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Cahir Skip Hire
Skip Hire you can Trust!
Select Your Skip Size
Skip hire you can trust with unbeatable value & service. Call us on 086-6013477 or else it's easy-peasy to book a skip with Kollect online in 60 seconds.
Most popular skip size
We have the 6 yard skip, commonly known as the builders skip. It's our most popular skip and it's the one you see in most driveways. Small enough that they can be placed in most locations, but large enough to handle a sizeable amount of waste. It holds the equivalent of 16 wheelie bins or 60-70 bin bags.
Width: 1.52m (Approx)
Length: 1.22m (Approx)
Height: 2.6m (Approx)
Ideal for larger projects
We have the 8 yard skip, which is perfect for slightly larger projects. They are used by domestic clients for large home improvement projects, including garden clearances, kitchen refits and conservatory removal. It holds the equivalent of 18 wheelie bins or 80-90 bin bags.
Width: 1.68m, 5' 6" (approx)
Length: 3.66m, 12' (approx)
Height: 1.22m, 4' (approx)
The "big daddy" of skips
For larger jobs that will produce a considerable amount of waste we have the 14 yard "big daddy" of the skip family. These skips provide ample space for many different jobs, from commercial rubbish to industrial waste. It holds the equivalent of 30 wheelie bins or 140-150 bin bags.
Width: 1.82m (Approx)
Length: 2.43m (Approx)
Height: 3.35m (Approx)
Skip Hire You can Trust in Cahir
Kollect is Ireland's largest providers of skips with nearly national coverage. Need a skip? Don't stress it! We work to ensure that all of our customers receive the best level of service at the most competitive prices possible in Cahir. We expertly match a skip size to suit your job requirements, whether you have a small or big project, a house clearance/renovation, a garden landscaping project or an attic conversion. Our goal here in Kollect is to provide you with an excellent customer experience. Unlike traditional waste companies we are contactable 7 days a week, to help book your skip on 086 6013477 right up until 10pm.
Skip sizes
Our waste skips are available for hire in a variety of sizes in Cahir including the small mini skip bin (2.5 yards) the midi skip bin (4 yards), the builders' skips (6 yards) and the larger jumbo skips (12 yards), we can also offer commercial roll-on-roll-off skips (20-35 yards), please ring the office for a quote. We are fully licensed and insured.
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We will text you to inform you when the skip is on the way and you can let us know when you want it collected. It's as simple as that!
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Cheap skip hire with the guarantee that all material is disposed of both legally & ethically.
** Skip bookings are based on a 5 day hire. if you require a skip for longer, please let us know and we can arrange this for you. Please note that additional charges may be applied**
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Our Cahir skip hire covers all areas including and not limited to Ballyglasheen, Ballynastick, Mitchelstown Road and Tobar Iosa.
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Cahir Skip Hire – It's easy to book a skip online, simply add to cart and checkout securely in less than 60 seconds 7 days a week. Have more questions? No problem! Call one of our advisers and they can help with booking your skip on 086 6013477 up until 10pm Monday-Friday.
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We're top-notch listeners, so feel free to drop us a line anytime. We take pride in our customer service and have an average response time of 1 minute. Have a read of some of the reviews left by our happy campers on Facebook
Guys came and done a complete garden clear out for me today, delighted with the job they done, very friendly and polite guys highly recommend this service I will use them again.
Marion Farrell
Great people to deal with. Literally only signed up last week had nothing really to put out so left bin at the side of house and the collector literally moved all 3 of my old providers bins to gain access and emptied what was in the bin. Brilliant service. Wouldnt happen with any other provider.
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Been with Kollect for years now, always great. Megan and Erica have been great help while I've been moving house helping me sort out my bins, ringing drivers, the works. Would highly recommend Kollect.
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I rang Tuesday & Pat was so friendly on the phone & Conor & Eamon called today to collect a load of junk that had gathered around the side of the house. They were so friendly & did a great job. Thanks lads.
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I can honestly say this is the best bin service provider I have ever used,customer service is second to none and the service is fantastic... If you are thinking of changing bin companies I would highly recommend giving kollect a try as you won't be disappointed
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Celebrate the arrival of cool breezes and earlier sunsets by making some pumpkins. This 3-D paper pumpkin is the perfect adornment for any fall table. Your child will love making a variety of these colorful pumpkins to decorate for any and all fall festivities.
What You Need:
- Strips of cut construction paper, (8.5" x 1/2" or 1")
- 2 brads, or a mini stapler
- Green construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Pencil
What You Do:
- Have your child lay out two strips of paper in an "X" pattern, overlapping them exactly at the center point.
- Have her continue making additional "X" shapes with paper strips until she forms a starburst pattern.
- Carefully poke a brad through the center of all of the strips of paper and splay it out to secure the strips in place, or staple the strips in place at the center.
- She can now lift the strips up to create a pumpkin-like shape. Make sure the strips are saggy and bulgy in the center and all of the tops of the strips meet at the top.
- Secure the top of the strips with either another brad, or a staple.
- Cut off any additional paper that may be hanging off the top edge.
- Have her take another strip of paper and cut it in half.
- Staple, or glue it to the top of the pumpkin shape, from under the area where all of the paper is layered.
- Have her pull the paper up and curl it into a straw shape with her fingers to create a pumpkin stem. Glue this long tube shape in place.
- Draw and cut out two leaves from the green construction paper and glue them on either side of the stem. Let dry.
- Set your paper pumpkin on a table, or attach it to a string and hang it from a tree or window.
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The mission of Northern Sky Theater is to create, develop and present professional musical and dramatic productions that will further the knowledge and appreciation of the culture and heritage of the United States.
The Theatre is dedicated to maintaining standards of artistic excellence; celebrating and illuminating the human condition; reaching a large audience of all ages, including families; and fostering a humanistic work environment with adequate and appropriate emotional, financial and creative support for all those associated with us.
"Come all ye bold people that live by the lakes . . . I sing the story of your forebearers."
~ From Song of the Inland Seas, first performed in 1970 at Peninsula State Park
The Story of Northern Sky Theater
THE ACORN never falls far from the tree, and so it is with Northern Sky Theater, still playing on an outdoor stage at Peninsula State Park and on indoor stages across the state, its actors still equipped with guitars and voices that tell stories of legend and lore. Since 1990, this troupe has been providing original musical tales about some of America's most intriguing people.
Shows have involved the adventures of John Muir, father of our national parks, in The Mountains Call My Name and the music of James Taylor in Sweet Baby James. Humor comes to life as Northern Sky's resident playwrights and composers concoct characters like brothers Leo and Roger in Belgians in Heaven and ice fishermen Lloyd and Marvin in Guys On Ice.
The story of Northern Sky Theater (Northern Sky) begins with Dave Peterson, a Madison, Wis., professor who taught a one-month course about the folklore of the Great Lakes at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay in January 1970. He and his students wrote Song of the Inland Seas, an epic to celebrate the American heroes of the Upper Midwest.
Soon after, while camping at Peninsula State Park in Door County, Peterson came across a pine-rimmed theatre with a tree vaulting through a corner of its stage. The theatre was used for occasional slide shows or naturalist programs. Feeling the magic in this beautiful wooded setting, he put together a cast of 18 singers and instrumentalists and performed Song of the Inland Seas on the Peninsula Park stage for two weeks in the summer of 1970. It was described as, "One part Peter, Paul and Mary; one part Broadway show tune; one part folksy Wisconsiana; and the rest pure cornball spunkiness." The show was a hit and was presented on the Peninsula stage for the next two years by the newly formed company known as "The Heritage Ensemble." The Heritage Ensemble performed on the stage in Peninsula State Park for the next 20 years.
During those 20 years, The Ensemble produced and performed original shows covering many aspects of Midwestern lore, such as the history of Milwaukee, the settlement of the Fox River Valley, Carl Sandburg, Mark Twain, railroad workers and miners. Each show became deeper and more complex as the troupe evolved toward a higher standard of quality. "The main thing was the material. The songs and stories seemed to grow from the very soil of the Wisconsin woodlands," said Fred "Doc" Heide, who joined the Ensemble in 1972 and now serves as Northern Sky's artistic advisor. Heide, a student of history and a psychology professor, wrote his first Ensemble show, The People's Song to Sing, in 1975, when he was a senior at UWGB.
Others who joined the troupe, including Fred Alley, Jeff Herbst, James Kaplan, Paul Sills and Gerald Pelrine, became household names as summer audiences returned year after year to see what new shows the troupe had created.
Performing conditions continued to improve during the 1980s. After years of changing costumes in the mud behind the stage and having inadequate lighting and sound equipment, the company built a technical booth and hired a sound technician in 1987. In 1989, a dressing room was constructed with donations received from loyal patrons.
The most dramatic change came in 1990, when Doc Heide, Gerald Pelrine and Fred Alley, all long-time members of The Heritage Ensemble, helped the organization move to a new level of professionalism. The group's name was changed to American Folklore Theatre (AFT) to reflect their intent to broaden its scope while still preserving its roots in the traditions of populist culture. The word "Theatre" was added to clarify that its productions were both dramatic as well as musical.
Theatergoers were thrilled by songs of Native Americans in Moon of the Long Nights in 1991 and were enchanted by the Northwoods love story Northern Lights in 1993. The hit show Lumberjacks in Love premiered in 1996 and has been so popular that it has reprised four times. In 1992, AFT decided to continue its music making into the fall season and started its Town Hall Series. The group began playing in several Northern Door village halls with ensemble shows like the Fred Alley/James Kaplan collaboration Goodnight Irene featuring the songs of The Weavers. In 2001, Loose Lips Sink Ships became AFT's single season bestseller, with record audience attendance nearing 900 at a several performances.
2001 would prove to be quite a year for AFT. On May 1 AFT suffered the loss of its co-founder, Fred Alley. Fred had been involved with AFT since 1980 and came to be known as the "face" of AFT and for many was the "face" of the arts community of Door County. His beautiful tenor voice was emblazoned in the minds of all who heard him, he collaborated on more shows than AFT can count and he was a key player in developing AFT into what it is today. Fred was 38 when he died of a heart attack while on his daily run in Door County.
Also in 2001, AFT received two major awards from the Peninsula Arts Association. The first, "The Visionary Award," celebrates the commitment of local organizations to the development of new programs. American Folklore Theatre received the award for its New Works program and for its help in launching Door Shakespeare. The second award, "The Champion Award" was presented to Fred Alley posthumously. This award was renamed "The Fred Alley Award."
Ever since AFT emerged from the Heritage Ensemble, the growth and development of the troupe has been phenomenal. The annual budget has gone from $20,000 to $1,200,000. Northern Sky conducts professional auditions in New York, and company members now perform regularly on and off-Broadway and at major regional theatres throughout the country. The summer main-stage season has expanded to three or four shows in repertory, and the fall season has been expanded. The performances are enhanced by a state-of-the-art sound system. Northern Sky has a year-round administrative office. Over 50,000 people attend performances each year, making Northern Sky one of the major theatres in the Midwest.
Lumberjacks in Love has been received by sold-out audiences in Milwaukee and has been on stages as far away as Kansas. The ice fishing musical Guys On Ice proved to be such a sensation that AFT took it to the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in 1998 and 1999, then staged it at the Green Bay Community Theatre, Third Avenue Playhouse in Sturgeon Bay and at Frank's Dinner Theatre at the S.C. Grand in Green Bay. At all venues and times of year this musical has played to sold-out houses, creating news stories and a cult following everywhere it is seen. Guys On Ice has also played in Madison, Wis., Ashland, Ore., Detroit and Chelsea, Mich.
Many adoring Northern Sky fans memorize shows and buy cassette tapes and compact discs to learn the lyrics. Parents from around the country write to Northern Sky, saying their children sing and act out scenes from Northern Sky all year round. The charm of Northern Sky continues to be the original words and music that bring people and stories to life, creating empathy between theatergoers and performers. This remains true to the company's mission: "To develop and present professional dramatic productions of a cultural and/or educational nature that will further the knowledge and appreciation of the heritage of the United States…."
The effort has not been lost on the thousands of families who see Northern Sky as a highlight of their vacation each year. Peninsula State Park officials note that years ago, campers discovered Northern Sky performances to be good family entertainment, but now see the park as a prime destination because it is home to Northern Sky.
The founders of Northern Sky say the secret to their success is many of the troupe's members have worked together and shared the same vision for so many years. "From the very beginning," says Heide, "it was a true theatre of the folk, carrying forth themes that had found their way here in the canoes of French voyageurs or the holds of iron ore ships. To offer these gems under a swirl of stars with the smell of campfires warming your soul — priced so that anyone who hankered to could come — this was vision indeed!"
Planning for the future is essential to Northern Sky's ability to grow and thrive. In 1997 a community board of directors was formed, which provided additional strength and stability to the organization. In 1998 AFT hired a full-time managing director to allow the writers and producers more time to spend on creative projects. During the 2000 season, the first ever Children's Theatre Workshops were launched. AFT launched its first capital campaign in 1999 to raise money to build a new dressing room at Peninsula State Park in 2001. Another campaign aimed to raise funds to complete a new stage in time for the 2003 season.
Although most members of the company write or perform elsewhere during the off season, their time at Northern Sky is usually the highlight of their years. Unlike other venues, Northern Sky is a place where theatre is still close enough you can touch it. As long as the audience keeps coming back, they will continue to gather under the stars each summer to tell stories and sing songs.


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After my Rogue twink was owned repeatedly by Hunter twinks, I decided to roll a hunter of my own to give the Alliance players a taste of their own medicine. Thus, Hookum (Tauren Hunter 20) was born.
I had no real intention of leveling the hunter up beyond level 19 because I wanted him to be a twink. But as I leveled with him and as I ran him through various battle grounds, I really started to realize that the hunter was a pretty fun class to play this time around. Hunter was the first class I ever rolled, because I was told it was easy and would help me get a feel for the game. The problem was, nobody bothered telling me how to use my pet, so I spent quite a bit of time in melee, and thus quite a bit of time in the spirit world.
But that was over a year ago, and I have a lot more experience with the game and how things work now than I did then. The following are the specifics of my leveling, along with the
Choosing My Pets
One of the main reasons I rolled a hunter was because I really wanted to play around with some of the pets. It's actually pretty fun to run around all over the place hunting a specific pet that you want. Of course, if you're only after normal pets then it's not that big of a deal, but I like my pets like I like my steak: rare.
So the first thing I did, even before I rolled the hunter, was to go check out Petopia and did a search for all pets ranging from level 9-19. From that list I scrolled down through the pages and opened a separate tab in my browser for each pet that looked cool or had "Rare" or "Spawned" listed in the notes. After I went through the list I took a second look through all the pets and threw out the ones that didn't interest me much.
The ones that remained after weeding through went into a spreadsheet like this:
|Tallstrider (Rare)
|Dust Cloud
|Pink, as in PINK
|Death Flayer
|Scorpid (Rare)
|Scorpid Poison
|Big Black/Red
|Bear (Rare)
|Dun Morogh
|White Bear
|Spider (Rare)
|Tirisfal Glades
|Direwolf (Rare)
|Silverpine Forest
|Furious Howl
|White/Grey Wolf
|Krethis Shadowspinner
|Spider (Rare)
|Silverpine Forest
|Blodmyst Isle
|Diseased/Mauled Look
|Snort the Heckler
|Hyena (Rare)
|Tendon Rip
|Sort of Pink'ish
|Takk the Leaper
|Raptor (Rare)
|Savage Rend
|Raptor (Spawned)
|Savage Rend
|Ghost Saber
|Tiger (Spawned)
|Prowl & Rake
|Ghost Cat
Before you read too much into the fact that I had two pets up there that are Pink, know that the only reason they are there is because the idea of a big, buff Tauren running around with some fluffy pink pets was just too funny not to at least consider. In the end though, my own manliness just wouldn't allow me to even attempt it. I never saw the tallstrider, but I did see Snort and just killed him for his loot and skin instead.
After getting the list put together I went down the list again and decided which pets I knew for sure that I absolutely wanted to get. The only two that made the final cut were Deathclaw and the Ghost Saber. If I stumbled on to any of the others I was going to go ahead and grab them as well, but those were the two I wanted for sure and knew I wanted to keep. As it turned out, Snort was the only other one I ever saw up to this point, so I just stuck with Belle.
Leveling the Hunter: Locations
Levels 1-6: Starting area
Levels 7-13: Mulgore
Levels 14-19: Barrens
Levels 20: Darkshore
For starters, I absolutely hate, -HATE- the Tauren starting area. I'd rather roll gnomes and dwarfs all day and wander around aimlessly in a world of white. And if you had any idea how much I hate the gnome/dwarf starting area then you would know how deeply my hatred runs for the Tauren area. I'd throw a party if someone managed to blow Mulgore off the map.
I gave some serious consideration to just running him over to a different area to do all of his leveling. I thought about it long and hard, and then I realized that the very reason I would be doing that would be to save myself all the boredom and running around, and yet I would have to do all of that running around plus a whole lot more just to get to another area. So, I decided to just deal with it and quest in Mulgore. I did the quests, and I hated it just as much as I always do.
At level 3 I made the run to Bloodhoof Village to get access to the mailbox and had another low level engineering toon send over a rifle, some bags, and a non-binding dagger I had enchanted with Fiery Weapon that I now send to most of my toons to help get them started off.
The starting area went by pretty quick since I have at least done it enough times to be familiar with the whole thing. There's a quest item sitting in a cave near where you kill the razorfen boss in the starting area that a lot of people miss. It's not a great quest, but it's easy and basically free money and experience. The item is a map sitting inside a cave right near that little mini-boss. Don't skip it if you roll a Tauren through this area.
Mulgore proved to be the huge bore that it always is, but I stuck it out and did all the quests in the zone except for one. Any time I take the quest for Ara'chea that stupid kodo is nowhere to be found. The second I abandon the quest and go back to the area he's there every time. I walked his entire path, back and forth, four times and then abandoned the quest and moved on into the barrens. Sure enough, on my way out I saw the scumbag, and killed him out of pure spite. Looted him, skinned him, and moved on.
In Mulgore I went ahead and tamed myself a cat, named her "Belle", and used her as my pet to level up to 17. I made a really big Noob mistake when I got my pet: I did the quest chain to actually get my pet and then tamed my permanent pet, and then forgot to turn the quest in. The result of that is that I could tame, dismiss, or call my pet but that was it. Two key ingredients of all things pet related were missing: healing, and resurrecting. I just shrugged my shoulders and assumed I got it at a higher level. Four levels later, still no heal/rez and my pet had just died. I ran back to TB to try to find out what was going on, and that's when I noticed I had a quest to turn in to my trainer where I then got the missing skills. /noob
Barrens is a really good place to level, but I really don't like the area and I hate Barrens chat. (Lots of hatred in this post…) All that aside though, the Barrens is an excellent place for Skinning and Leatherworking, so I stuck around even though I really didn't want to. While I was here I also did two partial PUG runs through Wailing Caverns though I didn't get much of anything out of the runs. A paladin rolled need on the Gloves of the Fang and then gave them to me after he won them. I'm not sure why, but I'm not complaining either.
As soon as I hit level 17 I immediately made my way over to Bloodmyst Isle to tame Deathclaw. The details of how to get there are listed below. Just know that getting a horde character to the northern-most tip of Bloodmyst Isle is no quick and easy feat. Track Humanoids was a life saver, especially since I decided to go ahead and desecrate a few Alliance flames along the way since the Fire Festival is going on.
After I got Deathclaw I hearthed back to Barrens for a couple more levels before I went after the Ghost Saber. Getting to Darkshore is easier than getting to Bloodmyst isle, and it's actually along the way to Bloodmyst. The only reason I didn't snag the Ghost Saber on my way over was because of the level of the pet. Since you can't tame pets higher than your own level, I had to save it for later. Ghost Sabers are a bit hard to find and you have to roam around an area filled with level 19 and 20 Nagas to find one, so all of the ones I had to kill while looking for my kitten got me two levels. Since the cat can be either level 19 or 20, I didn't want to take try to force myself to stay level 19 for the sake of PvP and instead just killed everything around me until I found my cat. I was level 20 by the time I finally found the Ghost Saber, and so was she. Lucky for me I wasn't trying to remain a 19 twink like I had originally planned.
Taming Deathclaw
As I mentioned before, getting a Horde character to the northern tip of Bloodmyst Isle is not a quick and easy task. As far as difficulty goes, it's really not all that bad. The biggest pain is that it just takes a lot of time. The first step is to head for Crossroads in the Barrens. From there you run north into Ashenvale. Since I went there at level 17 the mobs in Ashenvale were mostly too high for me to take on with a trash pet and mediocre gear. To avoid the higher level mobs I used Track Beats to see all of the hostile ones on my map and did my best to avoid them. I did draw agro a couple of times, but my pet quickly drew the agro off of me and allowed me to run on.
I suggest you go ahead and pick up both Flight Paths while you're in the area just in case you plan on questing here in your future. In my case, since I planned on taming a Ghost Saber at level 19-20 I made a particular point to pick up the FP on the coast to save myself that run again.
The next step is to continue on further north to get into Darkshore. Darkshore is Night Elf country, but it's not going to trigger your PvP flag when you go in unless you do something to set it off. Some of the mobs in this area, especially in the southern half are up around level 20. I avoided all of these as well using Track Beasts and Track Humanoids both, and pretty well stuck to the road in most cases. Your destination in Darkshore though is actually the Night Elf town of Auberdine. Or more specifically, a boat that docks there at the town.
Going into a hostile city is never a good idea at level 17, so what you want to do is swim out to the end of the dock where your boat is found, and drown yourself. In Auberdine there are three boats that you can take, but only one of them takes us to our destination. The one you want is the one straight ahead as you run down the dock. Don't take the ones to either side as they both lead to areas you don't want to go.
When you drown yourself, make sure you are close to the surface of the water, and just a couple yards away from the edge of the dock. The reason you want to drown yourself is so that you can run down the dock and board the ship as a spirit and then rez on the boat itself so that you avoid the agro of the city guards.
Now, when you rez on that boat, there is only one place that you can actually do that safely, and that one place is up on top behind the captain. The captain is the only person on the boat that isn't hostile. The reason why you want to drown near the surface of the water is because the captain of this boat happens to be pretty high up in the air. The first two times I did this I was too low in the water and never had the option to rez on the boat. So just make sure you die near the top of the water.
Once you rez on the boat, just hang out up there until it lands in Azuremyst Isle, land of the Draenei. Unlike Darkshore, you will get flagged for PvP when you show up here because it's where the goat people's capitol is found. Most of the mobs will not top level 12 in this area, so I stuck solely to Track Humanoids to avoid other players that would want kill me. The trash pet had to come to my rescue twice, but both time it was from NPCs and neither of us ever died.
Bloodmyst Isle is north of Azuremyst, so just keep on running north, avoiding hostile NPCs as best you can. Once you get to Bloodmyst just keep right on running up to the northern tip of this map as well. There you will find Deathclaw. Deathclaw happens to be a quest mob for the Alliance, so he's pretty well always there unless someone else just recently killed him. If he's dead though it shouldn't take long for him to respawn.
NOTE: One thing I want to really point out about Deathclaw, is that in my opinion he has the coolest skin of all the bears in the game. The "polar" bears (like Bjarn) are cool too, but not as cool as Deathclaw if you ask me. One of the things that makes him look cool though is how big and ferocious looking he is. When you tame him though, he's going to shrink down to about 1/6th of his size. He goes from Big Daddy to Mini-me in about half a second. He looks like a cub when you have him tamed, and though he keeps his unique skin he's not nearly as impressive size-wise. But, the skin is what I was going for, so even though I was disappointed at his new size, he still looked cool.
You may have to deal with some demons and beasts on your way north in Bloodmyst, but they aren't that hard. Some of the beasts and plant mobs will probably attack you as well, and they vary in level from 14-20 or so, but they shouldn't prove much of a challenge.
Since I like the "RAWR" sound of the bear, I combine that with his brawling look and named him Brawrler.
Taming a Ghost Saber
The first thing to note is that since I already had Deathclaw and knew that I wanted to keep him, I made sure to put him in the stables before I went after the Ghost Saber. I then tamed trash pets along the way to draw agro off of me as needed while in higher level areas.
Ghost Sabers spawn from a tiny statue found in the north section of Darkshore. There aren't a whole lot of them, the ones that are there like to hide from you, and there's only a small chance that the actual cat will spawn when you loot the statue. Most of the time you get a trash item that's just a figurine of the cat, though sometimes you can get a different statue that will actually let you summon one of the cats to fight for you for a short time. And every now and then you will loot the item and have a hostile Ghost Saber spawn and attack you instead. That's the one that you tame.
Getting to Darkshore is pretty simple, though a bit dangerous if you do it at level 19-20. The easiest way that I found was to fly over to Crossroads in the Barrens and then run north into Ashenvale. From there you run all the way across the map to the north/northwest corner and on up into Darkshore. Some of the mobs in Ashenvale may very well kill you while you're running. I used Track Beasts to know where they were and tamed trash pets that I set on Defensive to take over agro if one came to me. My trash pet died twice on the trip, but trash being what it is I really didn't care. [Note: If you're looking for a trash pet to draw agro off of you, I suggest a wolf. Their howl ability acts like a buff that by itself will draw agro to the wolf. So even if the mob is too high for the wolf to hit, and thus draw agro, his buff ability will draw agro to him instead despite the enemies' levels.]
Once you reach the area where the cat figurines spawn it's just a matter of running around all over the place looking for those statues while killing all of the nagas in the area as well. The research I did before going after the cat myself showed that most people found it after about 8 figurines and that it took anywhere from 1-2.5 hours to get it to spawn. It took me 10 figurines to actually get it to spawn, which was about 1.5 hours including the time it took me to get to the area.
Each time I found a statue I killed all of the Nagas in the immediate area, put the trash pet on Passive, cast Aspect of the Monkey, and then looted the statue. When I finally got the cat the first thing to do was Abandon the trash pet and then hit the Tame button. I had no problems at all in taming him, only took about 18% damage, and then had myself a classic favorite for my pet who I then renamed Genblossom.
All in all I actually enjoy running around with Brawrler more than I do Genblossom, but I haven't had my little kitty for long so that could change after using her a bit more. Brawrler is an excellent tank, but I'm sure Genblossom will dish out better damage in the end. I'll see which I prefer more as I get more time to play around with them.
The main strategy that you need to know for being a hunter is how to kite. It's the best way for you to stay alive early on, it's absolutely essential in PvP, and it's a great skill to learn for every class in the game at some point. It's basically just attacking while on the move to never let an opponent close in to melee range. If I can hit you, but you can't hit me, then guess who wins. If I can slow you down but still move at maximum speed myself and never get within your range, then guess who wins.
Now, there's more details to kiting than that, and there are many ways to do it. You can do it right from level 1, just fire a shot at an enemy and then immediately move away. When your attack timer is up stop and fire another, and just keep it up. After you get Serpent Sting go ahead and open up with it and simply do the same thing. Most mobs will be dead before SS needs to be reapplied, but if they aren't you can cast it again if you need to. I highly suggest you learn how to strafe (using 'Q' and 'E' on the keyboard to move) if you don't already know how. I also suggest you get familiar with using your mouse to change your directions if you aren't already doing that as well. This is essential for what they call Jump Shooting or a Jump Shot, where you jump, spin around in midair to fire a shot, and then spin back around to face forward before you hit the ground again and by so doing continue to run away from your target. Backing up isn't a good idea because you move at much slower speed. If you strafe, you can still attack even though you aren't actually facing your target (you can shoot sideways, but not backwards) as long as he's within about a 90 degree window.
One of the keys to successful kiting is keeping a maximum distance. It's best to start off your attack from the furthest distance possible. It's not required to be at maximum range, it's just preferred. You can either do this by targeting the mob and then manually moving yourself away until you reach that distance, or you can do what I do and set your in-game options to include what they call "Click to Move". This option allows you to right-click anything and your character will run to that point and interact with whatever it is if possible. If you right-click the ground then your character just runs to that point and stops. If you click on a node that your professions allow you to farm then your character will run to the node and then mine/herb/skin it. If you right-click a chest then you run to it and open it, clicking an NPC will have you run over and talk to them, a chair will make you run over and sit down, etc. Enemies on the other hand…
When it comes to to combat and clicking on enemy mobs/players/NPCs, Click to Move makes you run as close as you need to in order to attack them with your primary form of attack. And when you happen to be using a hunter, that means running close enough to shoot them (note: Hunter is the only class that Click to Move will cause to use a ranged weapon because ranged is their primary attack form. Every other class, even if they have ranged options, will move in to melee range.). If you're already within range to shot then your character will immediately activate his Auto-Shot ability and fire at will. If you are out of range though, then your character will move to the nearest point from which he can shoot (maximum range) and then do so right away. This is the best way to keep maximum distance if you are not already within range. If you are within range, then you will need to manually move out if you want to keep max range. If I am already within range then I don't bother backing out, personally, but do whatever feels best for you.
Talent Points and Professions
I'm still up in the air on some of my talent points, so for right now I'll simply say that I stuck to Beast Mastery for leveling, and plan to stay that way for most of my leveling if not all. I haven't had much time to research Hunter talents as I want to before offering advice on them, so I will leave you to your own searching on that issue for the time being. Once I have a more solid knowledge base then I will share my thoughts with you at that time.
For professions I went with Skinning and Leatherworking. To some extent I wish I had gone Mining and Engineering instead, but it's not necessary. I do have a rogue who is an Engineer, so I think I can get by with just having him make the items I want for my hunter, and having Hookum take care of making gear for both himself and the rogue.
I have found a lot of useful Leatherworking gear for both the Hunter and the Rogue, so I do like the profession. The one thing that's giving me trouble right now is that my skill is so high from all the skinning I've done that I can't currently find the leather that I need to level the skill up further.
Further Reading
As I am still new to the Hunter class and am currently juggling 5 alts at the moment, I might not be moving fast enough for you if you happen to be leveling a Hunter yourself. As such, I want to direct you to an excellent source for all things Hunter-related: Aspect of the Hare.


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I see that the C/C++ atomic update and capture forms have changed substantially from the draft (unfortunately
there is no atomic swap form, has that been rejected forever or will it be considered for OpenMP 4.0?
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1081#p4416 ).
The addition of x = x binop expr forms in addition to x binop= expr was IMHO unnecessary and will complicate parsing it.
Furthermore, unlike the Fortran descriptions there is no wording about operator precedence which would rule say
#pragma omp atomic update
x = x * 2 + 3
as invalid given that the + in expr 2 + 3 has smaller precedence than * and thus x = x * 2 + 3 isn't mathematically equivalent
to x = x * (2 + 3). Shall I just assume this is an omission of the new standard and code it as if
"The operators in expr must have precedence equal to or greater than the precedence
of operator, x operator expr must be mathematically equivalent to x operator (expr)."
was stated even for C for the x = x binop expr forms?
x = expr binop x forms weren't added, was that intentional (that would even further complicate parsing)?
And, for the one statement #pragma omp atomic capture form the v = x = x binop expr; form wasn't added, was that intentional?


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a day with the new breed of county agent,
The spreading suburban sprawl west of Omaha makes Vernon Waldren mildly uncomfortable. Not that he's against progress. For a farm boy who grew up in a Kansas county with a total population of 2,000, he understands the demographics of urban expansion very well.
Waldren is an agricultural extension agent for the most crowded county in Nebraska. Of the 425,000 people in Douglas County, two-thirds live within the city limits of Omaha. The problem, in Waldren's eyes, is the lack of planning. As a product of the land, he knows the tension between urban and rural growth and that land does not stand idle very long in the farm belt.
From his car window Waldren points to the scoured ground of a new housing development at the edge of the city. Condominiums and apart-ments are growing there, sprouting playground sets and barbeque grills.
"Look," he says, "my neighborhood is moving outward too, but right here is good soil, and until recently it was producing good crops. They could have built these homes over there a few miles on less productive land and solved everybody's problems."
In spite of Omaha's horizontal drift, there is an openness than can hardly be imagined on the seaboards of the country. The flat land disap-pears into a ruler-straight horizon. From the air, countless rectangles form a random grid of brown and green, connected by the ruled lines of secondary highways and county roads. There is order here, maintained with meticulous care. But even in Nebraska, land is not limitless.
It is this fact, perhaps, that is a source of discomfort for Waldren and others in the rural community. They believe thai most of the 222 million consumers in the U.S. do not understand the importance of the food production system. There is a disturbing mythology about farmers and farming, they think, that is perpetuated inadvertently by government and mistakenly by the consumer in the grocery checkout line. Government


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2, ZARA Arrow print leggings - £6.99
3, ZARA Striped t-shirt - £6.99
1, ZARA Flower t-shirt with appliqué flowers - £9.99
2, ZARA Trendy sandal - £17.99
3, ZARA Lemon print trousers - £8.99
I have really fallen in love with the ZARA spring line for kids. All of these picks are from the baby line (3m to 3 years) and although I have separated them into what looks like boys and girls, a couple of the items from the 'boys' set are actually from the girls. I often buy clothes from the girls section for Wilf as you tend to find most stores think all boys are interested in is trains (and not fruit ;)).
I wouldn't mind some of these in my size too actually!


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Bob Tabor necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 100 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
DeveloperTV.com will be similar to our other video screen-cast tutorial website, LearnVisualStudio.NET (http://www.learnvisualstudio.net) but geared towards other developer/programmer technologies like JavaScript, Java, C++, XNA (Using C# to create XBox games). We want a fun logo & design that looks clean, fresh, colorful, professional and denotes that we're all about "video training".
(Not sure about this yet ... doesn't need to be part of the design)
Desired Color Scheme:
In the color families of our other sites ... please see examples in the description.
Desired Style:
To reiterate, the style should somewhat follow our existing designs, which are loosely based on popular web 2.0 / css-themes you see out there:
Accepted File Formats:
Logo: High Fidelity Bitmap ... Website: Layered PSD or PNG, please
Logo - We want some personality ... so it should be fun. Needs to denote "geek" or "developer" somehow, plus media ... I personally love the idea of an unholy mash-up of http://www.jinx.com and http://www.tivo.com ... without blatantly stealing elements from either. Extra points for originality! We need two versions: a full color version and a "gray scale" version.
Website - Again, we want to denote "developer video training". It needs to have similar characteristics to our other sites that are both "live" and "in development" ... here are some screen-shots that might help (sorry they're so dithered ... I screen-capped them quickly) :
http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/co…oint/2.gif **
** Homepage redesign we're deploying next week
Here are two other sites that have our "style" ... they are quite a bit different in scope and business model, just wanted to add them for reference sake ... maybe there's an element or idea that could be helpful:
Specifically, the home page needs:
- A large area explaining our "unique selling proposition" with a big red "Start Today" button.
- An area where we can call attention on the right that has a "sale" or calls attention to a feature of the site (ex. "video tour")
- An area where we can feature "freebie" videos
- An area where we can collect email addresses
- An area where we show a partial listing of the titles of the videos we offer
The home page's "chrome" ... i.e., everything outside of the main white area, including the header, the navigation, etc. will be used on multiple pages. We'll be using this in a "template" so there shouldn't be anything so specific to the home page that we can't use the outside framing/design on multiple pages.
We're always cooking up something new, so we're anxious to meet the winner and establish a longer term relationship.
Thanks in advance to all entrants! Good luck!
EDIT: Oops ... two additional things:
1) File output -- should be in layered .psd so that we can more easily split it out into transitional XHTML (and since I like to pretend I'm a designer occasionally, having a .png version helps a lot so I can load it up in Fireworks.)
2) A "content page" -- Design for a fictitious "FAQ" or "Contact" or "Video Detail" page so we can get an idea of the typography, colors, boxes / shadings, etc. that we could use throughout the site.
3) Changed the file type requirements again ... sorry, hope this doesn't pose too much of a problem for anyone. Now accepting EITHER high quality bitmap OR Adobe Illustrator file format for the logo. (Per my graphic designer, who explained to me the error of my ways) ALSO, changed the website design to either layered PSD *OR* PNG.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Web Page Design
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Posted: Jul 31, 2013
NORMAN, Okla. -- The Harvard men's golf team has received President's Special Recognition status for having a cumulative team grade-point average of 3.5 or better, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced Wednesday.
Harvard was one of 10 Division I schools from across the country to earn the President's Special Recognition designation.
To be eligible for GCAA All-Academic Team honors a college or university must submit the GPAs for each player on its official squad list for the academic year.


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Alice Austen (1866 - 1952) was one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers, and over the course of her life she captured about 8,000 images. Though she is best known for her documentary work, Austen was an artist with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Furthermore, she was a landscape designer, a master tennis player, and the first woman on Staten Island to own a car. For more than fifty years, Alice Austen was in a loving and devoted relationship with Gertrude Tate; nearly thirty of those years were lived together at the Austen family home. A rebel who broke away from the ties of her Victorian environment, Alice Austen created her own independent life.
With a small baby and no means of support, Alice's mother moved back to her parents home "Clear Comfort" where Alice would grow up the center of attention in a household that would eventually contain six adults and no other children. Alice was introduced to photography when her uncle, a Danish sea captain named Oswald Müller, brought home a camera when she was ten years old. This camera, long since lost, is believed to have been a dry plate camera of British manufacture, possibly purchased by Captain Müller during one of the regular round-the-world voyages of the clipper ship he commanded.
As Müller experimented with the bulky wooden box, demonstrating it to his wife and other members of the Austen family in their garden, Alice watched, enchanted. Although she was only ten years old, she was patient and intelligent, and strong enough to hold the big camera steady on its tripod; her hands were naturally skillful at adjusting the simple mechanism. When it was time for uncle Oswald to sail away again, he gave Alice permission to use the camera in his absence.
Alice's uncle Peter, by now a newly-appointed young professor of chemistry, realized that in her hands the camera would become something more than a toy. On his frequent visits home from Rutgers University he showed his enthusiastic niece how to use chemicals to develop the glass plates she exposed, and how to make prints from them. He and uncle Oswald helped Alice even further by installing, in an upstairs storage closet, a tiny home-built darkroom where Alice would spend hours on end developing plates, and toning and fixing her prints. Since there was no running water in the house when she was young, she carried her plates and prints down to the pump by the well in the back garden, winter and summer, to rinse them in basins of icy cold water (sometimes changing the rinse water as many as twenty-five times, according to her memory in later years). Fortunately Alice's family was sufficiently prosperous to provide her with the best of the equipment she required and indulgent enough to humor her enthusiasm for her unusual hobby.
By the time she was eighteen years old (the earliest year from which any of her photographic plates or prints survive), Alice Austen was an experienced photographer with professional standards. The people and places closest to her -- her grandparents, mother, aunt and uncles, household servants and visitors, as well as the Austen house and garden as seen from every possible angle of driveway and waters edge -- served as the first subjects for Alice's camera. She also made many early self-portraits, perhaps representing the natural vanity of an attractive, smartly dressed young woman, or possibly some temporary reluctance on the part of family members and friends to pose yet again, immobilized in front of the camera for perhaps an hour or more. For young Miss Austen was an exacting photographer. In her old age she could joke about it, but she admitted that in her youth nothing but absolute perfection -- in lighting, composition and even the facial expressions of her long-suffering subjects would suffice before she would release the shutter.
Alice Austen was active, social and well-traveled. Everywhere she went she took her photographic equipment with her. Weighing as much as fifty pounds and sometimes filling a steamer trunk it included cameras of different sizes, a tripod, magnesium flash attachment, and glass plates as big as eight by ten inches. In a horse-drawn buggy in the 1880's and 1890's, she carried her equipment around the unpaved roads of Staten Island...to Midland Beach, South Beach, to winter skating parties on the Island's frozen ponds and creeks and private parties at the homes of friends. Popular and extraordinarily athletic, Alice enjoyed many of the new sports of the time. The game of lawn tennis was the sport she enjoyed the most and her camera was as much a companion as her racquet. In 1885 the first tennis club in the nation was established in Livingston. It was there that nineteen-year old Alice spent countless summer afternoons, on the courts and behind her camera, photographing the players and the crowds of spectators. Another sport fast becoming a national fad was bicycling, and Alice shared the enthusiasm of her good friend Violet Ward who wrote a book, Bicycling for Ladies, which was published in 1896. There was much laughter involved when Violet shakily tried to ride her bicycle slow enough for Alice's camera to capture her in action. These illustrations for Violet's book are among the few photographs Alice ever had commercially published.
During the 1890's Alice began to travel outside the environs of Staten Island. Her trips took her upstate New York to Fishkill, Fort Ticonderoga and Mohonk as well as interstate to Vermont, Illinois and Massachusetts. In the autumn of 1892 we believe Alice and her mother made a trip to Europe. She continued to spend her summers traveling around Europe through the 1890's and into the early part of the 20th century, always accompanied by her cumbersome camera equipment.
On one such summer excursion in 1899, visiting a Catskill hotel known as "Twilight Rest," Alice met Gertrude Tate, who was recuperating there from a bad case of typhoid fever. Gertrude was twenty-eight, a kindergarten teacher and professional dancing instructor, who worked to support her younger sister and widowed mother in Brooklyn. Judging from the small personal photo album that commemorates that summer, Gertrude's spontaneous gaiety and warm humor enchanted Alice, who was then thirty-three. Gertrude began regularly to visit the Austen House, then to spend long summer holidays in Europe with Alice. But not until 1917, when her younger sister and mother gave up their Brooklyn home, did Gertrude, overriding her family's appalled objections over her "wrong devotion" to Alice, finally move into Clear Comfort.
Alice also carried her camera equipment about the streets of New York, photographing the newly arriving immigrants and older residents as they went about their business. Alice always photographed the people and places of her world as they actually appeared, giving us a beautiful visual window on 19th century America.
As she neared the age of fifty Alice Austen increasingly found herself playing the role of a prominent member of Staten Island society. Beginning in 1910, Miss E. Alice Austen was listed annually in New York's Social Register. She frequented the Richmond County Country Club on S.I. and was a member of the Colony Club in Manhattan.
Next to photography, Alice's second love was gardening and she worked almost every day from spring through autumn to improve the garden her grandfather had laid out, turning the ground of "Clear Comfort" into a horticultural showplace. In 1914, Alice founded the Staten Island Garden Club, an organization that celebrated its centennial in 2014 and its members still help maintain the beautiful Victorian gardens at the Alice Austen House Museum.
Having lived such a privileged life, Alice was not at all prepared for the fate awaiting her in her final years. The once substantial income from the capital left by her grandfather had dwindled to a modest sum by the 1920's. Then, when the stock market crashed in 1929 Alice, at sixty-three years of age, lost everything. From then on life was a desperate struggle to survive.
Alice and Gertrude opened a Tea Room on the lawn for a few years but it never yielded enough profit to support the household. As it became harder and harder to meet the expenses of daily living Alice began to sell the silver, art works and furniture that filled "Clear Comfort". She also mortgaged and re-mortgaged the house but finally lost it in 1945. In a final desperate act, Alice sold the remaining contents of her home for $600.00 to a dealer from New Jersey. However, before he arrived, Alice called Loring McMillen, a friend from the Staten Island Historical Society, and asked him to take her glass plate negatives for safekeeping.
Alice and Gertrude moved to a small apartment at first, but soon they could not afford the rent. Gertrude's family offered to provide housing, but only for Gertrude. Thus, on June 24, 1950 Alice took an oath declaring herself a pauper and was admitted to the local poor house, the Staten Island Farm Colony.
Unbeknownst to Alice, a small publishing company called Picture Press was planning to do a book on the history of American women. One of the two partners, Oliver Jensen, sent out a routine letter of inquiry to various institutions concerning suitable photographs. C. Copes Brinley of the S.I. Historical Society responded by inviting him to look at those dusty boxes containing 3,500 of Alice Austen's glass plate negatives. So, on a cold dark night in October 1950, Constance Foulk Robert, a young researcher, met with Brinley and McMillen to go through the negatives. Realizing that she had stumbled on the work of a great woman photographer, she brought Oliver Jensen with her on a return trip. Signing an agreement with the Historical Society, Oliver Jensen then published many of Alice's photos in the Revolt of Women. He also placed an eight-page story (with later sequels) in Life, and six pages of Alice's travel photos in Holiday, raising more than $4,000. Miss Austen's third of the proceeds was enough to move her out of the Farm Colony and into a private nursing home.
On October 9, 1951 Alice Austen was driven to see an exhibition of her pictures and to meet the three hundred guests who had been invited to celebrate Alice Austen Day. She is quoted as having said, "I am happy that what was once so much pleasure for me turns out now to be a pleasure for other people."


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Princeton swept the HYP meet to take sole possession of first place in the Ivy League standings (OAC).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's swimming and diving team went into the second day of the HYP meet within striking distance of Princeton, but was unable to catch the Tigers as it fell 207-146. Both Harvard and Princeton defeated Yale, with the Crimson topping the Bulldogs 268-85 and the Tigers earning a 285.5-67.5 victory.
Princeton's sweep of the HYP puts it in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League standings with a 6-0 record. Harvard sits in second with a 5-1 mark while Yale has dropped to third at 4-2.
Harvard got off to a good start on Friday with a win in the 200 free relay to open the meet. The team of Oliver Lee, Griffin Schumacher, Will Brophy and Chris Satterthwaite posted a time of 1:20.50, besting Princeton which finished second in 1:21.02.The Tigers went 1-2 in the 200 free, however, with Satterthwaite (1:38.44) touching the wall third.
Princeton swept the 100 back with a first, second and third-place finish, and the Tigers' Jonathan Christensen (53.83) outdueled Chuck Katis (54.29) in the 100 breast. Kyle McIntee posted Harvard's second straight second-place finish in the 200 fly, stopping the clock in 1:48.51 behind Yale's (5-0, 4-0 Ivy League) Alwin Firmansyah who finished in 1:47.04. The 50 free also went to Princeton, as Harrison Wagner's time of 20.11 narrowly bested Lee's time of 20.51.
Katis turned things around for the Crimson with a win in the 200 IM. Katis entered the meet ranked 43rd in the NCAA in the event, but topped his previous personal best by 1.5 seconds when he posted a 1:47.06 for the win. Mike Mosca followed up with a win on the one-meter diving board, blowing away the competition with a final score of 363.8. Stephen Vines (314.0) placed second for Princeton with Michael Stanton (310.55) taking third.
The Tigers closed the day with a pair of wins in the 1,650 free (15:30.62) and 400 medley relay (3:15.52). Harvard took second in both events, however, with Mike Gaudiani (15:40.79) finishing as the runner-up in the 1,650 and the team of Jack Pretto, Katis, McIntee and Satterthwaite placing second in the medley relay with a time of 3:17.02.
At the end of day one, Princeton led Harvard 104-84 and held a 148.5-37.5 advantage over Yale, while the Crimson had built a 143-43 margin against the Bulldogs.
Princeton kicked off day two with five straight wins as it looked to put the meet away. The Tigers first won the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:28.60, just beating out the Harvard squad of Pretto, Katis, Lee and Schumacher which posted a time of 1:29.15. Princeton went 1-2 in the 400 IM before Wagner (43.99) edged out Schumacher (44.64) and Satterthwaite (44.70) in the 100 free. The Tigers followed up with pair of 1-2-3 finishes in the 200 back and 100 fly to all but seal the victory.
McIntee earned Harvard's first victory of the day with a time of 4:28.31 in the 500 free, just edging out Princeton's David Paulk who touched the wall in 4:28.43. Mosca swept the diving portion of the meet with a record-setting performance on the three-meter board, earning a final score of 394.80 while Stephen Vines of Princeton took second with 343.95 points. Mosca's score marked a new school record in the event, as the freshman now owns the program record on both the one and three-meter boards.
Princeton got back in the win column as Jonathan Christensen (1:59.75) outdueled Katis (1:59.89) in the 200 breast. Schumacher, Lee, Zach Walters and Satterthwaite closed the meet out with a win in the 400 free relay, posting a time of 2:57.04.
Harvard will close out its regular season Saturday, Feb. 11 at Penn and will then turn its attention to the 2012 Ivy League Championships, being held this year at Princeton March 1-3.


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As noted today on MacRumors Apple to Halt Mac Pro Sales in Europe Effective March 1 Over Regulatory Requirements However they fail to mention the specifics of why it fails to meet "Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition" ?
Apple today issued a notice to European distributors indicating that it will halt sales of the Mac Pro in Europe and select other countries as of March 1 due to new regulatory requirements going into effect on that date. The move will affect all European Union countries, as well as EU candidate countries and the four European Free Trade Association countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
As of March 1, 2013, Apple will no longer sell Mac Pro in EU, EU candidate and EFTA countries because these systems are not compliant with Amendment 1 of regulation IEC 60950-1, Second Edition which becomes effective on this date. Apple resellers can continue to sell any remaining inventory of Mac Pro after March 1.


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The 2003 season began with the much-anticipated debut of seats atop the Green Monster and the addition of Bill Mueller, Kevin Millar, Mike Timlin and David Ortiz. The Red Sox rode a potent offense to the ALCS but the team fell in excruciating fashion to the Yankees in the series' seventh game. Throughout 2003, the team also opened Fenway Park to fans in new ways, including a walk around the warning track on Mother's Day, a "Picnic In The Park" to support the Red Sox Foundation in June, two sold out Bruce Springsteen concerts (the first at the ballpark since the early 1970s) and the first annual Christmas at Fenway event in December.
Record: 95-67, 2nd in American League East (Wild Card)
Manager: William G. Little
Attendance: 2,724,162
Postseason: Won American League Division Series
In his first winter as the club's general manager, Theo Epstein acquired third baseman Bill Mueller (who went on to win the 2003 batting title), second baseman Todd Walker, first baseman Kevin Millar, pitchers Mike Timlin and Bronson Arroyo and a power hitter from Minnesota named David Ortiz.
With the team playing well early, a sold-out ballpark on May 15 watched Pedro Martinez beat Texas, 12-3. The capacity crowd began a streak of sell-outs at Fenway Park that became a Major League Baseball record on September 8, 2008 when the club reached 456 consecutive regular season sellouts.
Although the offense was robust, Boston had the second worst ERA in the majors through early June. In an effort to stabilize the staff, the team hired Dave Wallace as the team's full-time pitching coach on June 9.
Even with problems on the mound, the 2003 Red Sox could hit for power. The team hit a franchise-record 238 homers during the season along with an MLB-record .491 slugging percentage. Emblematic of this potency was a 25-8 victory over Florida on June 27, in which the Red Sox scored 14 runs in the bottom of the first inning and set a MLB record by crossing the plate 10 times before the first out of the game was recorded.
Boston won the Wild Card and rallied from a 2-0 deficit against Oakland in the ALDS. They Red Sox faced the Yankees in a dramatic American League Championship Series. The meeting with the Yankees was a raucous affair (including a brawl-filled Game Three) and the teams split the first six games. The Red Sox led Game Seven 5-2 in the eighth inning but the Yankees tied the game with a rally off Pedro Martinez at Yankee Stadium. In the 11th Inning, New York's Aaron Boone sent the Red Sox home with a walk-off home run to left field.
Disappointed with the season's conclusion, the Red Sox soon began a busy offseason. Grady Little was replaced as manager with Terry Francona and Epstein persuaded Arizona's Curt Schilling to waive his no-trade clause and accept a trade to Boston. The team also added reliever Keith Foulke and tried to acquire Alex Rodriguez from the Texas Rangers. However, after the Red Sox reached an agreement with both the Rangers and Rodriguez, the Players' Association refused to approve the slugger's re-structured contract. Adding fuel to Boston's rivalry with New York, the Yankees traded for the reigning AL MVP in February 2004.
In 2003, 269 barstool seats were added atop Fenway Parks fabled left-field wall. Fans had first heard of the idea the previous year, when the teams Vice President/Planning and Development Janet Marie Smith mentioned the possibility of seats atop the iconic wall. Unveiled on Opening Day, April 12, 2003, the Green Monster Seats instantly became some of the most coveted tickets in baseball. Boston Magazine would later dub the seats as the best seats in Boston and in 2008, the seats topped a list of the 10 best seats in baseball compiled by USA Today, which combined nominations from readers and votes from their staff.
Along with the new Green Monster Seats, permanent advertisements were featured above the left-field wall, similar to the temporary signs that were installed in 2002. On the actual wall, National League scores were added to the left-field scoreboard for the first time since the wall was rebuilt in 1975, and advertisements were placed on the wall itself for the first time since 1946.
In addition to adding the Green Monster Seats, the team also expanded the Dugout Seats beyond each dugout towards the outfield and built 87 Home Plate Seats by moving the backstop closer to home plate. Despite these additions, the capacity of the ballpark remained the same because the club converted standing room into new ticketed seats.
After proving successful during a one-month trial the previous September, the Yawkey Way Concourse officially opened at the start of the 2003 season. In August 2003, after a gradual soft opening, the opposite side of the ballpark received a major upgrade in concourse space when a new Big Concourse was officially unveiled. Fans found 25,000 more square feet of space in this expanded area beneath the bleachers and right-field grandstand and enjoyed new menu options from new concessions stands with their own kitchens. Along with new, larger restrooms (including the largest womens room in the Major Leagues), the width of the concourse doubled from 30 feet to 60 feet and usable space between Gate B and Gate C tripled, complete with picnic tables and other family friendly amenities.
While Fenway Park underwent many permanent improvements in 2003, the ballpark was also temporarily transformed into a concert venue when Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band played two sold-out shows on September 6 and 7, 2003. They were the first major concerts at Fenway Park since the Newport/New England Jazz Festival in 1973 but every year since the Boss two historic shows in 2003, Fenway Park has hosted a major concert.
Boston College's offense tallied 21 runs in two games at Fenway Park in 2003, en route to capturing the Baseball Beanpot.
|2003 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|April 23
|Harvard 8, University of Massachusetts 7 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|April 23
|Boston College 13, Northeastern 7 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|April 24
|Boston College 8, Harvard 6 (Beanpot Championship)*
|April 24
|Northeastern 6, University of Massachusetts 1 (Beanpot Consolation)*
*Starting in 1990, Fenway Park has hosted the annual Baseball Beanpot, baseball's version of the longstanding Boston hockey tradition. Originally, the competition featured the same schools that battle for Hockey Beanpot: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and Harvard University. However, when BU dropped their baseball program after the 1995 season, the University of Massachusetts took their place. The Baseball Beanpot has been held at Fenway Park every year since its inception except for in 2004 and 2010, when the tournament was played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, MA.
In the second year under the ownership of John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino, the Red Sox opened Fenway Park to fans in many new ways. In May, the team paid tribute to the mothers of Red Sox Nation by offering mothers and their families a chance to walk on the field's warning track. Mother's Day events have been held by the club ever since. The following month, the first "Picnic in the Park" was hosted by the Red Sox Foundation, the team's official charity that was created by the club's new ownership in 2002.
In the first week of September, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played two sold-out Fenway Park shows, the first concerts at the ballpark in 30 years. The performances by the Boss were the first in a string of concerts that have been held at Fenway Park every year since.
A few days after Springsteen's performance, the American Red Cross, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Red Sox hosted the first blood drive at Fenway Park in remembrance of the lives that were lost during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The drive has become a regular tradition at the ballpark and several thousand donors take part each year.
Also of note in 2003 was the creation of the club's Fenway Enterprises department, which opened Fenway Park for event space for the first time in the park's history. Over the last several years, Fenway Enterprises has helped to dramatically increase the number of events (both public and private) that the ballpark holds, including birthdays, weddings, charity efforts and an assortment of other events.
In 2003, the club also began to offer year- round tours of Fenway Park for the first time and in December, the club held their inaugural Christmas at Fenway. The event welcomed Red Sox fans to Fenway Park in the middle of winter and offered them the first opportunity to purchase tickets for the upcoming season. At the event, the team's recent acquisition, Curt Schilling, also made his first public appearance on behalf of the club.
|2003 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|May 11
|Mother's Day Walk
|June 15
|Father's Day Catch
|June 29
|Red Sox Foundation's Picnic in the Park
|Sept. 6-7
|Bruce Springsteen Concerts
|September 11
|Inaugural Fenway Park Red Cross Blood Drive
|Dec. 13-14
|Christmas at Fenway


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A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court this morning (Saturday) charged with attempted murder after a teacher was stabbed at a school.
he teenager appeared at Bradford Magistrates' Court following the attack on 50-year-old Vincent Uzomah, who lives in Leeds, at Dixons Kings Academy.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke only to confirm his name and address.
A not guilty plea was indicated to the court for the charge of attempted murder.
Remanding him in a youth detention centre, chairman of the bench Gill Arnold told the boy he would appear next at Bradford Magistrates' Court on June 29.
He is also charged with possession of cannabis.
Mr Uzomah has been in hospital since the alleged attack but his condition has been described as stable and non-life threatening.
He had only been working as a supply teacher at the school for a few weeks. He was described as a "very nice, reliable, bubbly guy" as well as a kind man and a good teacher.


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CIOs confident about budget but plan for economic slump
A positive economic outlook has CIOs feeling rosy about their IT spending next year, but economists warn shrinking corporate profit growth could be the thorn that bursts their bubble.
Analysts are projecting strong single-digit growth for IT budgets in 2007. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC is projecting 6% growth for IT spending. Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc., which originally predicted a flat year, is now adjusting its projections and expects a 5% increase in IT spending.
"We had been projecting that 2007 had been pretty much a flat year, zero to 1% growth," vice president Andrew Bartels said. "That was assuming a slowdown in the economy in late 2006 and early 2007. We now think, based on a lot of economic forecasts that are out there, that the U.S. economy will probably not slow down that much."
Gantz pointed to last month's survey of economists by London-based Consensus Economics Inc. The survey revealed that economists expect corporate profit growth to decline from 19% in 2006 to just 4% in 2007. Gantz said a decline in profit growth usually means a decline in IT budget growth.
"The message in the data that we have is that their expectations are a little optimistic and they need to know that," Gantz said. "Not wildly optimistic, but optimistic. The economists could be wrong about profits. Oil prices could continue to go down and the housing market could rebound. There is upside, but we think the downside is more likely."
Gantz said when corporate profits dry up, there is usually a one- or two-quarter lag before IT budgets feel the pinch. CIOs should be ready.
"Business profits have been outpacing economic growth for several years," Bartels said. "And there have been persistent questions as to how long that can continue."
Gantz's assessment is that IT budgets aren't necessarily tied to corporate profits but to revenue. He said slowed profit growth isn't something to worry about, but a decline in profits would be a worry. However, he said CIOs who make the case for projects that help companies grow and become more profitable will be able to protect their budgets.
"You want to continue to make the case, and document the case, for new investment that ultimately improves the bottom line," he said.
Bartels also said it pays to be cautious in managing ongoing expenses when there is a risk of an economic downturn. He said CIOs want to have costs under control in case the economy turns out worse than expected.
Richard Ridolfo, CIO of Simat, Helliesen & Eichner Inc. (SH&E), a New York-based aviation consultancy, said he expects his overall budget to grow by 7.5% in 2007. He said the bulk of that increase is tied directly to expenses (such as higher energy costs) and business growth. As a consultancy with a highly mobile workforce, the more business his company does, the more IT expenses it incurs, particularly with telecommunications expenses. Also, he said his company intends to increase its staff by 12%, which also requires IT investment to support those new employees.
Ridolfo said he isn't concerned about an economic downturn hurting his budget. He said it's the nature of his business. If a consultancy does less business due to a downturn, it incurs fewer IT-related expenses and costs go down naturally, easing pressure on his budget. Also, he said most of his capital expenses are aimed at fixing or reducing costs, such as a recent investment he made in a Cisco Systems Inc. telephone conferencing bridge, which replaced a service from AT&T that was becoming too expensive.
Ridolofo did say he has seen companies cut IT budgets in the past during a downturn.
"It is a very different picture in other industries," he said. "When I was at Forrester Research [as director of technical operations], during a downturn our budget was immediately reduced."
In recent years CIOs have adopted the practice of authorizing large, yearlong projects, Gantz said. They may return to the more incremental approach of approving projects in phases and on a quarterly basis, much as they did the last time IT budgets suffered during a downturn.
Bruce Blitch, CIO at Tessenderlo Kerley Inc., a Phoenix-based manufacturer of fertilizers and chemicals, said his budget will remain flat in 2007. He said he is always keeping an eye on the performance of his company and the economy throughout the year.
Like any other department within an organization, IT needs to be agile enough to adapt to a changing business environment, Blitch said. "A CIO should be connected to the financial pulse of the company. Much has been made of the higher success rates for smaller, shorter projects. An additional benefit is greater financial flexibility without a high risk of a project being cancelled in midstream."
Let us know what you think about the story; email: Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer


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msn-pecan (an MSN plug-in for libpurple)
It supports pidgin, adium, telepathy-haze, and Nokia N900 (using haze),
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On October 21st, Barnard College welcomed acclaimed author Edwidge Danticat '90 as the Africana Studies Program's first speaker of its Distinguished Alumnae Series, which aims to showcase graduates who engage in Africana studies beyond their time at Barnard. Danticat, whose work as a novelist and poet was honored with a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2009, returned to campus to discuss her most recent book, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, and to continue a conversation started over 20 years ago with Quandra Prettyman, then a senior lecturer in Barnard's English department. Prettyman was Danticat's first-year seminar professor and remains a mentor to this day.
Danticat opened the lecture by welcoming the audience with the traditional Haitian greeting, "ole," or "respect." She described the experience of walking across campus after so many years. "I felt like I was going to meet the person I used to be, and we'd say hello," she said.
She read a short passage from a story she wrote while at Barnard, a touching tale of an immigrant mother desperately wanting to tell her children a story. The tale reflected Danticat's sentiment that her best writing teachers were the storytellers from her childhood in Haiti and Brooklyn – ironically, many of these people, "who carry their stories like treasures inside of them," were illiterate.
The essays in Create Dangerously focus on art and exile, and ways that artwork and stories can uncover truth and strike back against oppression. "Every act of creation is a kind of risk," she told the audience. "One thing you learn when you become a writer is that no story is just your own."
To further this point, Danticat shared a chilling tale from her book about how Haitian photojournalist Daniel Morel came into his art when, as a 13-year-old on a school trip in 1964, he witnessed the execution of two guerilla soldiers by François Duvalier's regime. Despite his fear, he snapped a photo, which ended up plastered around Haiti by Duvalier, in an attempt to use the soldiers as scapegoats and instill fear in other dissenters. Morel realized then that his photographs had the power to tell stories often hidden from the public. Photography, Morel says, is his effort to shield himself from fear, and acts as a reminder that sooner or later the subjects will no longer exist, while their photograph are like a resurrection, a reminder of their bravery and life. In reflecting upon this story, Danticat stressed that:
"To create dangerously is to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts."
After the lecture, she and Professor Prettyman sat onstage together and resumed a dialogue from the first-year seminar classroom where they first met. "She wrote that she aspired to write as well as Shakespeare and Voltaire," Prettyman said, recalling Danticat's first essay in her class. She had not really intended to become a writer, Danticat admitted, and in fact contemplated medical school – her father's dream for her – but found herself seeking out classes that would enable her to read as much as possible. She now writes for the young girl she was while attending Barnard. "I want to create a library for the next generation," she said.
For an audience of aspiring writers, she's already done that – during the Q&A portion of the event, a Barnard sophomore said that she had read Danticat's novel Krik? Krak! in her own first-year seminar. "When you were here, did you ever imagine that your work would be read in first-year seminars?"
Laughing, Danticat said no, but recalled seeing a campus display of books by alumnae while she was a student. "I would stand in front of the box in Milbank showing alumnae authors, imagining my book would be right next to the works of Zora Neale Hurston '28…I just wanted to get in that box!"
Another student asked, "What advice would you give to an aspiring writer?"
"Don't be afraid, just write," Danticat answered.
Read an article about this event in the New York Amsterdam News.