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Nick Ammirati had a catcher's mitt in his crib, and it's taken him on a nationwide baseball odyssey. His latest stop is Starkville, and it's there that he has found a place to stick.
Ammirati is pulling full-time duty at catcher for No. 16 Mississippi State (33-10, 10-8 SEC), which visits No. 3 Vanderbilt (36-6, 16-2) for a three- game series starting tonight at 6:30. Saturday's game is at noon, and Sunday's is at 1 p.m.
A year ago, Ammirati was a junior college transfer drawing little playing time behind another juco transfer, Mitch Slauter. It was a frustrating period, and at the end of the season, coach John Cohen was expecting the well-traveled Ammirati to transfer.
A native of Sparta, N.J., Ammirati began his college career at Seton Hall, then left after one year and transferred to Panola (Texas) College. He's played summer ball in California and Wisconsin. In all, he estimates that baseball has taken him into more than 30 states.
But he wasn't about to leave Starkville.
"He was like, 'If you feel like you need to leave, I'll help you find a good place to play,'" Ammirati said. "I was like, 'No, that's definitely not the case. I know I can play here.'"
He's made good on that vow. Ammirati was splitting time with Slauter this season, but now that the latter is out with a hand injury, it's all Ammirati behind the plate. Cohen likes the work he's done back there, handling a pitching staff with the second-lowest ERA in the league (2.34).
Ammirati is used to catching quality pitching. One of his high school teammates at Seton Hall Prep was Rick Porcello, who's now with the Detroit Tigers.
Ammirati said he's always considered himself a defensive player first, but his bat has played a big role this season. The switch-hitter is batting .306 with 18 RBIs, and he was named the SEC player of the week on Monday after going 6 of 11 with three RBIs in a series against Auburn.
"I don't know if I've had a player in my entire coaching career who's evolved the way Nick Ammirati has," Cohen said.
Being a switch-hitting catcher makes Ammirati, who was drafted in the 46th round out of high school by the Florida Marlins, an attractive prospect. And that's exactly what his dad was going for when he bought a catcher's mitt for his newborn son nearly 22 years ago.
Path to MSU
Chris Ammirati was a third baseman for Iona College in the 1980s. According to Nick, his dad was told by professional scouts that had he been a catcher, he'd have had a better shot at the pros.
So that's why Nick wound up a catcher, and his dad also taught him from an early age to be a switch-hitter. Nick first started batting both ways in games his sophomore year of high school.
"He's been my biggest teacher with all that stuff," Ammirati said.
In his one year at Seton Hall, he played in 22 games and batted .241. So why did he leave?
To play in warmer weather. That led Ammirati to Panola College in Texas, and it was there that MSU stumbled upon him.
Assistant coach Lane Burroughs, who's now the head coach at Northwestern (La.) State, attended a game between Panola and Northeast Texas to scout a player – the Northeast Texas catcher.
Panola coach Todd Shelton told Burroughs he ought to check out Ammirati, who had a good game and the next day got a call from Cohen while in class. Without ever visiting campus, Ammirati committed.
He'd looked up MSU online and saw a picture of a packed-out Dudy Noble Field. He knew then it would be his final college destination.
"I wanted to play at a big program in front of a lot of fans," Ammirati said. "It fit perfect."


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Rick Ankiel, with one glorious swing of the bat and a magical flight of the ball deep into the San Francisco night, and into the ocean, earned the Braves a gutsy and fearless win. No one better symbolizes courage and resilience than Ankiel, who has bounced back from an utter meltdown as a pitcher to become an unlikely offensive hero, a moment he described as the pinnacle of his career to date...

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Green clonetrooper and Jedi 3-Packs at South Count TRU
Green clonetrooper and Jedi 3-Packs at South Count TRU
Thanks Spacelord.. 1st time this actually kinda worked out. I live close to that store and stopped in today after seeing your post. I was able to pick up a 3 pack of troopers, leaving a few other behind, but the jedi 3 pack was looong gone. oh well..
Thanks again for the post.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Salsa Shark.. I think were gonna need a bigger boat..[/FONT]
3 Bounty Hunter sets at the Sunset Hills TRU. Target and Wal-mart had nothing new.
mini-rant: I think the bounty hunter set is horrible.
I'm glad someone gets something out of these posts, Tonysmo. It seems we are in a bit of a lull around here.
I found the second set of Screen Scenes at the Bridgeton Target. I took the last one of each.
.. seriously though, great find! I havent been out to look lately.. maybe soon!
[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Salsa Shark.. I think were gonna need a bigger boat..[/FONT]
I found the Clone War value packs at the Manchester Wal-mart around 12:00. This time, I left a set.
Hail fire droid and Geonosian fighter at the Balldwin target. 1 Left of each at 12:00. They also had 2 each of the 2nd edition screen scenes.
The Rock Road KMart had WA-7, ANH Luke and Vader, ROTJ Emperor, ANH Han, Wat Tambor and Dannl Faytonni. They had been totally crushed. All the cards were severely damaged. About half the figures have something wong with them (bent limbs, accessories, etc.)
Sunset Hills TRU has the Hoth 4 pack.
Kirkwood Wal-Mart is jammed full of Clone Wars Anakin, Yoda, and ARC Trooper.
Summary of my recent finds on my trip to St. Louis......
1. TRU in Fairview Heights had the Genosian Fighter along with the first set of Screen Scenes.
2. Target in O'Fallon had Clone Wars figures (Anakin Only)
3. WalMart in Collinsville had the Value Packs. They had all three, slightly damaged, and they were on the edge of an end cap in a blue cardboard display case.


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I hunted my old honey hole all afternoon. I tried using a few kee kees and some yelps and didn't get any response, which isn't unusual at all. I started thinking where I was going to hunt tomorrow morning and was about to call it the day since it was about fly up time. All of sudden I see one bird fly up to roost 50 yds from me. I turn that direction and wait to see how many more fly up. While I'm waiting I'm watching the bird in the tree to see what it is. I think its a hen but then it turns and gives me a profile look and its a super Jake with about a 5-6" beard. I stay in spot until it gets completely dark and walk out of the woods. He was the only bird I saw or heard fly up. Is it possible he is by himself? I'm trying to determine if I should go back there in the morning and hope to find his daddy or granddaddy or go to another place. I don't want to shoot him because I'm wanting something a little bigger and save him for the spring.
What would you do, go back because there are probably more or go to a different area and try to find a gobbler flock?


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iPad mini & iPhone 5 Arrive in China in DecemberCUPERTINO, California―November 30, 2012―Apple today announced the Wi-Fi versions of iPad mini and fourth generation iPad with Retina display will be available in China on Friday, December 7, and iPhone 5 will be available on Friday, December 14. iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina display are currently available in 42 countries, and iPhone 5 is available in 47 countries, including the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.
iPad mini is a completely new iPad design that is 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third generation iPad, and features a stunning 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display, FaceTime HD and 5 megapixel iSight cameras, ultrafast wireless performance* and an incredible 10 hours of battery life.** The fourth generation iPad features a gorgeous 9.7-inch Retina display, new Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera and ultrafast wireless performance*. Both iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad come with iOS 6.
iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless*—all while delivering even better battery life.** iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: Shared Photo Streams, all-new Maps app, Passbook organisation and even more Siri features and languages.
iPad mini with Wi-Fi models come in black & slate or white & silver in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. The fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi models come in black or white in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. In China, iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad will be available through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com/cn), select Apple Authorised Resellers and by reservation from Apple retail stores. Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning Thursday, December 6 for pick up the following day. Additionally, iPad 2 will also be available.
iPhone 5 comes in either black & slate or white & silver in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. In China, iPhone 5 will be available through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com/cn), select Apple Authorised Resellers and by reservation from Apple retail stores. Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for pick up the following day. iPhone 4S is also available and iPhone 4 is available for free with a two-year contract from participating carriers.
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Keep cookies chewy and soft by storing them tightly covered. Resealable food-storage plastic bags, plastic food containers with tight-fitting lids and metal tins work best.
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What's up at The Warehouse
Week of March 28-April 4
March 28, April 1-4: Open to students in 5th-12th grade from 3-6 p.m. Enjoy our gym, computer lab, Play Station 3, Xbox, Wii, board games, air hockey, foosball, carpet ball, food and more, all at no cost.
March 29, 30: Closed to students.
March 28: Cass County Public Health Senior Foot Care Clinic from noon to 2 p.m.
April 1: Adult open gym basketball from 7-9 p.m., no cost or pre-registration required.
April 3: Pine River Art Club workshop day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. No cost come for the whole day or just a portion of the day.
The Warehouse is closed to students when the Pine River-Backus School has a scheduled or unscheduled closing or an unscheduled early out. For scheduling events/meetings contact Sharon at 218-587-5404 during office hours (generally noon to 6 p.m. on Monday-Friday). Check the Website at www.thewarehousepr.org for updates on events, closings and cancellations.


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Using gdb to Debug Running Programs
There are a lot of methods you can use to debug programs. Not so long ago I used to make use of tried and true print statements when trying to track down bugs, but this is a generally a poor debugging method for several reasons.
- you have to change the code you are trying to fix.
- You have to recompile the code each time you change something.
- When you finally find a bug, you have to undo everything you did.
Now-a-days I almost always use a debugger first. Debuggers work particularly well when:
- the program is crashing for an unknown reason, especially if it's generating a signal such as a segmentation fault.
- the program seems to be caught in an endless loop or has deadlocked
- when you have a core file.
In this article, we'll look at debugging already-running processes with gdb.Connecting to Running Processes:
Assuming you have compiled the executable with debugging information enabled and you have a shell open to the machine where the process is running (which may not be the case for jobs run through a queuing system), you can use gdb to attach to a running process.
If the program is already running but seems to be off in never-never land, you can do the following to attach to the process:
First, find the process id for the program (here the program is called demo)
nelchina 1% ps -elf grep demo 0 R bahls 27869 22154 93 85 0 - 582 ... ./demo 0 S bahls 27871 22154 0 76 0 - 927 ... grep demo
The process id is 27869.
Next, start gdb, passing it the executable name and the process id. This will attach gdb to the process and stop the process at the current line of execution.
nelchina 2% gdb ./demo 27857 GNU gdb 6.4 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Attaching to program: /import/home/u1/uaf/bahls/gdb_demo/demo, process 27869 Reading symbols from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 0x00000000004004a8 in main () at demo.c:11 11 cnt++;
Given this trivial example, gdb has already pointed me to line 11 in "demo.c," the area where the problem is located.
For realistic examples, a stack trace, which prints the stack of subroutine calls which brought us to the currently executing line, is often helpful. The "where" command will display a stack trace:
(gdb) where #0 0x00000000004004a8 in main () at demo.c:11
The "list" command shows a few lines of source code context for the currently executing line.
(gdb) list 6 int cnt=0; 7 8 while ( cnt < 20 ) 9 { 10 int cnt=0; 11 cnt++; 12 } 13 14 15 return 0;
As with programs started from gdb on the command line, you can step through the code, one line at a time, and print variables after attaching to the process:
(gdb) print cnt $1 = 0 (gdb) s 8 while ( cnt < 20 ) (gdb) s 10 int cnt=0;
In this interaction, "s" typed at the "(gdb)" prompt is an abbreviation for "step," and "print" dumps the value of the variable "cnt".
For assistance, you can always type "help" at the "(gdb)" prompt to get a listing of help topics, or "help <cmd>" (e.g. "help list") to get more information on a particular command.
These techniques, including attaching to a process, can also be used on MPI programs, so long as you have shell access to the node where the MPI tasks are running. In a later issue, we'll take a look at using gdb with MPI programs.
The Free Software Foundation provides documentation for gdb here:
Java for Fortran Programmers: Part VI
[[ Thanks to Lee Higbie of ARSC for this tutorial. ]]
Please let me know your interest in this series of articles, it will help to ensure and guide future chapters.
The topic today is:
- Interfacing Java and Fortran Programs (continued)
In this chapter I will show you how to open and read files. The compilation GUI could be created in many ways, but a table driven system is the one that seems most sensible to me. In this second step toward creating the compilation GUI, I will read a file that lists the names of the supported compilers/systems then reads in the information about each of them. In the process we will also look at Vectors and Arrays. You can download the Java code and sample files for this example and the earlier ones from http://people.arsc.edu/~higbie/ .
(Download all the files, create a subdirectory higbie, and move the file Debug.java into the subdirectory higbie. In the main directory type "javac *java" to compile the Java codes. With the files that are there now, you will then have four programs: HelloWorld, HelloBill, CompilerGUIa and CompilerGUIc. The other files are used by CompilerGUIc, as will be explained in this chapter.)
The first important difference from Chapter 5's code is in the main method starting at line 54:
File [] compileStmntFiles; Vector <FileReader> compileStmntNames = new Vector <FileReader>();
Java has two arrayed types of data: Vector and Array. Arrays have subscripts in square brackets and look and behave like subscripted data in other languages. The first line above declares an Array of File objects called compileStmntFiles. At this time the size of the Array has not been declared; only the name is known. Notice that the compiler, javac, checks operations on compileStmntFiles[<anyVal>] to be sure they are allowed on a File object.
Vectors are accessed with methods such as elementAt(i) and addElement. They can grow or shrink as needed. Because the notation is cumbersome, it is common to build a Vector then convert it to an Array once the size is known. That is not done here. The type in angle brackets tells the compiler that all the objects in the Vector are FileReaders, and it will verify that operations performed on the elements of compileStmntNames are legal.
(If you have an old Java compiler, older than Java 1.5, this angle bracket notation will not work. I recommend that you upgrade, but if that is difficult, you can leave them out and the code will work with only one modification. When you extract an element from compileStmntNames, you will have to cast it to FileReader type:
FileReader fr1 = (FileReader) compileStmntNames.elementAt(3);for example.)
The constructor for the Vector of FileReaders has no parameters, the parens at the end of the line are empty, so compileStmntNames will start with ten element slots, and will double the number of available locations whenever space runs out. There are two other constructors for Vectors where you specify the initial available size and the incremental size.
The next new feature of ComplerGUIc starts at line 65:
65 try { // read in the compilerNames file 66 BufferedReader fileNamesRdr = new BufferedReader( 67 new FileReader("CompileStmntNames")); 68 for (int i = 0; true; i++) { 69 String st = fileNamesRdr.readLine(); 70 if (st == null) { break; } 71 compileStmntNames.addElement(new FileReader(st)); 72 deb.print("file", i +" "+ st +"."); 73 } 74 } catch (IOException ioe) { // end try 75 System.out.println("Problem with names of files: "+ ioe); 76 System.exit(4); 77 } // end try/catch block
I mentioned long ago that Java forces users to deal with exceptions. Here is an example of this. Any method that can create an exception must declare that it throws an exception and any place where the method is used, the using code must be prepared to catch the exception using a try...catch block.
In this code fragment, the constructor for FileReader (line 67) and the readLine (line 69) methods (the constructor is a method) both declare that they throw an exception. FileReader actually throws a FileNotFoundException, which is a type of IOException. Because I'm lazy I only have one try...catch block. If I were being careful, writing production code, for example, I would have two separate ones.
If you have not done much Java coding, you'll also want to note two features of statement in line 70. First, the normal way to check for string, or any object, equality, is to use the equals() method. The == symbol actually compares the underlying pointer, which is much more restrictive than checking that the strings having identical content. Here, if the line is blank, st will be null so the == test works. Second, the break statement interrupts the flow of control, transferring to just past the end of the current for loop. The break is also used in switch (Java's case) statements.
In line 71 I add the line to the Vector of compiler names and, in line 72, call the print method of the Debug object deb. If you add the string "file" to debargs in line 27 of the original program, this statement will print some information about the I/O. (static String [] debargs = {"1", "file"};)
Finally, this gets us down to the important part of the try...catch block. If an I/O error occurs, an IOException will be thrown, either from line 67 or 69) and control will transfer to the catch block. There I print out some diagnostic info and terminate the application.
This is enough foundation to start making an interesting GUI for generating compile statements. Next chapter I'll put it together and start creating the code as promised at the outset.
Santa Letters, Postmarked "North Pole"
Uncles, Aunts, Parents, Teachers, and other friends of kids: here's an offer from the ARSC HPC Newsletter Crew.
North Pole, Alaska is just down the road. If you'd like a card, postmarked "North Pole," delivered to someone, seal it in a stamped, addressed envelope, and instead of mailing it from your local post office, enclose it in a larger envelope and send this to us. On or about December 11th we'll mail it, and it should arrive with the special North Pole Christmas postmark.
Send to:
Tom Baring and Don Bahls Arctic Region Supercomputing Center University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756020 Fairbanks AK 99775-6020
Plan extra time for mail to/from Alaska... If you post these to us on or before Dec. 4th, there should be no problem.
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone
We'll see you in December.
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Postponed unitl April due to snow storm prediction
Origional Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - New date to be announced soon.
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Belk Library -- Room 114
Admission: Free, open to the public
The years 786 to 1492, in Andalucía, Spain was a time when three cultures--Judaic, Islamic, and Christian--forged a relatively stable coexistence. Students, faculty & community members are invited to attend a panel discussion by three Appalachian State faculty members discussing this coexistence, using the book, Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by María Rosa Menocal. The three panelists, Dr. Edward Behrend-Martinez & Dr. Scott Jessee, of the Dept. of History, and Dr. James Fogelquist, of the Dept. of Languages, Literatures & Culture, will use this interesting and accessible history to discuss the interconnections between three major faiths during that time in Spain.
Students, faculty, and community members are encouraged to check-out the book and participate in discussion. Copies of the book are available in the Browsing section of the Appalachian State University Library. But familiarity with the book is not necessary to appreciate this event. The event will be Wednesday, February 12, 2014, at 5:00 PM in the Library auditorium Room 114.
The event is presented by ASU Library in conjunction with the Muslim Students Association as the fifth event of the Muslim Journeys Bridging Cultures "Let's Talk About It" Program, a series of book and film discussions. The Program is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association. This series follows upon the Muslim Journeys Bridging Cultures Bookshelf Program begun in spring 2013 which provided materials related to Muslim cultures to the University Library.
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A new Special Collections exhibit, "The Lives of Nobles: Downton Abbey in the Rhinehart Collection," examines a selection of common themes between the hit BBC and PBS series Downton Abbey and the Rhinehart British Studies Rare Book Collection in Special Collections. The exhibit explores the themes of entail, country homes, and country house libraries. The display is located on the Library's 4th floor at the top of the main staircase next to the Rhinehart Rare Books and Special Collections Room.
In Downton Abbey, the library is a common backdrop, yet few people know that we have a similar library right here in Belk Library. The Rhinehart Rare Books and Special Collections room was designed in the style of an English country library.
To more fully absorb the aura of such a library, Special Collections is hosting "A Downton Afternoon" open house in the Rhinehart Room, Wednesday, February 19, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Attendees will have a chance to see the Rhinehart Room and its collection, and enjoy a Downton Abbey-themed afternoon. All are invited. Costumes are optional.
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"An Exhibit of Unexpected Finds in Special Collections" is now installed in the atrium exhibit cases on the 4th floor of Belk Library and Information Commons. Most people may think of Special Collections holdings consisting of books, manuscripts, DVDs, or CDs, but the collections also include a small selection of other, unexpected items. We do not seek most of the items displayed here, but their presence in our collections enriches the historical record that we do collect.
Items on display include Southern Appalachian hand-made baskets discovered by photographer Jack Jeffers, T. Taylor Warren's yellow NASCAR photographer's shirt and hat, a roller organ collected by W. Amos Abrams, and the Boone Community Book created by Jennifer Barron in 2005.
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The High Country Festival of the Book in conjunction with the Friends of the Watauga Public Library, Junaluska Heritage Association, and Richard T. Barker Friends of the University Library would like to invite you to join them in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
'Race to Civility'
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Tickets available at Watauga County Public Library.
Call 828-264-8784 for more information
The Library has thousands of journals on the health sciences. Many of them focus narrowly on subdisciplines. But we also have the big names, such as these:
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The library now provides access to Mergent Archives, a database that provides essential political, economic and commercial information for evaluating risks and opportunities on over 130 countries worldwide.
Mergent Archives consist of three reports: DnB Country Risk Profile, DnB Country Risk Report, and Mergent Country Profiles. Together, these reports provide in-depth analysis to assist in monitoring international markets, help to identify changes in business risk, and provide detailed analysis of a country's prospects in the short to medium term. Each report presents data in a clear and consistent format, facilitating comparison.
For more information, please contact your Business Librarian, Leslie Farison.
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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
There now you guys got me drooling too! My spring fling didn't last long enough. Hope the recent pushes bring the gnarliest, brightest, knot bustin' screamers to your lines!
Hopes to chase atlantics in a river in this region were dashed (for now) by flooding and mud. The New Hampshire F&G told me they lost an angler to drowning... which is a good opportunity to mention safety.
NE steelhead voyeur,
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Well, I'll be there - but where is still the question. Lets keep our eyes and ears open and make a decision next week. Tight lines - tyler.
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Easter Sunday is probably out but Saturday might be a good day for a float.
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Oh Yeah - I can practically hear the Mouth-Breathers drooling! Hell, I must be Bubba-proofed by now - I've fished the Cowlitz (Vedder South) and the Thompson at John's Rock!
Latest report was yesterday a guide and friend floated the Sky - the water was going out from snowmelt but they still had good conditions (about 2.5' vis). Caught 1 steelhead smolt. Other boats=Same Story.
Have Black GP, Will Travel (if necessary)
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Hey guys,
The infamous local river - the Vedder has recently received two "late" pushes of fish. The first about 3 weeks ago was felt to be the fish that normally arrive in late Feb. and another push just hit the river recently. This may have significance for other rivers - I hope so. This also presents a bit of a dilemma for me. To partake of a river with actual fish in it - I would have to go to the VEDDER...
There's only so much bait, bubbas and mouth-breathers a guy can stomach. The good news is that the Vedder goes fly-only in May, this can be great as long as the freshet is reasonable. We may need to to have an outing on the Vedder in May (man, that is still hard to even say!). Anyway, I hope some fish show in the Skagit/Sauk or Sky for Easter week-end as I still plan on bringing the Martini Bar down! Tight lines - tyler.
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Tip, a day out on the river especially with the recent conditions. We are all doing the late fish dance and praying. I've been getting reports of summers in the Sandy. I'm hoping to get out in the next couple of weeks.
Fishy Fishy in the River, Make my Rodtip Shake and Quiver???
Hey 'tip,
Don't feel bad - if Mike Kinney isn't getting his client into fish, there probably aren't many fish to be had!
I'm still hopeful tho - every run of fish this year (hatchery and native) have been at least two weeks late. I'm really hoping everyone else gives up and we have a hot couple weeks to end the season! <G>
RE:Here Fishy, Fishy
Tyler's point about predation by pacific horse mackeral during warm water years scared the begeezus out of me. I used to make the trek to Neah Bay and the straits each year and can recall some years when the macks were running like small tidal waves eating everything in their path. It was impressive that the coho were actually faster swimmers than the macks and you could see the silvers strafing at double speed through the compressed leading wave of krill and herring being pushed by the wave of schooling macks. Seeing that was one of the profound memories I have of being out on Swiftsure in fact. Then there was the gathering of several pods of orca where I was able to film 75 or so in a giant feed-fest. (that'll go to mpeg one of these days) The true albacore were less than half the usual distance from shore, in fact they were being sold at the docks at Neah Bay for cheap $$. I bought one and canned it using apple cider vinegar, pickling spice and olive oil at 15psi for 90 minutes and I thought I'd never be able to eat canned tuna again - it was so superior to canned tuna.
But my point was, years when these chomping machines are around inshore I can't imagine smolt survival being healthy. Although steelhead probably behave a lot different, I gotta wonder if these factors play a part. As chief Seattle said "all things are connected".
Then again the shifting of thermocline zones in the open pacific have historically been found to affect steelhead migration and behavior, and they might just be out there getting bigger, and meaner, and....
Here Fishy, Fishy
Floated the Sky yesterday with a friend. River was up to over 7' but still had 4' of visibility. This is in contrast to the 4.8' level when the the forum clave hit it. Overcast day too so I felt really confident we would hit fish.
We started at daylight and fished hard through Two Bit, Eagles Nest (fishes great at this volume), the backside of the big Island (ditto), the rocky Island, Jack Daniels, the Hershey Bar and Buck Island. Pulled out at 5:00 without any fish encounters. No fish hit and only heard of two being caught. A flyguy in a pontoon boat hit a fish at Thunderbird and some gear guys hit a 10# fish somewhere upriver. We ended up fishing across from guide Mike Kinney and a client for a while. They also went fishless.
I am staring to become discouraged with this fishing thing. Two weeks to go and the fishing has been <b> s-l-o-w !</b> I hope Doublespey is right and the fish are just late.
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What About..?
Questions & Answers with young people about God and Life
By Steve Case
Young people have questions.
Some of these have to do with what is hitting them in the face at the moment; an unwanted pregnancy, parental conflict over body piercing, a passing comment heard in a sermon, a sudden death.
Some of these have to do with things they have heard, but now they are thinking about them in new ways or with increased depth; pain and suffering, God's activity or lack of activity, prayer, God's will for my life.
Use What About...? for your own personal study or in a group discussion. Check out the Scriptural index and add your own passages. Young people have questions. Here are some answers. And you can be the one who provides listening ears for them as they come up with answers for themselves.
This can be intimidating, for young people as well as for adults. Young people don't necessarily want to appear to be stupid or rebellious. Sometimes they need a forum to discuss their issues and take them for a test run. Adults aren't always sure about their answers and may be wrestling with the same questions, too. Is there a safe place to ask questions? Is there a safe person or group of people to dialogue about these things?
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Some Toads Are Better Than Others
Bufo boreas
Population responses to Chytid amphibian fungus
Why It Matters
Wait! That's Not A Prince
Some of you many have heard people express concerns about declining amphibian populations worldwide. The causes of this overall pattern are not all crystal clear (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7144/full/nature05941.html) but one thing which is clear is the chytid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a serious player in the game. Watch this video to find out more about this problem
Scientists are attempting to deal with the problem of these declining populations, but when dealing with populations so large (all amphibians) and scales so big (the whole planet) there are always many factors to consider. One approach scientists at the USGS are using is to focus on a specific species and investigate differing responses in regional populations to this fungus. Through this approach the found that some infected populations show increased reproductive output (they have more babies) and this helps to offset the death of older individuals. This finding is encouraging as it indicates some populations may be able to persist long enough to develop a resistance to the fungus. It also helps the scientists identify populations which may be at greater risks than others. You can read about their work here http://www.fort.usgs.gov/news/news_story.asp?WebID=110718
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If you need help scratching a mental itch, use the resources below:
- How is it believed Chytrid fungus spread around the world?
- What affect may global climate change be having on the decline of amphibians?
- What affect has Chytrid fungus had on amphibians on a global scale? Is this affect the same on the scazle of countries?
- How does the Chytrid amphibian fungus affect the frog Xenopus laevis?
- How can the USGS study of Bufo boreas aid in the conservation of other amphibian species?
- How has natural selection affected the response of African amphibians to Chrytid amphibian fungus?
Resources Cited
- http://www.fort.usgs.gov/news/news_story.asp?WebID=110718
- http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Publications/23014/23014.pdf
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCUpHs3cCk&feature=related Youtube by BryanMatias
- http://co.water.usgs.gov/armi/html/photo7.html
- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7144/full/nature05941.html
- http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisis/chytrid-fungus/xryus
- http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/b.b.boreas.html (Note: this resources uses the genus name Anaxryus which some scientists prefer to Bufo but it's the same animal)
- http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/12/03-0804_article.htm


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You have to say the tour of South Africa was a success.
The Black Caps were expected to be annihilated by South Africa. In fact, they won three of their eight games and the final match could have gone either way; it was the sort of loss you can accept.
Key players had memorable performances, new players showed enough to suggest there is an element of depth emerging. Two games were won from losing positions and over the course of the ODI series, some pressure moments were won convincingly.
I won't let you say "but South Africa were resting and rotating" either because, if you hadn't noticed, the Black Caps were without Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder and Tim Southee. As we all know, no New Zealand cricket team can be expected to fare well without its best players.
No, this was undeniably a good tour. When we entered the contest, South Africa were the best team in world cricket in all three forms, our team were eighth in tests, eighth in Twenty20s and ninth in ODIs. Regardless of the captaincy kerfuffle leading in to this series, we had every right to expect a tour whitewash.
We won a series, for goodness sake, and in the version of the game we were meant to be the worst at.
What's more, performance in ODI cricket has publicly been stated as the form New Zealand Cricket most want success in. Based on that, New Zealand Cricket should be cock-a-hoop with what has happened.
So why then do I feel as if my tongue is firmly in my cheek? Most likely because the results were excellent for a team ranked eighth or worse.
I bet Bangladesh would be chalking the tour up as pretty damn good if they had been touring, not us.
However, I fail to accept eighth is appropriate for a New Zealand team and those lowly rankings should be used to benchmark against.
That is why I believe many fans are feeling uncomfortable about celebrating some excellent performances from our players for fear those players may get a false sense of how good they are.
Winning a 50-over World Cup would do plenty for cricket in this country and a win would garner some much-needed international respect - but cricket is yet to fall into a four-year cycle where the World Cup is the be-all and end-all.
Consistency of performance and far less dramatic fluctuations in results from game to game has to be the priority for this team now. And sort out their test game!
If there is one really heartening thing to come from the feelings this tour appears to have stimulated within the followers of cricket in this country, it's this: test results still appear to set the tone for rating a team.


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Watch 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain' and Highlights From 'The Sound of Music Live!'
The highlight of NBC's broadcast of "The Sound of Music Live!" may have been when five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald sang "Climb Ev'ry Mountain."
The show, which starred Carrie Underwood as Maria, generated plenty of buzz on Twitter as fans argued over the acting, the sets, the pacing, the lighting–basically the whole production. #TheSoundOfMusicLive and Julie Andrews, the star the 1965 movie version, were both trending.
The general consensus on social media seemed to be that Underwood's singing was great, but her acting didn't touch Andrews' performance in the film. Also Ariane Rinehart looks to be a breakout star, and McDonald showed a wider audience the towering talent that Broadway audiences have been enjoying for years.
Watch the highlights from "The Sound of Music." Which ones were your favorites? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Here's McDonald's rendition of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain":
Underwood sings "The Sound of Music":
Rinehart and Michael Campayno duet on "Sixteen Going On Seventeen":
Underwood and McDonald duet on "My Favorite Things":
Underwood and the von Trapp children do "Do-Re-Mi":
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Stephen Moyer and Underwood sing "Edelweiss":
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i tried to program an attiny85 20mhz, and i receive the error message :
I bought the attiny85 20mhz, tried to program them by following exactly the tutorial... and i have the error message...
Oh, sorry my mistake.That error means there is no response coming back from the ATTiny. Do you have the resistor or capacitor in place (depending on what arduino you are programming with)?Did you get past the 'burning the boot loader' step okay, or is that where you are getting the error?Geoff
I bought the attiny85 20mhz, tried to program them by following exactly the tutorial...
The arduino-tiny cores support 16MHz with an external crystal. I've read discussions of driving them faster but cannot recall whether arduino code was being used.
The attiny85 can go up to 16MHz without an external xtal. The maximum 20MHz requires an external xtal, though.Its just a matter of selecting the clocking fuse values appropriately. I run my attiny85 chips routinely at 16MHz, sometimes (more often than not, actually) even at 3.3V (shock horror! )
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So I check advogato this morning to find that I'm suddenly a Journeyer. How did this happen? Wish I could say. I have 1 Dimwit, 2 Apprentice and 1 Journeyer certifications ... How that translates to Journeyer is beyond me. I guess I'll have to read the trust metric document again.
In reading the recent flurry of posts in response to "Meta", I think I have to agree with the certification titles need to be changed. Here's what I like (with associated numeric ranking):
Guru 10
Developer 5
Apprentice 3
User 1
Troll -1
Wacko -3
Inept -5
Anti-Guru -10
Anti-Gurus are people who actively try to destroy the free software community.
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Drew Brees has GOT to be disappointed. What is the DEAL!?
Drew Brees has GOT to be disappointed. What is the DEAL!?
Brees got pudding in his eyes. Matt Bryant just won it for us.
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I'd be more upset that his streak record might get snapped than I am of losing this game
How hard is it to swallow when you completely self-implode?
Congrats to the Falcons fans, your team has finally beaten the Saints.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Maybe the Saints wanted to show Sean Peyton what coaching the Cowboys would be like.
M&K's HR UH Tucker of Texoma JH
M&K's SHR Prime Black Angus
M&K's Miss Jessie Girl JH
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Why did Drew pick this game to self destruct. There goes my playoff chances in my fantasy league. Thanks for all the other games you won for me Drew.
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I recently got a 7 month old male black lab. His sire is AFC Texas Troubador. His dam is a daughter of Lean Mac and Watermarks K.D. MH MNH. He was being called JoeC or Joe Joe.
Looking for a nice name to register him. Needs to have Tomahawk Retrievers or just Tomahawk's for my kennel name.
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Hmmm, lots going on.
First off, I've got a new blog where I put up my tidbits about the industry and whatever suits my fancy. Linuxcare people will remember my cto-alerts, this is it, taken to the next level. It's called Sifry's Alerts.
We launched Sputnik in February, and we released the 1.1 version of the open-source Sputnik Community Gateway on April 29. The Gateway will run off of CD (it is an ISO image) and will turn any old Intel PC equipped with 802.11b wireless card and ethernet card into a secure authenticated firewalled wireless router. We got some good press and reviews, as well as mentions in The Economist and The New York Times. More cool software is in the works, can't talk about it publicly yet.


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John Wooden, perhaps the greatest sports manager of the past century, once said a player who makes a team great is much more valuable than a great player. This notion of being a team player is not in the rationale of Italian footballers, Antonio Cassano and Mario Balotelli. Two cassanatas who are selfish and have an inability to be selfless for the sake of the team. Two immensely talented footb...


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By STEVE MEGARGEE,AP Sports Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alcorn State coach Tonya Edwards said it's always great to return home, then the former Lady Volunteers star quickly clarified her comment.
"You don't want to take a whooping at home," Edwards said, "but it's great to be back home."
Alcorn State took an expected whooping Sunday and fell 90-37 to No. 20 Tennessee in Edwards' return to her alma mater. Tennessee has won four straight games since opening the season with an 80-71 loss at Chattanooga in Holly Warlick's head coaching debut.
Edwards played on Tennessee's first two national championship teams in 1987 and 1989. She was named the most outstanding player of the 1987 Final Four. The Alcorn State coach greeted former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt before the opening tip and received a loud ovation from the announced attendance of 10,609 at Thompson-Boling Arena during pregame introductions.
"It was truly awesome," Edwards said. "I always thought Tennessee had the best fans in the country, and you could tell that again today."
The Lady Vols (4-1) weren't quite as hospitable the rest of the day. Meighan Simmons collected 12 points to lead six Lady Vols in double figures as Tennessee never trailed the entire game.
"That means we're sharing the basketball and we're playing together and not relying on one person," Warlick said of the balanced scoring. "I love it. I would say our offense is a little bit ahead of our defense, and we've worked more on our defense."
Tennessee's defense also fared quite well Sunday. The Lady Vols forced 34 turnovers, collected nine blocks and limited Alcorn State (0-4) to 22.6 percent shooting. Tennessee's last four opponents have each shot below 35 percent.
The Lady Vols put the game out of reach by going on a 17-0 run that started in the final minute of the first half and lasted through the first four minutes of the second half.
Bashaara Graves, Isabelle Harrison, Jasmine Jones, Nia Moore and Taber Spani scored 10 points each for Tennessee. Tierro Frost collected a team-high nine points for Alcorn State.
"We've learned to play together," Simmons said. "We've kind of learned to know each other's strengths and weaknesses. We get out there, play with each other, lift each other up when we're down and stick together."
The Lady Vols showed they still have plenty of room for improvement as they get ready to host Middle Tennessee on Wednesday and No. 25 North Carolina next Sunday. The Lady Vols shot just 7-of-12 from the free-throw line in the first half and finished the game with 19 turnovers.
But the Lady Vols also shot 55.7 percent, including 61.8 percent in the second half. The performances of Spani and Jones provide particular reason for optimism.
Spani, one of two seniors on the Lady Vols' roster, entered the season with 57 career starts to rank second on the team. But she fell out of the starting lineup after struggling against Chattanooga and had averaged just 4.8 points through the Lady Vols' first four games.
She showed signs of turning the corner last week by shooting 3-of-5 and scoring nine points in a 79-67 victory at Miami. Spani continued her progress Sunday by shooting 4-of-5 and scoring 10 points, even though she didn't take a single shot in the second half. She reached double figures for the first time since a 14-point performance in an 85-64 rout of UCLA on Dec. 17.
"For this team, I need to shoot well, and I haven't been, so I've been pretty frustrated about that," Spani said. "I look more at percentages (than points). I shot a pretty good percentage, so that's good."
Jones, a promising freshman 6-2 forward, bounced back in a big way Sunday after picking up four fouls in only three scoreless minutes against Miami. Jones reached double figures for the first time in her young career. She also pulled down seven rebounds to match Moore and Harrison for the team lead.
"Once she settled down, you can see her athletic ability, (her) beautiful jump shot and she plays hard," Warlick said. "That's what I love about her, and that's why I want us to keep her in the game."


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GTA: San Andreas - Rockstar/Take2 News | @ 11:29 AM MDT | By rappo
Rockstargames have recently updated their website with pre-order locations for San Andreas on the XBOX and PC. The official release date for both of these games is June 7th, 2005. So, head on over to the San Andreas Official Website and pre-order your copies today!
US: $49.99 each
UK: �29.99 (XBOX) and �26.99 (PC)
NZ: $99.95 (XBOX) and $89.95 (PC)
DE: �59,95 (XBOX) and �49,85 (PC)
NL: �59,99 (XBOX) and �49,99 (PC)
I'm sure there are plenty of good deals out there so shop around before settling on one!
NOTE: Interestingly enough, the label on the PC box art still says PC DVD-ROM, but the label on the bottom of the official San Andreas website says PC CD-ROM. I'm guessing that the box art is the correct one, but you can never be too sure.
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It has been brought to my attention that people have written processors to convert docbook reference pages into nroff suitable for man. I am overjoyed.
Years ago I sought this exact thing and came up empty so I decided to use yodl. Now I'm converting 1600 lines of yodl into docbook SGML - and overall the output result is much nicer but there are still problems - I will have to adjust the stylesheets and things.
I think I will also tank debiandoc-sgml and put those texts into a docbook format as well. Wee, unified documentation, I only need to remember one markup! What could be better?
So, I'm really doing all this so I can sit down and write an absolutely huge guide on how to use libapt. I'm doing that because I wrote some Python bidings (and bod is writing perl ones..). I can expect C++ programmers to grok the source, but not Ptyhon folks - so a big ole doc is the only answer.
I love writing documents, I expect this will take a good week to finish, have copious diagrams and things. I'm targeting something between 50 and 100 printed pages so we will see how that goes.
Xfree 4 won't stay up on my box. It hangs hard occasionaly, usually during screen bitmap copies. I guess the Matrox Mysitque support is slightly untested. That said, X4 is ungodly fast on this card. It is easially faster than some fast PIII's at pure graphic ops and it is just a P166!
Still have to add some framework for abstracting the things Conectiva added, the differences are quite small, but I'm going to clean some crap up in the process. rpm has some weird notions, like versioning order differs for depends and 'newness' , but otherwise it is an amazingly clean fit - one new dependency type, Obsoletes, which is really just Conflicts+Replaces rolled into one. The fact that APT can represent both systems fully (it actually will represent RPM more fully that most RPM tools!) is fairly interesting. I wonder what other packaging systems out there have the required structure. If RPM wasn't so ungodly expensive to generate all the meta data it might be fairly nice.


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Jamal Hussein is a serious and diligent Egyptian Sunni-Muslim researcher in the field of Symbolic Dream Interpretation since 2004. Four years later, in 2008, he wrote a comprehensive and methodical bulky dissertation called A Sun for The World of Dreams, which was admired and respected by millions of Dream Interpretation professionals, learners and fans in North Africa and the middle east. Jamal Hussein has several published written scientific works on Dream Interpretation. He also has been widely recognized as an Interpreter and Analyzer of Symbolic Dreams for years. He has been an allexperts.com volunteer in Dream Interpretation category since 2009. Jamal Hussein is a Dream Interpretation pioneer. He was the first researcher to prove the existence of an independent and complete science for Dream Interpretation (not a part of psychology or astrology). Accordingly, he was the first to coin the term Dream Interpretation Science. Since Jamal Hussein has started his writing career about Dream Interpretation, many of his readers claimed to have experienced an unusual and pleasurable journey of scientific argument, logic, simplicity, and well-organized approach toward a final goal of full mastery and skilled application of information. As a result, Jamal Hussein has helped many Dream Interpretation enthusiasts to gain the essential knowledge and training required to understand confidently the hidden message within their dreams.
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Mormonism and politics examined, Nov. 9-10
Posted October 31, 2007; 05:39 p.m.
A conference on "Mormonism and American Politics" -- featuring perspectives from historians, political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, journalists, filmmakers and public intellectuals --is set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, in 222 Bowen Hall.
The conference comes as the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon, has raised renewed questions about the intersection of religion and American politics. The event will include four panels on the following topics: the earliest encounters of Mormonism and American politics; Mormonism as a case study for church/state issues; Romney, Mormonism and the media; and the role religious identity plays in the public square.
The conference is open to the public. No advance registration is necessary. Sessions will run from 8 to 10 p.m. Nov. 9 and from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Nov. 10. A schedule and list of speakers can be found at www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/mormonism&politics.
The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the University Center for Human Values, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and the religious studies program at Utah Valley State College.