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Interview: Guitarist Robby Krieger Discusses The Doors' Albums and Working with Jim Morrison
Interview: Guitarist Robby Krieger Discusses The Doors' Albums and Working with Jim Morrison
Robby Krieger sheds light — album by album — on one of rock's most mysterious bands.
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The Doors' Jim Morrison lit the world on fire, but it was guitarist Robby Krieger who supplied the matches. In 2008, the legendary axman shed light on one of rock's most mysterious bands for Guitar World.
The Doors' Jim Morrison lit the world on fire, but it was guitarist Robby Krieger who supplied the matches. Here, the legendary axman sheds light on one of rock's most mysterious bands.
"It was hard living with Jim."
Robby Krieger is talking about his days as guitarist with the Doors, reflecting on his role as creative sidekick to one of rock's all-time great lyricists, singers, sex symbols and extreme personalities, Jim Morrison. "It would have been so great if we'd just had a guy like Sting," says Krieger wistfully. "You know, a normal guy who's extremely talented, too. Someone who didn't have to be on the verge of life and death every second of his life."
The guitarist laughs at his own fantasy. He knows better than anyone that it was Morrison's inner demons, which surfaced all too frequently, that gave the Doors' music its resonance and power. But while Morrison was undoubtedly one of rock's great visionaries, the contributions of the other Doors to the band's unique sound and success cannot be overlooked. The blues-based, often hypnotic music created by Krieger, organist Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore perfectly complemented Morrison's commanding, sensual vocals and mesmerizing lyrics. And it was actually Krieger who penned many of the Doors' greatest songs and biggest hits, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times" and "Touch Me."
Remarkably, when Krieger joined the Doors in 1965 he was only 18 years old and had been playing guitar for just two years — electric guitar a mere six months.
"I really learned to play as a member of the Doors," he asserts. "I just tried to sound like myself—I consciously avoided copying Chuck Berry or B.B. King because that's what everyone was doing. I tried to come up with the right part for the song and play something that would complement Jim's singing.
"It must have worked," he adds coyly. "I think we came up with a pretty good body of work."
Pretty good, yes. Good enough to have gotten the Doors inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last January and to have inspired Oliver Stone's reverential 1991 biopic. And, most of all, good enough to enthrall three decades of rock fans with music that remains as powerful and profound in the Nineties as it was in the Sixties.
Robby Krieger cannot escape his past with the Doors, even though the band essentially died with Morrison in 1971. Although he has remained active, touring regularly and recording seven solo albums dominated by instrumental music, Krieger says, "I realized pretty quickly that I would never again have another band like the Doors. Music has become more of a fun thing for me, much like painting is — something that's personally rewarding. It's what I do and how I identify myself: I'm Robby Krieger, guitarist."
Most people would say: Robby Krieger, Doors guitarist. What follows are Krieger's recollections of the Doors' career, from their 1967 self-titled debut to 1971's brilliant swan song, L.A. Woman.
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GUITAR WORLD: What was your first impression of Jim Morrison?
I first met him when he came to my house with John Densmore and he seemed pretty normal. I didn't really get a sense that there was anything unusual about him until the end of our first rehearsal. Initially, everything was cool. Then this guy came looking for Jim. Something had gone wrong with a dope deal, and Jim just went nuts. Absolutely bananas. I thought, Jesus Christ, this guy's not normal.
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One of my daughter's Pyr's is forever getting in the mud or the water trough. She loves being in Lake Huron too.....what a hoot !ReplyDelete
Did she do that on purpose? Our Maremmas both hate getting wet. Rain's fine, snow is even better, but any kind of puddle that even loosely resembles a bath and they're off on a dead run.ReplyDelete
She doesn't know she is two toned.ReplyDelete
She's lovely and happy!
It's hard work being a working gal. By tomorrow the mud will have dried up and majically dropped off and Daisy will look like a white dog again. Prys have amazing self cleaning coats.ReplyDelete
hahahaha!!! that's funny, she's like, "things were getting too dull, I need to change things up a bit!"ReplyDelete
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She looks pretty proud of her herself. Maybe it a beauty treatment. ;)ReplyDelete
Good grief! That is so funny! You kind of wonder just what was she thinking?????ReplyDelete
Love it! After our newfie has been wading in his pool or just all around wet he decides he needs to come in to the house! It's like being run over by a freight train.ReplyDelete
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Hammer House of Horror, a show called Armchair Thriller & The Day of the Triffids.
Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. I am talking about the origional series on both.
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Well there was a programme shown in schools called Look and Read. During each programme they showed a serial. One of those was a 10-part serial called Dark Towers. There was a character in it who scared me, called the White Knight.
I think Captain Weird on the Andy Williams show was a bit scary.
the morton downey jr. show had its moments
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I dug that show! I smoked along with him too.
look no further than his audience for the scariest zombiesever captured on the small screen
Yeah, I used to be too scared to watch The Twilight Zone when I was a kid, but now I watch it all the time. Good times.
Night Gallery was awesome too.
The Halloween Candy episode of Tales From The Darkside creeped me out big time when I was younger...
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Rod Serling's, Night Gallery used to scare the bajeezus outta me when I was a kid. Although I didn't watch Dark Shadows. I do remember seeing an episode of it at one of my Aunts house and getting the heebie jeebies.
The (Fricken') Outer Limits!
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Personally though, Tales from the Darkside really fucked up my head when I was little.
When I was a kid there was basically only The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.But what really scared the hell out of me was the opening theme to Perry Mason, I don't know why but it sure freaked me out
Quantum Leap.
I was always really scared Sam was gonna get stuck in the past.
Lucking thing he had Al.
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The X-Files got me a few times, that fluke man gave me the creeps
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and the Unsolved Mysteries - they had some cool ghost story reinactments - scared the shit out of me as a child
Night Gallery.. especially the pilot movie...the segment with Roddy McDowall and that cemetary painting , also the one of farm boy who was lowered into the pit
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Under a mediated agreement for the reorganization of the board that governs a regional wastewater treatment plant, Ruidoso's representation will grow to three of the five board seats.
The village currently has two seats on the Joint Use Board and the city of Ruidoso Downs has the same number. A fifth seat previously was occupied by a representative of Lincoln County, but city and county officials objected to the two people nominated by the county commission to fill the post and it has remained vacant. Municipal officials also pointed out that the county has no financial investment in the plant and few customers come from the unincorporated area.
Village Attorney Dan Bryant confirmed at a recent special council meeting, that under the mediated agreement, when the Joint Use Board is reorganized, the village will have one more vote than the city. The village accounts for more customers, it acts as fiscal agent and oversees operation of the plant, although state auditors are pushing for the JUB to be established as an independent entity.
"When we get the JUB reorganized, we will have three," Bryant said. "For the time being, until we get two or three steps done in that process, the existing makeup will continue. But I see no reason you can't identify who that third person will be. I would recommend that and then, they can be sitting in and coming up to speed."
Mayor Pro-tempore Rafael Salas nominated Councilor Lynn Crawford to replace the former village utilities director on the JUB, instead of Village Manager Debi Lee. Mayor Ray Alborn will continue to serve and is chairman.
Salas mentioned Deputy Village Manager Ron Sena as the third member, but Crawford said Salas should serve in the third seat.
In other action connected to utilities, Lee received ratification from councilors of an agreement and first amendment with Operations Management International Inc., part of CH2M Hill, to provide management oversight of the village's water system.
"The incident that occurred at Grindstone (treatment plant) is similar to what occurred there last year," Lee told councilors about a shortage of treated water during the July Fourth weekend. "When the drought happened, over time Grindstone (reservoir) dropped to 34 feet(below the spillway) and then there was the Little Bear Fire (in June 2012), and Grindstone has continued to drop to 54 feet"
The desired level of the lake is 16 feet or less below the spillway.
"We've not been able to take any of the diverted water off the mountain and thus, we did the Carrizo Creek project so we can capture some of Carrizo's clean water and put it into the dam," Lee reviewed. "In the process, because we did not get the Carrizo water installed sooner and we should have, the water in Grindstone flopped. The water becomes difficult to treat. Surface water is much more difficult to manage than water coming out of wells."The village's utility director Randal Camp and at that time his assistant Justin King struggled with how to manage that water, Lee said.
"This year, it was the same situation, so I chose to start calling people I know who struggle with the treatment of surface water."
David Sohns, who has 38 years experience with OMI, was recommended and she contacted him. Sohns sent her Darrel Blanchard, Lee said.
"The(Grindstone) tanks were depleted and folks (on that portion of the system) were without water," she said. "Our existing staff did not have the ability to manage that water situation and I felt it was necessary to hire CH2M Hill, and OMI is a subsidiary of them. They operate water plants and treatment facilities all over the world. A few are in new Mexico," including Farmington.Under a small professional services contract, Lee said she secured professional support for the village staff and they helped solve the problem. She called Blanchard, "probably the most brilliant man I've ever met, certainly on water production."
They struggled through the July Fourth holiday weekend, she said. Staff was "scattered all over trying to manage the chemicals and requirements," she said. "The village staff that worked at the plant did everything possible to ensure we delivered water that complied with state standards. The plant won't let water go through that doesn't."
In addition to working 16-hour days, Blanchard also turned in a list of recommendations to avoid a repetition of the situation, many long overdue, Lee said.
"He's been a life saver," she said. "If not for him and David Sohns and OMI, we would have hauled water over the July Fourth weekend."
Lee has authority to execute small purchases agreements up to $25,000, but because of the long hours worked, that line was crossed and the final figure was $37,200, she said. "They sent a second operator at no charge and I don't think Sohns' hours were charged either," she said. "I thought it was in the best interests of the village to keep Darrel another week."
Blanchard had access to a laboratory and chemists. When he requested some chemicals, they arrived that afternoon and the formula worked, Lee said.
"Pre-chlorination was the solution inside the plant," she said. "Working with Darrell, who analyzed the computer information, the current operators were able to figure out the balance. The tanks now are over half full and that was our goal."
When they refilled to that amount, the precautionary boil water advisory was lifted, the manager said.
Councilor Lynn Crawford wanted more information, saying, "That's a lot of money for 14 days."
"I'm trying to figure out what we got for $37,000," he said. "I know they saved our bacon, but I've been in tough spots before where I was charged triple. I know we will be using them a lot more. So it was three guys, their expertise, quality, the laboratory and recommendations about how not to get in this position again?"
If Grindstone Reservoir is not filled by next year, village officials can anticipate the same problem will occur, Lee said.


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hi, my name is jon and im on the hunt for a Ford Escort XR3i. the vehicles registration number is F631 MNk. when first produced it was radiant red. over the years this vehicle has had many changes done to it. At one point the engine was changed to an rs turbo and shortly followed was the external parts of the vehicle being chanced, full rs kit, bonnet etc, to suit this conversion. My self and a very close friend of mine spent many days fixing this car and it holds alot of sentimental value to myself. my friend sadly passed away last week and with this vehicle being a massive part of us i wish to see if it is still around and possibly buy it back. i sold the vehicle in april 2009 and from what i can see it was then sold in june 2009 to what i asume its last registered keeper. i have done a hpi and from dvla records it hasnt been scrapped or involved in an accident. if anyone can help to find this it would mean so much to me, even if its just the shell. i have very limited info and not really sure where to go now can you help. many thanks, jon
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The Vox Concert Series welcomes Dawn Mitschele and Xoe Wise for an evening of music April 6. Joining them on stage will be special guest Hannah Read, an innovative young songwriter and fiddle player. Doors for this event will open at 6:30 p.m., with the show starting at 7 p.m. at Wildwood Station Pavilion. Tickets will be available at the door for $20, or in advance for $15 at www.voxconcertseries.com until the end of the day April 4.
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The Rochester Red Wings play at picturesque Frontier Field. / ANNETTE LEIN/Staff file photo
The Rochester area is a great place to be a sports fan with something for almost anyone who enjoys competition or rooting for the hometown.
Here is a partial listing of area spectator sports:
Rochester Americans
The Amerks have been a member of the American Hockey League since 1956 and were reunited with the Buffalo Sabres when they were purchased by Terry Pegula in June 2011.
Pegula bought the team from Curt Styres, who stabilized the franchise during his three years of ownership. The Sabres and Amerks had been together for 29 years before being sold to Styres.
The Amerks play their home games at Blue Cross Arena at the Rochester Community War Memorial, 1 War Memorial Square, and their regular season runs from October to April.
Rochester Red Wings
The baseball team is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins and plays its home games at Frontier Field, 1 Morrie Silver Way.
Morrie Silver led the drive for community baseball in Rochester, and his daughter, Naomi, is the chairman of the board and chief operating officer of Rochester Community Baseball.
The Red Wings have won an International League record 10 Governors Cups. The Red Wings season is from April until September.
The Wings front office also assumed control of the New York-Penn Leagues Batavia Muckdogs in 2008. The Muckdogs, who are for sale, play from June through early September at Dwyer Stadium, 299 Bank St., Batavia.
Rochester Rhinos
The soccer club is owned by Utica native Rob Clark. The team has made the playoffs in all 17 seasons of its existence.
The Rhinos play in the USL PRO League. Jesse Myers is in his second season as head coach.
The Rhinos season runs from April through August. The team plays its home games at Sahlens Stadium, 460 Oak St.
Rochester Knighthawks
This National Lacrosse League team is owned by Curt Styres, and is coached by former captain Mike Hasen. The Knighthawks won the National Lacrosse League championship for the third time in their history in 2012. Top players include Cody Jamieson, who is Styres nephew, Johnny Powless and goalie Matt Vinc.
The Knighthawks play at the Blue Cross Arena, and their regular season runs from January to April.
Rochester RazorSharks
Rochesters professional basketball team competes in the IBA-PBL, a new league that includes former members of the Independent Basketball Association and Premier Basketball League,
The RazorSharks are coached by former NBA player Cliff Levingston, who took over for Rod Baker prior to the 2013 season. The team has won PBL championships in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
The RazorSharks, owned by Rochester native Dr. Severko Hrywnak, play their home games at the Blue Cross Arena. However, the team announced plans to buy and renovate the Dome Center in Henrietta. The teams season runs from March through June.
Rochester Rattlers
The Rattlers returned to Major League Lacrosse, the top outdoor league in existence, last season after a two-year hiatus. Clark owns the team, which plays a six-game home schedule at Sahlens Stadium, from May through August.
The Rattlers are coached by Fairport native Tim Soudan, who played 15 seasons of professional lacrosse including stints with both the Rattlers and Knighthawks.
Western N.Y. Flash
The Flash are members of the National Womens Soccer League and are led by Pittsford native and reigning FIFA Womens Player of the Year Abby Wambach. The NWSL started in April and is the third attempt at a professional womens soccer league in the United States.
The Flash, owned by Joe Sahlen of Buffalo, have a history of success. The team, which plays home games at Rochesters Sahlens Stadium, won the Womens Professional Soccer championship in 2011 and the WPSL Elite League title in 2012.
The team is coached by former Rochester Rhino Aaran Lines and its season runs from April through August.
Rochester Lancers
Professional indoor soccer made its debut in Rochester in 2011 and the Rochester Lancers have played in the Major Indoor Soccer League the past two seasons. The Lancers went 10-16 in 2012-13 and are led by league MVP Doug Miller.
The team is owned by Chris Wilmot and Salvatore Soccer Sam Fantauzzo. The season runs from November to March.
Other highlights
Rochester has a world-wide reputation as a golf community and 2013 will be a year unlike any other as both a PGA and LPGA will be held here.
Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford will add to its list of lore by hosting the 95th PGA Championship Aug 8-11. Top golfers expected to compete are Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson.
Locust Hill Country Club, home to an LPGA Tour event every year since 1977, will play host to the Wegmans LPGA Championship from June 6-9. This is the fourth consecutive year that Rochester will be home to a major championship in womens golf.
The Buffalo Bills are a huge part of the Rochester areas sports scene as the National Football League team spends about four weeks training at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford each summer. Thousands of Rochester-area fans also fill the seats at Ralph Wilson Stadium for home games in Orchard Park, southeast of Buffalo.
The Buffalo Sabres enjoy a strong fan base in Rochester, especially after reuniting with the Rochester Americans. The roster has featured several former Amerks, including star goaltender Ryan Miller and winger Thomas Vanek.
Rochester Institute of Technology has fielded a Division I mens hockey team the past seven seasons. The school has also hosted the Atlantic Hockey Tournament Championship at Blue Cross Arena the past several years. The RIT womens team won the Division III national championship in 2011 and moved up to Division I last season.
In addition to events at the numerous tracks throughout the region, auto racing enthusiasts have a jewel at Watkins Glen Internationals road course in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County.
The track features the biggest stars in NASCAR in the Cheez-It 355 at the Glen Sprint Cup race on Aug. 11.
Horse racing fans have two options in the area: thoroughbred racing at Finger Lakes Gaming & Race Track in Farmington, Ontario County, and harness racing at Batavia Downs Casino in Batavia, Genesee County. Horses run at Finger Lakes from April to December, while Batavias schedule is from July to December.


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Collinsville, IL (KSDK) - The search is on for the driver responsible for a hit and run in Collinsville. 22-year old Anthony Connors was killed along highway 157 on his way home from work early Sunday morning, after about 2:30 am.
His friends say he worked late that night and got dropped off about a mile and half from home. He would do this on occasion as to not make his ride drive him all the way home.
His friends say that's just the kind of guy he was.
"It's one of those things that you can't believe that it happened, you can't believe that he's gone," says Rachelle Phinney, who knows Connors very well. "He was our brother, I don't care if it was blood related or not he was my brother."
Phinney says she and her family welcomed Anthony or "Tony" as they called him, into their circle. He lived with them and quickly became a member of the family.
Phinney says Tony worked hard as a dishwasher at an Edwardsville country club and truly loved it.
"He worked hard for everything he had, he was always there for you when you needed him," she says.
When he didn't come home Sunday, his roommates including Gene Phinney became concerned.
"When I called them {country club}, they were as concerned as we were," says Gene Phinney.
Eventually his roommates would contact police about Tony not coming home, it would be just hours before Tony's body was found, in the area where he got dropped off after work.
Being only 22 years old, Tony had some dreams he wanted to accomplish. Short term he wanted to take a trip.
"His biggest dream was to go to Chicago, just to go and watch the Bears play, his favorite team," says Phinney.
Longterm he wanted to go back to school get his HVAC license and start a career, but he also wanted to enjoy life and according to his friends, he did that through dance.
"He would be shaking his head, he was trying to grow dreads and he would just be shaking them," Gavin Blaylock, another roommate of Tony's.
His roommates say he was the entertainer, the jokester, but also the friend you leaned on, you relied on.
"He put everybody before himself, he never thought about himself first," says Phinney. "I hear him talking to me all the time, he says I am okay, just smile for me."
There is still an autopsy being performed that should provide more information about Tony's death.
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A tanker truck, carrying fuel, lost control and ran off the road while traveling westbound on Interstate 275, just west of Ky 17, Monday April 8, 2013. The driver was taken to St. Elizabeth South for observation. Haz-Mat teams were on the site, emptying the truck before it could be moved. Here firefighters work to set up a valve to drain the fuel.
UPDATE 6:19 P.M.: All lanes have been reopened, the Kenton County Sheriff's Office reports.
Emergency responders are cleaning up a fuel spill from a tanker involved in an accident this morning in Kenton County.
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Topic: These dang' spam-bots on YT
So... about two weeks ago, my account was seemingly hacked by an asshole who replied to another person on a random video like this: @username (no one do that anymore right?). I feel kinda weird, because it gets tons of thumbs. The person who replied my account's comment says "**** you". (Yeah well of course he's pissed of because...)
The guy who hacked my account wrote something about getting money by only reading mails and stuffs. I ended replying to myself then...
After a week of arguing with the guy who frickin' insult me for "having spammed" on YT, I calmed myself down, thinking that these pieces of **** will not continue anymore. But recently, when I've been going through some horror videos and see comments like these:
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martins decades of dominance as the single primary supplier for the Aegis combat system are officially over now that the company has dropped its protest of the US Navys decision to award Raytheon a contract to build a new radar for the system.
Lockheed Martin protested the Navys award of the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) contract because we believed the merits of our offering were not properly considered during the evaluation process, spokesman Keith Little said Jan. 10. While we believe that we put forward an industry-leading solution, after receiving additional information we have determined its in the best interest of the Navy and Lockheed Martin to withdraw our protest.
Lockheed and Raytheon, along with Northrop Grumman, had been in a fierce contest for the AMDR, which is to be installed in new Aegis destroyers and cruisers starting in 2016. The Navys choice of Raytheon, announced Oct. 10, stunned Lockheed, which has had a lock on the valuable Aegis franchise since the system was developed starting in the late 1970s. Sources said Northrop Grumman which, according to the Navy, also made a very credible run in the competition was also annoyed, having seen Lockheed as the frontrunner.
Lockheed last year beat off competition from Raytheon and Boeing to take over management of the Aegis system. The Combat System Engineering Agent contract awarded March 4 gave the company management rights over Aegis through May 2018, when the Navy will award another five-year contract.
Raytheon, as a subcontractor, already produces key components of the Aegis system. The company also makes the Standard surface-to-air missiles that equip all Aegis cruisers and destroyers.
Under the AMDR award, Raytheon will receive up to $1.63 billion to develop, test and deliver the new radar, which will replace SPY-1 radars in new Aegis ships. The initial contract announced Oct. 10 is a $385.7 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, using $157 million in fiscal 2013 funding already appropriated. The Navy is asking for $240 million in AMDR research-and-development funding in the 2014 budget request, still to be approved by Congress.
We are ready to move forward with the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the AMDR, Cmdr. Thurraya Kent, a spokeswoman at the Pentagon, said Jan. 10. We look forward to continuing our work with industry to bring this much-needed next generation capability to the war fighter.
The Navy is anxious to get going on AMDR development. The radar is set to be installed on the second of two DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers scheduled to be ordered in 2016. Current destroyers are designed to the Flight IIA standard; the AMDR will mark the beginning of Flight III construction.
The protest has not delayed production, Kent said.
In accordance with the applicable regulations, the contracting officer suspended performance of the AMDR contract pending resolution of the protest, she said. The contracting officer planned for potential changes in the AMDR award schedule, so at this time, there is no immediate impact on the delivery date or schedule.
Raytheon said its ready to go.
The Raytheon team and its plans are in place, ready to move forward on the program, spokeswoman Carolyn Beaudry said Jan. 10. Our focus is now dedicated to delivering this critical AMDR capability to the Navy.
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Kofi Hughes, a senior from Cathedral High School, may be a frequent target for any of the three Indiana quarterbacks.
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Flagpoles, fireworks, flash mobs, Gator chomps and T-shirt guns are supposed to energize Indiana University's jaded football fan base. Of course, winning would achieve more than any marketing campaign or game-day innovations ever could.
As athletic director Fred Glass put it, football "is a really big deal" because of its potential for revenue growth and for connecting students and alumni to IU.
"Fairly or unfairly, it disproportionately reflects back, I think, on the university," Glass said. "People tend to connect quality in football with quality in academics at an institution." ...


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LibX Firefox Extension Now Available
June 18th, 2008
LibX is an open source framework, originally developed by Annette Bailey and Godmar Back at the Virginia Tech University Libraries.
We've created a J. Paul Leonard Library edition of the LibX Firefox toolbar. The basic idea is that once you download and install LibX you essentially take the Library with you no matter where you browse. Anytime a book is mentioned, on any site, you can quickly check whether we have it in the Library, or whether you can find it through WorldCat. You can also search for an author name, or keyword, in Google Scholar, or our SmartStart set of databases, to see the related scholarly literature, then find references in one of the Library's 200+ databases, or 20,000+ electronic journals.
To use LibX, you need to download and install it. (As of June 16, 2008, LibX is only available for Firefox 3.x (download at Mozilla), although an IE version is in the works. Firefox 2.x users of LibX 1.2.2 must install both FF 3.0 and LibX 1.5.4 at the links above, as FF will not automatically update)
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Genre: Sci-fi, Shooter
Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
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Fallen Earth OverviewFallen Earth is a post-apocalyptical MMORPG that takes place near the Grand Canyon. The survivors of humanity have been split into six factions, all battling it out for the remaining resources that are left.
Fallen Earth offers a classless system and intense PvP. The game uses FPS combat, backed by RPG mechanics, which means that it combines elements of FPS with statistics in order to determine the results of combat.
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Lore Cast Season 1 Opening, Episode 1: We're Not Dead!
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Now that the Pre-E3 blues are gone, Beararms and Mordil are here to talk eagerly about this year's biggest gaming convention in the Americas month's MMO industry news. See what toy they're now using to keep track of the agenda, rather than that clunky and attention-stealing laptop here, or on our Facebook / Livestream page. Below [&hellip
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Now that the Pre-E3 blues are gone, Beararms and Mordil return enthusiastically to talk about this year's biggest gaming convention in the Americas month's MMO industry news. Return here to join them Saturday the 25th at 11 AM PDT (2PM EDT) to chat it up with them and see a new toy they'll be using [&hellip
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Broncos vs. Bears
Perhaps after this Sunday's game, Tim Tebow can help Bears right tackle Lance Louis pray for quicker feet. After seemingly stabilizing Chicago's nightmarish right tackle situation over the past month, Louis, a converted guard, completely fell apart in the loss to Kansas City. He was culpable for most of Kansas City's seven sacks and also had a holding penalty just outside his own goal-line. It was a performance that would have made even Winston Justice circa 2007 cringe.
It's not like the Chiefs did anything complex against Louis, either. They didn't stunt defenders near him or feign blitzes in his gaps. They simply lined players up mano-a-mano and won (Justin Houston, Tamba Hali, Derrick Johnson and even lowly Tyson Jackson all got through; by the fourth quarter, Romeo Crennel was putting players on waiting list for reps at left defensive end/outside linebacker).
Things won't get much easier for Louis this week. His Bears travel to Mile High, where they'll meet rookie Von Miller, the AFC's answer to Clay Matthews (assuming Miller returns from the thumb injury that sidelined him against Minnesota). Miller, in fact, has an even better burst than Matthews.
If Miller is unavailable, the matchup in the trenches will be more even but still tilted in Denver's favor. The Broncos have gotten great play out of their defensive line in recent weeks, particularly inside with active tackles Broderick Bunkley, Marcus Thomas and, on passing downs, Ryan McBean. These three cause congestion that allows the speed of Miller, D.J. Williams, Elvis Dumervil and Robert Ayers to flourish.
Even with adequate pass-rushing resources, the Broncos are willing to manufacture pressure through design. They blitz Brian Dawkins a few times each game and, on some occasions, have surprised offenses by bringing Miller from the inside. At times, execution and assignment identification have been problematic for the Bears O-line. The Broncos will be eager to exploit that.
Packers vs. Raiders
The Raiders traded a bounty for Carson Palmer so that they could get away from the elementary, run-only offensive gameplans they used early in the year with Jason Campbell. Aside from a putrid outing at Miami last week, where Palmer played jittery in the pocket because of a justified lack of trust in his protection, the ex-Bengal has been much better than his numbers suggest.
That said, the Raiders need to return to a ground-only approach when they travel to Green Bay this Sunday. Their only chance to win the game is to shorten it. For the last two weeks, we've focused on how a quality four-man pass-rush in front of good, aggressive coverage could give a defense a chance to stop Aaron Rodgers.
Well, the last two weeks, Rodgers & Co. have had no trouble against the Lions and Giants, owners of arguably the two best four-man pass-rushes in football. It's wishful to think that the Raiders' front line, which is remarkably powerful but deprived of genuine edge speed, can dictate the action this Sunday.
It might be wishful to think the same thing about Oakland's offensive line. That unit, even with frequently used sixth blocker Stephon Heyer, was unable to move Miami's three-man front last Sunday. But ground-in-pound is Oakland's best bet against the Pack. And last week was likely an aberration. The Raiders are athletic on the left side up front with tackle Jared Veldheer capable of exploding at the second level and guard Stefan Wisniewski possessing intriguing short-area mobility.
And they have a workhorse in Michael Bush. He was methodical and effective three weeks ago against the stingy Vikings, rushing for 109 yards on 30 carries. The week before, he toted the rock 30 times for 157 yards at San Diego.
The Packers front line is hard to move; B.J. Raji is a beast, and Ryan Pickett and backup Howard Green have nose tackle size at the end positions. But if you CAN move them, you'll also move the clock. That, along with great special teams (which the Raiders have) might – MIGHT – be enough to sorta maybe kinda have some form of an outside shot at possibly coming close to beating the seemingly unbeatable Packers offense.
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For many fans, filling out the offensive line section of the Pro Bowl ballot can be challenging. Often it involves just clicking on whatever linemen hail from the best teams. If the running back is good, his offensive linemen must be good as well (so the thinking goes).
This is the kind of misguided logic that sends underachievers like Bryant McKinnie to Hawaii. (McKinnie made the Pro Bowl in 2009, even though he was benched at times down the stretch.)
McKinnie's first season as a Raven has actually been much better than his last several seasons as a Viking. At 6'7", 350-something pounds (give or take), the 10th-year veteran would not seem to be a great fit for Baltimore's movement-oriented zone-blocking scheme. However, as it turns out, the zone-blocking scheme capitalizes on McKinnie's natural size and also masks his timidity.
McKinnie's built like a monster but plays like a milquetoast. He's never exerted the explosive power or vicious hand-punch of an elite lineman. That's been detrimental to his run-blocking. But in a system that has him move before making contact in the run game, McKinnie can get away with playing soft because his momentum, working with his sheer size, generates natural power. It's physics.
Don't vote McKinnie to this season's Pro Bowl, though. DO, however, vote his teammate, Marshal Yanda. The 27-year-old right guard has drastically elevated his already-impressive game since signing a five-year, $32 million contract in July. In fact, lately, Yanda has been the best guard in all of football. He has great footwork and the rare ability to land multiple well-angled blocks on a single play.
As this week goes, he's perfectly suited to dominate against a fast but undersized defense like Indy's.
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DHS chief information and security offices are coordinating to migrate the departments security operations center from the purview of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to an enterprise model under the chief information security officer. The move will lay the foundation for providing significantly enhanced capabilities under a new enterprise system.
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On September 17, 2011 wrote: Handling Multiple File Uploads With Uploadify
As usual, I am going to be demonstrating its use in conjunction with a Spring-Velocity web app. Rather than go through the whole process of setting up such an app again, I would refer you to my post on ActiveMQ, JMS & Ajax. The structure of the project I talk about here is identical to that, but with fewer dependencies, and, of course, you can download the code if you want to take a closer look. So let's begin …
Let's begin by imagining what our use case here might look like. For the sake of argument, I am going to say that what we want is this:
- The user needs to be able to upload one or more files.
- The names of these files must match a naming convention from which the application infers some kind of semantic value (which might be used to process them in different ways, for example).
- When the user uploads valid file(s), they should see a list of the files uploaded with the semantic information we have parsed from them via their name(s).
- When the user uploads invalid file(s), they should see information about this error.
In my domain model, therefore, I have 2 classes:
public enum UploadFileType { BAR(Pattern.compile("(?i)^[a-z0-9]+-bar\\.[a-z]+$")), BAZ(Pattern.compile("(?i)^[a-z0-9]+-baz\\.[a-z]+$")), FOO(Pattern.compile("(?i)^[a-z0-9]+-foo\\.[a-z]+$")); public static UploadFileType forName(String name) { for (UploadFileType type : values()) { if (type.p.matcher(name).matches()) return type; } throw new IllegalArgumentException(name + " does not match any of the patterns in the naming convention"); } private Pattern p; private UploadFileType(Pattern p) { this.p = p; } }
Because the logic required to parse my naming convention is simple, I do not really need any kind of complex factory … all I need is this simple
enum. You give it the file name in the
forName(String) method and it returns the type. If no type is found, we throw an
IllegalArgumentException which we will use later to manage error flow. After this, I have a simple Java bean to represent the model for an
public class UploadFile { private final File file; private final String name; private final UploadFileType type; public UploadFile(File file, String name, UploadFileType type) { this.file = file; this.name = name; this.type = type; } @Override public boolean equals(Object obj) { return reflectionEquals(this, obj); } public File getFile() { return file; } public String getName() { return name; } public UploadFileType getType() { return type; } @Override public int hashCode() { return reflectionHashCode(this); } @Override public String toString() { return reflectionToString(this); } }
Now, let's assume I have a web page with a completely standard HTML form with a file input:
<form id="upload_file" action="/upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <fieldset> <legend>Choose the files to upload</legend> File <input id="file" name="file" type="file" /> <input type="submit" value="Upload" /> </fieldset> </form>
And, on the server-side, using Spring's multipart form support, I have a
FileController that looks like this:
@Controller public class FileController { @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET) public String getFileUploadViewName() { return "/fileupload"; } @RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST) public UploadFile upload(@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile mf) throws IOException { String name = getName(mf.getOriginalFilename()); File f = File.createTempFile(name, "." + getExtension(name)); mf.transferTo(f); return new UploadFile(f, name, UploadFileType.forName(name)); } @ExceptionHandler(IllegalArgumentException.class) @ResponseBody public String handleIllegalArgumentException(IllegalArgumentException e) { return "{\"error\":{\"message\":\"" + e.getMessage() + "\"}}"; } }
For the sake of clarity, here is what each of the three controller methods do:
getFileUploadViewName()simply returns the Spring view name required to return the HTML file upload form. I have hard-coded this name for now but, in real life, you should probably inject this as configuration.
upload(MultipartFile)is the meat of the controller class: Spring will bind the multipart file from the file input of the submitted form which has
name="file". The only processing we are doing with this file for now is creating a temp file from it and determining its "type" by using the
UploadFileType.forName(String)method. This will either return the type (in which case we have successfully an
UploadFilewhich we return as the model object) or it will throw the
IllegalArgumentExceptionin which case, our Spring error handler method is called …
- The
handleIllegalArgumentExceptionmethod is a Spring error handler method (indicated by the
@ExceptionHandlerannotation. In such an event, all we do is return a hand-crafted JSON string as the response body with the exception message in it … which is a bit lazy, I admit — but it will do for now.
With this in place, we have an end-to-end convention HTML single-file upload mechanism in place. So now it is time to decorate it with a little JavaScript magic so that the whole thing becomes a bit more usable and so that it becomes possible for the user to upload multiple files.
First, to provide the user with the necessary feedback in the page from the file uploads, I am going to add a few placeholder sections to my HTML page within which I will display data from the parsed JSON responses provided by the controller …

 <hgroup>
File Upload Queue

 </hgroup>

 <hgroup>
Uploaded Files

 </hgroup>

 <hgroup>
Errors

 </hgroup>

We add, first, a section that will be used by Uploadify to display the queue of files as they are being uploaded with the ID "queue". This is a built-in feature of Uploadify, so we don't need to do anything special to get this queue displayed, other than let Uploadify know the ID of our "queue div" by setting the
queueID property. After that, I have placed the 2 sections that we will be writing the info from the parsed JSON responses from the controller into — 1 for successful file uploads and 1 for errors.
Now I am just about ready to sprinkle a little JavaScript on the page … But, stop! Before I do this there is ONE VERY IMPORTANT GOTCHA to deal with!
Now, due to the nature of the genius minds that work at Adobe, it is apparently impossible to set HTTP headers in requests made by Flash (I know, I know — what kind of nonsense is that?!) I am not a Flash expert, so I don't know the ins-and-outs of this. However, since Uploadify (and pretty much any JavaScript-based multifile uploader) uses
swfobject.js and Flash, this means that an
Accept header cannot be set to request JSON responses. By default, as far as I can work out, Flash will always send an
Accept header requesting
text/*. If you are using Spring's
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver (which I am in this example), you will need to work around this problem. There are 3 options: the first is to use a
.json file extension on the request URI to indicate the required media type for the response this way. The second option is to use a request parameter to achieve the same thing. The final way is to filter the request and override the
Accept header for Uploadify requests.
In real life, I would probably just send Uploadify requests to
/upload.json and then the
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver would know to send a JSON response. However, for whatever reason, you might not want or be able to change the URI in this way, so I will demonstrate the Old Skool servlet filter approach (you might think you could also use a Spring
HandlerInterceptor but that leads to call-order problems with the
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver — using a classic filter will ensure that the request is intercepted and wrapped before it even reaches Spring:
public class UploadifyFilter implements Filter { @SuppressWarnings({ "deprecation", "rawtypes" }) private static class UploadifyRequest implements HttpServletRequest { private final HttpServletRequest del; UploadifyRequest(HttpServletRequest delegate) { del = delegate; } @Override public String getHeader(String name) { return "Accept".equals(name) ? "application/json" : del.getHeader(name); } /* ... all other delegate methods not shown for brevity ... */ } @Override public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {} @Override public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse resp, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { if (req instanceof HttpServletRequest) chain.doFilter(new UploadifyRequest((HttpServletRequest) req), resp); else chain.doFilter(req, resp); } @Override public void destroy() {} }
I then simply wire this up in my
web.xml to filter requests sent to the /upload URI:
<filter> <filter-name>uploadify</filter-name> <filter-class>com.christophertownson.foo.UploadifyFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>uploadify</filter-name> <url-pattern>/upload</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
And now I am ready to receive
Accept: text/* requests from the "Shockwave Flash" user-agent and ensure that my app understands what content-type it should return. So let's put in some JavaScript to make it all happen …
function init() { $('#file').uploadify({ 'script' : '/upload', // URI to send the files to (could specify '/upload.json' here rather than using filter) 'method' : 'post', // request method to use 'uploader' : '/resources/uploadify.swf', // path to key uploadify files 'expressInstall' : '/resources/expressInstall.swf', // path to key uploadify files 'cancelImg' : '/resources/cancel.png', // path to key uploadify files 'auto' : true, // automatically start uploading files (don't wait for user to push another button) 'multi' : true, // allow upload of multiple files 'queueSizeLimit' : 10, // the number of files that can be placed into the queue at any 1 time 'queueID' : 'queue', // div ID to display the file upload queue in 'fileDataName' : 'file', // the request param name for the multipart file 'fileExt' : '*.txt;*.jpg;*.gif;*.png', // filter to use in the select files dialog 'fileDesc' : 'Upload Files (.txt, .jpg, .gif, .png)', // we MUST provide a description when we specify fileExt otherwise filter will NOT be applied // process JSON response to single file upload 'onComplete' : function(event, id, file, resp, data) { var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(resp); if (obj.error) { $('#errors ol').append('
' + obj.error.message + '
'); } else if (obj.uploadFile) { $('#files ol').append('
' + obj.uploadFile.name + ' (Type: ' + obj.uploadFile.type +')
'); } }, // process HTTP 5xx errors etc 'onError' : function (event, id, file, err) { $('#errors ol').append('
' + err.type + ' Error: ' + err.info + '
') } }); $('#upload_file').submit(function() { $('#file').uploadifyUpload(); return false; }); } $(document).ready(init);
It should be fairly evident what this simple JavaScript achieves but I will run through it briefly:
- It begins by configuring some basic Uploadify properties including, perhaps most important for my purposes here
'multi' : trueas this is what permits the upload of multiple files.
- After that, we provide an event callback handler function for the
onCompleteevent — this event signals completion of the upload of an individual file within the queue and provides access to the response from the server. In our case, this consists of a JSON string which we deserialize and append to the list of upload files or errors, as necessary. I also hook into the
onErrorevent to provide similar error handling for Uploadify errors (rather than the logical exceptions thrown by our controller that come back as JSON) … these are commonly things like HTTP 5xx errors and so forth.
- Finally, I attach a listener to the
onSubmitevent of the upload file form to prevent normal submission and, instead, to get Uploadify to handle the input.
There are many configuration options and possibilities for event handling within the API. I would recommend reading the wonderfully concise Uploadify documentation and it really is an exceptionally easy piece of kit to use, especially compared with the pain I recall trying to get some of the early versions of the YUI uploader to work nicely a few years back … although the YUI3 Uploader looks a great improvement on previous versions and is widely used and would also be well-worth considering.


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After hearing sharp and widespread criticisms about a plan to eliminate two grades from a high-achieving but crowded Nashville high school, district officials reversed course with a new plan Monday.
Instead of removing the seventh and eighth grades from Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School, the latest proposal from Metro Schools Superintendent Jesse Register would instead embark on a multimillion-dollar expansion.
Concerned parents and teachers filled three public hearings in September including one in which no one spoke in favor of Registers first plan. The superintendent responded with his latest proposal during a Monday meeting of the Metro Council education committee.
Pending school board approval and Metro Council funding, 10 new classrooms would be added to MLK Magnet, raising capacity from 1,200 to 1,500 students, said Metro Nashville Public Schools spokeswoman Meredith Libbey. The construction would build upon what is currently the schools soccer field.
There was tremendous support for the 7-through-12 model, and educationally its a sound model and its a successful school, one of the top-ranked in the nation, she said. We had the meetings to listen to people, and this was something that came across.
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