![]() Justin Nadeau led off with a walk, Blake DeLamielleure doubled and Hogan McIntosh followed with another double to drive in both runners. ![]() The Dolphins then jumped on ASUN pitcher of the year Logan Van Treeck (9-4) for three runs in the second inning. Ketchup scored on an RBI force play for a 1-0 lead JU starter Richard Long (5-4) was effective for three innings, striking out four and not allowing a hit after Bison shortstop Caleb Ketchup's double to lead off the first. JU lost 7-0 to Gulf Coast and beat Liberty 8-0. Lipscomb lost two one-run games to start pool play, 12-11 to Liberty and 6-5 to FGCU. Gene Frenette: FSU baseball out of postseason picture isn't history Seminoles want to repeatĬhrest douses Flames: Evan Chrest spins five shutout innings as Jacksonville beats Liberty 8-0 in ASUN tournamentĭeLamielleure delivers: ‘Natural’ cycle by Bartram Trail graduate lifts JU over UNF The winners play for the ASUN tournament championship and an NCAA tournament bid on Sunday at 1 p.m. FGCU beat Liberty 15-12 on Friday to earn the top semifinal seed. Lipscomb will play Liberty at 3 p.m., after Florida Gulf Coast faces Pool B winner Jacksonville State at 3 p.m. JU (34-24) and Lipscomb (33-24), the tournament's top seed, were both 1-2 but the Dolphins were knocked out because they lost to the Bison head-to-head. Kintzel’s adventures outside of business and baseball have included skiing the Swiss Alps, surfing the North Shore of Oahu, rock climbing at Joshua Tree, being a Chicago Cubs fan, parachuting in Arizona, salmon fishing in Alaska, scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands, private piloting, Broadway type plays in London, New York and Sydney, and many others.Three Lipscomb pitchers combined for seven innings of four-hit ball and the Bison scored three runs in the fourth inning to beat Jacksonville University 4-3 on Friday at Melching Field in DeLand, eliminating the Dolphins from the ASUN tournament.īoth teams needed a victory to advance out of Pool A and reach the semifinals. Having life experiences to draw from is important and very beneficial. In coaching, expanding the horizons of the players is helpful. In coaching travel ball, Kurtis Kintzel’s teams sought out the best teams in the United States and they traveled to 25 different states: Īt these tournaments, we also played teams from Texas, Hawaii, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, Arizona, etc. Has done private hitting, pitching and defensive lessons.Has organized, hosted, and run summer & winter youth baseball camps.Created a high school farm system – a youth travel baseball organization.Created a fund raiser that has donated over $50,000 cash to high school baseball organizations.Coached high school baseball for years.Created & coached a team, Indiana Buzz, that was elected into American Youth Baseball’s Hall of Fame.14 Former players received D1 scholarships.5 former players drafted into Major League Baseball.Founder and owner of the Baseball Coaches Association, an online portal providing drills, recruiting help, etc.Founder of BombSquad, a company hosting baseball tournaments.Babe Ruth Softball State Champion Coach.Travel Baseball World Series Champion Coach.Over 2000 baseball games coached – never ejected from a game.It specializes in helping businesses get found online and is developing its foundation in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana. Last spring, they rebrandedĪ segment of the company calling it Local Search Force. ![]() The firm’s name is Buzzazz and its located in Clearwater, FL. I sold the assets of the firm in 2006.Ĭurrently, Kurtis co-owns with his brother, an adverting agency that has procured and produced over 10,000 marketing projects. Kintzel started and built a telephone company that produced 2,000+ new customers per week. During his tenure, he built the sales staff up to 100+ people and production went to 800+ new customers weekly using radio, television and referrals to generate business. ![]() Kurtis Kintzel is a big think, passionate, productive, competitive and competent executive.Īfter getting a business degree from Indiana University, he worked for an auto insurance brokerage, became the top producer and then promoted to VP of Sales. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are, however, various commercial alternatives, which bring together multiple bioinformatics programs into user-friendly stand-alone packages. The majority of these tools are open source, but they can be difficult to learn, install and run some require an in-depth knowledge of computers. ![]() Whatever your sequence analysis problem (assembling, aligning, annotating, folding, etc.), there is probably a program or online application to solve it-skim through the community-maintained list of bioinformatics software at to see what I mean. Today’s omics-obsessed scientific marketplace is overflowing with bioinformatics programs. For example, the journal article describing the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), which allows a query nucleotide or amino acid sequence to be compared against a database of sequences, has been cited >50 000 times. Given the breadth and depth of questions that can be addressed with primary biological sequence information, many of these programs have become immensely popular. Not long after scientists started generating molecular sequence information, computer-savvy biologists and biology-savvy computer scientists began developing programs to analyse those data. Īnyone who has ever had something sequenced, such as a genome, transcriptome, gene or PCR product, or used nucleotide or protein sequence data in their research has probably dabbled in bioinformatics. It is also big business and intimately tied to another burgeoning industry-bioinformatics. NGS is now standard fare in almost all facets of life science research. These irritating emails underscore an important point: massively parallel sequencing has arrived to the masses. And Macrogen, a South Korean sequencing conglomerate, dared me to race the HiSeq ‘Xpressway to the $1000 genome’. Illumina recently provided me with ‘a glimpse into the future of genomics’, just by clicking on their buyer’s guide. Yesterday, for example, Beckman Coulter kindly offered to ‘take the stress out of sequencing’ for only a few thousand dollars. Most mornings I wake up to a slew of spam email from biotech companies offering unbeatable bargains on next-generation sequencing (NGS). They have the potential to streamline your research, increase your productivity, energize your classroom and, if anything, add a bit of zest to the often dry detached world of bioinformatics. If you are just beginning your foray into molecular sequence analysis or an experienced genomicist, I encourage you to explore proprietary software bundles. Although several commercial bioinformatics programs are arguably overpriced and overhyped, many are well designed, sophisticated and, in my opinion, worth the investment. This review highlights some of the currently available and most popular commercial bioinformatics packages, discussing their prices, usability, features and suitability for teaching. Although beautifully designed and powerful, user-friendly bioinformatics packages can be expensive and, as more arrive on the market each year, it can be difficult for researchers, teachers and students to choose the right software for their needs, especially if they do not have a bioinformatics background. Given the importance of molecular sequence data in contemporary life science research, these software suites are becoming an essential component of many labs and classrooms, and as such are frequently designed for non-computer specialists and marketed as one-stop bioinformatics toolkits. Advancements in high-throughput nucleotide sequencing techniques have brought with them state-of-the-art bioinformatics programs and software packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are using a section of PVC, you will need a fitting with female threads to attach the PVC to the fitting in the bottom of the vase. The extension should be long enough so that it is a little higher than the top of the vase. Thread a fountain pump extension into the threaded fitting at the bottom of the vase.Carefully place the reservoir top in position and set the vase upright over the center of the reservoir.Turn on the pump but leave it unplugged.Place the pump in a filter bag and cinch the area around the flexible hose.Thread the tubing through the hole in the reservoir top and connect it to the pump using a hose clamp.Connect the flexible tubing to the barbed fitting using a hose clamp.Pour water into the vase and check for leaks.Hold the fitting in place with waterproof epoxy per the directions on the packaging. The size of the fitting will depend on the requirements of your pump, usually 3/4 inch. The threaded portion goes inside the vase. Turn the vase on its side and insert a fitting that has threads on one side and is barbed on the other.Use a masonry bit to drill a hole in the center of the bottom of your vase or urn.Add some water to the reservoir and run the pump to test it.Place cinder blocks in the corners of the reservoir and one near the center. Put the reservoir in place and make sure it is level. The hole should be as deep as the reservoir plus about 2 inches. Let me know if you have any other questions! Oh and one more thing…I also put a few drops of algaecide in there once a week to prevent any nasty buildup. ![]() ![]() We ran one of our drip lines into the fountain to fill it when the plants get watered, but they are only watered every third day, so it doesn’t help me too much. One of our neighbors does the same with his fountain as well, so I guess it’s just a normal thing here in AZ. It seems to evaporate quickly here because we have so much wind and it is so hot. The pump is all of the way at the bottom of the large pot, so if the water gets a little low it will still work. In regards to the water, it just recycles itself. We’re planning to splice the wires to extend the cord, although I may just try to find a short extension cord and tape the plug ends together to make them water tight and then bury it under the rocks. The cord for the pump reaches the outlet, but it isn’t quite long enough to sit completely on the ground. We needed it for our landscape lighting as well. Thank you, Charlotte! We placed an outlet on the wall somewhat near the fountain. To stack the pots, I used some extra pavers we had lying around. I waited to trim the hose until I had everything placed just right. I then fed the 1/2″ hose through the pots. It worked great and there were no leaks!įor the next two pots, I did the same thing and drilled holes as close as I could to the bottoms of the pots. I cleaned it off and ended up using a two part epoxy putty to fill the holes. I don’t know if it was because it was July and 110 degrees outside, but 48 hours later, the silicone was just as tacky as when I squeezed it out of the tube. I did the same, but it just wouldn’t work for me. Per the original tutorial, they used silicone to fill the holes. For the bottom pot, I had to drill a hole large enough to feed the plug for the pump through. We happened to have a roll of 1/2″ rubber hose on hand already, so that was a bonus! I bought the water pump from Harbor Freight for $5. It would have completely swallowed the fountain if we left it that small, so I ended up going back and getting a third pot. I originally bought two pots (the largest and smallest ones they had), but our courtyard alone is massive. They weren’t super cheap ($22-$39), but compared to purchasing a fountain, it was a bargain. To build the fountain, I bought these PVC pots from Lowes. This DIY fountain was so simple to build and serves as the main focal point in our front courtyard. I showed my husband and he agreed that it would be great in the courtyard. ![]() I got the inspiration for this project from the tutorial on Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom. Hey there, everyone! Today, I’m going to be sharing with you how we built this DIY fountain for our front yard using a few different sized pots, an inexpensive water pump, and rocks that we found around our yard. ![]() |