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Roberto Carlos has warned that former team-mate Samuel Eto'o could be a "damaging" influence in the Chelsea dressing room.
The pair played together while at Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, with Carlos joining the club first as a player before moving to form part of Guus Hiddink's backroom staff.
Eto'o was brought in from Inter on a lucrative package in 2011 but Carlos - who has since left the Russian outfit, along with Hiddink, following a cost-cutting exercise over the close-season - believes that the Cameroon international can be a disruptive influence.
"I've known Eto'o since I was 16, and from that time on he's always been a good guy who I've liked a lot," Carlos told Globo.
"He's a good person, but there's a part of him that thinks 'I, and not the group', which is really damaging.
"When a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in signing players who are his friends... it's confusing and strange.
"He did everything at Anzhi, except play football."
Carlos added that the management team's control over the squad began to dwindle when first Eto'o arrived.
"We managed to professionalise the team. In the second year, we signed Eto'o and I had control of the team - I organised the players and worked with the coach. I put Anzhi among the best," he continued.
"With the arrival of Eto'o, with the values of everyone involved, I had some little problems in the dressing room and had to talk to the Russian players and explain why Eto'o was there.
"However, a moment arrived when Eto'o thought to interfere with my work, to control the club, taking my position and that of Guus (Hiddink)."
Eto'o moved to Chelsea in August on a one-year deal, linking up with his former boss at Inter, Jose Mourinho.
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(Eugene Gilden, Linfield State University)
I have a student who will graduate this may with about a 3.99 GPA. She has A's in everything from Spanish to Calculus to Psychology. On the GRE her scores were 800 on the verbal (this is not a typo), 690 quant., and 720 on the analytic. On the subject test she scored 790. During her time on this campus she founded and obtained funding for a student-run, student-staffed peer counseling center. Working with the professional staff she developed a training program for the peer counselors. Outside of campus she lead a successful campaign to build a new elementary school, and ran for and was elected to the local school board. This woman is 20 years old!
In addition to all of this she is in the midst of completing an empirical investigation of memory in preschool children. She applied to about 8 high quality Ph.D. programs in clinical and was turned down by all of them. The reason for being turned down was uniformly the same, she did not have any publications. My problem is that I have a very difficult time believing that there are very many undergraduates who have really done the work to merit authorship on publications. I know that there are labs where everyone who contributes at all from running subjects to making appointments gets included as an author. I am not necessarily opposed to such a process but I believe that as a discipline we must begin to look at authorship with a bit more of a jaundiced eye. Think about your own best undergraduates and your own experience as a graduate and undergraduate student. Sorry to go on so long. Ideas, comments are welcomed. --Eugene
Re: getting students into Ph.D. programs
Eugene -- an injustice has been done. Will someone offer this woman a position? Or does she have to take the back door approach, like so many fine students have to do? By that I mean get into a research-oriented degree and then switch into clinical in your first or second year? This is fairly common I am told, and the end results are two-fold (IMHO): first, it is unfair to the student because they end up spending a couple years in an area that they are not totally interested in; secondly, it is unfair to the "research-oriented" discipline because it loses another student. In other words, the discipline loses in both cases.
(Ken Steele, Appalachian State University)
NO! NO! NO! Do NOT advise students to try a backdoor route. The PhD programs I am familiar with have explicit rules in place to prevent such a maneuver because it was so popular at one time.
Clearly this woman seems objectively qualified. Either she applied to the wrong program (e.g., applying to programs that are preparing individuals for an academic career when she wants to be a practitioner) or she failed to do something else. Did she have interviews at these schools? Ask her what was discussed during the interview. I would bet that there is a good clue there.
The "no research" phraseology sounds like she was applying to the wrong type of clinical program. It is often a bad strategy to apply to a program because it is "famous." One should always ask "famous for what?" and determine if that is what you want to do. --Ken Steele
(Delia M. Cioffi, Dartmouth College)
There is yet another pernicious consequence to the practice of applying to/enrolling in one program track and then switching to clinical; the suspicion the practice has created among admissions committees. Some years ago I was wait-listed at a good program (I had applied to social) simply because they were "worried" that my "real" interests were clinical, and that I was trying to get into that program through the back door. In fact, I had zero interest in clinical, and there was nothing in my record, statement, or admissions materials that should have activated their suspicion. As it turns out I was eventually admitted---but only after I received an NSF Fellowship, which cannot be used to support clinical training (I turned them down).
My 2-cents worth about the bright, accomplished student who didn't get admitted this year; for better or for worse, extensive "outside" activities and life accomplishments (community service, etc) is not necessarily seen as a plus by some committees, perhaps especially those at "competitive" schools. The prototypic "successful" applicant will have done nothing but research psychology, thereby demonstrating their single-minded commitment that most places like to see. Unfortunately, a well-rounded, broad, and balanced roster of undergraduate activities is sometimes seen as a "red flag" rather than as a plus: "if she had stopped futzing around will all that community activism and good citizenship stuff, she'd have some pubs by now". It is not fair, but I have seen it happen. --delia cioffi
(Bill Scott, College of Wooster)
None of our students who applied succeeded in gaining entrance to clinical Ph.D. programs this year. One received 800 on one of her GRE subtests. In a discussion at a local area undergraduate conference recently, it turned out that no one knew of a single successful entry directly from the B.A. into a clinical psych Ph.D. program this year. Our top students did receive a few somewhat apologetic letters from a few programs. The leading reason for the rejections seemed to be that students were being admitted from research positions that they had acquired subsequent to receiving their B.A.'s one, two, or more years ago. It seems to have been a very tough year for undergraduates applying to clinical programs. The M.A. programs are still admitting, though. --Bill Scott
(Paul K. Brandon, Monkato State University)
More than 90% of our MA students get accepted by APA-approved clinical programs Many (but not all) have publications. Some of our undergraduates also get into clinical PhD programs. First question is: did the student apply to only the 'top' clinical programs (no insurance schools)?...
...Look at letters of recommendation. Was any faculty member able to say they had enjoyed working with this student? If not, that might explain the lack of acceptance into elite PhD clinical programs. --Paul K Brandon
(Pat Cabe, Pembroke State University)
A friend of mine described the competition to get into a good graduate program in clinical psych this way: All the applicants have perfect grades and GREs over 1400 and wonderful letters from famous people. After that, he says, it's a crap-shoot.
Everyone who advises undergraduates who have any illusions (or delusions) about going to graduate school ought to INSIST that such students buy (first sign of true commitment), study, and follow the guidelines that Patricia Keith-Spiegel offers in her book, The complete guide to graduate school admission (Erlbaum). Particularly interesting and enlightening, I think, is the summary of her survey of faculty members who are actively involved in screening graduate applications. Research activity and productivity occurs so frequently in the top couple of dozen elements that it simply can't be ignored. So...word to the wise is get involved in some kind of serious-minded research project that has the potential to yield some kind of presentation/publication (or more than one) EARLY in one's undergrad career. The more so if you have kids at a less well-known school, as I do. --Pat Cabe
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He reads a newspaper article from his special day. "It says, 'There's nothing unusual about being born on St. Patrick's Day, unless of course, your parents happen to be O'Rourkes and your doctor is an O'Leary.'"
The Coulee Region native has kept the 37 year-old newspaper article that recognizes the crazy circumstances of his birth, and the Irish doctor, Dr. O'Leary, who helped welcome the young lad into the world.
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Just curious on the opinions, why, and the right way to do it. In my limited experience (and I qualify that by saying I only did it once and probably need to do it more) I will run n gun under 3 circumstances:
1. If I'm in a location that I've either roosted birds the night before or know they are in the immediate area, I will only get up and move if by 0900 I've not seen or heard a peep
2. If I'm going into an area cold from the start, I'll move and call to try and locate birds
3. In order to move around on a bird that is either moving away from me or headed in a different direction from my setup...quite frankly this has not happened to me yet
So assuming number 1 or 2 have occurred and your ready to move, what is your approach to running and gunning...do you still hunt your way through the area, stopping and calling every so often? Do you move quickly through an area, without regard to stealth and call evry so often? Do you get in a vehicle and move on to another area?
I'm going to an area tomorrow for possibly my last hunt of the season. Its not a foreign area to me, but I have not scouted it at all this season. I have an idea where the birds are based on observations from last year, but do not have a setup in mind per say to sit in tomorrow morning. My plan was to walk the two track that runs through the area at first light and do some calling and hopefully get a response. If after going through that area I'm unsuccessful, i was going to get in the truck and hit another area with the same approach. Any thoughts are much appreciated.


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Little sumtin' sumtim' for our Bearssss fans;
Stan b & Elvis
OK....it's time to ramp this up.
You all can argue amongst your selves here, but what I am about to say is GOSPEL!!!
This Sunday, the Green Bay Packers are going to Chicago to play Da Bearssssss.
This is the biggest rivalry in all of sport.
I know, I know, the are many, but this is the biggest between 2 storied organizations.
(Halas Trophy--Lombardi Trophy--Butkus, Payton, Ditka, Starr, Hornung, Holmgren, and that other guy??)
Funny things happen when these 2 teams play.
If you think the history and tradition doesn't matter, and you think that the Bears are going to let the Packers come into their house and take the Halas trophy with out a FIGHT, you are not familiar with these 2 teams history.
This game will be played as hard as anyone can play.
Coaches are hired and fired over these games, regardless overall records.
I guaruntee you, if you watch this game, something bizarre will happen completely out of nowhere.
This will not be an ordinary game.
These 2 teams hate each other, and have since th 20's.
If you watch this game, you will remember it forever!!
Ask any Bears or Packers fan, they will agree.
stan b
Stan b & Elvis
While both teams have a helluva a fight ahead before it would occur, I would LOVE to see a Steeler-Packer superbowl.
I promise, somehow, there will be cigars exhcanged over that one!
For now, we got some real good ol fashioned football this weekend.
Pittsburgh is forcast for 16 degrees at kickoff!! Chi-town probably won't be any warmer! How many empty seat do you think you'll see at either stadium??
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
That made me sad at the Falcons game.
In GB, no matter what, we stay to the end.
Same in Chi.
If the team lost, we would probablt boo.
Then cheer them for an hour after the game thanking them for the season.
Trust me, I have been at Lambeau after a LOSING season and the fans stick around and thank the team for the effort.
I don't get the world anymore.
13-3 on the season and you bail???
Good luck against the Jets, I don't like them.
stan b
Stan b & Elvis
I have been losing sleep at night thinkin' about the Packers - Bears game. Sunday cant get here fast enough. Last Saturday I got together with some other packers fans and we took double shots of whiskey with a cube of cheese in it for every TD and chugged a beer for every FG the Pack scored. I have never in my life wanted the Pack to stop scoring, but I was close Saturday. A Rod is a god in my eyes. We can not be stopped if our receivers show up to catch and Starks puts up even 75 yards during the game. Our defense will hold the Bears to less than 17 points, its on A Rods shoulders after that. CM III is a beast of a man.
Gavin B.
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
it was horrid, sharp cheddar and pepper jack, your choice....
We have all agreed to do it again Sunday....whatever it takes to win. Monday could be rough.
Gavin B.
Remember, when the conditions are poor, it brings the talent level of both teams closer.
Both the Packers and Steelers are 3.5 points favorites.
I know which way I am going!
"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
DA BEARRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!"He kind of hopped over me," Masthay said. "I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. That's not really in my mind, what will I do if he breaks through there."
My Father,My Friend,My teacher,and now My Angel~ 04/21/1956-03/21/2011 You will always be missed. I hope to learn half of the stuff you knew.
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Circle Hooks
I just read an article in the RI Saltwater Anglers news letter, which had a study done by the Maryland Dept of Natural Resources. In catch and release circle hooks mortility rate was 0.8 %, conventional hooks was 9.1 %. I have tried tying some patterns on circle hooks, its not very easy.
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Art -
Very significant numbers, worth considering for flies. At the risk of sounding biased, I think it's safe to say the mortality levels on the high end are predominately due to gut hooking with bait. That's also where the circle hook has the most impact, because of it's tendency to slide out of the gullet and catch on the lip.
I know my mortality rate is no where near 1 in 10. I'd go as far as to say it's not 1 in 50, although long term affect on the fish is unseen after it swims away, I'd even wager one in 100 with regular barbless hooks. Even still the circle hook may have a place in flyfishing. I've tried pogie patterns, sand eels and crab patterns on circle hooks. The pogie patterns were aggravating because I wouldn't hook up - partially because of the way I fish them. Usually fast but always herky jerky and set right away. The sand eels would have fared better but I couldn't get the balance right with those odd shaped hooks.
The crab on the other hand was a perfect match. Stripers tend to swallow crab flies. It's rare for me to have a bunker or eel fly hooked deep, but with crab flies it's common. I believe they put them right on those crusher plates as soon as they swallow them to avoid getting pinched.
It's hard not to set the hook the way we're used to, but the circle crab is a good use for circle hooks in my opinion. Even still the hooks used for bait are not ideal for flies. It would help to have circle hook manufacturers pay attention to fly fishing hooks with the features of circle hooks.
Maybe that could be a project for the FORUM.
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Juro, After the first of the year I will send the article. It sounded like it was done very scientifically. They even used the same temperature water, retained the fish for 72 hours, the ones that died they did autopsies on. There was nothing mentioned about flies. It is just my personal observation about using circle hooks. Some other questions we should discuss,Barbless hooks, and stainless steel hooks.
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Juro- Eagle Claw makes a black teflon circle hook that's not offset just for fly fishing. I tried them but am not happy with them- lost too many fish. They also tend to rust pretty rapidly. Just my $.02. ronl
Artb- I found that with the black nickel teflon hooks I had to anchor the initial wraps of the thread with super glue or the fly would twist while tying or after the first fish. The hooks don't last long enough for me and I miss too many hits. ronl
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Good topic!
I think the real issue for circles is for techniques that put the hook deep in the fish's anatomy. I don't believe fly fishing is in that category. In my opinion, only the crab fly falls into that category for striper fly fishing. Trout - no issue; steelhead/salmon - no; freshwater bass - doubtful; bonefish - nada; etc.
Chunk bait is in tht category because the bait is sliced into easy to swallow pieces, then laid down on the table with the rod in a holder (rarely in the hands). Eels fall into that category because most people wait for the bass to get the weinerschnitzel down the gullet before setting the hook.
The circle hook is a set line hook. Long liners use them because they can't tend to the fish until they circle back around, and circle hooks put the hook in the lips for them. But these same commercials don't use circle hooks on their jigs and hoochies because they hook in the lips anyway. Bait fishing is an individualized set line. Circle hooks really apply there. I'd like to see the regulations require circle hooks for bait fishing.
I went away from crab flies last year because of the deep hookings I had the previous year. Stripers put their crusher plates (throat) on crabs right away and you get no time to set before the fly is too deep. Further experiments with circle crabs will continue next year on monomoy.
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Juro, one of the members of crossroads informed me at the last meeting( as I was tying a polarfiber minnow on a circle hook), that circle hooks are not the way to go for normal streamer type flies. you'll miss too many hookups. however, they are great for crab flies and the like, for the reason you suggested. anything that gets sucked down into the gullet area can cause internal injury, so the circle hook is ideal, because it will be more likely to pull out and lip-hook the fish. so crab flies are great on them. I haven't done much with shrimp patterns, is the same swallowing problem common to them? Tom D
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Tom -
It's good to see a lot of people coming around to the circle crab thinking. Not meaning to take credit but as far as I know we're the first to apply the hook design to flies in a way that concluded that crab flies were the right application for them. Lately I hear a lot of folks saying that same thing back to me. That's good!
Last year I noticed many, many people using crab flies out on Monomoy. Gone are the days when people like Steve Robbins were pioneering their use on northeast flats. I also noticed that prior to last year, stripers would be veritable suckers for crab flies. My theory, although unscientific, is that the explosion of crab fly use has conditioned the fish to look twice before eating. They certainly still follow, but the rate of crab fly takes has drastically reduced for me and the folks I have taken fishing last year using the same patterns. It's taught me to be better with sand eels and juvenile squid, which is a good thing too. My flats sand eel trickery has dramatically improved as a result.
To answer your question, I am not big on shrimp patterns although I do use them and carry them in case of a sip-fest. The one time I wished I had one more than any other was when I found a pod of squeteague sipping shrimp at a river mouth. I did not end up hooking up, but am confident that a good shrimp pattern would have changed this outcome.
As far as stripers go, I don't associate shrimp patterns with big stripers... this could be a fault in my thought process but it's an honest admission. Maybe others can answer this question better than I?
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When stripers hit baitfish they hit it on the fly. They swim up to their prey grab the morsel between their pallets and turn. Using the force of their momentum and water hydraulics (when water flushes through their mouth) they orient the bait and swallow. Stripers are hooked during the first process because of the tension on the line sets the hook when they turn. They never get the chance to swallow the hook because the initial grab sets the hook. A circle hook becomes inefficient.
Feeding on crabs, shrimp, et, the striper isn't in a chase mode, so basically they feed in a passive position. Hydraulics is used in this case, were they open their mouth and suck in the food. Both style of hooks will hook in this situation but the line of pull for a circle hook will rotate the hook as it is being pulled out, extenting the barb. But the important things is the hooking areas now is outside the gill areas.
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I'm just starting up on tying next seasons crabs. Some will be on circles as an experiment, but I've never experienced much of a problem with deep hooking stripers with crab flies. Maybe one or two fish a year that really take the fly down to the crushers.
If you are finding that you're catching fish that deep on crabs I would recommend using a strike indictor. I did this for many seasons and you'll be surprised at how early you can set the hook and how many stripers you can lip-hook with crabs. I like a small piece of neon yarn tied directly to the leader about 4' from the fly.
Try this, it will be an education on when stripers really have eaten the bug.
As for the popularity of crabs, you're making me weep, it used to be so simple. Like every season, the search is on to find a "new" pattern that the fish won't be offered by every other angler on the flats.
I had good luck with shrimp patterns last year, but I'm not certain the fish thought that they were eating shrimp. Steve
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Hey sRobbins.....
I would assume that you're fishing those crab patterns in the upper water column with a floating line? Some of us use these same flies with sinking lines. I think that's the time, in this situation, when fish tend to get hooked deeper into their mouth cavity. They have their mouth to the ground, verus them taking a floating fly and heading toward the bottom.
Once had a fisher friend with a drinking problem. One time a floating empty of a Henkie bottle came floating by. As him why he was thrashing the place? He told me that was his strike indicator?
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Steve -
I account for my high percentage of deep hookings to (1) my relative lack of experience with crab flies and (2) the way I fish them most of the time as a shore schlepper. I started using them about four years ago (?) and like I said the year before last was the apex. When I fished them blind, which I did mostly, they would be taken deep. When I played cat and mouse on Monomoy, they would usually not - although I did experience some deep hookings even when set quickly on sight hooked fish not nearly the same percentage.
I fish them blind by casting them into a hump sequence in a moving tide and walking them up a ridge, then letting them slide down into the next hollow with the current. Absolutely DEADLY. Unfortunately, with the force of the current pushing on the line and the fact that it's a blind presentation, I hooked a lot of fish deep in the crushers and stopped doing that despite it's effectiveness.
When I sight fish the flats, I still use crabs with regular hooks. Last year on Monomoy, my son and I were walking crabs in front of some huge bass one summer day. He had a cow playing cat and mouse with his crab right up to the leader. It was awesome watching him experience the same kind of intense anticipation I do in the same situation! The fish turned away when it saw us.
Steve, your comments make me realize that (a) you are fishing from a flats boat (b) sight fishing afficionado (c) experienced with crab fly fishing. Therefore you are probably getting the hook set quickly upon the take.
It also makes me realize that the deep hookings were from blind crab presentations "in the humps". Therefore I think the application where circle crabs play the most important role is in the latter.
That's a valuable introspection because it will give me comfort in fishing the humps with crabs again using circle hooks this season.
Note: using the deep eel in this situation produces like mad and I have not had any measurable precentage of deep hookings with them. Maybe the shape has something to do with it as well as the eating technique?
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Ray, 95% of my fishing is sight-fishing on the flats (Chatham) and for 95% of that fishing I use crab flies. Late April though Early October. The only exception is tiny tuna. I use sinking lines, floaters, and intermediates, but I'm always sight-fishing. You could count on two hands the number of blind casts I make in a season. That's just my preference.
In the early season I often use an indicator, especially if I'm using small flies and clear flylines around pods of fish. With very few exceptions, I've rarely fished with anyone that easily detects that actual taking of the fly -- the opening mouth and the flare of the gills are too early to set the hook with a crab fly, and the tug on the line is too late.
Something happens in between, and I can't describe it. If you watch an indicator you will see what I mean. Most years I've found that "sixth sense" by June, can dispense with the indicator, and can just watch the fish.
I don't see your point about differences in where the fish are in the water column. Some days they won't take a crab unless it's on the bottom, other days I've had fish rise up to meet a falling fly. I've never felt the need to adjust my fishing style too much. If you're regularly hooking fish deeply on flies, in any circumstance, there's angler error involved.
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If I haven't said it lately I'll say it again. I have the utmost admiration for wading anglers. I am a terrible and impatient wading angler and I truly think that the way I fish is the "easy" way. I only cast if I see fish -- I leave if I don't. I get to watch how fish react to every cast, every fly, and every retrieve. It's pretty easy to adjust what I'm doing and eventually get it "right."
I like the technique you've described and it sound remarkably similar to the way I fish nymphs on a particular trout stream. Again, I would urge you to experiment with a strike indicator -- I think you'll be surprised at how clear the "takes" become.
I agree that the fish are wising-up. I reassure myself that when the Sulfers are hatching everyone on the stream is trying to match them with a finite selection of patterns and the trout get wise too. Presentation, fine terminal tackle, stalking, and maybe an unusal fly all become weapons.
Still, I've spent all week at the vise and have very few flies to show for my time. I'm desperate to start the season with some "new" crabs. I've eliminated a few directions and have a few more to try. Otherwise it's back to the ol' standards as my tying time is getting short. Steve
RE:Circle Hooks
With the strike indicator tied 4 feet from the fly, are you watching the movement of the yarn underwater? I think we talk during the summer about Monomoy.
RE:Circle Hooks
This was the first season I fished with a crab fly and it proved to be VERY effective. I only caught one while sight fishing and it was lip hooked. The other fish were all caught using a controlled swing in the current and above the bottom. The technique seemed similar to skating a fly for stealhead except its underwater. Many of those fish were lip hooked and all of them were hooked clear of vitals (kind of a "deep" lip hook). It seems to me, inexperienced as I am, that the danger of deep hooking would arise most prominently during the slack line bottom presentation and that an indicator could prove quite valuable. I think next season will see me equiped with a couple indicators.
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This past weekend was my first turkey tag of the season. I looked forward to it as always. My season would not go as planned though, as often times happens. My oldest daughter was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and at the beginning of the week we were joking around as to when the baby would come. I asked her to please wait till after turkey season was done, as this would be my first grandson and then I would have more time. She asked when that was and I replied May 27 would work for me. Now her due date was May 10, so that really didn't go over so well.
Wednesday was the first official day of my tag, but I knew I wouldn't be able to hit the woods till Friday as I had taken the day off to hunt. Well, again plans change. She went to the doctor and they in turn sent her straight to the hospital. Her blood pressure was way to high and the only way to correct that was to induce. They didn't induce until Thursday night. Friday morning I hit the woods with a friend and his wife. She has never shot a gobbler, so that was my mission. The first part of the morning was uneventful. A little later we tried a different property and were about 20 yards away from a triple. So close yet so far. After that I had to quit hunting and pick up my other daughter and go spend some time at the hospital. I went out for about 2 hours that afternoon and saw 2 hens and 8 deer, and a fox.
I slept with one eye open that night as I knew my daughter was getting close to delivering. But as the alarm went off at 3:30am, still no baby so hunting I went. We had some good action with a gobbler that stayed on the roost in our sight for over an hour after most of the rest of them hit the ground. He finally flew down, but never came in for a shot.
During this time my phone went off and I got the call that I had a new grandson. Luke was born at 5:07am. We came out of the woods by 8am and headed to the hospital to meet him. Never went out hunting again that day.
Sunday I planned on hunting hard now that Luke had come, but the weather forecast was not looking good for the afternoon, so I figured we had to get it done in the morning. I walked out in the morning and it was raining and windier than I thought it would be. I was worried the birds wouldn't talk much. I was wrong. We had at least 8 different gobblers gobbling off the roost. At least 4 of them were within 100 yards. They had a lot of hens, but by 7:30 we got a lone gobbler to wonder in and I shot him at 30 steps. Then we notice he has 2 beards. The one isn't much, but none the less my first double bearded bird.
Next tag starts in 2 weeks, don't know how that one can top this weekend, but hey I will give it a try.
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Faculty Discuss Best Practices for Student Engagement
From left, Associate Professor of Management and Marketing Randy DeSimone, Associate Professor of Communication Valerie Endress, Associate Professor of English Becky Caouette, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Kate Sanders and Senior Programmer/Consultant for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Marie Beardwood.
How does better student engagement start?
Rhode Island College Associate Professor of Communication Valerie Endress advises creating a classroom environment of expectation and accountability – for professors and students.
Endress spoke on the panel "This Works for Me: Experienced Faculty Members Discuss Best Practices for Student Engagement" at the RIC Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) Adjunct Faculty Summer Workshop.
For example, she said students should know not only what is required of them to excel during the semester, but also what is required to excel during each class period.
"If a student comes to class prepared, they are more likely to engage and to learn more," Endress said. "Students rise to the expectations you set. You have to establish the expectation that they prepare (for class)."
Endress spoke along with Associate Professor of Management and Marketing Randy DeSimone, Associate Professor of English Becky Caouette, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Kate Sanders and Senior Programmer/Consultant for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Marie Beardwood.
Bonnie MacDonald, associate professor of communication and director of the FCTL, moderated the discussion.
The FCTL each summer invites adjunct faculty members to attend a one-day professional development workshop. This year's theme was student engagement. The workshop focused on exploration and discussion of ways to engage students, with RIC faculty presenting engagement strategies at breakout sessions.
MacDonald asked panelist speakers a series of questions surrounding day-to-day engagement practices, including setting attendance policies, connecting with struggling students, soliciting course feedback and monitoring academics.
Caouette said she strives to set an inclusive class atmosphere where students know their presence is important to everyone's experience.
"I talk about why class participation is important and why their presence is important to our community," Caouette said. "They know their presence is more than something I mark down in the books."
DeSimone said students have better attendance rates when they know that each class session is crucial to their education.
"I let them know that something of value happens in every class," DeSimone said. "That includes starting on time and keeping them in class the entire time. I also call on each student regularly and establish patterns and routines. What it comes down to is that if you expect participation, you give student the opportunity to engage."
During the panel discussion, faculty also advised using frequent quizzes and writing prompts to measure academic progress and reaching out to students who may be struggling with course material.
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Jumpstart January 2013 SIGGIE
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I am a bit sentimental about my Siggie so usually just embellish and decorate the basic one I made. So, I did that for Jumpstart January.
For this Siggie I used:
ABR Hippie At Heart Collection Super Mini
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Yes, I have never seen any other siggie but this one - updated for all the seasons and events-- fun idea to add the journalling and calendar!
LOVE how you've added the calendar to your siggie, Marilyn - and your siggie is sooooo you! I love that you've kept the same one all this time!
Cute siggie! I love the calendar idea. I like how you are able to vary your siggie with the seasons. Very cool.
Good idea, Marilyn, to update your siggie. It's a great one and we all know it's you. LOL
What a unique and clever idea Marilyn! I like it!
Love your word art heart around your name. Great siggie.
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10 Colorado players.
Montreal Impact trade Josh Gardner to Sporting KC for a 2nd round pick (the higher of KC's 2 2nd round picks) in the 2013 MLS Draft.
Less than a year after being traded away from the team he spent two years starring for, Sebastien LeToux is one his way back to the Philadelphia Union.
The New York Red Bulls have traded LeToux to the Philadelphia Union for allocation money and the rights to a player to be named later, sources with knowledge of the trade confirmed to SBI on Thursday. The trade came the same day the Red Bulls made a Bona Fide offer to LeToux to secure his MLS rights, which paved the way for the trade.
LeToux returns to the Union after spending time with the Vancouver Whitecaps and Red Bulls in 2012. Traded from the Union to the Whitecaps for allocation money at the start of the 2011 season, LeToux will now return to a Union side where he scored 25 goals over the course of the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
Odd move.
Not really. He's extremely well liked in the area.
He was originally traded to Vancouver from Philly in the offseason, and then from Van City to New York.
FC Dallas has signed former Atlético Madrid midfielder Peter Luccin pending receipt of his P-1 visa and International Transfer Certificate (ITC).
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E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "Are you a coward? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English with some French, proficient with all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, 17 rue Dante, Nice, 2me étage, apt. D."
How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. She seemed to have many names but agreed he could call her Star. A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes. And she sends him on the adventure of a lifetime.
Robert A. Heinlein's one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules, and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny, and tremendously readable - a favorite of all who have read it. Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was the dominant science fiction writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the field was immense. He won science fiction's Hugo Award for best novel four times.
©1963 Robert A. Heinlein; renewed 1991 by Virginia Heinlein; 2003 by the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust; Afterword 1979, 1984 by Samuel R. Delany (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"A triumph."(Chicago Tribune)
"Glory Road maintains a delicacy, a bravura, and a joy that not only are notable, but clearly consign it to his heptology of major SF novels." (Samuel R. Delany, American author and literary critic)
"Heinlein's only fantasy"
This is a great book. I've been wishing for a long time that Audible would get it. I've read it over and over again through the years, and I'm happy to say that now I'll be able to listen to it over and over again because Bronson Pinchot does a wonderful job with the characters' voices.
I'm not sure that this is really a fantasy. It has swords and seems to have sorcery, but the magic gets explained in such a way that it seems to (almost) be advanced science. But it has the feel of fantasy. If Heinlein wrote this book today, the publisher would have insisted on a 20-book series, and I truly think our hero Oscar Gordon could have provided it to us.
Heinlein was born more than a hundred years ago, and attitudes toward male/female relations were different then. But just as we do not hold Shakespeare or Homer to 21st Century societal norms, so we must give Heinlein a pass here as well. He was trying.
I think that any young man who likes science fiction or fantasy will like this adventure story. And I think that women who can release their grip on modern feminism for the space of a few hours will like it as well.
Get this book.
"Heinlein's great story, a glorious spin by Pinchot"
Unlike many Heinlein fans, I have loved "Glory Road" since I read it as a teenager. At that time, I had just read "The Lord of the Rings" and was delighted by what I saw as a beautiful fantasy adventure that wasn't quite so heavy and thoughtful.
WRONG. It's just as topical and political and sneaky about making one think as any of Heinlein's books... but more about that later. Suffice to say that E. C. "Oscar" Gordon (and why anyone would name a little baby boy Evelyn Cyril is beyond this writer; though my given name is also Evelyn I'm at least FEMALE) became a voice in my head as the competent, reluctant -- or not so reluctant -- hero, one I always remembered, and the book a sentimental favorite.
I adore Audible books, but often the casting is not to my preference. Hazard of the trade, I guess. The wonder is, after a few moments, Bronson Pinchot, an actor I've always liked but wrongly considered something of a lightweight, BECAME the voice of Oscar in my head. Pinchot's command of narrative, dialogue, nuance, and, yes, dialect, made this story come alive for me as never before. I could close my eyes and be THERE; his reading gave it an immediacy that I seldom get from **any** production, audio, video, or otherwise. I wonder if he's a fan?
Reading "Glory Road" time and again over many years, I have come to see the craft that seemed so effortless the first time through. Heinlein was current with not only the time he wrote this classic (1962 or thereabouts) but with the time I read it, in the early 1970s with the war in Southeast Asia still going on in its bloodiest, most nonsensical glory (yeah, folks, get over it, I AM that old). And sadly, he was correct about how "non-veterans" got treated after that war for many years.
I'm off to find more of Mr. Pinchot's audiobooks. I recommend this for fans of Heinlein, sword and sorcery, and just plain good acting and narration of a book. I had a whale of a lot of fun listening to it, and I'll bet you will, too. It's worth the time.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
"Full Figured Amazon"
This was published in 1963 and marks the beginning of when RH seems to have one hand on the typewriter and the other. This is nowhere near as bad as what he will write in the future, but you can see it coming. I found this silly and not worth my time.
I am a fan of the Heinlein of the 50's, I wish I would have never read anything after Starship Troopers.
"Fun swashbuckeling tale full of monsters & maidens"
One of my favorite books, it's Heinlein's homage to Edgar Rice Burrough -
full of the swashbuckling, macho, romantic ideals of ERBs Barsoom (John Carter/Mars) series (including the silly romantic banter).
Heinlein's witty, insightful, and caustic (at times) commentary on the military and the Vietnam War in particular are spot-on. The off Earth adventures are over-the-top, filled with sword fights and monsters. The character development is good, especially the grudging respect that grows between Oscar and Rufo.
All in all it is just plain fun and well worth the listen.
"So glad t get on audible"
I've read just about every Heinlein book that was ever written. I read this MANY years ago. It is Heinlein's only true Fantasy. .
Well the hero was mature for his age, but not self conscious. You also have to realize the story was supposed to have been taking place around the time of the Vietnam conflict. So the What is considered PC now was not so then. How ever the story if you over look that one small thing again it is Fantasy so it takes you to places that may be more like the way we see things now that we did then.
Bronson Pinchot is one of the best narrators that Audible has. I've listened to him narrate about 5 different books. Each of them having many characters from women to gruff monsters, Mr Pinchot does it all with class. Also expressing emotion as well.
I was trying to but I fell asleep and had to go back about 9 chapters. If you are a Heinlein fan and never read this book give it a shot. I was so glad I got this because Bronson Pinchot did a 5 star job of narration.
I think you should get Mr Pinchot to narrate more books.
"Not sure this is really as good as you remember"
I've had this book in my Amazon wishlist for a long time as I've heard a lot of good things about it and read the great reviews. So I was happy when I saw it was available on Audible and gave it a listen.
I don't know exactly what to say other than I just found the book kind of silly and juvenile for the most part. Very disappointing, because the first chapters of the book about Gordon's life and path to Vietnam were really good. It really lost me almost immediately as soon as the story leaves Earth.
I have a feeling my problem with this book is that it was written in 1964 or whatever and just doesn't hold up as well for a first time reader. Its like being a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica and remembering how great it was when you were a kid. But if you show it to your kid today, they likely wouldn't see it the same way.
I hate to bash the book as it clearly has a lot of fans who love it. My comment is just that if you're like me and you've grown up reading Gibson or Stephenson or more contemporary sci-fi writers, you might find this a little unsophisticated.
Bronson Pinchot's narration was pretty awesome though.
"Great redition of a classic"
Any Heinlein fan would find this novel enjoyable. While his only fantasy, most of the technology in this book was explained as science and not magic. The character creation and word play is vintage Heinlein.
The only complaint I have on the reader is that the volume on the primary female character, Star, drops off considerably from the other characters. When you're listening in a convertible, it means cranking up the volume.
Heinlein first published this book 50 years ago this year and it's been 40 since I first read it. While some people feel that the interplay between the sexes has changed so much in the intervening decades, I note them and enjoy seeing how much has changed. Surprisingly, these distracters never criticize Dickens, Wells, Dumas, or Bronte for their writing in their own milieus.
Heinlein is known for his strong feminine characters (based loosely on his wife Victoria). The hero in this novel, like many of Heinlein's, could not succeed without the assistant of the primary female character.
"A fun ride."
The characters are colorful and sharp. Classic Heinlein.
Oscar is exactly what I would expect from a Heinlein hero.
I was pleasantly surprised by Bronson Pinchot's narration. With one exception I love what he did with the characters in this book. I was a bit bothered at first by the fact that he gave Rufo a french accent. But it didn't take long to get used to it.
I read this book as a young adult and it's just as much fun now as it was then. A good ride!
"Great story and performance!"
Every time the hero stumbled over a custom or situation which was strange to him, I enjoyed "watching" him decide how to respond and what questions to ask to get enough information to really understand what was happening.
Although I've been reading Heinlein for years, I didn't actually remember this story. I truly enjoyed the experience.
"Enjoyable reading of perhaps Heinlein's best book"
I first read "Glory Road" in 1963 when it was serialized in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". I subsequently bought the book in paperback and, carrying it with me around the world, reread it several times. I think "Glory Road" is one of the few Heinlein books that doesn't suffer quite so much from the author's penchant for taking a story so far and then not knowing what to do with it while his sometimes obstreperous libertarianism is not quite so grating here. "Glory Road" consists of two distinct parts: the first is a thoroughly fabulous, swashbuckling "Quest"; the second is a rather insightful examination of the mundane, "real-world" consequences of having undertaken and completed The Quest. It spoke directly to me both before and after becoming an expat.
I know the book very well in other words (I have parts of it memorized) and it was with some trepidation that I bought the audiobook version. I was not disappointed. Bronson Pinchot is an accomplished voice actor. (How many people know/remember that he played "Balki Bartokomous" in the mid-80s/early-90s US sitcom "Perfect Strangers"?). His characterizations (especially of the supporting roles) are a joy to listen to. Admittedly his "Star" is not what I imagined her (he makes her sound like a sultry Doris Day) and his Rufo wanders sometimes disconcertingly between Peter Lorre and Pepe Le Pew. Nevertheless his voice acting makes a huge contribution to the enjoyment of this production, which is much more satisfying that any straightforward reading could have been.
Highly recommended as an enjoyable reading of what may be Heinlein's best book.
"Real Old School Sc-Fi"
One of Heinlein's best stories but now so out of it's time it quite difficult to listen to without flinching at some of the attitudes expressed.
I always found this story difficult to put down because the universe described is so alluring it was almost a culture shock to come back to reality.
Sadly, (or fortunately) this narrator cured me of that problem - the most irritating French accent I've ever had to suffer. Strange and poor choice for this performance.
Try reading the book yourself first perhaps.
"Classic Playboy Era Sci-fi"
I read this for the first time back in the seventies and it seemed the height of sophistication to the spotty adolescent I was then. Now it seems a bit chauvinistic and the end unnecessarily drawn - out. Despite this it remains a sexy adventurous romp, far superior to most of the modern day sword and sorcery stuff and is undoubtedly one of Heinlein's best.
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It's been asked before, but what's in a name? Scarborough voters had the chance to ponder a variation of the Bard's tricky question on Election Day, when they were asked if the School Board should reconsider Scarborough High School's mascot nickname, the "Red Storm." The non-binding referendum, which narrowly failed to pass, came in response to a petition from a group of Scarborough alumni who were calling for a return to its previous nickname, the "Redskins."
The Scarborough School Board changed from "Redskins" to the "Red Storm" eight years ago, at a time when high school and college teams around the country were trending away from using Native American mascots, because they were deemed offensive and exploitative by Native Americans. According to the New England Anti-Mascot Coalition's Web site, six Maine high schools still represent their teams with Native American names and images. Three high schools call their teams the "Warriors" (Nokomis Regional, Southern Aroostook Community School, and Wells High); only one school, Skowhegan High, calls its teams the "Indians." As for the most contentious of Native American mascot names, "Redskins," Scarborough's change left only two high schools employing the term: Wiscasset and Sanford (from which this reporter graduated in 1988).
Putting aside whether or not the names Warriors or Indians were questionable on their own merits, when considering Maine's remaining "Redskins" teams, a question arises, as we commemorate the pilgrims and the Indians breaking bread together in brotherhood, way back in the colonial day. That question, with apologies to James Fenimore Cooper, was which town will be the last "Redskins" holdout, Sanford or Wiscasset?
College and the Pros: Two Messages
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has been at the forefront of the Native American mascot battle for years. Although they cannot force member schools to abandon Native American mascots, in 2005 the NCAA's executive committee adopted a policy forbidding schools from "displaying hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery at any of the 88 NCAA championships."
That might not sound like much leverage, but many school officials looking down the road saw the potential for their institutions to be embarrassed on a national stage and got the message. According to the NCAA's Web site, as of February of 2007, at least 11 colleges and universities had changed, or indicated their intent to change, their Native American nicknames. Other schools, most notably the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux, are negotiating with the tribes they are named after, seeking approval to continue the name. In 2005, the Florida State Seminoles received permission to keep their nickname from Seminole tribes in Florida and Oklahoma. As of 2007, one of the three Sioux tribes in North Dakota had refused their permission for the university to retain the nickname, and according to an agreement the school reached with the NCAA in October 2007, if the remaining tribe cannot be swayed by 2010 the mascot must be retired. No NCAA schools use the nickname "Redskins."
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'Failure of Humanity in Rwanda' is topic, Nov. 5
Posted November 4, 2002; 03:46 p.m.
Romeo Dallaire, former force commander of the United Nations mission to Rwanda, will present a lecture titled "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Dallaire, who recently retired after serving for 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces, is known for his attempts to protect innocent civilians in the Rwandan conflict. He currently is the special adviser to Canada on war-affected children and is completing a book on the Rwandan civil war and genocide.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , Canadian Studies Program, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Center of International Studies, Davis Center for Historical Studies and Program in African Studies.
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
If it's a Monday, which it is, then it must be time for a couple varying perspectives on Apple (AAPL)
Trip Chowdhry of boutique shop Global Equities Research, offers a repeat of the scathing remarks he offered back on June 24th, with the assertion that CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are "destroying shareholder value" by having engineered the biggest bond offering and biggest corporate buyback in history, and that morale is low and Apple risks losing employees. He speculates whether Cook and Oppenheimer will be replaced by former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
In a different vein, Stifel Nicolaus's Aaron Rakers reiterated a Buy rating and a $600 price target, writing that the company's gross margin appears to have actually risen in the March quarter, rather than fallen, when backing out depreciation and amortization expense and warranty expense.
He concludes depreciation, and capital expense, is a bigger factor than investors realize, and that "investors should question the direction Apple's capital intensity could stabilize and/or decelerate going forward and thus how we should think about the impact on the company's longer-term margin trends."
Apple shares today are down $2.38, or 0.6%, at $415.04.
The personal computer market gets a couple of grim notes today, and with it, shares of Intel (INTC).
Intel shares are down 66 cents, or 2.7%, at $23.40.
Glen Yeung of Citigroup writes that "As we begin 2H13, growth remains elusive: PC data points are tracking worse than expectations," citing things such as weak notebook production by original device makers and Intel's own demand from its "back end" suppliers having been flat to down 5% last quarter. He cut his estimate for Intel revenue last quarter to $12.61 billion from a prior $12.9 billion. Yeung has a Hold rating on Intel shares and a $24 price target.
And Evercore Partners's Rob Cihra cut his estimate for the PC market this year to a decline of 10% from a prior 6% decline estimate, writing "We see just modest 2H13 seasonal help from new Haswell and touch product cycles, with weakness frankly a YTD continuation of what has already been hurting PCs for 2 years now," including cannibalization by the tablet computer and negative demand in the formerly promising emerging markets.
Cihra's colleague, Patrick Wang, cut his rating on Intel shares to Underweight from Equal Weight, and cut his price target to $20 from $22, writing that shares have peaked "as investors rewarded Intel with healthy multiple expansion for progress in Bay Trail (i.e., Silvermont core), the symbolic Samsung tablet win, and hope for a stronger 2H," but he worries "near-term PC trends continue to weaken," prices of chips have peaked, and Intel's success with its Atom line of processors will accelerate the cannibalization of the desktop franchise.
Bernstein Research's Stacy Rasgon, reiterating an Underperform rating, offers something of a back-handed compliment, writing that "IF Intel can achieve the higher pricing for Atom they are seeking (say, $45/part, rather than the historical $25 or so), it could happen that operating cash flow would decline less than their wafer starts," with less of an impact on Intel's free cash flow.
On the other hand, Keith Bachman with BMO Capital, looking at the same kinds of notebook ODM data, writes that he's not changing his PC projection for a 10.5% decline in shipments this year, though he sees "upside tension," in the sense it's still possible shipments could turn out better than expected.
Speaking of PCs, shares of Dell (DELL) are up 31 cents, or 2.4%, at $13.34, after Institutional Shareholder Services surprised the Street and recommended that Dell holders vote in favor of CEO Michael Dell's $13.65 offer to take the company private, according to a statement this morning by the special committee of Dell's board of directors. The company said ti was "pleased" ISS made the decision in favor of the leveraged buyout. Shareholders are expected to vote on the transaction on July 18th. The ISS approval comes after speculation last week that Carl Icahn's competing $14 tender offer would block ISS from approving Michael Dell's offer.
In a note this morning, Brian White of ISI Group reiterates a Buy rating on Dell shares, and a $15 price target, writing that "If the Silver Lake transaction is voted down, Mr. Icahn would like to see a new group of directors elected at the 2013 Dell annual shareholder meeting and also implement the proposed $14.00 tender offer."
"However, we believe ISS views this scenario as coming with too much uncertainty and thus the reason for the recommendation of the Silver Lake/Michael Dell deal."
My colleague Andrew Bary, however, wrote over the weekend, in this week's Barron's print magazine, that the vote may not go in Michael Dell's favor even with a stamp of approval from ISS.
Writes Andrew "even if ISS favors the deal, the math looks tough […] The buyout needs approval of a majority of Dell shareholders without considering Michael Dell's nearly 16% stake. That means the deal needs the support of about 43% of Dell shareholders (a majority of the remaining 84% of the shares). Icahn and Southeastern together control 13% and T. Rowe Price, which has voiced its opposition, holds 4%, plus Pzena at about 0.7%. This totals about 18%. It's estimated that more than 10% of Dell shareholders may not vote, and an abstention is the same as a no vote. This means Michael Dell needs the support of a huge majority of remaining shareholders to carry the day."


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So, based on some other comments in the DBRI code, I put off the ring buffer fix, and instead settled for making some smaller fixes to the driver. You can now set the output ports, as well as more sensible volume defaults. The changes are in vger sparclinux cvs, or available for 2.2.x kernels here.
The 32-bit boot floppy was found to be broken for SuSE 7.0/SPARC... seems that there's a problem with genromfs or loopback mounting a romfs file (at least on a SPARC). Things would have been a lot easier to debug and fix if I wasn't testing on a machine that I later found to have a bad floppy drive. :( Whatever, it's fixed and done now...
I got a new machine... an Ultra 1 170E, 64MB, 2GB, Creator 3D, 20e10 (20" Sony Trinitron), CD and floppy... all for $550 (+$100 shipping). Not a bad deal at all... especially considering the monitor alone normally goes for at least half the price, and the rest of the machine usually goes for more than the total I paid. I swapped RAM and disk with my SS20 (bumping to 128MB and 4GB), and I have to say that this is one really nice SPARC/Linux desktop machine. A huge improvement over the SS20... and that's just because the video is to much faster on the Creator 3D than it was on the cg14/SX.
I spent last week at comdex... it was my first time at comdex... big show, just not the target audience... especially with standing in front of an Ultra 10 runnning Linux. I got a lot of confused looks. I can't say that I liked being in Vegas, either... it has no meaning for me unless Doris (my gf) is there with me. That, and with all the people in from California that could finally smoke indoors, it was like a smoker's heaven... and my hell. :( I got a bloody nose from all the smoke and dryness in the air... I _never_ get those. Eh, it's good to be back.
While I was there, I spent my time fighting with binutils and gcc in order to build a cross-compiler for those wanting to build kernels for their slower sparc32 machines on a faster Intel machine. Took some time, but I built (seemingly) working packages that I still have to test before I put them for download.
Other than that, things are goin' well for me at SuSE... seems like a good place to work. I'm just going to relax this weekend... I decided against travelling down to LA (though yosh did)... instead, I'll just spend the long holiday weekend with Doris and her family.