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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 406, August 19, 2009
Challenges 2009
With an ability to solve 30 trillion arithmetic calculations a second, the newest supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is helping researchers develop advanced tools for arctic-specific, high- resolution weather forecasting to include models of smoke dispersion from wildfires.
Supercomputers at ARSC are also being used to build models that risk managers in coastal communities can use to better understand how melting ice sheets affect sea levels worldwide.
These stories and more are featured in the 2009 edition of Challenges, the annual magazine of scientific discovery, analysis and prediction published by the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The magazine is online at:
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and features web extras, including a time-lapse movie of the installation of Pingo, a 3,456-processor Cray XT5 supercomputer.
Supercomputers are an essential tool in addressing, understanding and solving some of Alaska's and the nation's most important challenges.
ARSC is the sole provider of open research computing capabilities for the Defense Department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. There are six DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers throughout the country: two in Mississippi and one each in Maryland, Ohio, Alaska and Hawaii. ARSC distinguishes itself by conducting computational scientific analysis and research in polar regions.
High-latitudes environmental modeling seeks to better understand and predict phenomena ranging in size from microns to thousands of miles, and ranging in time from fractions of a second to millennia.
Geophysical phenomena of interest include oceans, the atmosphere, hydrology and ice. Within ecosystems, fisheries and other living things are examined, as well as the complex changes to and interactions among ecosystems over time.
Adventures in Running a Script from Java
As an intern at ARSC, I found myself applying knowledge learned at my home university in new ways that challenge me to search for answers to new questions. But in this case, the answer turned out to be more confusing than the question.
Java, a nice programming language developed by Sun, is good for multi-person projects while being fairly simple to use. Chances are good that for any operation you want to perform, there is probably a module somewhere in a Java library that will make it straightforward.
People have even created whole languages based on Java such as Processing, a language geared towards easy data visualization. Processing acts as a huge Java module, providing a comprehensive API that allows Java to be interpreted. Previously lengthy code segments can be reduced to one or two lines in Processing. Also, anything available in Java is available in Processing, which makes it rather powerful. When I found myself needing to call a Python script using a Processing script I had written, I turned to the Java API to help me out. What I hadn't realized is that the documentation for this is sketchy at best.
To start, the approach is convoluted, requiring several helper classes before even attempting to call the script. An instance of a Process object needs to be created and used to call an instance of a Runtime object that calls a native method, getRuntime(), which retrieves the current runtime environment.
Runtime runMe = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process py;
If all of that wasn't confusing enough, according to the exec() method documentation, there are many different types of exec() methods that accept both a single string or a string array. The documentation for using a string array says:
// Executes the specified command and arguments in a separate process. exec(String[] cmdarray);
That, together with everything I read in every online forum I could possibly find, told me that exec() simply executes its argument as if it were a shell command. A full two hours of testing various inputs, formats, and ways of calling the method revealed that fact to be incorrect. When I passed exec() the path to my Python script, it simply opened the script in a text editor like IDLE:
py = runMe.exec(path/pythonscript.py); // Opens IDLE :(
So, how do I call this script from Java? I needed the script to execute, not just open. I discovered that for exec() to work, I had to run a shell and pass it arguments. I also discovered that if I didn't parse the standard output and standard error of the program called with exec(), it would appear to do nothing. If an error occurred, it would not return an error message.
I tried passing the following string array to exec():
String[] temp = new String[3]; temp[0] = "/bin/bash"; temp[1] = "python"; temp[2] = "path/pythonscript.py" py = runMe.exec(temp);
It almost worked how I intended, but instead of instructing bash to run my Python script, this string array tried to pass "python" and "path/pythonscript.py" as parameters to bash itself, not as a command for bash to run. After more research, I learned that the -c flag is needed to pass a command to bash. With this, I was finally able to run my Python script inside an exec() call:
Runtime runMe = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process py; try { // Send command to the command line and execute String[] temp = new String[3]; temp[0] = "/bin/bash"; // Set up terminal temp[1] = "-c"; // Prepare for command input temp[2] = "python path/pythonscript.py"; // Pass this command py = runMe.exec(temp); // Handle error output if any InputStream err = py.getErrorStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(err); BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(isr); }
I hope this helps anyone trying to program something similar in Java.
Introduction to Gnuplot, Part I
This article is the first part in a series of articles about gnuplot, an excellent tool for data visualization. To make this series of articles more fun for both readers and, no less important, the author, I decided to cover some advanced topics.
Getting Started
If given the choice, use the CVS version of gnuplot. Despite being 30 years young, gnuplot has a very fast release cycle. Moreover, some very interesting tools were added recently that are not in version 4.2, the default version on most new systems. On many HPC systems, however, the default version is 4.0 or even 3.7.
The following command will show what version of gnuplot is installed:
$ gnuplot --version
Let's start by generating some data to work with. I wrote a simple Python script, "datamaker.py", that will create the text file "data.dat", which will be used by the examples in this article. The data.dat file contains data in a gnuplot-compatible 3D format of an interesting looking function in the [0:1]x[0:1] interval.
The contents of data.dat are of this form, where sets are separated by an empty line:
x0 y0 z00 x1 y0 z10 x2 y0 z20 ... xN y0 zN0 x0 y1 z01
The source code of datamaker.py is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python from math import * def f(x,y): '''interesting looking function''' return sin(2*x)*cos(3*y) + x*y fin = open( 'data.dat', 'w' ) for j in range(101): for i in range(101): x, y = i/100.0, j/100.0 fin.write( "%f %f %f\n" % ( x, y, f(x,y) ) ) fin.write("\n") fin.close()
Run this script with the following command to create data.dat:
$ python datamaker.py
All the examples in this article produce PostScript images. They are good for both publications and visualization. I personally use either gv (a favorite tool of many academic wizards like Donald Knuth) or evince (a Gnome application for visualizing many different formats) as front-ends to Ghostscript.
Example #1 - PM3D
Use your favorite text editor to create the following file, named "example01.gp":
# # example01.gp, pm3d plotting of data.dat; # ### Terminal/output options # first we set the "eps" output format, "enhanced", because we would # like to use special commands for fonts, "color" due to we like color set terminal postscript eps enhanced color # set the output file name set output 'data.eps' ### PM3D options # we would like nice color map, not a 3D plot set view map # we do not want the surface to be plot over unset surface # pm3d is the color plot, pm stands for "palette-mapped"; # we use both data and function to be plotted using pm3d in this example set style data pm3d set style function pm3d # put labels over the graphs set ticslevel 0 set pm3d implicit at b ### Grid and Key # we unset grid and key for plots read for publication unset grid unset key ### Labeling the axes set xlabel "x" set ylabel "y" ### PLOT: use 'splot' for 3D and 'plot' for 2D splot 'data.dat'
Now, let us just run gnuplot with these commands:
$ gnuplot example01.gp
We get the file "data.eps", which can be viewed with either evince or gv:
$ evince data.eps
$ gv data.eps
It lacks a title, good labels and the fonts are unsatisfactory. However, it is good enough to see a quick visualization of the data. Now, let us add these missing elements to make the plot ready for publication.
High Quality Fonts
Example #2 - Fonts
The "Blue Sky" type 1 PostScript fonts are public domain and of great quality. You can read about them at the following web page:
These are Computer Modern fonts designed by Blue Sky Research and improved by Y&Y. They were commercial products, but thanks to the efforts of Y&Y and the American Mathematical Society, they were released for public domain in 1997. You might have them already installed on your system. They usually come with Live TeX, the default TeX distribution on Linux or Mac systems.
If you do not have TeX installed, or the distribution you use does not have these PostScript fonts, you can simply download these fonts from CTAN. As a property of the American Mathematical Society, they are located together with all other free AMS fonts. You can download them from this URL:
For this article, we will extract amsfonts.zip into:
The following directory now contains the fonts we need:
We will also need the cm-super font family, which is a very good alternative to standard fonts like Helvetica. This can be downloaded here:
Let's unzip this file into the following directory:
Now we can modify example01.gp to use these fonts.
In the script below, please replace "DIR" with your home directory, where the "usr" subdirectory is located. This should be an absolute path. You can determine the absolute path of your home directory with the following command:
echo $HOME
This step is necessary because gnuplot is unable to reference the $HOME environment variable itself.
# # example02.gp, pm3d plotting of data.dat: # # improved with PostScript Type 1 free fonts # # first we set the "eps" output format, "enchanced", because we would # like to use special commands for fonts, "color" due to we like color set fontpath \ "DIR/usr/share/fonts/amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm" \ "DIR/usr/share/fonts/cm-super/pfb" ### Terminal/output options set terminal postscript eps enhanced color \ fontfile 'cmmi10.pfb' \ fontfile 'cmti10.pfb' \ fontfile 'sfrm1000.pfb' # set the output file name set output 'data.eps' ### PM3D options # we would like nice color map, not a 3D plot. set view map # we do not want the surface to be plot over unset surface # pm3d is the color plot, pm stays for "palette-mapped"; we use both # data and function to be plotted using pm3d in this example set pm3d set style data pm3d set style function pm3d # That are a couple of tricks to put labels over the graph. Well, we # do not use this in this particular example. However, it does not # matter. We always want labels to be over the graph usually set # ticslevel 0 set pm3d implicit at b ### Grid and Key # we unset grid and key for publication ready plots. unset grid unset key ### Defaults fonts: big enough for professors set ytics font "SFRM1000,34" set xtics font "SFRM1000,34" set ylabel font "SFRM1000,34" set xlabel font "SFRM1000,34" set cblabel font "SFRM1000,34" set cbtics font "SFRM1000,34" ### Labeling the axes set xlabel "{/CMMI10 \013}" set ylabel "{/CMMI10 \014}" ## Labeling the plot set label "T" at graph 0.8, graph 0.2 font "CMTI10,46" front ### PLOT: splot 'data.dat'
First, we set the path where gnuplot should search for the fonts. For PostScript fonts, these are the directories where pfb files are located. Then we load the fonts we want to use. Font names are the same as their file names, except capitalized and without the ".pfb" extension. The SFRM1000 font is set as a default for all labels and legends. We use the mathematical fonts CMMI10 and CMTI10 for alpha, beta, and T. We also put a label on the plot "T" using graph coordinates. These are the coordinates alpha and beta in our notation.
Generally, titles and labels on the plot should be the same font size used in the paper or bigger. In this example, we used size 34.
Run example02.gp the same way as in the previous example:
$ gnuplot example02.gp
And again, to view the plot using gv:
$ gv data.eps
(Note: TrueType fonts can also be used with gnuplot.)
As an additional reference on this topic, I suggest the following links:
Gnuplot documentation about fontfile option:
A small article about using PostScript in gnuplot by Harald Harders. This article also contains all of the octal codes for mathematical symbols from Computer Modern Blue Sky PostScript fonts and describes the basic usage of these fonts with gnuplot. It comes with the gnuplot distribution in:
In the next article, I will discuss more PostScript features and different aspects of color representation, contours, and legend customization. After this, I will cover the usage of gnuplot from Python scripts, plotting data from NetCDF files, and compare gnuplot and ncl.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I am developing a script that reads in a formula from an input file [[ to be used with a series of values (qp and et). [[ [[ E.g. [[ val=qp + 0.000277777 * et [[ [[ Is there a way to use this formula within my script without writing [[ my own formula parser? Here is an example of how I want to use this. [[ [[ % cat formula [[ val=qp + 0.000277777 * et [[ [[ % cat myscript [[ ... [[ for all qp [[ for all et [[ <execute formula and print val> [[ ... [[ [[ Then the output would be something like: [[ [[ qp et val [[ 0.0 0.0 0.0 [[ 0.0 1.0 0.000277777 [[ ... [[ 1.0 0.0 1.0 [[ 1.0 1.0 1.000277777 [[ ... [[ [[ The script is currently written in Perl, but I wouldn't be opposed to [[ using Python. # # Greg Newby shows how the bc command can be used to evaluate this # formula from a shell: # The bc command might be a good choice for these type of formulas. It can operate on standard input, or you can write a little script ("man bc" has some detailed usage guidelines). Based on your question (and ignoring the setup of data for the loop, which may be accomplished a few different ways): qp=10 et=20 val=`echo "$qp + 0.000277777 * $et" bc -l` However, if you already have a little Perl or Python to do this, I don't see much advantage in using a shell command. If you're doing computation on many values of qp and et, the shell script will likely be quite a bit shorter. But if your goal is to work with flexible formulas, even formulas that are read from a file or standard input, without writing your own parser, then bc could be quite helpful. A few related standard Unix/Linux commands are dc (reverse polish notation) and expr (doesn't handle floating point). # # In his response, Tom Baring explains how this can be achieved with a # clever combination of Perl's eval command and regular expressions ... # Here's a perl answer... The magic is in the "e" modifier of the "s///" command which enables evaluation of the substitution string. % cat formula $val = $qp + 0.000277777 * $et % cat eval_it.prl #!/usr/bin/perl -w open IN, "< formula"; $formula = <IN>; chomp $formula; close IN; print "\nUsing formula: $formula\n"; print "\$qp\t\$et\t\$val\n"; foreach $qp (0 .. 2) { foreach $et (0 .. 2) { $val = $formula; $val =~ s/.*=(.*)/eval($1)/e; print "$qp\t$et\t$val\n"; } } % ./eval_it.prl Using formula: $val = $qp + 0.000277777 * $et $qp $et $val 0 0 0 0 1 0.000277777 0 2 0.000555554 1 0 1 1 1 1.000277777 1 2 1.000555554 2 0 2 2 1 2.000277777 2 2 2.000555554 # # ... and Don Bahls' response proves that former ARSC HPC Users' # Newsletter editors think alike: # In perl you can do something like this with a combination of regular expressions and the eval command. pingo1 % more formula val = qp + 0.000277777 * et #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # read the formula from the file. my $form=`cat formula cut -d "=" -f 2`; chomp($form); my $qp; my $et; printf("Formula is $form\n\n"); printf("%10s %10s %10s\n", "qp", "et", "val"); foreach $qp (1,2,3,4,5) { foreach $et (5,6,7,8) { # copy the formula my $tform=$form; # replace et with $et and qp with $qp $tform=~s/qp/$qp/g; $tform=~s/et/$et/g; # use eval to generate the result. my $res=eval "$tform"; # print $qp, $eq and $val printf("%10f %10f %10f\n", $qp, $et, $res); } } Q: I have a cron job that invokes a script, update.pl, every hour. Sometimes this script takes more than an hour to run, causing two of these script processes to overlap, which makes them interfere with each other. Is there a way I can tell this update.pl cron job to run ONLY if there is not already an update.pl process running, to prevent the processes from overlapping?
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Watertown - Joyce D. Barnes 72 of Watertown passed away on Sat. December 1, 2012 at Alden Estates in Jefferson.
Joyce was born on Oct. 29, 1940 in Oakland, CA the daughter of Conrad & Vera (Ingerson) Huff. Joyce was a graduate of Bob Jones University. She married Max Barnes on July 13, 1963 in Walnut Creek, CA. Joyce was a music teacher at Pensacola Christian College, Pillsbury Baptist Bible College and Maranatha Baptist Bible College. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and enjoyed sewing, gardening, baking and reading.
Survivors include: husband Max Barnes of Watertown; three children Tamara (Tim) Collupy of Watertown, Traci (Dan) Poppert of Frederick, MD and Torrey Barnes of Watertown; seven grandchildren Dylan, Zoe, Kyle, Caitlin, Ransom, Ryder and Rhys; two brothers Chuck (Nancy) Huff of Lewiston, ID and Lloyd (Billie) Huff of Carson, CA; also survived by a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents. Memorials to Calvary Baptist Church or Maranatha Fine Arts Department would be appreciated.
Funeral service will be held 10:30 AM, on Monday December 10, 2012 at Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Robert J. Loggans presiding. Visitation will be held on Monday 9:00 AM until the time of service at the church. Burial will be in Ebenezer Moravian Cemetery Watertown.
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Lone Kuhli, need some advice
I have a small (6Gal) planted aqaurium - it has several low light plants, using eco complete substrate, temp is 78F, it is a new tank, completed cycling a couple weeks ago. I've been testing twice a day and ammonia/nitrites are a steady zero, nitrates range between 20- 40, doing 30% wc weekly. The tank has 5 ember tetras, 3 endler's live bearers, and one betta. I needed a tank for the betta (the filter in his tank broke so I am recycling with a new filter - should only take a couple weeks with a hot start). The tank is a fluval edge but while the betta is in it I am keeping an air layer at the top... anyway, I have a single kuhli loach in the tank to eat the food that hits the bottom. Since the fluval edge isn't supposed to have an air layer at the top I couldn't use my preferred pygmy corys for this task, and the kuhli was the next smallest bottom feeder I could find. I have never kept this fish before and don't know its eating habits. He doesn't appear to be eating. There is flake food on the bottom but he seems to ignore it. I have tried feeding him shrimp pellets but he ignores those too. Also, he seems very agitated, or active, not sure what is normal for him - he's been in the tank for a week so I don't think it is transport stress. From what I've read on him it sounds like he should be in a group, which a six gal tank can't accommodate. I have a heavily planted 20L and 55hex that I could move him to if he needs to have more kuhlis to keep him happy, but if I do that I will have to find a bottom feeder for my 6 gallon. Also - I have 4 full size panda corrys in the hex - not sure the tank can accommodate 2 schools of bottom feeders....? Need some advice - is the kuhli behaving normally, do I have to give him some kuhli buddies to swim with and move him out? If so, the choices are a 20L with 5 pygmy corrys or a 55 hex with 4 panda corrys, will 3 kuhlis fit in with those other bottom feeders? Or do I need to take him back to the store?Why do people always scream when I'm driving?
Pangio Kuhlli's can be kept in huge schools in small spaces. They usually pile 100 deep under a single large oak leaf. I breed Pangio Oblongas aka black kuhlli loach(not a kuhlli at all) and have had great success, I sent 11 to the east coast on wednesday, arrived fine on friday.I would go with atleast 8, they dont have a huge bio load on the system and dont take up much if any space. In my 52g they grow up to 3 inches.
Even 6 would be fine, they are safer(meaning more energetic and less apt to hide all the time)in numbers, its in their gene's.They are also nocturnal for the most part.
So if I put two more in the tank you think it won't overstock it? The betta will be in the tank for another two weeks, and once the loaches are full size, even without the betta I will be up to 13 inches of fish in a 6gal tank (counting the embers and endlers as 1/2 inch each). I'm ok with not seeing them - if they want to work the night shift I'm fine with that!
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Kuhli loaches are supposed to be in schools. That's why he's not eating. He's lonely and scared.98L Community
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1" per gallon is a myth, its bioload that needs to be addressed. That would be fine in that tank. They dont make alot of mess at all. What they do make is minute in size. even 6 wouldnt equal the bioload of two bettas.
I had over 100 fish in a 52g tank comfortably, excellent water parameters nothing fluctuated,11 of the fish were large angels. I had enough filtration for a small pond on this tank and it worked fine, ive since dispersed when I set up the 210g tank but 6 kuhlis will not put any strain on your filtration now.
I think your kuhli will do better in a bigger group. I had a trio that were swimming all over the place, all the time, especially at night; and lost one so am down to 2. The remaining duo is a lot more skittish than previously: they hide in the corners and behind the heater and I never see them swimming freely at night anymore. I'm hoping to pick up some more next time I see them at the store, you should probably do the same.
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29g dismantled and downsized to 10g for college
black tetras, raphael catfish, kuhli loaches and glofish
Thanks for the help!! I got more khulis, smaller fellows, and will be moving them to a larger tank soon. My original guy seems much less stressed - and I noticed they all slept together in the hollow geode last night. Looks like I have two very young ones, a toddler and a teenager. According my reading they will be fine with the panda corys in my 55 gallon tank, I thought I would give them time to bond and move them in two weeks. SInce three are pretty small they aren't really crowded at this time!
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i noticed this the 1st time i saw the movie, but wasn't careing about that. anyone else notice this??
i noticed this the 1st time i saw the movie, but wasn't careing about that. anyone else notice this??
Yeah... I noticed that the first time I saw it....
here are a couple other things I noticed the first time around...
1) When Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are talking before Qui-Gon returns for Anakin, the print is flipped- which causes Obi-Wan's braid to be on his left... not his right.
2) When JarJar meets Padme, while she is cleaning up Artoo, the tail end of the scene is, again, flipped so it appears that Padme is looking to her right and Artoo is looking to his left to look at JarJar... notice Artoo's "facial" details are reversed (the holoprojector is now on his right).
3) If the Trade Federation has cut all communications from Naboo and TO Naboo, why is it that Sio Bibble was able to reach the Royal Starship with his "you must help us" message. Is this why Obi-Wan knew the message was sent to establish a trace?
Lucas actually brings up the reversed braid in the commentary. He was planning on reversing that shot during editing, so he made Ewan flip his braid over, but then decided against it. So he "outsmarted" himself.
There's also a shot during the podrace where the animators forgot to but Sebulba in his pod and somebody (Scott Squires?) brings it up during the commentary.
It's cool the film makers bring their own goofs to light. I can't wait for the Episode IV commentary with all the goofs in that film.
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It was a ruse to try to locate the Queen's ship. They just either lowered the jamming waves temporarily from Naboo or sent the message from somewhere else.Originally posted by JEDIpartnr
If the Trade Federation has cut all communications from Naboo and TO Naboo, why is it that Sio Bibble was able to reach the Royal Starship with his "you must help us" message. Is this why Obi-Wan knew the message was sent to establish a trace?
I think the reason for no shields was just a plot device. That scene was only in there for comic 'relief' to show JJ shooting the droideka with the BD on his foot. It wouldn't work with the shields up.
"I'm just a YES man trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango McCallum
"Good dialogue and smooth editing are no match for a good YES man by your side, kid." - George Lucas
I believe the Destroyer Droids can only raise shields when standing still.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Why send so many Battle Droids to the planet? When the federation could have sent over 1000 Destoyers?
Also notice in the final scenes of Darth Maul,he had his lightsaber on all the time,when obi Wan jumped over him it was off and when he fell down the saft I believe it was on(?) This changes from different shots.
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''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
Gawd!!! I LIVE for continuity errors!!!
The destroyers turn their shields on once they are fully transformed.
JarJar "shot" that one before it had completely unfolded. This is the only example of a destroyer going down like that in the film.
I don't know if I missed Gungan weapons affecting them differently, but Anakin's N-1 fighter was too powerful for the droids small shields in that particular case.
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TheCallDr wrote:The best way to find out what happened in your area is contact your state wildlife dept and talk to the biologist. They will have all the information if it was to some disease. You can also go to your local Sporting Goods stores in your area and talk to them. They should be able to give you feedback from other hunters.No Gobbling all season is not good. So something has changed. We can all speculate for the many reasons but you need to research your area and find out what took place.
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This is a simple recipe to use on any boneless fish fillet. The light breading browns beautifully in the oven. No need to deep-fat fry!
- 1 pound tilapia or any fish of your choice
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup grated dry Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons parsley, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh basil, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Use a spray oil or butter to grease a baking pan. Crack an egg into a shallow dish. Lightly beat. Add salt and pepper in desired amount.
In another shallow dish, combine bread crumbs, grated Parmesan cheese, parsley, and basil. Place each piece of fish in egg and then dip into bread crumb mixture. Press bread crumbs firmly on both sides of each piece of fish. Place on baking pan. This can be prepared ahead at this point and refrigerated until ready to bake.
Bake for 15 - 25 minutes or until lightly brown and fish is done in the middle. The baking time will depend on thickness of the fish.
Note: Add other spices or herbs of your choice to the bread crumb mixture.
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories: 220
Fat, gm.: 6
Protein, gm.: 30
Carbs, gm.: 12
Cholesterol, mg.: 70
Fiber, gm.: 0.7


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Personal IE comes with quite a lot of Javascript support, but it doesn't seem to have any hooks into the local databases. Oh well.
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By Tiernan Ray
Citigroup's Walter Pritchard this evening notes on what he calls a "meaningful miss" by Oracle (ORCL) on license revenue in its fiscal Q4 reported this afternoon that have pushed the stock down by $2.67, or 6.3%, to $39.84, in late trading.
Oracle a short while ago forecast results this quarter roughly in line with consensus.
Pritchard, who has a Buy rating on Oracle shares, and a $44 price target, writes that total license revenue of $4.09 billion missed his own estimate for $4.3 billion, and what he claims was Street consensus for $4.24 billion.
That $4.09 billion figure is an adjusted number that Pritchard comes up with back backing out revenue from cloud computing software, referred to as "software as a service," or "SaaS," and "platform as a service," or "PaaS." These elements were broken out separately by Oracle in a release for the first time, Pritchard notes.
The adjusted license figure represented growth of 1%, which was below the implied 5% increase in the company's forecast, he writes.


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Yiwan Eats Leshan
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"Smoke faster!" I pleaded with Huang Qian as she slowly inhaled, savoring her last cigarette for five days. We stood outside of Shanghai's Maglev train station on the way to the airport, laughing hysterically as she tried to teach me, her absurdly uncoordinated friend, how I should bow to her elder family members.
We arrived in Leshan after midnight and I met her aunt, uncle, and mom. Huang Qian quickly decided that she wasn't going to translate for me because it was funnier that way. Everyone in her family speaks Leshan dialect, which I understand about 5% of the time.
So I should keep the door open, right?
Before I went to shower, Huang Qian's mom asked if I brought pajamas. Delighted that I finally understood something, I eagerly answered "yes!" and changed into my PJs: a t-shirt and yoga pants. As I emerged from the bedroom, she burst into laughter. "What kind of pajamas are those?!" My clothes are much funnier than I thought. Later that night, she walked into the kitchen muttering and Huang Qian finally gave me somewhat of a translation. I asked, "What's so funny about my pajamas?" to which she replied, "I don't know, but she's still talking about them."
After I showered, Huang Qian's mom walked into the bedroom with me to tell me to close the curtains and door to keep the mosquitos out. As she walked out of the room to go to bed, she asked, "Okay, so are you going to close the door?" Not understanding what she was getting at, I replied "No, don't worry, I'll leave it open." Thinking I was just being difficult, she went back into the room and repeated her instructions, pointing at the curtains and door. We repeated this cycle a couple times, getting increasingly hysterical. I peeked my head out of the door at Huang Qian.
"So should I close the door or leave it open?" I asked Huang Qian dozens of times and each time, all three of us giggled harder and harder. "She still doesn't know!" she reported to her mom. As the clock struck 3am, she finally said, "JUST CLOSE THE DOOR!"
The Great and Powerful Yiwan
On the first night, Huang Qian introduced me to her mom as "Sarah", so her mom called me "Shiwan" (十万), or one hundred thousand, which sounds kind of like Sarah in Leshan Dialect. The next morning, I woke up to, "Yiwan, how have you not gotten up yet?! Wake up!" Yiwan (一万) means ten thousand. I'd been demoted.
"So does that mean tomorrow I'll be one thousand, then one hundred, and by the time we leave I'll be reduced to one?" I asked Huang Qian. She didn't know, but somehow I maintained my rank as Yiwan for the rest of the trip!
As I was then introduced to Huang Qian's whole family as "Yiwan", I now actually answer to that name. Later in the week, when her mom relentlessly attempted to set me up with her cousin (see pictured below), Huang Qian suggested that I move to Leshan and be Yiwan forever. She was especially happy about two things that happened on the trip: 1. I got a new name and 2. I almost became her cousin-in-law.
To bow or not to bow?
Day two of our trip was Mid-Autumn Festival. Before going to see the Leshan's famous giant Buddha, we went downstairs to Huang Qian's grandma's place to feast with the family. I successfully bowed to her grandma, still unsure whether or not Huang Qian was just playing an elaborate prank on me. Everybody in the room laughed, but as the laughter was somewhat approving, I'm just going to call that one a win.
I went with Huang Qian, her aunt, uncle, and mom to see the giant Buddha, the Da Fo (大佛). The mountains around the Da Fo are dotted with temples and pagodas. Huang Qian's aunt encouraged me to join her in feverishly running around taking pictures as she and her mom lit candles.
After exploring the mountain, we met back up with Huang Qian's family in the traditional tourist town by the river where they were drinking tea and playing 2-7-10.
2-7-10 is a gambling card game that is only played in Leshan. Her uncle gave me a deck of 2-7-10 cards and tried to explain the game to me, but putting them in order from 1 to 10 is the best I can do.
We relaxed by the river snacking on grapefruit and sunflower seeds listening to her relatives play cards until dusk.
Ten Thousand, or Yiwan, Mooncakes
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, we headed home to eat mooncakes and watch the Mid-Autumn Gala on TV. I thought I was pretty clever bringing Huang Qian's mom mooncakes from the Jade Buddha Temple that's by my apartment in Shanghai. It was only when we sat down to eat that I realized I'd brought the wrong gift.
She came out of the kitchen and laid a giant load of various kinds of mooncakes on the table. Then she did it again, then again. We must've had hundreds of mooncakes in front of us: traditional mooncakes with red bean paste, fish mooncakes, lotus seed paste mooncakes, and even bacon mooncakes! As she insisted we lug some back to Shanghai with us on the plane, I now officially consider myself a China-wide mooncake delivery person!
The Mystery Fruit of Emei Mountain
Everyone in China had a week off this year because National Day happened to fall on the day after Mid-Autumn Festival. We spent National Day climbing Emei Mountain, the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.
Like most Chinese cuisines, eating Sichuan food involves a lot of spitting things out (bones, seeds, and more bones). These can be embarrassingly difficult for an inexperienced foreigner, such as myself, to eat. At the bottom of the mountain, Huang Qian's mom handed me a fruit (name unknown...if you know it, please comment). Much to their amusement, when we reached the top, I had still not finished eating said fruit. I also failed to finish duck feet, much to her mom's disappointment. Trying to make up for my wastefulness, I victoriously choked down an egg that had been buried in dirt and you know what? It wasn't half bad!
I was born here!
The highest point we reached was the sole temple for women (nunnery) on Emei Mountain. This is the famous site where Huang Qian first muttered the phrase "I was born here!" that would be repeated as much as possible for the rest of the trip. These recitations were mostly prefaced by "Just follow me" or "Of course I know where we're going".
The first time she said it, we stood overlooking the nunnery rooftops on Emei Mountain. She explained that the architect had taken the way the wind blows over the space into consideration when building the temple so all the dirt would be swept away, which is why the rooftops are so clean. I now regret my surprise at her uncharacteristic knowledge-dropping, as she exclaimed, "I was born here!" in reply.
Eating Like Hobbits
One of the things that comes with the territory when you have a language barrier is that you never really know where you're going or what you're doing. Luckily, that problem was quickly solved for me when I discovered that 95% of the time, we were going to eat.
For example, one night as we sat around a bubbling pot of malatang, Sichuan's specialty hot and spicy soup, Huang Qian's relatives were making plans for what we would eat after the soup. I thought they were kidding when they said we were going to another restaurant after stuffing ourselves with malatang. Of course, they weren't.
Leshan is full of streetside restaurants. Huang Qian says they eat outside even in the winter, they just sit closer together. After eating malatang at a special outdoor table, we went to the other side of town to snack on tangyuan, balls of glutinous rice flower filled with either sesame or meat.
To paraphrase Sublime, we ate two meals before we ate two meals, and then we ate two more.
Goodbye, Leshan!
As we walked through security at the Chengdu Airport yesterday, I felt extremely grateful to Huang Qian's family. I'm grateful to her mom for taking me in, stuffing me full of delicious food, and yes, even trying to help me find the love of my life. I especially want to thank Huang Qian for inviting me to come home with her and for not translating; turns out, it was funnier after all!
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Family: Alcedinidae, Kingfishers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has green back, wings, and upper tail; wings have white spots and outer tail feathers are white at base, white spotted towards tip. Head is mainly green, separated from green back and reddish orange breast by broad white collar. Underparts are otherwise white with dark spots. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but chest band is mottled green. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but many feathers are marked with buff.
Dimensions Length: 8" (20 cm)
Habitat Resident beside small streams and pools in southern Texas.
Observation Tips Often unobtrusive but sometimes perches on exposed dead branch.
Range Texas, Southwest
Voice Utters a staccato series of tchit-tchit-tchit-tcheirit notes.
Discussion Green color and smaller size separate it from larger kingfisher species. Has a dark, daggerlike bill and dives for fish. Flight is fast and low over water. When agitated, bobs body and pumps tail up and down. Sexes are dissimilar.


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Euclid File Systems
Euclid has 3 kinds of file systems available to users: home directories, scratch directories and project directories, all provided by the NERSC Global File system. Each file system serves a different purpose.
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Home Directories
Upon logging in, users are placed in their home directory by default. Home directories are limited in size and are meant for permanent storage of source code and other relatively small files. This file system is not configured for high I/O performance.
Home directories should always be referred to by the environment variable $HOME. The absolute path to a home directory (e.g., /u4/joe/) may change, but the value of $HOME will always be correct.
Please back up all important files on a regular basis.
For security reasons, never allow "world write" access to the directories $HOME or $HOME/.ssh. NERSC scans for such security weakness, and, if detected, will change the permissions on the directories to disable "world write" access. Furthermore, SSH will not allow you to login if $HOME/.ssh is writeable by anyone other than you.
Home directories contain various shell initialization files ("dot-files", e.g. .login, .cshrc, .profile). These are symbolic links to NERSC-defined and controlled files that contain definitions needed by all users. Please do not not remove or modify these links. Customizations of login behavior can be specified in "extension" files with names such as .login.ext, .cshrc.ext, and .profile.ext. See Global Home.
Scratch Directories
The contents of $SCRATCH will be deleted ("purged") as needed as the system's disks approach capacity. You should back up your important files frequently to HPSS.
Project Directories
Project directories provide a large-capacity file storage resource that is intended for groups of users ("projects") that desire to share data among themselves and/or between major compute platforms. Note that this definition of project may include users from multiple NERSC repositories. See Project Directories.
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WARNING: Do not attempt to explicitly use the file system named /tmp. Your job may fail or be deleted if it writes to /tmp.
Some software tools (editors, compilers, etc.) use the location specified by the $TMPDIR environment variable to store temporary files. Additionally, Fortran codes which open files with status="scratch" will write those files into $TMPDIR. On many Unix systems, $TMPDIR is set to /tmp. NERSC has set $TMPDIR to be $SCRATCH. Please do not redefine $TMPDIR!


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Carrots give carrot cake a health-halo effect—people think it's health food, but it's usually very high in fat and calories. But our version has about 40 percent less calories and 50 percent less fat than most. First, we use less oil in our batter. Then we skip the butter in the frosting (don't worry, it's still light and smooth). To ensure the cake is moist, we add nonfat buttermilk and crushed pineapple.
Nutrition Profile:
High Fiber
Low Cholesterol
Low Sodium
Serves 16
Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 70 min.
Step 1
To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
Step 2
Drain pineapple in a sieve set over a bowl, pressing on the solids. Reserve the drained pineapple and 1/4 cup of the juice.
Step 3
Whisk flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Whisk eggs, sugar, buttermilk, oil, vanilla and the 1/4 cup pineapple juice in a large bowl until blended. Stir in pineapple, carrots and 1/4 cup coconut. Add the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula just until blended. Stir in the nuts. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly.
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Bake the cake until the top springs back when touched lightly and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
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To prepare frosting & finish cake: Beat cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Spread the frosting over the cooled cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut.
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Family: Cetorhinidae, Basking Sharks view all from this family
Description Coloration is highly variable, commonly dark brown to black or blue dorsally fading to a dull white ventrally. Dorsal fin may flop to one side when above the surface. Short, rounded snout, cavernous jaw, up to 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) in width, long and obvious gill slits that nearly encircle the head accompanied by well-developed gill rakers, small eyes, and small average girth. Often noticeably scarred, possibly through encounters with lampreys or cookiecutter sharks.
Dimensions Up to 45' (13.7 m).
Similar Species White Shark.
Habitat Ocean or bay shallows, Open ocean.
Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska.
Discussion The basking shark is a passive filter feeder, filtering zooplankton, small fish and invertebrates from up to 2,000 short tons (1,800 t) of water per hour. They feed at or close to the surface with their mouths wide open and gill rakers erect. Unlike the megamouth shark and whale shark, the basking shark does not appear to actively seek quarry, but it does possess large olfactory bulbs that may guide it. It relies only on the water that it pushes through its gills by swimming; the megamouth shark and whale shark can suck or pump water through their gills.
The basking shark's liver, which may account for 25% of its body weight, runs the entire length of the abdominal cavity and is thought to play a role in buoyancy regulation and long-term energy storage.


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Well, I feel stupid. That build failed miserably - miBoot can not find the kernel! I'm backing down to the previous version of miBoot, 603e problems and all, for the moment. Remind me to test this sort of thing before committing to CVS.
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NARRATOR: In 1953, DeFeo returned to Berkeley. After painting so intensely in Florence, she shifted her attention to sculpture.
DANA MILLER: She was so impressed by the surfaces of Florence and the patina of age and tried to, in some way, incorporate that type of texture and that sense of time into her pieces.
NARRATOR: The archaic feeling of DeFeo's sculptures comes in part from her use of modest materials.
DANA MILLER: Of course, some of her choices were dictated by affordability and availability, and she was using what was readily at hand and cheap, which was very common at that point in the 1950s, if you look at what artists in New York were doing as well, but I think it's reflective of the very open atmosphere of Abstract Expressionism—that there was a real sense of possibility, that anything and everything could be a material for a work of art. And in her case, it was rags, wood, plaster.
NARRATOR: Most of the sculptures from this period were much larger than this one, and no longer exist. DeFeo would fill her studio with them, rearranging them from day to day—as if they were parts of a larger environment instead of discrete objects in themselves.


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Patricia Ann Breitenbach
Patricia A. Breitenbach, age 89, passed away Friday, February 15, 2013 at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison. Pat was born in Madison on February 1st, 1924. She met her husband Otto K. Breitenbach while they were attending Edgewood High School. They went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin in Madison where Pat was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Pat and Otto were married on July 3, 1945 at St. Raphael's Cathedral in Madison, and they were happily married for 61 years.
Over the years, Pat volunteered at Olbrich Gardens, Lindbergh Elementary School, the Governor's Mansion, with handicapped children in several different locations, and at many other charities. She enjoyed many hobbies including gardening, painting, entertaining, traveling, and dancing. She loved being Up North and never missed a year being there with her family.
Pat is survived by her daughters Sarah (Larry) Urben of Madison and Jane (John) Stenske of Northbrook, IL, and her son Bill (Sue) Breitenbach of Salina, KS. Other survivors include her brother John (Tink) O'Meara of Williamsburg, VA, grandchildren Molly (Dan) Bowden of Cuba City WI, Jill (Paul) Major of Carmel, IN, Dan (Sarah) Urben of Madison, Dr. Kate (Butch) Kukanich of Manhattan, KS, Jennifer (Isaac) Smith of Okinawa, Japan, and Michael (Kimi) Breitenbach of Olathe, KS, and 16 great grandchildren.
Pat was preceded in death by her husband Otto, daughter Peggy, and sister Nancy Nevins.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, 5460 Mary Lake Road, Westport, with Msgr. Charles Schluter officiating. Visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Monday, February 18, 2013 at the Ryan Funeral Home, 2418 N. Sherman Ave. Interment will be at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Cemetery.


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Alternate name: Oriental Bittersweet
Family: Celastraceae, Staff Tree view all from this family
Description Habit: introduced perennial vine; twining or trailing woody stems; may blanket a host plant.
Height: to 66 ft (20 m); stem diameter to 5 in (125 mm).
Leaf: alternate, glossy, elliptic to rounded, stalked, finely toothed, 2-5 in (50-125 mm) long; dark green becoming yellow in autumn.
Flower: small, pale green to yellow-green, 5-parted, with deeply 2-lobed petals; held in dangling clusters of 3-7 flowerheads in the leaf axils.
Fruit: spherical capsule, yellow to yellow-orange to tan, 0.5 in (12 mm) diameter; opening to 3 bright red berries; in dangling clusters of 2-3 (rarely, to 7) capsules, from leaf axils; persisting through winter.
Flower May to June.
Habitat Forest edges and openings, hedgerows, roadsides, fields, meadows, salt marshes, dunes, beaches, thickets, young forests.
Range Introduced from Asia; naturalized in eastern North America, from Quebec south to Georgia, northwest to Tennessee and Arkansas, northeast to Iowa, Wisconsin and Ontario; not reported in Missouri.
Discussion Also known as Asiatic bittersweet, round-leaved bittersweet, Oriental bittersweet, Oriental staff vine, climbing spindleberry. Considered weedy or invasive in most areas; listed as invasive, prohibited or noxious in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont.
Before it was recognized as a destructive invasive species, Celastrus orbiculatus was planted along roadsides to help control soil erosion. Now it is recognized as a destructive invasive species, capable of strangling large trees by twining around their trunks.


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Andy Pace of The Green Design Center.
Water: How to Control It and How to Capture It
Spring is in the air, and so come the questions about outdoor projects. This month, I'm going to tackle two questions about water: how to control it and how to capture it.
Q My home is in a wooded lot and I'm cleaning my gutters at least four times a year. I've seen many different gutter guards advertised in the last few years, but none of them seem to have any green attributes. Do you have any ideas?
Scott A., Kenosha, WI
A There are at least a dozen gutter guard systems on the market and only one of them has met our requirements for being called 'green'. The RainTube® product from Rain Technologies is made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic and is completely recyclable after its service life of 50 years. Although simple in design, it must be installed by a factory-trained contractor in order to be covered by the manufacturer's lifetime warranty. RainTube is produced in the Pacific Northwest and is Cradle to Cradle Gold certified. If you plan on capturing rainwater for outside uses, RainTube makes the perfect pre-filter for larger debris.
Finally, as a fellow Wisconsin homeowner, I can tell you first-hand that RainTube is excellent at minimizing some forms of ice damming. The tube is made with carbon-black pigment added, so the snow sits on top of the tube, only to be melted off when the sun comes out. If your gutters don't fill up with snow, they won't turn into solid blocks of ice.
Finally, as a fellow Wisconsin homeowner, I can tell you first-hand that RainTube is excellent at minimizing some forms of ice damming. The tube is made with carbon-black pigment added, so the snow sits on top of the tube, only to be melted off when the sun comes out. If your gutters don't fill up with snow, they won't turn into solid blocks of ice.
Q Can you give us any recommendations for any large volume rainwater capture systems? We have a dozen rain barrels, but they don't collect nearly enough water for maintaining our yard in the dry summer months.
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For those planning to become teachers, that allows students to complete their pre-requisite education courses as an undergraduate and their student teaching (Professional Semester) as a post-baccalaureate student (1 semester following graduation), or continue to complete their professional teaching certification for New York (3 semester commitment as graduate student);
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- Teacher Education Handbook 2015-16.
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Did anyone hear about this guy who had connections to them former LSU players and that Hankton guy in New Orleans? He was arrested two days ago, one of the Former LSU players (unnamed in the sun herald) told investigators about a New Orleans Man who is the son of Kirksey Nix, Nix is serving a life sentence for murdering a judge in mississippi. His son's name is Robert Ronald O'Connor, O'connor was a "go to guy" for people who are in jail or prison and carries out "hits" or arranges them and has ties to this Hankton guy, his cousin who is also a former LSU player and other criminals all along the gulf coast. He is being held at an unknown location but according to the sun, The un named former LSU player claims this guy was just on LSU campus a few weeks ago looking for a student who owed him money. If this is all true, expect them charges against these former LSU players to be dropped (Possession of Marijuana) I just hope it's not our "Honey Badger" I'd rather see him on an NFL feild instead of the witness protection program
They are making a big deal out of it on WLOX TV, they are even saying that this Nix guy and his son played a hand in rigging sport games. I'm waiting to see if ESPN is going to run anything about it, so far that O'Connor guy is not saying anything and the FBI is now questioning 2 other former players about point shaving allegations made by one of the former players who were arrested. This nix guy is bad news, and O"Connor has Chester Nicholson representing him, If I remember right, Nicholson was the one who got Mike Gillich out of prison for murdering that judge (he was arrested with Nix for that) but I was asking if anyone else seen it yet, and the point shaving is still going on, this was the point of the money collection, they were in debt to them so they sent this guy there to either collect or "throw a game" according to the FBI the 2 ex players who are being interviewed claim this happened before (a game being thrown or points shaved to cover a point spread for money)
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So, HB is hiding in Florida???
I've heard rumors of throwing games. That national championship sure looked rigged. Who was the quarterback for that game?
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Photo of the Day: KRUSH Crowds Three Champions
- Written by Dave Walsh
It has been a bit difficult to approach this weekend's KRUSH results, as the show has yet to air in Japan or anywhere else, but there are reports on the internet about them, as opposed to retread on territory that has already been covered by people at the show, I defer you, our readers to K-1's official site for our friend Stuart Tonkin's write up of the event. Tonkin has been covering events for K-1's official site for years now and was live in the arena for the event. So here, your photo of the day, is KRUSH's newly-crowned Triple Champions.


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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Very nifty, I just preordered. But that $150 is a tough price after the Stormtrooper was $90 and the Sandtroopers have been $125, so I may not be able to pull the trigger come shipping time if Sideshow can't make a persuasive argument for justifying the price.
Is it wrong that I want that face shield to be made of crinkly material instead of hard plastic?
They also put up the e-web heavy cannon accessory, SAME PRICE!!! What??? It looks nice and all, but is it made of diamonds? That's not the same complexity as this figure, it has only 2 points of movement and no cloth elements, not even a bunch of colors. No way I can see paying that much coin for that piece, no matter how keen it looks.
I just pre-ordered this guy. Was going to get the gun, expecting it to be under $50.... but $150?!? It's made from a bunch of stick parts! Ugh... pass.
I am not buying.
I have 2 Hasbro Hoth Snowtroopers.
1. I hope some of these parts can make Cmdr. Bacara's Galactic Marines. I'll buy 2 of those.
2. I hope SideShow offers two distinct face sculpts for Hoth Rebel Soldiers to fight my snowtroops.
3. I'd buy General Veers as well, to command them.
4. ESB SideShow want list:
Leia red Bespin Gown
Lobot (possibly - might be a really weak seller though)
Gonk Droid (might be Hoth accessorized)
There's not really that much. I don't replace the Hasbro figures that I already own and like.
ESB was previously very well covered in the 1/6 scale.
I ordered one Trooper. I think we're all in for a real shock with the prices on these things...they're only going to go higher. That's going to dampen the rush on these in the future. I'm with JT on this one though...$150 for this Trooper is a tough sell, especially after we've seen some PT Troopers with more distinct (not stock) gear and armor going for almost $30. less.
We've been clamoring for Hoth stuff form Sideshow...here's our first hit and it's a pricy one....bet that Tauntaun is $300+ when it's offered up...with any Hoth Rebels hovering around the $200 range....
I can see why they went with the solid piece for the face mask...the sculpted look maintains scale a little better than any pleather-like or vinyl material would (remember how Hasbro looks-okay but a little "off") - the one thing that would've made the sculpted portion of the Trooper's mask be really cool is if Sideshow made it removable/interchangeable so if one had multiple troopers, they could have some variety in their display.
The cut-n-sew looks good, but as we've seen before, this is the prototype and things can change during production (see the current fires raging online regarding the recently released Boba Fett's vest material...an alteration from proto to production that radically changes the look of the figure. Will that happen with the Snowtrooper? We'll see.... At $150., it would be nice if Sideshow could manage to match the proto as close as possible for production.
As for that cannon...is it die-cast metal or something close? Better be for that price. Too steep for that accessory....
I'm really close to that point of not getting any more sideshow product. 150 for a trooper is insane. I was okay with 120 130 for the commanders, but this is too much. I'm going to have to really think about this one. I'm most definitely holding off until January before placing an order. I waited on Bacara exclusive until last Saturday and didn't have a problem getting him. And while Bacara is a good looking figure there are some annoying quality issues that even though are not enough for me to return the figure they do give me pause. If I was sure the prototype is representative of what the final product will be the sell would be easier. At 150 if there are quality issues that is unacceptable. If I miss the snow trooper oh well.
I abondoned Hasbro collecting a year after revenge of the Sith because of quality issues and a feeling of not getting my money's worth. And that fact that they were just rereleasing the same sculpts on different cards saturated the market.
I like the idea of interchangable masks for this figure to mix up the uniform look of having multiples together, I'd prefer that over real material for sure. Plus then they could do the Snowtrooper commander's style of smooth mask/shield as well.
Kept my Hasbro Tauntaun for just that reason.
Oh man, the blocky look on Fett's vest, that's a good point.
Die cast is not a bad thought, but even then I'd still have trouble seeing where the price went.
Dang, you were able to get an SE as the figure was shipping? That's a really bad sign for the line, seems like Sideshow was able to see this brand as a heavy hitter for them and now it's fading as the price goes up without a bump in quality. Maybe they should just shelf the 1:6 and concentrate on Premium Format.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I ordered the Snowtrooper but not the canon. No need for a $150 cannon for now, when on sale i might get it. I hope they will fix the small Asian eyes on the helmet though. A second helmet shroud with a different wrinkles sculpt would have been welcomed for those intending in army building
Collecting has the permanence of herpes, it mutates but doesn't go away
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The Snowtrooper - which is still available as an SE, btw - is now listed in the newsletter as coming in the next 30 days. Sideshow however still has no production sample photos, so they want $150 blind for this piece, and I'm not sure I can justify that right now, that's a lot of coin (more than any soldier to date) and I have a few expenses coming up in the next 30 days. I'd really like to see how the production piece looks before pulling the trigger there.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Well...there are pics and reviews of the cannon popping up as it's shipping. General vibe is...nice piece, too expensive for what it is.
Yes, there a no Production pics surfacing yet for the Snowtrooper...but as with the recently released "Bossk" (mine shows up next week), no production pics showed up early either and judging from the pics and chatter appearing around the boards on that one....the figure is a knock-out quality-wise.
The clones have been terrific...and Sideshow has shown an affinity for really nailing the "military"-type releases (their "GI-Joe" line has had one great release after another)...so I'm hopeful that this "Hoth-geared" Imperial will be a stunner...a $150. stunner? Well....that remains to be seen...but as has been the case with this line lately, the release schedule shrinks, but the prices go up.
Here's hoping the quality goes up too...


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runing line for lc-13
Can anyone recommend a better runningline to be paired with an lc-13 shooting head than what I am currently using--a very thin cortland floating line that i really don't like???
I thought about attaching the running portion to an old orvis intermediate 10 wt line (the orange one) but perhaps there is a better alternative out there?
I read this on the web somewhere (I can't remember where). It was writen by a guy named Roger. I haven't tried it yet but thought it had potential. Here it is in Roger's words:
"I'm going to go against the grain here (nothing new for me) and tell you to make your own. It will eliminate all your problems and will not stretch at all. Won't coil and tangle and you don't (can't) need to stretch it. It will give you solid hook sets and amazing feel keeping you in touch with your fly like you've never experienced. The only down side is that I recommend wearing some form of stripping glove(s)using it but at that temp. you're probably already wearing gloves.
My reciepe:
1)100 feet of 30lb (or 50lb if you are more comfortable with it) braided running line from cortland.
2) 20-30lb gelspun line. (Fireline, Spiderwire, etc.)
Get a large needle (doll needle or similar) and run about 6" of gelspun thru the eye. Crazy glue the tag end to the line. Insert the needle into the end of the braided mono and inch worm your gelspun thru the whole 100' of braided line. Have about a foot of gelspun out of both ends when you are done. Take the same needle and run your braided line thru the eye and and feed it back into the running line about 3" and come out. Feed it back into the side of the running line about an 1/8" from where you came out and run it up the running line another 1". Now you have formed a braided loop. Do the same on the other end. Use the remaining gelspun line that is hanging out of the side of the running line and form a nail knot to really lock it all together. Sounds crazy? Try it. You may never go back to store bought running lines again. The first one you make will be a bear to do. The second one will take less then 15 minutes to make. Cost? Under $15.
One last thing. Make the loop that you will attach your head to about 6" in diameter. This will allow you to pass the whole head thru it when making your connection. If you cut off the loop on your head and replace it with a braided loop connector (you've already got the material) you can't even feel it in the guides."
Thanks for the reply--my only problem with your suggestion is that I think those braided running lines tear you hands up pretty good, so I was hoping for something with some type of coating...
Jeff -
Back in Seattle I found a great running line on a clearance table at the Clearwater Angler in Auburn WA (now defunct). It's an S/A Mastery series running line for saltwater, intermediate with a sort of sand color. It is indestructible and has a slight texture that is easy to grip. I bought it for short money and it served me very well as a shooting line for heads in Puget Sound and the Straits for coho and king salmon.
I still have it somewhere but since I don't like loops for stripers because I strip right up to the leader butt often and hate the mung magnets on my line so eventually eliminated all loops from my northeast line setups and would have to dig it up from it's hiding place - but in the case of rigging lc-13 or a head I would recommend this running line. I'll go take a peek at the S/A site and see if I can figure out which one it is. Also they may have discontinued it as I don't believe they sold a lot of it.
Sweet, Thanks Juro. So does this mean that you no longer use an lc-13 etup in the northeast or that you use it in some non-loop setup?
Jeff -
I haven't used lc-13 since I was obsessed with big chinook salmon on a fly out west. Once the coho started busting around the boat I'd go back to the intermediate and never did quite untangle the total unknown realm of big king salmon on the fly rod although I did get one a few and one was in the mid-to-high 30 pound class. They start out hunting in 20-40 feet of water at dawn, most in 60-90 feet, then by 10am they are from 150-200 feet down in the 600-1000 foot depths of the Straits of Juan DeFuca. With the tide rips running hard LC made a big difference when fishing more than 20-30 feet down there.
Probably because I fish primarily from shore I don't need LC13 and I use zero lines with loops for stripers for the reasons stated above (just personal preference).
It just came up as a way to get cod on a fly! }>
I have been using the new(ish) Rio clear intermediate running line(.30) with lc 13, and I like it. It has the best of both amnesia(they call it that because every time you break it out, you forgot how bad it tangled the last time) and coated floating. Shoots great, tangles not so bad, and sinks like a rock. I have made a one piece line connecting the two with braided mono.
Only gripe is that it is not that strong(maybe 35#) so easy when you stretch it out.
I read about that gsp braided mono set up and it sounds good, but I am happy with the Rio stuff. LC 13 is the best.
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Forum focuses on Latinos, U.S. Census
Posted September 25, 2009; 02:11 p.m.
Scholars, community activists and public officials will participate in a forum titled "To Count and Be Counted: Latinos and the 2010 U.S. Census" from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in 219 Burr Hall.
Two panel discussions will explore positions taken by community leaders, representatives of Latino organizations, academics and the public in relation to the implementation and effects of the 2010 Census on Latino individuals and families. Speakers will address issues including Latino social representation, misconceptions about issues facing Latinos and avenues for political action.
Speakers will include Princeton faculty members Alejandro Portes, Douglas Massey and Marta Tienda.
The forum is sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Program in Latino Studies, the University Center for Human Values, the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey.