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Fishing Derby
Tamworth youth walks away with catch of the day
By DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent | February 09. 2014 9:10PM
Brady, 11, from Tamworth, stood with his father and Gov. Maggie Hassan on the deck of Derby headquarters, holding up the 4.25-pound, 25�-inch pickerel he caught at Bear Camp Pond, where he's caught big pickerel before.
What will he do with the money?
"He'll put it in the bank for school," said his father, Chris King.
Mark Smart, a stone mason from Moultonborough, won the second-place prize — $5,000. He caught the biggest cusk on Saturday, a 30-inch, 8.82-pound fish.
He caught the fish on Lake Winnipesaukee, on a section of the lake called "The Broads."
The third-prize winner was a regular at the derby before he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. For the past 10 years, Skyler Sherman, of Manchester, has been a sergeant, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. He left the service last summer, he said, and is enjoying "being back home," he said.
"I'm not going to say where it was, or it won't be secret anymore," Sherman said. "It was great to be back here. I'm here with my dad and cousins; it's a whole family thing," he said.
The derby had one of its best weekends ever, said Derby Chairman Betsy Donovan.
"The ice was perfect, and the crowds were huge," she said. "The fish were large, too."
Hassan said she was pleased to be at the event and happy to see such a large turnout.
"I used to fish as a child with my grandfather, though it was on the Seacoast so it was a different kind of fishing," Hassan said. "This is an important event for this area, and for the state, and for the country for that matter. This is really wonderful."
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I got lucky earlier this year when a chl instructor I know needed to get rid of his ammo inventory. I picked up a bunch of 9mm at $6 per box. I should have bought all he had, it would have been too hard to convince my wife so I'm happy with what I got.
Just got a 357 revolver so now I have to find a deal on 38and 357


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Requirements for a Classical Greek Major
The department offers a Classical Greek major of 24 credits from Greek language courses. Courses at the 201-204 level also count toward the McAnulty College's literature requirement. Courses at or above 204 automatically fulfill the McAnulty College's language requirement.
Students are invited to consult with the department for additional information. A students' major is not officially declared until the student completes the Major/Minor Declaration form. To complete the Major/Minor Declaration form:
Log into DORI>Index>Academics>Schools>Liberal Arts>Undergraduate College>Major/Minor Declaration Form.


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Green Bay Falls Twice On Sunday
WATERLOO, Iowa (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay women's tennis team was on the road again this weekend taking on both South Dakota State and Northern Iowa on Sunday. The Phoenix fell 7-0 to South Dakota State and 5-0 to Northern Iowa.
Rachael Menos (Appleton, Wis.) and Stephanie Londre (Burlington, Wis.) defeated Northern Iowa's Lindsay Clayton and Katie Hammond 8-3 at No. 3 doubles, but the No. 1 and No. 2 wins for Northern Iowa clinched the doubles point. It was another close match for Amanda Timm (Milwaukee, Wis.) and Rebecca Nelson (Brookfield, Wis.) at No. 1, but Northern Iowa's Phoebe Walker and Krissy Lankelma came away with the victory defeating the Phoenix 8-7.
Both South Dakota State and Northern Iowa swept the singles competitions. Nelson battled tough against both the Jackrabbits and the Panthers but fell 6-4, 6-3 at No. 4 in each.
The Phoenix returns home Friday, March 1 to take on Milwaukee at 7 p.m.
South Dakota State 7, Green Bay 0
No. 1 - Florencia Magni (SDSU) def. Amanda Timm (GB) 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 - Ffion Davies (SDSU) def. Stephanie Londre (GB) 6-0, 6-2
No. 3 - Jenny Blackburne (SDSU) def. Maria Anderson (GB) 6-3, 6-3
No. 4 - Beatriz Souza (SDSU) def. Rebecca Nelson (GB) 6-4, 6-3
No. 5 - Tacy Haws-Lay (SDSU) def. Samantha Iwen (GB) 6-1, 6-0
No. 6 - Brooke Henry (SDSU) def. Eleanor O'Brien (GB) 6-2, 6-2
No. 1 - Ffion Davies/Jenny Blackburne (SDSU) def. Amanda Timm/Rebecca Nelson (GB) 8-5
No. 2 - Brooke Henry/Tacy Haws-Lay (SDSU) def. Maria Anderson/Samantha Iwen (GB) 8-1
No. 3 - Florencia Magni/Beatriz Souza (SDSU) def. Stephanie Londre/Rachael Menos (GB) 8-6
Northern Iowa 5, Green Bay 0
No. 1 - Phoebe Walker (UNI) def. Amanda Timm (GB) 6-0,6-2
No. 2 - Chelsea Moore (UNI) def. Stephanie Londre (GB) 7-6,6-1
No. 3 - Krissy Lankelma (UNI) def. Maria Anderson (GB) 6-2,6-1
No. 4 - Jessica King (UNI) def. Rebecca Nelson (GB) 6-4,6-3
No. 5 - Lindsay Clayton (UNI) vs. Samantha Iwen (GB) 6-4, 1-3 (unfinished)
No. 6 - Katie Hammond (UNI) vs. Rachael Menos (GB) 6-3, 1-0 (unfinished)
No. 1 - Phoebe Walker/Krissy Lankelma (UNI) def. Amanda Timm/Rebecca Nelson (GB) 8-7
No. 2 - Chelsea Moore/Jessica King (UNI) def. Samantha Iwen/Maria Anderson (GB) 8-1
No. 3 - Rachael Menos/Stephanie Londre (GB) def. Lindsay Clayton/Katie Hammond (UNI) 8-3
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Pearl Zuchlewski to deliver I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy Oct. 4
DETROIT (Sept. 2, 2011) – Prominent New York City employment attorney Pearl Zuchlewski will deliver the 27th annual I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. (Reception at 6 p.m.) Zuchlewski's lecture is titled "Electronic Discovery: The Creative Uses and Suspect Misuses of a Developing Litigation Device."
According to Wayne Law Distinguished Professor Robert Sedler, traditional discovery in civil litigation has been revolutionized in many respects by the exchange of information in electronic format. In 2006, the United States Supreme Court added Rule 34 to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to provide for and regulate electronic discovery.
Zuchlewski will explain how electronic discovery may significantly expand the scope of discovery in civil litigation, with the resultant betterment of the litigation process. She also will discuss how electronic discovery may lead to abuses of the litigation process.
The I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy was established through the generosity of the family of the late I. Goodman Cohen, a prominent trial attorney who was active in the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association. Each year, a leading jurist is invited to the Law School to deliver a public lecture on an aspect of trial advocacy. In addition, the speaker is invited to informal meetings with students and faculty. The lecture is intended to supplement the Law School's training program in trial skills and add to the variety of professional perspectives students receive during their time at the Law School.
"We are honored that Ms. Zuchlewski has accepted our invitation to deliver the 27th annual I. Goodman Cohen Lecture," said Sedler, who also serves as the event organizer to the Cohen Lecture Series. "She is a well-known and respected leader in the employment law community and will provide lecture attendees with a dynamic and informative lecture."
Zuchlewski, a partner in Kraus and Zuchlewski LLP, has practiced law in New York City for more than 25 years. She was a partner at Goodman and Zuchlewski LLP, and practiced at Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett. She also was a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.
Zuchlewski is chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Employment Arbitration Task Force, and is a member of FINRA's National Arbitration and Mediation Committee. She is a former chair of the New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) Labor and Employment Section, and she continues to serve on the section's Executive Committee and as a section representative to the NYSBA House of Delegates. Zuchlewski also is an active member of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section's Individual Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee, the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Association of the Bar in the City of New York (ABCNY). As a former member of the ABCNY's Labor and Employment Law Committee, she participated in the drafting of the Model Rules for the Arbitration of Employment Disputes.
She is a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law. She serves on advisory boards of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at NYU School of Law, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and New York City's Labor and Employment Relations Association.
A frequent speaker on alternative dispute resolution, sexual harassment and other employment related issues, Zuchlewski has been selected by her peers as one of the "New York Area's Best Lawyers," featured in New York Magazine, and highlighted in "New York SuperLawyers – Metro Edition." She graduated from Fordham University Law School and the University of Pittsburgh.
This lecture is free and open to the public. RSVP at http://events.wayne.edu/rsvp/cohen-public-lecture/#rsvp. Parking is available for $4.75 in Structure #1 across from the Law School on West Palmer Street in Detroit. For directions to the Law School or to view a campus map, visit campusmap.wayne.edu/location/LAW. Please call the Law School Dean's Office at 313-577-3933 for more information.
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For more information about Wayne State University Law School, visit law.wayne.edu.


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Well I finished my Marrow Sun ESB lid and broke the first law of bucket painting... TAKE YOUR TIME...
I really wanted to wear it for a troop this weekend so I rushed a little to get it ready. I'm quite happy with how it turned out so I don't think I need to sand and repaint, but know it needs a bit more work, which I can do now I have more time.
Any way here it is, please be honest and let me know what you think and what it needs.


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Finally, here they are! Blue Collar Decoys is proud to present our new Full Body Mallard Decoys. Each drake comes standard with a Flocked Head (if you don't want it flocked, let us know). Sorry about the photos, I am by no means a photographer! We will soon be getting shots of the decoys in the field (like the Widgeon). These decoys are tough, durable, and 100% Made in America! We will also have Black Ducks in the next couple of weeks. Don't wait; place your order today at http://www.BlueCollarDecoys.com.
Don't forget, YOU get to choose your poses! If you want all drakes, that's what you'll get; you pick and choose what you want! If you don't like the color scheme or want something customized, we can do that as well!
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A custom fit every time.
Skate helmets have received a lot of love over the past few years in many different sports. They have a clean, classic look, but they don't have the greatest reputation for comfort. That's about to change, though, with the introduction of the Bell Segment Helmet.
The reason that skate-style helmets work so well is the same reason they aren't usually all that comfortable: the ABS hard shell. The folks at Bell have found a way to use the ABS shell so that it still offers that hard shell protection, but it's flexible to conform to the shape of your head. They connect interior EPS foam segments with a reinforcing skeleton that allows everything to flex. Not only does this mean greater comfort, but it offers better protection by eliminating the gaps between your helmet and your head in an ill-fitting helmet.
The Segment sports eight vents to allow air to flow freely around your head to keep it cool and dry. It's also lightweight–less than a pound–which adds to the comfort.
The Bell Segment Helmet is availbale in 3 sizes, S, M, and L. It comes in nine different color options: Matte Blue/Green Jimbo Phillips Melting Heads, Matte Titanium Taylor Reeve Afterparty, Matte Black, Matte Grey, Blue, Matte Turquoise, Burnt Orange, Matte Bone, and Matte Gray/Black Skratch 54.
- ABS shell
- EPS foam liner
- Passive ventilation
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|20.5 - 22in
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|21.625 - 23.25in
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|22.875 - 24.375in
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|24 - 25.625in
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|Reflex, Segment
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great protector
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used these helmets for many years for all my dirt jumping and skatepark ventures. Fits great and it has protected my dome whenever I hit the ground.
On our 3rd Bell Segment
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This is the only helmet my 14 year old son will wear for dirt jumping, skating, BMX, etc....
He loves this helmet mostly because it looks good but it also fits him well.
I am sure we will be purchasing another next year.
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First, this is the most stylish helmet of its kind. It sits low enough that you don't look like a bobblehead. Next, its actually certified so it will protect you when you crash. Buy this helmet!
Plus Dome
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
So here I am, in dire need of replacing my current lid, its days are finally numbered. For whatever reasons unbeknownst to me (nostalgia?), I am still rockin' the skater style lid. After seeing the Segment, I knew I needed to be wearing it.
Gold Flake 500 por favor. Daaamn, talk about bass boatin' sparkles for days! Sure, there are some other more subdued colors it comes in, but I plan on using this for the upcoming season of SSCX. Best recognize!
Anyhow, wearing this thing, the fit is on point. Comfy and secure like a kangaroo pouch around my crown. But, but, but, here is where things turned my smile upside down... It gets hot, like cruise ship boiler room hot. I knew going in it only had like 8 vents, but dang, I seriously can't wear this in the summer time. Sure, in the fall and winter seasons, it'll keep me warm and toasty, but for right now, in the hot and humid south, no freakin' way.
Maybe you live in a cooler climate? Maybe you're one of those riders who refrains from having mid-ride sweat showers pour down your face? Whatever the case, if you answered yes to either of those, then this helmet is definitely for you. Unfortunately for me, I require a bit more air flow in the dome department, thus the search continues.


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NHS scandal: Up to 1,200 patients 'died needlessly' at British hospital
posted at 3:26 pm on January 7, 2013 by Guy Benson
Since Ed and I have each written about the latest round of Obamacare-exacerbated premium hikes, let's check in on Britain's single-payer system, which many American liberals fetishize:
An official inquiry into failings at [Stafford] hospital, where between 400 and 1,200 patients died needlessly due to a catalogue of failings and appalling standards of care, is due to be published later this month. The report is expected to blame managers who cut costs and reduced staffing levels in an attempt to hit "efficiency" targets and win foundation status. Before taking control of the health service, Sir David ran the health authority responsible for supervising Stafford between August 2005 and April 2006. His tenure came during a four-year period in which between 400 and 1,200 patients died needlessly due to a catalogue of failings and appalling standards of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS trust. Lawyers for the inquiry have criticised Sir David for his attitude towards the scandal following comments he made which were described as naive and dangerous, according to reports.
He told the inquiry in his role as NHS chief executive that because Stafford hospital was the only one to have been identified with such major failings, it suggested the problem was "singular" rather than a "systematic" problem in the NHS. Tom Kark QC, counsel to the inquiry, reportedly described Sir David's attitude as "very dangerous" and said his assumption that other failing hospitals would have been identified by demonstrably failing systems was "naive". Sir David, a former Communist Party member, was installed as chief executive of the NHS by Labour in 2006 and is due to head the NHS Commissioning Board when it is launched in April.
Former card-carrying Communist? Check. Slated for promotion, despite staggering ineptitude? Check. What precipitated this systemic neglect and "appalling" medical standards? Government efficiency targets, also known as rationing:
The report, the result of a two year-long inquiry led by Robert Francis QC, is expected to call for major reforms of the NHS including new controls to identify and remove bad managers and an improved training programme for nurses and health care assistants. It will warn that a "culture of fear" filtering down from Whitehall made managers obsessed with hitting targets, even when to do so would mean putting patients at risk. Doctors at Stafford were called away from critical patients to treat less urgent Accident and Emergency patients because a central target said all patients should be discharged from A&E units within four hours, the inquiry reportedly heard. Patients were left unwashed, unfed and in soiled bedsheets, while nurses were told that "heads would roll" and the A&E department could close if targets were missed. The NHS Commissioning Board, of which Sir David is the new head, could not be reached for comment.
"Whitehall," incidentally, is a shorthand description of the British government's central administration. Fleet Street has been covering NHS' myriad failures for years; here are just two recent additions to the roster of health care ignominy: (1) Thousands of Britons' private healthcare records were posted online without their knowledge or consent, prompting an outcry. Millions of their fellow countrymen may be surprised to learn that a new government policy requires individuals to opt out of such public exposure. (2) An increasing number of Brits are resorting to paying out-of-pocket for private care, due to aggressive rationing within the "free" government health apparatus:
More patients are going private because the NHS is increasingly cutting back on providing a range of treatments. The poll, carried out by ComRes for the firm BMI Healthcare, found that 70 per cent of GPs are now unable to refer a patient for further treatment on the NHS at least once a month because they do not qualify under local criteria. Primary care trusts (PCTs) have increasingly been restricting access to treatments including cataract removals, hernia operations and hip and knee replacements, by raising the threshold of how ill or disabled a patient has to be…Dr Gerada said it was "very sad" that people were having to resort to the private sector. She said: "It's incontrovertible that rationing has increased. Ophthalmologists are particularly taxed about single cataract operations. There's also the worry that waiting lists are going up." She feared the NHS rationing seen so far was the thin end of the wedge and warned more treatments would be restricted "very soon".
Meanwhile, British Lefties are predictably denouncing the move toward privatization, blaming the shift on — what else? — "greedy" doctors (say, where have I heard that critique before?):
A senior doctor at a leading hospital has claimed consultants are prioritising their private practice work. Dr Rama Krishna Rao Rebbapragada, a consultant anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said: "The private practice of the senior managers is putting a huge strain on the system. "Senior consultants do minimal sessions on full salaries and also they get distinction awards at the hospital." Speaking at a meeting organised by the pressure group Keep Our NHS Public, he said: "I don't want to see it just falling apart because of greed. I want my children, grandchildren and future generations to have the NHS."
Behold, the paradise that awaits if our own "progressives" get their way. Don't believe me? Just ask them:


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As a restaurant we still offer a first class selection of both Irish food and Thai Cuisine, cooked by our loyal and long serving kitchen staff.
Shenanigans Pattaya now has a bright and comfortable terrace which allows you to sit outside and watch the world go by while enjoying a sophisticated cocktail, a glass of wine or simply and ice cold beer to slake your tropical thirst.
While at Shenanigans Jomtien pub we have a pub garden so you can sit outside and enjoy the weather with a cold draft beer.
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VINTON, Iowa -- A pasture walk featuring cows grazing a cover crop of rye and hairy vetch, grass finishing and an introduction to a new bird friendly marketing opportunity will be Wednesday, May 22. The walk starts at 1 p.m. at the Dan Specht farm, located at 29742 Pleasant Ridge Road near Marquette.
"This farm is managed as a grassland ecosystem with fall calving Red Devon cows, and grass finishing of the calves," said Denise Schwab, an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach beef program specialist. "The majority of the farm's 675 acres are kept in perennial forages, permanent pasture or woodland; with annual crops grown on fewer than 10 acres."
Wisconsin Extension agent Vance Haugen will explain grass-finished beef requirements, markets and genetics for grass fed beef, and use of annuals in a grazing system. Eric Klein from Hidden Stream Farm will talk about his markets and possible future needs for supplies in the new wave of food co-ops in the Twin Cities.
Schwab said an Audubon Society representative will speak about that organization's upcoming "bird friendly" label for grass fed beef. Interested attendees will be able to take an evening grassland birding walk.
"Folks from Practical Farmers of Iowa and I will address grazing management issues as part of the program," Schwab said. "They're also providing a light lunch following the pasture walk."
There's no cost to attend and no preregistration is necessary.
Directions to the Specht farm
On county road B45 (Pleasant Ridge Road), from Marquette, go two miles west. From Monona, go east on West Iowa Street (this turns into B45) from the four-way stop for 10 miles. The farm is on the south side of the road, at the end of a quarter-mile lane. For more driving directions, call Dan at 563-516-1007.
The event is co-sponsored by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Iowa Learning Farms and Practical Farmers of Iowa.


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8Rod Delmonico
The Southeastern Conference's longest-tenured baseball coach is the University of Tennessee's Rod Delmonico, who recently completed his 18th season at the helm of the Volunteers in 2007. Just more than two seasons ago, he guided the Vols to Omaha for the third time during his tenure on Rocky Top.
The longtime leader of the Big Orange ranks fourth on the league's all-time victories list and sits just one win shy of his 700th career victory as UT's head coach.
The winningest coach in Tennessee baseball history, Delmonico led the Vols to their seventh 30-win season in the last eight years and 16th overall in 2007. This comes on the heels of a 2005 campaign that was highlighted by a berth in the NCAA College World Series -- the fourth all-time appearance in school history and the third under Delmonico. In addition, three players earned All-America honors in 2005, three more were named Freshman All-Americas and Luke Hochevar and J.P. Arencibia were named the SEC Pitcher and Freshman of the Year, respectively. Tennessee's final record stood at 46-21, and the Vols finished second in the SEC after being picked fifth in the Eastern Division entering the year.
Before Delmonico's arrival in 1990, none of those accomplishments would have been mentioned in the same sentence with Tennessee baseball. Using knowledge that he gleaned from two of college baseball's coaching legends -- Clemson's Bill Wilhelm and Florida State's Mike Martin -- Delmonico and his Vols have posted nine 40-win seasons, including two 50-win campaigns. His teams have won an average of nearly 40 games per year, while garnering two Southeastern Conference titles, making three trips to the College World Series, appearing in eight NCAA regionals, including five regional finals, while winning four SEC Eastern Division crowns and three SEC Eastern Division Tournament championships. In addition, he was named Baseball America's 1995 National Coach of the Year, SEC Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1995 and Tennessee Baseball Coach of the Year in 1994, 1995 and 2001.
Likewise, during his overall coaching career he has been part of teams that have participated in the College World Series six times, made 14 NCAA regional appearances, won 10 conference or division titles and posted nine conference tournament championships. With a background of winning at the top level of collegiate baseball dotting his resume, it's no wonder that his teams are perennial contenders for the conference title as well as a national championship. Delmonico has seen 97 Vols sign professional baseball contracts including seven first-round picks. In fact, over the last 25 years at the Division I level, he has coached or signed 28 players who went to play in the major leagues, including the likes of Todd Helton, Joe Randa, Jimmy Key, Luis Alicea, Deion Sanders, Paul Sorrento, and most recently, Chris Burke of the Houston Astros. He has coached 23 of Tennessee's 30 All-Americas, including three three-time selections and the 1995 National Player of the Year in Helton. In addition, 28 Vols have earned 43 All-Conference plaques, including three SEC Players of the Year in Helton, Jeff Pickler in 1998 and Burke in 2001, under Delmonico's watch. Hochevar earned SEC Pitcher of the Year acclaim and the Roger Clemens National Pitcher of the Year Award in 2005.
Not only is there solid leadership from the top on the diamond, but he is also a tremendous role model off the field who emphasizes the "student" in student-athlete to all his players. As a result, there have been four Academic All-America selections and 66 student-athletes named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
The 2001 season stands alongside the 2005 campaign as one of the greatest coaching jobs of his career, as Delmonico guided the 2001 Vols to their second College World Series in his regime. Picked to finish no better than fourth in the SEC Eastern Division, Tennessee tied for second overall in the league and rolled through the NCAA Regionals and Super Regional to finish third at the CWS. SEC Player of the Year, National Player of the Year finalist and consensus All-America Chris Burke led the unsung Vols that season. A total of seven players were drafted, including Burke and pitcher Wyatt Allen in the first round.
Each of his Tennessee teams has exhibited an explosive offense, finishing in the top four in batting average 10 times, including a league-leading .340 average in 1998. He has also built a pitching staff that has ranked in the top five in earned run average 10 times, including a league leading 2.98 ERA in 1994.
In 1995, he guided a gutty team, led by National Player of the Year Todd Helton, to a third-place finish at the College World Series. It was the first appearance by the Vols in Omaha in 44 years. The squad compiled a 54-16 mark, recording the most wins in school history, and garnered a consensus top-five final ranking. Helton was also a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award.
Led by National Freshman of the Year pitcher R.A. Dickey, whose 15 wins led the nation, the 1994 Volunteers reached the regional finals while compiling a 52-14 record and finishing the season ranked in the top 10, reaching a high of No. 2 by Baseball America. It was the first-ever 50-win season for a Tennessee team and, with a 24-5 Southeastern Conference record, it was the first league crown in 43 years. The Vols set an SEC record with 17 consecutive league wins.
In 1993, Delmonico's dream of upgrading facilities and moving the Tennessee baseball program to the forefront of the college landscape came true when the Vols stepped into their $2.2 million state-of-the-art facility in Lindsey Nelson Stadium. In a 1998 Baseball America survey, the stadium, which seats 3,712, was voted the 14th best in the nation. Today, with the addition of a 30x50 foot electronic scoreboard and message center, Tennessee baseball has become a big springtime event.
The 1993 season was a special one on the diamond as well. The Vols posted a 45-20 record, the team's most victories to that point, and began a string of hosting three straight NCAA Mideast Regionals. It was also UT's first trip to NCAA postseason play since the 1951 College World Series, and the Vols claimed their first postseason title by winning the first of three consecutive SEC Eastern Division Tournaments. They achieved their first national ranking in April and were ranked for 91 straight weeks over the next five seasons.
Delmonico's first team in 1990 posted 28 wins, the most since 1982, and blew the critics away in 1991 with the school's first-ever 40-win season by posting a 41-19 record. The 1992 squad got off to the best start in school history by reeling off eight straight wins and finishing with a 35-20 record. Following a trip to the CWS in 1995, his 1996 charges also reached the regional finals with a 43-20 record. The 1997 team began the season 18-1 and capped a string of five straight regional appearances and 40-win seasons with a 42-19 record.
Testament to his focus on defense is the fact that the Vols led the nation in fielding in 1993 and 1994 with .975 and .977 fielding percentages respectively. The 1994 team also turned an NCAA-leading 93 double plays. His teams have led the SEC in fielding percentage on four occasions, while ranking in the top three eight times.
As the top assistant at Florida State from 1984-89, the Seminoles compiled a record of 334-119-1, finishing in the top 15 nationally each year. They played in three College World Series and had 21 players drafted by major league teams while producing nine All-Americas.
Delmonico, specifically designated head recruiter by Seminoles head coach Mike Martin, rounded up freshman classes that were ranked in the top 10 nationally each year. His 1984 group was rated the best, and both the 1986 and 1987 recruits were ranked second. In 1988, he was tabbed as the nation's third-best recruiter by Collegiate Baseball.
Before moving to Florida State, Delmonico gained experience as a graduate assistant coach at Clemson from 1982-83 under legendary coach Bill Wilhelm and as an assistant at Division III Gloucester County College in Sewell, N.J., where he served as the hitting and outfield coach in 1981.
Delmonico graduated from Liberty University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, and lettered in baseball and soccer. He holds a master's degree from Clemson University in education administration.
He has penned four books, "Hit and Run Baseball," "Offensive Drills," "Defensive Baseball" and "Defensive Drills," and produced two videotapes entitled, "Aggressive Baserunning" and "Hitting Fundamentals with Drills." In addition, he has been a contributing writer to numerous national coaching periodicals including Scholastic Coach and Collegiate Baseball.
In fall 2001, Delmonico and Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt were featured in a new book titled, "6 Psychological Factors for Success: America's Most Successful Athletic Coaches Reveal the Path to Competitive Excellence."
"The Tennessee women's basketball and baseball programs are nationally prominent, and we are thrilled that Pat and Rod shared their secrets with us in the book," author Steve Brennan, Ph.D. stated.
Delmonico is also a sought-after lecturer and speaker at various national baseball clinics and national companies. He has made trips with Major League Baseball International to the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Holland and Austria to teach the game of baseball.
A native of Wilmington, N.C., Delmonico graduated from New Hanover High School in 1976. He has three sons, Tony, Joey and Nicky. Tony joined the Vols in 2006 and earned Freshman All-America honors.
Rod Delmonico's Coaching History SEC SEC NCAA Year Team Overall SEC Finish Tour Tour CWS 1990 Tennessee 28-31 .474 9-18 .333 9th 1991 Tennessee 41-19 .683 13-13 .500 7th 1992 Tennessee 35-20 .636 10-14 .417 5th (East) 1993 Tennessee 45-20 .692 20-10 .667 1st (East) 5-1 1-2 1994 Tennessee 52-14 .788 24-5 .828 1st (East) 4-1 3-2 1995 Tennessee 54-16 .771 22-8 .733 1st (East) 5-1 4-0 2-2 1996 Tennessee 43-20 .683 18-12 .600 2nd (East) 0-2 3-2 1997 Tennessee 41-19 .689 17-13 .567 T1st (East) 0-2 1-2 1998 Tennessee 36-20 .643 11-17 .393 4th (East) 1999 Tennessee 28-28 .500 10-20 .333 4th (East) 2000 Tennessee 40-23 .635 10-18 .357 5th (East) 2001 Tennessee 48-20 .706 18-12 .600 2nd (East) 0-2 5-1 2-2 2002 Tennessee 27-28 .491 12-18 .400 4th (East) 2003 Tennessee 31-24 .564 13-17 .433 4th (East) 2004 Tennessee 38-24 .613 14-16 .467 5th (East) 1-2 1-2 2005 Tennessee 46-21 .687 18-11 .621 2nd (East) 2-2 5-2 0-2 2006 Tennessee 31-24 .564 11-18 .379 5th (East) 2007 Tennessee 34-25 .576 13-15 .464 4th (East) 1-2 Totals 699-396 .638 263-255 .508 18-15 23-13 4-6


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Viewmont High School has a very successful girls soccer team, which has advanced to its third straight 5A state championship game. The Davis County home of the Vikings is also where the rock band New City Skyline got together.
After moving from Utah to make noise in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas music scenes, the quartet this week released its debut album, "On My Own." The members returned home to prepare for the album's release and a tour, playing a CD-release show last weekend at The Complex.
Lead singer and guitarist Paul Rampton is joined by Devan Brown on bass, Chance Hutchinson on drums and Andrew Pemberton on guitar.
Rampton answered questions about the band's new record, Viewmont High and tacos.
How did the band get started?
Myself, Devan and Chance played in bands growing up together. After we graduated high school in 2007, we decided to try and make music our job. We went through various guitarists growing up, but we knew we needed a guy as passionate about this as us. Luckily it only took a few tryouts and we found Andrew. We found that us four being onstage together [had] a great chemistry, and [we] love to entertain.
How did Viewmont High affect the band?
All of us besides Andrew (who was an extremely accomplished artist) played sports at Viewmont, although music has always been at the top of our list. I think we even managed to make a few homemade CDs in high school.We played football growing up and through school, and I also played basketball. I had to make the tough decision to give up playing at the next level or pursue my music career. I think we were extremely lucky growing up in an environment where our families and friends were so supportive of whatever we wanted to do.
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Why did the band leave Utah?
In 2007, right out of high school, we had recorded an EP in Las Vegas with Sean O'Dwyer, who engineered albums for the Black Crowes, Foo Fighters and Blink-182. We felt that we needed [to] prove to ourselves that we could make an album up against the vibrant L.A. and Vegas scenes. So, in the fall of 2011, we settled back down in Vegas with Sean again at Odds On Studio and began recording what would become our debut album, "On My Own." Since finishing up the recording, we have been back in Utah preparing for the release and tour. We have always been so proud to be from Utah, and I think there is an incredible music scene here.
Describe "On My Own."
Powerful, balanced, bombastic, dynamic. [Those] come to mind when I sit down and listen to the album.
When you return to Utah, what do you like to do?
We love our spots. Salt Lake City has one of the best downtowns. [We love to eat at] The Bayou, The Pie, MacCool's on Foothill, just to name a few. Going to summer concerts at the Gallivan is always a favorite thing. Park City is also a special place for us [with] Wasatch and Squatters, the slopes. This is home for us. We also hold season tickets to Ute football games: Go Utes!
What are your most memorable experiences in music?
One would definitely be playing the historic Viper Room in Hollywood. To play such a pressure-packed show and then walk right out on Hollywood Boulevard, thinking about all of the great musicians who had been there before, was a pretty cool moment. And I think our debut album-release show at The Complex on Oct. 13 [was] a great experience. We finally made our debut album, and to share that with our hometown [was] pretty special.
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Wingate, N.C. (Press Release)——Saint Leo University senior attack Frank Keel (Fairfax, Va.) tallied three goals and the number eight Lions collected a 10-3 Deep South Conference victory over Wingate University Wednesday afternoon at Irwin Belk Stadium and John R. Martin Field on the Wingate campus.
The contest was the league opener for both teams. Saint Leo is 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the DSC. Wingate is 0-2 overall and 0-1 in the DSC. The Bulldogs will face their third ranked team in as many games Saturday, hosting number four Mercyhurst (Pa.) University at 2 p.m. The SLU Lions continue their N.C. swing Friday night, visiting Queens University of Charlotte for a 7 p.m. contest.
Keel led all scorers with his three goals. Freshman teammate George Proechel (Orlando, Fla.) had two goals from his attack position. Keel and reigning Deep South Conference Offensive Player of the Week Joe Guerin (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) share the Saint Leo team lead with six goals each. A senior attack, Guerin had one goal Wednesday.
For Wingate, redshirt sophomore midfielder Travis Barrett (Andover, N.J.) had one goal and one assist. Bulldog sophomore attack David Lee (Greensboro, N.C.) and junior attack Billy Mutton (Mechanicsville, Va.) had one goal each for the hosts.
Saint Leo led 6-1 at intermission, thanks in large part to two first quarter goals by Keel. Lion senior attack Cole Sieja (Troy, Mich.) opened the scoring at the 13:56 mark with an unassisted goal. Lee answered for Wingate, taking a pass from sophomore midfielder Bryan Bayliss (Lorton, Va.) and finding the back of the nets with 8:08 remaining in the opening frame.
Keel went to work, collecting a pass from Sieja and breaking the game's only tie at the 4:35 mark. Keel added an unassisted goal with 2:25 left in the first period to help the Lions take a 3-1 lead after the first 15 minutes. SLU senior midfielder Kyle Marceau (Concord, N.H.) opened the second quarter scoring at the 12:03 mark. The Lions led 6-1 at the break, thanks to goals by senior attack Luke Baruch (Golden, Colo.) and Proechel. Baruch scored on a Marceau assist at 6:34, while Proechel completed the first half scoring at 6:22.
Proechel opened the third quarter with an extra-man goal at the 13:52 plateau. Keel finished his scoring night with a goal at the 12:07 mark of the fourth quarter, completing a 7-0 run by the defending Deep South Conference champions.
The Bulldogs scored back-to-back goals to cut the deficit to 8-3. Barrett scored on an assist from freshman attack Colin O'Donoghue (Cranberry Township, Pa.) with 11:32 remaining in the contest. Mutton posted his second goal of the season 27 seconds later on an assist from Barrett.
Saint Leo sophomore midfielder Mike Del Buono (Southington, Conn.) scored five seconds later (11:00) from the face-off. Guerin completed the scoring with an unassisted tally at the 10-minute mark.
Wingate sophomore goalie Danny Dlugozima (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) took the loss, allowing 10 goals in 59-plus minutes of action. Dlugozima kept the Bulldogs close with his 18 saves. Saint Leo junior netminder David Erdman (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) earned the win. The 2007 DSC Freshman of the Year went the distance Wednesday, recording four saves and allowing three Wingate goals.
The SLU Lions outshot the host Bulldogs 47-20 Wednesday. Saint Leo won 12 of 17 face-offs, thanks to 12 victories by Del Buono. The Lions had 59 ground balls, compared to 19 ground ball pick-ups for the Bulldogs. Saint Leo converted the game's only extra-man opportunity. The Lions were one-of-five on EMO possessions, while the Bulldogs were zero-for-seven.


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The Canisius College women's lacrosse team has added 10 commits to its class of 2018, head coach Scott Teeter announced on Friday.
"This class has been a long time coming," Teeter said. "I'm excited that the time is finally here for them to join our program as this is the biggest and most talented class we've ever had. We have a mix of the top-girls from Canada and Section V in Western New York, which is one of the nation's hotbeds for recruiting. They all have tremendous potential and great lacrosse resumes as both high school and club players."
The incoming class features four midfielders, three attackers, two defenders and a goalie.
Joining the Canisius midfield will be Clare Bollin, of Webster, N.Y. Bollin is a five-year player for Webster-Schroder High School and a member of the Relentless Hustle club team that won the 2013 Club Lacrosse National Championship.
"Clare is an excellent two-way middie with the vision of an attacker," Teeter said. "She brings an excellent lacrosse IQ as well."
Relentless Hustle teammate and fellow Western New York product Rena Brown will join the Griffs at attack. Brown is one of two girls in this class who played her high school lacrosse for Brighton, which was the New York runner-up in 2011 and 2013.
"Rena brings great speed that will be utilized in transition offense," Teeter said.
Erica Evans joins Canisius a midfielder of Peterborough, Ontario, who earned MVP honors and a bronze medal at the OFSAA Championship in 2013. Evans is one of two Canadian products to join the Griffs for 2015.
"Erica is a great two-way middie and one of he best to come out of Canada in her class," Teeter said. "She has all the qualities to be a game-changer for us."
First Team All-Greater Rochester selection Megan Maloney comes to Canisius as a midfielder. Another member of Relentless Hustle's National Championship team, Maloney was a four-year starter at Victor High School.
"Megan is another impact two-way midfielder," Teeter said. "She is someone who is capable of making plays all over the field."
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia native Billy McLaughlin comes to the Griffs as a midfielder after playing three seasons for Burnaby Mountain. McLaughlin also played box lacrosse for team British Columbia.
"Billy adds a tremendous amount of height to our team," Teeter said. "She's also great in transition with excellent vision and distributes the ball well."
Webster-Thomas High School product and National Champion as a member of Relentless Hustle, Nicole Nelson joins Canisius as a defender.
"Nicole is a fearless attacking defender," Teeter said. "She is someone who thrives off making plays."
Another Western New York native, Julia Pavone comes to the Griffs as a defender from Irondequoit high school. Pavone played her club lacrosse for Relentless Hustle, and was a member of the National Championship team.
"Julia has he heart of a lion and will excel at every task given to her," Teeter said.
Lauren Smolensky comes to Canisius as the other member of the 2014 recruiting class to have played high school lacrosse for perennial powerhouse Brighton. Another member of the Relentless Hustle club, Smolensky was an All-American in 2013.
"Lauren is a pint-sized playmaker," Teeter said. "She's an outstanding attacker with great position and excellent ability."
The lone member of the class from section VI, Allison Stewart joins the Griffs at attack. Stewart owns the Lancaster High School records for goals and assists. Stewart also played club lacrosse for Relentless Hustle.
"Allie is a VI standout that has a great, great shot," Teeter said. "This local product will grow the game in our area."
The goaltender from this year's class is Rebecca VanLaeken. A Canandaigua native, VanLaeken was the goaltender for the Relentless Hustle club.
"Rebecca is one of the top goalies in the nation," Teeter said. "We look for her to compete for playing time right away."
The 2014 edition of the Canisius women's lacrosse team will begin its quest for a fourth-straight MAAC Championship on Feb. 16 at Syracuse.


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Get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you'll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you're approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills.
Many discussions have been expanded or improved. All code examples have been revised, and many new code examples have been added.
Matt Neuburg has a PhD in Classics and has taught at many universities and colleges. He has been programming computers since 1968. He has written applications for Mac OS X and iOS, is a former editor of MacTech Magazine, and is a long-standing contributing editor for TidBITS. His previous O'Reilly books are Frontier: The Definitive Guide, REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, and AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. He makes a living writing books, articles, and software documentation, as well as by programming, consulting, and training.
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The animal on the cover of Programming iOS 5 is akingbird, one of the 13 species of North American songbirds making up thegenus Tyrannus. A group of kingbirds is called a"coronation," a "court," or a "tyranny." Kingbirds eat insects, which they often catch in flight, swooping froma perch to grab the insect midair. They may also supplement their diets withberries and fruits. They have long, pointed wings, and males performelaborate aerial courtship displays. Both the genus name (meaning "tyrant" or "despot") and the common name("kingbird") refer to these birds' aggressive defense of their territories,breeding areas, and mates. They have been documented attacking red-tailedhawks (which are more than twenty times their size), knocking bluejays outof trees, and driving away crows and ravens. (For its habit of standing upto much larger birds, the gray kingbird has been adopted as a Puerto Ricannationalist symbol.) "Kingbird" most often refers to the Eastern kingbird (T.tyrannus), an average-size kingbird (7.5-9 inches long, wingspan13-15 inches) found all across North America. This common and widespreadbird has a dark head and back, with a white throat, chest, and belly. Itsred crown patch is rarely seen. Its high-pitched, buzzing, stuttering soundshave been described as resembling "sparks" jumping between wires or anelectric fence. The cover image is from Cassell's NaturalHistory.
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This book is suitable to understand the functionalities of iOS API comprehensively and shallowly. If readers are not familiar with Objective-C language and how to operate the user interface of xcode, they can create first application steadily. Because there are too much examples, readers can grasp the overview of iOS API.In my impression, this book doesn't have enough images and figures to understand what views are showed in UI as the result and how to operate the xcode UI. If next version is revised to contain more graphical information, it would help readers to understand more effectively.
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I have read several books on iOS development and this books is very informative but it's all over the place, constantly making the reader flip ahead and back, the examples referenced are hard to follow and it gets worse as you keep reading. It's very detailed and technical and the authors knowledge is very useful but one needs a familiar grasp of the key concepts of C and Obj C before going through this book, its not a good book for a beginner. Great book for technical people but for creative people trying to learn and get moving it's very counterproductive. It's very new developer unfriendly, it's the first time I have had to abandon a book, also
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Great second edition, thick and detailed
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Another iOS book, and a definitive chunky book to go through, but this book isn't designed for someone who has to read it cover-to-cover. This book is in fact a complete A-to-Z of concepts and topics in iOS, that should cover almost all of what you need. Beyond this book, you can focus on a specific topic. The second iteration of this book also introduces new iOS 5 concepts such as ARC memory management, the concept of adding private declarations within the implementation files and so forth, bringing your reference book up to speed with what's current.
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This book is simply a new release of "Programming iOS 4″. It contains lots of new information you won't find in previous release – mostly related to most recent changes in iOS 5. One of these features are story boards. Basically, whenever story boards are applicable, you will read how to apply them. ARC related memory management is another new feature, and, it is well described here. If you haven't used it yet you will learn how to work with ARC in both situations – when you develop old application and want to migrate to ARC and how to work with ARC in applications developed from the scratch. New concepts like @autoreleasepool blocks, weak references, retain cycles are also explained. Sections related to notifications, startup process and life time have improved. Comparing to previous edition, section "Swamped by Events" was rewritten and redesigned. In my opinion it is now easier to follow and easier to understand. The same refers to view controllers related part. Basically, the book targets recent XCode release and iOS 5 and addresses some composition/content related drawbacks you can find in previous release. Big plus goes for mentioning Instruments. However, this section is way too short. It covers only simple use-cases. Still, it's better than nothing.When it comes to drawbacks. In my opinion there are two frameworks that are missing – CoreData and SQLite. You won't find anything about these in here. I think that book would be much better if it covered database storage related aspects. At least at introductory level.If you own "Programming iOS 4″ already, I'd skip this "upgrade". In case you haven't developed for iOS yet, this one is really good introduction to iOS development.
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Excellent guide
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Programming language by its very nature is intrinsically integrated subject. That makes it quite challenging to explain one element without continuous cross-reference to other parts. As a result, many books on programming exhibit notorious cliche - 'Never mind the majority of this code. We'll talk about it later'. While a reference to a future discussion makes sense to author, it is of little help to reader, who has no way to see the overall picture. Even more so, overwhelming a learner with content that is admittedly incomprehensible for her at the moment, in effect obscures the focal point of the subject at hand.In that respect I found this book to be an excellent example of coherent, logically comprehensible guidance into the paradigm of Objective-C and iOS. It is both far more in-depth than typical intro to a language, and, yet the discussion is flowing in an engaging conversational mode.Occasional quantum leaps that I felt might be due to me being an amateur programmer. Highly recommend this book to anybody looking for clear essential explanations rather then superficial 'follow-me' style.The only suggestion I have would be to find a way to let a reader to play a little with certain core elements/features of C a bit earlier. Short practice/exercise sessions could help ingesting and memorizing peculiars of the C-language.
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When learning/tackling technical problems, it is always a good idea to have multiple books. Redundancy saves your rear end when stuck in a problem. As such, I use more than one basic, tutorial-style book, and aim to collect more books which go into the deeper, fundamental info. But there is this vast chasm in the middle that is not being covered by anyone--and that's where Matt Neuburg's book comes in.There are books which teach Objective C, beginning tutotorial, game design, and app-idea books. But there is this massive monolith called the iOS stack that no-one is covering except the Apple documentation and Matt Neuburg's book. If all you're doing is cut-and-pasting sample-code, and then get stuck when things don't work, this book is what you ought to be using as reference. Also, every time I had to do something more than what the tutorials were doing, this book helped me out. Every time that I got stuck, when things were not working out, and I had to figure out why, this book helped out.It most certainly is not a tutorial book; those books are valuable, but widely available elsewhere. Instead, it helps me make sense of what the tutorials are doing, and to extend them for my own purposes. Once I began doing my own, the tutorials' ease immediately fell apart, as foreseen. That's when this book became particularly indispensable. It has a wealth of material not touched elsewhere. It's a treasure trove of information which would have taken me eons to mine from apple and other sources. To complete the picture, I recommend something to fill the gap between the tutorial guides/books and this book: Vandad Nahavandipoor's "iOS 5 Programming Cookbook". It is great for when you need quick answers, without having to dig into Neuburg's.
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This book is superb -- lucid, authoritative, and unusually deep.What do I mean by deep? There are lots of iOS books, but many of them are organized around presenting numerous short working examples of different parts of the system. The Big Nerd Ranch book, for instance, is a good one in that style. That style is useful -- the examples make good starting points and are likely to immediately show you the the particular bits of API you will need to do something similar.However, all of these fragments do not really add up to a coherent picture of the system and you do need such a coherent picture as soon as you want to do anything that is more than one or two steps away from a working example. So the choice is: you can spend a long time blindly tinkering with examples by trial and error, never really understanding why something worked or didn't work, or you can sit down, take the time to learn the fundamentals properly, and then be able to anything you like in a deliberate and reliable way. This book is the resource for the second kind of understanding -- for really understanding the fundamentals properly.In a way, you can think of it as the modern, IOS-oriented companion to Cocoa Design Patterns, another book which greatly helps in explaining the basic logic of the system (but which is sadly out of date, having never been updated for iOS).Another great thing about this book -- it's not just a rehash of Apple's "official" guidance. It's full of advice about occasional bugs in iOS and useful workarounds. This advice shows the scars of experience, and can save a lot of time.If I were just starting out with iOS and building a small library, I'd do the following: - get this book! - print, bind, and read the pdfs of Apple's own "View Programming Guide" and "View Controller Programming Guide". These are great, free, and better than most books. - get in the habit of reading Apple's own class reference documentation. Its quite readable. - perhaps get the Big Nerd Ranch book as well, because worked examples are also useful. - use stackoverflow judiciously, since sometimes it's invaluable but sometimes it's just the blind leading the blind.This new edition of the book, for iOS5, is doing a great job keeping the book up to date and is my preferred source for getting a thoughtful treatment of new features of the platform, like View Controller Containers, storyboards, etc..
Best book about iOS for programmers!
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Finally! I found book, that is not crowded by tons of "example" codes, that can be found elsewhere. The agenda of book is really brilliant. What I like:- it refresh your knowledge of C, in parts that are useful in iOS programming- it is first book, that describes things, how they really works in iOS.- I work as a iOS developer for almost 3 years, but I found a lot of interesting stuff thereThis is not "teach yourself iOS programming in one week" style book, this is not book that describes on 20 pages, how to create simple "Hallo world" app. This is book for programmers and gives you information, that you maybe miss when reading official Apple docs.Thanks! Worth every penny!
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COOP3 wrote:Later when late November rolled around, he had well over 300 birds that we counted on what we call the "holding pond" and thats when I realized how many wild birds it attracted.
What are everyone elses thoughts on it? Just curious and wouldn't mind any helpful tips or advice. I know a lot of people disagree with it and thats fine, I don't mind a dissenting opinion. Lets keep it civil.
wanapasaki wrote:Think what you want but those mallards will leave with wild strains and pair up with them. May or may not come back. Most likely not. Atleast your keeping the population up and throwing some new genetic make up into the flocks lol
romeocadet08 wrote:Shooting released birds is about as cool as AIDs
...just my 2 pennies
wanapasaki wrote:Think what you want but those mallards will leave with wild strains and pair up with them. May or may not come back. Most likely not. Atleast your keeping the population up and throwing some new genetic make up into the flocks lol
LowcountryGamecock wrote:wanapasaki wrote:Think what you want but those mallards will leave with wild strains and pair up with them. May or may not come back. Most likely not. Atleast your keeping the population up and throwing some new genetic make up into the flocks lol
The released mallard is one of the greatest threats to the preservation of the nesting mottled duck population in this state. Migratory mallards (not released mallards) will do what a mallard is supposed to do. They will head North at the end of winter to pair bond, nest, and raise a brood. Mallards are forceful maters. A male mallard is a known sexual deviant and the majority of the time hybrids stem from a mallard drake mating with another species. What happens when you increase the population if mallards in an area where they shouldn't be that has other species nesting there? That's right, hybridization. Years and years ago the mallard release program involved mating wild caught mallards with docile tame mallards. These produced mallards which weren't too far from their wild mallard cousins. Those original released mallards could be found nesting in various standard marshes and praries at higher latitudes throughout our flyway.
Fast forward to today. We take clip toed bastardized non migratory mallards, throw them in a pond, and get excited when half of them survive the winter and produce "wild" mallard offspring with all their toes. Duh they'll produce offspring with all their toes. Clip toed mallards aren't genetically modified so their offspring won't have their extra toe. The fact that they have all their toes does not make them "wild". It makes them docile local ducks that mate with whatever they can pin to the ground. The SCWA has spewed their "mallard release program" far further than they should have. I think the argument could have been legitimately made during their early days (the days of the wildxdomestic crossbreeds) that they were on an ok, but not totally sporting, track. Anyone who believes the mallard release idea is legitimate at this point though is just being ignorant.
Oh by the way, hey guys. I'm new here. I hope I didn't just make too many enemies with my first post.
COOP3 wrote:And just for the record, I know one reason a lot of people are objected to releasing mallards is because of some of the ways its done. Many mallard preserves release the birds by opening the door right before the hunters shoot them. This, I acknowledge is not hunting at all. You might as well be shooting clay targets.
grey duck wrote:Shooting pen raised mallards is for people with money that lack the knowledge to kill wild birds.
romeocadet08 wrote:You'll be just fine here!!! The MRP is to duck hunting as Obama is to our economy.
Bigpuddin43 wrote:I don't have any experience with releasing mallards but deal with people who think that releasing quail is a great idea. I tell them that usually 50-80 % become prey within the first few weeks. They come off with well if the coyotes and hawks are eating them they aren't eating the wild birds. Which makes sense except that removes the natural predator prey relationship. Basically you keep the predators fat and happy and producing more offspring therefore more predators to take both your released birds and the wild ones. It removes the natural predator prey cycle and puts much more pressure on wild birds. Releasing pen raised birds does not increase genetic diversity turning 150 birds loose that were all bred at the same facility by generations all from the same group of ducks is far from genetic diversity.
Do the right thing provide the habitat and manage harvest numbers and ducks can thrive. Habitat is the most important factor in the survival of our waterfowl why throw money away to help the predators that will be taking our wild birds.
XhailGC wrote:Releasing mallards is like shooting fish in a barrel. Where's the sport in it?
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 207, November 3, 2000
UAF Colloquium Series
The UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences and ARSC are jointly sponsoring a Mathematical Modelling, Computational Science, and Supercomputing Colloquium Series.
The schedule and abstracts for the '00-'01 academic year are available at:
http://www.dms.uaf.edu/dms/Colloquium.htmlThe following events are scheduled for this academic year:
- Nov. 16
- Pat Lambert, University of Alaska Fairbanks "Quasi Monte Carlo Methods"
- Dec. 7
- Jon Genetti, San Diego Supercomputer Center "Bringing Space Into Focus"
- Jan. ??
- David Woodall, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Title TBD)
- Feb. 19
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratories (Title TBD)
- Apr. ??
- Vince Mousseau, Los Alamos National Laboratories (Title TBD)
Check the web site later, as an event will almost certainly be scheduled for March. Talks normally occur at 2:00 pm in Natural Sciences rm 165.
Here are some booths and events that have a connection to this newsletter.
(Unfortunately, we forgot to publish our annual request for this kind of information in the last newsletter. If you participate in SC2000, feel free to send us something after the fact, and we'll run it as a followup.)BOOTH: ARSC R1086
Our booth will feature Co-Editor, Guy Robinson. Ask him about commuting at 40 below.
Here's the official blurb:
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center supports the computational needs of researchers within the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, other academic institutions and government agencies by providing high performance computing, visualization and networking resources, programming and technical expertise, and training. Areas of specialty supported by ARSC include ocean modeling, atmospheric sciences, climate/global change, space physics, satellite remote sensing, and civil, environmental and petroleum engineering. ARSC collaborates in a number of partnerships, including a joint effort with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and SGI to build and evaluate a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 single-system image. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center operates a Cray T3E and a Cray SV-1, with visualization resources including a Pyramid Systems ImmersaDesk and a network of SGI workstations located in a video production/training lab and three additional access labs on campus.BOOTH: UNIFIED PARALLEL C (UPC) R1221
This research exhibit will describe the underlying concepts of UPC, an explicitly parallel extension of ANSI C designed to provide both good performance and ease of programming for high-end parallel computers. UPC provides a distributed shared-memory-programming model and includes features that allow programmers to specify and exploit memory locality. Such constructs facilitate explicit control of data and work distribution among threads so that remote memory accesses are minimized. Thus, UPC maintains the C language heritage of keeping programmers in control of and close to the hardware. Among the advanced features of UPC are shared and private pointers into the shared and private address spaces, shared and private data, efficient synchronization mechanisms including non-blocking barriers, and support for establishing different memory consistency models. In addition to its original open-source implementation, UPC has gained acceptance from several vendors who are producing exploratory compilers. Additional information can be found at hpc.gmu.edu/~upc.TECHNICAL PAPER: Brad Chamberlain Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8 Room: D 274
A Comparative Study of the NAS MG Benchmark across Parallel Languages and Architectures
Bradford L. Chamberlain, Steven J. Deitz, Lawrence Snyder, University of Washington
Hierarchical algorithms such as multigrid applications form an important cornerstone for scientific computing. In this study, we take a first step toward evaluating parallel language support for hierarchical applications by comparing implementations of the NAS MG benchmark in several parallel programming languages: Co-Array Fortran, High Performance Fortran, Single Assignment C, and ZPL. We evaluate each language in terms of its portability, its performance, and its ability to express the algorithm clearly and concisely. Experimental platforms include the Cray T3E, IBM SP, SGI Origin, Sun Enterprise 5500 and a high-performance Linux cluster. Our findings indicate that while it is possible to achieve good portability, performance, and expressiveness, most languages currently fall short in at least one of these areas. We find a strong correlation between expressiveness and a language's support for a global view of computation, and we identify key factors for achieving portable performance in multigrid applications.BOF: Don Morton and Guy Robinson Time: Wednesday, 5:30 - 7:00 PM Location: D267
Don Morton, ARSC affiliate and frequent contributer to this newsletter has organized this BOF, along with Guy:
Promoting High-Performance Computing Literacy at Low Cost
Despite years of promoting high performance computing, many educational and industrial organizations with interest in this field still lack the expertise and/or leadership to become literate and productive. It has become evident that simply making HPC architectures widely available in the form of high end supercomputers or even low-cost Beowulfs plays a minimal role in developing the intellectual infrastructure necessary for making HPC a productive tool for the masses.
We are interested in initiating programs that proactively reach out to motivated organizations, help them build small local physical HPC infrastructures and then kick-start them in training and organization. Such outreach can help these organizations become independent and self-sustaining in their use of HPC, and ultimately help them to offer their own contributions to the community. You are invited to participate in a discussion of issues in making high-performance computing available to all who are interested. The organizers are currently embarking on a National Science Foundation funded project that proactively promotes and facilitates high performance computing among faculty and students at the state university level, and wish to extend this outreach to smaller schools and industries.
Discussion Areas:
What kinds of groups do we know that might be interested in parallel computing, but will likely never get far on their own?
What do these groups need to satisfy their interests in parallel computing?
What kinds of outreach programs will help satisfy the needs of these groups?
How do we organize and standardize so that targeted groups are not "on their own" and so that they can readily migrate between various available HPC environments and keep themselves "technically up to date".
Brainstorming to develop plans for initiatives to prototype programs that successfully bring high performance computing to organizations with a long-term commitment.
The overall, broad question is: How do we transform HPC-illiterate groups into active users and contributors in the world of high performance computing?
CUG SV1 Workshop Review
The CUG Fall 2000 SV1 Workshop was held last week.
This 3-day conference focussed on the SV1. About 70 people attended. It was held in the very nice Bloomington (Minnesota) Hotel Sofitel.
Here are some general observations:
- Separation from SGI
Cray employees seem content with their separation from SGI. About two weeks ago, they moved back to the pre-90's offices in Mendota Heights, from Eagan.
- Purchase by Tera
Jim Rottsolk, President and CEO of Cray Inc and co-founder of Tera, and Burton Smith, Chief Scientist at Cray Inc. and Tera and principal architect of the MTA system, were extremely involved and accessible at this CUG. Tera and Cray seem to be getting on well, and there was good energy throughout the conference.
People are learning how to use and optimize for the SV1. First attempts generally get the clock speed improvement when moving from a J90. Optimizing specifically for the SV1 cache has given the biggest payoffs, as shown in talks by both Cray application engineers and user support engineers from centers.
The SV1 is proving useful as a T90 replacement (2-4 SV1 processors per T90 processor) and, for some problems, it has been a huge success because of its generally larger memory. Results are mixed on the usefulness of MSPs.
Cray application engineers have optimized, and continue optimizing, important industrial applications for the SV1.
The topic of the SV2 was raised in several talks, and it is a major focus. The SV2 will be a descendent of both the SV1 and the T3E and will be true to its name: "Scalable Vector".
ARSC recommends that SV1 users monitor the performance of all significant jobs using, at a minimum, "ja" (job accounting) and preferably using both "ja" and "hpm". A performance history can help you understand and improve your code, and catch problems.
"HPM" (the hardware performance monitor) is a non-intrusive tool which reports on the overall CPU performance of your code. You don't need to recompile your code and hpm will not affect code performance.
To use it, simply execute your compiled program using hpm. You can do this at the command line:
chilkoot$ hpm ./a.out
Or, you can include it in your qsub scripts: the report will appear in the stderr file for the NQS job. For instance:
#QSUB -lT 8:00:00 # Request 8 hours #QSUB -lM 100MW # Request 100 megawords #QSUB -eo # This combines stderr & stdout cd $QSUB_WORKDIR # cd back to directory from which submitted hpm ./a.out arg1 arg2 # run the program "a.out" with two args # and monitor its performance with hpm
Here's a sample hpm report for a short SV1 job (note the new "Cache hits" fields):
Group 0: CPU seconds : 24.71210 CP executing : 7413630804 Million inst/sec (MIPS) : 45.31 Instructions : 1119652779 Avg. clock periods/inst : 6.62 % CP holding issue : 78.90 CP holding issue : 5849042552 Inst.buffer fetches/sec : 0.10M Inst.buf. fetches: 2490999 Floating adds/sec : 53.90M F.P. adds : 1331938466 Floating multiplies/sec : 53.80M F.P. multiplies : 1329512427 Floating reciprocal/sec : 7.91M F.P. reciprocals : 195569490 Cache hits/sec : 65.52M Cache hits : 1619092080 CPU mem. references/sec : 226.76M CPU references : 5603742221 Floating ops/CPU second : 115.61M
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A:[[ My Fortran 90 program calls several subroutines and functions. I [[ wanted to inline them, so I recompiling everything with "-Oinline3". [[ Performance was NOT improved but the friendly compiler told me this: [[ [[ cf90-1548 f90: WARNING in command line [[ -O inline3 is no longer the most aggressive form of inlining. [[ [[ and "explain cf90-1548" told me this: [[ [[ The most aggressive form of inlining is now obtained thru [[ -Oinline4. - Oinline3 is a new form of inlining. -Oinline3 [[ invokes leaf routine inlining. A leaf routine is a routine which [[ calls no other routines. With -Oinline3 only leaf routines are [[ expanded inline in the program. [[ [[ I wish folks would spell "through" correctly, but... back to [[ my story... [[ [[ I was, of course, very excited to try "-Oinline4", and recompiled [[ everything again. Disappointment! Performance was NOT improved. [[ [[ Next, I recompiled for flow tracing, "f90 -ef". "flowview" showed [[ the most frequently called subroutine. It was practical, so I [[ inlined it MANUALLY and, lo and behold, performance improved [[ significantly. [[ [[ What am I missing, here? The compiler needs access to the subroutine source code. If the source doesn't appear in the same file as the calling subroutine, then you must tell it where to look using the "-O inlinefrom" option: f90 -Oinlinefrom=<FILENAME> To find out which routines are not being inlined, and why, instruct the compiler to create a listing file using one of the many report options. For instance: f90 -r2 Q: Speaking of inlining, it won't work if the subroutine to be inlined contains Fortran 90 "OPTIONAL" arguments. Unfortunately, my most-frequently called subroutine does indeed have an OPTIONAL argument, named "MASK": SUBROUTINE SUB_ORIG (FIELD, MASK) I've thus replaced SUB_ORIG with two subroutines: one which requires, and one which lacks, the OPTIONAL argument. The code changes were trivial, and the new declarations look like this: SUBROUTINE SUB_nom (FIELD) ! no mask SUBROUTINE SUB_msk (FIELD, MASK) ! mask is required Now the hard part. The original subroutine was called ~360 times, in some 100 source files (of 300 total) which reside in 3 different source directories, and it's called in two different ways, depending on the need for the optional argument. The original calls look, for example, like this: CALL SUB_ORIG (G_BASAL_SALN (:,:)) CALL SUB_ORIG (O_DP_U (:,:,K,LMN), MASK = O_MASK_U (:,:)) I need to update all these calls with the appropriate replacements: CALL SUB_nom (G_BASAL_SALN (:,:)) CALL SUB_msk (O_DP_U (:,:,K,LMN), O_MASK_U (:,:)) How would you manage this?
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In his CM: the Next Generation series, Joe Farah gives us a glimpse into the trends that CM experts will need to tackle and master based upon industry trends and future technology challenges.
In my article, "Building a CM and ALM Strategy," I took a high-level look at the requirements needed for a successful next-generation configuration management (CM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) solution strategy. In this article, I'm taking those same requirements and looking deeper into them.
1. Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Obviously, open source; it's free—well, except for the training. OK, upgrades too. Some administration, but that's to be expected. And we'll worry about the rest of the team later—when we buy more tools—hopefully they will integrate nicely without too much effort. The tool has all sorts of ways to customize it; all we have to do is provide the staff. Oh, and I'm sure there are some open source user interfaces that can go on top of the command line.
Get the picture? Open source may very well mean free, but it doesn't mean low cost. Yes, it is preferable to spending several thousand dollars licensing per user for a commercial solution, especially one that's even got higher training, consulting, and administrative costs. So it certainly looks a lot better. The problem is, you haven't looked enough.
What about a tool that costs a few hundred dollars per user, requires minimal training, has virtually no administration, and does not require a bunch of add-on tools or a separate database product in order to complete the solution? Have you found one yet? Look harder.
2. The Best Technology: Get smart! Don't use vendors to show you how their solution is best. Do some homework and pick out the best features of various solutions. Then bring the vendors in and ask how they support these features. We're talking CM and ALM features; the requirements are well known. If vendors can't meet the feature requirements, cross them off your list—DON'T LOWER YOUR REQUIREMENTS. Use the vendors to learn all the best features and then look for a tool that provides all of these features. Realistically, you may not find 100 percent coverage in one tool, but if you look hard enough, you will come very, very close.
3. A Team Tool: Developers don't like overhead. They want a tool that has little overhead or one that they are familiar with. The same goes for the rest of the team: testers, project managers, CM managers, development managers, executives, technical writers, marketing team, and product management. Don't provide each group its own tool—you'll NEVER get them to work together.
First of all, raise the bar. Don't get a tool that minimizes developer overhead. Get one that gives them a lot more than they could have hoped for and that makes them more productive. Give them something that does things for them that they'll go "wow" at; things that they haven't considered. Developers are familiar with low-level CM tools for the most part. Show them a way to navigate the riches of the CM repository to help them do their work more productively. Don't minimize their interaction with the information.
Then move on to each and every role on the team. If you could have the best tool for a given role, what would it do? What would make it be so easy to use that training is minimal? How does it increase the user's knowledge in his role so that others consider him an expert?
This is the type of team tool you need.
4. Product Quality and Product Requirements: These sort of go hand in hand, as they focus on the customer. Agile works well in many scenarios, but whatever the scenario, clear communication of requirements, including the fact that a customer seldom knows exactly what he wants, and the ability to change requirements incrementally is important. Maybe in a launch vehicle the requirements change less, but change is still inevitable and the better it's supported, the happier your customer will be.
Yes, it's important to trace test cases to requirements and do functional audits, etc. Good tools can do these. But great tools go beyond and answer questions such as: When did this requirement last fail to be met? What requirements have changed between these two builds? What's the status of each customer issue? What's the status of each customer?
Great design can result in a great product. But take away the proper ALM functions, and your great design will not result in a successful product. Delivery issues, customer feedback, quality assurance issues—these will all haunt you if they are not dealt will properly.


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|Beta Gamma Sigma Award Ceremony
|On Saturday, April 28, the Beta Gamma Sigma award ceremony culminated Honors Weekend.
In front of a small and select audience of new initiates, family members, guests and continuing members, graduating seniors and MBAs were recognized for their achievements and presented with blue and gold Beta Gamma Sima honor stoles to wear at Commencement. Michael Edwards, 2011-2012 Beta Gamma Sigma National Scholar, was also recognized, as were Jennifer O'Leary, Julius Vainauskas, and Joe Zenz, who participated in the fall 2011 Beta Gamma Sigma National Student Leadership Forum.
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Professor Rosenthal's eyes sparkle and she bubbles over with enthusiasm when she talks about the Beta Gamma Sigma students. "It is truly my pleasure to recognize and honor the best and brightest students in the School of Business. They have made exemplary contributions to the School and College, and are the ethical business and community leaders of the future." said Rosenthal.
Lifetime membership in the International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a program accredited by AACSB International. Juniors and seniors must be in the top 10% of their class; MBA candidates in the top 20%. Founded in 1913, nearly 700,000 exceptional business students worldwide have been inducted into this elite network of excellence. Members live and work in all 50 states and more than 160 countries around the world.
Dean Mary Ellen Zuckerman adds, "Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma represents the highest honor a business student can achieve. The scholastic accomplishments of our Beta Gamma Sigma inductees are at the highest level, and these are matched by the outstanding work many of them don outside the the classroom. We are extremely proud of these wonderful IC students!"
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