If you think that mankind is creating global warming, you might want to read the many articles you can follow the links to (especially those by Richard Lindzen, MIT's climate researcher, and the Canadian scientists report to their Prime Minister) that you can find by starting here in this report from the U.S. Senate.

Or, here's a report on how the world is cooling.

Here's a more recent news article.

Or, for that matter, any of the articles you can find on the Internet from the many reputable scientists who do not believe in anthropogenic global warming.

Wildfire Danger

Maine Forest Service Maine wildland fire weather map:

Stephen J. Pyne, author of Tending Fire and other important works on wildland fires, has written "One could easily argue, for example, that a reason America's national fire-danger rating system works less well than competing systems is that it sought to found its equations on first principles and lab data instead of simple correlations between environmental conditions and fire behaviour (as the Australian and Canadian systems do)."

Certainly, there have been questions why fire danger ratings here in Maine are sometimes so different than New Brunswick's ratings -- when they both concern forest land only separated by a thin, legal borderline.

Here's the latest USFS national wildland fire weather map:

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Link to other USFS wildland fire predictions

Please Note: The forest fire danger can change tremendously over a very short distance (depending on vegetation, soils, humidity, exposure to winds, etc.) and in a small time interval (as the sun gets up, winds and humidity change, etc.) -- therefore these maps are only for general information. Please check with your local Fire Warden (ask your local Fire Chief) before starting any outdoor fire.

Here's the weekly outlook for forest fires in the Northeast (Temperature, winds, relative humidity, precipitation, etc., day by day.) from NIFC.

And here's the National Interagency Fire Center News site on current wildland fires, including where crews are needed, etc.

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Foxtrot's author (Bill Amend) often uses math and computer jokes in his cartoon strip (and correctly, too!)
Also, look at his "Bill's News Page":

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"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."

-Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996

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If you are using Microsoft products, make sure you have virus protection from somebody, and make sure you keep it updated!
Here are links to antivirus vendors:

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Statistics on uptimes for seahorse.mma.edu server

Statistics on uptimes for www.mma.edu server

Statistics on uptimes for blackboard.mma.edu server

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Here are the web usage statistics for the seahorse experimental server.

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MMA Faculty

MMA Internal Page

Maine Maritime Academy Home Page.

State of Maine Home Page.

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Last modified: Thu Jun 04 07:10:39 EDT 2009