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CUMBERLAND — A Big Blue tidal wave washed ashore Thanksgiving morning, a powerful force that proved to swallow Woonsocket High whole.
Cumberland High put on a holiday clinic in how to lick the plate clean, as the Clippers took it to the Novans, 32-0, in the 49th installment of this Turkey Day series. The two teams will now look toward next Tuesday and the Division II semifinals. Cumberland returns to Tucker Field against West Warwick while Woonsocket welcomes Central to Barry Field.
CUMBERLAND — A Big Blue tidal wave washed ashore Thanksgiving morning, a powerful force that proved to swallow Woonsocket High whole.
Cumberland High put on a holiday clinic in how to lick the plate clean, as the Clippers took it to the Novans, 32-0, in the 49th installment of this Turkey Day series. The two teams will now look toward next Tuesday and the Division II semifinals. Cumberland returns to Tucker Field against West Warwick while Woonsocket welcomes Central to Barry Field.
Should the local entries pass their respective playoff tests, they would reconvene with the Div. II Super Bowl championship on the line at East Greenwich's Carcieri Field on Sunday, Dec. 2.
Thanks to a diversified offensive attack coupled with a relentless defensive assault, the Clippers rolled to their second consecutive Thanksgiving Day victory, meaning the coveted St. Germain Trophy is staying put for another 12 months. Cumberland enjoyed a 20-0 lead at halftime before collecting two more scores in the third quarter, such sheer domination mimicking what Chris Skurka & Co. have done virtually all season.
"We pride ourselves in playing defense as well as offense; we devote equal time to both in practice," noted Skurka after his crew notched its ninth straight victory to improve to 9-1.
While things came up roses for the Clippers, the Villa Novans departed the Tucker Field grounds with a foul taste in their collective mouths.
"That's a good football team and they do a lot of things well, but I don't think we matched their intensity," was the frank assessment offered by Woonsocket head coach Carnell Henderson. "We made too many mistakes and when you do that against a good football team, you're going to pay."
The mistakes that Henderson alluded to were mainly of the mental variety, though the Novans (7-3 overall) turned the ball over twice. Woonsocket's offense had a hard time generating any sort of traction against Cumberland, as quarterback Brett Bouchard did not complete a pass until the third quarter.
Bouchard was also sacked five times with Cumberland's junior Dan Pizzarelli finishing with two takedowns. It was clear that the Clippers wanted to get the shutout as Nevin Morales recorded an interception at the goal line with time winding down in the final quarter, a takeaway that nullified would proved to be Woonsocket's best offensive series on the day.
Asked if the sacks were more of the result of good coverage down the field rather than the Clippers winning the 1-on-1 battles at the line of scrimmage, Skurka stated, "It's a combination of both. The kids came up with a great defensive effort and it's one of those times where you're proud of them. They came up big every time we needed a stop."
Taking the game's opening kickoff, the Clippers marched 55 yards before Erik Travers put the ball on the ground at the Novans' 14-yard line. The miscue did little to diminish Travers' role as the senior racked up 82 yards on 11 carries.
"I'm a big believer that if a kid fumbles, we're not going to go away from him," Skurka stated. "Erik's one of the reasons why we're in the position we're in right now. We gave the ball right back to him and said we believe in him."
After Woonsocket sophomore Shawn Ingram recovered the Travers fumble, the Villa Novans went three-and-out. Switching things up after relying exclusively on the run during its initial offensive series, Cumberland took to the air with quarterback Brendan Guerin connecting with Mitchell Baxter for a 55-yard score. The play saw Baxter (108 receiving yards on the day) do some nice work after the catch, the senior breaking an ankle tackle on his way to notching six points for his club.
Far from content, the Clippers doubled its 7-0 lead early in the second quarter. Guerin hit Trent Vasey in stride from 11 yards out with sophomore Tyler Callabro adding the extra point that made it 14-0.
The Novans, who managed just one first down in the opening half, quickly gave the ball back to their opponent. On a drive that featured seven runs and four passes, Cumberland placed even more distance between itself and Woonsocket after Dan Stock waltzed in from six yards out.
It didn't long for the roof to completely cave in for the Novans, who coughed up the ball in their own territory two plays into the third quarter. Starting at the Woonsocket 35, Cumberland called Travers' number on three consecutive plays, a quick-order drive that was capped in grand style – a three-yard score that saw him bounce to the left side.
Joe Fine closed out the scoring for Cumberland with a 12-yard run with exactly two minutes remaining in the third quarter. As the fourth quarter got underway, Skurka opted to pull his regulars.
"When you tee the ball up on Thanksgiving against your rival, you live in the moment," said Skurka. "(Injuries) are just one of those things that you're not worried about. You can never coach injuries or worry about that stuff. It's one of those things where we went out there and played to win just like we have been all season. We had been off for a long time so it was important to get out and play, though we were still able to get some guys out of the game late."
On the flip side, several prominent Woonsocket contributors remained on the field even though the outcome was no longer in doubt. Seeking to get his team on the scoreboard, Bouchard took off before getting met by a wave of defenders near Cumberland's bench. Bouchard was clearly shaken up, though he was able to walk off the field under his own power.
"I thought he had some stiffness in his neck," was the update Henderson provided. "Hopefully he'll be ready to go Tuesday."
As far as moving past this game, Henderson stated, "It's done and now we have to get ready for a good Central team with the hopes that we get another crack at (Cumberland) again. That's the only thing you can do."
Cumberland now leads Woonsocket by a 28-17 count with four ties sprinkled in.


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Padres activated OF Carlos Quentin from the paternity leave list.
John Lackey will start Game 1 of the NLDS on Friday.
Mets manager Terry Collins said that Wilmer Flores lost 10 pounds in five days while dealing with strep throat.
Michael Cuddyer is expected to start in left field for Game 1 of the NLDS against the Dodgers.
Francisco Liriano is on the Pirates' roster for Wednesday's Wild Card game vs. the Cubs.
Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks are on the Cubs' roster for Wednesday's Wild Card game against the Pirates.
Collin McHugh will start Game 1 of the ALDS against the Royals on Thursday.
Dallas Keuchel held the Yankees off the scoreboard over six innings as the Astros won Tuesday's American League Wild Card Game 3-0.
Carlos Gomez belted a solo homer in his return to action Tuesday as the Astros beat the Yankees in the American League Wild Card Game.
FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports that Walt Weiss will return as the Rockies' manager next season.
FOX Sports' Jon Morosi reports that the Royals are prepared to start Yordano Ventura in Game 4 of the ALDS if they're facing elimination.
Jacoby Ellsbury is not in the Yankees' lineup for Tuesday's Wild Card Game versus the Astros.


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Sometime between last Tuesday and Wednesday, police say a 60 lb pit-bull was stolen from Watauga Animal Control.The nine month old neutered pit-bull is male and brown with a white band around its neck. The dog is micro-chipped and the name will display the Humane Society's information. Anyone who knows anything about the break-in is encouraged to call Crimestoppers at 828-262-4555.
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16 U.S. Code § 2643 - Gathering information on costs of service
(a) Information required to be gathered
Each electric utility shall periodically gather information under such rules (promulgated by the Commission) as the Commission determines necessary to allow determination of the costs associated with providing electric service. For purposes of this section, and for purposes of any consideration and determination respecting the standard established by section 2621 (d)(2) of this title, such costs shall be separated, to the maximum extent practicable, into the following components: customer cost component, demand cost component, and energy cost component. Rules under this subsection shall include requirements for the gathering of the following information with respect to each electric utility—
(1) the costs of serving each electric consumer class, including costs of serving different consumption patterns within such class, based on voltage level, time of use, and other appropriate factors;
(2) daily kilowatt demand load curves for all electric consumer classes combined representative of daily and seasonal differences in demand, and daily kilowatt demand load curves for each electric consumer class for which there is a separate rate, representative of daily and seasonal differences in demand;
(3) annual capital, operating, and maintenance costs—
(4) costs of purchased power, including representative daily and seasonal differences in the amount of such costs.
Such rules shall provide that information required to be gathered under this section shall be presented in such categories and such detail as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(b) Commission rules
The Commission shall, within 180 days after November 9, 1978, by rule, prescribe the methods, procedure, and format to be used by electric utilities in gathering the information described in this section. Such rules may provide for the exemption by the Commission of an electric utility or class of electric utilities from gathering all or part of such information, in cases where such utility or utilities show and the Commission finds, after public notice and opportunity for the presentation of written data, views, and arguments, that gathering such information is not likely to carry out the purposes of this section. The Commission shall periodically review such findings and may revise such rules.
(c) Filing and publication
Not later than two years after November 9, 1978, and periodically, but not less frequently than every two years thereafter, each electric utility shall file with—
the information gathered pursuant to this section and make such information available to the public in such form and manner as the Commission shall prescribe. In addition, at the time of application for, or proposal of, any rate increase, each electric utility shall make such information available to the public in such form and manner as the Commission shall prescribe. The two-year period after November 9, 1978, specified in this subsection may be extended by the Commission for a reasonable additional period in the case of any electric utility for good cause shown.
(d) Enforcement
For purposes of enforcement, any violation of a requirement of this section shall be treated as a violation of a provision of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 [15 U.S.C. 791 et seq.] enforceable under section 12 of such Act [15 U.S.C. 797] (notwithstanding any expiration date in such Act) except that in applying the provisions of such section 12 any reference to the Federal Energy Administrator shall be treated as a reference to the Commission.
Source(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, § 133,Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3132.)
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Woody Johnson skips Jets game
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Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com writes that Johnson "rarely" misses a game, and that he has said nothing about the future of any of his key employees. Four years ago, the Johnson said G.M. Mike Tannenbaum and coach Eric Mangini would return for the 2009 season — and Johnson fired Mangini immediately after the season ended.
Well I really don't blame woody for not going to this game. We all know that Sparano is going to be fired but maybe someone else might be. Hopefully we'll know more after the game.


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Twice a week, when Congress is meeting, Maine's two senators join colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee in a room specially constructed to keep their conversations private. It has been a dozen years since both senators from a state have served on the committee. Members hear some of the most sensitive national security information, and provide oversight of the nation's myriad of intelligence agencies. As Mal Leary reports, both Maine senators say that those intelligence agencies need to do a better job of balancing security with the privacy rights of Americans.
Most federal agencies face scrutiny from several congressional committees, but the nation's intelligence agencies are different: Their budgets are mostly secret, and their operations are subject to oversight only by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
"The Department of Commerce: You know, you have the press, and you have interest groups and you have public hearings and all of that - and the Congress," King says. "But the Intelligence is in a unique situation where nobody else is watching."
Independent Sen. Angus King says it's an awesome responsibility to serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And he finds that his duties take up more time than his service on the Armed Services Committee and the Senate Budget Committee combined. "It really struck me that this is an extraordinary responsibility."
King says there are provisions in the Patriot Act that he supports but others need changing to better protect privacy rights. He says it is difficult to balance the competing provisions of the Constitution, and those discussions are underway.
Both senators say Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contract analyst, has damaged United States security efforts by leaking documents on how some of the nation's security programs work.
"I didn't vote for the Patriot Act and all of these things because I wasn't there," King says. "But I having been living this all of this winter, and then of course the Snowden thing broke. And it is a constant effort to balance national security and our right to privacy."
Sen. Susan Collins agrees. She says even her work on the Senate Appropriations Committee takes less time than the mostly closed meetings of the Intelligence Committee. She says panel members ask tough, and often blunt, questions.
"Since we are dealing with highly classified information that is not made available to the public, for the most part, it's incumbent upon us to ask the tough questions, to make sure that we are safeguarding the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens," Collins says.
While limited in what she can say about those programs, Collins says some of Snowden's claims that have received wide publicity are not true.
"For example, one that I can tell you that he said that is absolutely untrue is that he had the ability to wiretap any American's phone conversation, or get into any American's email - that is simply not true," Collins says.
King says the Intelligence Committee is constantly trying to reach the right balance between protecting the nation and preserving the privacy rights of individuals. He says some allegations about the sweeping nature of intelligence gathering are over the top.
"I don't think it is as bad as some people think - that we are somehow being snooped up on and surveilled and watched all the time," King says. "And I do think, from my work on the committee - I don't think, I know - that there are people out there that want to kill us."
Legislation re-authorizing provisions of the national security laws will be up for consideration when Congress returns to work next month. King says issues surrounding the need for warrants for cell phone records and emails are certain to be discussed. Collins says the current laws can be improved, and the committee will try to do that.
"There are lots of checks and balances in the programs, but that does not mean that we shouldn't look at whether there should be more," Collins says, "and that is what we are doing right now."
Both senators agree the most frustrating aspect of serving on the Intelligence Committee is attending a briefing where classified information is discussed, being cautioned not to talk about the information publicly, only to read about much of it in a newspaper a day or two later. Both say they would like to provide context and clarity in those cases, but are prevented from doing so by existing law.


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Basically, how do I get into the flow? Me and Brikboyz are still on the same planet, but we plan on finishing that up. I'd like to get into the rest of the Brikverse and the whole scene there, but how? I would do forum battles or self battles, but I've used all of my good pieces on my various factions, so I can't build anyone else's. And I'd probably drop the forum battle half way through.
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As the August 2 deadline for the debt ceiling approaches, Republicans and Democrats are preparing for battle over the vote. In bold language, Republicans have demanded that major spending cuts accompany any increase of the debt limit. Bipartisan talks on the subject have achieved nothing, as Democrats have sidestepped any mention of the debt ceiling. Some elected officials have grown frustrated with this tactic, especially Tea Party favorite Rand Paul (pictured). In a clip from C-SPAN's "Newsmakers," the Kentucky Senator announced his intent to filibuster any legislation unrelated to the debt ceiling:
I was part of a group this week that said, "No more, we're tired of talking about extraneous issues." We've had not one minute of debate about the debt ceiling in any committee. I'm part of the freshmen group that said, "No more. We're not going to let them go to any [other] issue if we have a say in it." Next week, we will filibuster until we talk about the debt ceiling, until we talk about proposals," declared Senator Paul.
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By RICHARD SHAWSun Advocate publisher
I wrote my oldest son a letter this past weekend, even though he only lives a few miles from me and I see him regularly.
You see he was hitting a milestone, one that has to do with age, and he seemed worried about it.
It told him not to worry.
For those of us over 50, any age under that sounds pretty good, because we know the pitfalls and the problems.
That doesn't mean we wouldn't take the same chances or make the same mistakes again. As I told my son, young people always think they are smarter than they are, and old people always think they are wiser.
There is a lot of talk in our society about ages being different today. Statements like "50 is the new 30" and "30 is the new 20" seems to ring true to many people. But personally, I believe nothing of that kind of banter. It is just the ramblings of people being an age that they don't want to be and trying to be younger.
Let's face it 50 is still 50. It is still a half a century.
True people live much longer today than they did 100 years ago. The average death of a man who lived in the United States in 1900 was at 40 years old. Today, even those of us who were born 50 years ago, can expect to live into our 80's for the most part. And longevity charts I have seen says that if a person reaches age 85 today, there is a good chance they will live into their 90's, an age that relatively few people in history have seen.
But let's not get too full of ourselves about this whole thing. Medical science has done wonderful things to extend our lives, but it has also extended lives many lives in a way some of us don't want to live. The growth of long term care centers in this country isn't only due to the large bulge in the population that is getting older, it is also due to the fact that our doctors can extend lives to the point where some people feel existence becomes meaningless, even torturous.
There is a big moral debate about that. I think each of us have our own feelings about when life should end, but I know I personally am not so scared of dying as I am about the journey it will take to get there. I've never liked long good-byes.
This idea that an older age is now actually a younger age really bothers me. Sure, we may feel better because most of us aren't physically wearing our bodies out as our ancestors did in hard labor jobs, but the pressures of todays life provide a strain that is different too. Our science cured most of the major infectious diseases in the last century (and also found some new ones that we haven't cured yet) but the chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease, continue to plague us. And some of the things that have made life easier for us, have also complicated our health as well, such as riding in cars all the time and eating fast food.
There's a group of advertisements on television that puts out the word about financial investments that use my generations past to promote their future. It shows scenes from the 1960's up through the 70's and 80's saying that we were the generation that changed the world and now we can change our old age because we are so influential.
Let's face it, we have had our triumphs and our tribulations. But we owe a lot of what we are to our parents who survived the biggest war this world has ever scene (so far) and an economic downturn that sent most of them scurrying just to find food to eat. As a group we haven't suffered those things; however the last few years we have found our own set of demons, many of which come from the past that the commercial likes to tout. The seeds of these problems were sewed long ago and we must face up to them or our children will have to do it.
I told my son in the letter that at one time I could play basketball anytime I wanted without my knees swelling up so bad that I couldn't walk for three days. I also could lift a lot of heavy stuff and had the endurance of a horse.
Now I realize I never did play basketball very well, nor could I lift what I thought I could. And my endurance was a legend in my own mind.
Turning a decade older is a hard thing to do for some people, but it has never bothered me. However, I remember when I turned 40 that I realized for the first time that my life was probably about half over. But then I said to myself, "Yeah but you also have half of it to go, too."
Time does exist, but man is the one who devised a way to measure it. I don't think it matters whether we are eight or 80, as long as we have our minds and fairly good health. In my life I have known people who were 20 that acted like they were what society traditionally thinks of as a 90 year olds though process. And I have also known 80 year olds who think like they are 20. I just hope I am in that second group when I get there in 25 years.
`As for my son, I told him he would be okay. Getting older isn't the end of the world, but it is what you make of it.


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Babies are the very young offspring of a human or other mammal.
- How lovely he appears! his little cheeks
In their pure incarnation, vying with
The rose leaves strewn beneath them.
And his lips, too,
How beautifully parted! No; you shall not
Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon—
His hour of midday rest is nearly over.
- Lord Byron, Cain (1821), Act III, scene 1, line 14.
- He smiles, and sleeps!—sleep on
And smile, thou little, young inheritor
Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!
Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering
And innocent!
- Lord Byron, Cain (1821), Act III, scene 1, line 24.
- Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms,
And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,
To hail his father; while his little form
Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain!
The childless cherubs well might envy thee
The pleasures of a parent.
- Lord Byron, Cain (1821), Act III, scene 1, line 171.
- A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.
- William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 4, line 167.
- God mark thee to his grace!
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
An I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 3, line 59.
- Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse
And presently all humbled kiss the rod!
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 57.
- A daughter and a goodly babe,
Lusty and like to live: the queen receives
Much comfort in 't.
- William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act II, scene 2, line 27.
- In any election, only a percentage of the people vote. Those who can't vote because of age or other disqualifications, and those who don't vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of the laws which govern them. Nor can the individuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future.
- Linda & Morris Tannehill, Ch. 4, "Government—An Unnecessary Evil", The Market for Liberty (1970), pp. 33–34.
- But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part LIV, Stanza 5.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 54-56.
- Have you not heard the poets tell
How came the dainty Baby Bell
Into this world of ours?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Baby Bell.
- Oh those little, those little blue shoes!
Those shoes that no little feet use.
Oh, the price were high
That those shoes would buy,
Those little blue unused shoes!
- William C. Bennett, Baby's Shoes.
- Lullaby, baby, upon the tree top;
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down comes the baby, and cradle and all.
- Said to be "first poem produced on American soil." Author a Pilgrim youth who came over on the Mayflower. See Book Lover, Feb., 1904.
- Rock-bye-baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough bends the cradle will fall,
Down comes the baby, cradle and all.
- Old nursery rhyme, attributed in this form to Charles Dupee Blake.
- Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
- William Blake, A Cradle Song.
- There came to port last Sunday night
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on;
I looked and looked—and laughed.
It seemed so curious that she
Should cross the unknown water,
And moor herself within my room—
My daughter! O my daughter!
- G. W. Cable, The New Arrival.
- Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps;
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;
She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,
Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.
- Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I, line 225.
- He is so little to be so large!
Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge
Couldn't carry the freight
Of the monstrous weight
Of all of his qualities, good and great.
And tho' one view is as good as another,
Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother!
- Edmund Vance Cooke, The Intruder.
- "The hand that rocks the cradle"—but there is no such hand.
It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand;
So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days,
When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways;
When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago—
The Washingtons and Jeffersons and Adamses, you know.
- Ascribed to Bishop Doane, What Might Have Been. A complaint that for hygienic reasons, he was not allowed to play with his grandchild in the old-fashioned way.
- When you fold your hands, Baby Louise!
Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,
With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air,
Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer
You learned above, Baby Louise.
- Margaret Eytinge, Baby Louise.
- Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing.
- Richard Gall, Cradle Song.
- The morning that my baby came
They found a baby swallow dead,
And saw a something hard to name
Fly mothlike over baby's bed.
- Ralph Hodgson, The Swallow.
- What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!
- J. G. Holland, Bitter-Sweet, First Movement, line 6.
- When the baby died,
On every side
Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.
The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.
The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed
That men's eyes might not see
Her misery.
- Helen Hunt Jackson, When the Baby Died.
- Sweet is the infant's waking smile,
And sweet the old man's rest—
But middle age by no fond wile,
No soothing calm is blest.
- John Keble, Christian Year, Stanza Philip and St. James, Stanza 3.
- Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving:
Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!
Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living
Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.
- Charles Lamb, The Gypsy's Malison. Sonnet in Letter to Mrs. Procter, Jan. 29, 1829.
- The hair she means to have is gold,
Her eyes are blue, she's twelve weeks old,
Plump are her fists and pinky.
She fluttered down in lucky hour
From some blue deep in yon sky bower—
I call her "Little Dinky."
- Frederick Locker-Lampson, Little Dinky.
- A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel,
Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson, The Old Cradle.
- O child! O new-born denizen
Of life's great city! on thy head
The glory of the morn is shed,
Like a celestial benison!
Here at the portal thou dost stand,
And with thy little hand
Thou openest the mysterious gate
Into the future's undiscovered land.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To a Child.
- A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping.
- Samuel Lover, Angel's Whisper.
- Her beads while she numbered,
The baby still slumbered,
And smiled in her face, as she bended her knee;
Oh! bless'd be that warning,
My child, thy sleep adorning,
For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.
- Samuel Lover, Angel's Whisper.
- He seemed a cherub who had lost his way
And wandered hither, so his stay
With us was short, and 'twas most meet,
That he should be no delver in earth's clod,
Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand before his God:
O blest word—Evermore!
- James Russell Lowell, Threnodia.
- How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me and so I grew.
- George MacDonald, Song in "At the Back of The North Wind." Chapter XXXIII.
- Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the Everywhere into here.
- George MacDonald, Song in "At the Back of The North Wind." Chapter XXXIII.
- Whenever a little child is born
All night a soft wind rocks the corn;
One more buttercup wakes to the morn,
Somewhere, Somewhere.
One more rosebud shy will unfold,
One more grass blade push through the old,
One more bird-song the air will hold,
Somewhere, Somewhere.
- Agnes Carter Mason, Somewhere.
- And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death!
Shall light thy dark up like a Star.
A Beacon kindling from afar
Our light of love and fainting faith.
- Gerald Massey, Babe Christabel.
- You scarce could think so small a thing
Could leave a loss so large;
Her little light such shadow fling
From dawn to sunset's marge.
In other springs our life may be
In bannered bloom unfurled,
But never, never match our wee
White Rose of all the world.
- Gerald Massey, Our Wee White Rose.
- A sweet, new blossom of Humanity,
Fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth.
- Gerald Massey, Wooed and Won.
- Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun,
Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-goun,
Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,
"Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."
- William Miller, Willie Winkie.
- As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
- Robert Pollok, Course of Time, Book V, line 158.
- Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
- Psalms, VIII. 2.
- Sweetest li'l' feller, everybody knows;
Dunno what to call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose;
Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue
Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
- Frank L. Stanton, Mighty Lak' a Rose.
- A little soul scarce fledged for earth
Takes wing with heaven again for goal,
Even while we hailed as fresh from birth
A little soul.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Baby's Death.
- Beat upon mine, little heart! beat, beat!
Beat upon mine! you are mine, my sweet!
All mine from your pretty blue eyes to your feet,
My sweet!
- Alfred Tennyson, Romney's Remorse.
- Baby smiled, mother wailed,
Earthward while the sweetling sailed;
Mother smiled, baby wailed,
When to earth came Viola.
- Francis Thompson, The Making of Viola, Stanza 9.
- A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper, Of Education.
- Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.
- Isaac Watts, A Cradle Hymn.


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Linking Visio drawings with an external database is useful for automatically generating Visio drawings or to share data stored in a Visio drawing.
What is a Database?
A database stores information and lets you retrieve the information. As you read that sentence, you might be thinking to yourself, "My word processor does that; my spreadsheet does that." And you would be right. Word processors and spreadsheets have simple database features, such as the ability to sort a table by its columns.
Database software, however, is capable of advanced sorting and data output. For example, you could ask the database software to produce a list of all employees with a birthday in August, sort by the list by dates, then print the list of names by date. The data can be output to the screen, the printer, to a file on disk, or to another program -- such as Visio.
When it comes right down to it, a database simply consists of rows of data (called records). Every record contains exactly the same types of data (called fields) in precisely the same order. For example, here are three records, each containing four fields:
Stefan Vancouver $1,234.45 No
Heidi Vancouver $2,345.67 No
Katrina Vancouver $3,456.78 Yes
By looking at these records, you can guess that field #1 contains a first name. Field #2 contains a location, such as a city name. Field #3 contains an amount, perhaps the monthly salary. Field #4 contains a toggle -- yes or no -- perhaps indicating whether the person has access to the executive bathroom.
I present to you the table again, this time adding in the database structure:
Field #1 Field #2 Field #3 Field #4
Name Location Amount Executive Bathroom Privileges
Record #1 Stefan Vancouver $1,234.45 No
Record #2 Heidi Vancouver $2,345.67 No
Record #3 Katrina Vancouver $3,456.78 Yes
If you are familiar with spreadsheets, then you may notice that this database table looks very much like a spreadsheet, with rows and columns.
Spreadsheet representation of data arranging into rows and columns
Indeed, recall that Visio uses a spreadsheet-like interface to display its shape data in ShapeSheets. Keep the similarity in mind: only the terminology is different. The ShapeSheet rows are called records in the database; the ShapeSheet cells are called fields in the database; the ShapeSheet itself is called the table in the database.
One other important term you need to know is key. The primary key is a field that uniquely identifies each record.
If you are familiar with database software, then you should know about Visio's limitations. Visio only sees a flat table of rows and columns of data; it cannot make relational database queries. Visio has only three data types, as discussed later. Visio cannot execute SQL commands directly; it is possible to do this indirectly. Visio is limited to connecting one record to one shape; you cannot connect two or more records to a shape. A future version of Visio may eliminate these restrictions.
Reasons for Making the Connection
Why would you want to connect Visio with a database? Readers of my other Visio books have emailed me their needs. Here are some of them:
* "I am documenting an old mainframe system, so I load information into a database and show the flowchart of jobs/programs/files in Visio Standard v5."
* "I am using a database to create a network diagram in Visio."
* "I connected Visio to my database because I needed a more efficient way to document database development projects."
Other examples include facilities management (keep track of furniture and other corporate assets) and centralized master generation. You can probably think of your own examples. Perhaps the most important thinking you need to do is whether to store the data in the Visio drawing or in the external database. Here is the difference: you might want to store the data in the external database when the data needs to be shared among other users and other software applications.
The Visio-database connection is more powerful than simply showing data graphically. You can control the database from Visio, such as adding and deleting records. You can even create new database files from Visio. This is pretty exciting stuff!
Visio and ODBC
With Visio shape connected to database records, you can pass information back and forth between Visio and the database and keep the two versions of the data synchronized. The mechanism for doing this is called ODBC, short for open data base connectivity. This is a standard, written by Microsoft (who else?), for sharing database information between applications under Windows. It lets a software program access, view, and modify data from a databases. Get used to the abbreviation "ODBC," because you'll be seeing it a lot.
Before the advent of ODBC, a software program, such as Visio, needed an interface driver for every database program. A driver is a piece of software that lets a program communicate with another program or hardware. (You are probably familiar with hardware drivers that let Windows communicate with your computer's graphics board, CD-ROM, or network card.) Pre-ODBC you would have one database driver for dBase, another database driver for Sybase, another database driver for Paradox, and on and on. It was a pain for software developers to write a driver for every database program, then have to update every driver each time the software was upgraded.
For this reason, Microsoft invented ODBC. Pretty much all Windows-based database programs convert their proprietary data format to ODBC format. Examples include Paradox, Oracle, Access, dBase, Alpha Four, SQL Server, and Sybase. Excel contains a limited form of ODBC; for example, Excel cannot be made to delete a record via ODBC. Visio says they heard of one customer who managed to get ODBC working between Visio running under Windows and dBase II running on a mainframe computer!
Similarly, a number of non-database Windows applications have ODBC, such as AutoCAD, MicroStation, Lotus Notes, and Visio. These programs can read ODBC data and can control ODBC-compatible databases.
Caution: ODBC might not be installed on your computer. The appropriate ODBC components and database drivers are only installed if you choose the Complete option when installing Visio. All versions of Visio, including Visio Standard, support ODBC.
Which Database Program?
With all this talk about database connectivity, you may be wondering, "Which database program is best for me?" The list of database programs include Paradox, Fox Pro, Oracle, Access, dBase, Alpha Four, SQL Server, Sybase, Excel, etc, etc. The short answer is, "None!"
You heard right: to connect a Visio drawing with a database file, you don't need a database program. That's because Visio includes everything you need to create the database file from within Visio. Visio has an option to create an Access-compatible database file. It is only when you want to access (pardon the pun) the database file from outside of Visio that you might need the database program.
However, if you want to dabble with an actual database program, you have several low-cost choices. If you have Microsoft Office, you can begin with the Excel spreadsheet program. Microsoft Office Professional includes the Access database program. Otherwise, there are a number of low-cost database programs that are dBase II-compatible, such as Alpha Four. Some of these are available in free demo version, which are only limited by the size of database you are allowed to create. How Visio Connects with the Database
When you connect Visio with a database file, you connect the cells in the ShapeSheet to fields in the database table. Visio does the hard work of keeping track of which cells are linked to which fields. ODBC does the hard work of transferring data and commands back and forth.
If you are unfamiliar with databases -- even perhaps scared of the thought of dealing with database -- relax, because Visio has the Database Wizard, which steps you through the process of linking shapes in a drawing with database records.
Recall that every shape is backed up by a ShapeSheet. Every ShapeSheet consists of many sections, with names such as Shape Transform, Fill Format, and Custom Properties. Every section contains one or more cells. The important thing to remember is that cells are linked to database fields.
Visio uses the User-defined Cells section to store information about the database link:
ShapeSheet view of User-defined cells
Cell Name Meanings
ODBCTable Contains the name of the database table to which the shape is linked, such as "Network - Computers".
ODBCDataSource Contains the name of the ODBC data source to which the shape is linked, such as "Visio Database Samples".
ODBCLink1...n Specifies which cell in the shape is associated with a particular field in the database table, such as "PinX==XLocation==1" or "Prop.MachineTypecode==Machine Type code==32" or "Prop.Cost==Cost==111". There is one row in ODBCLinkn per field. Also specifies whether Visio evaluates data retrieved from a field as a string or a number and the units of measurement. The end of this chapter contains the complete list of codes.
ODBCKeyCell1...5 Contains the name of the Custom Properties row that stores the value for the key field named by the ODBCKeyFieldsn cells, such as "Prop.MachineSN". There is a maximum of five ODBCKeyCelln cells.
ODBCKeyField1...5 Contains the name of the cell that contains the value for a database key field, such as "MachineSN". The primary key is a field that uniquely identify each record. There is a maximum of five ODBCKeyFieldn cells.
ODBCKeyMirror1...5 Contains the most recently retrieved value for a linked database field, such as "1343 in.". Visio uses these cells to determine the record that the shape was linked to when it key value(s) was changed. There is a maximum of five ODBCKeyMirrorn cells.
ODBCMirror1...n Contain the last valid values retrieved from database fields. There is one row in ODBCMirrorn per field. Visio uses these cells to determine whether the values have changed since the last synchronization.
ODBCQualifier Contains the name of the database with the table. Note: This cell is used only when a single data source can support multiple databases.
Visio Data Types
As we saw earlier in this chapter, a database file consists of rigorous fields of data stored in rows of records. I noted that each field contained a specific type of data, such as text, number, or toggle. It turns out that Visio supports only a very few specific data types. Specifically, there are three:
Number When a cell contains a number, it is always a double-precision real number. Formatting makes the number appear to be an integer, such as 100, or a number with units, such as 12.3 ft.
Text A cell can contain up to 252 characters. (It would be 254 but two characters are always the surrounding " marks).
Data1...3 These fields can contain up to 64KB of each. There are three Datan fields per shape. In Visio, you can only access the Datan fields via the Format | Special command or through VBA programming; this data is not accessible via the ShapeSheet.
Normally, the database file expects to receive its information with data formatted into the correct data types. Most database programs require you to specify whether a field consists of an integer number, a real number, a single character, a text sting, a Boolean (true or false value), a date, etc. Fortunately for us, however, Visio attempts to interpret information and makes a best guess at its data type. For example, Visio is able to interpret the string "12.1 in." as the number 12.1 with the units of inches. Still, this might lead to the occasional unexplained error when a data type is converted incorrectly.
To define the units of a number, Visio uses the following convention. The units are stored in the ODBCLinkn cells of the User-defined Cells section, using a format that looks like this:
This means that the Custom Property row called Prop.Cost stores the Cost data of the shape. The cost data is formatted in currency units (unit code 111). The complete list of unit codes is as follows:
Code Meaning
0 String value
1 String formula
32 Non-dimensional number
40 Date
48 Number with no explicit units
50 Points (72 points per inch).
51 Picas (6 picas per inch).
53 Didots (67 didots per inch).
54 Ciceros (12 ciceros per didot).
63 Use default units, as specified by the page
64 Use drawing's default units
65 Decimal inches
66 Feet
67 Feet and inches
68 Decimal miles
69 Centimeters
70 Millimeters
71 Meters
72 Kilometers
73 Fractional inches
74 Fractional miles
75 Yards
80 Angle with no explicit units
81 Angle in decimal degrees
82 Angle in degrees, minutes, and seconds
83 Angle in radians
84 Angle in minutes and seconds
85 Angle in seconds
111 Currency
252 Leave number in current units
This article provided you with an introduction to linking Visio with an external database file. You learned some database terminology, the importance of ODBC, and how cells are linked to fields. You saw the importance of understanding the ShapeSheet before tackling advanced Visio topics.


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Front Range (CO) > Garden of the Gods > Climber's Log
Garden of the Gods Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Sarah Simon
|Great for climbing or just relaxing
|I've been here to stroll with the dogs, I've climbed airy routes here, I've even mountain biked here. I promised myself that if the day ever comes when I look at Garden of the Gods and fail to be amazed, I have become a cold, callous soul. This is an amazing piece of natural art!
|Posted Jan 3, 2014 6:02 pm
|Have only done a couple of climbs here, kind of a weird vibe for me, with the tourists and traffic.
|Posted Nov 10, 2013 9:53 am
|Jason Sypherd
|Sentinel Rock
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2013
|Sentinel Rock located in the center of the park is a great rout for sport climbing. Alot of folks stopped by just to check us out and ask questions on the how, what, and why's of the climb. Thank you for visiting us
|Posted Jul 1, 2013 2:01 am
|Nice Place!
Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2011
|With the wife and doggie a few times... moderate scrambles, but nothing resembling vertical... soon though!
|Posted Feb 11, 2013 3:51 pm
|Nice playground!
Date Climbed: Dec 5, 2012
|Great palce to visit year around, i love visiting this place in every season.
|Posted Dec 6, 2012 9:38 pm
|Hiked there in 2010
|Beautiful place for photography.
|Posted Nov 14, 2012 6:58 pm
|Hiked there in 2010
|Beautiful place for photography.
|Posted Nov 14, 2012 6:58 pm
|Liba Kopeckova
|several visits
|several visits, but only for hiking and running races, still have to come back for climbing.
|Posted Nov 10, 2012 3:39 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 1, 2012
|About 5 minutes from work for me. Nice variety of climbs and very scenic. Can climb here pretty much year-round.
|Posted Nov 4, 2012 11:48 pm
|Pete Castricone
|Some lazy trails, 2011
|Just explored a bit and enjoyed the area.
|Posted Sep 13, 2012 10:52 am
|Boriss Andean
|Amazing Sunset
Date Climbed: Feb 1, 2012
|Visited Garden Of The Gods by late afternoon. Colors of the rocks turned to orange during the sunset hours. Amazing!
|Posted Feb 12, 2012 10:01 pm
|a gorgeous playground
|i'm no rock climber but i had a great time exploring the non-technical routes
|Posted Aug 6, 2011 3:53 pm
|Great for winter exercise
Date Climbed: Jan 7, 2011
|This place is great even just for some scrambling during the winter.
|Posted May 7, 2011 5:30 pm
|Cool Place!
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010
|One of the neatest places in Colorado Springs...didn't climb any technicals but sure enjoyed watching the kids doing it!
|Posted Apr 8, 2011 1:57 pm
|Such a simple pleasure!
|Been there in 2000 and 2008 and would go back in a second; can't believe this place is practically in the center of a town!
|Posted Dec 17, 2010 3:16 pm
|starting to explore
Date Climbed: Dec 4, 2010
|10/1/10- climbed montezuma's tower north ridge(5.7), windows route(5.2....5.4/5.5?), white spire's south ridge(5.7) and pigeon spire(5.4).
12/4/10- climbed on a very cold day w/A.J. after the windows(5.2) route we stuck to easy routes in the sun to stay warm.
will be back for montezuma's tower!
|Posted Dec 16, 2010 8:14 pm
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|Route Climbed: Many Date Climbed: 1993-Present
|Excellent climbing, definitely one of my favorite crags.
|Posted Feb 19, 2007 6:30 pm
|Tons o' fun
Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2006
|What a sweet area--the Rangers are nazis about staying in the "designated areas," though, but we found ways to enjoy some climbing, nevertheless. It's a super-sweet place to chill out on a sunny Colorado day.
|Posted Mar 20, 2006 3:42 am
|Route(s) Climbed: Many Date Climbed: Jan. 2006
Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2006
|The rocks here are awesome. I live in Idaho, and it is really great that Colorado Springs has a park this amazing right on the fringes of the city. One of my favorite day hike, scramble, climbing (etc.) destinations; an absolutely great place.
|Posted Mar 7, 2006 2:13 am
|Brian Kalet
|Route Climbed: Many Date Climbed: 2005
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(1) "small hydroelectric power project" means any hydroelectric power project which is located at the site of any existing dam, which uses the water power potential of such dam, and which has not more than 30,000 kilowatts of installed capacity;
(2) "electric cooperative" means any cooperative association eligible to receive loans under section 904 of title 7;
(3) "industrial development agency" means any agency which is permitted to issue obligations the interest on which is excludable from gross income under section 103 of title 26;
(4) "project costs" means the cost of acquisiiton [1] or construction of all facilities and services and the cost of acquisition of all land and interests in land used in the design and construction and operation of a small hydroelectric power project;
(5) "nonprofit organization" means any organization described in section 501 (c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) of title 26 and exempt from tax under section 501 (a) of title 26 (but only with respect to a trade or business carried on by such organization which is not an unrelated trade or business, determined by applying section 513 (a) of title 26 to such organization);
(6) "existing dam" means any dam, the construction of which was completed or on [2] before July 22, 2005, and which does not require any construction or enlargement of impoundment structures (other than repairs or reconstruction) in connection with the installation of any small hydroelectric power project;
(7) "municipality" has the meaning provided in section 796 of this title; and
(8) "person" has the meaning provided in section 796 of this title.
(b) The requirement in subsection (a)(1) of this section that a project be located at the site of an existing dam in order to qualify as a small hydroelectric power project, and the other provisions of this chapter which require that a project be at or in connection with an existing dam (or utilize the potential of such dam) in order to be assisted under or included within such provisions, shall not be construed to exclude—
any project which utilizes or proposes to utilize natural water features for the generation of electricity, without the need for any dam or impoundment, in a manner which (as determined by the Commission) will achieve the purposes of this chapter and will do so without any adverse effect upon such natural water features.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "acquisition".
[2] So in original. Probably should be "on or".
Source(Pub. L. 95–617, title IV, § 408,Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3156; Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 408(a), (c),June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 718; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2,Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 246,Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 679.)
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The Commission, referred to in subsec. (b), means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, see section 2602 (3) of this title.
2005—Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 109–58substituted "July 22, 2005" for "April 20, 1977".
1986—Subsec. (a)(3), (5). Pub. L. 99–514substituted "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" for "Internal Revenue Code of 1954", which for purposes of codification was translated as "title 26" thus requiring no change in text.
1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–294, § 408(a), (c)(1), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and, as so designated, in par. (1) substituted "30,000" for "15,000".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–294, § 408(c)(2), added subsec. (b).
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Thursday, September 04, 2008The Lipscomb Bisons and Lady Bisons Cross Country teams are running in Nashville the next two meets.
The first meet, the Belmont Opener, will take place this Friday at Vaughn's Gap in Percy Warner Park (corner of Old Hickory and State Hwy 100). The women race 4,000m at 5:30 p.m. The the men are scheduled for a 5,000m race at 6 p.m. Competition will include the University of Alabama, Belmont, Bethel, MTSU, University of Tennessee, Tennessee-Martin and UAB.
Two weeks later, on Sept. 20th, Lipscomb will again compete at Vaughn's Gap in the Vanderbilt Invite. The men's 8,000m race is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., with the women's 5000m race following at 10.
The 2008 Bisons and Lady Bisons are teams in transition. The men welcomed 12 new freshmen to the program this year, while the women gained six freshmen and a transfer. The men returned 9 of their 12 from last year, while the women returned all 10 from last years team. Both programs are growing in size and performance.
As an indication of the rapid progress, both teams were voted 5th in the A-Sun preseason polls. These are the highest preseason rankings in Lipscomb NCAA division I history.
"We are a program on the rise." said head coach Bill Taylor. "It is a very exciting time at Lipscomb and I see our men's and women's cross country and track & field programs getting better and better, and at a pretty rapid pace. At the same time we are young and it still takes time to build something amazing. So we expect constant progress while we demonstrate patience with the process.
"The preseason rankings are great because they are our best ever. At the same time fifth isn't where we expect this program to be. We will be a top program in this conference and nationally soon, but we will definitely celebrate each step we take to get there."
The Belmont Opener will be the second meet on the 2008 schedule for Lipscomb Cross Country. The men and women opened the season last weekend at the Mid-America Opener in Evansville, Ind. Ryan Chastain led the men's team while Carolyn Latham led the women.
"Ryan and Carolyn took charge in the first race.," said Taylor. "In that sense we looked a lot like last year. However, our next three men were freshmen and two of the top five women were freshmen. So you can see things are shaking up behind our front-runners. And although our top finishers ran well, the team has closed up on them.
"Of our newcomers, I was really impressed with Benton Reed on the men's side. He had a great race and was just a few seconds from Ryan for most of the race. Nathan Brame and Trace Carlson also ran solid in their collegiate debut.
"For the women, Caitlin Anderson stepped up to finish within seconds of Carolyn and freshman Ashley Lehman ran terrific, finishing right behind Caitlin, with an identical time."
Both teams finished third at Evansville. The men ran without Jared Carlson, who is lost for the season, and usual No. 2 Jordan Wilson, who rolled his ankle minutes before the race. The women ran everyone.
"The course at Evansville surprised us a bit," said Taylor. "When we've raced there late in the year it has been a pretty fast course. We found out after the race Saturday that Evansville let the grass grow long and didn't roll the course, so it was substantially slower than normal with pretty rough footing. I think our athletes were relieved to hear that, since they felt the difference but didn't know why it felt slow."
After the next two meets in Nashville, the teams will hit the road with meets in Chicago, Ill., Louisville, Ky. and Fayetteville, Ark., followed by the A-Sun Championship meet in Macon, Ga. on Nov. 1 and the NCAA I South Regional Championship in Maryville, Tenn., on Nov. 15.


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A hockey puck ricochets off the wooden sideboard of an ice rink on the St. Lawrence River on Sunday afternoon during the Labatt Blue Thousand Islands Pond Hockey Tournament. The eight players who are competing in the intermediate division championship game pause for a moment, watching the puck arc wildly toward the crowd.
It lands safely at the feet of Mary-Ellen Hynes, a village resident whos here to watch her husband, John T., play in the four-on-four tournament. She picks up the puck and tosses it back into play.
Her husband is playing for the 86ers, whose players are alumni from the class of 1986 at Alexandria Central School. The team is facing the Alex Bay Puckhogs, composed mostly of graduates from the class of 1989.
Most of these guys grew up playing hockey together since they were kids, Hynes said of the players, who are now ages 44 and 45. This is kind of a reunion for them.
A whistle is blown suddenly by a volunteer referee to end the 30-minute game, which the Puckhogs won 8-5. Scarlet-faced, the 86ers convene at the team bench to start the process of removing their gear. Their black uniforms are etched with the No. 19 in back, and 86ers in front.
We used to play pond hockey out here all the time in high school, said team captain Brian Hudon, who started the team this year. Pointing to players from the opposing them, he said, And were all friends of those guys.
The younger guys beat us today, but well get our revenge next year. Well start training a week earlier.
Sixteen teams competed in the volunteer-run tournament sponsored by Labatt Blue, an increase from last years 10. Players traveled here from the Buffalo area, Syracuse, Croghan, Fort Drum and Massena.
Organizer Fred Dobbins, 57, competed in the senior league for ages 50 and up. His team, ACS Remember Whens, lost a tight game to the Twine Ticklers in the championship game Sunday, 9-8. They won damn it and also beat us the first game we played yesterday, said Dobbins, a board member of the Alexandria Bay Chamber of Commerce.
Dobbins, who is the general manager of Capt. Thomsons Resort, estimated the tournament lured about 150 players and spectators from outside the area this weekend. The resort, which usually has two to four rooms booked during winter months, filled up 10 with players this weekend. The influx of visitors also has funneled money to other hotels, restaurants and gas stations.
Its been a nice boom for the community, Dobbins said.
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In an interview with a Swedish Newspaper, Henrik Lundqvist said that due to circumstances that changed for him in the offseason, he sees at least one positive with the lockout.
Lundqvist told the paper that since his daughter Charlise was born in July he has been up a lot more during the night helping out but that he will find a way to adapt when the season starts, "If I should find something positive with the lockout, it's that I have been able to spend more time with my daughter and help out more at home. It's hard for me to be up all night when I play, you need to sleep in order to perform, that is for sure. Then I adapt myself later when hockey starts again."
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That's the message of the new "College for Texans" statewide campaign launched in the fall of 2002 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in an aggressive new effort to send more Texans to college.
The campaign aims, by 2015, to enroll another 300,000 academically prepared students – beyond the 200,000 enrollment growth projected based on current trends – in Texas universities, community colleges, and technical colleges.
Since this initiative began in November 2002, the Office of Community Relations at Texas State University has hosted 'College Awareness Tours' to 10,000 area students.
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We're getting ready for the fall! Come plant the seed of college with local middle schoolers as they visit and tour the Texas State campus. Volunteers are needed to serve on a student panel and help with the campus tour. Community service documentation, free parking in the LBJ student center garage, and lunch will be provided. The event is from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Contact Community Relations for more information at 512.245.9645.
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On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding through Dallas in an open-top convertible at approximately 12:30 p.m. Thirty minutes later he was pronounced dead at Dallas' Parkland Hospital.
Of course, everyone knows the "official" story. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and communist sympathizer who had tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen of the Soviet Union and had married a Russian woman, shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building with a Mannlicher-Carcano Italian military rifle fitted with a scope. Oswald was captured and arrested in a movie theater about 30 minutes after shooting a police officer who had stopped to question him. The arrest occurred less than 90 minutes after the Kennedy shooting.
Two days later, while being moved from the Dallas County Jail to a more secure jail, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital some three and a half years later.
The official Warren Commission report of 1964 concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate Kennedy. But the report did little to assuage those who believed Oswald either did not act alone or was in fact a patsy and did not actually kill Kennedy.
While no definitive "proof" of a wider conspiracy has been uncovered in the 48 years since Kennedy was gunned down, there is a lot of evidence that points to one. And it's more than likely that Oswald was nothing more than the patsy he claimed to be in the hours after the shooting.
Peter Dale Scott, in his book, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, goes into great detail connecting the links between Ruby, Oswald, anti-Castro groups, the mafia, labor unions, the horse racing wire service wars, casinos — both in Cuba and U.S. — and two large banana importing companies: United Fruit and Standard Fruit & Steamship. These people and corporations figured prominently in the deep politics of the U.S. and of several Latin American countries in the early 1960s.
Scott's book is one of many on the subject, and there will likely be more books and articles as the 50th anniversary of the killing approaches.
Scott covers the CIA activities that were in place — seemingly at least — to set up Oswald long before the assassination took place. And he reports on Oswald's possible links to the CIA or FBI as an undercover operative or informant, particularly regarding his activities in and around New Orleans. And not neglected is the way the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations overlooked, ignored or just plain covered up many leads that could have named the assassins and those involved in the conspiracy. And FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover also played a role in the cover-up.
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The Wellington City Council decided unanimously Wednesday to deny a request from Habitat for Humanity for a waiver on culinary and secondary water connection fees on a new home.
Carolyn Randall appeared before the council on behalf of the nonprofit group. Councilmen Kirt Tatton and Pete Yakovich expressed concern that, even though Habitat is a worthy cause, the city would set a precedent by granting a waiver to one homeowner.
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In a head-to-head competition to find the best, we're starting a new feature on the Pure Mobile blog. In our accessories battles, we'll be pitting two similar accessories against one another and crowing a victor. This time, it's Samsung accessories in the ring, and two heavyweight Galaxy S3 carrying cases will be slugging it out
Both of our challengers this week are designed to be heavy-duty, ultra durable and protective Galaxy S3 phone cases. Built to take a fair amount of abuse, only one will emerge victorious. Let's get started!
Up first is a contender that hardly needs an introduction – the OtterBox Defender Case for Galaxy S3. But will it defend its title? Well, things are looking good, as this multilayered, well-engineered accessory is certainly a heavy-hitter.
WIth three protective layers, including high-impact polycarbonate and durable, shock-resisting silicone, as well as a screen protector, the Defender will keep your phone safe from bumps, shocks, drops, dust and scratches. But it's unlikely you'll ever drop it anyhow, since it comes with a convenient holster to keep it in place.
That's a lot of protection in an all-around solid carrying case, so it's no surprise the Defender is one of the leading accessories of its kind for the Galaxy S3. And it's going to be a hard one to beat.
Now onto the challenger, the PureGear Dualtek Case for Galaxy S3. Like the OtterBox Defender, the Dualtek is designed to withstand rough abuse, witha durable, layered construction that combines strength, toughness and flex.
Its 3M E.A.R. Corner Impact Protection controls shock by isolating vibrations, and its screen shield will keep your display safe from dings and scratches. This Galaxy S3 case is also quite slim and sleek, less bulky than the Defender, and provides superior grip that's comfortable in hand.
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As much as we like to root for the underdog, we'd have to give the champion's title to OtterBox in this case. Sometimes, the leader's just the leader for a reason, and though PureGear's Dulatek case provides a really great level of protection, the ultra-tough and durable thing is just OtterBox's forté. Well done, Defender case, well done!


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