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Religious Notes
Published: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 2:42 p.m.
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Emmanuel Wesleyan
The church, 555 Old Hargrave Road, will host Higher Site, a gospel music group from Lexington, at 11 a.m. Sunday for homecoming. .
First Baptist, Village Drive
The church, 210 Village Drive, will present a concert titled "Praise God on the Organ," featuring Chris Coleman, Carlos Fowler and Derrick Webster, three of the Triad's gospel musicians rendering traditional, contemporary and innovative styles on the Hammond Organ, at 7 p.m. April 12.
First Reformed UCC
The church, 104 E. Center St., will host a free choral concert by The Catawba Singers of Catawba College at 4 p.m. April 14 in the sanctuary, followed by a reception in the fellowship hall. Dr. Jim Shepherd is Catawba College's director of choral music. He leads the 34-member Catawba Singers as they perform their repertoire of chamber literature, sacred masterworks and pop, vocal jazz and Broadway literature for a Cabaret performance. For more information, call 247-2617 or visit www.frucc.org.
New Deliverance Worship Center
The church, 204 Beethoven Ave., will have its annual spring revival at 7 p.m. Wednesday through April 12. Guest speakers will be Pastor Ronnie Walker of Greater New Hope Baptist on Wednesday, Pastor Ronald Shoaf of New Smith Grove Baptist on Thursday and Pastor Randy Scott of Life and the Word on April 12.
New Life Worship Center
The Sister's United in Christ Ministry at the church, 171 Garden Drive, will have a program "The Happiness Cake" at 3 p.m. Sunday. The speakers will be Sister Bobbie Armstrong of Union Baptist Church, Sister Karen Cession of Antioch Baptist Church, Sister Lynn Hoover of Salem Baptist Church, Minister Doris Jenkins of Good Hope FBH Church and Lillian Stoner of New Life Worship Center.
Pine Woods UMC
The church, 200 Pine Woods Church Road, Thomasville, will begin a new evening service from 6 to 7 Sunday. This is a 40-day music event with live band. Call 476-6995 for more information.
Union Chapel A.M.E. Zion
The church will observe its annual Women's Day at 3 p.m. Sunday. The preacher for the afternoon will be the Rev. Beverly McMillan and members of Bethlehem A.M.E. Zion Church, Pfafftown. The Winston-Salem District Choir will provide the music. For more information, call 249-8629.
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Took my PSL to the range for the first time in a long time now that I have some ammo, and proceeded to shoot the reticle glass out of the scope!!!! Very disappointing. This was a purchase from an individual several years ago.
Are there any places that does repairs on these?
I have taken it apart to the point that I know the seal either came loose or did not ever get glued in correctly. It appears I need to attach it back into its locking collar with either an epoxy, some sort of caulking, or some other vibration-resistant attachment method. I may try this myself, and use one of those nitrogen sprays used for food storage to restore its fogproof nitrogen feature. All I really need are some suction cups or long hemostats to hold the thing in place, as I'm doing it from the optic end so it is kind of a ship-in-the-bottle repair.

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Squash Teams Head To Philadelphia For Midweek Showdowns At Drexel
The Princeton men's and women's squash teams have two more matches during the 2013 portion of their schedules, and both will begin with midweek matchups against a rising Drexel program.
The Princeton men (1-1) will begin the week with a Tuesday night match (6:30) at the Kline & Specter Squash Center in Philadelphia. The Drexel men are 2-3 on the season, though it is coming off a 5-4 victory over Williams before Thanksgiving. The Dragons dropped a hard-fought 5-4 match to Cornell earlier in the season; the Dragons came within two points at the No. 3 spot from pulling off the upset.
The Tigers will be looking to build a two-match win streak, and will be led by its junior All-America duo of Samuel Kang and Tyler Osborne. It will also serve as a homecoming for head coach Sean Wilkinson, who served as the Drexel assistant coach last year.
The Princeton women (2-0) will head to Drexel Wednesday night (7:00) to take on the Dragons (2-2). The reigning Ivy League champions haven't lost an individual game yet this season, and both wins have come against teams (Franklin & Marshall, Williams) who played 5-4 matches against Drexel early this season.
The Tigers have gotten impressive play from a pair of freshmen. Maria Elena Ubina is unbeaten at the No. 1 position for Princeton, while classmate Alexandra Toth is 2-0 at the No. 8 spot.
Both teams will travel for weekend matches before going on a winter break. The women head to Washington, D.C., to take on George Washington at 11 am Saturday, while the men will take on Top 5 rival Rochester Saturday at noon.


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What are you doing, PD?
i might be going over to a friends house and shes making me a cake or something for my birthday
I went to a hookah bar with a couple of people. They carded us, but even though half of our group was 17 they let us in anyway.
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4/20/2013 marked an absurdly dull day that went about itself as any other day. Just once I want an uprising of filthy time-traveling hippies to appear on the horizon with a trail of smoke behind them. In the event that such a situation should occur, I've saved up enough ammunition to outlast a small army of jumbo-sized cheese puffs.
i crossed the gamut of illicit substances on 4/20


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One Year After Wild One In Chapel Hill, Princeton Hosts North Carolina
|Princeton vs. North Carolina • Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J.
|Friday, March 7 • 5:30 p.m.
|Game Coverage
|Live Video (Watch ESPN) l Live Stats
|Twitter: @PUTigers l @GoHeels
|Series Info
|North Carolina leads 8-7
|Last Meeting
|North Carolina defeated Princeton 16-15 • Mar. 9, 2013
|Princeton 2-1; North Carolina 3-1
|Roster l Schedule l Stats l @TigerLacrosse l Game Notes
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Early-Season Highlights
Nearly 52 weeks after playing a wild shootout in Chapel Hill and one week after coming up on the short end against a top six opponent, Princeton and North Carolina meet on Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium for a Friday evening matchup.
The teams are basically one full year removed from last year's 16-15 North Carolina win on Fetzer Field in a game that featured 99 shots between the teams, not to mention two UNC goals in the final 30 seconds to pull out the win.
Both teams will be playing for the first time since suffering their first losses of the season.
Princeton fell at home to No. 3 Johns Hopkins 15-9, while UNC lost at home to No. 6 Notre Dame 11-10. Princeton was done in by an 8-1 Hopkins run that broke open a close game; UNC was on the wrong end of an 8-2 run after leading 8-3 early in the third quarter.
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Princeton has played 13 teams more than once in the four-plus years that Chris Bates has been head coach.
Of those 13 teams, Princeton has beaten 11 at least twice and a 12th once. The only one of those opponents that Princeton does not have at least one win against is UNC.
Princeton is 0-4 against Carolina in the last four years, and three of those games have been by a single goal, including the last two, 16-15 in 2013 in Chapel Hill and 9-8 at M&T Bank Stadium in 2012.
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The history of the Princeton-North Carolina series has been dotted with one-goal games.
In fact, the teams have played 15 times, and eight of those 15 games have been decided by one goal.
Of the remaining seven games, two were decided by two goals, including a 16-14 Princeton win in the 1992 NCAA semifinals, two days before the Tigers won the first of their six NCAA championships.
The Princeton-North Carolina series is actually in three separate parts, with two meetings in the 1980s, nine meetings between 1992 and 1999 and then games each of the last four years.
Added together, North Carolina has an 8-7 lead all-time against Princeton.
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North Carolina defeated Princeton 16-15 last year on Fetzer Field. It is the only game Princeton has played since 1979 where it has scored at least 15 goals and not won.
North Carolina defeated Princeton 9-8 in 2012, when the teams combined for 65 shots. The totals jumped from 17 goals and 65 shots to 31 goals and 99 shots.
The game was a total track meet. There were eight times in the game that one team scored two goals within one minute of each other, and seven times where they did it within 51 seconds. It also happened six times within 37 seconds of each other and even four times within 12 seconds.
Each team had three players score at least three goals in the game, and each team has two of those three back this year. Jimmy Bitter and Chad Tutton return for Carolina after having three each, while Davey Emala graduated; Princeton got five goals from Mike MacDonald and four from Tom Schreiber, who are both back, with four from Jeff Froccaro.
Schreiber scored 2:30 and 1:41 to go to put Princeton up 15-14, only to have Emala tie it with 37 seconds left and then Tutton win it with three seconds left.
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Tom Schreiber has 83 career goals and 79 assists, leaving him one assist away from becoming the third player in program history with at least 80 and 80 for a career, along with Jon Hess (82G, 133A) and Dave Heubeck (83G, 99A). No Princeton player has ever had at least 90 of each.
Schreiber is already Princeton's career leader for points by a midfielder. He is also 10th all-time at Princeton with 162 career points, one behind David Tickner for ninth, two behind Justin Tortolani for eighth and 12 behind Wick Sollers for seventh.
Schreiber has at least three points in 19 straight games and in 40 of 47 games for his career. He also has at least one point in 35 straight games and 46 of 47 for his career.
He also has five goals and seven assists in three career games against the Tar Heels.
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Kip Orban and Mike MacDonald both have at least one point in every game since the start of the 2013 season, a total of 18 games.
Orban has at least one goal in 15 straight games. MacDonald has at least one goal in 13 straight.
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Both Princeton and North Carolina have two players on the Tewaaraton Trophy watchlist.
Princeton's Tom Schreiber - a 2013 finalist - and Mike MacDonald are both among the 52 players chosen, as are UNC's Joey Sankey and Chad Tutton.
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North Carolina is ranked No. 6 in this week's coaches' poll and No. 8 in this week's media poll. Princeton is ranked 13th by the coaches and 14th by the media.
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North Carolina leads Division I in scoring offense at 17.0 goals per game. Princeton is averaging 11.7 goals per game.
North Carolina is also sixth in Division I, allowing 6.0 goals per game.
Princeton averages 36 shots per game. North Carolina takes nearly 13 more per game, at 48.8.
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Princeton has started two freshmen (Bear Goldstein, Will Reynolds) and one sophomore (Mark Strabo, who started every game a year ago as well) on defense in each of the first three games of the season.
Those three and sophomore middie Jake Froccaro are the only current players who have started every game of their careers. Tom Schreiber missed one game freshman year due to a rib injury but has started every other game.
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Princeton has rotated goalies through the first three games, as senior Brian Kavanagh has started and played the first half and sophomore Matt O'Connor has come in to play the second half.
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Ryan Ambler is second on the team behind Tom Schreiber in points with 13, and he leads the team with nine assists.
Ambler is averaging four points per game (one goal, three assists) for the first three games this year, and he has five points in each of Princeton's two home games, against Hofstra and Hopkins.
Ambler and North Carolina's Austin Pifani were teammates at Abington High School outside of Philadelphia.
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Justin Murphy has won 31 of 52 face-offs (59.6%) through three games and has a team-best 18 ground balls.
North Carolina has won 60 of 107 (56.1%) as a team. R.G. Keenan, a senior and one of the top face-off men in the country, has taken just 17 of the 107 winning 11.
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Mike MacDonald has 99 career points, leaving him one away from becoming the 28th player in program history to reach 100. He also is in 29th place with 71 career goals; with eight more goals he would move up eight spots, to 21st.
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Derick Raabe leads the team with five caused turnovers and is second in ground balls with 13. Raabe had four caused turnovers against Johns Hopkins, to go with five ground balls.
A year ago, Raabe had 73 ground balls, the most by a Princeton player since 1995.
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Forest Sonnenfeldt and Tucker Shanley are seniors - tall seniors, standing 6-6 and 6-4 - who missed all of last year with injuries but are now on the second midfield unit. Through two games this year, each has three goals, for a total of six between them.
Princeton got three goals for the entire season from its second midfield in 2013.
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Princeton starts sophomore Mark Strabo - who started all 15 games last year - and freshmen Bear Goldstein and Will Reynolds on defense. In the last 15 years, the only other defensemen to start Game 1 as a freshman were Damien Davis, Dan Cocoziello and Chad Wiedmaier, all of whom were first-team All-Americas as seniors.
What Can You Say About ...
Ryan Ambler #14
• starter on attack
• averaging 4.0 points per game through three games after averaging 2.2 per game a year ago
• had career-high five assists in the win over Hofstra
• five points against Hofstra tied his career high
• also had five points against Johns Hopkins (2G, 3A)
• had a goal and assist against Manhattan
• had 11 goals and 17 assists as a freshman
• started 13 of 15 games a year ago, missing games against Rutgers and Dartmouth due to injury
• two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Alex Beatty #36
• was the team's No. 1 longstick midfielder in 2013
• is moving to close defense for 2014, but has been slowed by injury
• was second on the team in caused turnovers in 2013 with nine
Zach Currier #25
• scored first career goal in the win over Manhattan
• was ranked as the No. 5 incoming freshman by Inside Lacrosse
Hunter DeButts #47
• has moved from attack to the offensive midfield to defensive midfield in his career
• had 12 ground balls and six caused turnovers in 2013
• also had three goals and two assists
Nick Fernandez #24
• had an assist (first of his career) and three caused turnovers against Johns Hopkins
• started every game on defense in 2013
• moved back to shortstick defensive midfield for 2014
• selected by the Denver Outlaws in the sixth round (46th pick overall) in the 2014 Major League Lacrosse draft
Jake Froccaro #10
• 2013 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 2013 honorable mention All-Ivy League
• had a goal against Johns Hopkins
• had first two goals of 2014 in the win over Manhattan
• had 24 goals and 10 assists as a freshman
• tied for third all-time - and first among midfielders - in goals by a Princeton freshman
• he and Peter Trombino are the only Princeton freshmen ever to have at least 20 goals and 10 assists
Bear Goldstein #34
• starter on defense
• along with fellow freshman Will Reynold marked the first time since Kurt Lunkenheimer and John Harrington in 1996 that Princeton started two freshman on defense in the first game of a season
• ranked as the No. 97 incoming recruit by Inside Lacrosse
• two-time high school All-America
Sam Gravitte #17
• No. 2 longstick midfielder
• won 3 of 8 face-offs against Hofstra
• all-state lacrosse and football player
• both parents are actors; mother won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in "Jerome Robbins Broadway"
• has played Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables"
Adam Hardej #16
• shortstick defensive midfielder
• had one caused turnover against Hofstra
• led his league in assists last year with 52
Brian Kavanagh #44
• started and played first half of first three games
• made first career start against Hofstra, with 10 saves and six goals-against
• made seven saves in second quarter, when Hofstra outshot Princeton 18-3
• made six saves while allowing three goals against Manhattan
• played 30:00 against both Hofstra and Manhattan after playing 29:40 for his first three years combined
• played 14:07 in two games in 2013, with a .500 save percentage and 8.50 goals-against
Mike MacDonald #8
• has 99 career points, leaving him one away from becoming the 28th player in program history to reach 100
• ranks 29th all-time at Princeton with 71 career goals; would move from 29th to 21st with eight more goals
• had five goals and two assists in the game against Carolina last year
• second on the team with six goals
• had four goals and one assist against Hofstra
• had a goal and two assists against Manhattan
• had a goal and assist against Johns Hopkins
• has at least one goal in 13 straight games and at least one point in 18 straight games
• 2014 Tewaaraton Trophy watchlist
• 2013 first-team All-Ivy League
• 2013 honorable mention All-America
• had 43 goals in 2013, the sixth-best single-season total in school history and the most by a Princeton player since Chris Massey had 45 in 1997
• had 65 career goals through two years, leaving him third at Princeton in goals after sophomore year, along with Jesse Hubbard and Chris Massey, who rank 1-2 all-time at Princeton in goals
Gavin McBride #37
• freshman who started on attack against Johns Hopkins and has played on the second midfield and man-up units
• had 46 goals and 21 assists as a senior at Haverford
Justin Murphy #32
• has won 31 of 52 face-offs this season
• won 13 of 23 face-offs with eight ground balls, as well as first career goal, against Johns Hopkins
• won 8 of 12 face-offs against Manhattan
• won 10 of 17 face-offs against Hofstra
• won 111 of 218 face-offs (.509) a year ago
• took 218 of the team's 380 face-offs a year ago
Jack O'Brien #29
• won 6 of 11 face-offs against Manhattan
Matt O'Connor #11
• played the second half against Hofstra and Johns Hopkins and most of the second half against Manhattan
• made save in the final minute against Hofstra to keep it a two-goal game in 12-10 win
• started the first 11 games in goal last year
• had a .517 save percentage
• became the third Princeton goalie in the last 25 years to start Game 1 of his freshman year (Scott Bacigalupo in 1991, Tyler Fiorito in 2009)
Kip Orban #13
• has at least one goal in 16 straight games (longest current streak on the team) and at least one point in 18 straight games
• had two goals and one assist against Hofstra
• had two goals against Manhattan
• had a goal against Johns Hopkins
• 2013 second-team All-Ivy League selection
• Ivy League all-tournament team selection
• had 27 goals and eight assists in 2013
• is one of three Princeton midfielders in the last 25 years to reach at least 27 goals as a sophomore (Tom Schreiber, Josh Sims)
• had at least one point in every game
• had the game-winning goal in the Ivy League semifinal against Cornell in overtime
Derick Raabe #5
• had four caused turnovers and five ground balls against Johns Hopkins
• had team-best five ground balls against Hofstra
• had three ground balls and one caused turnover against Manhattan
• team tri-captain
• started all 15 games on defense in 2013
• 2013 second-team All-Ivy League selection
• moved back from defense to longstick midfield, where he primarily played his first two years
• led team with 73 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers in 2013
• had the most ground balls in a season by a Princeton player since Matt Bailer had 95 in 1997
Will Reynolds #4
• starter on close defense
• was ranked as the No. 7 incoming freshman by Inside Lacrosse
Will Rotatori #27
• starter on attack
• has three goals in three games this year after having two for his career prior to this season
• had two goals against Hofstra in first career start
• both goals against Hofstra came during 8-1 run as Princeton erased four-goal deficit
• had a goal against Manhattan
• had two goals and three assists a year ago
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• started the last four games of the 2013 season
• made 12 saves in both games against Cornell
• of his 12 saves in the Ivy semifinal win over Cornell, 10 came in the second half
Tom Schreiber #22
• team tri-captain
• No. 1 selection in the 2014 Major League Lacrosse draft, by the Ohio Machine
• 2012, 2013 first-team All-America
• 2013 Tewaaraton Trophy finalist
• 2014 Tewaaraton Trophy watchlist
• three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection; only three players (Cornell's Rob Pannell and Max Siebald and Princeton's Chad Wiedmaier) have ever been four-time first-team All-Ivy League selections
• 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• has led team in points and assists all three seasons
• led team in goals and assists as a freshman and sophomore; is the only Princeton player ever to do so
• has five goals and seven assists in three games against North Carolina
• had four goals and two assists against Carolina last year, including two goals in the final 2:30 to put Princeton up 15-14 before Carolina won 16-15
• had three goals against Johns Hopkins
• had three goals and two assists in win over Hofstra to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors
• had a goal and four assists against Manhattan
• currently 10th all-time at Princeton with 162 career points; needs one to get to ninth and two to get to eighth
• is eighth all-time at Princeton with 79 career assists
• has 83 career goals and 79 career assists
• needs one assist to join Jon Hess and Dave Huebeck had at least 80 of both; no Princeton player has ever had at least 90 of both
• has at least three points in every game last year and has at least three points in 19 straight games dating to 2012
• has at least three points in 40 of 47 career games
• has at least one point in 35 straight games, the fifth longest current streak in Division I and the longest current streak by any Division I midfielder
• had 120 points in the last two seasons, split evenly with 60 goals and 60 assists
• one of 20 candidates for the Senior Class Award
• father Doug, who played at Maryland and won an NCAA title there in 1973 and then the 1974 World Championship with the U.S., is a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Tucker Shanley #7
• returned to the midfield after missing all but two minutes of the 2013 season due to injuries
• had a goal and assist against Hofstra
• had two goals against Manhattan
• had 20 goals and eight assists in 2012
• started nine games in 2012
Forest Sonnenfeldt #2
• missed all of 2013 with injuries
• had three goals against Manhattan, including two extra-man
• scored 19 goals and had six assists in 2012
• has started on attack and played midfield and has been an important presence on the extra-an unit
Jack Strabo #35
• team tri-captain
• first-line shortstick defensive middie for the fourth straight year
• had four ground balls against Hofstra
• had an assist against Manhattan
• Academic All-Ivy League selection
Mark Strabo #3
• has started every game of his career
• had a caused turnover against Hofstra
• started all 15 games a year ago on defense


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and as for getting chicks, why would you want to base your entire game around the ability to play drums? LOL


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Much like Head Coach Louie Quintana, Jeremy Rasmussen has moved up the rungs of the coaching ladder at Arizona State University, entering the 2006 season as the team's assistant coach. A former student-athlete in the Sun Devil program, Rasmussen was eleveated to his current position after he served as a graduate assistant each of the last two seasons and as a volunteer coach during the 2003-04 season.
In his newest role with the program, Rasmussen will continue to work with the student-athletes on the cross country and track & field rosters while also assisting with administrative duties for the program. He also will serve as the Director of Fundraising for the program which will include the `Devils on the Track' club.
As a member of the staff, Rasmussen has helped the Sun Devil distance program become one of the elite teams in the nation. In his time with the program, the women's cross country team has finished second in the Pac-10, set the school record for low points at the meet three times and finish fourth in the nation (2005). The men also have fared well, making the NCAA Championship field each of the last two seasons.
A star in the steeplechase on the track as a student-athlete, Rasmussen has worked with several of the top steeplers in the nation over the recent years, including Aaron Aguayo, the reigning three-time champion, and women's champions Amy Hastings, Anna Masinelli and Brooke Bennett. Prior to the 2006 cross country season, he also worked with former teammate Lisa (Aguilera) Galaviz as she won the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2006 USA Track & Field Championships.
Prior to his coaching and administrative duties, Rasmussen starred for the Sun Devils in both cross country and track and field. The 2000 Pac-10 Conference Champion in the 3,000m steeplechase and runner-up in both 2001 and 2002, Rasmussen helped the 2001 ASU men break the 100-point barrier at the conference competition for the first time in program history. Also in 2001, Rasmussen was ranked among the Top 45 steeplechase athletes in the nation, sitting 43rd overall. He nearly broke the Top 50 one year prior, ranking 56th in the national standings.
In cross country, he assisted the men's team in making history as the 1999 squad advanced to its first NCAA appearance where it placed 14th. That same year, the men also set the school record for fewest points at the regional meet and the second-best total in the conference meet.
A native of Minnesota and graduate of Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Ariz., Rasmussen earned his bachelor's degree in computer information systems from ASU in 2003. Currently working toward his Master's in Higher Education, Rasmussen recently attained his USA Track and Field Level 2 coaching certificate.


text: As the Wheel TurnsAs the Wheel TurnsSnips and Snails were dripping sweat as they struggled to drag along the heavy wooden cart that dug into the ground. The cart plowed up the dirt and left a sizable trench in its wake. They looked at one another, tired and worn out from pulling the new tyrant of ponyville to the edge of the forcefield. They stopped for a moment to take a quick break. As soon as they had stopped, a glowing red whip snapped at their backsides from mid-air."Pull you fools!" the whip snapped it at them twice more. "Somepony set off the magic forcefield and Trixie intends to punish them!" shouted Trixie as she prepared to whip her subjects once more for good measure. She did not have to go through with the final whip, as the two simpletons had begun to move twice as fast as they previously were. Snips craned his head back towards the unrelenting whip wielder."But wouldn't it be faster if we had some wheels?" he asked nervously, his voice higher than usual.Trixie's head snapped up and he


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By Alice Kenny
Heroin has hit the suburbs. Far too many of us are mourning the loss of children we once knew.
'"The obituaries have a certain sameness to them," write J. David Goodman and Michael Wilson in this week's New York Times, "full of praise and regret for lives cut short, marked by telltale details and omissions. The deaths occurred at home, or at a friend's house elsewhere on Staten Island. The mourned were often young and white, and although how they died was never mentioned, nearly everyone knew or suspected the cause.
"A 23-year-old man, a cello student in high school and the son of an elevator company vice president died in March. A former high school hockey player who delivered newspapers died in 2013 at 22. Another 23-year-old man who was working construction died at home in July 2012. Family members and autopsy reports revealed that they died from heroin or combinations of drugs including heroin.
"As the problem worsened, (gatherings began being) held at a nearby school, attached to Our Lady Star of the Sea, a Roman Catholic church on Amboy Road. Nearby, in the basement of the church rectory, a Pills Anonymous group meets."
In Staten Island and suburbs throughout the New York Archdiocese and the nation, the scourge of heroin is tightening its grip. Thirty-six people died in Staten Island from heroin overdoses in 2012, reports The Times, the highest number in at least a decade. The death rate was higher than the city's other four boroughs had seen in 10 years.
More than a dozen heroin-related overdose deaths occurred in northern Westchester and Putnam counties in the last year as well, reports the Ossining Daily Voice. Tragically, two deaths were reported just six days apart in small, suburban Cortlandt Manor.
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Forty-nine desert bighorn sheep just changed their zip code from one in Nevada to one in Utah.
The hope is the Nevada sheep will find their new range comfortable and will begin a new life and a new herd.
Nevada had too many sheep in Valley of Fire State Park herd, and Utah needed sheep to bolster numbers in an Escalante herd. It was a cooperative agreement. At some point, Nevada may need some wildlife help from Utah, and Utah will help if it can.
The release site in Utah is very remote—roughly 15 miles from the Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell. It is a land of rock, sand and sparse vegetation—perfect for desert bighorns.
The operation began the week of Nov. 3 in Valley of Fire, located just west of the Utah/Nevada border.
Pilot and crew in a helicopter spotted likely candidates—mainly ewes, but a few lambs and young rams—and used a net gun to capture the sheep. They were then flown a short distance to a staging area where biologists drew blood samples, attached radio collars and placed the sheep in metal containers, three sheep per container.
"(The metal boxes) were a system borrowed from Nevada, and they worked well. After the blood samples were taken, the sheep were driven to Bullfrog and we waited,'' said Dustin Schaible, bighorn sheep manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "We put three sheep to a container because sheep become very stressed when they are by themselves.''
The Utah Highway Patrol provided the helicopter and pilot to move the sheep from Bullfrog to the release site.
Schaible said 35 sheep were trapped on Monday and moved to Bullfrog Marina in horse trailers and released in Long Canyon within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on Tuesday. Then on Tuesday, 19 more sheep were captured and moved to Bullfrog and released on Wednesday in Annie's Canyon, about four miles East of the first release.
Last year, Nevada gave Utah 50 additional desert bighorn that were released in the Kaiparowits East unit.
Schaible said the release sites were selected because of the low density of sheep in the area. Sheep have not been documented in Long Canyon within the past decade.
The DWR has had trouble building a herd in the area for a number of reasons, which include the possibility of disease and predation by mountain lions.
"One thing that was nice about this project,'' Schaible said, "is there were so many partners that made this all possible.'' These would include support from the DWR, FNAWS, volunteers and the UHP, and because the release was in a national park area, the National Park Service needed to be involved.
This will not be the last of the in-state transplants. Teresa Griffin, Southern Region wildlife program manager for the DWR, notes that "January will be a very busy month or us. Along with bighorn sheep, we'll be trapping and moving about 100 deer from the Parowan Unit and moving them to an area near Fillmore."


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Joined: 21 Aug 2011
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:30 am
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Katie (kat) wrote:
I really haven't liked anything she's written since Cry No More (which I love) but she use to be my favorite romance author.
Same for me, except I can't say I enjoyed Cry No More. I could appreciate how very well it was done, but it was way too dark and painful for my taste to be called enjoyable. I think I read maybe two, possibly three, of her next books after that, then stopped completely.
Can anyone tell me if all of her subsequent books are that dark and intense? I do understand that's a sub-genre many like, just not me, and I miss her talent. Thanks.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:58 pm
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The ones I reread the most are:
Cry No More
- I like the way Mila softens Diaz, and the way he took care of her towards the end almost broke my heart.
Open Season
- I loved the way Daisy decided to change her life, and that she was oblivious to the chaos she created at the nightclub the first time she went. Her experiment with makeup was hilarious, and the "party pack" of condoms was amazing. I also like the way her character helped Jack become suspicious of the mayor and eventually solve the crime.
Death Angel
- I used to read this book every couple of months at the book store until it was finally released in paperback! I'm not sure why it grabs me so much; maybe it's because that first chapter forged a connection between Drea/Andie and Simon, and even when he was chasing her down and undecided whether or not to kill her, he was admiring her skill in trying to evade him, etc. He never even told her he loved her, but it's so obvious in everything he did for her.
Dream Man
- Dane is the perfect hero, a little rough around the edges, but still insanely protective of Marlie. I love how angry Marlie got when she realized he had set her up with the reporter, and the point of view from the psychopath was just chilling.
Shades of Twilight
- I know many people were icked out by the Wade and Roanna being cousins, but I was able to put it aside and just enjoy the story. Roanna was a quiet, introspective heroine, but I admired that she had made it through college, etc. and didn't let her grief destroy her.
After the Night
- Gray and Faith's chemistry sizzled on the pages. I'm a sucker for stories in which a woman rises from the ashes of her past and makes something of herself., and she challenged Gray at every turn. Those two characters were extremely well matched.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:35 pm
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Linda Howard is my favorite romance novelist, and she has written more DIK's for me than any other author. I particularly admire her versatility. Her work includes contemporary romances (
Duncan's Bride
After The Night
), romantic suspense (
Dream Man
Open Season
), historical westerns (
A Lady of the West
The Touch of Fire
) and time travel novels (
Son of the Morning, Killing Time
My favorites include the
series (especially
Mackenzie's Mountain
), the early rescue series -
Midnight Rainbow
Diamond Bay
- plus
A Lady of the West
Shades of Twilight
Son of the Morning
and .... I could go on, but I would be in danger of listing her entire backlist. Generally speaking I prefer her earlier novels (those written in the 1980's and 1990's) to the later ones.
I very much agree that Howard's heroes are one of her greatest strengths. They are probably the most realistically depicted men in the genre. As one reviewer said, they think and act like men, not like typical romance novel creations. It is true that Howard works with a relatively narrow range of archetypes (most of her heroes are in law enforcement, the military or intelligence) but even in her least successful novels like
Killing Time
she makes her heroes plausible and convincing characters.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:56 pm
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All this talk made me aching for a Linda Howard book.
So I am reading Mackenzie's Mountain for the first time and loving it. Yay!
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:10 am
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One not mentioned yet--so I'm figuring not many like it--is Kiss Me While I Sleep. It's not my favorite (Mr. Perfect) but it stands fourth in my list of Howard books. The danger the H and h face and then the assumption the h makes at the end--poignant.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:13 pm
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The Touch of Fire is one of my favourites. It's from the early 90's if I remember correctly. I don't usually like Westerns but Ms Howard's skill as a writer made me fall in love with this book.
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:11 pm
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Glad you are liking MacKenzie's Mountain, Mirole. There is certainly a reason this book makes it into the Top 100 here at AAR - "teacher finger" and all!
I notice more of Howard's books are out in eformat, but I don't see
Duncan's Bride
. I'll just have to hang on to my aging paper copy.
I so like Linda Howard because she takes risks. Some don't work out so well (Prey - yikes!), but others make it into the Romance Hall of Fame! Even books I don't particularly like personally, I still appreciate and can see why others say they are a favorite.
When I got back into reading Romance, I started with LH.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:46 am
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Other than "Death Angel," I'm not seeing LH's last four books listed here as faves, unless I missed them, nor are the four books before it listed as often as her earlier and middle(?) books were. Is it fair to assume LH is still a good read but her favorites are from earlier in her career? Is she writing mostly paranormal now?
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:40 am
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I guess I am definitely in the minority but I enjoyed "Prey." It's not in my top books by any means but I thought it was a good read and reminded me of some of her older books.
I know a lot has been made about the point of view of the bear in the book but it was only one or two mentions and it was used to show where the bear was headed and what a killer it was. Otherwise how would the reader know the hero/heroine were in danger from it before it showed up? From some people's reviews you would think the whole book was from the bear's perspective! It's not and it didn't bother me at all.
It's another one of Howard's "survival" type books but I tend to enjoy those.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:27 am
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Well, nobody has mentioned Veil of Night yet, and I have to say that is one of my rereads now. Actually, there are a lot of Linda Howard books on my reread shelf that I go back to time and again, I think because the characters are great , and the stories are varied. In Veil I enjoyed the return to a strong southern family, and found it to be a great romantic-suspense read.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:44 am
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I'm reading Heart Of Fire now by Howard, and really enjoying it. It reminds me of River Of Eden by Glenna Reynolds. Both feature a journey through The Amazon where the hero as guide is reluctant to bring the heroine into such dangerous territory. Typical Howard hero in this book and that's a very good thing.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:01 am
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Here's another excuse for me to look at AAR's Top 100 polls again, only for Linda Howard this time, like I did for the Julie Garwood thread. Thanks again AAR.
23. Mr Perfect
31. Mackenzie's Mountain
47. Dream Man
55. After the Night
80. Cry No More
82. Open Season
89.To Die For
18. Mr. Perfect
22. Dream Man
26. Mackenzie's Mountain
29. Son of the Morning
38. Cry No More
44. To Die For
61. After the Night
92. Open Season
19. Mackenzie's Mountain
20. Mr. Perfect
40. Dream Man
67. Son of the Morning
88. Kill and Tell
89. After the Night
3. Mackenzie's Mountain
19. Dream Man
31. After the Night
48. Mackenzie's Pleasure
79. Mr. Perfect
87. Son of the Morning
90. Mackenzie's Mission
5/tie Dream Man
22/tie After the Night
28/tie Mackenzie's Mountain
35/tie Shades of Twilight
46/tie Kill & Tell
56/tie Sarah's Child
83/tie Son of the Morning
Over time, Mackenzie's Mtn, Dream Man and After the Night have been the consistent winners, with Mr Perfect and Son of the Morning making all lists but one. I can't wait to see what the next poll shows, both for more recently pubbed books but also to see if Cry No More, Open Season and To Die move up.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:15 pm
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I didn't include it in my first list (I thought I did but I didn't) but
Veil of Night
is one of my favorite Howard's. The scene with the coffee at the McDonalds and then again with the coffee shop at the end is hilarious.
I have only a handful of books in both print and audio. This is one of them. It makes a great listen.
maggie b.
She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. - Louisa May Alcott
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:52 pm
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Cora wrote:
maggie b. wrote:
I know I am the only person who thought this but I've reread
Cover of Night
several times and really enjoy it. The hero Cal is to die for and I liked the kids.
You're not the only one. I liked
Cover of Night
a whole lot, too. No idea why that one is so disliked.
Cry No More
Dream Man
are two others I enjoyed very much.
I just read Cover of Night now because of it being mentioned in this thread and I liked it okay. It's an odd duck hybrid between a suspense story and a romance ( with like the most uncomfortable sex scene ever!) and a chilling revenge subplot thrown in. Basically a lot of people die because most of the bad guys are trigger-happy semi-morons, and are enabled and egged on and manipulated by one of their own who has a secret revenge agenda.
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Posts: 249
Location: Florida
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:42 pm
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When I first started reading romance novels, one of the first books I read was
Kill and Tell
. I've read a lot of Linda Howard's other novels (not too much of her recent works, though), and while some of them have been DIK's for me, others were. . .well, let's just say that they were not my cup of tea! (At the top of that list I would put
Shades of Twilight
--incest is not my idea of a great story line!)
My Howard DIK's:
The aforementioned
Kill and Tell
--although Karen and Marc's relationship developed almost as fast as did the one between Romeo and Juliet
, they are both great, mature characters, and who couldn't love the setting (the French Quarter in New Orleans)! The follow-up book,
All the Queen's Men
, was not bad, but I just didn't like it as well.
Diamond Bay
--I liked
Midnight Rainbow
almost as well, but this one was Kell Sabin's story, and it's classic Linda Howard alpha male! Plus, it's set in my home state of Florida, and her descriptions of the geography were spot-on correct!
Mackenzie's Pleasure
--this is the third book in the Mackenzie series, and it's the one that I enjoyed the most. Again, the others in the series were good, but oh, that Zane!
"Have fun storming the castle"--Miracle Max in "The Princess Bride"
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Editor: It seems folk all around have troubles like never before, and yet God gets the blame for floods, storms, and fires. God is a merciful, blessing God, but He is also God who does not have to put up with your crap. When He says don't do it, don't, and when He says, "Do it this way," you should listen. We have gotten away from the God of the Bible, listened to the ACLU, and philosophies then we expect God to bless. Ain't gonna happen !
I'm old, was raised Pentecostal with speaking in tongues and all, but God never sent the Holy Spirit, so you could run, jump and holler. I pray in the spirit every day, and He draws me closer to God. I need Him and cannot, neither would, or could I live without Him. Last night was a rough night, but instead of whining, I lay there and talked with the Father and prayed in the spirit also.
This letter isn't about turning you into Pentecostals, but it is to say, "be thankful." I thank God for a mom who gave her heart to the Lord in the early 40's, lived righteously before God and kept my dumb butt in church. I've always had a tendency to be stupid, but God is a wonderful keeper even when you are as crazy as I am. I am thankful for Jesus, for without Jesus, I would never have known my heavenly Father. He is a part of me and helps keep me and protect me from my idiotic ways. Thank you, Jesus!
I take a monthly testosterone shot, and since I have no sweetheart, I want someone really bad. So here I am, old, dumb and still love the ladies.
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Those ladies and the gentleman too treated me so special that I want to thank them for being so kind to me. I only wish I was younger because I'd love to kiss that lovely lady behind the cosmetic counter at least once.
God allowed me to look though, and there's nothing says I can't look. Thank you, Jesus! I hope this letter lets those working there know they treated me very special, and lets them know this old man appreciates doing business at their Belk store.
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Rain on Wednesday forced the regional to play one round of singles and one round of doubles, instead of two singles rounds, and one doubles round as scheduled. Last weekend at the United States Air Force Invitational, most of the three-day event was moved indoors to the four indoor courts due to windy and cold conditions that saw temperatures fall into the 30s.
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Falling in their respective singles matches, but continuing on in consolation play on Thursday were senior Erin Sanders, junior Carla Manzi Tenorio, sophomore Ashley Tiefel, and freshman Mazy Watrous.
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My mother was always a walker. Every day she would put on her Scandia Woods socks, pull them over her pants and slip on her L.L.Bean gumshoes. Pulling the socks over the pants was a critical step. She'd already had Lyme disease twice, and she was doing her best not to get it again. Where she walked was on the old bridle path next to her house in Connecticut. People used to ride there when I was a kid. Now it was closed off to horses and to people; too many kids had used it for drinking parties, and the wetlands folks had introduced so many rules about what had to be done to make the land "passable" that the woman who owned it, a friend of my mom's, said enough and put up a keep out sign. Only my mom had permission to keep walking there. As she moved along, she'd pick up any branches that had fallen in her path. She was the keeper of the trail.
Four years ago, when my mother was 84, I bought a country house farther up in Connecticut, where the bridle paths were many and still open to the public. The woods on my property were as dark and deep as those in the Robert Frost poem. There was no trail. The underbrush was thick and prickly.
By the time I got the house, my mom wasn't walking as much. To cut through her woods to get to the bridle path, she'd started using the walking stick my sister had provided. She'd fallen once on the trail, she told us. And she almost couldn't get herself up. We urged her to take along the cell phone we'd given her, so she could call for help, but she usually forgot it. Anyway, she said, she didn't really know how to use it. We gave her instructions more than once. But she kept forgetting. One day, she said, she was on the bridle path and couldn't remember how to get home. That was about the time she sent my daughter, her granddaughter, a birthday card addressed to one of our cousins. It was signed not "Grammy" but "Charlotte," her first name.
That winter I became obsessed with making a trail through my own woods to give our mother a place to walk when she visited—and a daily activity if she eventually came to live with me. There were enough pieces of flatland to lace through that it would be an easy walk. The beginning and end of the trail would come out on the lawn, from which you could see the house. It would be a path my mother could walk without getting lost.
Here's the thing about woods: Trees shed branches, sort of the way people shed hair. So the floor of my woods was covered with branches. You could barely move without tripping over one that was hidden under the leaves, which had been collecting there for years. So, step one: Pick up branches.
Actually, step one, said my brother, was "flag" the trail. Once I decided where the trail was going, I needed to mark it. He said I could get flags at the hardware store, but mine didn't carry them. I ordered them online: 200 for $60. I staked flags where the trail would be. That took three days. Now the woods were dotted with bright red pennants, which looked almost garish on the bare winter terrain.
Every day I'd bundle up and go out there to gather branches. I'd make a pile. Some "branches" were small swamp trees that I could pull up by their roots. Pretty soon there were three piles, then six, then dozens. The piles grew, day after day, until they were taller than I was. "Make the piles by the trail," my brother told me. "That way we can chip them and spread them out."
I was a woman possessed. I could have hired someone else to do the work, but the thought never occurred to me. The same Yankee spirit that led my mother to clean out the brooks along the bridle path when they became clogged with debris; that led me to clean out the woods behind our house when I was a kid to create a "boys keep out" club; that led my grandfather to clear the woods behind his house to make room for a giant wigwam for us grandchildren, had now taken hold of me. There was no branch so large that I couldn't haul it to one of my piles. Twice I practically knocked my eyeball out with the end of a branch as I swung it around to throw on top of a heap. Sometimes I had to dig branches out of the snow.
By spring I had moved on to the land underneath, covered with all the green stuff that carpets a forest floor. I got down on my hands and knees and started yanking things out by the roots. Day after day, I pulled. I made the trail two people wide. After five days, I was one yard in. Weeks later, I was seven yards in. "Place the flags every 10 feet or so," my brother said. When I'd made a clean path the distance of six flags, I pulled them out of the ground victoriously—but I had dozens more in front of me.
"Backbreaking work" was no longer a figure of speech. My back was breaking; my fingers were cut and callused (pulling up roots, I'd found, was better done with my bare hands than with gloves on). "Do you enjoy doing this?" Standing near me—I was now on flag 10—was a farmer who lived down the road. I told him I knew it was crazy what I was doing, but I was on a mission. I needed to get the trail done by the time it was warm. I needed to get it done for my mother. I needed to get it done before she didn't know it was there. Before she didn't know who I was.
"Roundup," the farmer said. It would be a lot easier if I sprayed Roundup to kill the weeds. Actually, it would be a lot easier if he brought over his tractor. He could clear the path in a couple of hours. And so he came over and cleared the path. My brother, who'd been advising me long distance, arrived for a visit, and we rented a wood chipper and started work on all those 10-foot branch piles. With a snow shovel, I lifted the wood chips onto the newly cleared path. I had a sign made saying: Charlotte Burr Evans Walking Trail. Opened 2010. My brother hung it on the first tree at the entrance to the trail.
My mother was still living in her house. She didn't want to leave it, even though she'd fallen down the stairs twice. She was an independent woman, dammit, and she would stay independent. Against her wishes, we'd gotten her a live-in companion. She couldn't stand having someone else in the house. In fact, she couldn't stand all the people she imagined were living in her house. She insisted there wasn't just "this woman"—there were the three children who kept coming into her bedroom. One of them, she said, slept under her bed; the two others got right under the covers with her. She tried to persuade them to return to school. She said she would drive them (small detail: her license had been taken away when the police caught her driving on the wrong side of the road). And then there were the friends of my father, she said, who kept coming up the driveway. "Why don't they bring your father with them?" she asked. She would like to see him. I told her so would I, but he died seven years ago. When she fell out of her bed, she thought she'd fallen in the woods. She'd been lying there for hours, she said, and was so relieved that she'd been found.
My brother continued cutting down trees that stood in the way of the path; I continued using the wood chips to define the trail and make it softer on the feet. We worked each day until there was no more sunlight. My sister arrived, and then we drove down to pick up our mom. She had gotten more fragile over the winter. She wasn't eating much. This woman who had towered over me was now shorter than I was. When I cupped her arm to walk her to the trail, I could feel her bones. She was, as we found out a few days later when we put her on a scale, barely 100 pounds.
We got her to the entrance of the trail, where I'd moved a rock out of the way because I knew she wouldn't be able to step over it. The invasive barberry had been hacked back. We walked a few feet in. Look at the sign, we said. "Charlotte Burr Evans Walking Trail," she read out loud. "For me," she said. My sister took a picture of my mother flanked by my brother and me. She was smiling broadly by the sign, standing proudly with her kids.
With my brother and me supporting her, she made it as far as the first bench. I'd put in so many benches along the trail, knowing she would need to rest, that it looked like a furniture factory. So my mother and I sat on the bench. She said it was beautiful here in the woods. I agreed that it was. She turned to me. "You didn't just do this for me, did you?" She had the look I remember from when I was a kid, when she was teaching me a lesson. "You did it for you, too." She was right about that. I had done it for me, too. I'd wanted her to be the mother I'd known, the woman who walked straight and tall and fast. I thought if I created a safe place for her, she would continue to be that person. She would keep walking, maybe a little more slowly, but still doing the thing that had given her so much pleasure her entire life. Now I realized she'd never be that woman again. She said she was tired. We walked back to the house. She took a nap.
That was the last time she saw the trail. Pretty soon she was napping through the day. She continued to pick at her food. She kept looking for my father, who she was sure was in the driveway. She wanted to know where her dog was. But you don't have a dog, I said. Of course I do, she told me. And where, she asked, was my younger sister? I told her I didn't know because I didn't have one. Of course you do, she said. Her name is Nancy. But I'm Nancy, I said. Two weeks after we opened the trail, we took my mother to a place for people with Alzheimer's. I didn't know what else to do.
When I walk the trail by myself these days, I often think about her. She uses a walker now, and as her memory goes, she sometimes fails to remember how to put one foot in front of the other. But I know that she saw, really saw, the gift we had made for her. And I like to think that in her dreams she is still walking, straight and tall and fast like the woman she used to be. The path she's on is the Charlotte Burr Evans Walking Trail. She is heading home.
NANCY EVANS is finishing a book titled A Year in the Country, about learning to calm down after 40 years of working nonstop in the city. Her last piece in More was about finally learning how to cook.
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Lightweight Women Head To G'town, Look To Stay Perfect In Class Of '06 Cup
NATIONAL POLL l CLASS OF 2006 CUP HISTORY
While Sprints and IRAs are the two focal races of every women's lightweight rowing season, there are two special rivalries during the regular season that have something special on the line.
Princeton's most historic series is for the Class of 1999 Cup, a showdown scheduled last weekend on the Charles River with Harvard. While the two did compete in the Lightweight Invitational, Saturday's head-to-head dual race was cancelled due to the police activity in Boston on Friday.
Thus, Princeton's only Cup race of the season will be Saturday, when the Tigers head south to take on Georgetown for the Class of 2006 Cup. The Tigers have dominated the series with wins in all 10 meetings, including a close victory by less than three seconds on Lake Carnegie last season.
"This weekend is very important for us in retaining the Class of 2006 Cup," said sophomore Caroline Cochran, a member of the varsity eight. "I think we were all dissapointed we didn't have the opportunity to compete for the Class of 1999 Cup, and so it is that much more important that we win this weekend."
The race will be also be the final regular season tune-up for the EAWRC Championships, which will be held May 5 on Cooper River. Princeton and Georgetown will be joined by top-ranked Harvard and reigning champion Wisconsin for the league championship, an event Princeton won in 2011.
"There is definitely a new level of energy and focus at practice," Cochran said. "These next few weeks of training before Eastern Sprints and IRAs are crucial. I think everyone's really excited and you can definitely see an increased focused at each practice."
One person who will have a special interest in the race is Princeton assistant Hank Zimmerman, who served as Georgetown head coach last season. He will have the rare opportunity of watching rowers he helped mentor in multiple boats on both sides.


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Norman Earl Evans
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Height: 6-5 Weight: 250 lbs.
Born: September 28, 1942 in Santa Fe, NM
High School: Donna
College: TCU (school history)
Drafted by the Houston Oilers in the 14th round (106th overall) of the 1965 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 67 (665th overall since 1950)
2-time Pro Bowler (fine print)
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Reaching Beyond Yourself
Volunteering and community service can be one of the most fulfilling opportunities you'll find at Clarkson. By reaching out and offering your energy, talent and compassion, you can make a real difference in people's lives. Through service to others, you will gain a better understanding of yourself, demonstrate classroom learning, and increase leadership, teambuilding and management skills. That's why service is a core value of Clarkson; it benefits both the students and the community. Service helps develop a sense of social responsibility and civic pride.
Below is a list of volunteer opportunities in the area. This isn't an inclusive list, but we would like it to be. If you know of something else going on around campus that invites others to join, please let us know. To collaborate on a project or to suggest an idea to share around campus, please stop by the Office of Student Life and Engagement or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Individual and Group Volunteering Opportunities (I=Individual, G=Groups welcome)
Adopt-A-Bear Cub Mentoring Program, Lawrence Avenue Elementary School: College students will be matched one-on-one with an elementary age student (grades K through 4) to provide academic, emotional, and social support and activities. Mentors are asked to commit to two days a week, typically Monday and Wednesday OR Tuesday and Thursday from 3:15-4:15 p.m. Please contact Nicole Conant, Assistant Director, SUNY Potsdam Center for School Partnerships and Teacher Certification, Adopt-A-Bear Cub Mentoring Program, SUNY Potsdam, 111 Satterlee Hall, 315-267-2539, firstname.lastname@example.com OR Susan A. Pike, Elementary School Counselor, 315-265-2000, ext 259 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
American Red Cross of Northern New York: Your Red Cross is always ready to respond by providing shelter, food, health support or financial assistance to individuals in times of disaster. Volunteer areas are: disaster volunteer, Health & Safety Instructor, leadership volunteer, fund-raising events volunteer and office support. (I, G) Contact Jean Gendron at (315)-782-4410
A.A. Kingston Middle School: AAK is Potsdam's middle school, housing students in grades 5-8. Volunteers are needed to facilitate individual and small group tutoring sessions as well as mentoring relationships. Times are flexible and can be arranged around the schedule of the volunteer. Contact Kristen Zender, Middle School Guidance Counselor, at (315)265-2000 extension 521 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Canton-Potsdam Hospital: A volunteer is part of a team working towards achieving the hospital's mission of providing "expert care with a personal touch." Volunteers must meet physical requirements. Available positions include: delivering newspapers, gift and library carts, lobby greeters, information systems, and patient-care service areas. (I,G) Contact Danielle Grant at (315) 261-5010 or email@example.com. http://www.cphospital.org/community/volunteer-services
The Cecilie Garden Project is a community garden dedicated to providing fresh, healthy food for food pantries, neighborhood centers, and community dinners of Northern St. Lawrence County. This large garden located at Lehman Park in Potsdam is one of two gardens maintained by UShare, a social action project of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton. UShare's second garden is at the Priest Field in Canton. UShare's mission is to "support and promote efforts to grow, distribute, and enjoy wholesome, locally grown food in the North Country." The Cecilie Garden Project always welcomes new volunteers, we start working in the garden in April and work continues until late fall – if you are interested in participating, please contact Sally Hoose at email@example.com.
CORC Thrift Store: The Council of Religious Concern operates a ministry store with the goal of locally and cooperatively meeting immediate practical needs for those requiring assistance within our community. Volunteers are needed to sort donations and to keep the store operating smoothly. (I, G) Contact Andrea James for more information at (315) 265-3940. CORC is closed Sundays and Mondays.
DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Transportation Network: Many veterans have no way to get to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities for needed treatment. They may live a great distance from a VA hospital, and because so many exist on small fixed incomes, they find that the cost of transportation to a VA hospital is just too high. They're left with two choices. They could go without the treatment they need, or skimp on food or other necessities to pay for transportation. The DAV responds by maintaining two vans locally which are used to transport disabled veterans who reside in the area to medical appointments at veterans clinics in Massena, Watertown, or Syracuse. The Potsdam DAV is always in need of drivers. Contact the Potsdam DAV Van Coordinator, Fred, for more information or to volunteer, at (315) 706-9371. http://www.dav.org/help-dav/volunteer/drive-a-van/
Deep Root Center for Self-Directed Learning (DRC): DRC is seeking volunteers during the academic year to share their interests and talents with DRC student members through one-on-one tutorials or by facilitating classes. DRC is particularly looking for Clarkson students who can offer direct higher level math and science support and classes. Deep Root Center is a NYS Not-for-Profit and 501(c)3 learning center located in downtown Canton. Deep Root Center provides the facilities, environment, resources, and support for young people who choose to live and learn without school. Learn more about DRC at our website www.deeprootcenter.org. You can contact Maria or André at firstname.lastname@example.com or 315-244-3034.
Girl Scouts: Volunteers are needed for both co-leading troops and as "traveling talents" who would meet with one or more troops to do a specific activity the volunteer is interested which can be anything from knitting to robotics. Anyone can volunteer, you do not need prior training or scouting involvement. There are several troops in the town of Potsdam as well as many in the surrounding areas. For more information prospective volunteers can contact Marcia Oney (322-4233) or Marilyn Paradis (265-6979)(I, G)
Head Start: Head Start helps economically disadvantaged children (ages 3-5) and their families. They also assist large families, rural families, and children with disabilities. Volunteer opportunities include: reading to children, supervising outdoor activities, field trips, repairing toys, and preparing food. Contact Karen Holland at (315) 386-8574.
Hospice and Palliative Care: Hospice enables people to live their last few weeks and months as fully as possible. The kinds of activities a volunteer might do include: visiting with patients, light housekeeping, running errands, or letter writing. Other volunteer opportunities include things like: clerical tasks, helping with computer projects or delivering medications. Volunteer training provided. Contact Jennifer Brailsford at (315) 265-3105. http://seriousillness.net/stlawrence/.
First Presbyterian Church: The Presbyterian Church sponsors two free community dinners a month. Help is needed with set-up, cooking and serving food, and cleanup. In the fall, volunteers are also asked to assist with raking leaves. (315) 265-9434.
Lawrence Avenue Elementary: Lawrence Avenue is Potsdam's elementary school, housing grades Kindergarten – 4th grade. Volunteers are needed to facilitate individual and small group tutoring sessions. Contact Principal Jenne at (315) 265-2000.
Literacy of Northern New York: This program's mission is to help adults achieve personal goals by improving their ability to read, write or speak English through one-on-one tutoring. Volunteers are needed as tutors in basic reading and in English as a Second Language (ESL). Training is provided. Flexible schedules. Contact Maria Morrison at (315) 265-0194. www.literacynny.org
The Local Living Venture envisions a vibrant community and resilient regional economy in the North Country of New York State. Our toolbox: community education, rural skills-building, and dynamic infrastructure development to promote a regional economy. Plans include a "Homesteading College" with components of a food hub and commercial kitchen for value-added food production, as well as significant tourist and local features and benefits. Many projects, from helping with roadside clean-ups to grant-writing and strategic planning/implementation, as well as year-round skills-building workshops and community events, outreach booths at fairs and festivals, and specialized programming. Check out our chock-full website at www.locallivingventure.org and contact Volunteer Organizer Chelle Lindahl at email@example.com or (315) 347-4223.
Newman Club at St. Mary's: The Newman Club is a social and service organization for Catholic students based out of St. Mary's Church. Any student is welcome to participate in our volunteer work regardless of religious affiliation. Volunteer opportunities are presented one weekend afternoon per month from 1pm-4pm. Some of the services we provide are: visiting with nursing home residents, yard work for the elderly, collecting canned food and toiletries for food pantries and shelters, creating care packages for home-bound individuals (and military troops when applicable), and spring break service trips to other parts of the country. Contact: Campus Minister, Patrick Reinhart, (315) 265-9680. Email: email@example.com. Website: http://stmarystpatrick.net/index.cfm?load=page&page=183 Facebook: www.facebook.com/SaintMaryCampusMinister
Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York is always looking for volunteers. Types of volunteer opportunities include serving as patient escorts, assisting in mailings, data entry, tabling at health fairs, and event assistance. Contact Melinda Paige at (315) 386-3426 or email: email@example.com. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved/
Potsdam Humane Society: The compassionate, humane care you help provide also makes our community better, as the kindness we extend to animals reflects back into our own lives. The shelter is open Mon. – Fri., 1 – 5 p.m. and Sat., Noon – 4 p.m. Volunteers are needed to visit and walk pets, conduct fund raising and assist with cleaning and building maintenance. (I, G) Contact Jess at (315) 265-3199. http://www.potsdamhumanesociety.org>
Potsdam Neighborhood Center: The mission of the Neighborhood Center is to help the poor and at-risk population in our area, to help them maintain a decent standard of living, and to help them set goals and priorities for an improved living standard. Volunteers are needed to help distribute food and assist participants with creating résumés. Contact Daisy Cox at (315) 265-3920. http://www.potsdam.ny.us/neighborhoodcenter/
Potsdam Public Library: Volunteers are needed to help organize book sales, alphabetize books, mend books, and help distribute books to those who don't have access to the library. Contact Pat Musante at (315) 265-7230. http://www.potsdamlibrary.org/
Potsdam Rescue Sqaud (I) Potsdam Volunteer Squad is tasked with the responsibility of responding to a call volume that annually averages 1,300+ responses. PVRS is always interested in talking to members of the community who may wish to volunteer. Please go to http://www.pvrs.org/volunteer/ for more information or call (315) 265-2550.
Reachout: (Crisis Intervention & Referral 24-hour Hotline) Volunteers receive over 100 hours of training in crisis intervention, listening skills, problem-solving, & information referral before answering the phone alone. An application is required as well as a two semester commitment. A five hour weekly shift is required. Contact Hollis Easter at (315) 265-2422. http://www.reachouthotline.org/
Renewal House: Provides services for victims of domestic violence and their children. Availability is after-hours and on an on-call basis. Opportunities include advocating for clients and providing transportation. Six hours of training provided. Application and interview required. (I, G) Contact Sara Tooly at (315) 379-9845. http://www.slvrenewalhouse.org/
St. Lawrence County Arts Council: The St. Lawrence County Arts Council is dedicated to developing and promoting the arts in northern New York. Opportunities include helping with mailings, events, fundraising, graphic design, data entry, cleaning and publicity/marketing. Contact Rebekah or Suzy at (315) 265-6860. http://www.slcartscouncil.org/
St. Lawrence NYSARC: St. Lawrence NYSARC exists to provide services in the community for persons with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Opportunities may include special one-time presentations, tutoring, recreational activities, classroom assistance, and sharing special talents. Enthusiasm, energy, and enjoying people are the only requirements. Contact Susan Gibbons at (315) 386-3529. http://www.slnysarc.org/
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ZF-9723: Zend_Feed_Reader::detectType, Notice: Undefined variable: doc [...] on line 430
Occurs when calling Zend_Feed_Reader::detectType(). Due to a variable name typo in Line 430: $status = $doc->loadXML($feed);
This should be: $status = $dom->loadXML($feed);
Patch as described in report.
Resolved in r22031. This is what you get for missing the odd test or two ;).
I definitely like the test method name! :-)
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|Vandals add four JC players
Four junior college players - two offensive and two defensive, will join the Idaho Vandals in January.
Looking to add line depth, shore up the secondary and restock the receiving corps, Robb Akey and his staff have signed receiver Armauni Johnson out of West Los Angeles Junior College, offensive lineman Sam Tupua out of Palomar Junior College, defensive tackle Ben Swarts out of Arizona Western, and safety Thaad Thompson from Ellsworth Community College.
Johnson, at 6-4, 210, caught 80 passes totaling 796 yards during his two seasons with West LA. Akey likes what he's seen in the Jacksonville, Fla., native.
"He's tall, has great hands and very, very good speed," Akey said. "He'll be able to come in and compete for a job. He's a very skilled player and will be very competitive here and in the WAC."
Tupua, 6-3, 320 pounds and originally from Wilmington, Calif., was part of an offensive unit that averaged 429 yards total offense per game and yielded just 12 sacks during the season.
"Sam is a big, strong kid with very good feet," said Akey of Tupua, who played at guard and center at Palomar. "He has the ability to win a starting position - or make it harder for someone else to win one. I'm excited to have him."
Swarts brings size (6-2, 285) into the defensive line competition. His competitiveness and athletic ability were highlighted when, as a high school senior, the wrestling coach at Ironwood High School (Tucson, Ariz.) approached him about coming out for the team so it wouldn't have to forfeit every heavyweight make for lack of a wrestler. Swarts wound up the undefeated state champion.
"He's a big, thick strong kid," Akey said. "He will add size and strength to the defensive line interior."
Thompson, at 6-3, 215, has the ability to add a physicality to the secondary. Originally from Margate, Fla., he had 27 total tackles and three tackles for loss in 2009 for 8-3 Ellsworth.
"He has great speed and is very physical," Akey said. "He's physical enough he could be a linebacker but he should compete for a starting job at safety."


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ZF-2322: Multiple Inserts / Updates from rowsets
Currently, the Zend_DB way to bulk insert (to my knowledge):
$tb = new Table;
for ($i = 0; $i < 500; $i++) { $row = $tb->createRow(); $row->blah = 'blah'; $row->save(); }
// I propose something like this
$count = 5; // count of rows $tb = new Table;
$rowset = $tb->createRowSet($count); $rowset->save();
/** To update **/
$tb = new Table; $rowset = $tb->fetchAll($condition);
// Modify $rowset
$rowset->save(); // This will be saved for rows where $condition is met
Please categorize/fix as needed.
This issue has gone unaddressed for too long. I'm reassigning this to Ralph for re-evaluation and categorization.
Rather than making it too big of a problem - what if we simply added some functionality to Zend_Db_Adapter ?
So given an array of hash :
$db->insert('tablename', $data); // (or multipleInsert or bulkInsert, what have you)
If/when this should get fixed ... it'd be nice to have bulk insert-or-update functionality, too, i.e., INSERT INTO... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.
Patch that allows support for bulk inserts for MySQL PDO adapter.
The patch supplied has the same method name defined twice. Also, this seems to be heavily MySQL specific and the usage is not portable across database vendors. Shouldn't this be done in userspace since the application is taking advantage of database specific functionality?
My mistake, the second method should have been named "insertOrUpdateMultiple". It takes advantage of MySQL's ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE feature.
The patch is for the MySQL PDO adapter -- other adapters would need to implement their own versions of these methods, even if that means looping through the data and performing separate inserts.
Adding new methods to the adapters that other classes (like Zend_Db_Table) would rely on means we may need to update the Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract. Maybe we can add a simple cross-database version of this that other adapters can override with their own version.


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The UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival is coming up soon ('Jam Day' is May 30th, 'Reggae Day' is May 31st) and the line-up is fantastic. Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime (G&D), The Foreign Exchange, Bilal, Quadron, hosted by Zion-I. And that's just the first day. 'Reggae Day' brings on Nas & Damien Marley, Barrington Levy, and our clear favorite, Nneka. We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to one lucky winner in the area. Enter to win after the jump!
We can't all make it there, but remember that Giant Step's Summerstage 2010 (NYC) will feature the incredible Raphael Saadiq, with more great artists to be announced soon!
Raphael Saadiq – "Oh Girl"
Nneka – "Heartbeat"
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Conjoined Palestinian twin girls Rittal and Retag bint Yasser Abu Assi arrived in Riyadh aboard a special Saudi Arabian medical evacuation plane from Egypt today upon directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz for preliminary medical examinations at King Abdulaziz National Guard Medical City.
The girls, born in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis on March 27, are joined at the chest and sharing a small intestine, Arab News reported today. Each girl has a heart, lungs and other organs, increasing chances they'll be able to survive separately, Ayman Abu Amouna, the doctor who oversaw their care in Gaza, told the English daily.
The first conjoined twin separation surgery in the Kingdom was performed successfully on December 31, 1990, at Riyadh's King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center. Since then, 19 more sets of conjoined twins have been separated.


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Chicago Sun-Times' Suburban Papers to Pay $10 Per Photo, Give or Take
The photo editor for a chain of suburban newspapers owned by Sun-Times Media of Chicago told freelance photographers yesterday that news and feature photo assignments will pay $65 each, and that photographers are expected to deliver 5 to 7 photos per assignment.
"Of course more photos is always nice for choices and file art if the story is revisited," Pioneer Press Newspapers photo editor Geoff Scheerer wrote in a memo to freelancers. The memo was obtained and published today on the Jim Romenesko media blog.
The rate for sports photo assignments is $90, according to the memo.
In May, Sun-Times Media fired its staff photographers at the Chicago Sun-Times and its suburban papers. STM executives explained that they were diverting resources from photo to video because readers wanted more video. They said the papers would rely on reporters and freelancers for photo coverage.
Scheerer told freelancers for the suburban papers in his memo that he was clarifying rates "now that I've been given a hardcore budget." For more details about the rates and Scheerer's expectations of photographers, see the original memo.


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Every drop counts
"With fully detailed information on vehicle performance, operational control has improved with an overall gain of 8% - 10% in efficiency. That doesn't just mean better fuel performance; it also helps us manage our downtime in the most effective way - and that's a real benefit."
Following a detailed evaluation into the potential cost savings to be made with the introduction of Dynafleet, Volvo's telematics system, Martin Brown reported that prior to inception of Dynafleet Taylor Transport Ltd's average fuel consumption was 7.3mpg; now his fleet's average fuel consumption is 8.35mpg. As a consequence, he is saving 1250 gallons of fuel per annum, resulting in a cost saving of £6,500 per annum. *
* based on average prise per gallon at £5.20
Keep track of your fleet, monitor fuel consumption and monitor your drivers techniques with Dynafleet.
It is a question of the environment and efficiency - not to mention the money. Reducing fuel consumption is on of the hottest issues of today. This is the Volvo way of doing it: