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Survey: Senior drivers not reluctant to discuss safety
There's good news for adult children of senior drivers who've been dreading having that all-important conversation about whether it's time to hand over the keys: Mom or Dad might be more willing than you think to have that talk.
That's according to a new survey from insurer Liberty Mutual, which found that 84% of senior drivers said they were open to conversations about limiting or stopping their driving. But only 6% of respondents said they had spoken with someone about their driving abilities.
The finding might help some adult children to finally have that chat they've been avoiding. Last year, a similar Liberty Mutual survey of adults ages 40-65 with at least one parent who drives found that 55% of the adult children were concerned about their parents' driving habits, but just 23% had had a discussion with their parents.
"It's definitely good news," says Dave Melton, Liberty Mutual's managing director of global safety, who says it's important to have those conversations "early and often."
"I think a large majority of seniors are certainly willing to listen, preferably to their doctor or their kids, about a time when it might be appropriate to start transitioning to the passenger seat."
It helps when the adult child can help with alternatives, Melton says.
That's what Rose and Martin Smith's son did to finally convince his mother to stop driving, Rose Smith says. Martin Smith, 84, of Palmer Township, Pa., had given up driving about a year ago as he battled macular degeneration. The driving duties then fell to Rose Smith, also 84. "I really didn't drive any more than I had to, and only to places I was familiar with," she says.
After she caused a non-injury traffic crash in February, their son, Mark, and his wife, Joan, finally convinced her to give up the keys. Mark Smith did research and signed them up with ITNAmerica, a national organization with affiliates around the nation that provides rides for seniors. "That was a big help," Rose Smith says. "It relieved him of the worry, and he knew we'd be taken care of."
Julie Lee, vice president and national director of driver safety for AARP, says, "One of the most important things driving provides, especially for older drivers, is independence." She says participants in AARP Smart Driver courses have often indicated a willingness to learn more about staying safe behind the wheel — including limiting the time they're on the road.
It's a situation that more and more Americans will confront, According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, there were 23.1 million licensed drivers ages 70 and older in 2012 — a 30% increase from 1997. The proportion of the 70-and-up population with driver's licenses also is increasing, from 73% in 1997 to 79% in 2012, IIHS says.
Liberty Mutual commissioned a telephone survey of 1,000 people 75 and older. Of these, 582 said that they still drive, while 418 no longer drove or no longer had a valid driver's license. The results have a 3.94% margin of error for drivers.
The majority of those drivers, 78%, said that they drive regularly even after reporting declining physical abilities. One in six said they tire easily or have slow reaction times, 13% reported difficulty seeing or hearing, and 9% said they got lost or felt confused while driving.
In 2012, 4,079 people 70 and older were killed in vehicle crashes. But seniors are not disproportionately represented among all crash victims, IIHS says; in fact, 31% fewer people 70 and older died in crashes in 2012 than in 1997.


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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Everyone remain calm…this is only a Test!
15 comments:
- Chef John said...
Before someone comments... I didn't have a microphone that works with the mac yet, so I had to use the built in one, which explains the bad sound. Thanks, and stay tuned!
- May 29, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Finally. A mac. Now I'm an even bigger fan! :-)
- May 29, 2007 at 5:38 PM
- Steffen P said...
i actually thought the sound was great
- May 29, 2007 at 5:42 PM
- Chef John said...
should be much cleaner with a Mic,but thanks.
- May 29, 2007 at 5:48 PM
- Steffen P said...
the onlye part that was annoying was the tv.. :P
But again, if thats what keeps you posting, then you just go ahead and turn up the volume.. :P
- May 29, 2007 at 6:45 PM
- Chef John said...
hey, it was the radio!
- May 29, 2007 at 7:08 PM
yeah I thought there was something odd with the usual videos; a web cam explains it all :) Good luck with your new toys!
- May 29, 2007 at 7:12 PM
wow! Its sounds so clear and what the hell is up with the title thing? And its true it doesn't show as much pixel as before. Trust me good investment. 0.0
- May 29, 2007 at 8:06 PM
- Unknown said...
GREAT improvement! Even the sound is way better... Congratulations on your memorial weekend buys!
- May 29, 2007 at 9:13 PM
- Beans said...
I have to say the videos were already fantastic before your new gadgets, so can't wait to see you come up with now!
- May 30, 2007 at 3:34 PM
- Chef John said...
- May 30, 2007 at 5:47 PM
- Shelly- Mom Files said...
Yay for you!!! Can't wait to see the end result with all your new technology. Congrats!
- May 31, 2007 at 2:37 PM
- Connie T. said...
Wow good job. I got a new digital camcorder a Sony SR62. It works great but it is mpeg2 and I can't get mpeg2 on youtube. How do you get your videos on youtube? Email me and let me know. Plus it would not work on windows movie maker so I bought Sony movie maker and it is really involved like yours. The book on cd is 150 pages long, or longer. I have made a couple of movies and can't download them
- June 8, 2007 at 5:54 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, I almost bought the same type of camera. Thankfully the dude at the Mac store told me to just get a much cheaper MiniDV style camera because it records to tape and that is the best for editing and web use. The more expensive HD and DVD cameras compress the info and it doesnt work as well. I dont know how to solve your problem, maybe return the cameraif you can, or they probably have software that converts MPEG to other formats. Good Luck.
- June 8, 2007 at 6:36 PM
- Atif said...
Hi Chef John,
I found your videos on YouTube, and I liked them so much I'm going through your entire blog (from the beginning) and emailing myself the recipes I want to try out. Keep up the good work.
I'm really interested in the A/V equipment you ended up getting. What kind of mic and lighting do you use?
- June 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM

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Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale was published in May 2013 by Abrams Books for Young Readers. I am its author and illustrator. The book can be read on two levels. On the surface it is a story that reads like a fable, a bit like the Little Red Riding Hood or the Gingerbread Man. But the book is also an allegory of the terrible journey that undocumented immigrants go through in order to reach the U.S.
The book begins when a drought forces Papá Rabbit to leave and go North to find work so that he can provide for his family. After some years Papá Rabbit is finally returning. His family prepares a big fiesta for him and they cook his favorite meal: mole, rice and beans, a heap of warm tortillas and a jugful of fresh aguamiel. Everyone is excited to see him, but it gets late and Papá Rabbit does not come home.
In the middle of the night Pancho Rabbit, the eldest son, packs Papá his favorite meal and decides to look for him. Along the way he meets a sneaky coyote who offers to help him. They travel together on top of a train, they cross a river, they use a tunnel guarded by snakes and they cross the desert. Every time the coyote helps Pancho he asks him for some of Papá's food until the food runs out and the coyote decides he still hungry …for Pancho!
In Spanish the word coyote has two meanings it is the name of an animal, but it is also slang for a person that smuggles people between the U.S. and Mexico border. Immigrants pay coyotes exorbitant fees for their help. They put their lives on the coyote's hands and they have no guarantees that they will reach their destination. According to a 2010 Pew Research Center report, 11.2 million undocumented immigrants live in the U.S. An average of 150,000 unauthorized immigrants enter the U.S. each year. Most of them are from Mexico and Central America. They leavve their home countries due to poverty, violence and lack of opportunities.
Central American migrants travel around five thousand miles on top of trains to cross Mexico. It is extremely dangerous. Because of their undocumented status they are vulnerable and they are often the victims of gangs that steal from them and abuse them.
Some migrants never reach their destination. According to the American Civil Liberty's Union and Mexico's National Human Right's Commission, between 350 and 500 migrants die every year. That number is most likely a lot higher because many migrants that die while trying to reach the U.S. are never found or claimed. Some drown while trying to cross the river that separates Mexico and the U.S. Many more die of dehydration while crossing the desert.
It is not only young men that go on this journey. Women and children also go on this journey. There are an estimated 1.5 million undocumented children in the U.S.
Immigration comes in and out of the news cycle. But when it is discussed, it is usually in abstract terms. Instead of focusing on the experience of actual people politicians discuss immigrants as a statistic in the economy. Or worse, when we hear of immigrants in the media, it is with negative and sensational tones. Undocumented immigrants are often equated with terrorists and drug traffickers, when in reality almost all immigrants are hard working people trying to provide for their families. In 2008, 94% of undocumented immigrant men of working age were employed compared to 83% of U.S. born men.
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote has been well received by teachers, librarians, professors and parents. Some people have called the book liberal propaganda though. My book does not advocate for open borders of for a giant border fence protected by drones. Instead, it tries to focus on the terrible journey that migrants go through and the separation that families experience.
Immigration is a complicated issue. In order to reach long-lasting solutions both the U.S. and the Mexican and Central American governments and societies need to be involved. On the one hand the immigrant's home countries have to improve living conditions and create better opportunities for their citizens so they are not forced to leave. On the other hand the U.S. needs to admit its dependency on undocumented workers to do much of its manual and domestic labor and to provide legal and safe working opportunities for those seeking employment. Undocumented immigrants are a huge and important part of the U.S. workforce. According to a Pew Research Center study in 2005, 7.2 million undocumented workers were working in low skilled and often grueling jobs, like farming and construction. Only 31% of U.S.-born workers hold those occupations.
Some people have said that Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote is inappropriate for children. I disagree. I have read the book to children in schools and libraries in different parts of the U.S. Young kids enjoy the story the way they would enjoy a classic fable or a folk tale. Older kids are able to understand and discuss the second layer of meaning in the book. Many of them see their own experiences reflected in the story.
Last October a group of 4th graders from Metz elementary in Austin introduced me at the Texas Book Festival. They shared with me this multi-voice poem about their own immigrant experience.
According to a 2011 Pew Hispanic Research Center report, in 2008 there were 5.5 million children of undocumented immigrants in U.S. Schools. I think it is important to make books that resonate with them, with their parents and that generate empathy and understanding from their classmates.
Here is a video of a TEDx talk I gave which has more information on the artwork and more information on my personal connection to immigration.
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Category: Formula Feeding
The Alpha Parent Shows Me The Error Of My Ways
I wanted to bestow upon you this image that I came across on thealphaparent.com.
It's a gem.
It's pretty amazing, huh?
Amazingly fucked up.
First of all, the image is not original or creative. It's one of the lactivists most frequent comparisons: Formula as fast food. Formula as junk food. Formula, essentially, as poison.
I haven't read very much of The Alpha Parent blog. It's pretty hard to stomach — my pregnancy is making me nauseated enough.
But I did come across this gem from 2011 titled: Why the way you feed your baby is MY business. I know, right? A typical, blatant, mean-girl title that's meant to garner as much attention as possible.
Well unfortunately, this title caught my attention.
I will summarize her blog post for you. Because it'll be fun.
The way you feed your baby is HER business BECAUSE:
1. If you use formula, you're saying YES to dead babies in developing countries. Because these evil formula companies (and I acknowledge that they're not very ethical — they ARE big business after-all) force their food on the poor, illiterate women who end up mis-using the formula. Tragic and awful? YES. Is it prevalent enough for me to go through even more agony so I can provide breast milk that only has marginal benefits compared to formula? NO.
And if this is a major concern for you, research your formula companies. Or go for local formula companies such as Vermont Organics infant formula.
2. She finds the way I feed my baby offensive because she cares about all the diseases/illnesses/bacteria he will acquire from such junk food.
As I don't use formula you may wonder why I'm troubled by this. However just because I did not give birth to the children suffering or put at risk because of formula feeding, this does not prevent me from feeling compassion for them. I find it short-sighted and self-centred that people expect me to care only for children to whom I have a genetic link.
Essentially — she cares about my children more than I do. Because I put them at risk by formula feeding. By the way, I'm still waiting for my almost three year old to get an ear-infection from all the formula I gave him.
Yeah, still waiting.
Oh, nothing yet? Okay, well now I'll wait for another (insert horrible disease here.) In the mean time, I'll cry myself to sleep every night because she cares about my children more than I do.
3. Formula feeding mothers are ruining the environment. I'm honestly just too tired to deal with this one. That must mean I don't care about the environment. I hate myself!
4. If you use formula, you're not a feminist.
Excuse me while I have a laughing fit.
Okay, I'm done.
Consider her far-reaching reasoning:
Furthermore, a common conception of formula is that it aids a woman's economic mobility through strengthening her role in the workplace. She is no longer tied to a dependant infant and can instead pass a bottle of formula to grandma and return to being economically active. However this perceived benefit is negated by the fact that formula fed children are significantly more likely to fall ill, and numerous studies have shown that a child's illness commonly results in the mother rather than the father taking time off work (Journal of Early Childhood; Weimer.J; Nursery World; Mother and Baby;Working Mums Magazine). Thus when a woman is taking more time off work she is seen as a burden by her employer. This does not strengthen the role of women in the workplace. Consequently women of childbaring age are viewed as liabilities. This is not to mention the strain on employers caused by their employees sick children results in lower incomes for working families, thus reducing income tax revenues which pay for government programs and services that benefit everyone.
So I'm trying to understand what she's saying here. Is she saying women should just stay home and nurse their babies to further the women's lib movement? Or we should be chained to breast-pumps to mitigate any illnesses that MIGHT happen? I have an interesting piece of anecdotal evidence (yes I know this is not considered "real" evidence), but my two breastfed children had far more illnesses than my formula fed child. My daughter who was exclusively breastfed, had numerous ear infections as an infant and toddler.
Dear Alpha Parent — perhaps just the act of bearing children is considered a liability — not HOW they're fed.
So, in essence, you must feed your babies through your bleeding, cracked nipples to prove that you're not a slave to formula companies. This makes you a strong, independent woman!
Thanks for your concern, Alpha Parent!
5. By formula feeding my child, the Alpha Parent is concerned that I'm contributing to the puritanical idea that breasts are strictly sexual and not for breastfeeding — that breastfeeding women shouldn't nurse in public. I'm kind of flattered that she thinks that I'm contributing to all these problems — and to my country's distorted view of breasts. I think Alpha Parent needs to take a deep look at herself and wonder if maybe — just maybe — part of this backlash of nursing in public is related to the lactivists smug, self-congratulatory, mean-girl status — and their scathing judgement on those who don't breastfeed.
By the way, I think nursing in public is awesome and should be done more often.
6. She's concerned about my child's intelligence. She's worried he'll be stupid or some such shit.
The following quote is pretty hysterical:
But why do I care about the IQ of other people's children? As formula feeding lowers the IQ of the population, this means less scientific advancements. We're talking about cures for cancers and other diseases, new amenities, new technologies, strategies to combat global warming, and so on.
Ah yes, the Baby Boomer generation produced nothing but dunces — no scientists, literary geniuses, lawyers, politicians, mathematicians, doctors, etc, came out of that generation — all because most of them were formula fed.
7. I'm more likely to abuse my child because I use formula. Apparently. Or something like that. You know, because I don't care about my child.
But Alpha Parent cares. She cares more than me.
8. My formula feeding choice effects Alpha Parent because I'm producing the spawn of satan. Essentially — my child will be the next Charles Manson — or something along those lines.
9. My baby is going to get her baby sick. And she cares about that because it effects other children as well. Pretty soon my baby will be getting everybody sick. It's gonna be like that movie Contagion up in here, folks!
10. She cares that my child will be getting colds and the flu or some such shit. Because breast-fed babies don't ever get sick, remember?
11. Giving my children formula means that I'm uneducated and will continue to have babies, perpetuating the cycle of poverty in this country. Maybe she's right! I AM having my fourth child after all.
12. She's concerned that formula fed babies are going to take all the doctors away from her children.
13. Apparently she thinks I'm anti-breastfeeding, and that I'm hurting other women's chance at breastfeeding successfully. I won't dignify this accusation with a response.
14. My child is a drain on the medical community.
And hilariously, Alpha Parent concludes with this:
Just to clarify, I fully defend a woman's right to chose how she feeds her baby IF that choice is fully informed, free from bias and backed up with adequate support…
I find this statement laughable after she lambasted all formula feeding mothers for being uneducated, selfish, and anti-feminist.
But, whatever.
Excuse me while I tend to my suffering, wasteful, unintelligent, abused, juvenile delinquent, germ-infested, medical doctor hogging offspring. I have a lot of work ahead of me to "fix" my children so they can be contributing members of society.
Thanks, Alpha Parent, for showing me the error of my ways.


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Is Museo Silver Rag (or similar fiber papers) readily available yet? If so, where? Thanks,EricCrane's MSR is available in rolls only at present. I expect the usual US suppliers have them . I have some 17" rolls here in Au, and am waiting for more and a bigger range. Certainly lots of people contributing to these pages are using it. Other papers in a similar genre eg the Hahnemuhle and Innova offerings ,seem to be around the place too. How all of them behave as far as outgassing goes will take a little time to determine. With these and the "art" type papers it may be that the remnant gas just takes longer to emerge. The stuff comes from humidicants in the inkset that reduce nozzle clogging . It seems that these papers either trap the gas somehow or release most of it very quickly. MSR seems to dry much faster than , say the lustre or gloss type papers , but there may be exceptions like those mentioned , which would seem to be a function of the coatings.Cheers,Brian.www.pharoseditions.com.au


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Fool's errand? Chances slim for ACC football glory
According to ESPN, the Bleacher Report, and almost anyone else who has an opinion about college football, 2011 is the ACC's year. It's year for what exactly is a bit unclear, seeing how ESPN, the Bleacher Report, and almost everyone else acknowledge that there are a lot of unknowns plaguing the conference: new quarterbacks, new coaches, tough schedules. One apparent certainty is that Virginia—despite, or perhaps due to, its 15 returning starters– will remain at the bottom of the rankings, with only Duke to kick around.
Ho hum.
Such speculation is nothing new, and with the NCAA more vigilant than ever regarding violations (although that's not saying much), this is no time to get excited about UVA football. Leave the mad ambition to others.
The ACC hasn't won a national title since 1999, when Florida State defeated Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl. That means the conference is under intense pressure. If any lesson can be learned from this past year, it's that a football program fueled by gross ambition and intense pressure is a program teetering on the edge of the abyss.
As expectations for the ACC rise, so does the probability that one or more teams will succumb to ambition and pressure. UNC– predicted to take third place in the ACC Coastal Division– could well be this year's Ohio State.
In June, the NCAA sent UNC a "Notice of Allegations," citing nine violations committed by the Tar Heels' football program. Among the accusations are impermissible benefits (airline tickets, money, etc.), impermissible academic help, steering players to representation, knowingly and willfully breaking NCAA rules, providing "false and misleading" information to the NCAA, and inadequate monitoring of the football program.
We've come to expect this sort of thing from the SEC and the PAC-10 (now 12), but the ACC? Say it ain't so.
Unfortunately, it is so. If the ACC is a conference on the make, as so many experts believe, the temptation to gain a competitive edge will only grow stronger.
The ACC isn't exactly an angelic conference to begin with: academic fraud has plagued Florida State; Miami has committed its share of recruiting violations; Maryland recently admitted to many practices; even Mike London committed a secondary violation last year by posting on a recruit's Facebook page. And Virginia Tech has escaped major violations by the skin of its teeth– where did Michael Vick get the money in college for dogfighting?
The Wall Street Journal reported in June that only four Bowl Championship Series schools haven't been cited for major NCAA violations, and only one, Boston College, is a member of the ACC. (Northwestern, Penn State, and Stanford are the other three.)
UNC's problems will affect the ACC in one of two ways: either the NCAA will devote all its energy to investigating the Tar Heels, or it will sit up and take notice of the entire conference. Considering how the big dogs in sports media are lavishing attention on the ACC this season, my money is on the latter. At such a time, the pursuit of a football championship, be it conference or national, may well be a fool's errand. Any program seeking to fill Auburn's shoes will (rightly) be under intense scrutiny.
Does any school in the ACC have what it takes to reach a bowl game without falling victim to its own ambition? If history serves, the answer is a resounding no.
That's not to say Virginia Tech, Clemson, and even Virginia shouldn't cultivate the best in their programs, but before we make 2011 the ACC's year, perhaps we should figure out what kind of year it should be.
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BEIJING -- Call it "Breaking Bad: China Edition." More than 3,000 police officers equipped with helicopters and motorboats and accompanied by dogs descended on a southern Chinese village notorious for making crystal meth, seizing 3 tons of the drug and 23 tons of raw materials and arresting 182 people.
The massive raid targeted Boshe village in Guangdong province, a difficult-to-reach hamlet of 14,000 people near the city of Lufeng. Pictures of Sunday's raid published on Chinese news websites showed dozens of police vehicles massed in the village of traditional-style, single-story tile-roofed homes separated by narrow alleyways, many passable only by bicycle or on foot.
Provincial anti-drug official Qiu Wei told the state-run Xinhua news agency that more than one-fifth of the village's 2,000 households were connected to the drug trade and that the town had been providing a third of the crystal meth made in China over the last three years.
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Use and production of crystal meth has been rising rapidly in China. A study published in November by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said of the more than 2 million drug users who have come into contact with Chinese authorities, 29% were using amphetamine-type drugs, up from just 9% in 2008.
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beginer , Line length question,
Hey guys
Pretty new to fly fishing, been doing alot of practice on lawn, only been in the water about 5 times.
I have 1 question, may sound stupid, but gotta ask it.
When, you see a fish or have a spot you wanna cast, and its close, close enough for just leader and tippet cast, no fly line. Do you cast in reg way ? will it cast right with no fly line , just upper section?
Is there a certain type of cast for this sitiuation?
I look forward to all replies
thanx guys
don't know the answer to your question as my presence seems to send fish further away than that. it be weird to hook a fish so close, tho.
i do remember i was on the yampa once and saw a good 16-incher holding about eight or nine feet from where i was standing so i let my fly drift directly above it with no success. it seemed to be dead since it wasn't wiggling around so i poked it with the tip of my rod and it slowly swam away. it ended up being a white sucker so no big deal.
Line length question,
Odin, a good question, one that took me a while to learn the full implications of, and certainly one that touches upon a deep subject.
Essentially, you need the weight of the fly line to load (bend) the rod which throws the leader and fly at the fish as it springs back, at least on a "regular" cast.
The Yakima River presents situations like that during spring hatches, with fish rising steadily through low visibility water not more than 10 - 15 feet from the boat, but requiring perfect dead drift presentations. A problem develops if you have a "faster" rod that requires a minimum of 20 ++ feet of line in the air to load the rod. You would be better off with a much slower or flexible (and shorter) rod that loads more easily on shorter line.
The bottom line is that you get the fly out to the fish any way you can, and you need to experiment with every way possible to do that. On a river, you can simply slap the fly and leader down into the river upstream from the fish and let it drift down to the fish. Another way would be to pinch the fly between your fingers while exerting pressure on the rod tip to bend it in the direction you want the fly to go, then let go of the fly, flinging the fly forward, like a bow and arrow. This works well for lake or small stream application when trying to get underneath or between foliage when you can't false cast. Hope that helps.
Thanx for the replies guys.
I get what you guys are saying!!
I was trying to remember the bow and arrow cast, thankx for reminding me.
I gues i should use my 6 1/2 ft rod when i know im gonna encounter fishing like that. Thats what your saying right? The shorter rod , will make a shorter line to cast?
thanx for the replies guys.
Trying to get out of the beginer ranks!!!
The right leader might help in your situation. A furled leader made of thread will turn over just like a fly line. Poly-Leaders do too but they might be a little 'splashy' for that close-in work. Even the right mono leader will work, either knotless or knotted, as long as you follow the advise of the above posts.
the shorter rod will probably be more fexible (but not necessarily), the question is really about how flexible the rod is, as opposed to using a rod that is stiff, regardless of the length of the rod. A shorter rod is normally prescribed for conditions you find in small streams, with lots of brush and trees on the banks, and gives you better control of your casts. A shorter rod that is very flexible generally is going to be best for close in precision casts, assuming it is balanced with a fly line and appropriate leader to turn over the fly as pointed out by Jackster. Although I spend a lot of time searching out steelhead and salmon, the challenge of hunting fish in secluded small freestone streams requiring precise casts with light equipment has always been one of my favorites. Sometimes the key will be to re-position yourself to enable you to make the cast with the equipment that you have. On occassion, that might mean moving to take advantage of a hole in the canopy of trees overhead to allow you to backcast up through the hole then straighten out the forward cast to deliver your fly. Lots of fun.
Hi Oden!
Here's a true statement : if you can see the fish, they can see you. LM bass do not spook easily; I've had 24" bass swim past me while wading. Trout on the other hand, can be easily spooked.
I don't like to get too close while casting to fish. Sometimes I will cast 40-50 ft from them; I like the challenge of casting to them.
Fish can also see your profile. I have spooked fish from over 100 feet away; I was walking along a ridge overlooking the lake, and the bass near the shore made ripples as they swam toward deeper water.
Thanks again for all the replies!
1 more question, When they say, have out 20 feet of line, do they mean Fly line and leader together? Or 20 feet of , fly line, not including leader?
Just wondering guys, if anyone knows, would help
thankkx again
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Hi Odin!
When someone tells me "20 feet of line" I interpret that as "20 feet of flyline." A leader can change the lenght drastically. I have thrown leaders as short as 2 feet, to leaders as long as 7 feet. Some people have thrown 12 foot leaders to spooky trout.
Keep those questions coming!
In my experience, any fish that will let you get that close to it isn't going to bite anything you throw at it. The only exception I can really think of is sunfish in the shallows. They seem to have a higher spook tolerance, or maybe their eyesight just stinks. But of course I cast to anything that gets that close anyway because there are exceptions, such as last summer when I was wading a local reservoir. I had stopped to change flies, and was all thumbs and it was taking me forever to tie the new fly on. After about 5 minutes of standing absolutely still, I see a pair of 4-5 lb largemouth bass swim by 25 feet away from me.
As for the "feet of line" question, I don't usually hear a question or statement phrased that way. For instance, people don't say "You need to be able to cast 40 feet of line to catch bonefish." They simply say "You need to be able to cast 40 feet." But if somebody were to ask me, I'd probably err towards including some of my leader in the measurement. But I always use 12 ft leaders, which is a lot longer than most people, so if I'm casting 40 feet of fly line then I'm actually casting 52 feet, a significant difference!
I have had fish that close on several occasions while fishing spring creeks such that a 9 foot rod extended was too far and extended over the fish and I have actually hooked a few of them when they are feeding hard on a hatch or spinner fall.
If you stop the rod tip, it will cast the leader - will not be much load in the rod but it can be done just need to stop the rod hard. Try a very short fast forward stroke with an abrupt stop, casting off the rod tip and this should help
Rick J,
I agree completely, just use the normaly speed-up-and-stop with the rod tip and you can cast 9ft of leader with a 8wt or 9wt rod. The rod must flex only enough to cast the very light leader however, the rod has mass and that will cause a flex or load of the rod and if you stop quickly the rod will unload and launch the leader.
Most of us do the wiggle test to flex a rod in the FF shop, this is all we need to cast a leader with almost any rod. I find it easier to cast with more side arm when casting very short amounts of line or only the leader. Short rod path (short stroke) and quick speed-up-and-stop,,,,,a little practice and it will become easy.
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Now they face another threat: climate change. Climate change is already affecting sea turtles, with tidal surges soaking their nests (the porous eggs are spoiled by water) and increased storm activity damaging their rookeries.
Yet other effects are more insidious, not to mention bizarre. "Successful embryonic development with sea turtles only occurs in a limited temperature range," says zoologist Dr David Booth, a lecturer at The University of Queensland. "That range is from 27 to 32 degrees. Much below 26 degrees can be lethal to the eggs. Above 36 degrees can also be lethal: the eggs just cook in the sand. Even at 34 degrees, the hatchlings may be smaller and weaker, slower at running and swimming."
Temperature also determines the turtle's gender: below 27 and almost all of the hatchlings will be male. Above 32 produces almost all females. In the middle and you get a mix. "If temperatures continue to rise as projected, then by 2070 we will get total feminisation of the Mon Repos rookery or even non-viability," says Booth.
Sea turtles are among the earth's oldest creatures. They have been around in various forms for 110 million years, since the age of the dinosaurs. During this time they have, of course, dealt with several changes in climate. The difference with today's climate change is its speed. "Compared to the past," says Booth, "this change is happening lightning fast." This is bad news for sea turtles, which are slow-growing and long-living (between 50 and 70 years), meaning they pass on adaptive traits only gradually. "Basically, if the turtles can't adapt fast enough, if they can't move rookeries or change breeding seasons, then they're doomed."
Sea turtles have been nesting at Mon Repos for at least 5000 years. They are philopatric animals (from the Greek for "home loving"), meaning they return to nest at the beach where they were born. Considering the career of the average sea turtle, this is no small feat. The tiny loggerheads I saw skittering down the beach would soon be on their way across the Pacific to the coast of Chile, where for the next five to 10 years they eat plankton and floating seaweed. They then swim back across to the east coast of Australia, settling down for another 15 years in an inshore feeding ground. Around 30 years of age they start their first breeding season, zeroing in to lay their eggs on the very same beach where they themselves were born three decades before.
They are able to do this thanks to having what amounts to a miniature compass in their nose - tiny particles of an iron oxide, known as magnetite, that are thought to provide the turtle with a finely calibrated sense of magnetic location. "As the hatchlings make their way down the sand, they imprint with the beach's magnetic signature," says Cathy Gately, head ranger at Mon Repos. "They then use that to make their way back 30 years later."
In the past, sea turtles have adapted to temperature changes by moving their rookeries north or south. But that was when potential nesting spots were virtually unlimited. The spread of human settlement down the eastern seaboard now severely constrains where turtles can viably lay their eggs. Hatchlings, for instance, are drawn down to the water at night by the glow of the stars on the horizon. Artificial light sources can therefore prove disastrous. Recently, Gately discovered that even the ambient night haze from the nearby township of Bargara was luring the Mon Repos hatchlings south, away from the ocean. This resulted in a government campaign called Cut the Glow to Help Turtles Go, which suggests, among other things, that residents close their curtains and face any lights away from the beach.
Last year, however, Gately was horrified to discover groups of people carrying lanterns down the beaches at twilight. "It turned out they were part of Light the Night, a cancer charity," she says. "So I couldn't really rouse on them."
One of the best places to see adult sea turtles is on Lady Elliot Island, a flat, lonely speck of land about 85 kilometres north-east of Bundaberg, on the southernmost tip of the Great Barrier Reef. Lady Elliot is a coral cay, less than half a kilometre square in area; flying in, it seems barely big enough to land on. "It's a Green Zone," says Peter Gash, our pilot, who also owns the eco-resort here. "No fishing, no spearing, no nothing. Great for the fish, but we recently had some poachers come out here on a boat; when one of our guys told them to leave, they pulled a gun on him."
Gash is tall and lean, a former Team Yamaha motorcross rider turned eco-maniac who has made it his mission to turn Lady Elliot into a beacon of sustainability, complete with a reforestation program, composting pits and a $600,000 bank of solar panels that has reduced the island's emissions by 70 per cent (or 340 tonnes a year).
Lady Elliot is intriguing not only for its sea life but its short, brutal history, which perfectly encapsulates the extractive nature of Australia's land management since white settlement. Having popped up 3500 years ago, the island served as a pit-stop for seabirds, whose droppings, or guano, provided nutrients for thick, glistening forests of pisonia trees. In the 1860s, however, Chinese workers mined the guano, both for fertiliser and gunpowder, some of which was used in the American Civil War. Within a few short years, 20,000 tonnes were removed, reducing Lady Elliot to a windswept rock. Adding insult to injury, authorities then left goats here as a food source for shipwrecked sailors.
The island has since been rehabilitated by successive caretakers, starting in 1969 with a pilot, named Don Adams, who won a lease to start a resort here. Adams broke up the soil by planting casuarinas, which were the only trees tough enough to take root. Now, Gash, who took over in 2005, is replacing those casuarinas with native pisonias. "The trees are back, which brings in the birds, which poop on the ground, which fertilise the soil," he says. "It's like I say: you look after nature and nature looks after you."
Nowadays, most visitors come here for the diving and snorkelling. The reefs that ring the beach - shallow bomboras and dog-legged coral canyons - swarm with fish with funky names and funkier colours: humbugs, scissortails, dotted sweetlips and parrotfish, which glow like hazard vests and have the ability to change gender from male to female. Turtles are here, too, adults the size of car doors.
One afternoon I went snorkelling with them, wading out just off the beach. I couldn't tell if they were loggerheads or hawksbills, but whatever they were, they were remarkably unfussed by me. The photographer and I swam right beside them, studying them at leisure, marvelling at their gnarled necks and big brown eyes. I longed to feel their shells, which you're not really meant to do, though everyone does. So I followed one old turtle down towards the bottom, deeper and deeper, and, as the creature nibbled absently on some coral, I reached out and felt the shell. It was smooth and slippery and oddly inert, like a mossy old cobblestone.
Tim Elliott travelled courtesy of Earth Hour, which commences tonight at 8:30PM.
Tim Elliott is a senior writer with Good Weekend.


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Let $G$ be a finite group. A chain of subgroups of $G$ of length $d$ is a sequence of subgroups of the form $$ \{e\}=G_0 \subsetneq G_1 \subsetneq \ldots \subsetneq G_{d-1} \subsetneq G_d=G. $$ The length $l(G)$ of $G$ is, by definition, the length of the longest chain of subgroups of $G$.
Let $\Lambda(G)$ be the number of conjugacy classes of subgroups of $G$.
Obviously, one can bound $\Lambda(G)$ using the order $|G|$ of $G$. My question is whether one can bound $\Lambda(G)$ using $l(G)$.
To be more precise:
Fix an integer $n$. Does there exist, for any integer $m$, a finite group $G_m$ such that $l(G_m)\leq n$, but $\Lambda(G_m)\geq m$?


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|This is an archive of User talk:RyanPT.
December 2012 comments
Yup we need lots of help with updates
Any area you would like to focus on would be helpful. Feel free to ask questions on my talk page or the forums. If you know how to use wiki templates, there are many listed at WoWWiki:Templates that should be helpful. There is also Help:Updating for Mists of Pandaria if you want to focus on the recent expansion. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 6 Dec 2012 10:47 PM Pacific
Vandal blocked
Wallisthedoosh has been perma-banned. Thanks for the notification. If you can't edit the WW:V page in a few days, leave a message on my talk page. That page doesn't allow users less than 3 days old to edit it. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 8 Dec 2012 8:57 AM Pacific
Oh ok!
RyanPT (talk) 20:12, December 8, 2012 (UTC)
User:Gromgar editing issues
Is there a reason why you can't leave a message on Gromgar's talk page? -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 8 Dec 2012 3:27 PM Pacific
I wasn't sure if it was my place to notify him.
RyanPT (talk) 23:31, December 8, 2012 (UTC)
Considering the information I edited into the wiki page did not remove any previous information, and that the information is based off of the game from several years ago, and the gear has been changed since then, as well as the item levels, I feel that it is far more appropriate for the information to be available at first sight on the wiki page, under the historical section, rather than on the talk page for it. The information previously given was either edited to be very wrong, or the original posters of it were gravely in err.
The talk page seems more appropriate for current topics, regarding things like the current and previous expansions. Item Level calculations is so far beyond old, that Blizzard as openly revealed their item levels on the gear, and completely changed how it works.
That being said, nobody has posted in the talk section of the Item Level page in over 3 years, coming up on its 4th.
This is my first time posting both under a talk page and under the wiki, and as such, I have no idea who you are, nor your rank in these matters. If this is in fact an issue from an admin, and the information will be deleted unless it is moved to the talk, I will naturally be forced to put it in the [dust laden] talk section. —This unsigned comment is by MM101 (talk • contribs) 15:33, December 11, 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
We're definitely looking at you for patroller status; right now it's an issue of time. You've been editing for less than a week, and while your edits are certainly quality, we just want to give it a little more time before bumping you up. Along the same vein, though, we're also keeping an eye out for possible moderators, which is a step beyond patroller and would require more edits/time investment. You're on a great trajectory for both. Raylan13 (talk) 04:31, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
Patch mirrors
We only lightly monitor the Patch mirrors page because it is too much work to verify all the changes and no real way to validate the downloads in a timely fashion. We trust users to complain or notify us of bad links. This is why there is a big fat disclaimer at the top. We provide the space for users to advertise patch mirrors, but we don't police it much. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 12 Dec 2012 11:13 AM Pacific
Videos, etc.
I'll respond to this since I'm going to post another response here anyway. Basically videos are great to have and as long as they relate to whatever page they're put on, everything's fine, provided it's at least decent quality. The videos you're asking about are actually a good example of what is permissible.
On another note, we've done a quick review of your edits and have decided to offer you the patroller position if you're still interested. Just let me know. You can read more about the additional abilities you'll have here; if you've got any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Raylan13 (talk) 01:43, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
- Done! Raylan13 (talk) 02:03, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
- It's already been added and should appear next to your name in your profile box. You may have to ctrl+F5 in order to see it. Raylan13 (talk) 02:16, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
It's showing up for me in Chrome. Probably just a caching issue, if you can see my titles. If it is, don't worry, as it will show up. Raylan13 (talk) 02:27, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
Autopatrol isn't disabled to my knowledge. Basically marking something as patrolled means someone has checked it for accuracy/vandalism, etc., meaning less work for others who are checking page edits. Having personal edits autopatrolled means we think that certain people have high enough quality of edits that we don't have to scrutinize what they're doing as much.
If you look at Special:RecentChanges, anything with a ! hasn't been patrolled yet. Raylan13 (talk) 03:20, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
If you want, you can work on the companion page
The companion page is pretty out of date. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 17 Dec 2012 8:51 AM Pacific
- Actually, I know very little about the companions in the game, and I have found more updates I can do on the new MoP mounts page. RyanPT (talk) 17:26, December 17, 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, when I'm here, I tend to watch the recent changes and images sections closely. Raylan13 (talk) 06:17, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
There's quite a bit to work on. I'm not sure where your foci/interests lie, but I've got a very general listing on my profile page of tasks. Keep in mind that 1-6 and 16 are either done or I'm currently working on them. As far as listings go, if scouring those is interesting, a massive update of all the professions and achievements would be invaluable. Raylan13 (talk) 06:41, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
- Sounds good. Let me know if you've got any questions/need help. The format is a little different for those pages, but nothing too complicated. For the next few weeks at least I'll be on virtually every day in the morning and evening. Raylan13 (talk) 06:49, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
Nominated! Raylan13 (talk) 18:41, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
Weird. Looks like he added it to his talk page for no particular reason. Since he hasn't been back since the beginning of the year, however, doesn't look like there's any reason to keep it there. Raylan13 (talk) 04:29, December 23, 2012 (UTC)
Give it another whirl. I'm not seeing anything on my end, but sometimes the site has some odd hiccups every now and again. Let me know if it persists. Raylan13 (talk) 16:33, December 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Seems to be working on my end. I went ahead and removed those links in the table and instead put it in a guides section - belonged there anyway. If it continues to be problematic, see if Fandyllic has any ideas. It doesn't look like it's a filtering issue. Raylan13 (talk) 21:18, December 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed. TheNoobSchool.com link in List of mining nodes had a keyword in the URL that spam blocker didn't like. Added URL fragment to spam whitelist. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 24 Dec 2012 7:03 PM Pacific
- Excellent, thanks! Macrophager (talk) 03:11, December 25, 2012 (UTC)
First of all I didn`t change the page:you did. Second the only way for us to be 100% sure is to do the quest again. —This unsigned comment is by Dragonlover103 (talk • contribs) 13:14, December 25, 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
I think it the other way around. Well if it was your way that that was the type he is. So you kinda just agreeded with me. —This unsigned comment is by Dragonlover103 (talk • contribs) 13:22, December 25, 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
I`m really bad at usning references...and signing ...Dragonlover553 —This unsigned comment is by Dragonlover103 (talk • contribs) 13:30, December 25, 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Don't worry much about the references then but I can show you how to sign your talk page comments. There is a button on your keyboard that looks like this ~, it should be found directly above you Tab key, and to the left of your 1 key. Hold shift and push it four times to sign your name and date to your posts. Macrophager (talk) 19:33, December 25, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, Oh and Merry Christmas! Dragonlover103 (talk) 19:38, December 25, 2012 (UTC)


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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, July 6
A hefty 20.4 percent of all selectors put their trust in Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp last night, and the newly-crowned Home Run Derby participant came through in style with a 2-for-5 performance against the Mets.
Second choice Adrian Gonzalez slayed the dragon for an additional 8.9 percent of Streakers, while 4.7 percent of you skated by on a pass from the injured Ryan Braun. We'll let that kind of sneakiness slide this time around, but you should be well aware of the karmic ramifications tied to taking an intentional bye.
Wednesday brings another heaping helping of intraleague action. The chef's recommendations are below, and we'd strongly advise against sending anything back to the kitchen. Oh, and Braun could return to action today, so try a cute pick there at your own risk.
Wednesday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
Geovany Soto: .636 (7-for-11) since '06 vs. Nationals starter Tom Gorzelanny
Chase Utley: .464 (13-for-28) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez
Gaby Sanchez: .538 (7-for-13) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick
A.J. Pierzynski: .545 (6-for-11) since '06 vs. Royals starter Bruce Chen
Jose Reyes: .467 (7-for-15) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda
Placido Polanco: .457 (7-for-15) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez
Robinson Cano: .500 (5-for-10) since '06 vs. Indians starter Justin Masterson
Michael Bourn: .412 (7-for-17) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Charlie Morton
Feeling kinda spicy?
J.D. Drew: .500 (11-for-22) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Brett Cecil
You'll thank me later …
Aramis Ramirez: .118 (2-for-17) since '06 vs. Nationals starter Tom Gorzelanny
Alex Gordon: .143 (2-for-14) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Edwin Jackson
Adam Lind: .154 (2-for-13) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield
Top MLB streakers
Ryan Braun: 22 games
Pablo Sandoval: 15 games
Howard Kendrick: 13 games
Jhonny Peralta: 11 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Lance Berkman: 5 career home runs vs. Reds starter Bronson Arroyo
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Going with Miggy this afternoon. There's no way IMO, he goes o-fer 3 days straight. GL all.
Huh? Never heard of a slump :). GL
For all: may want to check the weather, mother nature may be in play
HEY, shouldn't you be working??LOL
Can get to this site from work
Wooo. Miggy blasts a 2 run bomb off reliever. Konerko early sacrifice. GL if still waiting.
LaV's List
Wednesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
154 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Matt Holliday 219 8.76
Brian McCann 200 8
Joey Votto 120 4.8
Robinson Cano 106 4.24
Asdrbal Cabrera 98 3.92 (3RD)
Michael Young 84 3.36 (2ND)
Dustin Pedroia 74 2.96
No Selection 71 2.84
Paul Konerko 69 2.76
Brandon Philips 62 2.48(1RST)
Jose Tabata 1 0.04 DL(4TH)
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 5 with streak of 17 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 14.6% with JACOBY reseting the most.
There was also 20.72% PPD due to players not playing,14.96% —374 picksof these were intentional DL or inj picks.
These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Got Pinched OR 1/2 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 2 AB or Less)
A Ramirez CWS, RESET 4, WERE 17,11,10,9 GAMERS
N Morgan MIL, SAVED 4, WERE 14,10,10,9 GAMERS
M Morse WASH, RESET 2, WERE 13,9 GAMERS
A Hill TOR, RESET 1, WAS 10 GAMER
R Spilborghs COL, RESET 1 WAS 10 GAMER
A Cabrera CLE, RESET 1 WAS 17 GAMER (injured after 1AB)
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick, (Times picked in top2500)
PeterYanidis, 10, pg 62, 1341, CHASE UTLEY (PICKED 35X)
levinmariz73, 10, pg 73, 1341, JON JAY (PICKED 17X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
yanks22442, 10, RESET by RICKIE WEEKS
GL to all
So it appears 3rd/4th place leaders taking a breather today with injury picks though Asdrubal is day-day. Can Westbrook shut down Phillips? Don't believe so, but always a chance Phillips gets himself out & maybe a K
Mauer another early sacrifice, 29 pickers got pinched.
Drubal is in starting lineup. A-Gon is not starting today (gonna be 53 anxious ppl tonight.)
Pujols back in starting lineup, Phillips moved down to #4 spot as opposed to #2 where he's been the last little while.
Still no Polanco, Victorino, CarGo or Tulo.
Asdrubal in the game & 1st AB hit. McCann also good on 1st AB. Looks to be the STL game for reset hopefuls.
Both Tulo & CarGon sitting? One's gotta pinch hit. Injuries maybe? Haven't been keeping up with rotoworld lately.
Where was Peralta? He went 0-fer and picked well by the field
61 pickers had Peralta.
CarGo has a wrist inj but is back to about 75 percent in live batting practice, so he's gotta be close. Tulo has a quad issue, so no idea if he's avail or not.
Car Go is supposed to be back tomorrow as he has taken batting practice and took fielding practice on Monday and they said he would be back Thursday per rotoworld.
Holliday 0-2. Was that his last AB? Could be, losing by 8 after 5 innings. LaRussa is known to rest outfielders in blowouts. May see J.Jay replace him before 3rd AB but I'd think Berkman removed before Holliday. Wishful thinking on my part.
Oh well, Holliday homers. One of our group's Top2500 members will see J.Jay have 1 AB only.
Though J.Jay flew out, 10 batters come to the plate in the 7th as CIN tries to throw the game. Jay will see another AB!
Double J just hit a homer to send this game to extras. Les go Cards.


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A few years ago, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was the most powerful woman in Congress, for she was Speaker of the House. But while Nancy Pelosi remains a political force in the House of Representatives and is an important congressional leader, since 2011 she has been the Minority Leader and former Speaker.
So I'm proclaiming Senator Patty Murphy, Democrat of Washington, the most powerful woman in Congress.
Why Patty Murray?
Because Senator Murray is the incoming Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, a group structurally positioned to have great power over the federal budget.
As a member of that committee and the head of the Democratic party's senatorial committee, Murray has shown strong policy commitments and political smarts.
According to the Washington Post:
In the crunch of final negotiations over a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling last summer, it was Murray who nixed the idea of exposing veterans benefits to automatic domestic and military spending cuts that would result if Congress does not reach a more targeted deficit-reduction deal by the end of this month.
Murray also defended Planned Parenthood, refusing to agree to defunding it and making such a political issue.
"I walked in, and I was literally the only woman," she remembered. "And I walked in and they said: 'We're all done except the House wants one last concession. They want us to give on that and we're done.' . .
Murray rallied female senators to take the floor early the next morning to blast the idea. Again, her advice to hold firm at a key moment bore fruit: Democrats ultimately forced the GOP to give on the issue.
Behind the scenes, Murray was credited by colleagues with recognizing that female voters in key races could be galvanized around the idea that Republicans were more concerned about limiting access to abortion and contraception than promoting jobs and the economy.
On the Budget Committee, Senator Murray replaces Kent Conrad, the centrist Democrat who did not seek re-election this year.
Conrad had a tendency to talk about the budget in aggregate terms involving spending and revenues.
In one recent interview, Murray talked about the budget's impact on families, and on the importance of communication with those families.
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward. And I want to help them understand why this word 'budget' is so important to them. It's about whether their kids get access to college, or we have an ability to create the infrastructure for our roads to bring new jobs here, or we have job training, and a really deep concern of mine, that we are ready to take care of the veterans who are returning home by the hundreds of thousands.
By the way, Murray was first elected in 1992, then called the Year of the Woman, because so many women were elected to the Senate. (Bill Clinton also won the presidency.)
Fittingly, as gender biases exert less power over voters, Murray's political leadership in this year's election was partly responsible for bringing the number of women in the Senate to its highest number ever — 20.