shootout.
"When animals make eye contact, it's usually prior to a dominance contest," Minson said. "Dogs aren't going to look each other in the eye unless they're about to fight."
When two people disagree, the context more so resembles a dominance contest than intimate bonding, she said, and can make a direct gaze seem aggressive.
"It's already a tense situation," said Frances Chen, the other study author and a social psychologist. "That's a very primal way that eye contact is used."
The findings contradict a common belief that locking eyes with objects of your persuasion will promote closeness and help sway them more easily.
Prior to the experiment, participants were surveyed on their opinions on various hot-button topics such as animal-farming practices and nuclear energy. The researchers then had them watch videotaped speeches supporting the opposing viewpoint while using eye-tracking technology. Afterward, the subjects were asked whether their attitude had changed.
The ones who focused on the speakers' gaze were less likely to budge than those looking at other parts of the speaker's face.
"People were less open-minded and receptive the more they look at the eyes," Chen said.
Researchers tested spontaneous and forced eye contact. In the first experiment, they didn't specify an area of gaze focus, but in the second, they told the subjects to stare at either the speaker's eyes or mouth. The results — that eye contact was tied to less opinion change — were the same.
The study was published online Wednesday in the journal Psychological Science.
Minson and Chen met in graduate school and found a common interest in what makes people receptive to persuasion. Or, as is more often the case, why it can fail even in the face of clear-cut evidence to the contrary.
"Regular run-of-the-mill people have a very hard time changing their mind," Minson said. "Obviously, looking at the current political issues, this is not a trivial problem."
She teaches negotiation analysis at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and says the results of the study can help people in different areas — from the boardroom to the household.
"I've got two little kids, and when I'm not happy with them and trying to convince them that some particular thing is unsafe, I don't try to force eye contact or say 'Look at me!' I resist that urge as a parent," Minson said.
Joe Navarro, a 25-year veteran of the FBI and an expert on body language, found that agents have more success with coaxing information out of interviewees when they avoid direct eye contact.
"It was easier to get people to confess by not sitting directly in front of them, which is a very primate antagonistic behavior with a lot of eye contact," Navarro said in an email. "What worked best was just to sit at angles to them so there is less eye contact."


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DURHAM, N.C. – Senior Henrique Cunha continued his dominant senior season with a win in singles and doubles, as the ninth-ranked Duke men's tennis team swept No. 53 Miami, 7-0, Sunday afternoon at Ambler Tennis Stadium. The Blue Devils advance to 19-4 for the season and 7-1 in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) play, while the Hurricanes fall to 13-10 overall and 2-6 in ACC action.
"Overall, it was a really solid effort, especially in singles," said head coach Ramsey Smith. "We didn't lose a set, didn't really come close to losing a set. Miami is a solid team and I am really happy with our performance"
The Blue Devils opened the doubles portion of the match in impressive fashion, sweeping Miami on all three courts. The tandem of Michael Redlicki and Jason Tahir won the first match of the day at the No. 2 spot in the lineup over Diego Soto and Wilfredo Flores, 8-5. The win is their 21st of the season. At the third position, the tandem of Chris Mengel and Fred Saba clinched the opening point after downing Marco Stancati and Henrique Tsukanoto, 8-3.
"It has been good to have a consistent partner," said Tahir. "I feel like when we bring a lot of energy, we are playing aggressively and we are tough to beat. It has been good."
At the top spot in the lineup, the top-ranked team of Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler completed the sweep with their 10th consecutive win over Omar Aly and Wilfredo Gonzalez, 8-4. The duo has now won at least 10 straight matches for the second time this season, as they won 16 consecutive earlier in the year. In addition, Cunha and Hemmeler become just the fourth pair in program history to win 30 matches in a season, as they now own a 30-3 overall record.
The Blue Devils continued to keep the pressure on the Hurricanes in the singles portion, as Tahir captured 11 straight games to open his match on his way to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Victor Mauz. The sophomore now owns a 17-1 mark for the spring.
"I was just trying to focus on every point," Tahir said. "I was just trying to get better on what I worked on in practice this whole week. I felt that helped me earn the win today."
At the top position, Cunha remained unbeaten for the spring with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Soto. The senior quickly went up 4-0 in the first set, before winning the set, 6-1. In the second, Cunha won the first five games en route to a 6-1, 6-1 win. The win for Cunha is his 27th of the season and his 15th consecutive to open the spring campaign.
In his match at the fourth position, Mengel was able to win the first break of the match at 2-1, en route to winning the first set, 6-2. In the second, the junior quickly dispatched Aly in six straight games, 6-2, 6-0, to seal the win for Duke.
Hemmeler picked up his team-leading 30th win on court five over Stancati, 6-3, 6-3, while Saba downed Flores on court two, 6-3, 6-3. Redlicki completed the sweep for the Blue Devils with a 6-4, 6-3 win at the No. 3 spot in the lineup over Gonzalez.
Up next, the Blue Devils will play their final two matches of the regular season next weekend, as they host Boston College Friday, April 2 at 3 p.m., Duke concludes its regular season against N.C. State Sunday, April 4 at 1 p.m. The squad's lone senior Henrique Cunha will be honored prior to the match.
Tennis Match Results
Miami vs Duke
Apr 14, 2013 at Durham, N.C.
(Ambler Tennis Stadium)
#9 Duke 7, #53 Miami 0
Singles competition
1. #3 Henrique Cunha (DU) def. Diego Soto (UM) 6-1, 6-1
2. #26 Fred Saba (DU) def. Gabriel Flores (UM) 6-3, 6-3
3. #43 Michael Redlicki (DU) def. Wilfredo Gonzalez (UM) 6-4, 6-3
4. #112 Chris Mengel (DU) def. Omar Aly (UM) 6-2, 6-0
5. #71 Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. Marco Stancati (UM) 6-3, 6-3
6. Jason Tahir (DU) def. Victor Mauz (UM) 6-0, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. #1 Henrique Cunha/Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. Omar Aly/Wilfredo Gonzalez (UM) 8-4
2. #17 Michael Redlicki/Jason Tahir (DU) def. Diego Soto/Gabriel Flores (UM) 8-5
3. #61 Fred Saba/Chris Mengel (DU) def. Marco Stancati/Henrique Tsukamoto (UM) 8-3
Match Notes:
Miami 13-10; National ranking #53
Duke 19-4; National ranking #9
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1); Singles (6,1,4,5,2,3)