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Mopar 412 Big-BlockWritten by on January 17, 2014 Contributors: Johnny Hunkins, Robert McGaffin Power Transformation
When it comes to unpopular engines, the Mopar 361 is one of the kings of the ugly contest. Packing small-block cubes in a big-block envelope, the 361 was introduced in 1958 with a bore of 4.125 inches and a stroke of 3.375 inches, and production continued in truck and industrial applications until Chrysler terminated big-block production in 1978. In all fairness, in the early to mid 1960s, notable performance versions of the 361 were available, but in today's world of big-inch big-blocks, the 361 is an orphan abandoned by even the most dedicated Mopar fans as the basis for a performance build. To most enthusiasts, the Mopar 361 is considered a throwaway big-block.
Buck and Clark Hinkle of Hinkle Performance took the unlikely step of considering the 361 as the basis for a true performance street build. Why? As Buck tells us, "I had a few of these laying around, and I just like doing things that are a little bit different." Looking at the basic configuration, Buck recognized the unseen potential. With a 4.125-inch bore, the cylinders are as big as a Chevy 400 small-block, while the 9.98-inch deck height allowed plenty of room for the stroke to grow from its short factory specification. Buck and Clark could see the possibility for building a low-buck performer out of Chrysler's neglected big-block. Hinkle Performance's approach to building this low-deck Mopar was anything but conventional.
Adding Inches
With the aim of adding displacement, the obvious first step was to increase the crankshaft stroke. While there are plenty of off-the-shelf stroker cranks available for the low-deck Mopar B-series big-block, Buck once again went in an unexpected direction. Eyeing the factory-forged crankshaft, he determined that the low-buck approach would be to offset grind the factory 'shaft, taking the original 2.375-inch journal diameter all the way down to the 2.00-inch small-journal, small-block Chevy size. As Buck explains, "I was shooting for a stroke of 3.75-inch, looking for the bore and stroke of a 400 Chevy small-block. I figured I could get very close to that using the original crankshaft and ended up at 3.74-inch, which is pretty close." Buck didn't stop there and went on to grind the main journals down to the 2.45-inch small-block Chevy spec. Buck's clever crankshaft machining created something from nothing in the best hot rodding tradition. The result is a forged crank providing dramatically reduced bearing diameters for lower bearing speed and friction, while achieving the targeted stroke increase.
Back to the block, Buck line-bored a set of Mopar bearings to serve as bearing spacers to use small-block Chevy Clevite main bearings. The modifications in the mains went further, with Buck designing and machining his own cross-bolted main bearing arrangement using the factory 361 caps as the basis. Buck flat milled the caps and fabricated bridge supports precision machined to fit across the deep-skirted crankcase of the Mopar block. Again, Buck's machining skills and innovative thinking dramatically increased the bottom-end rigidity for the cost of a few hunks of bar stock and the bolts. The one-off cross-bolted bottom end is the way Chrysler should have built it.
While the small-block Chevy rod journals might suggest that Buck would use aftermarket small-block Chevy rods, Buck actually went with an Eagle rod manufactured to fit the Ford 5.4L Mod motor. Buck explains, "I wanted a long rod to keep the compression height of the piston down, so I made these Ford rods work. They are 6.657 inches long, which is about perfect. I took a set of the Ford bearings and made them into spacers to take the small-block Chevy bearings; the machining here is critical to maintain the correct fit and crush. On the small end I took out the pin bushings and ran the pin steel on steel. Without the bushings, the pin hole just needed a small amount of honing to take a small-block Chevy 0.927-inch pin."
Although the engine could actually be built with very low-cost off-the-shelf Chevy 400 pistons, Buck had custom pistons made by BRC at a .060-inch oversize. This puts the bore at 4.185 inches, resulting in a displacement of 412 ci. The custom pistons feature low-drag metric 1.1mm compression rings and 3mm oil rings. Buck's 361 was now looking like a thoroughbred, with a very low-friction bottom end, respectable displacement, and the added strength to go the distance.
Power Parts
To feed the newfound cubes in his one-off 361, Buck wasn't shy about adding airflow capacity. The Edelbrock Victor heads come with large raised ports, which Clark reworked and fully ported to a variation of the famous Mopar Max Wedge port. A limitation on the port configuration was the requirement to run a two-plane intake manifold to compete in the 2012 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge. Buck opted for an Edelbrock Performer RPM manifold, since there is no available two-plane Max Wedge intake for the low-deck Mopar. The complication here is that the Max Wedge port window would be too tall to fit within the fingerprint of a standard port intake.
Buck solved the manifold puzzle by raising and widening the port while filling the port floor, essentially making a short, wide port that could be duplicated at the manifold. To mate the intake to the raised-port location, Buck fabricated manifold spacers out of oak plywood. The Victor heads feature Edelbrock valves, with generous sizing at 2.25-/1.81-inch diameter, admittedly crowded in the small bore of the modified 361. Buck tells us, "You have to be really careful with the small bore and the big-valve heads. We notched the bores, helping clearance and airflow, and checked the fit very closely." A Holley 1,000-cfm HP-series carb tops it all to provide the mix.
To work those big valves in the Edelbrock heads, Buck went with a COMP Cams solid flat tappet. With Mopar's large .904-inch tappet diameter, a very fast rate of lift can be designed into the cam profile. As Buck tells us, "These Mopar flat tappets are very fast, and perform just about like a roller. I went with a set of Harland Sharp rockers, using a 1.7:1 ratio on the intake, and 1.65:1 on the exhaust. I've been using the Harland Sharps for years, and they never give me any trouble. I did turn a set in to rebuild, and when they saw the rockers they told me they must have been built over 20 years ago, and they actually did them for me for free. The cam and rocker give me .656-inch lift on the intake and .642 on the exhaust, with the duration at 255 degrees intake and 259 on the exhaust [at .050]. I had some used NASCAR springs in the shop that I put on and they worked out really good."
Dyno Time
With the unusual Mopar's internals assembled, the engine was completed for testing with a set of Schoenfeld 1⅞- to 2-inch headers and a MSD ignition system. Testing at Hinkle Performance showed numbers that were very encouraging, topping the 600 hp level with ease. Buck relates, "We did run the engine with a single-plane intake manifold, and that was quite a bit better as far as top end power. The two-plane did make a lot more torque down low and into the midrange." Looking at the numbers it's hard to reconcile that the basis here is an old Chrysler 361. Topping out with a torque reading of 520 lb-ft, and delivering 618 hp at 7,000 rpm, this Mopar oddity proves that innovative thinking and a mastery of machining talent can pull unexpected power from an unlikely source. Really, isn't that what hot rodding is all about?
|By The Numbers
|412 Mopar Big-Block
|4.185 inches
|3.740 inches
|412 ci
|Compression ratio:
|custom COMP Cams solid flat-tappet
|Valve lift:
|.656/.642 inch
|Rocker and ratio:
|Harland Sharp 1.7/1.65:1
|Piston rings:
|BRC 1.1/1.1/3mm
|BRC forged
|OEM production Mopar 361
|stock forged
|Eagle 6.657 inches
|Cylinder head:
|Edelbrock Victor
|Intake valve diameter:
|2.25 inches
|Exhaust valve diameter:
|1.81 inches
|Intake manifold:
|Edelbrock RPM
|Holley 1,000 HP
|Schoenfeld 1? to 2-inch step
|AMSOIL 10w-30
|VP-100 Unleaded
|On the Dyno
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At the rod's big end, adapter spacers were fashioned from the Ford bearings, allowing the small-journal Chevy bearings to be stacked inside. Buck Hinkle tells us that making the spacers takes very precise machining.The full-length cast pan sealing the bottom end isn't a high-end aftermarket piece, but is an old Chrysler Marine unit, used with a factory windage tray. A stock oil pump applies the pressure to the AMSOIL lube.A flat-tappet solid cam delivers outstanding results thanks to the rapid lobes possible with Mopar's .904 tappets. The COMP Cams stick features 255/259 degrees duration at .050 and lift of .656/.642 inch.Up front, Buck used a Mopar Performance belt-driven mechanical water pump arrangement with a PRW damper controlling the crank harmonics. The distributor, wires, and ignition are all shelf MSD components.Exhaust is expelled via a set of Schoenfeld stepped headers with 1⅞- to 2-inch primary tubes and 3 1/2-inch collectors. Note the pan evac valves fitted to the collectors, and bungs for oxygen sensors.


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I've been reading a lot about the Common Core standards public schools are adopting, and how they will actually "dumb down" the students rather than improve their learning. If this is true, what's even more concerning, is that I'm reading that many Catholic schools are adopting these standards. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on this issue?
Going to be homeschooling a kindergartener and a pre-k kiddo in the fall. I'm currently working a part-time job, but the hours are later in the day, which really dictates my entire day. Any suggestions on a more flexible part-time job that would work well with homeschooling? Thanks in advance!
I haven't done any research on my own regarding the common core, but know that our Catholic elementary school is adopting parts of it. Part of the rationale for that is to make the school look on par academically with the public schools. My husband has read a lot about it and believes it's a very bad idea--giving the federal gov't too much control of local schools and promoting nonfiction works (which could include whatever the gov't deems important) over classical literature. I was at a town school board meeting last night, though, and saw a presentation by an English teacher who helped selected texts for the assessment that is being developed along with the Common Core. According to her presentation, the novels being selected are actually much more complex than those currently in the classrooms in our town. Though that in itself is a plus, the fear is that those great classics are going to have equal billing with the gov't chosen nonfiction selections. Even though I believe states may have the option to not use the Common Core, I'm sure that decision would result in less funding from the gov't. There are still lots of questions on how it will all play out.
JP--I would suggest checking craigslist job postings. There may be some small businesses out there looking for admin help that you could do from home.
Re: Common Core : Our Archdiocese has adopted Common Core in our schools. Just like anything new, it is a transitional process. I don't think we are "Dumbing Down" . It's true that less is being taught in some areas, but that being said, more time is spent in some core areas where it is more important for the children to thoroughly learn that area. As a Kindergarten Teacher I am concentrating on key areas that form the basis of a child's education. I am speaking from experience, when I say that the children are more proficient in more key areas, when the Common Core is taught.
The Common Core is like the NCLB federal standards mandated in every state. Kim Why would you suggest anyone look in craigslist alone? Monster.com and LinkedIn are better. So is Career builder. Why sell yourselves short? Careerbuilder.com Make the money and have money left over.
Common Core is not mandated in every state.
I just spent an hour tonight talking with a long time GA public school teacher who is so disgusted with GA's adoption of the Common Core that she is starting a charter school to give kids an option. The problem with Common Core is it just encourages even more "teaching to the test". It is all about regurgitation and "getting through" the work with NO emphasis on being able to USE the knowledge. It is the b*&tard child of NCLB and I fear for our country that we continue to follow worst practices for kids in the name of "accountability".


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The Charlotte 49ers (13-2, A-10: 1-0) play Atlantic 10 foe Rhode Island (5-9, A-10: 0-1) on the road, Saturday, January 12 at 2 pm.
Chris Braswell leads the 49ers in scoring at 12.1 points per game. Braswell is second on the team in rebounding at 6.1 boards per game. Braswell is one of only eight players in school history with 1,000 career points and 750 career rebounds. DeMario Mayfield is second on the team in scoring at 10.4 points per game. Mayfield scored 10 points off the bench against La Salle for his ninth double-figure scoring game of the season. Pierria Henry, who scored a career-high 20 points against La Salle, is third on the team in scoring at 9.1 points per game. Henry leads the team in assists with 53 and steals with 45. Henry ranks among the nation's leaders in steals. Willie Clayton is fourth on the team in scoring at 8.7 points per game. Clayton was named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for his 16 points and 16 rebounds performance in the UNC Asheville game, January 2. Clayton leads the team in rebounding at 7.3 boards per game. Terrence Williams is fifth on the team in scoring at 7.7 points per game. Williams, who has started all 15 games this season, has recorded five double-figure scoring games this year. Denzel Ingram, who has started the last 12 games, is sixth on the team in scoring at 6.8 points per game.
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This game will mark the 12th meeting between Charlotte and Rhode Island. The 49ers lead the all-time series, 6-5. However, Charlotte is 1-4 all-time at Rhode Island. The 49ers only victory at Rhode Island was a 74-64 win, March 8, 2008. Former 49ers standout Leemire Goldwire scored 34 points in that game. The 49ers lost to Rhode Island, 71-70 in overtime in their last game at Rhode Island, February 12, 2011. Braswell scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in that game. Charlotte defeated Rhode Island, 73-66, in their last meeting which came in Halton Arena, February 11, 2012. Former 49ers standout Javarris Barnett led the 49ers with 18 points. Mayfield recorded a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.


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I know that $\left ( -1 \right )^{2/3}=\left ( \left ( -1 \right )^{2} \right )^{1/3}=1$
But Matlab computes this as $- 0.5 + 0.8660254038i$ a complex number.Why?
I know that $\left ( -1 \right )^{2/3}=\left ( \left ( -1 \right )^{2} \right )^{1/3}=1$
But Matlab computes this as $- 0.5 + 0.8660254038i$ a complex number.Why?
By convention, $-\frac12 + \frac{\sqrt3}2i \approx -0.5+0.866i$ is the principal value of $(-1)^\frac23$.
In particular, Matlab is presumably evaluating $(-1)^\frac23$ as $\exp(\frac23\log(-1))$ and choosing the principal branch of the logarithm, where $\log(-1) = \pi i$, and thus ending up with
$$\begin{aligned} (-1)^\frac23 &= \exp\left(\tfrac23\log(-1)\right) \\ &= \exp\left(\tfrac23\pi i\right) \\ &= -\frac12+\frac{\sqrt3}2 i \\ &\approx -0.5+0.866i. \end{aligned}$$
Terminology. The way Matlab seems to be seeing this, when you ask for $k^{2/3}$, you are asking for the number $z$ that solves the equation $$ z^3 = k^2. $$
In case $k = -1$, there are three solutions to this equation in the complex plane, one of which happens to be the real number 1, and for some reason Matlab has instead given you the one in the second quadrant. I am a little surprised that it is reading the input this way; it seems to me that from the standpoint of applied math it ought to return the unique real root when it exists, unless you specifically ask it not to.
If the argument of the function is taken to be a complex number, the roots of (negative) unity are given by the equation $e^\frac{i\pi(2k - 1)}{n}, k = 1,2,3...n.$ So for $n=3$, the third roots of unity will be $e^\frac{i\pi}{3} \approx 0.5 + 0.866i $, $e^{i\pi} = -1$, and $e^\frac{i5\pi}{3} \approx 0.5 - 0.866i$. Squaring these gives the three solutions mentioned above by countinghaus: $-0.5 + 0.866i$, $1$, and $-0.5 - 0.866i$.
$$(-1)^{\frac{2}{3}}=\left|(-1)^{\frac{2}{3}}\right|e^{\arg\left((-1)^{\frac{2}{3}}\right)i}=1e^{\frac{2}{3}\pi i}=e^{\frac{2}{3}\pi i}=\cos\left(\frac{2}{3}\pi\right)+\sin\left(\frac{2}{3}\pi\right)i=$$


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5 Major Cities That Are Going to Be Destroyed
If you turn on the news and hear that some city is being devastated by its fourth flood in 20 years, or that a village at the foot of some volcano has just been buried under lava, there is a 100 percent chance that someone in the room will ask, Why don't those people just move?
It's a good question, and the answer gives us a nice insight into mankind's absolute refusal to back down from nature, even if it means certain destruction.
Brave? Stupid? You be the judge. All we know is that a whole lot of us are in the same boat.
#5. San Francisco, USA -- Earthquake
Back in 2001, before 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a short list of the three most likely disasters to hit America over the coming years. One was a terrorist attack on New York, another was a hurricane in New Orleans, and the third was an earthquake in San Francisco. Note that this was shortly before two of those things actually goddamn happened.
"FEMA: Using our powers for good, and occasionally the lottery."
Withholding speculation as to whether FEMA are in fact wizards, that's a pretty "oh shit" moment right there if you live in San Francisco. It also emphasizes the fact that the continued existence of San Francisco is a testament to mankind's ongoing desire to engage in a staring contest against horrible catastrophe.
And let's be clear, this isn't some sensationalist scare tactic -- at some point, an earthquake is going to devastate the city. The United States Geological Survey says that the chances of a quake of at least 6.7 on the Richter scale hitting San Fran in the next 30 years sits at a cozy 99 percent.
And there is nothing we can do about it. It happened in 1906, and in 1989 it gave everyone a preview of what was coming.
Yeah, nature, 45 degrees is OK, too, we guess. Whatever you say.
Holy Shit! What Can We Do?
Of course, San Franciscans are more than ready for this kind of thing, right? When you know that your city is prone to devastating earthquakes, then you're going to make sure that earthquakes factor into your building ordinances. Well, it's true that the state of California did decide to start earthquake-proofing all their new buildings ... in 1980. So if you're wondering whether your highrise office is going to withstand the inevitable Big One, you'd just better hope that the building doesn't outdate hair metal.
"Your threat level is Motley Crue but could rise to above Kiss at any time."
The problem is the fact that most of the Bay Area is built upon a foundation of soft mud that, during an earthquake, is prone to something frighteningly referred to as liquefaction, which is exactly what it sounds like. Estimates say that a quake in the range of a 7.8 on the Richter scale (which is right in the range of what we'd expect -- the 1906 quake was an 8.0) would topple 1,500 buildings and badly damage another 300,000. The government has just started rushing against time to brace the Golden Gate Bridge after reports showed a quake would cause it to utterly collapse.
Like this, but with a billion-dollar special effects budget.
But what's really standing between San Francisco and avoiding total annihilation is money. With a $25.4 billion budget deficit, the California government wants property owners to retrofit their own damn buildings if they're so scared of earthquakes, a cost that no average person can afford, forcing them into a much cheaper but less effective form of earthquake insurance -- prayer. Never mind that the cost of earthquake-proofing San Francisco would only be around $260 million, compared to the estimated cost of rebuilding after a quake -- $200 billion. But, hey, we're not economists.
Although we have left plenty of them in San Francisco. Underneath the rubble.
#4. Venice, Italy -- Sinking
Likely the only things you know about Venice is that it has water in the streets, that people get around in gondolas, and that it is all very romantic. There's a good chance you've never asked yourself why it has water in the streets, and, in fact, you might think that they did that on purpose, just for the tourists.
The reality is that the city is sinking into the Mediterranean Sea at a horrifying rate.
"Crap. I forgot to pack my rush-hour snorkel."
It turns out Venice, built practically on top of a body of water, is not exactly the best-planned city. Back in the 12th century when Venice went through a population explosion, the city used up all of its available land and was forced to build upon acres of really shitty mud. Since these were the Dark Ages and everyone was an idiot, the rulers decided to just cover the ground with millions of wooden planks and build on top of that. Unsurprisingly, the whole thing has been very slowly sliding into the ocean ever since.
It didn't help that, in the early 1900s, city officials began pumping water out of the bedrock underneath the city for some reason, which is kind of like playing a game of Jenga by taking all the blocks out from the bottom first.
Fuck over the next guy and hope everyone forgets your mistakes.
Politics Jenga.
Because Venice smartly sits right at sea level, it already floods basically every Tuesday. The Acqua Alta is the name the locals give to the regular flooding that turns the morning work commute into a 3-mile breaststroke. The thing is, back in 1900, the Acqua Alta came 10 times a year, while these days it's closer to 100, because the city sank 20 centimeters over that time.
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"If we're quick, we can eat lunch here and blublublublublublub."
And now we have global warming.
As in, the thing that causes the sea levels to rise thanks to melting ice and thermal expansion of ocean water. Scientists say that the combined threat means that Venetians will need to evolve gills by 2100.
As long as they're designer gills.
Holy Shit! What Can We Do?
The Venetian government is making plans to offset the rapidly encroaching Atlantisification of their city, though it sounds more like something Mr. Burns would propose than anything practical. The Moses Project is a plan to surround Venice with a series of gigantic, ridiculously expensive moving barriers that are supposed to hold back the ocean if it starts acting like a mean drunk.
"You guys killed all the whales, and now there's no one to drink with!"
But Italy is under constant pressure to scrap the project with concerns that it simply won't do shit, though nobody has proposed a better solution that doesn't involve retrofitting the entire city with giant inflatable balloons.
"... bit inappropriate, don't you think?"
#3. Seattle, USA -- Earthquake
Yes, an earthquake. In Seattle. The coffee-soaked home of Frasier isn't exactly on the edge of its seat waiting for the ground to start shaking, but maybe it should be -- it's looking down the barrel of what could be one of the worst earthquakes in history.
Also it may mess up Portland and Vancouver a bit, but they're not as pretty so they don't count.
The state of Washington was last hit by an earthquake in 2001, and while no deaths were recorded, nature was just getting started. Some science people say that there is an 80 percent chance within the next 50 years that a massive fault off the shore of the Pacific Northwest is going to break apart and trigger what they are unnervingly calling a "megaquake."
"Megaquakes on the Ring of Fire" was a massive hit in the 1980s.
The fault, which could be the biggest in the world, has started building up strain, which is the earthquake equivalent of smoke billowing from the top of a volcano, and scientists have been scrambling to find some way to get the residents of Seattle and the surrounding areas to give a damn.
Here's a computer simulation of the devastation, put together by the Washington State Department of Transportation:
That's simulating a 7.0 quake. The fault line could produce a 9.0 -- as powerful as the one that just devastated Japan.
Holy Shit! What Can We Do?
If you built a city along the most gaping fault line on planet Earth, that should be the most earthquake-prepared city in existence, right? The buildings should be made from adamantium. But the truth is, Seattle just doesn't know much about earthquakes. Ask around, and old timers will tell you tales of the dreaded 5.5 Duvall quake which momentarily interrupted a Mariners game. Because it's been so long since the last "big one," modern-day Seattle is so unprepared for earthquakes that it's full of completely unreinforced masonry structures that basically fall over if you sneeze too hard.
"We can probably just ... caulk that closed or something."
The last time the megaquake happened was in 1700. Native Americans still tell chilling campfire tales about it, and the devastation was well documented in Japan. That's right -- the last time this fault line went off in a big way, it damaged Japan.
On the bright side, the Space Needle is predicted to withstand a quake of up to around 9.1, so when the big one hits, you know where to go.
Yep, that's right. China.


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We have a very small house with limited storage and closet space. I turned and old closet into an airy storage closet for garments as well as misc storage items. First I measured the room many times and made a dimensioned drawing to make the units. I cut the wood in the garage using my Ryobi miter saw, drill press and cordless drill. I made the units modular so I could move them in the room after I redid the sheet rock, ceiling and flooring. The dimensions were so exact that I actually had to disassemble the units and reassemble so that everything could be moved into place without being damaged. I saved the plans that I made so that I could help my friends make storage rooms too. I used pine and cedar and sanded everything with my Ryobi Orbital sander. I cut the wood in one inch by one inch strips on the shelving to make sure everything was lite and would allow air flow.
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rm -drf on my web server and accidentally removed everything inside
Of course, it had everything for our website in it. How can I undo this? Or is it possible to restore it to a previous version?
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Of course, it had everything for our website in it. How can I undo this? Or is it possible to restore it to a previous version?
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In some instances you can recover portions of deleted files from a linux filesystem but it is hard.
Honestly, human error is the biggest cause of IT outages, and your best solution is to be proactive in backing up regularly as well as using a version control system like mercurial.
I realize this may be pouring salt on the wound, but it's worth pointing out... The damage is done. The best help you can get now is to regain your composure, and get ready for an honest conversation with your boss. I would bet you're new to IT. While your boss may be angry, most people understand that human error happens, and it is part of learning. Just be sure you don't make yourself a target by doing this often
Backups of anything and everything should be standard practice. Also, for the web developers, they should be developing in some sort of version control (CVS, SVN, Git, etc.) on a different machine than the production web server, then checking it out on the server.
Unfortunately, all hope is probably lost by now. If anything like this happens in the future, and there are no backups, subversion, etc. pretty much your only option is to as quickly as possible unmount the drive. Then, you may have a chance of recovering the data before it's overwritten with anything else.
As a last-ditch, KISS effort... perhaps whoever was working on the site SCP'ed it over from their workstation and still has the files locally?
I would recommend using a tool like http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk which has helped me in the past to find and recover deleted files, or I would recommend looking to see who uploaded the files most recently in the past.
There are tools. There is specialized distro for that, but i think list of programs they use should do. If you want distro it self just press download on the left panel. http://www.sysresccd.org/System-tools#recovery_tools
I must say that even recovering system files that will be damaged hard! I did formated my girlfriends HDD and then tried to restore it. It took ~12 hours and i saved ~3% of files because i left it [HDD] running. As soon as you do the mistake it need to unplug/unmount that HDD. As one of the people in here said - give the job to the professionals. They could restore much more.
To prevent such mistakes i strongly suggest to use
P.S. I haven't mentioned backups and version control systems because it's common practice and everybody else mentioned it. From my point of view - just use it and listen what people say here.
Painful indeed, last time i had this kind of mistake, i plugged my hardisk with an external usb on my windows machine and i used a flash drive photo recovery software to recover my files partly.
One good advice is not to use this hard drive until you can recover your files, because writting new data will make your old stuff disappear for ever.
google flash drive recovery tool, there are lots of them that are free.
There is still hope
I am so sorry to tell you that, it is going to be really difficult.
If you want to try recovering it by yourself, i ll attach one pdf which i made from some site(which i dont remember now). It has some steps to do that. But dont try if you strongly feel that you cant do it.


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A bunch of us got together and with a lot of work from Keith Martin, we gathered as many panorama viewers as we could think of and loaded them up with the same image so that a visual, side by side comparison could be made.
We hope that it will be useful in giving people who are trying to decide which panorama viewer (and there's a bunch) would be the best match for the purpose intended.
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I just tried to make a text editor feature which blurs the text of an RSytaxTextArea wrapped in an RTextScrollPane, but have failed to do so on the first try. The latter seems to insist that components passed to it's setViewportView() method be subclasses of RTextArea. Why is that?
A JXLayer (and it's spawn JLayer, part of JDK7) are meant to wrap components in order to decorate them (paint over them, capture events, etc.). It's mighty useful. I wanted to decorate RSTA but that means I now have to pass the decorator to the scroll pane instead of RSTA itself. Which cannot be done as it seems, unfortunately.
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BREVARD, N.C. – Using a late first-half run and with four players reaching double figures for the third time this season, the Anderson men's basketball team claimed its third straight win by topping Brevard, 75-65, in South Atlantic Conference action Wednesday night at Boshamer Gymnasium.
Anderson (12-5, 7-4 SAC) claimed its fifth straight victory past the Tornados while improving to 7-1 on the road with its fifth straight road victory. Brevard slipped to 3-12 overall and 3-8 in the conference with its fourth straight loss and has dropped six of its last seven outings.
Senior guard CJ Gleaton recorded his fifth double-double of the season with a team-high 19 points and a career-best 15 rebounds. Senior guard Chandler Hash added 18 points and dished out a team-high four assists, while junior center Chris Ross tallied 17 points in 26 minutes of action. Junior guard Myson Jones chipped in 10 points, handed out three assists and pulled down three rebounds.
Brevard junior forward Darius Moose led all scorers with 22 points and recorded a team-high eight rebounds. Sophomore Jake Pifer notched 16 points, with sophomore guard Miles Leathers netting 11 and senior guard Dominique Pickett adding 10 for the Tornados.
The Trojans held a commanding 42-26 advantage on the boards, while Brevard out-shot AU, 47.3 percent to 42.6 percent on the night.
"CJ did a great job rebounding tonight," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "We got good offensive contributions from four guys tonight, but I'm glad [Brevard] ran out of time. They shot over 64 percent from the field in the second half and we couldn't stop them at the end. I want to see us put together two good halves and we'll keep plugging away until we do."
The Trojans used an early 7-0 outburst over a span of 2:23 to turn a two-point deficit into a 9-4 advantage, as Jones sparked the run with a jumper and Hash added five straight for Anderson.
After the Trojans took a 17-12 edge with 11:29 remaining in the first half, both teams went cold from the field, as the Tornados went more than three minutes with just a free throw from Harrison White, while the Trojans were scoreless for nearly four minutes before Ross dropped in six straight points for AU and the Trojans pushed out to a 21-15 lead with 6:35 on the clock.
Jones gave Anderson its largest lead of the opening 16 minutes, at 26-17, with his first 3-pointer of the night with less than four minutes remaining in the half. Moose, who scored 10 first-half points, countered with a close jumper for the Tornados.
But Brevard would not score a field goal over the final 3:54 of the opening half, as the Trojans erupted on an 11-2 run to close the half and took a 37-20 lead at intermission. Gleaton netted six straight for Anderson during the surge, with sophomore Steven Faust adding a putback and Jones capping the run with a 3-pointer.
Brevard climbed within 41-31 at the 15:42 mark of the second half on a 3-pointer from Pickett, with Hash countering with his second trey of the night before Moose connected on his second 3-pointer and another jumper to again pull Brevard as close as 47-39 with 12:18 remaining in the contest.
With 6:38 left in the game, Hash drained two free throws to give the Trojans a 61-44 cushion, their largest of the contest, but Brevard chipped away and edged back within 68-60 with less than three minutes left on a long jumper from Trevon Shaw. But Brevard would get no closer than eight in the final moments, as the Trojans drained five-of-six free throws in the final 57 seconds to seal the win.
The Trojans open the second half of their conference double round-robin schedule on Saturday when they play host to league-newcomer Queens in the first meeting this season between the two squads. Tip-off at the Abney Athletic Center is slated for 4 p.m.


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For the past few weeks, 10 high school students from throughout the country have been enjoying the natural beauty of Sussex County — and the students, in turn, have reciprocated the hospitality by volunteering their time in a variety of efforts aimed at enhancing the enjoyment afforded to...Read more
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Get a bunch of city kids out in the park to learn trail maintenance and it can get unpleasant rapidly—or it can be downright inspiring.
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The Best (And Worst) Star Trek Movies of All Time
#4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
The Enterprise is sent to pick up the Klingon chancellor, who despite being leader of the Klingon race, is somehow unable to bum a ride off anybody. His luck gets considerably worse when he' assassinated-Kirk and McCoy are blamed and sent to an icy Klingon gulag, which is the worst kind. They are told that no one has ever escaped from this penal colony, then promptly escape with little difficulty. Everybody heads to the peace conference, where they save the Federation President from assassination and expose the bad guys' evil schemes.
Why You Should See It
The Undiscovered Country has all the high-flown Shakespearean references of The Wrath of Khan, but it' less of an action flick and more of a smart, gripping political thriller, making it awesome in a completely different way. Also-and this is enjoyable for the wrong reasons-Spock coldly mind-rapes Kim Cattrall' traitorous character by mind-melding with her against her will. Spock explains that with the way she was dressed in that white headband, she was asking for it.
Why You Shouldn't
The scene where Kirk faces off against the beautiful shapeshifter who has taken his form ("I can't believe I kissed you," he groans; "Must have been your lifelong ambition," she answers) is a welcome bit of ego-deflating self-parody on the part of William Shatner, but it' still Shatner, which means it's hammy and poorly acted. Besides, they'd already pulled out the old "Kirk' evil doppelganger" routine enough times on the old series that it comes off a little clich� here.
Impact on the Franchise
After three seasons of the original series and five movies, Sulu finally gets not only a ship of his own, but also a first name. Look at him drinking a cup of tea on his own bridge there, all smug and satisfied. Too bad he'd never show up in a movie again, as this was the last outing for the original crew in its entirety. On the other hand, he's doing pretty well with Heroes these days, so maybe everything worked out for the best.
Celebrity Cameos?
Iman and Kim Cattrall bring the heat as sexy aliens, and watch for a small cameo from Christian Slater as a night-duty officer who wakes up a cranky Sulu. Also, under all that makeup, the President of the United Federation of Planets is played by none other than Red Forman from That '70s Show. (For extra fun, follow each of his lines with a sardonic "dumbass!" For example: "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing, dumbass!")
#5. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Kirk steals the Enterprise to retrieve Spock' corpse from the planet they'd shot it at from a ship's cannon in Star Trek II (they might want to start checking pulses before they keep doing that). Conveniently, the planet is being terraformed due to the explosion of the Genesis Device. Also conveniently, said Genesis Device resurrects Spock. Less conveniently, everybody's taken prisoner by a Klingon commander, who a pissed-off Kirk conveniently drops into a bottomless pit.
Why You Should See It
The second, third, and fourth Trek films function as an unofficial trilogy, so the two excellent films on either side pull The Search for Spock up toward their level, and it thus rises above the infamous curse of terrible odd-numbered Trek films. Plus, as the reborn Spock rapidly matures and endures the excruciating Vulcan mating urge, Saavik makes the calculated logical decision to let him bone her. Hot Vulcan sex!
Why You Shouldn't
The special effects and fight choreography in the final fight scene are embarrassingly low-budget. Shatner chews the scenery anyway, which happens to consist of the cheap, unconvincing Styrofoam rocks often featured in the old episodes from the '60s. (Also, you can sort of even see the bottom of the bottomless pit.)
Impact on the Franchise
The reset button gets hammered here. Once Spock comes back to life, it' like his death never happened. On the bright side, Captain Kirk' son gets killed off, so we're invited to pretend he never happened either.
Celebrity Cameos?
Robin Curtis replaces Kirstie Alley as Saavik. As for the ruthless Klingon foes, the casting is frankly baffling. Night Court' John Larroquette plays the first officer, and Christopher Lloyd is the captain. It' hard to get past that one. Every time he demands the secret of the Genesis Device, you sort of want to explain that it' a simple matter of channeling 1.21 jiggawatts [sic] through the flux capacitor.


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How should I be keeping track of a php script's versions/changes when it pertains to a single script in one file?
Should I have a separate changelog, and if so (1) what should it be named, (2) how should the contents of the log be formatted, and (3) how should the log be associated with the php script/file?
Or, should I include the changes in a comment at the top of the php file? Currently, I have the following comments at the top of the file:
* @author John Doe <contact@John Doe.com>
* @version 1.0
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STEUBENVILLE -- The prosecution delayed the presentation of its evidence in the Steubenville rape trail this morning to allow the defense to elicit testimony from one of its witnesses....
Gianna Anile and her sick friend are the very definition of ignorance and hate. Nothing they said refutes what the victim claims happened and they have no idea what happened at the house that the victim was taken to, yet they were "angry" with the victim.
These people in this backwoods, sick, caveman town are disgusting. The thought of a friend yelling at another friend after she was attacked is sick. but totally normal in the messed up mind of Gianna Anile and her pathetic, sick, loser crowd of freaks.
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Is it some kind of Area 52-ish, X-Files deal that only those with stamped numbers on their foreheads can access? Well, not exactly. The term "invisible web" mainly refers to the vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in databases is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes.
Request a copy of the book, The Invisible Web (originally published in 2001, however, still relevant!)


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Is it possible to wrap text around a graphic in Bb Learn?
To wrap text around a large graphic:
- Create a Blank Page in the content area.
- Insert your graphic the usual way using the Add Image tool, browsing for it in the Content Collection or on My Computer.
- Click on the <> button to go into code view.
- Find the style=" " tag associated with the image and add the following bit of code inside the quotation marks: float: right; so that it looks like this:
style="float: right; "
That's the only change you need to make! When you exit the code view mode, the text should wrap the image. Note that you can change it to float: left; if you prefer the image to sit on the left side.
If you want to get even fancier, try the advanced tutorial.
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1-2 NL. Player A bets $50. Player B goes all in for $76. Player C doesn't announce raise and bets $100. Is player C's bet just a call or a raise? If a raise, what is his min raise amount and why?
It really depends on the card room and the rules they play, there is no definitive "Everyone must play like this" rule. You can find some "official" rules out there but these are generally rules enforced by different poker institutions and are not universal.
Some rooms enforce that you must declare your intent before throwing chips into the pot with penalties. Such penalties may be turning the chips to dead money and folding your hand or forcing you to call in this situation. Here in general Player C would have been forced to call and received change out of the pot from the dealer.
Other rooms will force player C to raise here even if he was just going to call because he has put more in the pot than the previous bet or raise.
In general the most common rule is that you must declare your intent. Here is an example of the TDA rule set for calling:
Now again depending on the card room your playing at some force your raise to be double the last raise, so in this case Player C would have to raise a minimum of $152. Others do not and as long as your raise exceeds the previous bet by at least 1 blind the bet is valid. Others rooms will force Player C to exceed the current pot size or at least a percentage of the current pot. So in this case he would have to raise $126 or more.
If you are ever in doubt, always speak to the dealer or the floor-man about the house rules before taking an action your unsure of.
I assume your example is a live Game. In that case, where I come from, player C merely calls when he silently tosses in any amount in a single motion/single bet without specifically voicing his it intention to raise.
I know that depending on your locale, the ruling may be vastly different, however next you find yourself in CT, keep tbe above in mind.


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"Well, you tried it just for once, found it all right for kicks.
But now you found out that it's a habit that sticks,
The new movie Choke, adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel, is about a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) who, in one element of the plot, hooks up with other sex addicts who attend the same Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings as him. Ah, the irony. The same thing happened to Sam Malone on Cheers, if I'm not mistaken, which makes the joke around 20 years old. Yet, despite that fact, sexual addiction as a term and a (non-DSM-recognized) medical problem seem fairly new to cinema.
Sure, there have been sex addicts in films for many decades, but they were more likely to be described as nymphomaniacs, lechers or typical men. Think of Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind, a number of the female characters created by Tennessee Williams and certainly the locked up nymphos in Shock Corridor. In the past few years, however, there have been a slew of actual "sexaholics," both male and female, though some aren't exactly referred to in such a manner. object width="425" height="344">
Bob Crane in Auto Focus (2002)
Depending on where you like to get your facts from, Wikipedia or the movies, Bob Crane is either best known for starring on TV's Hogan's Heroes or for being a sex addict (the latter isn't mentioned in Crane's Wikipedia bio). Personally, I've never seen the TV series, but I have seen Paul Schrader's film about the actor (played by Greg Kinnear), who liked to have a lot of sex and record the acts on the newly developed technology of videotape. It makes me wonder if one day people will think of David Duchovny more for his sex addiction than for his roles on The X-Files and Californication.
Matt Sullivan in 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Though not described in so many words as an actual sex addict (as far as I can recall), Matt Sullivan (Josh Hartnett) has enough of a problem that he decides to give up sex for Lent. Of course, this being the movies, he ironically falls in love during this time. Fortunately, he can magically give a girl pleasure without the use of his hands.
Sylvia Stickles in A Dirty Shame (2004)
Leave it to John Waters to make a movie where many characters are sex addicts. The main character, though, is Sylvia (Tracey Ullman), who goes from being sexually repressed to sex-addicted after a knock to the head and a special visit from a new friend, who "yodels in her canyon." I never could sit through the whole movie (that's typical of me with Waters), but I sorta see it as a less classy Pleasantville.
Caveh Zahedi in I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
This one is pretty obvious due to the title, right? Zahedi's film is kind of a documentary, if you accept the idea that docs can be completely made up of recreations and dramatized scenes (I personally accept the idea). It's about him, it stars him and it autobiographically tells the stories of his experiences as a sex addict, particularly his 20-year obsession with prostitutes, as well as his recovery.
Rae in Black Snake Moan (2006)
Some people attempt to recover from sex addiction through group meetings. But if that doesn't work (and Cheers and Choke imply that it might not), then you can always have Samuel L. Jackson chain you to a radiator until you're healed. Well, that's what happens to Rae (Christina Ricci), though not willfully.
Chazz Michael Michaels in Blades of Glory (2007)
Will Ferrell plays Chazz, a pro ice skater and admitted sex addict. I guess the general joke is that male skaters are typically gay and not sex-starved womanizers. The specific joke about his addiction comes when he tries not to give in to the advances of his partner's new girlfriend (Jenna Fischer), yet he can't hold back from at least grabbing her breasts.
Harry Pfarrer in Burn After Reading (2008)
George Clooney's character in this new Coen brothers farce is mostly considered a womanizer, but he certainly has a sexual obsession, enough that he seems to devote most of his life trying to meet new sexual partners and purchasing or manufacturing new sexual toys. He also has an interesting aftereffect of his sexual addiction, which is an addiction to running five miles after each session of lovemaking.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - - The State University of New York at Geneseo has been named to President Obama's 2012 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, a national recognition of a college or university for bettering communities through community service and service-learning.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which administers the annual Honor Roll Awards, and the U.S. Department of Education recognized 642 colleges and universities for their impact on issues from literacy and neighborhood revitalization to supporting at-risk youth. Geneseo is among 114 colleges across the nation named this year to the Honor Roll with Distinction - three are SUNY schools -- and it's the third year that Geneseo has received the distinction designation. The college has been on the honor roll every year since the program was launched in 2006.
"I commend our students, faculty and staff for their commitment to community service and service-learning," said Christopher C. Dahl, president of SUNY Geneseo. "Our campus is engaged every day in the lives of others through service at the local, national and international levels. This involvement is an important component of a meaningful liberal arts education."
The organization chooses honorees based on scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service projects, the extent to which service-learning is embedded in the curriculum, the school's commitment to long-term campus-community partnerships, and measurable community outcomes as a result of the service.
In 2010-11, 4,076 Geneseo students engaged in general community service and academic service-learning for 85,323 total hours.
"Preparing students to participate in our democracy and providing them with opportunities to take on local and global issues in their course work are as central to the mission of education as boosting college completion and closing the achievement gap," said Eduardo Ochoa, the U.S. Department of Education's assistant secretary for postsecondary education, who recognized the colleges and universities at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in Los Angeles."The Honor Roll schools should be proud of their work to elevate the role of service-learning on their campuses. Galvanizing their students to become involved in projects that address pressing concerns and enrich their academic experience has a lasting impact - both in the communities in which they work and on their own sense of purpose as citizens of the world. I hope we'll see more and more colleges and universities following their lead."
The organization recognized Geneseo specifically for five community service or service-learning projects in 2010-11:
• The college's ongoing commitment to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts through the Livingston CARES Program. During the 2010-11 academic year, 83 students, faculty and community volunteers participated in four trips to Mississippi during winter, spring and summer breaks to assist in the reconstruction of more than 60 homes in Mississippi.
• Mt. Morris, N.Y., Main Street Revitalization. Students partnered with government officials, developers, residents and entrepreneurs to rescue a declining Main Street in the Village of Mount Morris, N.Y.
• The El Sauce, Nicaragua, Service Learning Project. SUNY Geneseo has run a service-learning program in El Sauce, Nicaragua, since 2006. Students conduct service projects in El Sauce during the summer, the January inter-session, or spring break. El Sauce is a small community of 10,000 people north of Managua in the remote countryside. More than 60 students have traveled to El Sauce and worked in partnership with the residents on a number of service projects focused on sustainable business development, teaching English, personal finance and computer skills, as well as health education, recreation programs and building homes.
• Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education Saturday School Project. The Xerox Center for Multicultural Education is a partnership between the SUNY Geneseo School of Education and Xerox Corp. The Saturday School Program in downtown Rochester provides academic follow-up for a group of Rochester City Schools students with culturally diverse backgrounds. During 2010-11, 35 Geneseo student volunteers and faculty and staff traveled to Rochester on 19 Saturday mornings to learn about students from culturally diverse backgrounds as well as to teach students by tutoring, mentoring and working on service-learning projects.
• L.I.V.E.S. Program (Learning Independence, Vocation and Education Skills). The program is a four-year post-secondary experience for students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Students aren't admitted to Geneseo but to the Geneseo L.I.V.E.S. Program, where they learn skills to be productive members of their communities.
• Rochester Young Scholars Academy at Geneseo. Each year, SUNY Geneseo, with support from the Rochester City School District (RCSD) and the Xerox Foundation, provides a two-week, residential camp for approximately 60 inner- city students in the 7th through 10th grades. Focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects and activities, camp themes have included CSI, archeology, peace, and environmentalism.
CNCS oversees the Honor Roll in collaboration with the Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council on Education.
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Tuesday is Spay Day U.S.A. and animal clinics all over our area are participating. The Bowling Green Warren County Humane Society is even doing a spay/neuter service on wheels. All this week a veterinarian will be doing surgeries from within a mobile health unit stationed at the Morgantown Road Fire Department.
The surgery costs $37.50 for cats and $57.50 for dogs. The rate includes the spay or neuter, a rabies shot, and all the booster shots. Humane Society workers say there are plenty of appointments still available. If you would like to schedule a spay or neuter call the Humane Society at (270) 842-8572.
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Fact: There is no medical evidence to justify a dog or cat to have a litter before spaying. In fact, spaying female dogs and cats eliminates the possibility of developing uterine or ovarian cancer and greatly reduces the threat of mammary cancer.
Fact: The only changes in dog and cat behavior after spaying or neutering are positive changes. Male cats tend to reduce territorial spraying, depending on their age at neutering. Neutered dogs and cats fight less, resulting in fewer bit and scratch wounds and lessening the spread of contagious diseases. Male dogs and cats tend to stay home more after neutering because they no longer wander in search of a mate.
Fact: Spaying or neutering does not affect a dog's natural instinct to protect his home and family.
Fact: Surgical sterilization is performed under general anesthesia by a doctor of veterinary medicine. The procedure itself is not felt by the patient. There may also be discomfort after the surgery, but most animals return to normal activity within 24 to 72 hours.
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WHEELING, W.Va. - When Dickie Pultz and Ray Carney opened a little neighborhood pub in North Wheeling, little did either know they'd begin a journey that would have a profound effect on the local music scene.
What started with a weekly Thursday night 'Jam Night' in 1993 has grown and has made Down on Main Street the place to go to catch live and local music in the Ohio Valley.
Starting at 3 p.m. this afternoon, Down on Main Street is hosting an all day music event, celebrating 20 years in business.
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Down on Main Street owner Dickie Pultz has turned his neighborhood tavern into the music venue for live and local music in the Ohio Valley.
Thirteen different acts are slated to perform, starting with Robby Parsons at 3 p.m. and Uncle Eddie and Robin closing down the house at 9 p.m. If you have an appreciative ear for good local music, there is no place better to be today.
That original Thursday night jam session is still on the docket. It's followed by live bands on Friday and Saturday nights.
Bands and musicians from far and wide come to kick back, relax and jam out with their counterparts on Thursdays. Some musicians will play shows at other locations and trek back to Wheeling to keep the good music flowing throughout the night.
"A lot of musicians hang out here before and after," Pultz said, now the sole owner of Down on Main Street. "You never know who will come in for a jam night. I sometimes sit back and wonder where they are all coming from. There are some amazing, good bunch of musicians that come in here."
There's a rotating crowd that descends on the 422 N. Main St. location, which varies upon which act is taking the stage. But if there's music playing, the joint is packed.
The sense of camaraderie among the musicians only adds to the scene. There are no egos here. Members from one band will rock out with those from another.
While one band is taking the main stage, it's common for someone to strap on their guitar for an outdoor, acoustic set at Down on Main Street's beer garden out back while waiting to take the main floor.
"Most of the musicians that come here to play do so because they enjoy playing," Pultz said. "They are for them the love of the music. That's why we started (music) on Saturdays. There were so many people trying to come in and play ... we rotate at least 21 different acts."
Pultz's Friday and Saturday shows are booked clear through December.
Yes, at Down on Main Street, it's all about the music.
Pultz doesn't have an extensive food menu. Customers rave about the pizza served and Pultz does serve the typical bar snacks like chips and pretzels but Down on Main Street doesn't have a full-service kitchen.
The bar lineup is your general assortment of domestic beers and spirits with a light lineup of imported beers but you're not going to confuse this place with a microbrewery.
No, it's the music that keeps customers, and the musicians, coming back to Down on Main Street in droves. And there's never a cover to get in the door.
Today's lineup is one of multiple all-day music events that Pultz holds each year. The first started as a benefit of sorts to help Pultz cover his business taxes and license fees.
But the response was overwhelming, necessitating the need for more.
"The first couple of years we did it, we had so many people still wanting to play at the end of the night, we figured why not do one every couple of months," Pultz said.
Pultz has also toyed with the idea of having an acoustic night.
Today's lineup include: Robby Parsons (3 p.m.); Richard Beekman/Laura Cramblet (3:30 p.m.); Travis Hoard (4 p.m.); Justin Yoho (4:30 p.m.); Donnie DeCena (5 p.m.); John Kerr (5:30 p.m.); Nate Smith (6 p.m.); Randy Keener (6:30 p.m.); Will Taylor (7 p.m.); The Primatives (7:30 p.m.); Billy Litman (8 p.m.); Joey Colangelo/Dean Whittle (8:30 p.m.) and Uncle Eddie & Robin (9 p.m.).
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In November 1986, 60 percent of the electorate in a statewide referendum voted to amend the state constitution to allow for a state-operated
Lottery. In 1987, legislators authorized the creation of the South Dakota Lottery, its commission and the sale of instant tickets.
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Have you ever been part of a rigged system that was not deals.woot?
I read the movies question and @ohcheri: comment and she was referring to a up vote for #sexy and #lingerie having less 'power' then other votes.
Has anyone excelled at something so much, that the system was changed to cripple you?
I was part of an incentive program that me, and 2 others, were so good at it we at least tripled the average. Soon after we could only do as well as 1.5 times the average.
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http://deals.woot.com/questions/comment/9adbb54d-2c22-4c38-849a-b870131cd2f5 the comment.
Original tags: sexy lingerie <-Self crippled. The system is rigged!
@caffeine_dude: Don't forget #free is also weighted.
What I feel is the worst part of this is that I never even look at the tags unless I am searching out something specific becasue I am in the market for it. If I like the deal (based on lookign at it and not the tags) I up vote it regardless of what it is for and same for downvoting
Yes. We had a recognition system at work that had a monthly winner depending on particular criteria. I won nearly every month. The criteria wasn't changed but the policy modified to allow you to win only once per quarter.
My brother used to enter into competitions with his car and won every time in his class. They started a similar policy that you can only win every other year.
yes. i was responsible for the hanging chads.
ytmnd.com, under the same username.
I figured out what people liked and produced it, until the point where I, and a couple other people (fourest, namely, who I still talk to on a regular basis on facebook) became mainstream.
We had the majority of the community backing us, because it's easy to get crowds to follow you, even into a confrontation against the governing authority, if you are able to consistently provide them with what makes them happy.
The majority of the staff didn't really care for us, and the basis for being a Featured User was constantly changed to avoid the three of us, even though we were the most popular at the time. Various other things were done to try to get under our skin, but we didn't care. We had the approval of the masses, which got under the staff's skin even more.
I got bored with it after a little while, and have been off for about two years. I sometimes like to go there to read current comments about the "good ol' days with dmaz and fourest" :)
Personally, I don't pay attention to tags. I pay attention to content. The tags are for their SEO. I write questions which have perfectly vallid tags for humans to use, but they remove them and leave "chat".. which is totally worthless. Aside for SEO.
One of the bad things about the internet these days is people do certain things for Google, not users. I deal with it all the time, and it's annoying. I asked a question recently about museums and paying admission. I had tags like "museums" and "admission".. they just threw those very useful (to actual carbon based life forms) and left "chat".
So, I see tags on this site 100% useless.
To answer your question and avoid the #tags issue, no. I have never been done that way online.
Well this question did not go as I expected. What I sort of expected to see was a mirror to what happened in my situation we (the ones who were so much better then the average) got to be more average. So the very thing that was put in place to make us all better made us worse.
I'm an American citizen. If there's a more-rigged system than our society, I've not heard of it, so I'd say yes.


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Eric Hewitt is a saxophonist, conductor, composer, arranger and educator who enjoys an active and diverse musical career that has taken him throughout the world. Based in Boston, MA, he is the chair of The Boston Conservatory woodwind department and is the music director and conductor of The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Sinfonietta and New Music Festival. In recent years he has served as the music director and conductor of White Rabbit, an avant-garde ensemble-in residence at Harvard University with the Harvard Group for New Music from 2005–2010, as well as music director of the Charles River Wind Ensemble in Watertown, MA from 2005–2011. He serves presently as the Director of the Sinfonia Orchestra at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Director of the Boston College High School Big Band. He has guest conducted Dinosaur Annex on the FROMM concerts at Harvard, Armed Forces Music School Wind Ensemble in Virginia Beach, Alea III, the New England Conservatory (NEC) Contemporary Ensemble, NEC's Jordan Winds, the Firebird New Music Ensemble of Boston and New Music Brandeis. In May of 2007, Hewitt made his operatic debut conducting the premiere of Eric Chasalow's multimedia opera, The Puzzle Master, at Brandeis University. In addition to his domestic activities, he has presented performances in Ireland and the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan,Venezuela and Cuba.
Hewitt is a founding member of the Yesaroun' Duo (with percussionist Samuel Z.Solomon) and the Radnofsky Saxophone Quartet. He has performed as soloist or guest artist with the Boston Pops, The New World Symphony, The Ryles Jazz Orchestra, The FROMM Players at Harvard and The Tanglewood Music Center. As a jazz musician, he is the baritone saxophonist of the Ryles Jazz Orchestra and has performed with jazz greats Arturo Sandoval, John Faddis, Gerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Marvin Stam, Slide Hampton and Phil Wilson, and can be heard Live on VEE Records with the Jazz Orchestra and Saxophonist Ed Calle. Hewitt can be heard with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) on several BMOP sound recordings, as well as on the Albany, Troy, Vee Records and Innova labels. The Yesaroun' Duo's recording project, HeavyUp/Heavy Down, was released in February 2009 on GM recordings and can be found on iTunes. Also available on GM recordings is Deviation, a live recording of six world premiere performances commissioned by The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble.
Passionate and experienced in all musical styles, Hewitt is known as a champion of the music of our time. Working as a conductor, soloist and chamber musician, he has presented more than 50 premieres by dozens of composers from around the world. He is committed to challenging established musical aesthetics and regularly stimulates musicians and audiences alike by programming cutting edge music in the context of our inherited musical tradition. He has worked with composers Michael Colgrass, Ken Ueno, Nico Muhly, Jeff erson Friedman, Elliott Schwartz, Lei Liang, John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Donald Martino, William Thomas McKinley, Evan Chambers, Karel Husa, Bernard Rands and Gunther Schuller, as well as dozens of up-and coming young composers from around the world. Deeply interested in the expression of human existence, his performances focus on the communication of the shared human experience embodied in music.
Hewitt holds two degrees from the New England Conservatory, a B.M. in saxophone performance (2001) with Kenneth Radnofsky and a M.M. in conducting (2003) with Charles Peltz, both with a distinction in performance and academic honors. From NEC he has also received the George W. Chadwick Medal as the single outstanding undergraduate candidate, the Gunther Schuller Medal as the single outstanding graduate candidate, the Toujeé Alumni Award and the John Cage Award for commitment to the music of our time. In 2009, Hewitt was named Outstanding Music Faculty by The Boston Conservatory Student Government Association (SGA). After a four year, live-in apprenticeship under Gunther Schuller, he and his family now reside in Medford, MA.
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