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But, the collapse in July, followed by a month of .500 ball – give or take a game – has done him in. August was especially brutal because the Mets played with disinterest, without passion, without spark. There were extenuating circumstances – there always is – but the general apathy the team has been in the past month greatly reflects on the manager.
He has lost his team.
Several things within Manuel's control have done him in, headed by his handling of the bullpen. He burns out relievers and isn't always clear in dealing with the players on their job descriptions. Communication is not his strong point, as evidenced when he said Ike Davis had been spoken to regarding his emotional displays at the plate. When asked about this, Davis had no clue.
David Wright did not know when he'd get a day off. Manuel did not discuss with Jeff Francoeur his status following Carlos Beltran's return.
Manuel threw John Maine under the bus when he said maybe the best day to pitch him would be on off days. He insisted on three catchers in the National League game which is absurd. Manuel's handling of Jose Reyes' oblique strain prior to All-Star break was foolish. He insisted on Jenrry Mejia in the bullpen to start the season when it clearly was not in the best long-term interests of the club.
The list goes on and on.
That there is not one Met saying for publication that the fault is on the players and not Manuel is telling. Nobody is in his corner. More than a few Mets stood up for Willie Randolph, while at the time Manuel was telling the brass he'd be interested in the job.
Add it all up, and the Mets are 190-198 under Manuel in his two-and-a-half years. For the fourth straight year the Mets will not make the playoffs, for the second straight year September will be about showcasing players for the following season.
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Continuing the "Great Conversation" with Fiddler-Philosopher Matt Glaser
Dec 01, 2002
Dudley Laufman's "Calling": Everybody Dance!
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Alasdair Fraser: Scotland's Ambassador of Fiddling
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Larry Franklin: Nashville Session Man, Texas Hall-of-Famer
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Hugh "Buddy" MacMaster of Judique is held in very high regard by all players and fans of Cape Breton music. It seems impossible to portray his style and technique without using superlatives such as "finest" and "greatest." Indeed, he receives the highest of praise from everyone who hears him play, whether they are dancers, listeners, or other fiddlers. Born in 1924, Buddy has released two recordings, Judique on the Floor and Glencoe Hall, and contributed tracks to various others, notably Traditional Music from Cape Breton Island. He is also active in teaching, and has figured prominently for years in the summer courses offered by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye, where this interview took place in July 1998.
Let's start from the beginning. How did you get interested in fiddling?
Well, I was born in Timmons, Ontario, and I was four years old when my parents moved back to Cape Breton. They lived in Ontario for a few years; my father was a hard-rock miner at the time. Just about as far back as I can remember, I enjoyed music, and I guess I heard some music before we left Timmons. I can just remember one fellow playing a little bit, but I must have heard others as well. I can't remember that, but I learned some tunes somehow. I'd be doing mouth music, you know, jigging the tunes, and I'd have two little sticks, playing the violin by the way, and imagining that I was a great fiddle player. So then we moved down to Judique, Inverness County, in Nova Scotia, and apparently I was still doing this with the little sticks, and my grandfather, my mother's father, saw me doing this and he whittled out a piece of wood shaped like a fiddle, you know, so it looked a little more like a fiddle.
I suppose I didn't carry on that way for too long, but then I maybe got away from playing with sticks, you know. But I enjoyed music, and there'd be picnics, sort of a field day, and they'd have a piper there, and I remember following the piper around, you know, listening to the music, and then afterwards I rigged up an old kind of make-believe bagpipes, and I'd be marching around [laughs].
But they didn't buy you a set of pipes?
No, but it was just a love I had for the music that was making me do these things. When I was eleven, I went upstairs and I discovered my father's violin in the trunk. He was away at the time, so I took it down to the kitchen. I got part of a tune on the violin that day. I'm sure it wasn't in tune and there was one broken string on it, but I got part of a tune: "The Rock Valley Jig." I was playing it on G, I didn't know the difference. There was a fiddler, a cousin of mine, came to the house; he could play, and he said I should play that tune on the key of C, so I switched to C. Of course, I wouldn't have known C from G then, anyways. I could tell by the sound -- it sounded better on C.
Do you still play that one?
Occasionally, yeah. It reminds me of that day, you know, when I play that tune. So, I've been playing ever since that day. My mother gave me some money to go up to the store and buy a string, and I got that in the violin someway and I learned to tune the violin pretty quick.
Who did you look up to when you were learning to play, after you'd gotten started?
There was a man living in Judique, Alexander MacDonnell, and I used to enjoy his playing. Of course, there weren't many fiddle players around my area-right in Judique-but this Alexander MacDonnell, he used to come to the house, to my parents' home, and he was quite a good player. He played by ear, but he learned these tunes from other players that used to visit him, who read music, so he always had his tunes quite correct. He always stressed that to me, that I should try to pick up the tunes, to play them, as correct as possible.
There was another fella used to come to our place, Angus MacMaster, but he's no relation of mine; he played. And then a little later, other musicians used to come to the house. Bill Lamey, he was a good player. He read music and he used to play on the radio, and he was quite popular. I really enjoyed his playing. My sister played piano, so he used to like to come to my house and my sister would accompany him.
And Dan Hughie MacEachern, that'd be Jackie Dunn's grand-uncle, her grandfather's brother, he used to come to our place a lot. And of course, Dan R. MacDonald, and Gordon MacQuarrie, he would have a book of tunes called The Cape Breton Collection [by Gordon MacQuarrie], around 1939 to '41, something around that time. So, my parents enjoyed the music and all these musicians used to come to our house.
Later on, while I was growing up and working for a few years, Winston Fitzgerald used to come the house then, so we always had a lot of music around the home.
When did you learn to read music?
Well, I was about 23.
So you were going for quite a few years before you learned to read...
Yeah, I used to play by ear. I could pick the tunes up pretty quick, I guess quicker than I can now by ear. You know, I guess when you're younger it's easier to pick up tunes. I depend on the music more now. I was working in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and a fella that was rooming with me took me to this lady's house, Mrs. Mildred Leadbeater. She was a pianist and she told me I should learn to read the music. She just drew up the five lines and marked the notes, things like that, and that seemed to get me more interested in learning to read, so I got an instruction book and I picked it up myself.
Was there any kind of attitude against reading music? Were there a lot of people around who could read music?
Well, not too many, except these fellas that I used to hear. But a few years after I started to play, you know, there was more fiddlers coming to the house, and most of these fellas could read music. They were pretty well advanced [at it.] Of course, Dan Hughie MacEachern, and Dan R., they were good composers and they used to write their tunes [down].
How do you feel your repertoire has changed over the years?
Well, I still play quite a few of the older tunes that I've played for years, because a lot of the old tunes that came from Scotland here, they're really old standards that are always popular, and they're good for square dancing and step-dancing, so I think most of the Cape Bretoners still fall back on these old tunes. But a lot of the newer tunes, they don't seem to survive like the old ones, you know? You play them for a while and then you kind of lose interest in them, but some of these older tunes, they'll never die. I hear them over here, like "Miss Drummond of Perth" and "King George IV" and "Miss Lyle" and all those tunes, the "Duke of Gordon's Birthday," there's many tunes. I hear they're popular here, and they were brought to Cape Breton 175 years ago and they're still popular, you know?
[For the full text of this interview, as well as the Dan R. MacDonald tunes "Alex MacDonnell's Favourite" and "Queensville Jig" as played by Buddy MacMaster, purchase the Cape Breton 2000 issue of Fiddler Magazine!]
[Peter Martin works as a translator and teacher in Helsinki, Finland. His main interests are Celtic, French-Canadian and Finnish fiddling.]

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With the theme "Ignition: Fueling the Future Forward", the Ateneo Chemistry Society of the Ateneo de Manila University seeks to enhance the appreciation of the central science in the campus through a week-long celebration that centers on how chemistry's applications are the beginning of a bright and passionate future.
Now in its forty-eight year, the Ateneo Chemistry Society (ACheS) continues to share the passion for chemistry inside and outside of the Ateneo de Manila University through engaging activities directed toward the realization that chemistry is part of everyone's lives. Equipped with academic excellence and project-based applications of chemistry as core competencies, the organization seeks to enhance the appreciation of the central science in the Ateneo community through a week-long celebration (ACheS Week) that centers on how chemistry's applications are the beginning of a bright and passionate future. ACheS Week will be celebrated from Sept. 12 to Sept. 16, 2011.With the theme "Ignition: Fueling the Future Forward", the organization uses the image of igniting a flame as the starting point for many chemical processes to emphasize that the central science sparks future technological developments for the improvement of human condition. The whole week is directed towards making non-chemistry students touch and feel chemical concepts at work in their most mundane daily activities, and allow them to realize that so much of the future is invested in chemistry. Week-long projects include the ACheS Major Sale and ACheSibit, a sale of ACheS products and a full-blown exhibit featuring applications of chemistry. Each day will be marked with a major project. Marble Madness, an Amazing Race-type competition challenging participants with obstacles that must be overcome with knowledge of basic concepts, will open on Monday; a seminar on a relevant chemistry topic will be held on Tuesday; Wednesday will be marked by an entertainment-type quiz bee named Beat the Chem Geeks; Thursday will be for ChemWarfare, an interactive battle-type role playing game; the week will end with Kimikantahan, a party celebrating the achievements of the week. Appreciation of chemistry in daily life and excitement for the future will characterized in all of these projects, as the Ateneo Chemistry Society ignites with Ignition: ACheS Week 2011!
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Singer Lana Del Rey appears to have confirmed speculation she is romantically involved with photographer Francesco Carrozzini after the pair was seen kissing during a trip to Italy.
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I've been using word processors--starting with Wordstar--for twenty years, the last eight of those as a professional writer. Having a decent word processor goes a long way to making the writing process easier. Looking beyond the word processor in a typical office environment it is not difficult to imagine the requirements for a spreadsheet (for planning, data manipulation, accounts), a presentation package and a simple database application.
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Microsoft Office is though not the ultimate in such solutions, and the recent rise in open source software, and particularly Linux, has garnered a lot of interest in more open and transparent solutions. The Microsoft document format has often been an issue of contention with developers. You have to be able to read Office documents to remain compatible, but information about the file format used by Microsoft is not always enough to provide true compatibility between Office and competing applications.
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We provide sexual assault prevention programming to the military through a very fun, interactive program called the "Can I Kiss You?" program. Our website is http://www.datesafeproject.org. Please visit our website to get a good look at the work we provide. The mission of our company is to provide programming based on respect, communication, healthy relationships and sexual assault prevention. Our Executive Director travels across the globe presenting to all branches of the military. Please make sure that all branches of the military are included in your cover design.
Both Young and Married Military Members. Male and Female. All Branches of the Military. All levels of the military. We have presented to Generals and Command Headquarters, so all age groups should be included.
We need the following heading on the magazine cover
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The Challenge of Teaching "Yes Means Yes
"Addressing Sexual Assault and Bystander Intervention on Your Installation"
"Why Sensitive Issues Need Humor"
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MORGAN HILL (CBS SF) — Morgan Hill police, working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a recent rash of counterfeit bills, arrested a man on Tuesday on suspicion of making phony $10 and $20 bills in a motel room, a police spokesman said.
Police officers and Secret Service agents have been looking into the passing of fake currency at Safeway, Target and other stores in Morgan Hill and the Bay Area, police Sgt. Carson Thomas said.
The bogus bills "have been seen all over Santa Clara County" and as far north as Antioch in Contra Costa County and south in Monterey County, Thomas said.
On Tuesday, police arrested Daniel James Richards, 32, on an outstanding felony warrant out of Orange County after he emerged from a taxi with a woman at the Morgan Hill Inn at 16250 Monterey Road, according to Thomas.
Officers found $700 worth of counterfeit bills and a quantity of methamphetamine on Richards, Thomas said.
When officers searched his motel room, they discovered an additional $300 in bogus currency, a scanner and a color printer apparently being used to manufacture counterfeit money, Thomas said.
Police arrested Richards on suspicion of felony possession of fictitious bills, felony possession of machines and tools to make fictitious bills and possessing an illegal drug, Thomas said.
The Secret Service is also investigating the alleged counterfeiting, according to Thomas.
Police believe that Richards was using the room as a "one stop shop" to scan real $10 and $20 bills and then print out fake ones that he passed to his friends who used them to buy things, Thomas said.
Many of the phony greenbacks recovered from Richards' room, which were spread on the floor, tables and counters, had the same serial numbers on them, Thomas said.
The latest technologies available for scanning and printing are making it easier to manufacture phony currency that looks real, Thomas said.
Businesses in and outside of Morgan Hill in recent months "have been inundated" with fake currency and police suspect that Richards many be connected to the cases, Thomas said.
Some businesses instruct their employees not to have confrontations with customers over bills at the cash register and consider phony bills passed to them as a cost of doing business, Thomas said.
Richards, of Morgan Hill, had been wanted by the Superior Court in Orange County to face felony charges of possessing a controlled substance and furnishing or selling marijuana to a minor, according to Thomas.
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High-profile speakers attract the kind of crowds and media attention organizers of events hope for. But, they also attract people with agendas who are eager — and sometimes overzealous — to gain support for their cause.
Such was the case at a recent lecture I covered at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
NBC "Nightly News" anchor and managing editor Brian Williams was the featured speaker for a Catholic Common Ground Initiative event, which was in part a tribute to the late "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert, who died June 13, and how Russert's Catholic roots helped propel him to become one of the most respected political journalists on U.S. television. (Russert originally was scheduled to deliver the address that evening.)
In an effort to engage the audience in the dialogue, organizers allowed the audience to ask Williams and the other speakers questions. However, most of the four audience members who took control of the microphone ended up asking rhetorical questions that had little to do with the subject of common ground, but rather the specific causes they hoped to push.
The most notable came from a gentleman who wanted to know why NBC wasn't airing news stories about a woman in Emmitsburg, Md., who has claimed to see regular apparitions of Mary since the late 1980s and has been directed to deliver heavenly messages.
Though Williams said he didn't know about the story, he politely told the gentleman that his network receives thousands of news tips every year and they can't possibly investigate them all.
What Williams didn't know is that this woman's claims have been dismissed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Vatican.
The NBC news anchor made it clear to the audience that under normal circumstances he would stay after the lecture and spend more time with members but that he had to rush out that evening and drive to New Jersey.
But the Emmitsburg "visionary" advocate followed the newsman into the hallway to plead his case for news coverage and caused a scene, which required security to escort him out of the building, delaying Williams' exit.
Though he was gracious and understanding about the drama that unfolded, Williams was the victim of his own celebrity and prominent position as a pipeline for information to a national audience.


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I guess I want good performance AND quietness... However a good thing about fanless is you don't have to worry about the fans dying.
Parts with fans can be undetectably quiet, except under load. IMO, if performance is a factor don't bother with fanless. When's the last time you had a fan die on you?
It's a bit of an issue with GPUs, but if you mainly care about CPU performance, the top of the line Ivy Bridge i7 is a 77W part. I've got a Xeon E-1220 (allegedly 80W, but since it's the low end of the line, it probably draws closer to 60W at full load) system that's running without a fan on the heatsink at all (there is a low speed fan moving air through the case) and that system has a fanless PSU as well. The CPU temp is "Low" according to the not-as-helpful-as-it-should-be Supermicro IPMI, but the System temp is at 44C, so the CPU is probably slightly warmer. It's definitely getting to the point that (for CPUs), you can get away without adding another fan to the system. I wouldn't try it with zero airflow through the case, but it's not far off.


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Overview:Increase equipment availability and productivity with round-the-clock onsite and remote support for your HP hardware as well as selected multivendor equipment. This flexible HP Care Pack Service covers desktops workstations servers storage systems and network equipment.
4-hour onsite response 24x7x365 - For issues that cannot be resolved remotely an authorized HP Services representative arrives at your site within 4 hours after your call has been logged. Service is available around-the-clock every day including all holidays. HP Services returns your covered hardware to operational condition repairing or replacing components or entire units as necessary. Your coverage includes all required parts and materials.


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Note: I'm on stand-by to watch my niece
while my Sister-in-law delivers my nephew (any day now!)
Guess what I've got waiting in a gift bag to surprise her with?
Yep, a plastic baby doll (from Target) a little doll sized wash tub,
and two travel size bottles of lavendar baby wash and powder.
We will be washing pretend babies while we wait for the real one to arrive!


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Cobonpue received his degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute in New York. He returned home to Cebu, Philippines in 1996 to manage the furniture company founded by his family. Realizing that modern design could have a new face using natural fibers and materials as the medium, he created the pieces which form the collection today. Integrating locally sourced organic materials with innovative hand-made production techniques offers a new alternative to the Western definition of modern design. His innovative work has earned him numerous highly prestigious awards at home and abroad.


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Jeremie is a globetrotting painter from France who was young when he fell into the bottomless cauldron of obsessional and maniacal miniature painting. Hyperactive and persevering, Jeremie just can't help his painting frenzy. While already busy with sports and social activities, Jeremie managed to transform his passion into a full time job, becoming one of the creators of a new miniatures company called Artefactory. read more
Jason first began sculpting for Reaper in 1999 and quickly carved a niche for himself as a premier monster and animal sculptor. Since that time, Jason has moved into the player character side of miniatures, where his dwarves are perennial favorites amongst painters and gamers. read more


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Authorities in northeast Kansas are blaming a lightning strike for an explosion and fires at an oil tank farm.
The Leavenworth Times reports no injuries were reported when three 8,500-gallon crude oil tanks were struck around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in northern Leavenworth County.
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Emergency management officials say two of the tanks exploded. One went airborne and landed about 200 yards away. The top of a third tank was blown off, and most of the oil inside burned.
Flames were visible from five miles away. Firefighters allowed the oil in the tanks to burn itself out, along with a 1,000-gallon propane tank that also ignited.
The company that owns the tank farm was cleaning up about 2,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled onto the ground.


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Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam. Yale University Press, 1992.
This is one of the fundamental historical reflections on the role of women in Islamic history, written from a feminist perspective.
Helminski, Camille Adams. Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.
A fantastic collection of writings by female Sufis, the translations in this book are both evocative and reliable.
Kabbani, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham, and Leleh Bakhtiar. Encyclopedia of Muhammads Women Companions and the Traditions They Related. Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1998.
This is an excellent compendium for tracing important hadith transmitted by the female Companions of Muhammad.
Mernissi, Fatima. The Forgotten Queens of Islam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
One of many of Mernissis insightful studies of the exclusion of women from power in Islamic societies, this book interrogates the language of power, as well as resurrects histories of forgotten female leaders.
Peirce, Leslie P.. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
This masterpiece of Ottoman studies reveals the intricacies of politics and power within the longest-lasting Muslim harem, that of the Ottoman sultan.
Spellberg, D. A.. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of Aisha Bint Abî Bakr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
This book is a must for anyone interested in studying the history of the manipulation of the legacy of Muhammads wife, Aisha, and her role in defining womens participation in public life, as well as Shia and Sunni identity.
Stowasser, Barbara F. Women in the Quran, Traditions, and Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
This is an insightful examination of various interpretations of womens positions in Islamic law, based on Quranic revelations.


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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - Parts of Utah are dealing with the worst snowpack in 30 years according to the Salt Lake City National Weather Service.
Meteorologists, Randy Graham, tells 2News that right now the lack of snowpack is creating a rough ride for skiers and possible long-term problems for farmers and residents throughout the state. Problems include possible water restrictions in certain counties, less water for farmers and their crops.
"If things don't really improve, if we don't really start picking up on our snowpack, there are typically some impacts as far as water use going into the summer," Graham said.
Right now ski resorts like Snowbasin are experiencing about 35 inches of snow at the base and this time last year they had about 45 inches of snow. Snow there is an obvious impact according to Graham.
"There's really no positives for us having snowpack that's way below average. There's really nothing good that comes from it," Graham said.
2News spoke to some skier and asked about the quality of snow and their concerns with the current snowpack right now. To hear what they have to say watch the news story above.


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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsNews & Views
Drivin' the 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet - Power Shiftin'
It's a Wheelie Machine!
Of all the things considered exciting in drag racing, giant wheelstands rank at the top, and it's great when you capture a nice one on camera or video. It's kind of a rite of passage for a drag racer to say he (or she) has lifted the wheels.
Project Stocker, my NHRA 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra clone, has carried the skinnies a few times, but I've never been in "the danger zone." That's when the nose keeps going up, and up, and up, to the point where the driver must lift to save it.
We all know "going big" is not the quick way down the track, nor is it good for keeping header tubes round—especially if you don't have wheelie bars. Just ask racing announcer Bret Kepner, who thinks wheelie bars should be outlawed. Wheelie bars can still allow for big wheelies, but they keep things from going really bad.
Few can control a bumper-dragger better than NMRA champion Charlie Booze Jr. When Booze lines up his red Kuntz-powered Fox, photographers haul ass to the wall. While he's gone really fast with all four paws on the ground, he has a knack for launching high, and snapping the power on and off quickly to get the nose down clean. I've seen guys go up and dump throttle; that leads to major damage most of the time. The trick, as I gathered from watching Booze, is to quickly blip the gas (sometimes multiple times) just at the point of no return, then get back to full power for the landing.I've often wondered if I could handle one of those monster wheelies, and I got my chance to find out when I tested the 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet for Ford.
I'd driven the previous CJs, both NA and blown, but wheelstands were not an issue. Nevertheless, the conditions were right at South Georgia Motorsport Park (Valdosta, Georgia) for a power wheelstand—the likes of which I'd never experienced.
Strapped to the supercharged 5.0 rocket, I made run after run, testing the effects of different launch rpm, shift points, and other things. The Ford Racing engineering team had the CJ data logged like the Space Shuttle, and I did my best to produce consistent passes, following their instructions for burnout, launch, shift, and chute deployment.
The first day was amazing and we started to learn what the CJ liked—and what it didn't. Then it happened—I completed a short burnout and foot-braked the CJ on the line to just over 2,000 rpm. Once the lights flashed, I traded feet and shoved the throttle to the mat. The CJ's launch was furious, and I was thrust into the seat. The front wheels were certainly up, to the point where I could no longer see the track—no biggie, right? Then bam, the nose shot up into the sky
My instincts took over. I cracked the gas once, but it stayed up. The engine revved, indicating the back wheels had left the tarmac. I cracked the gas again, then again… then I went back to wide-open throttle, still staring at the sky. Despite the chaos, the nose was finally on the way down. Thankfully, I was going straight, and I had total confidence in the chassis and cage should the worst happen. I was also sporting my new Simpson fire suit, Voyager Evolution helmet, and, for the first time, a HANS device from Summit Racing Equipment.
Amazingly, the Stang wasn't damaged—the K-frame wasbarely scraped. Knowing the run was a bust, I coasted to the end. The engine had oil pressure and the steering wheel was still straight. After returning to the pits and inspecting the car (and going full tight on the front struts), we ran our quickest pass of the test, then two more that were even better.
So Ford gathered the necessary data on the lastest CJ, and I feel bad for the competition (well, not that bad). I experienced a a monster wheelie first-hand, and while it was fun (once), I'd be happy to keep the nose closer to the ground. I'm sure landing smooth was part skill and part luck, so I'm hoping for wheelie bars the next test. Besides, the car will go quicker without pointing straight up.


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Stefon Loses It Before Making Out With Seth Meyers on 'SNL's' Weekend Update [VIDEO]
Stefon was so excited to come on 'Saturday Night Live' this weekend and share his tourist tips with Seth Meyers. You know why? It's because St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, allowing Stefon to finally give his favorite Weekend Update anchor something he's been waiting a long time to give.
After completely losing his poker face while spilling the beans on the latest NYC hot spots, like the "Euro-trash utopia" Thank You! and that great March Madness bar that serves purple stuff, Stefon pulled out a "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" pin.
Meyers' only mistake was reading the phrase out loud, which was all the excuse Stefon needed to swoop in and plant a wet one.


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GJB needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
We are a software startup and require a strong, Web 2.0-savvy corporate logo to accompany an already-striking product logo
We require a corporate logo and are looking for a strong brand: reasonably simple, cool and no flashy gimmicks. The logo should sit well in a Web 2.0-style environment and give the impression of a fresh, young company that is reliable and quietly confident about its offering. A limited combination of well-chosen colours would be preferable and we are not adverse to an image accompanying the text. MotionPulse is a software vendor specializing in automated software testing tools and consulting.
- Clean, simple, cool, no flashy gimmicks
- Must sit well in a Web 2.0-style environment and be indicative of a software/web company
- Must give the impression of a fresh, young company that is reliable and quietly confident about its offering
- The words MotionPulse, which may be joined or seperated and lower or upper case
- Limited number of well-chosen colours
- In order to accompany another product logo of ours, the corporate logo must match or complement RGB hex value R=00, G=5E, B=00
- Not too many colours
- No comical, gimmicky, twirly or flowery fonts - must be clean
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Vietnam Street Photographs
When I went to Vietnam in June of 1969 I was assigned to the 221st Signal Company and Southeast Asia Pictorial Center as a First Lieutenant in charge of a photo detachment. I was initially stationed at the sprawling military base in Long Binh and later stationed in Pleiku and Saigon. In addition to pictures taken for the government, I took many more of the Vietnamese civilians, particularly children, probably over 1500 images.Read More


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IRVINE — With eight professional tennis players in the house, eight children still put on one of the best performances Monday night at Bren Events Center.
Children from the Center Stage Studio of Aliso Viejo, ages 8 to 10, performed at halftime of the Orange County Breakers' match against the Texas Wild. The kids, dressed in all black, captivated the crowd as they performed to music from Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake.
The kids stole the show, but the Wild stole the Mylan World Team Tennis match.
Alex Bogomolov, Jr. defeated Orange County's Steve Johnson in a men's singles tiebreaker to end the match that Texas won, 20-18.
The Breakers (1-1) would have liked to have headed on the road with two wins under their collective belt. Instead, they will begin their trip to play the other three Western Conference teams with a .500 record. They play at Sacramento on Wednesday (Mardy Fish playing for Sacramento), at Texas on Thursday and at Springfield (Andy Roddick) on Friday.
"It's going to be defining, there's no question," Breakers Coach Trevor Kronemann said. "We've got three [Western Conference] teams. We've got Springfield, and we've got Sacramento, who beat [Texas] on [Sunday] night … This is going to be the defining road trip, I think. [They're] matches we need to win and take care of."
Orange County returns home to the Bren on Saturday to play Springfield. That match will also feature Roddick playing for the Lasers, and Billie Jean King will make a special appearance.
Monday's match appeared there for the taking. The Breakers beat Texas in the opening set of the match, men's doubles, as Johnson and Treat Huey topped Bogomolov and Aisam Qureshi, 5-2.
Texas (1-1) won the next two sets. Eugenie Bouchard and Darija Jurak topped Coco Vandeweghe and Maria Elena Camerin, 5-3, in mixed doubles. Then Qureshi and Jurak won in mixed doubles, 5-1.
Behind 12-9, the Breakers and Vandeweghe rallied with a big victory. Vandeweghe, the Newport Beach resident, defeated Bouchard in women's singles, 5-3. Bouchard, a Canadian, is ranked No. 56 on the WTA Tour – 66 spots higher than Vandeweghe.
But Vandeweghe had a chance to win the set even more dominantly. She was a point away, serving at 4-1, before a failed serve-and-volley attempt and a double fault brought the game to 3-3. Bouchard then won the next point, narrowing her deficit to 4-2. She then held for 4-3.
Vandeweghe then served out the next game, winning the set, but the Breakers went into the final men's singles set down, 15-14, instead of up. That proved large at the end of the match.
"I've beaten a lot of good players," Vandeweghe said. "That's the first time I've ever played Eugenie. A win's a win, so it was good playing, especially to win that handily.
"I just played a sloppy game to serve it out. Up [3-1] there's no reason for me to lose that service game. That was a bit unfortunate on my part … but I still served it out. It worked, but I wish I could have given Stevie more of a cushion. "
Vandeweghe said she is enjoying playing for her hometown team. She also enjoys pumping up the crowd, either while on the court or on the bench.
"I grew up in an arena family," said Vandeweghe, whose uncle Kiki and grandfather Ernie both played in the NBA. "When I'm out here, it's funny, because I'm more used to [sports] being with music and noise, and people cheering and heckling. For me, being in a normal tennis environment is a little bit strange. Inside my head, I'm doing all of the same things. But in World Team Tennis, I get to express it a little bit more. I think it's more fun for everybody, including myself."
Vandeweghe definitely rooted on Johnson in that last set. He had chances to break Bogomolov, and even earned a match point. With Bogomolov serving at 3-4 and an 18-18 match score, the game went to game point. But Bogomolov hit a forehand winner to send the set into a tiebreaker.
Bogomolov opened up a 3-0 lead in the nine-point tiebreaker. He eventually won it, 5-2, to clinch the match for the visiting Wild.
" I think Stevie had his chances," Kronemann said. "He had two or three three-all games to break him, and Bogomolov came up with the goods. If you're going to lose a match, that's probably the way you want to lose, if losing is ever fun … It was a great match. They've got a great team. We'll see them three more times, twice in Texas and once here."
Monday also was the Breakers' high school night. Members of the Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team were recognized at halftime and took a picture with the Breakers.


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With traditional landline phone services still down in many areas affected by Hurricane Sandy, businesses are placing greater importance on business continuity and disaster recovery and are taking action by turning to cloud-based communications services from 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT). 8x8's Virtual Office cloud communications services are delivered from two fully redundant and geographically diverse state-of-the-art data centers located on the East and West Coasts. Should one of these data centers go offline, 8x8's unique technology allows the entire call flow processing to be moved to the other data center in less than 30 seconds. All PBX services, configurations, functions and data, such as voicemails, are fully mirrored between the data centers, allowing complete functionality in the event of a disaster impacting either one of them. Each data center is capable of handling 8x8's entire customer load. Having built-in redundancy and automatic failover is not the only advantage 8x8 services offer when coping with a natural disaster. Rapid service deployment, mobility and portability are critical for businesses and other organizations dealing with disaster recovery. 8x8 Virtual Office users can make and receive calls seamlessly from any remote location using a mobile app on a WiFi or 3G/4G network, a computer with a web browser and microphone/speaker, or by relocating their IP phones to any Internet connection. ICS Software, Ltd, a private family owned business based in Oceanside, New York, offers SammyEHR, ARRA certified electronic health records software for small to medium size medical offices. After Hurricane Sandy knocked out power and Internet lines surrounding its main office, ICS turned to 8x8 for Virtual Office cloud based phone service so that employees who hadn't lost power or Internet could communicate with customers from their homes. "Although our office did not suffer any physical damage from the hurricane, the power to our building was down and, as a result, our normal communications systems were down. We had no idea how long it would be before they were restored." said Ken Katz, president of ICS. "Rather than wait for our internal systems to be back online, we decided to sign up with 8x8's business phone service so that our employees could immediately begin working from home using soft phones. This capability will serve us well not just in this crisis but beyond, as we'll not only be able to quickly recover from future business disruptions, we'll also have a lot more features and flexibility than we had with our previous phone system."
Water Quality Insurance Syndicate (WQIS), the largest underwriter of pollution liability insurance for marine vessels in the United States, is based in lower Manhattan and experienced massive flooding during Hurricane Sandy that destroyed nearly all of the equipment housed in the basement of its building. Rather than re-establish phone service with their former provider, WQIS IT Director John Imor will be installing 8x8 Virtual Office business phone and fax services."Hurricane Sandy has opened our eyes to the vulnerability and limitations of the premises-based communications system we currently had in place," said Imor. "Had we been using 8x8 service previously, we would not have been tied to one physical location. Our employees would have been able to simply plug their desk phone into their home Internet connection or use a PC soft phone to conduct business just as if they were in the office." In addition to the redundant architecture of the 8x8 network, the technology and design of 8x8's cloud communications services allows customers to dynamically configure service behavior on the fly based on current needs and circumstances. 8x8's unified communications portals contain powerful tools that enable users to change routing and call delivery methods in real-time so that employees can stay connected during a disaster. Rockville, Maryland-based Preferred Computing Resources (PCR Educator), a leader in the school information systems and databases market, became an 8x8 customer just in the nick of time. Days before Hurricane Sandy hit, CEO Tom deBettencourt and his team decided it was time to get rid of the PBX phone system they had sitting in the closet and move to a 100% web-based telephony environment. "With the threat of Sandy upon us, we didn't want our business to suffer as a result of storm damage that could disable our PBX equipment," said deBettencourt. "We are now not tied to any one device with our 8x8 service, not even desk phones, as we are all using PCs and iPhones for our business communications. We've also been able to add valuable features, like after hours emergency ring groups, to improve customer responsiveness."
For additional information on 8x8 cloud-based business communications services, go to http://www.8x8.com/CommunicationsSolutions.aspx.About 8x8, Inc. 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) empowers business conversations for more than 30,000 small and medium-sized businesses with cloud communications services that include hosted PBX telephony, unified communications, contact center and video conferencing solutions. Named the No. 1 Provider of Hosted IP Telephony by market research firm Frost & Sullivan, 8x8 has been delivering business communications services since 2004 and has garnered a reputation for technical excellence and outstanding reliability. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or connect with 8x8 on Facebook and Twitter.


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The PC Gaming Alliance Interview on bit-gamer.net talks with Intel's Matt Ployhar, the new president of this trade group. They discuss the organization's goals, how much it costs to be a member, DRM, and more. One answer discusses changes planned under the PCGA's new regime: "Several things actually. The biggest is setting a level of expectations. We're in a marathon, not a sprint, and there are no instant fixes for some of the things we'd like to tackle next. PC gaming is an extremely dynamic ecosystem, and there's a definite need to update the definitions of what a PC is, and who PC gamers are. We'll be a lot more transparent moving forward. I believe we've been holding our cards a bit too closely, and frankly that doesn't serve us or the ecosystem very well. It also seems to spool off into all sorts of speculation." Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
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So, we've heard all about how the bloggers feel about iPhone 2.0 and the issues surrounding its launch, but we're not what anyone would call -- by any stretch of the imagination -- normal. We love our gadgets hard, and hate their flaws with a breathing passion, so we're skewed from the outset. What about real users, however? You know, the sane ones. What are their impressions?
Technologizer wrote in to tell us about their look into The State of iPhone Satisfaction. 2150+ iPhone Users surveyed, top 7 answers on the board:
Vast majority love their iPhone and rate the App Store highly, but are ticked off about Apple's acceptance (read: rejection) policies and think Apple responds only "fairly well" to problems/issues. Almost everyone has gone 2.1 and thinks it improves the iPhone. Half of MobileMe users loves it, the rest are mixed or haters. For those who have problems (just about everyone), freezes, crashes, slow internet, and poor coverage were the culprits. The biggest missing feature? Cut/copy/paste (who knew?). And no one cared about the lack of a tic-tac-tile keyboard.
For the full results, head on over to their expanded coverage entitled: "An iPhone Opinion Explosion".


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I am using Ubuntu 10.10.
I am generally good with computers but mostly with Windows, I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu. I'm trying to setup a website and I'm talking with a friend I have who works for a school IT department who is giving me advice.
He told me that I need to open a command-prompt and type in
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start but when I do all I see is
sudo: /etc/init.d/apache2: command not found.
I told my friend the error and he said that my file
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Thomas & Friends "A Friend In Need" The Monster of Brendamdocks - Percy is at Brendam Docks to pick up new table and chairs for Dowager Hatt's house. The boat is late so Percy has to wait. Fog rolls in and the story says that's when the Monster of Brendam can be seen. D
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Wishbone "Shakespaw" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, David tries to ramain calm at the center of the storm when problems plague his direction of The Temptest, by William Shakespeare. D
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Martha Speaks "Patrol Dog Martha/The Crooning Crook Caper" Patrol Dog Martha - Martha wishes she could help solve crimes like Rascal the police dog, and she's in luck! Officer O'Reilly lets Martha fill in while Rascal is away. Out patrolling, Martha smells a rat. Can she convince them that there's something rotten in the rutabaga? Vocabulary: (E) patrol, citation, smuggle, secur(e)(ity) (I) officer, police, freeze, beat, cop. D
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To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe The Catholic Health Association's decision to okay Obamacare's free birth control compromise for religiously affiliated non-profits. California prisons and the sterilizations of nearly 250 women inmates in the late 1990's. BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Human trafficking, and how the US is battling the issue in our nation. D
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Sew It All "Applique Away, Debra Immergut & Nicole Blum" Learn reverse applique techniques and make a stylish skirt. D
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Quilting Arts "Stitch Designs In Quilting" Whether by hand or machine, there is an endless array of patterns and designs to enhance your quilts. Laura Wasilowski starts out with tips for adding hand stitches to abstract quilt blocks for texture and style. Then, Angela Walters introduces the "tiles" quilt design in free motion. D
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Hometime "Stamped Concrete Patio Re-Poured" The HOMETIME crew re-pours and re-stamps the concrete patio while fixing up the storage area below. D
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Woodsmith Shop "Top Shop Tips" In the Woodsmith Shop, we're always looking for ways to make woodworking faster, safer, and more accurate. See some of our favorite shop tips and techniques from the pages of Woodsmith magazine. D
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This Old House "Cambridge 2012, The Big Finish" The last details come together for the Cambridge project finale: granite posts set off the landscape and the revived vintage doorbell crowns the foyer. Designers Dee Elms and Andrew Terrat bring exquisite punches of color that make the sleek, white Scandinavian modern interior come alive from top to bottom. Homeowners Sally Peterson and John Stone are delighted, as the crew gives a final salute!. D
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Ask This Old House "Installing A Toilet/Patching A Lawn with Grass Seed" Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey heads to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to help a homeowner install a toilet. Then, Richard, along with landscape contractor Roger Cook, host Kevin O'Connor and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What Is It?" Afterward, Tom shares a viewer tip about driving eye screws. Roger and Kevin patch a lawn with grass seed. D
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P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Garden Fun with Kids" P. Allen Smith brings kids in the garden for some fun! They learn how to make flowers turn a different color, make mosaics with rocks and homemade salt dough, and assemble a birdbath for the garden. Allen takes us to the Children's Garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, and the turn-of-the-century Children's Farmstead in Kansas City, Kansas. D
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Dialogue "Filmmaker Dawn Porter" Marcia Franklin interviews film producer Dawn Porter, whose documentary "Gideon's Army" follows several public defenders in the south as they struggle not only to help their clients, but also to stay afloat financially and emotionally. The two discuss why Porter wanted to make the film, and what she learned about the public defender system 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all Americans, regardless of their economic status, have a right to an attorney when accused of a crime.G
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History of Science "Can We Have Unlimited Power?" It took centuries for science to explain what power is, rather than simply what it does. Host Michael Mosley explores how the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived has now harnessed that energy - from wind, steam and from inside the atom. Part 4 of 6G
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Outdoor Idaho "Horse Packers & Wagon Masters" Idahoans who bond with horses and mules to follow dusty trails view Idaho's scenery at leisure and share its past. One man sets a distance record for packing with horse and mule as he rides for charity. Teamsters explore part of the Oregon Trail with wagons and mules, and trail riders head into the Selkirk Mountains.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Dory Builder, The Tuesday Crew, Willamette Greenway" The show features one of the last commercial dory builders, who keeps up a century-old tradition by making the handcrafted boats.G
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Call The Midwife "S2 E1" The second season begins in 1958. Returning from a long day of duties, nurse Jenny Lee finds the Nonnatus House community gathered to wish her a happy birthday, before she, Chummy, Trixie and Cynthia head off to the cinema. However, the midwife's good cheer is short-lived when the next day she is assigned a new patient, Molly Brignall.G
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Masterpiece Mystery! "Endeavour, Series I: Fugue" Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation. That is, until a murder turned up that only he could solve. Shaun Evans (The Take, The Virgin Queen) stars as the young Endeavour Morse, before his signature red Jaguar but with his deductive powers already running in high gear. D
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New Tricks "End of the Line" DNA tests on a man arrested in connection with a warehouse robbery establish his innocence but link him directly to an unnamed vagrant who was strangled on a subway train 15 years earlier, causing UCOS to reopen the original case.G
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British Antiques Roadshow "Hampton Court Castle 1" Fiona Bruce and the team head for Hampton Court Castle, near Leominster, where the treasures include an important record of the days of early photography, an exquisitely decorated and moving book painted by an invalid in Victorian days, and a grandad's collection of jade turns out to be more valuable than previously thought.G


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Revision as of 19:21, 17 December 2011
Zine Guide was a review zine published by Brent Ritzel (who also published Tail Spins). Ritzel described it as "Complete contact information for 1500+ zines and assorted independent publications. Complete contents, cost, pages, size, and production quality of all available issues of every zine listed. Indexes of bands, record labels, and all subjects/topics." With glossy covers and it's mammoth size, Zine Guide resembled a magazine in appearance, but it's content was an in-depth, cross-referenced directory of the DIY zine community.
In addition to zine listings, Zine Guide also encouraged readers to vote or rate their favorite and least favorite zines and included famous zinesters, band members and indie record label owners' lists of their favorite zines. The zine printed rankings from it's readers, including the top ten zines in various categories and the top 100 most popular zines. This practice caused some controversy and Zine Guide received (and published) angry letters about this practice. Regardless how one viewed the voting and rankings, for a few years Zine Guide served as an impressive resource and up-to-date directory of zines.
Upon moving out to Colorado's Front Range in early 2006, he started teaching a course on zines and self-publishing at Naropa University, a Buddhist university located in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Brent Ritzel
PO Box 1949
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External links
- ZineGuide.net - 2003 archives by Internet Archive Wayback Machine


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Jenna Curry with McColl & Associates emailed over the details on "Lunch With an Author," an annual fund raiser her agency throws for Cape Fear Community College. This year's event will begin at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 17 in the McKeithan Center on CFCC's North Campus, 4500 Blue Clay Road, off North College Road. McColl & Associates threw similar luncheons in 2009 and 2010 and this one promises to be the best of the lot. It's a meet-and-greet with local writing… Read More »


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The Skiing Weatherman Conditions Report: March 12-16
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
For the past couple of weeks, I have touting the fact that the overall pattern was set up for action in terms of snow events. Unfortunately the northwesterly flow of cold air has been TOO strong at times, and we have missed out on a couple of events that have stayed too far to the south to bring appreciable snow to the mountains of the Northeast. There have been several Alberta Clippers that have come zipping through in the northern branch of the jet stream…those systems are almost always moisture-starved…so snowfall amounts have been light and pretty much confined to the far northern mountains. That is where you will find some packed powder as this week gets underway. The quick warm-up on Saturday converted much of the region's surface snow to a more moist granular consistency. Thankfully the spike in temperatures only last one day, so trail counts were not adversely affected.
Now, if you long for a few more days on (or "in") dry, midwinter snow, it sure looks like help is on the way. It looks as though a storm system will get going in the Midwest later on Tuesday before tracking east-northeastward through the northern mid-Atlantic region Wednesday. From there it will turn more northeasterly as it heads offshore south of Long Island and spins up into the Gulf of Maine on its' way to the Maritimes. That's a nice track for substantial snow over the interior Northeast.
Midweek Forecast
Now, this week will get off to a milder than normal start, which might make you wonder if it will be cold enough for snow when the storm comes along. On Tuesday, with the clockwise flow around a large area of high pressure parked over western Ontario providing the push, a cold front will move southward through New York and New England. It will set off some light mountain snow as it does, with the boundary eventually coming to a halt south of Long Island and across the mid-Atlantic states. It is along this thermal ribbon that low pressure will track as it approaches the coast, and by the time it throws moisture into the mountains of New York and New England, enough cold air will have been fed into the path of the storm to bring crystals to the hills and not raindrops. In coastal sections, it looks like the event will start with rain, but as the storm intensifies, northeast winds will drag cold air southward, and this storm will end as accumulating snow from southern New England as far south as Philadelphia or so.
This Weekend and Long Term
How much snow is this storm capable of producing? Well, if everything falls into place and the track is not TOO far south once again (less of a threat this time around), the resorts from the Catskills northeastward to the mountains of Maine will be looking at a double digit snowfall. That would set things up for a nice powder day on Thursday and Friday. It will be quite cold for March for a couple of days after the passage of the storm, which will sustain the dry surface snow into next weekend. While the mid-Atlantic region will turn milder than normal again late next weekend and on St. Patrick's Day, it looks as though northern branch disturbances will continue to move along the U.S./Canadian border at that time, generating some light mountain snow and reinforcing the cold air mass to sustain nice conditions. And guess what…I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we were dealing with another significant storm threat in the middle of next week…this pattern is that loaded! Further down the road, it looks colder than normal overall through much, if not all of this month, which will provide skiers and riders with many more opportunities to get out and do some sliding.
Upcoming Events
Here are some upcoming special events at the resorts that might interest you:
- King Pine, NH-Kid's Race 3/15
- Cranmore, NH-Mascot Jam 3/15
- Attitash, NH-41st Annual Red Parka Pub Challenge Cup 3/14
- Cannon Mt., NH-Crash test Dummy Race 3/15
- Ragged Mt., NH-$17 lift and tubing tickets 3/17
Related Slideshow: Best Ski + Snowboard Colleges in the East
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
With Stowe and Sugarbush nearby, finding challenging terrain is not an issue at colleges in northern Vermont. Students at Middlebury enjoy the Snow Bowl, owned by the college, for a quick few runs when they are not up for a car ride. In less than a half hour however, they can hit the slopes at Sugarbush or Stowe. You will need to be a top student to get into Middlebury though; with an acceptance rate of just 17%, the college is among a handful of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the country.
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Heading north, in the picturebook city of Burlington on the shores of Lake Champlain, you will find the University of Vermont. Famous for producing both Alpine and Downhill Olympic skiers, UVM is a mecca for winter sports lovers. Buses head from campus to the slopes on the weekends, and students tune their skis in the dorm hallways at night. Sugarbush and Stowe are the most popular ski destinations for UVMers, but Smuggler's Notch and Jay Peak also draw sports classes and snowboarders looking for slopes off the beaten path. UVM is different than most state schools in that 75% of students come from out-of-state, the university boasts an amazing honors college, it's home to a ground breaking environmental studies program and a highly rated medical school.
St. Michael's College
Colchester, VT
Nearby in Colchester, St. Michael's is a hidden gem among Catholic colleges in New England. St. Mike's has a warm, pretty campus with a wide variety of majors, including business. Easy access to Burlington and all the same ski areas as UVM, make St. Mike's a great option for students wanting a small college with reasonable acceptance rates and a nurturing academic environment.
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
For skiers and snowboarders who can make the Ivy League cut, there is really only one college: Dartmouth. Whether you race cross country or are a downhill enthusiast, Dartmouth's long tradition of elite athletics will ensure top notch competition. Dartmouth has their own "SkiWay", but it's not on campus and most students prefer the challenge of a bigger mountain. Since Dartmouth sits close to the New Hampshire/Vermont boarder, there are quite a few options for big mountain skiing, with Killington and Okemo less than 45 minutes away.
New England College
Henniker, NH
New England College in Henniker is a tiny, ski lovers' gem. For students who prefer a small college with very personal attention, NEC is a great choice. Those with learning differences will also find a warm and accepting environment with professor mentorships and all the tools necessary to succeed in college. Students at NEC form a tight knit community and can often be seen heading off with boards tucked under their arms in groups each afternoon to hit the slopes at nearby Loon or Waterville.
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH
Plymouth State offers another option for boarders and skiers in central New Hampshire. With easy access to Waterville, Loon, Cannon and even the North Conway area, there are many choices for big mountain skiing. The college sprawls up the hillside in the quaint town of Plymouth, which is filled with shops and restaurants. With a medium size student body, reasonable acceptance rate and low tuition, Plymouth State is easily accessible for many students.
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- The Skiing Weatherman Conditions Report: January 16-19
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Frequently Asked Questions
This page will eventually become the HiveMind FAQ. The idea is that people ask questions and that other HiveMind users and developers respond and comment until a "accepted solution" is reached. Eventually we will be able to compile a list of questions and accepted solutions into a more official FAQ for the HiveMind website.
Question 1): InjectingNonServiceFactoryObtainedObjects (DanielFeist 21/06/2004)
Is there anyway to inject a service, using the BuilderFactory, with an object obtained by invoking a method of another service thus allowing non-service objects to be obtained from a POJOF (plain old java object factory) for injection?
Question 2): UsingJNDIToObtainHiveMindServices (DanielFeist 24/06/2004)
I have been experimenting with the use of JNDI as a facade to HiveMind by implementing a simple JNDI SPI. The lookup method of a JNDI Context takes just a Name, yet to obtain a HiveMind service i need to be able to specifiy the interface expected. What i have found is that i can, in place of the interface expected put Object.class and everything works ok. Object is not an interface so i'm not quite sure why this works. Is this intentional? Will HiveMind continue to support this?
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HowardLewisShip: Yes, passing Object.class will continue work but it is not recommended in normal cirmcumstaces. The idea of passing in the expected (assignable) type is to allow HiveMind to do a check that the service object or proxy returned is assignable. Better a good message from inside HiveMind than a bad ClassCastException. Using java.lang.Object is acceptible if you don't care about that test.
Question 3): PuttingHivemindConfigurationFilesOutsideAnEAROrWAR (TomDavies 24/09/2004)
I have configuration data which may change reasonably often, and which I'd like an administrator to be able to change without rebuilding an ear/war file. What's the best way to make this available to HiveMind?
Michael Frericks: You could add files that reside outside the classpath as modules this way:
ClassResolver resolver = new DefaultClassResolver(); RegistryBuilder builder = new RegistryBuilder(); // process classpath modules builder.processModules(resolver); // process modules located anywhere else File[] modules = getHiveModules(confPaths); for (int i = 0; i < modules.length; i++) { File module = modules[i]; builder.processModule(resolver, new URLResource(module.toURL())); } Registry registry = builder.constructRegistry(Locale.getDefault());
Question 4): How can I use HiveMind to lookup my EJB remote component interfaces? (aka ServiceLocator pattern) (DavidKarlsen 03/10/2004)
I'd like to lookup my EJB beans and receive the narrowed remote component interface via HiveMind.
David Karlsen: Use the hivemind.lib.EJBProxyFactory:
<module id="com.mypackage" version="1.0.0"> <service-point id="SessionFacade" interface="com.mypackage.SessionFacade"> <invoke-factory service-id="hivemind.lib.EJBProxyFactory"> <construct home-interface="com.mypackage.SessionFacadeHome" jndi-name="ejb/com/mypackage/SessionFacadeHome"/> </invoke-factory> </service-point> </module> Then in your code: //initialize Registry registry some way SessionFacade sf = (SessionFacade) registry.getService(SessionFacade.class);
Question 5): How does one explicitly enable logging within Hivemind? (mferris 03/29/2004)
When I run, I get the spew below, which I see comes from the guts of the RegistryBuilder. I specify an interceptor class, but the problem is that Hivemind is not instantiating my service, hence I get no interception. Another service point in the same hivemodule.xml DOES get instantiated. I get a runtime error of: Unable to construct service tradeworkflow.TradeLifecycleService: Failure invoking constructor for class trade.workflow.service.TradeLifecycleService (at META-INF/hivemodule.xml, line 9, column 86)
The hivemodule line and column referenced contains the > symbol (the end of the <construct class line)
Logging is not enabled for org.apache.hivemind.impl.RegistryBuilder. Errors during HiveMind module descriptor parsing and validation may not be logged. This may result in difficult-to-trace runtime exceptions, if there are errors in any of your module descriptors. You should enable error logging for the org.apache.hivemind and hivemind loggers.
I attempted to pass in -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger -Dorg.apache.hivemind=SEVERE at the command line, but this has no effect.