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No flame here. I've heard they stand to take a big cap hit if they release him.
If Charlie Weis could get a productive season from him, then one would think Reid could also.
Cassel's problem is his track record against teams with winning records. I just can't see him being a Chief after 2013, as it's already been established that he doesn't have consistency when it comes to throwing the football.


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By Peggy Herrick
Twelve years ago, on a clear February morning, I launched my kayak into the Gulf and paddled south and then east on the Cross Florida Barge Canal toward the dam that was designed to carry commercial boat traffic into Lake Rousseau and a waterway that would cross the peninsula to the St John's River. In the 30s, crews of WPA workers dug and built structures to divert Florida's water, connect several waterways and create this canal across the state. Because of conservation heroes like Marjorie Carr, this plan was never realized.
During the year of my travel and art-making, I witnessed many historical changes that occurred to the Waccasassa, Ocklawaha and Crystal Rivers and to the Rodman Reservoir. I saw the extreme changes that have been wrought by man. My goal in 1999 was to create a journey daybook and document my observations of this swath of land that later was set aside as the Marjorie Carr Greenway. In May of 2000 I finished my journey as I paddled into the wide St John's River at Welaka, south of Palatka. My journey daybook was finished and has been exhibited nationally during the past ten years.
On June 23rd, I returned to the Silver River State Park, near Silver Springs, for an important water rally – a bi-partisan conservation gathering that addressed the holistic problems of Florida's water environmental stewardship, the north Florida springs and water use by bottlers, cattle ranchers and city water systems. This day especially celebrated the pristine Silver River and its beautiful, historic springs. Many conservation organizations were spotlighted and there were speakers, including keynoters, Democratic ex-governor, Bob Graham and Republican state senator Lee Constantine and photography artists, Clyde Butcher and John Moran.
There were exhibits by the Sierra Club and our own "Blue Path," the newest organization started by artists Annie Pais and Stewart Thomas. This new project spotlights the need for preservation of north Florida's precious water. Former Cedar Key resident, Cynthia Barnett's recent book, "The Blue Revolution" was also featured. A petition was circulated to urge our Tallahassee lawmakers to attend to water conservation issues right now.
Most of us are aware of our own drinking water problems in Cedar Key. Is the intrusion of salt water into our drinking water connected to these state-wide water conservation questions? I think so! Our underground aquifer connects all Floridians, and thus, we are all in this together! I believe that we need to be vigilant to the effects of water problems in places like Lakeland, Zephyrhills and Crystal River as well as in Cedar Key. The present flooding in Live Oak and other Suwannee River communities is also important to us. And, our own lack of safe drinking water here is an issue that is presently garnering the attention of other concerned people throughout the state.
Water is our life blood. Without it, we die!
Please check out the following resources for more information about our connection to Florida's water problems:
Molly Jubitz, The Cedar Key Library, "The Blue Path, thebluepath.org.
The Florida Sierra Club, florida.sierraclub.org.
Cynthia Barnett, "The Blue Revolution" – the book is available at the library and at Amazon in hardback, paperback, and Kindle additions.
Lois Benninghoff, Dorothy and Earl Starnes and I attended the rally at Silver River State Park.
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In discussing his first recruiting class at an afternoon press conference today, MacIntyre said after watching film of those 10 recruits back in December, he decided that all 10 players who had committed to Embree's staff were Pac-12 caliber athletes and he would honor their offers. He also said it was the right thing to do.
"This is always like Christmas to me," MacIntyre said. "...When we got the job, the next day I called the 10 young men that were committed and the thing I'm really, really proud of is all 10 young men stuck. And they were bombarded."
Every member of Colorado's 2013 football recruiting class signed national letters of intent with the program before 10 a.m., removing any drama from national signing day in Boulder.
MacIntyre will have 23 new scholarship players in the program including two players who joined the program in January and three who were a part of last year's recruiting class but delayed their enrollment until this spring. A total of 18 recruits actually signed national letters of intent with the program today.
Among that group of 18 recruits is Sefo Liufau, the newest quarterback in the program. He is a 6-foot-4, 215-pound product of Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, Wash. Liufau joins a crowded quarterback meeting room at CU where there are already six signal callers.
A true freshman quarterback has never started the season opener at Colorado, but MacIntyre didn't rule out that possibility in 2013 with Liufau.
"I haven't been on the field with everybody yet," MacIntyre said. "I'm excited about Sefo, but I don't want to put all that pressure on him and when he gets here, we'll see how he's progressing. But I think he has the body type and I think he has the intelligence and he played in a good program there, but we'll just have to wait and see how everything unfolds."
Two members of the class waited until today to make their college choices public.
Defensive back Chidobe Awuzie from Oak Grove High School in San Jose, Calif., chose CU over San Jose State and Washington State. Awuzie is one of 13 three-star prospects to commit to CU. The Buffs don't have a recruit in this class rated with more than three stars by Rivals.com.
Another defensive back, Tedric Thompson from Valencia High School in Valencia, Calif., also chose the Buffs this morning over offers from Minnesota, Washington State, UNLV and Fresno State.
CU signed three California wide receivers who will add more speed and playmaking ability to a CU offense that lacked those traits last season after losing Paul Richardson to a knee injury in the spring. But Richardson and 2012 signee Jeff Thomas to the mix should make the biggest difference. Both have big-time speed and athleticism.
The three new wide receivers are Bryce Bobo from Charter Oak High School in Covina, Calif., Elijah Dunston from Chaminade High School in West Hills, Calif., and Devin Ross from Bishop Alemany High School in Altadena, Calif.
CU landed 12 recruits from California, three from Texas, three from Colorado and one from Washington.
CU signed five offensive linemen and five linebackers in this class. Both were positions of need in terms of adding depth. A year ago, the area of need was defensive line and CU signed nine defensive linemen in 2012. This year the program added just two defensive lineman, Timothy Coleman of Mullen High School in Denver and Jimmie Gilbert from A&M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas.
Phillip Lindsay, a running back from Denver South who suffered a knee injury during his senior season last fall, could play either running back or defensive back in Boulder. He would be one of two running backs in the class if that is where he ends up. The other running back signed today is Michael Adkins, a 5-10, 190-pound product of Helix High School in San Diego.
Two linebackers who signed with the program in January and enrolled in spring semester classes will be eligible to participate in spring ball, which starts March 7. They are Markeis Reed and Addison Gillam.
Gillam initially signed with MacIntyre at San Jose State last year and decided to grayshirt in 2012. When MacIntyre was hired at CU, Gillam decided to follow him to Boulder instead of remaining with the Spartans.
Rivals.com team rankings are likely to change over the next 48 hours, but this will be the lowest ranked class in years at CU. It's no surprise considering the Buffs are coming off a 1-11 season and haven't had a winning season since 2005.
Rivals.com ranked CU's class 69th in the nation and last in the Pac-12 Confernece as of 10 a.m.
Here is the entire 2013 recruiting class.
2013 CU FOOTBALL COMMITMENTS (rankings from Rivals.com)
RB Michael Adkins, 5-11, 195, La Mesa, Calif. (Helix HS) two stars
DB Chidobe Awuzie, 6-0, 190, San Jose, Calif. (Oak Grove) three stars
WR Bryce Bobo, 6-3, 175, Covina, Calif. (Charter Oak HS) three stars
DE Tim Coleman, 6-3, 243, Aurora, (Mullen HS) two stars
WR Elijah Dunston, 6-1, 180, West Hills, Calif. (Chaminade HS) three stars
LB George Frazier, 6-2, 230, Monrovia, Calif. (Monrovia HS) two stars
LB Jimmie Gilbert, 6-4, 205, College Station, Texas (A&M Consolidated HS) three stars
OL Gunnar Graham, 6-6, 280, Kentfield, Calif., (Marin Catholic HS) three stars
OL Jonathan Huckins, 6-4, 306, The Woodlands, Texas (The Woodlands HS) three stars
OL Sam Kronshage, 6-5, 290, The Woodlands, Texas (The Woodlands HS) three stars
RB Phillip Lindsay, 5-10, 173, Denver (Denver South HS) three stars
OL John Lisella, 6-4, 245, Littleton, (Columbine HS) two stars
QB Sefo Liufau, 6-4, 215, Tacoma, Wash. (Bellarmine Prep) three stars
ATH Kenneth Olugbode, 6-0, 180, San Jose, Calif. (Bellarmine Prep), two stars
WR Devin Ross, 5-9, 170, Mission Hills, Calif. (Bishop Alemany HS), three stars
ATH Ryan Severson, 5-11, 195, San Jose, Calif, (Valley Christian HS), two stars
OL Colin Sutton, 6-5, 290, Orange, Calif. (Lutheran HS) three stars
DB Tedric Thompson, 6-1, 200, Valencia, Calif. (Valencia HS) three stars.
LB Addison Gillam, 6-3, 225, Palo Cedro, Calif., (Foothill HS) two stars
LB Markeis Reed, 6-5, 210, Napa, Calif. (Vintage HS) three stars
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Truss- thats normal for the lvl 10, it needs a higher pressure to operate so once it gets down below a certain point it doesn't shoot. i usually only get 600 - 700 shots on a 3000psi tank which is also normal for a mag or at least its normal for my mag.
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by April Flores
Yo soy poderosa por que yo hablo contra las injusticias para que la generación de mi hija tenga un mejor futuro.
Yo soy poderosa por que yo quiero lo major para mi comunidad. Yo quiero ver un cambio por el bien, y por la gente.
My name is April Flores and I am mother, a college student, and activist. Currently, I am intern for the Texas Freedom Network and a Cultural Advocacy Mobilization Initiative participant for Advocates for Youth (AFY).
If it were not for TFN and AFY, never before would I have participated or created events focused on activism. I live in a predominantly Latino community and statistics show that many people are not politically involved. At the time, I felt that TFN would be a great opportunity for me to become politically involved. They provided me with the opportunities, tools, knowledge, and constant support to become an empowered Latina activist.
TFN has become the only political organization on my campus that engages others in advocacy work. TFN brought awareness to political involvement and took civic engagement to an entirely different level on my campus. Also, it brought awareness to issues that are truly important to an area located on the U.S.-Mexico border, which is mostly populated by Latinos.
The TFN Student Chapter has participated and created several events focused on bringing awareness to comprehensive sex education, teenage pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. Not only did people sign petitions, we talked to people about safe sex and why it is important to have comprehensive sex education. Also, we gave away free condoms! The Great American Condom Campaign assisted us by awarding us with 500 condoms. For these events, there were over 300 petitions signed for comprehensive sex education in Texas. Lastly, we provided medically-accurate information regarding statistics, contraceptives, and STI/STD prevention. In one event, we had local bands playing! My second accomplishment is that I have started that conversation about the importance of sex education. We initiated a movement when we talk about it and inform others. Because of TFN and AFY, I started that dialogue. And it is also about changing the dialogue and the stigma that comes with teenage pregnancy.
I became pregnant at 18 and had my daughter at 19. I did not know this then, but my pregnancy was considered a teen pregnancy. When I found out that TFN's beliefs included comprehensive sex education, I immediately thought of my own life and the hardships that come from being a young single parent. I knew I had to give teenagers the facts because no one else would, especially in Texas! Before, I do not remember any advocacy work on teenage pregnancy and comprehensive sex education. Some of the issues that I advocate for greatly affect my community because there is a lack of information and education.
The most crucial project I am working on at the moment is voter registration in Brownsville. Not only are we registering people, but we are getting out the vote! People tend to only register and not vote. It is a two-step process. We are focusing on the youth vote because statistics show that they are less likely to vote. We are informing and empowering youth to exercise their right to vote. This project is also focused on the State Board of Education (SBOE) elections in Texas. We want to elect competent individuals in the SBOE who will work toward providing quality education to children and adolescents in Texas schools. We do not want censorship. Among other things, we want comprehensive sex education in schools! What I love the most about this project is that is not just based in Brownsville. Other TFN Student Chapters are working on the same project but in their regions; among these include the University of Texas at Austin, University of Houston, and University of Texas at El Paso. For this civic engagement project, we are hitting every place we can to register people. We will be block walking, phone banking, and tabling. I hope to hold a huge voter registration music event at my campus! I am also talking to other organizations in Brownsville, including the Center for Civic Engagement at UTB.
It is important to understand and recognize oppressive systems. We must not stay quiet and we must question and speak out against something that is not right. We must exercise our power through voting and civic engagement and not just in election years.
Lastly, I am working on is UB Academy. This is a collaborative effort between United Brownsville, a non-profit organization based in Brownsville, Texas, and a few youth leaders like myself. UB Academy's mission is to improve community awareness within the cohort of students participating in this leadership training by engaging and organizing in positive and meaningful activities, meeting local elected officials, college professors, and community leaders, and attending various workshops to further develop as a leader. I am assisting United Brownsville by crafting this groundbreaking academy for youth leaders. In addition, I will be a mentor to participants of UB Academy.
Growing up in poor neighborhoods all my life has inspired me to run for public office and represent those areas that are being ignored, such as Cameron Park, the poorest in the nation. I saw the injustices in my poor neighborhoods and in my friends. I cannot sit and wait any longer. I want something better for my community. I want to see my community progress. What I love about Brownsville is that there is tremendous potential for everything. Now, I feel that there are more opportunities available to make a difference.
I admit that my greatest weakness is that I want to do so much. Even if I cannot make a complete change, I can lay the groundwork or advocacy and organizing for others. In turn, this will allow them to achieve greater results.
April Flores is an intern and Chapter President of the Texas Freedom Network who is a partner of Advocates for Youth in the Cultural Advocacy and Mobilization Initiative.


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DURHAM, N.C. – Junior Matt Berezo, sophomore Grant McCabe and freshman Kenny Koplove had three hits each as the Duke baseball team won its fifth straight Tuesday evening, downing visiting Davidson 9-3 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Davidson (8-19, 5-11 SoCon) opened the game with an early 1-0 lead, but Duke (17-13, 6-6 ACC) scored at least one run in four of the five opening frames to secure an advantage it would not relinquish the rest of the way. The Blue Devils churned out 13 hits and capitalized on nine walks issued by the Wildcat pitchers.
Berezo finished the night 3-for-4 at the plate with a season-high three RBI, while McCabe went 3-for-5 with three runs scored. Koplove raised his average to a team-best .354 with his 3-for-5 performance against the Wildcats. The Duke freshman shortstop also knocked in an RBI and scored a run in the contest.
Rookie James Marvel (4-2) recorded his fourth victory in as many starts, going five complete with a career-high seven strikeouts. The Moraga, Calif., native allowed two runs on six hits and did not issue a walk.
Davidson's first two batters – Sam Foy and Michael Zeblo - both singled to center to lead off the game as the Wildcats had runners at second and third with no outs. Marvel got a strikeout and a groundout before a Ryan Lowe infield single scored the first run of the night. Zeblo also tried to score on the play, but was gunned down at the plate by Duke first baseman Chris Marconcini.
Duke wasted little time answering, putting two runs on the board in the bottom half of the inning. Senior Jeff Kremer, who ended the night with three walks, got the offense started with a base on balls before swiping second. Junior Jordan Betts extended his current hit streak to 12 games with an RBI double to left to tie the game at 1-1. Redshirt sophomore Chris Marconcini skied a ball on the infield the following pitch, but Foy was unable to make the catch, resulting in a 2-1 advantage for the Blue Devils as Betts was able to score on the play.
The Blue Devils scored a single run the next inning to extend their lead to 3-0. Koplove singled to begin the frame and a Davidson error coupled with a Mark Lumpa bunt single loaded the bases. Koplove would score Duke's third run on a double play ball before the Wildcats were able to work out of the inning.
A Zeblo RBI triple pulled Davidson within one in the third, 3-2, but Duke again had an answer as McCabe singled and then scored on a Berezo RBI double.
The Blue Devil offense kept at it, plating a run on a Marconcini RBI single in the fifth to take a 5-2 advantage.
Davidson took advantage of the lone walk issued by the Duke pitching staff to once again cut into the Blue Devils' lead. Center fielder Forrest Brandt drew the four-pitch walk and crossed home plate on a Lowe base hit. The Wildcats threatened to push more across, but Kremer threw out Lowe at the plate as the Davidson designated hitter tried to score from second on a Chris Dyer base knock.
With its lead down to two, Duke utilized four walks –two with the bases loaded - and a pair of singles in the seventh to stake a five-run advantage. The Blue Devils added their last run in the eighth as Berezo delivered a two-out single for this third RBI on the night.
Freshman Nick Hendrix and sophomore Andrew Istler each worked a scoreless inning in relief for the Blue Devils. In total, the Duke pitching staff combined for 13 strikeouts and just one walk against the Wildcats.
Davidson starter Rob Bain (0-3) suffered the loss, surrendering four runs – two earned – on five hits over 2.2 innings of work. Zelbo and Lowe both went 3-for-4 at the plate to pace the Wildcat offense.
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today I went down to Pev's and got an intelliframe! Wooohoo! I tried it out and this thing simply rocks!!! It is a must-have if you are considering buying a new frame! For those that are new to the Mag, like I recently was, this is one of the best updrades! I think I shot more paint in 10 minutes than I have all week. I seriously cannot think of a single thing wrong with it; it's all right! Thank you AGD for doing it again! But keep reading...
I then went down to another store, and brought in my Mag w/the newly purchased Intelliframe, and was looking at barrels and stuff. They had several mags, 3 RTs, and no Emags. I asked why they had no Emags, and they said they refused to carry them cause it was just a manual valve with electronic trigger or something like that....?????????.....I didn't really understand...the E-Mag has got to be incredible. Then I was talking about RTs and they were saying that they would sell a brand new one for $300 cause they haven't sold one in 6 months. I asked them if they carried Warps, and they said they wouldn't use something that makes your gun awkward and lopsided(something like that) and something that would fail so much. Again....???????....Then they started talking about how the AGD customer service was bad (I get free lifetime service on my Mag from Pev's, plus free intellifeed setup, plus Rod gave me the updated P/F plug for free. Thanks!) and they never answer their phones and that a few years ago, it was good, but AGD has changed.....now WHAT IS THAT? If I didn't know any better, like some customer who didn't know anything about Mags, I might have believed it. Thank you so much AGD that there is this place, AO, where we can come and feel right at home, get our questions answered, sometimes get free stuff, get sneek peeks, get to add input to prototpe products, and more.
This is a serious issue. I think someone in AGD should seriously consider taking AGD products out of that store or majorly talking to them, because if I went in there, and didn't know anything about Mags or AGD, I would have left feeling that a Mag was a bad gun and that AGD was not a good company. No wonder they hardly ever sell a Mag! It actually hurt when they were pretty much ripping on AGD. They said that the Mag was good like 4 years ago, but from the impression I got with the conversation I was having with the guy there, it made me think he was saying the Mag doesn't cut it anymore. I don't think those guys are going to sell any of your products because people are going to leave thinking they should go with someone else other than AGD, and that they don't carry two of AGDs hottest products, the E-Mag and Warp. I can tell you right now I would go with NO ONE else but AGD!
They do have a good price on the RT, but I can tell you I am not going to buy it from them because I don't like their attitude, and I probably will not be patronizing that store anymore. I will go to Pev's for all my paintball needs. Also, thanks to Rob for helping me and for giving me a free intellifeed setup when I come back next time!
AGD: If you want, I can email you and tell you more about it and the name of the store.
Sorry if I sound angry, I'm not, I just felt it was my obligation to let AGD know.


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Editor's Note: This is the second article in a series about the City of Stuttgart 2013 Proposed Operating Budget. The first was published Friday, Jan. 4.
The City of Stuttgart has $12,206,933 proposed to spend in 2013 with $12,210,031 as its proposed income. Each year the City of Stuttgart puts together its proposed operating budget for the year with the Stuttgart City Council adopting the budget on Dec. 31.
This year was no different.
"No, it is basically just like it was," Stuttgart Mayor Marianne Maynard said about comparing the 2012 budget to 2013. But she feels the city is in good shape compared to other towns its size. "Yeah, I do. We are holding our own, better than others. We had some overages in some departments, be we have a sound budget basically this year."
City employees will be seeing a pay increase, something Maynard said she has been working toward since holding the office of mayor.
"We have built-in raises for all departments in salaries. We try to do that every year, but raising salaries is not something that can be done overnight," she explains.
Department: Finance
Advertising $410
Dues and subscriptions $180
Equipment: Tools, equipment $200
Insurance: Health $19,750
Maintenance, repairs and supplies $500
Medical $60
Miscellaneous $500
Office Expense $1,000
Pension: City contribution $15,850
Salaries $109,000
Tax: FICA $6,770
Tax: Medicare $1,590
Training and travel $5,000
Utility: Telephone $100
Workers Compensation $150
Total $161,060
There are three employees in the Stuttgart Finance Office. The yearly salary for the finance officer is $48,094, according to Carol Ables, Stuttgart Personnel Director.
Department: Court
Dues and subscriptions $425
Equipment: Tools, equipment $100
Insurance: Health $26,000
Maintenance, repairs and supplies $3,500
Miscellaneous $150
Office expense $5,000
Pension: City contribution $25,105
Salaries $57,080
Tax: FICA $3,530
Tax: Medicare $830
Tax: Sales and use $100
Training and travel $1,000
Utility: Telephone $2,200
Workers Compensation $200
Total $125,220
There are three employees plus the Stuttgart District Judge paid out of the Court Department. The Stuttgart District Court Clerk makes $28,545.12 yearly — half paid by city and half paid by Arkansas County. The Judge makes $40,388.16 yearly — half paid by city and half by Arkansas County, according to Ables.
Department: Police
Advertising $500
Dues and subscriptions $500
Fuel $65,000
Grants $5,000
Insurance: Fire and casualty $18,000
Insurance: Health $150,000
Maintenance, repairs and supplies $35,000
Medical $1,500
Miscellaneous $5,000
Office expense $15,000
Pension: City contribution $25,000
Pension: LOPFI $90,000
Salaries $990,000
Tax: FICA $63,000
Tax: Medicare $14,500
Tax: Sales and use $100
Tax: Unemployment $1,625
Training and travel $5,000
Uniforms $7,500
Utility: Electricity $1,000
Utility: Telephone $15,000
Workers Compensation $16,915
Total $1,525,140
There are 27 police employees, according to Ables, that work from the salary line item. The yearly salary for the Stuttgart Police Department chief position is $44,000 and $40,973 for the Stuttgart assistant chief. The starting pay for uncertified Stuttgart Police Department patrolmen is $9.50.
Department: Animal Control
Advertising $300
Insurance: Fire and casualty $1,500
Insurance: Health $4,075
Maintenance, repairs and supplies $5,000
Medical $160
Miscellaneous $250
Office Expense $1,500
Pension: City contribution $3,750
Salaries $37,000
Tax: FICA $2,300
Tax: Medicare $540
Tax: Sales and use $60
Training and travel $1,000
Uniforms $500
Utility: Electricity $2,500
Utility: Telephone $3,000
Workers compensation $570
Total $64,005
There is one employee paid out of the Stuttgart Animal Control salary.
"His hourly wage is $9. He is based on 2,080 yearly hours, but he gets overtime and cannot base the amount," Ables explained.
Department: Fire
Advertising $250
Dues and subscriptions $400
Equipment: Tools, equipment $1,800
Fuel $14,000
Insurance: Fire and casualty $9,020
Insurance: Health $129,230
Maintenance, repairs and supplies $25,000
Medical $1,000
Miscellaneous $550
Office Expense $800
Pension: LOPFI $195,000
Salaries $725,000
Tax: Medicare $10,515
Tax: Property $20
Tax: Sales and use $250
Training and travel $5,000
Uniforms $7,500
Utility: Electricity $13,485
Utility: Gas $4,000
Utility: Telephone $7,200
Utility: Water $3,000
Workers Compensation $26,530
Total $1,179,550
There are 22 fire department employees. The Stuttgart Fire Department chief's yearly salary is $45,000.
"The assistant chief is paid at an hourly rate of $12.27 based on a minimum of 3,140 hours per year and he does get some overtime also, but cannot gauge the amount," Ables said.
The starting pay for uncertified fire firefighters is $7.25 an hour.


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Journal entry: May 7, 1976 (age 7)
Journal entry: May 7, 1976 (age 7)
Adults seem to think that career planning is on the mind of the average grade-schooler. We are regularly asked, by relatives and strangers alike, what we want to be when we grow up. My standard answer has always been "a lion." Lions are the kings of the jungle, and it seemed to me that a jungle would be a fun place to live.
But now that I'm in first grade, I've given more serious thought to the question. It's occurred to me that lions are limited by their habitat. I still think I'd like the jungle, but if I wanted to visit my family, I'd probably have to bunk down at the Ross Park Zoo. That wouldn't be so bad either, but most of the open cages are directly downwind of the buffalo exhibit.
I now plan to be a superhero. The hours can be a little crazy, but perks such as human flight and X-ray vision would make up for that. From the comic books that my brother, Bob buys me, I've learned that most superheroes hide their powers until they are adults. Even when they are adults, they maintain double identities to keep their powers secret.
Both of these ideas seem lame to me. I've decided to be a full-fledged superhero now, as a kid. Who needs superhuman assistance more than other little kids? And if I'm right there in the lunch line to prevent a bully from sucking the Jell-O off a smaller kid's tray, I'm going to go for it. And why hide who I am? I don't need a fake name or a weird costume to do my thing. I'm Super Tim, and people are just going to have to deal with it.
I've told my family and friends about my career choice, and, in general, they're supportive. My Aunt Millie Grace has been particularly encouraging. My birthday was this past Tuesday, and she made me the best present I've ever gotten. It's a yellow T-shirt with a strip of black around the collar and the ends of the sleeves. But that's not the cool part. The cool part is the back of the shirt, where she ironed on big, black letters that spell out "SUPER TIM."
Today is dress-down day at St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary, so I was allowed to wear my awesome new shirt to school. Everybody's been asking about it. I've been explaining that most superheroes waste their childhoods trying to fit in. "I'm starting to be super right away, to get some good practice in."
At my lunch table, I gave a little demonstration to quiet the naysayers. I stood up, and invited the other kids to gather round. I then held a hamburger high over my head, pivoting so that everyone could get a good look at it. Then I shoved the entire burger and roll into my mouth. For a normal, sub-super child, it would have taken at least three bites to send that mega-sandwich to its digester. As hands clapped me on the back, and raspberry Zingers were offered in tribute, I shouted in garbled triumph: "Try THAT, evildoers!"
Tim Mollen is a nationally syndicated writer and actor. To contact him or read more of his work, visit www.timmollen.com.


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FASTRACK returns to the Grand ConcourseWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
Metropolitan Transit Authority New York City Transit is bringing FASTRACK to the Bronx on the Grand Concourse D Line starting April 8.
D train service will be suspended in both directions between 205th Street and 161st Street-Yankee Stadium for four consecutive weeknights until April 12. B service ends early each night.
FASTRACK was introduced in January 2012, devoting four straight weeknights to perform maintenance work in tunnels, stations and on tracks, completely suspending service within a given line segment for a seven-hour period between. This gives free access to the system, allowing an army of maintenance workers to perform dozens of tasks without the concern of having to "clear up" to allow trains to pass.
The new FASTRACK corridors for 2013 include: the Broadway N, Q, and R south of Queensboro Plaza to Court Street; the A line between 168th Street and 207th Street in Upper Manhattan; the D Concourse Line between 161st and 205th Street and the Lexington Avenue 4, 5 and 6 local and express lines between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street.
FASTRACK projects are also scheduled for the Sixth/Eighth Avenue Lines (A, B, C and D) between 59th Street-Columbus Circle and 168th Street-Broadway and 161st Street; the Fourth Avenue line (D, N and R) between 36th Street and 95th Street in Brooklyn and the 2 along Nostrand Avenue between Franklin and Flatbush Avenues.
The next FASTRACK overnight closure will be at all N, Q and R stations in Manhattan for four consecutive weeknights from April 15 to April 19.


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LYONS -- Public safety is the biggest concern of officials in Lyons, where massive flooding has wiped out virtually all utilities.
The message from town administrator Victoria Simonsen on Monday was: "Stay out of town."
Flooding shut down Lyons' water, wastewater, electric and gas services, and it could be months before they are restored, town officials said. This creates a hazard for people who remain in town.
"We have major concerns for public health and safety," said Simonsen, who led a media tour of Lyons on Monday afternoon.
The town had no known fatalities as of Monday. It was not clear how many people had chosen to reject a voluntary evacuation notice and stay in Lyons, Simonsen said. Since flooding started last week, administrators began conducting a daily community meeting at 9 a.m. in Sandstone Park. About 500 people showed up Friday. Only about 15 showed up Monday. But officials do not know how many people actually evacuated the town.
"We still have numerous people unaccounted for in the community," Simonsen said. "All of those people are very isolated."
Those who remain are instructed not to use their toilets and to relieve themselves using sanitary camping-style methods.
Law enforcement and National Guard personnel were stationed at road entrances to town.
"All access in and out of Lyons is restricted," Simonsen said.
The Second Avenue and McConnell Drive bridges were destroyed, and three other bridges were compromised. Town Hall, at 432 Fifth Ave., was flooded and uninhabitable, and Lyons Elementary School was designated as the temporary town hall. The town's public works building is "hanging" over running water, Simonsen said. Residents can pick up P.O. box mail at the post office at 201 Coffman St. in Longmont, but there was not yet a plan for Lyons' delivered mail.
Representatives with the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency -- or CIRSA, which represents Colorado municipalities with insurance claims -- met with town officials Monday.
"They did tell us this is the worst insurance claim they've ever dealt with -- worse than Windsor," Simonsen said, referring to the 2008 tornado damage.
The town's annual general fund is only about $1 million. Recovery is expected to run into the tens of millions of dollars.
Looting and vandalism in Lyons are a concern. A local church was vandalized, Simonsen said, and on Monday morning she requested that law enforcement boost security based on suspicions of looting. Looting was reported to Boulder County authorities about 5 p.m. Monday, and deputies were dispatched to investigate, according to Liz Donaghey, spokeswoman for the Boulder County Office of Emergency Management.
Meadow Park, on the west side of town, was one of the worst-hit areas. The town late last month bought property near the park, including a home, which was in the town's possession for 10 days before flooding washed it away.
"We haven't found it yet," she said.
Other structures in town seem to have simply disappeared.
"There are houses that are gone," said Tony Priborsky, who lives in the Eagle Canyon subdivision. "Not gone like destroyed. Gone as in missing."
Wayward propane tanks floating down rushing streams have become a hazard. They have occasionally hit bridges and exploded, Simonsen said.
Waterways through Lyons in many places have either changed shape or cut new channels where none existed before.
The Planet Bluegrass ranch, which sits on the St. Vrain River northwest of downtown and is the site of the RockyGrass bluegrass festival and Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, was completely submerged at one point and suffered extensive damage. On Monday a new river was running in front of the main stage where only last month festivalgoers crowded to watch world-class performers.
Planet Bluegrass owner Craig Ferguson exemplified an optimism that ran through many parts of the Lyons community. He bought a backhoe Monday morning and was already at work cleaning up the Planet Bluegrass property, which also serves as his home. He believed he could redirect the water that was flowing in front of the stage, and his initial assessment was that most structures on the ranch, including the main stage and his residence, had withstood the flooding. The Planet's slate of fall concerts and events are canceled, but asked what he'd tell fans wondering about next year, Ferguson said, "I'd get your tickets early."
Arn Hayden was grilling a steak on his porch on Third Avenue on Monday afternoon. It was an incongruous sight. One block north was the bustle of official personnel at the fire station and one block south was destruction, where floodwaters had created waves days earlier, he said.
His main purpose in returning home was to collect his passport, and he didn't plan on staying. He was also preparing to temporarily move his healthy snack food business, SolBites, to Longmont.
Priborsky, on the other hand, planned to stay in his Eagle Canyon home, which sits up on a hill and was not flooded. If utilities are restored within weeks, he thinks he can stick it out. If it drags on longer, he expects to have to leave town, knowing that once he does he can't come back until authorities lift entrance restrictions.
Dawn Weller, who sits on the town Board of Trustees, said she was amazed at how members of the community have come together.
"We care about each other," she said. "Who would ever know how much until this happens. Now we know."
Mayor Julie Van Domelen was traveling in Africa when the flooding began. She is trying to return to Lyons but was stuck in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, said her husband, Joseph Lekarczyk.
A Lyons recovery fund has been established, Lekarczyk said, at lyonscf.org.
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Right now, we have Sup Air, Hyperball, and woods fields (that will handle two teams of 30)
Please tell me if #7 is available. If so, I want 7.
How will we be handling the ref situation? Will they be field employees or are we all going to take turns calling games? No big deal either way, I am just curious.
Mild 7: The number 7 is already taken, sorry.
1stdeadeye: They are field employees.
Woot sup air baby. I love it
Yeah, Dead Cell will be there. We're looking forward to it. So is my Emag.
Dayspring - "We've had Clare at Shatnerball." "I'm confident that she can take 20 guys."
"I'd trade my cocker for some steady pu**y"
Dead Cell is NOT allowed to go unless you change your name.
hehe j/k
But you should really change it out of respect. =]
Um, seeing as we are requesting numbers, could I get 77? Ray Bourques #...Bruins fan!
X-mag #10. Nuff said.
my feedback
Riotz, kidding or not, the joke is getting old. It sounds as if you and your teammates don't even like your team name. As far as "respect" goes, be respectful, and let it go.Originally posted by Riotz
But you should really change it out of respect. =]
Erm, what's getting old is you not changing your team name. However, will we deal with that on the field at AO day. Then we will see who deserves some RESPECT. =]Originally posted by JEDI
Riotz, kidding or not, the joke is getting old. It sounds as if you and your teammates don't even like your team name. As far as "respect" goes, be respectful, and let it go.
Thordic told me it was just a joke, so I don't see anyone who has a problem with the team name.
That IS the end of that, till AO DAY II!
BTW ALL, anyone can play, whether they have a mag or an angel or a tippmann. All are welcome.
Ok, maybe I'll go watch a pathetically bad John Travolta movie to get my team name too. I know, Team Disco Ball! Or better yet, Team Polyester Fever.
Come on man! You're being juvenile. Oops, did I say juvenile? There I go again stealing team names.
you say that there will be 2 kinds of paint: the cheep stuff and the premium stuff. Well, does anyone know what brand and name these two paints are exactly?
soon to come:
minimag w/ intelliframe
12v X-board
SystemX X10 On/Off Drop
TKO Gas Through
i believe since kickin paintball is sponsoring the event that itll most likely be kickin. hey thordic any word on when those waivers will be available?
Originally posted by JEDI
Ok, maybe I'll go watch a pathetically bad John Travolta movie to get my team name too. I know, Team Disco Ball! Or better yet, Team Polyester Fever.
Come on man! You're being juvenile. Oops, did I say juvenile? There I go again stealing team names.
Dude, Polyester Fever, I like it!!!
Quote of the year: "Reading blwos"
As little as 10 cents a day and you can buy my family out of slavery... Hurry before its too late!
i live 10 minites away lol so if e 1 wants to they can come chill at my house afterwards
If you wanna find me i have green hair.
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if you have green im definately gonna have blue. wait do you have permanent hair dye or temp???
Argggg! I was working on the grips for your Event and my Dremil DIED!
What this means is that if I don�t get it replaced in time, the winner of the Custom Carved 45 Grips will get them mailed directly to them personally and not Awarded at the Event. I DID get one pair carved for the Adventure Games Big Game (who was first in line, event timeline) for this weekend. They are in the stain/urethane process as we speak.
So YES the grips WILL still be a Prize to give, but it may have to be given after the fact (like the 2 AO Signature Images that are Prizes as well).
Thank you for your understanding� I hope I can get the grips down in time, but just in case, I wanted to keep everyone updated� and assure you all that they are STILL Prizes.
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is then when teh Lvl 10 will be fully released or is it just a party for the Lvl 10?
Black Warp Left E-mag #EM00163
emagnum board
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Oh.. the latest quick shot of the Adventure Games Prize Grips..... similar ones are ALMOST done being carved (except as you read, my Dremil died... grrrr) for your NJ Event.... The ones for the NJ Event are even more carved than these are, with sleeker lines and more defined. Also you can not fully see the sleekness of the grips. They look almost bulky in this shot, BUT they are not. They are very similar to the ones I posted in the Cphilip Spyder Project Thread.
You can not see it perfectly in this picture but the wood grain is stunning (Thanks Tunaman� yours are going to be STUNNING) and with the two light coats of stain and then 3 layers of urethane they almost glow. The color ranges from a golden brown to almost black grain of the wood. I may even add one more layer of urethane if they dry quickly enough (they are being delivered tomorrow afternoon/evening).
Sorry the pictures don�t give the full beauty of these grips, but it does give you a rough idea�.
I am not really big on the urethane "shiney" look, but that wood looks very nice
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Yup.. I got a new Dremel. LOL (And this time spelled it correctly too!)
The Prize pair are done being carved. They are being stained at this very moment! They are better than every pair this far shown. The more I make, the faster I get and the better (and more identical) they are. The lines are smoother, the feel more refined, and the looks are super sexy.
I am very glad I will be able to get them down to everyone in time.
How many pairs you bringing? I am looking into customs for my emag...want to check out the work you do.
Good news, membership cards are 95% printed, and I'm laminating them in about 5 minutes. Then I need to do a few stragglers next week, but I've got a stack of about 30+ on my desk right now.
I am not brining any, but "sending". I can't make it personally, so my participation will be donating Prizes.... 2 AO Signature Images and 1 set of Custom Grips.Originally posted by oldsoldier
How many pairs you bringing? I am looking into customs for my emag...want to check out the work you do.
You can see the Prize Pair at the Event. I also want to make a pair very similar to them for E-Mags, but quite a bit thinner due to the constraints put on grips by having such a thick frame. They can also be finished in almost any manner I (or the customer) wants, from very light, to almost black (or even black if need be.... I believe Tunaman is going to take a pair I send him and finish them black and put about 30 layers of urethane on them).
I will eventually make a mold out of a nice pair and cast them in plastic (to make them more affordable and easier to mass produce) and have even toyed with the idea of them in Pewter (and already have requests for them that way). But one thing at a time.... I am VERY busy as it is.
A similar pair will also be given away at AGPaintball this Sunday (as was said earlier), and ANOTHER pair on the 28th. So, you can determine if you want to come on up for a shot at the pair on the 28th as well.
I am REALLY wanting to tackle the E-Mag grips though, they will be interesting to say the least.
I hope that answered your question. I don't want to hijack this thread with NON-NJ Event stuff, so if you (or anyone else) have further questions about the grips, feel free to PM or E-Mail me.
hey all,
It seems that i have run into a rut. The gun that I ordered and was expecting to arrive this week (so i could use it this weekend) was placed on backorder and will not show up for at least another week. MAJOR PAIN IN THE A$$. so it looks like im gonna be needing a rental. Anybody have an extra gun that they would be willing to rent out. I can pay if nescessary. PM if you could do this.
Ok, here is the rental situation.
There isn't any.
At this point, to my great dismay, there are no rentals whatsoever. Furthermore, the amount of guns people are willing to loan out is similarly small.
I figure that we can probably outfit 4 or 5 extra people from what I have an idea is coming so far. I am still trying to look into getting 10 or more sets of Tippmans with equipment, but I have no word on that so far so at this point its kinda hard to tell.
Due to the fact I have no confirmations for the most part on borrowable equipment, it's going to be a first come first served basis. A few people who PMd me a while ago I may be able to set up them up, but I'll PM them individually.
So, my only advice is if I don't post about getting my hands on those tippmans, show up anyway. We'll try our best to get you outfitted, but at the very least you can hang out and have a good time.
I can help out with a couple of 98s. However I will need a couple of hoppers. There will be no charge for rental either. I got a couple of tanks and a couple of goggles.
Hey Freshman Bob see you there.
Hey Surfer349 How come you didn't get back to me about your mag set up. I was ready to work on it for you. Is Fairclough your guest?
Looking for to next Saturday. Elizabeth will be there as well.
Paintball cannot be that big. No one has really been able to sponsor a stock car or a race yet. (local people do not count in this case )
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Hey all,
Just a reminder. Please PM me if you are planning on attending this event so we can have an accurate count on how many people will be there.
Also, if anyone has a water cooler they could bring, fill it up with water and ice and maybe get some cheap cups. It may be hot that day, so this will help out.
Thanks a lot.


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A junior defensive back, Orms suffered another concussion in Saturday's 70-14 loss at Oregon. It was the second week in a row Orms suffered a concussion. He has been ruled out for this week and could be sidelined him for the rest of the season.
"Possibly," head coach Jon Embree said Tuesday at his weekly press luncheon. "He was cleared to play (against Oregon), but he took a pretty wicked shot."
Embree would not rule out seeing Orms on the field again this year, but said, "I'm not counting on having him for a while."
The treatment of concussions, especially in football, has changed dramatically in recent years. Studies have shown severe affects of concussions that were not known years ago and teams are much more cautious than they used to be. With concussions in back-to-back games, Embree said he and the medical staff need to be thorough in their evaluation before Orms plays again.
"I want to find out a little more research from the standpoint of high school history, what happened before I got here, as far as concussions," Embree said. "We'll sit down, me, him and the trainer, and see what's best."
Medical clearance won't be the only factor in Orms' return.
"It's not just about being cleared," Embree said. "Some of it is going to be gut instinct for me. I try to treat all these kids like they're my own child.
A standout from Wheat Ridge High School, Orms had a season-ending knee injury in the 2010 season opener. In 2011, he missed seven total games, mostly because of leg injuries, but also because of a four-game suspension for violating team rules.
This past spring, he injured his hamstring on the third day of practice and did not participate in the remainder of spring ball.
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Butler Community College received a new piece of art which they featured during a dedication ceremony Tuesday afternoon.
Butler Community College received a new piece of art which they featured during a dedication ceremony Tuesday afternoon.
The painting, titled "Flying Over the Kansas River Valley" by Lisa Grossman, was hung in the Dankert Board Room in the Hubbard Welcome Center.
The process that led to this painting started three years ago when the Welcome Center was under construction, said Stacy Cofer, Butler Community College Foundation chief advancement officer.
During that time the kinetic sculptures located in the entryway were identified.
"Dr. (Jackie) Vietti loved them and we raised the money in her honor," Cofer said.
Those efforts had some money left over from the first pieces of art.
"We have this gorgeous space up here that cries out for beautiful art," she said.
So they decided to use that money to fill the space.
They turned the project over to Butler art instructor Valerie Haring, who served on the art acquisition committee over the summer.
That group traveled to studios and contacted artists on a search for the piece they thought would be great for the space.
"When we found Lisa we fell in love with her work," Haring said.
Then when they saw the proposed piece, they loved that as well.
During her visit to the college for the dedication, Grossman took an hour out of her day to talk to the Butler art students about her process.
Grossman also talked about the process of coming up with this piece during the dedication.
She said she came up with several different options that would fit the space, then they chose one.
"It was a pleasure to work with you and the committee," she said to Haring. "I think this is a fantastic building and the room is incredible."
The painting is of the Kansas River east of Lawrence near Linwood. The image was from late afternoon looking west.
She is mainly a plein air painter of the Flinthills, something she has done for about 20 years.
Coming from Pennsylvania, Grossman said she fell in love with the Flinthills when she came here in 1988 to work at Hallmark Cards. She saw the Kansas River on a commercial flight and loved it. After that, she hired a private pilot to take her up and she documented the entire 170 miles of river from the air. She also has explored it on her kayak and painted it from the banks, but she thought the view from the air offered a unique perspective.
"I thought people needed to see it," she said. "I feel it is underappreciated. It's endlessly fascinating to me."
Before concluding the event, Dr. Jay Moorman, dean of Fine Arts and Communication, talked about the Friends of Arts organization they are forming.
"Our goal is to improve all of the fine art programs," he said.
They are selling memberships and the money from those will be used for scholarships, programs and possibly purchasing more art.
Karla Fisher, interim president, concluded the ceremony by speaking on behalf of Vietti who was unable to attend.
"If Dr. Vietti was here she would say a heartfelt thank you," Fisher said. "I think it honors all of us to have this at our college."


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A large spring storm with potential for heavy snowfall is expected to move into Boulder County on Monday night and bring with it the cool conditions and significant moisture that will help lawn treatments and new trees establish themselves, Kelsch said.
"The potential is there for more than a foot of snow for the lower elevations," Kelsch said of the incoming system, though he stopped short of forecasting that much snow just yet. "It won't be all snow. Down here it will start as rain and maybe thunderstorms."
Sunday's forecast calls for partly sunny skies and a high near 66 degrees, but the National Weather Service is calling for a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms, especially between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. Monday.
The chance of rain increases to 40 percent on Monday when temperatures will again climb into the 60s before the rain picks up in the evening. Snow showers are expected to begin around 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to forecasts.
Tuesday's high is expected to be in the low 30s with snowfall likely to last into the afternoon.
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DURHAM, N.C. – Three Blue Devils reached double-digit kills as the Duke volleyball team rallied from a 1-0 deficit to defeat No. 16 Illinois 3-1 (19-25, 27-25, 25-18, 25-21) Saturday evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Sophomore Elizabeth Campbell paced the Blue Devil offense with a match-high 23 kills, while junior Jeme Obeime and sophomore Emily Sklar added 16 and 11, respectively.
Campbell also added 11 digs, recording her first double-double of the season. Junior Maggie Deichmeister finished with a double-double as well, her fourth of the 2013 campaign, totaling 51 assists and a season-high 16 digs.
"It's huge for us to protect Cameron, our home court," said Obeime. "We knew it was going to be a fight and we were ready and stayed aggressive. We kept going to what was working. [Campbell] had a great game and we kept going to her knowing she could put the ball down when we needed it."
Campbell and Deichmeister were part of a solid defensive effort by the Blue Devils. In total, five Duke (9-2) players reached double-digit digs, led by senior Ali McCurdy's season-high 26. Freshman Sasha Karelov contributed a career-best 22 digs and sophomore Laura Williams chipped in with 15.
"I'm really proud of this group and how they have worked to get to this point," said head coach Jolene Nagel. "They've really embraced coming into practice every day and just trying to get batter. I thought we served well tonight and our defense was pretty good. Our communication out there was really great. We lost that first set, and there were tough times in the next three sets, but they just worked really well together."
Illinois (4-6) registered 5.0 blocks during the opening set, limiting Duke to a .035 hitting percentage en route to a 25-19 set win. Campbell had six kills in the frame, but Duke was unable to overcome 12 attack errors.
In a pivotal second set, both teams continued to battle back and forth before the Blue Devils found themselves down 22-19 late in the stanza. Duke rallied following a timeout, rattling off four straight points to take a 23-22 lead. Illinois and Duke traded points, reaching a 25-25 stalemate before consecutive kills from Deichmeister and Obeime clinched the 27-25 set victory for Duke.
In the third set, a 25-18 win for the Blue Devils, Campbell added five kills on eight errorless attack attempts and Duke totaled 6.0 blocks to 0.0 for the Illini.
Up 2-1 overall, Duke jumped out to a quick 8-4 start in the fourth frame, but Illinois battled back to tie the score at 16-all. The Blue Devils ended the match on a 9-5 run, including four kills by Campbell.
After totaling 5.0 blocks in the first set, Illinois had just 5.0 more the rest of the way, compared to 10.0 for the Blue Devils. Freshman Jordan Tucker had a career-high six blocks, while Campbell, Obeime and senior Chelsea Cook added three each. In addition, Duke limited its attack errors over the final three sets, committing just 14 during that span.
"After game two, we went into the locker room and refocused," said McCurdy. We really wanted to get the control back on our side. This season, we've really focused on getting better every weekend and that showed tonight. It's a great feeling to get a big win at home and then to start next the ACC schedule next Friday against Virginia."
Tonight's victory marked Duke's first over a ranked opponent since the Blue Devils earned a five-set win over No. 17 Florida State on Nov. 13, 2011. With back-to-back wins over Indiana and Illinois, Duke has now defeated two Big Ten teams in the same season for the first time since the 1993 campaign, when the Blue Devils beat both Purdue and Michigan.
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Ontology - essentially, a formal description of objects and their interrelationships Described using RDF Schema and/or OWL.
- Wikipedia ontology article
- What is an ontology?
- Ontology Definition Metamodel
- Benefits
- Controlled vocabulary
- Theory of content
- Knowledge management: systematization, sharing, reusability
- Data integration
Upper level ontologies
- Upper ontology Wikipedia article
- SUO WG Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
- SUMO Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
- SUMO Wikipedia article
- Downloads - ontology browser, virus ontology, etc
- Online SUMO browser
- OpenCyc an upper ontology for all of human consensus reality.
- OpenCyc Wikipedia article
- General Formal Ontology
- Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
Intermediate level ontologies
- EXPO ontology represents different stages of an experiment and the relationships between these stages; used by the Robot Scientist (presentation slides as PDF)
- controlled vocabulary of scientific experiments
- formalized electronic representation of scientific experiments
- unified standards for representation, annotation, storage, and access to experimental results
- reasoning over experimental data and conclusions
- Bibliographic data ontology
- Ontology of Functions is included in the OWL version of the General Formal Ontology (see upper level ontologies)
- FuGO Functional Genomics Ontology aims to provide consistent annotation of functional genomics experiments, regardless of the particular field of study (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, etc).
- HyBrow ontology for representing biological processes at different levels of detail
Domain level ontologies
Life Sciences
- Gene Ontology provides a controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes in any organism. GO terms are organized in directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), which differ from hierarchies in that a 'child' (more specialized term) can have many 'parents' (less specialized terms). GO terms are connected by 'is a' (generalizations) and 'part of' (composition) relationships.
- Creating the gene ontology resource: design and implementation
- Ontology recapitulates philology - comment
- Namespace: ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/xml/dtd/go.dtd
- Properties: name, definition, isa, association, evidence
- Yeast Hub - demonstrates how a life sciences data warehouse can be built using a native RDF data store (Sesame). This data warehouse allows integration of different types of yeast genome data provided by different resources in different formats including the tabular and RDF formats (paper).
- Semantic Mining - semantic interoperability and data mining in medicine (ontologies).
- Sequence Ontology: features on a nucleotide or protein sequence
- BioPAX: biological pathway data
- Amino Acid Ontology - a small ontology of amino acids and their properties
- UniProt protein sequence and annotation data in RDF format. UniProt OWL Ontology
- SBML uses CellML metadata to describe its elements. See also a message on SBML forum.
- BioModels database and Systems Biology Ontologies (SBO) project
- Open Biomedical Ontologies
- Bio-Ontologies
- Ontologies for molecular biology and bioinformatics
- Microarray Gene Expression Society (MGED) Ontology
- RDF Schemas directory
- CO-ODE ontology examples
- KnowledgeZone - peer reviewed ontology library
- Onto-Med research group: ontologies in medicine
- HCLS Wiki
- HCLSIG BioRDF Subgroup: Meetings and Tasks
- NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) - a set of services and resources that address NCI's needs for controlled vocabulary.
- Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS): Ontologies and datasets
- Bio-Ontologies workshop has been a satellite meeting to the annual ISMB conference since 1998 as a Special Interest Group
- Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference
- Semantic web approach to data integration - from University of Amsterdam Integrative Bioinformatics Unit (IBU)
- MIPE - Minimal Information for PCR Experiments, an XML schema for the exchange of PCR related data
- Cell Cycle Ontology aims to extend the existing ontologies for cell cycle knowledge, to build a resource that integrates and manages knowledge about the cell cycle components and regulatory aspects in OBO and OWL.
Diagram of synthetic biology ontology v0.01 (developed using existing terminology described on the Registry website):
- Dublin Core provides a vocabulary to describe bibliographic metadata
- Introduction to Dublin Core @ xml.com
- Namespace: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- Properties: title, creator, publisher, identifier
- DOAC Description of a career
- Description of a Career Wikipedia article
- FOAF Friend of a Friend
- DOAP Description of a Project is an XML/RDF vocabulary to describe open source projects.
- vocab.org - a URI namespace for vocabularies
- RDF Relationship - a vocabulary for describing relationships between people
- RSS Wikipedia article
- RDF Site Summary - RSS 1.0
- Introduction to RSS newsfeeds @ ibm.com
- RSS 2.0 Specification - non-RDF
- Web Service Modeling Ontology - date and time, location, purchase ontologies, etc.
- Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language @ xml.com
- Ontology directories:
- SchemaWeb - A comprehensive directory of RDF schemas and OWL ontologies
- DAML Ontology Library
- Ontoware - ontology repository
- Protégé-OWL Ontology library
- Knowledge Zone - search and browse ontologies
Metadata applications
- Swoogle Search and metadata for semantic web
- Semantical - open source Semantic Web-based search engine for searching W3C standard RDF ontologies and tags
- Google Base
- Biozon - a unified biological resource on DNA sequences, proteins, complexes and cellular pathways. The information in Biozon is logically represented as a graph in which nodes represent some unit of data, and edges indicate a relationship between two nodes.
- Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project develops and distributes multi-purpose, electronic "Knowledge Sources" and associated lexical programs for system developers. Researchers will find the UMLS products useful in investigating knowledge representation and retrieval questions.
- Metathesaurus is a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual vocabulary database that contains information about biomedical and health related concepts, their various names, and the relationships among them
- Semantic Network provides a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus and to provide a set of useful relationships between these concepts.
- The SPECIALIST lexicon has been developed to provide the lexical information needed for the SPECIALIST Natural Language Processing System (NLP). It is intended to be a general English lexicon that includes many biomedical terms.
- MetamorphoSys is the UMLS installation wizard and customization tool included in each UMLS release.
- SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) is the universal health care terminology that makes health care knowledge usable and accessible wherever and whenever it is needed (included in UMLS since 2003). SNOMED browser.
- The Legume Information Network (LIN) This is a prototype to demonstrate the power of semantic-MOBY framework to integrate disparate data sources into a virtual legume information network.
- Pathway Knowledge Base @ Stanford - integrated human, ecoli and yeast pathway data in BioPAX format from Kegg, BioCyc and Reactome. The underlying data is stored in an RDF triple store and all queries are made directly on the BioPAX model. This has some drawbacks in terms of performance but has allowed us to preserve the semantics specified in the BioPAX model.
- Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
- Rdf Calendar from W3C
- Nokia Semantic Web Server demo provides access to metadata describing products, documents, vocabularies, schemas, and other resources which is made available to Nokia customers and partners in a machine processable format. This server is intended for use primarily by automated systems and is not optimized for human use.
- Nokia Semantic Web R&D Server demo
- RDF Query demo. RDFQ is a tool for knowledge discovery, rather than for knowledge management or knowledge manipulation.
- Intellidimension Labs - A Collection of RDF Gateway Demos, Examples, and Experiments (Uniprot, etc)
- Semantic MOBY searches Virtual Plant Information Network (VPIN) - a consortium of information resources using emerging semantic web services technologies.
- National Center for Biomedical Ontology:
- A virtual library of Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO).
- A Web-based BioPortal to allow investigators and intelligent computer programs to access and use OBO.
- Tools to assist biomedical investigators use ontologies accessible through BioPortal to annotate experimental data.
- An online repository of OBO annotations on experimental data accessible via BioPortal known as Open Biomedical Data (OBD).
- mSpace is an interaction model and software framework to help people access and explore information.
- HyBrow is a prototype bioinformatics tool for designing hypotheses and evaluating them for consistency with existing knowledge; it consists of:
- a modeling framework with the ability to accommodate diverse biological information sources
- an event-based ontology for representing biological processes at different levels of detail
- a database to query information in the ontology
- programs to perform hypothesis design and evaluation
- Yeast Hub RDF datasets
- Open Directory RDF dump The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
- ChefMoz RDF files the project goal is to produce the most comprehensive guide to restaurants, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
- Wikipedia³ is a conversion of the English Wikipedia into RDF.
- ConceptNet is a semantic network, a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit
- WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language
- WordNet Wikipedia article
- Ontaris is a searchable and browsable directory of semantic web data
- GO annotation wiki (from Sri)
- Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology - what is an ontology and why we need it
- Protégé OWL Tutorial (PDF)
- Manchester Pizza Finder
- OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns (PDF)
- Ontology Design Patterns and Problems: Practical Ontology Engineering using Protege-OWL
- Tutorial Materials: A Practical Introduction to Ontologies & OWL
- Ontology Development 101 from m3t4.studio
- National Center for Biomedical Ontology
- Relations in biomedical ontologies - paper in Genome Biology
- Are the current ontologies in biology good ontologies?
- Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline describes a possible hierarchy for synthetic biology inspired by computer engineering.
- IFOMIS - Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University
- Gene Ontology Next Generation: GONG project aims to make tools and procedures for easy migration of biological ontologies to formal languages like OWL and explore the issues related to maintenance of large biological ontologies. Also a blog.
- Ontology Design Patterns are the application of the same concept as Software Design Patterns (SDPs) from Object Oriented Programming to ontology engineering.
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With the growing rise of "new atheism", non believers have seen an increasing hostility from theist. Common criticisms of atheism and counter-apologetics arguments are made to support the theists position. These usually fall into one of three categories.
Appeals to emotion
Since the removal of mandatory prayer in American schools, atheism has been the focus of an increased political and media reaction in the form of fear and smear campaigns. These appeals to emotion have been coming increasing from the politicians such as Monique Davis who stated that "it is dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists"
- Why are you trying to tear down others faith?
- Why can't everyone just have their beliefs?
- Why do atheists inspire such hatred?
- What about all the good things religion has given us?
- Hitler was an atheist
- Stalin was an atheist
- Mao / Pol Pot was an atheist
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Probably the most common argument against atheism and counter-apologetics from the theistic ranks, is straw man depictions of the atheist position. These can range from misrepresentations of evolutions such as leading questions like "if we came from monkeys, how come monkeys are still around today" or assertions that science is as much of a religious faith as Christianity, or misrepresentations about atheism and secular humanism being synonymous with immorality, communism or mass murder.
- You are a communist
- So you believe in nothing?
- You just want to sin
- It takes more faith to disbelieve
- Atheists worship materialism
- Science is a faith
- Atheism is a religion
- Atheism is based on faith
Appeals to solipsism
Perhaps the most interesting of the three categories is the increasing problem of appeals to solipsism. The idea that we can't know everything, (or anything depending on how far the theist wishes to take it) and as such, we can never completely rule god out. Perhaps he's hiding on the other side of Pluto where we just can't see him. This is a classic god of the gaps argument. However this line of argument would seem to create more questions that it solves. If we take the theists assertions to their logical conclusions, that we can't know everything or anything, the how is it that they can claim to know anything about their god? How do they know he exists at all?
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- God can't be defined
- Science can't touch god
- You can't disprove God
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A press release from Troop D in Concord said state police responded to the report of the domestic assault at 4:45 p.m.
After arriving at 56 Scribner Road, police said a man, later identified as Stuart McKenzie, 26, of Salisbury had fled on foot into nearby woods. Police said they were told McKenzie had a shotgun and a box believed to contain ammunition. Witnesses told police they heard five shots from the area where they had seen McKenzie enter the woods.
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While at the Scribner Road residence, police said they learned of a separate domestic assault, and arrested Danny McKenzie, 55, of Salisbury. Police said Danny McKenzie resisted arrest, and was taken into custody on charges of simple assault, criminal threatening, and resisting arrest.
Meanwhile, police found fresh tracks in new snow outside during the search for Stuart McKenzie. Given his reputation as an outdoorsman and his knowledge of the area, police said they brought in a State Police helicopter to aid in the search. Despite the use of infrared search technology from the air, and night-vision goggles by the officers on the ground, police said the terrain and trees effectively concealed Stuart McKenzie.
Police said officer who remained at 56 Scribner Road learned McKenzie was in contact with several people via cell phone. As state police attempted to track his location via his cell phone, police said they learned McKenzie believed troopers in the helicopter had learned his location. McKenzie then emerged from the woods and returned to 56 Scribner Road, where he was arrested without incident.
Stuart McKenzie was transported to the Franklin police station for processing. He has been charged with three counts of simple assault, felon in possession of a firearm, and a felon in possession of ammunition, He was also wanted on an electronic bench warrant and is being held on the electronic bench warrant at the Merrimack County Jail. He will be arraigned on the remaining charges on Feb. 11 in Franklin District Court.
Danny McKenzie was transported to the Franklin Police Department for booking. He was released on bail and is also scheduled to appear in Franklin District Court on Feb. 11.
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