I have been playing the bagpipes since 2003. I am a member of the University of Mary Washington Eagle Pipe Band which performs at numerous parades, events, and competitions each year. I am also one of two bagpipers in the Chancellor Volunteer Fire and Rescue Color Guard. I have played at many weddings, funerals, military retirement ceremonies, and other events. Contact me if you need a bagpiper at your event.
e-mail: mike@michaelyearsley.com
I found these pictures on a CD-R. Not sure who these people are…hopefully dad can help-
1. Elmer Yearsley Sr. , my great-grandfather as a boy in Philadelphia PA.
2. Mary Francis McMenamey, my great-great grandmother. mother of Elmer Yearsley Sr.
3. Elmer Yearsley Sr. is on the right of a group of his friends
4. Elmer Yearsley Sr., my great grandfather. He once built a boat called ‘the Dink’ out of solid wood that weighted a ton.
Date: 25 October 08
Location: Richmod Raceway Complex
Judges: John Bottomly, Duncan Bell, John Wassman, June Henley, Martin Beaton
Place: Fifth
RAIN….It rained all day, especially while we were in the circle. I thought we sounded pretty good. Tuning may have been a bit off but we had to do it with the whole band under two 10×10 tents. As I got more and more soaked throughout the set my wedding ring began to slide down my finger. During the third tune it got to my knuckle and I couldn’t cover the “E” hole. I let go of the chanter with my top hand and dropped the ring on the ground, this sounded the high “A” at the wrong time. Hopefully this didn’t lose us too many points (no one in the band even knew that I did it until I told them). Everyone was very impressed with our set, except for the judges. Lessons learned- take the ring off before competing.
Two great e-books are available for free from “The Voicelog”, the website of the EUSPBA’s “The Voice” magazine. Get them here-
Opening Parade- Scotland the Brave
Lovat’s Scouts, Jenny’s Bawbee
Chance and Alex- Hills of Alva
Banks of Allen Water, Shoals of Herring
Fallujah, Farewell to Camraw, Jubilation
Here are the tunes that the University of Mary Washington Eagle Pipe Band played for their “traditional” Family Weekend Concert on 19 Sept. 2008.
Finally! An open source network simulator that runs on ACTUAL Cisco IOSes! This program is freakin awesome! There is support for Windows, Linux and Mac. You drag and drop different router models onto your network diagram. You can start your routers (with an IOS that you must provide). Then you connect them together. You can connect virtual PCs as well with the use of VPCS, you can connect your PC to your virtual network, or you can connect Virtual Machines with vm-ware. Get the GNS3 packages here. You should also read the tutorial here.
I had some trouble using the Virtual PC Simulator- VPCS with GNS. VPCS simulates up to 9 PCs on your host PC. These PCs are limited to ping and traceroute for the most part. The advantage to using them is that you don’t use as much memory and CPU as you would if you were to create and run multiple VMs. When you start VPCS and run the “sh” command, you will see the IP address, gateway, remote port, and local port. To use these PCs in your virtual network, you need to move a cloud into your network. Configure the cloud’s “NIO UDP” tab using the output from VPCS’s “sh” command. Local port and remote port should be the opposite (local on VPCS should be remote in the cloud config and remote on VPCS should be local in the cloud config). configure two clouds with IPs in the same subnet and you can test connectivity by linking them together through an ethernet switch (which GNS also provides a generic version of).
Another problem I ran into when initially setting up GNS3 was that virtual routers will use a ridiculous amount of processor time and memory. Reading the tutorial sections on this problem were a great help. Basically, setting an IDLEPC value for each version of the IOS you use and uncompressing your IOSes will help greatly.