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We hear lots of talk, especially around election time, about improving schools in South Carolina. What we don't hear much about is what a truly world class school would look like, or how we would go about creating such a thing.
The answer to both of these questions may be one word: Finland.
Yes, Finland. For most of us, about all we know of Finland is that they seem to do really well in the Winter Olympics. And they do. This country of only 5.4 million people (South Carolina has 4.7 million) won 26 Olympic medals in Sochi, finishing just behind the U.S. with 28.
But what they have achieved in the field of education is just as impressive, or even more so. Forty years ago, their schools were fair at best. Today, by almost any standard, they are the best schools in the world - far ahead of U.S. schools, which generally rank in the mid-to-high teens on most global measures.
What's even more remarkable is how they have done it. Their methods and strategies are in many ways just the opposite of what we do in the U.S. in general and in South Carolina in particular.
The kids don't start school until they are 7 years old; they are in school less (300 hours less in elementary school alone); and they get 75 minutes of recess a day as compared to 27 minutes in the U.S. They have less homework assigned than any industrialized county and they have only one mandatory standardized test, when students are 16. There are no programs for gifted students and students are almost never forced to repeat a grade.
Their single overall principal is equality. The phase you often hear is, "We can't afford to waste a brain."
Here in the U.S., we pay lip service to the idea that our children are the most important national resource for the future of our county, but in Finland, they act as though they really mean it. Every child gets basically the same education, at least in the early years. There is no difference in schooling based on where they live, their parents' income, their ethnic origins or social standing.
All the schools are free, including university. And if a student is having trouble and needs special help - and 30 percent of the students do - they get it. A phrase you often hear the Finnish educators use is "whatever it takes" -and, again, they act as though they mean it.
In Finland, they don't just talk the talk; they walk the walk. They invest in education such that all the schools are more or less of equal quality - the best. The idea of school shopping is unheard of.
As in most every good school everywhere, teachers are the key. In Finland, teaching is a high-prestige profession, with the same status as medicine and the law. All teachers have at least a master's degree, which is state subsidized, and becoming a teacher is highly competitive; only the top 10 percent of graduates are chosen.
Once selected, teachers are given a lot of freedom in the classroom and a lot of help and guidance by teams of education specialists. Additional teacher training is ongoing and constant. Teachers only spend four hours a day in the classroom and two hours a week in professional development.
Their national curriculum is only a set of broad guidelines. Finland does not just focus on what we would call the "serious courses." They believe creating a well-rounded child is hugely valuable for society and they have classes in handicrafts, cooking, art and creative subjects, as well as sports - especially skiing.
These are precisely the kind of "soft courses" that too many educational ideologues over here want to get rid of.
This system runs so counter to ours in South Carolina that the more you know, the more bewildering it seems.
The students rarely take exams or do homework until in their teens, and they are not "measured" at all for the first six years. All the children are taught in the same classroom, regardless of their intellectual ability.
And yet the difference in academic achievement between the weakest and strongest students is the smallest in the world.
Two key facts summarize the difference:
They spend about 30 percent less per pupil than in the U.S.
Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from high school; in the U.S., it's 78 percent and in South Carolina, it's 68 percent.
Clearly, Finland is doing something right and we in the U.S. and South Carolina are doing something wrong.
South Carolina is not likely to be able to compete with Finland in ski jumping or bobsled racing, but we sure do have to compete with them in the global economy of the 21st century.
It's time for us to radically rethink what we think we know about education and schools. There are no gold medals in the international bad-schools category.
Phil Noble is a businessman in Charleston and serves as President of the South Carolina New Democrats. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or go to www.SCNewDemocrats.org.


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From the time it was discovered in the 1980s up to the present, HIV AIDS have killed millions of people worldwide and continue to threaten the health of selected segments of population anywhere in the world. The prevalence of HIV is due mainly to ignorance, neglect or complacency in adopting a pro-active role for the prevention and treatment of HIV AIDS patients.
HIV or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the causative agent for AIDS or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. The virus belongs to the retrovirus family and they have the capability of transcribing the RNA into DNA in the host cell thus ensuring their survival. That is also the reason why they are difficult to treat because by the time they are discovered, they have already successfully incorporated their genome into the host cell's gene.
HIV produces a host of diseases caused by the progressive break down of the host's immune system. The collection of condition it causes is called a syndrome because it produces a group of signs and symptoms which when considered altogether points to a certain disease. It is a severe, life threatening syndrome that causes progressive damage to the immune system and other vital organs, especially the Central Nervous System.
Within weeks or months after being infected with HIV, most patients will develop an acute, characteristically viral, self-limited illness similar to mononucleosis infection that will last for a week or two. After this episode, the patient will then experience a period where there are no clinical signs or symptoms for weeks or even years. By the time it re-appears, full blown infection from HIV will manifest itself as a well established physiological and or neurological symptom of the illness.
The severity of HIV infection is directly correlated with the degree of immune system impairment. The onset of clinical illness is characteristically insidious, non-specific and usually insufficient to aid in the diagnosis of AIDS, the condition may be well established before diagnosis can be confirmed and by that time, the disease has progressed irreversibly.
Most patients die not directly from HIV infection but from opportunistic infections and its coterie of cancers and lesions that are included as specific indicators in the case definition of AIDS. These opportunistic infections include among others pneumonia, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, candidiasis, cytomegalovirus infection, Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and many others that when diagnosed using the standard histological or culture techniques were considered as part of the surveillance definition of AIDS as established by the Center for Disease Control and World Health Organization.
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Endovascular repair is a procedure to fix an aortic aneurysm in the abdomen. It's called endovascular because a doctor repairs the aneurysm from the inside of the damaged blood vessel (the aorta).
This procedure is relatively new compared to the traditional open surgery to repair an aneurysm. It is a minimally invasive procedure. Local or general anesthesia might be used.
The doctor will make one or two cuts (incisions) in the groin area. Small flexible tubes, called catheters, are inserted into arteries in the groin area. The doctor puts dye into the arteries. The dye will make your aorta show up on X-ray pictures during the procedure.
The doctor uses the catheters to move a man-made tube, called a stent graft, through the arteries until it reaches the aorta. The doctor expands the graft inside of the aneurysm. Then the doctor attaches the graft to the blood vessel. When the graft is in place, the doctor will take out the catheters and the wires. He or she will use stitches to close the incisions in the groin area.
After the procedure, blood passes through the graft in the aorta without pushing on the aneurysm.
You will probably spend 1 to 3 days in the hospital. You can expect the cuts (incisions) in your groin to be sore for 1 to 2 weeks.
You may feel more tired than usual for 1 to 2 weeks after the procedure. You may be able to do many of your usual activities after 1 to 2 weeks. But you will probably need up to 4 weeks to fully recover. You may need to take at least 1 to 2 weeks off from work. It depends on the type of work you do and how you feel.
You will need regular
tests, such as a CT scan or ultrasound, to check for problems with the graft.1 You might have the test one or more times in the first year after this procedure. Then you will have a test once a year for the rest of your life.2
Repairing an aortic aneurysm is typically recommended if the aneurysm is at risk of bursting open (rupturing). Aortic aneurysms that
are large, are causing symptoms, or are rapidly getting bigger are considered at risk of rupturing.
In men, repair is typically recommended for
an abdominal aortic aneurysm that is 5.5 cm or larger
in diameter. In women, repair may be recommended for smaller aneurysms.3
Your doctor will work with you to decide which type of repair surgery—open or endovascular—is right for you. Your doctor will check:1
When an aortic aneurysm is at risk of rupturing, or bursting open, the benefits of repairing the aneurysm can outweigh the risks. Repairing the aneurysm lowers the risk of rupture and can help a person live longer. Repairing a smaller aneurysm, which doesn't have as high a risk of rupture, does not help a person live longer.4
Overall, open repair surgery and endovascular repair have similar outcomes and long-term benefits.1
An endovascular repair isn't an open surgery. So it doesn't have the risks or complications of a major surgery, and the recovery time is shorter. But there is a higher risk that you will need another procedure or surgery.5
The risk of dying during or soon after an endovascular repair is lower than the risk from open surgery. For an endovascular repair, about 1 out of 100 people die during surgery or within 30 days after surgery.6 But after a few years, people who have open surgery live as long as people who had endovascular repair.7 Experts are still studying the long-term effects of endovascular repair.
Complications include bleeding, infection, and problems with the stent graft. A common complication is a leak around the stent graft. About 15 out of 100 people have a problem that requires a second procedure or surgery.8
When making a decision about repairing an aortic
aneurysm, you and your doctor will consider the benefits compared to the risks. For some people, the endovascular repair procedure isn't possible, but open repair surgery might be an option.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave a premarket approval
application to stent grafts in 1999. In 2001, the FDA issued a Public Health
Notification for two of these devices: the Ancure System (Guidant) and the
AneuRx System (Medtronic AVE). Placement problems, which were associated with
damaged artery walls, were reported for the Ancure System. Problems such as
leaking, slipping out of place, suture breaks, fabric tears, and poor graft
placement were reported for the AneuRx system. Because only a small number of
people with these devices have had these problems, the devices remain in use.
But the Ancure System has not been made since 2003. If you have one of these systems implanted, talk to your doctor.
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ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop
Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease):
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Description of 1889 N TAMIAMI TRAIL 508, SARASOTA, FL 34234
Pre-construction, to be built. The Strand of Sarasota, West of Trail and one mile from Palm Avenue! A community of 152 luxury condos with 47 private boat slips and direct access to Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico! The Strand is a private gated community offering a resort style pool and spa, fitness center, club room, dog park, boardwalk and walking trail, kayak and paddleboard launch and day boat dock! The Strand is convenient to all the arts, culture, dining, and entertainment that Sarasota has to offer! Unobstructed water views from your private terrace!
Directions to 1889 N TAMIAMI TRAIL 508, SARASOTA, FL 34234
The Strand Showroom at Coldwell Banker, 100 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236.
Features of 1889 N TAMIAMI TRAIL 508, SARASOTA, FL 34234
- Elementary school: Gocio Elementary
- High school: Booker High
- Middle school: Booker Middle
- Den/Great Room is 18x13
- Great Room Level: Upper
- Kitchen is 14x13
- Kitchen Level: Upper
- Master bedroom is 12x11
- Master Bedroom Level: Upper
- Number of rooms: 4
- Dishwasher
- Microwave oven
- Range
- Refrigerator
- Central air
- Central heat
- Electric water heater
- Exhaust fan
- Balcony
- Block exterior
- Inground pool
- Body of water: WHITAKER BAYOU
- Lot has water view
- Lot zoned: NT
- Outdoor storage
- Storage building(s)
- Subdivision: THE STRAND SARASOTA
- Waterfront lot
- Carpet
- Ceramic tile flooring
- Garbage disposal
- Living and dining room combo
- Smoke alarm
- Tile flooring
- Vinyl flooring
- Walk-in closet(s)
- Slab Foundation
- New construction
- Total square feet: 896.00
- Units in building(s): 156
- Community boat facilities
- Community swimming pool(s)
- Condo dues: 163
- Gated community
- HOA Dues: 163.00
- HOA Frequency: Monthly
- Pets allowed
- Tax year: 2017
Mortgage Payments for 1889 N TAMIAMI TRAIL 508, SARASOTA, FL 34234
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Sentara Leigh Hospital opens west tower
Sentara Leigh Hospital reached a new milestone recently when it opened its West Tower as part of a larger renovation project which has the hospital reinventing itself within the footprint of a campus that dates back to the mid-1970s. Housing new patient rooms that were more than double the size of the 1970-era rooms, West Tower is the mirror image of the East Tower which opened in November of 2013.
Now, all 250 patient rooms at the hospital have increased space, dedicated areas for patients and family, large bathrooms and amenities like free Wi-Fi and couches that double as sleeping space for guests.
All the rooms have been outfitted with copper-infused materials as part of a clinical trial to test the antibacterial advantages of copper in everything from bed linens to tabletops and wall surfaces.
Moving patients from the old units into the new five-story bed towers involved weeks of logistical planning and all hands on deck. In total, 64 patients were safely moved, completing the patient care area transition for the hospital.
Staff made the move fun for patients as they clapped and sang and left the old wing for the new West Tower.
Next up for the team at Sentara Leigh Hospital is the demolition of the oldest section of the hospital to make way for a new main entrance and lobby, outpatient services and public meeting rooms to be constructed in its place. In the interim, patients and visitors will access the hospital through the healing garden that was created in between the East and West patient towers.


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Litigation Release No. 20984 / April 2, 2009
SEC v. Frank C. Calmes, Lynn D. Rowntree, Manny J. Shulman, James E. Pratt, et al., Case Number: 9:09-cv-80524 (S. D. Florida, filed April 2, 2009)
SEC Charges South Florida Residents and New York Attorney in Penny Stock Distribution Scheme
On April 2, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against south Florida residents Frank C. Calmes, Lynn D. Rowntree, and Manny J. Shulman, New York attorney James E. Pratt, and Younger America, Inc., formerly known as Infinity Acquisition Corp. and Infinity Music Corp., alleging that the defendants conducted an illegal penny stock distribution scheme that generated ill-gotten gains of approximately $3.9 million between 2004 and 2008.
The complaint alleges that Calmes, Rowntree, and Shulman devised a scheme to illegally sell large amounts of stock of small companies after they had arranged for the companies' shares to be publicly quoted. According to the complaint, these illegal stock distributions were often facilitated by baseless legal opinion letters written by Pratt and in some cases by fraudulent wash trades by Rowntree. The complaint further alleges that Calmes and Shulman took control of Younger America, one of the companies they had helped become publicly quoted, and disseminated false information to facilitate illegal sales of its stock by themselves and others. According to the complaint, many of Shulman's illegal sales were made through accounts held by his wife, Krystal A. Becnel, who is named in the Commission's complaint as a relief defendant.
The Commission's complaint alleges that Calmes, Rowntree, and Shulman violated the antifraud provisions of the securities laws contained in Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and that all of the defendants violated the registration provisions contained in Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act of 1933. The Commission seeks officer and director bars against Calmes and Shulman, penny stock bars against Calmes, Rowntree, Shulman, and Pratt, and disgorgement, plus prejudgment interest, and civil penalties against all of the defendants.


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|A new study says people may be sabotaging their diets in an unexpected way - through too little sleep. In an article published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers describe their work with ten patients undergoing 14 days of moderate caloric restriction. Some of the patients got 8.5 hours of sleep during the study, while others got just 5.5 hours. The researchers found that the group with less sleep lost less weight, and shifted their metabolism towards less efficient fat-burning than the full-sleep patients. While the work is only on a few people for a limited time, the researchers say it may point towards interesting areas for further study. We'll find out more.


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This year's offering of Halloween-time horror films includes the annual screening of NOSFERATU, this year with live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson.
PLUS: The Silver Spring Zombie Walk returns from the grave, with Dan O'Bannon's cult classic, THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD! Perennial favorite GHOSTBUSTERS, screened in 70mm! A 50th anniversary screening of Robert Wise's haunted house classic THE HAUNTING! And a salute to Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's now-complete magnum opus: the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy!
And the horror doesn't end with Halloween this year—it continues through November, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the annus horribilis of 1973, the year of landmark chillers THE EXORCIST, THE WICKER MAN, DON'T LOOK NOW and many more.
The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
A salute to Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's now-complete magnum opus: the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy! (And with apologies to Krzysztof Kieślowski's magisterial "Three Colors" trilogy.) In addition to perennial Halloween favorite SHAUN OF THE DEAD (the one that started it all, with Nick Frost enjoying a blood-red strawberry Cornetto ice cream novelty), presenting the uproarious maverick-cops-in-rural-England farce HOT FUZZ (for the boys in blue, the blue Cornetto "original") and sci-fi spoof THE WORLD'S END (in honor of the little green men of lore, the "mint-choc-chip").
For Gary King (Simon Pegg) and Andy Knightley (Nick Frost) it was supposed to be the ultimate reunion: a boozy quest to complete the epic pub crawl across their hometown of Newton Haven that they left unfinished twenty years ago. But they didn't count on the alien invasion and robot apocalypse beginning that night, before they can reach their final destination: the World's End pub! Uproarious, explosive and surprisingly heartfelt, THE WORLD'S END makes for a proper capper to the epic tomfoolery of the "Cornetto Trilogy." Co-starring Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine and Rosamund Pike.
DIR/SCR Edgar Wright; SCR Simon Pegg; PROD Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park. UK, 2013, color, 109 min, DCP. RATED R
Fri, Oct 18, 11:30; Sat, Oct 19, 11:30
A surprise hit in 2004 and an enduring cult item since, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's "rom-zom-com"—a romantic comedy, with zombies— remains one of the best examples of the horror-comedy hybrid genre. Dumped by his girlfriend, slacker appliance salesman Pegg is so down in the dumps that he fails to notice the zombie plague taking over his London neighborhood until one pops up in his backyard. Fortunately, he and his couch-potato flatmate Nick Frost prove to be ace zombie dispatchers, and round up their remaining loved ones to make a final stand at their local pub, the Winchester.
DIR/SCR Edgar Wright; SCR Simon Pegg; PROD Nira Park. UK/France, 2004, color, 99 min, 35mm. RATED R
Fri, Oct 25, 10:30; Sat, Oct 26, 12 midnight; Thu, Oct 31, 10:00
Stabbed in the back by his superiors, driven London cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is relegated to the bush leagues–the picture-postcard-perfect village of Sandford. There, he's partnered with inept-but-eager Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), the son of the local Inspector (Jim Broadbent). However, as a series of grisly accidents disturbs the idyllic village, Angel becomes convinced that something is rotten in Sandford. And it will take all of Angel's cop smarts, and everything Butterman learned from his countless viewings of BAD BOYS II, to take the bad guys down. Co-starring Timothy Dalton, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Rafe Spall and Olivia Colman.
DIR/SCR Edgar Wright; SCR Simon Pegg; PROD Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park. UK, 2007, color, 121 min, 35mm. RATED R
Fri, Nov 1, 11:30; Sat, Nov 2, 11:30
They're back from the grave and ready to party!
"Brains...more brains!" Hapless warehouse employees Frank (James Karen) and Freddy (Thom Matthews) release a toxic nerve gas from a long-forgotten canister containing a military experiment gone wrong, and soon have a reanimated cadaver on their hands. But their effort to destroy the shambling threat make matters much worse, polluting the atmosphere and creating an acid rain that soon soaks...the graveyard. This cult classic from legendary screenwriter-turned-director Dan O'Bannon (ALIEN, TOTAL RECALL, DARK STAR) is overflowing with outlandish gore, eye-popping visuals and lots of laughs, set to a rockin' soundtrack featuring The Cramps, The Damned, Roky Erickson, T.S.O.L. and, fittingly, The Flesh Eaters. Costarring Don Calfa and scream queen Linnea Quigley.
DIR/SCR Dan O'Bannon; SCR Rudy Ricci, Russell Streiner, from the book by John Russo; PROD Tom Fox. US, 1985, color, 91 min, 35mm. RATED R
Sat, Oct 26, 10:15
"Scandal, murder, insanity, suicide...the history of Hill House had everything I wanted. It was an evil house from the beginning...a house that was born bad." Robert Wise's iconic haunted house film, based on Shirley Jackson's novel "The Haunting of Hill House," still sets the standard for atmospheric fright-making, inducing the viewer to imagine more than what's shown. A team of paranormal activity investigators, including anthropologist Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson), two psychics–the brassy, lesbian Theodora (Claire Bloom) and shy, retiring Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), a powerful, but highly suggestible, empath–and the mansion's potential heir, playboy Luke Sannerson (Russ Tamblyn), set up camp in the house, the first guests the house has had in years. But will they become the house's latest victims?
DIR/PROD Robert Wise; SCR Nelson Gidding, from the novel "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. US/UK, 1963, b&w, 112 min, 35mm. NOT RATED
Thu, Oct 31, 5:15; Sun, Nov 3, 7:00; Mon, Nov 4, 5:15
"When there's something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?" Released in 1984, GHOSTBUSTERS became a record-setting box office smash, a summer movie benchmark that established the template for how to blend special effects with comedy to create imaginatively escapist adventure. In a fortuitous convergence of then-red-hot comic talent, director/producer Ivan Reitman sure-handedly guides actors/authors Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd's script, a winning vehicle for top-billed Bill Murray, while supporting players Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Rick Moranis contribute memorable moments of hilarity.
DIR/PROD Ivan Reitman; SCR Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis. US, 1984, color, 105 min, 70mm. RATED PG
Thu, Oct 31, 7:45; Sat, Nov 2, 11:45 a.m.; Sun, Nov 3, 1:00
Casting a long and terrifying shadow over the genre, German silent film master F. W. Murnau's uncredited appropriation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" set the standard for all vampire flicks to come. Max Schreck's monstrous Count Orlok is singularly frightening, repulsive and beastly, where Bela Lugosi was courtly and Christopher Lee seductive.
DIR F. W. Murnau; SCR Henrik Galeen, from the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker; PROD Enrico Dieckmann, Albin Grau. Germany, 1922, b&w/hand-tinted color, 85 min, 35mm. NOT RATED
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Fri, Nov 1, 7:30; Sat, Nov 2, 7:30
A vengeful, hideously deformed composer (Lon Chaney) prowls the depths of the Paris Opera House, appearing only when his love for the beautiful young singer Christine (Mary Philbin) can be stifled no longer. Lon Chaney, "the Man of a Thousand Faces," created one of his most iconic and haunting grotesqueries in this hugely influential gothic melodrama. Print restored in collaboration with David Shepard and Serge Bromberg.
DIR Rupert Julian; SCR Elliott J. Clawson, Raymond L. Schrock, from the novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opera" by Gaston Leroux; PROD Carl Laemmle. US, 1925/1929, b&w/tinted color/two-strip Technicolor, 92 min, 35mm. NOT RATED
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DALLAS — Change is in the air for Gold's Gym International (GGI) and Gold's Gym franchisees. CEO and President of GGI Gene LaMott resigned from the company in late November, and to replace him, the company's board of directors appointed David Schnabel, vice president of acquisitions for TRT Holdings and a member of the board of directors for GGI since its acquisition by TRT in 2004. Just days earlier, the company announced the formation of the National Franchise Council (NFC), a steering committee designed to discuss and resolve matters of interest to the Gold's Gym system.
The new changes are positive for GGI and the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association (GGFA), says Ginger Collins, executive director of the GGFA.
"Any time your CEO decides to retire, it's going to make an impact on everyone," she says. "But it's a very positive move for GGFA, Gene and GGI. It's not a hostile situation at all."
LaMott, who began his association with the Gold's Gym family as an eight-unit franchisee in the late 1980s and early 1990s and transitioned into corporate leadership in 2000 when he was named COO, has served as CEO since 2001. He helped guide the company through its sale to TRT Holdings and oversaw the corporate move to Dallas in 2005. Schnabel was responsible for sourcing the acquisition of Gold's Gym for TRT Holdings and has been actively involved in the strategic planning of the company.
Schnabel and two other GGI officers will serve on the franchise council along with the GGFA chairman and two other members elected or appointed by the GGFA. The council will meet regularly to discuss matters raised by either side and will address issues facing the Gold's Gym network, such as the format of Gold's Gym's national vendor program and the Gold's Gym national ad committee. The NFC will serve as a forum to resolve issues among Gold's Gym franchisees, says Collins.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan offered an appropriate response for a laughable challenge from Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera, who wanted to challenge arguably the greatest player of all-time to a game of one-on-one for charity.
Jordan dismissed Pera's Twitter antics by laughing at his fellow owner.
"I think that's comical," Jordan told the Charlotte Observer. "It didn't make any sense. Why would I play one one-on-one? It's a no-win situation for me no matter what."
Pera issued his challenge Monday night, accompanied by a video (above) showing off his on-court prowess:
Jordan let it simmer for a while before brushing Pera aside. Pera's intentions were most noble, he was trying to raise $1 million for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Trying to do it at the expense of a fellow owner who also happens to be a Hall of Fame player and considered by many the greatest player in NBA history, didn't win him any points with Jordan's legion of fans and admirers.
Jordan's response was certainly appropriate. He didn't take the bait from Pera, who at 35 is 15 years younger than Jordan. He didn't allow himself to be distracted from his most pressing concerns, which revolve around reviving a Bobcats franchise that is breaking in yet another new coach, Steve Clifford, and several new faces, including veteran big man Al Jefferson and rookie 7-footer Cody Zeller.
Jordan told the Observer that he is pleased with the progress he's seen on all fronts:
"I'm so happy about Steve. He's a very professional guy. Professional in a way that the players can respond. He's worked with some very good programs. I've watched him with the players. He has the right patience and rapport – he knows how to position himself with the players.
"That's a big move for us because no matter how we spend on players, it starts with the coach. I'm not putting down (predecessor) Mike Dunlap. He had some of the same qualities."
On Jefferson:
"Jefferson is a great addition. He's been asked to be a leader on the basketball court. He's never been asked to do that before. But he has some credence with our guys and I think they'll respond."
On Zeller:
"I love Zeller. To me, he's a connector like (Josh) McRoberts, only more talented. He'll make teammates better. He's not flashy in what he does, but he'll be a really solid player for us."
If Pera wants a challenge he might be able to win, he'd should ask his Grizzlies to challenge Jordan's Bobcats. But owner-on-owner, he's a major underdog any way you slice it. (Here are a couple of reminders for you Mr. Pera!):


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Jason Chimera, Steve Oleksy and Mikhail Grabovski scored second-period goals to power the Washington Capitals to a 4-1 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
Washington defenceman Nate Schmidt added a goal in the third for the Capitals, who beat Nashville at home on Saturday. Schmidt, a 22-year-old rookie, scored his first NHL goal in that game.
Grabovski's goal came on a penalty shot.
In his fourth NHL game, Philipp Grubauer made 30 saves for Washington (16-12-2) to earn his first career win. The Capitals have won four of five.
New York (15-15-1), beaten at home in overtime by New Jersey on Saturday, has lost three of five. Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves, and Benoit Pouliot scored the Rangers' lone goal with 1:53 left to spoil Grubauer's shutout bid.


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Joris Peels and Artur Tchoukanov, both former i.materialise employees, have started Origo, a company which aims to develop a 3D printer for kids.
Artur thought, "what would a 3D printer that would work in the home look like? What if we could make it easy enough so that kids could use it? What if it could recycle its own material? What if it was affordable and easy to use? What if it would just work, all the time. What if we could start from scratch and create a true home 3D printer, a 3D printer for kids. If someone wanted to make the "first on the desktop" for every kid in the world, what would that 3D printer look like and how would it work?
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Harry and Margret lived deep in the woods,
Living their lives just as bunny pairs should,
Laughing and playing and hopping about,
Consummate lovers, sincere and devout.
Harry and Margret loved playing so much,
Easily filling the forest with such,
Din that their neighbors would fly in great fear,
Clearing the woods of all birds, bears, and deer.
As they were playing one fine summer day,
Margret stopped Harry and turned round to say,
"Harry, dear Harry, I must now admit,
Feeling quite queasy, uneasy, unfit."
With no forewarning, but with a loud start,
Out popped a bunny from her private parts.
Down at his son stared our Harry abhorred,
Shocked by a second umbilical cord.
Wailing in pain, he fell hard on his back,
"Peter…that Peter," in mid heart attack.
Barely had Harry time for what he said.
Soul soon left body, to lay stone cold dead.
That's how our hero was named where he lay,
Honoring Harry's last words on that day.
Margret whisked Peter straight back to her hole,
Placing a bucket right over his pole.
"Cover that massive, that monstrous baton!"
Margret demanded from her newborn son.
"Surely misfortune will it ever bring.
God only knows who you'll kill with that thing!"
Peter endured quite the abject childhood,
Shamed to his core that his peers always would,
Run away screaming whenever he'd trip,
And off his member the bucket would slip.
Soon his companions learned fast how to play,
But all the lasses were quick to convey,
Dread and dismay fore our Peter could come,
Ask them to stay and allay his boredom.
Charlotte the Harlot was famed through the land,
Skilled at erecting grand columns by hand.
Great engineer, trained in using large tools,
Graduate proud from the hardest of schools.
Charlotte on Peter decided to sit,
Try as they might, though, he wouldn't quite fit.
This way and that way she turned round and round,
But still remained some two feet off the ground.
After a time, and quite visibly peeved,
Charlotte dismounted, deciding to leave,
Peter bereaved and depressed on a stump,
Crushed, hurt, despondent, and down in the dumps.
Noticing Peter alone and despaired,
Next to him sat down a cute little hare.
Shyly she asked him if something was wrong,
And if he suffered from sadness prolonged.
Peter replied once he'd waited a while,
As his deep frown faded to a sad smile.
"Cruel fate decided that I would be named,
After an organ that fills me with shame."
"I share the very same pain," said the hare,
"It's a disgrace that I barely can bare."
Peter then asked, "And what would your name be"
"Lucy is what they call me," answered she.
In great surprise, his sad eyes opened wide.
Finally, he'd found his soul mate, his bride.
"They call me Peter," our hero then said,
As the blood rushed from his brain to his head.
Lucy felt his love right down to her soul,
When she and Peter went back to her hole.
Such a cacophonous din then ensued,
Landslides were triggered and trees split in two.
Peter and Lucy lived deep in the woods,
Living their lives just as bunny pairs should,
Laughing and playing and hopping about,
Consummate lovers, sincere and devout.


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Can you believe November is almost here? Halloween costumes are coming out, neighborhood families are stocking up on yummy treats, and plans for Thanksgiving are in the works! This year, don't fall behind by forgetting to "fall back" an hour in the midst of all that fun. November 4th is the end of Daylight Savings Time, so the clocks drop back an hour. This means an hour more sleep and an extra hour of daylight each evening. What more could you ask for? So, what should you do to prepare?
There are many things that should be taken care of when the clocks change. It is typically a good time to change the batteries in all of the home's smoke detectors. If you make this a part of the Daylight Savings Time routine, you can be sure that your family is safe throughout the year from fire. An elderly loved one may appreciate some assistance with making sure their smoke alarm batteries are new.
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September 29, 2003
The Honorable Raymond J. Simon
General Education Division
Arkansas Department of Education
Four State Capitol Mall, Room 304 A
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 -1071
Dear Director Simon:
I am writing to follow up on your letter of August 5th in which you submitted two amendments to the Arkansas accountability plan. As we discussed, Arkansas may apply confidence interval to the determination of adequate yearly progress. With this amendment, Arkansas may apply a confidence interval of 0.5 of a standard deviation to its starting points and annual measurable objectives. Please update your accountability plan, including the actual starting points, annual measurable objectives, and intermediate goals, and submit it to your state contact (Grace Ross) so that the most up-to-date plan is available and on the Department's website.
With respect to the other amendment request, Arkansas wishes to compare the current year assessment results with an average of the most recent three years' results (including the current year) and use the most favorable results to make school AYP determinations. While Arkansas may use this application of uniform averaging this year, it must provide the Department information on the impact and implications of this approach.
In providing this information, there are at least two critical questions that should guide your collection and analysis of the data with respect to this issue: 1) How many schools and districts made AYP because this procedure was applied? 2) Our understanding of this approach is that the same procedure will be applied to each subgroup within a particular school.
We received your preliminary analysis showing the effect of the uniform averaging procedure in this manner. We want to. continue monitoring this process. Please provide the final analysis by November 1, 2003, following the data analysis for the 2002-03 school year. Specifically, we want to know how many schools and districts made AYP because this procedure was applied? We would like to know how many schools would have made AYP if only the three-year data rule was applied; and how many more made AYP by virtue of using the current year's data alone. Please note that we may find it necessary to collect this information for two school years; we will notify you about this possibility, if needed, during the 2003-04 school year. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact Kerri Briggs at 202-205-2540 or Grace Ross at 202-260-0967.
The Secretary has stated repeatedly that States should be granted maximum flexibility in the implementation of NCLB provided this flexibility does not undermine the goals of NCLB. I appreciate your efforts to ensure that this balance is appropriately achieved in Arkansas.
Ronald J. Tomalis
Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary


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The PhysTEC Regional Conference of MSTI and CalTeach will take place at the Radisson Ontario Airport Hotel in Ontario, CA and will run from 8:30am to 9:00pm on Thursday, February 2.
Hotel rooms are available at the Radisson Ontario Airport Hotel in the American Physical Society room block at a reduced rate of $89/night. Please reserve your room by January 16 to ensure you will get the reduced rate. To make a reservation, call the hotel and ask for the APS room block (promotional code APSAPS):
Radisson Ontario Airport Hotel
2200 East Holt Boulevard
Ontario, CA 91761
Or, make a reservation online.
Breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception on Thursday, February 2 are included in the meeting. Dinner is on your own.
Ontario, CA is served by the Ontario Airport, which has a ground transportation page with information on regional transportation options.
More information, including a map and driving directions, is available on the hotel's directions page.
2012 Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference
Those attending the PhysTEC Regional Conference of MSTI and CalTeach might also consider attending the PhysTEC Conference which will be held February 3-4 at the same venue in Ontario. The registration fee for the conference is $100 for PhysTEC Member Institutions and K-12 teachers, $160 for endorsees of ACS chemistry teacher education statement, and $255 for Non-Members. For more information, visit https://www.phystec.org/conferences/2012/.
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Weston Democrat
The Asylum Investigation
The Board Meets to Investigate The Charges Preferred
Against Superintendent Stathers.
August 12, 1899
The Asylum Investigation
The Board Meets to Investigate The Charges Preferred Against Superintendent Stathers.
The much mooted and widely rumored charges affecting the private character of Dr. W. E. Stathers, Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane, and alleging improper relations with certain female employes of the institution came up for investigation before a special meeting of the Board of Directors on Wednesday. All the members of the Board are present except Messrs. Gibson (Dem.) of Jefferson county and Hardman (Rep.) of Tyler.
Although the matter of the investigation was announced to begin promptly at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, it was not until late yesterday when the first witness was called by the prosecution.
There were many preliminary questions to be first settled before the case was begun. Among these were the insufficiency of the signing of the specifications. The Board insisting that persons preferring the charges should sign them as individuals and not as a committee, thus fixing a responsibility upon some one. After a long contention the matter was arranged to the satisfaction of the Board. Then there was the question of costs, the summoning of witnesses and other details attending the trial.
About 3 o'clock yesterday, after the Board had announced its readiness to begin the hearing of evening, Senator Geo. C. Cole was deputized to bring in their first witness, and in a short time he appeared with Mrs. Mary L. Sommerville, whose affidavit had been previously obtained, and which has recently appeared in several newspapers of the country. After an oath had been administered to her by the secretary, Mr. John F. Hayden, and assurances given her that she would be afforded protection by season [sic] of any evidence she might give, J. M. Foster, one of the attorneys for the prosecution, took her in charge.
Mrs. Sommerville, who is young and pretty, attracted no little attention when she assumed the witness stand. In answer to questions put to her, she told the story substantially as contained in her affidavit. About three years ago she was admitted to the Hospital as a patient from Grafton, but in a short while began to improve and was soon fully restored, although she is of a very nervous disposition. She was after her discharge given a position and is at this time in charge of the store room of the institution.
When she came to the subject of her connection with the charges she related in a modest way the circumstances attending the relations existing between Dr. Stathers and herself. The [She?] told the story of the Superintendent going to her room and the occasions when he endeavered [sic] to make her "his pet." The witness also explained in answer to her attorney, the counter statement given to Dr. Stathers denying her former affidavit, the incident relating to the publication of her photograph in the papers; the rumor of an attempt to take her own life and many other things pertaining to her employment at the Hospital. After a most rigid examination by the prosecution, the witness was turned over to the defense.
Mr. W. B. McGary, counsel for Dr. Stathers, had hardly propounded his first question when a legal battle begun resulting in an adjournment of the case for the day.
Mrs. Sommerville is one of the main witnesses for the prosecution and it was regarded as important that the Board should know her history in order to give proper credence to her evidence.
"You will please state to the Board," continued Mr. McGary, "where you were born, your age, former residence, your husband's name and the circumstances and place of your marriage."
No sooner had the question been put and the consequences fully realized than objection was promptly interposed. Mr. Foster contended, and in a speech that did him credit, that as it was not a question as to the private character and past history of the witness, but an investigation into the conduct of the Superintendent, and protested against reviewing the past or enquiring into private relations between man and wife, affirming that it was solely due to these unfortunate relations that had driven the witness to this institution. He made a strong plea to relive her of those embarrassing recitals and raised the question of the admissibility of such evidence.
Mr. McGary stated that if they were to be denied the right to question and show the character of the witnesses making the charges, they might as well abandon the case. His associate, Mr. W. W. Brannon, in arguing the point, presented the case in such light as to impress the Board with his thorough knowledge of the law of evidence, and that all authority would sustain him in the position which he had taken.
The Board took the matter under consideration and adjourned until this morning in order to allow the attorneys an opportunity to produce their authorities.
The investigation is only fairly begun. Much more evidence will be produced, as a number of other witnesses have been summoned in the case.
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Beer Bread
I'm planning to do a bit of baking this weekend and i've been meaning to make some beer bread. The ithaca bakery sells a delicious sourdough jalapeno and cheddar loaf made with becks. I was wondering if anyone had any recipes for yeasted beer bread or the typical baker percentage of beer you'd use for something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Saturday, May 8, 2010
the gift of motherhood
23 kind words:
- Karen said...
...there's no no better gift! Lovely photos- especially love the the last one.
Happy Mother's Day-enjoy your weekend!
- May 8, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Love Letters To China said...
What a beautifully written post. I too feel the same way as you. My children are such a blessing in my life.
Happy Mother's Day!
p.s. Your pictures are gorgeous! Love the last one too.
- May 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- Kate said...
Amen and amen.
- May 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM
- Kim said...
Happy Mother's Day my friend..
YOU are a wonderful Mommy..
Beautiful photos..
- May 8, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- fleur de lis cottage said...
Beautifully written Gail!
Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day!
- May 8, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Life with JJ, Starr and Spice said...
Parallel lives SFAM! Love this post! Enjoy your big and little's tomorrow. I know that you will.
Hugs to you!!
Love you
- May 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Debbie said...
Beautiful, the pictures and the post. Happy Mother's Day!
- May 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Wanda said...
I love this post, love the quotes, love the photos, love the sentiment and...ummm......love you!
You said it perfectly.
Happy Mother's Day!!
- May 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- The Sanders Family said...
Lovely photos, and your words are so very true. I live by the motto, 'don't sweat the small stuff'...or at least I strive to! Our kids will have much more love and respect for us when we take the time to spend time with them, play with them, have fun with them, rather than have a perfectly kept house and life. Quality time is so very key!
Happy mother's day to you too! Hope its a blessed one!
Angie :)
- May 8, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- a Tonggu Momma said...
As I sit here sick... for Day 13... I so needed to read this reminder. Who cares that the Tongginator has been subsisting on sandwiches for a week of dinners? Who cares that my house is a mess? Thank you so much for this post, Gail.
- May 8, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Dita said...
No greater gift, indeed...than to be a mom and have had one!
I, too, cannot imagine life without my children and carrying them to bed at night I often just stay with them a little longer to breathe in their sweet scent and reminisce about the years spent together and dream about the years to come.
Nope....no greater gift.
Happy Mother's Day!
- May 8, 2010 at 10:52 PM
- Colleen said...
Gail this is beautiful!!! You are such an inspiration to me....I love you dearly!!! Happy Mother's Day to one of the most caring and loving Mother's that I know.
- May 8, 2010 at 11:04 PM
- Kayce said...
Perfect words for all, thank you for the reminder. Happy Mother's Day to you!! Enjoy your day tomorrow and all that fills it!
- May 8, 2010 at 11:48 PM
- Terri said...
Love it!
- May 9, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- Jodee Leader said...
I love this post! Hope you have a fun and relaxing Mother's Day!
- May 9, 2010 at 6:01 AM
- Steffie B. said...
Lovly Gail....and the images are spectacular....HMD my friend! ;)
- May 9, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- redmaryjanes said...
Happy Mother's Day dear friend. We are very blessed.
- May 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Number 6 and no more counting! said...
I will "cherish them"! Even if they don't show up on Mother's Day!
Hope your days was memorable.
- May 9, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Missy said...
Such a beautiful post, Gail! You are an amazing mom to your beautiful children. I know you cherish them! Happy Mother's Day!
- May 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM
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- May 9, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Heather said...
Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. I love those kiddos of yours Gail, they make me smile every single time!! :)
Have a blessed week!
- May 10, 2010 at 8:28 PM
- Casey said...
Come on now... It DOES matter if the clothing matches perfectly. ;)
So true!! Children and motherhood are the best gifts we have in life. I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. Happy Mother's Day!!
- May 10, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Donna said...
Love the quotes. Especially the one about losing my mind but finding my soul.
I've been carrying sleeping children for 22 years. Keeps me strong! Hopefully we'll slide right into grandparenthood and our arms will never be empty!
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Planning a four day camping trip: learning fly fishing techniques and canoe navigation. (See the fly-fishing lure illustration in the image gallery.)
Learning Fly Fishing Techniques and Canoe Navigation
You don't often get to swap anything even up with a physician. When health and life are in the balance, it's hard to imagine what might approach a fair trade. So having the chance to exchange a few hours of basic fly-fishing instruction for some river-canoeing lessons with my physician-friend Peter was, in my mind, a rare occasion where non-doctor and doctor might actually walk away square. Not that Peter is your average physician or that I am your average fly rodder. Peter and his wife Anita, and Ditte (11), Patrick (7), and Robin (5), their three children, live deep in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mountains in a house that they built themselves. And my wife Kit and I live in New Jersey, in the shadow of the big city.
We sized it up like this: Peter would figure out the route to and down the river. During the trip he would give us an on-the-water river-canoeing tutorial. Peter and his family are experienced river trippers and have covered all kinds of water from Texas to British Columbia. Kit and I had not canoed much in moving water. We could move our boat well enough for most average adventures, but we had never taken it on a river trip or portaged over any significant distance. The East Branch of the Oswegatchie, from its headwaters down to the area known as the Inlet, would be just the ticket for our exercise—slow but curvy, with maybe one or two class-I rapids for good measure.
I have been fly-fishing on and off for the better part of my adult life. On my side, I would round up a serviceable fly-fishing outfit for Peter and by the end of our trip in the Adirondacks ensure that, in addition to his tackle, he would also be equipped with at least a decent basic casting stroke.
The Route
We planned the trip for the first week in June. This would probably give us the best conditions for a down-current trip. The only disadvantage to this choice of season would be the blackflies. Considering the East Branch starts in a boreal swamp, they would probably be thick.
Our route would take us overland and overlake. After portages totaling some three miles, we would put in the Oswegatchie in its Beaverdam section. Coming down river and getting out just above Wanakena, the trip would cover a total of 30 to 35 miles and would last four days and three nights. The journey can be traced on the USGS New York quadrant maps Newton Falls, Five Ponds Wilderness, Wolf Mountain 7.5, and Tupper Lake 15.
Day One: Hitchins Pond/Bog River/Low's Lake
Cars packed with gear and children, we started from Peter and Anita's home on a bright June day. Driving southwest through Tupper Lake and following local roads, we wound our way into the park near Horseshoe Lake. We would put in at the base of Hitchins Pond.
While waiting for Peter and Kit to shuttle the cars into position at our eventual destination downstream, Anita, the children, and I packed the canoes and snacked in the shade. The shuttle took about three hours, so after lunch I decided to break out my rod and fish. Rods for fly-fishing vary in length, material of construction, and weight, which refers to the weight of the line they can cast. Weights range from 2 to 13, with 13 being the heaviest.
Rod, line, and reel should be matched. A good starter rod is a five- or six-weight of eight and a half or nine feet. With this rod you can fish for a wide spectrum of species, including bluegill, bass, pickerel, and trout. You can get a good factory rod for $80-$200. Manufacturers in this reasonable range include: Cortland, Fenwick, Lamiglas, Loomis, Powell, Redington, and St. Croix.
In setting up Peter, I decided upon a nine-foot six-weight Cortland rod for about $100. I am confident that this rod will, if he takes care of it properly, last him for his lifetime.
Fishing from the dam, Patrick and I worked as a team. I cast 40 or 50 feet from my platform toward the bank. I fished subsurface with one of my six favorite flies, the Olive Bead Headed Wooly Bugger. Patrick, acting as my spotter, sang out each time he saw a fish near my fly. In the hour or so that we fished, we caught something on nearly every cast. We hauled in bluegill, perch, and largemouth and smallmouth bass. I use barbless hooks, so all our fish were released not much worse for the experience. I also showed Patrick how to unhook a fish without taking it out of the water, wetting your hand before touching it, thereby minimizing any trauma to the delicate mucous membrane that coats its skin.
When Peter and Kit returned, we were behind schedule, so aside from taking time for a quick photo, we headed out. Cruising through the narrow and stony length of the pond, we took a channel into the upper Bog River. Portaging around its upper dam, we followed the Bog into Low's Lake, and by sundown we were halfway across its eastern length. We camped on an island sheltered by huge pines whose lower branches were 20-30 feet off the ground.
Day Two: Low's Lake/Big Deer Pond/The Oswegatchie
Peter, Patrick, and I were up with what little sun could push through a sky now marbled with gathering clouds. The still water on the lake reflected the emerging grayness like polished glass. I again broke out the rod and, peeling some line off my reel, I explained to them the basics of reel and line dynamics. I also showed them the few knots that they would need in order to rig for themselves: the Arbor, the Nail Knot, the Surgeon's Knot, the Perfection ion Loop, and the Improved Clinch.
You can get a solid fly-fishing reel for $35-$70. Names to look for are Pfleuger, Cortland, Scientific Anglers (System 1), or Redington. Like rods, reels are rated by the line weight they are intended to hold plus backing. Freshwater backing is usually 20 pound test Micron. You'll want about 100 yards of it put on your reel spool. I got Peter a Pfleuger model 1494 and 100 yards of backing for $40.00.
Fly lines are rated according to the weight concentrated in the first 30 feet or so of the line. In addition to this rating system (2-13) there are three types of lines: floating (F), sinking (S), and sinking tip (F/S). Floating lines are available in either weight-forward (WF) or double taper (DT) configurations. For a beginner, it's much better to stick with the weightforward floater. In weight-forward lines, only the "head" is flared and weighted. This is the end to which you attach your leader and fly.
It is also this weighted head section that allows you to cast the line instead of the lure. The head is normally 24-30 feet long and is noticeably thicker than the 50 feet of thin, level running line that is seamlessly joined to it. A decent durable line will run you from $22-$46. The differences are in the taper designs, coating, and core construction. For Peter, I picked out a Cortland 333 HT WF-6-F for $23.
We would have no more time for fishing this day. The clouds were closing ranks, and after our chat we returned to the tents. A fire was already on. We made coffee, ate breakfast, and packed the canoes again.
At the trail's end we lunched under a canopy of gargantuan pines on the banks of Big Deer Pond. But aware of the big portage still ahead, we didn't waste any time in getting underway again. After crossing the pond, we struggled a while trying to find the next trail marker. We finally located the path and began a two-and-a-half-mile trek over hills and swampy terrain. For the first three fourths of a mile, the trail was hard to make out and often seemed to disappear entirely into muddy bogs and meadows. With everyone in our party making two trips, we crossed the hills in about five hours.
At last we had reached our destination, the East Branch of the Oswegatchie, although our arrival seemed a bit anticlimactic. Snaking and oozing through a swamp, the river at this spot is hardly a majestic sight. Looking at its small width, you begin to doubt that it is navigable at all. Yet while it is narrow, it is also deep, and apart from the beaver dams that interrupt its flow every 100 feet or so, a canoe can move easily through it. That is if you understand, as Kit and I did not, how the person in the bow of the boat steers on a down-current trip. But this was our chance to learn.
The rain got heavier. But even struggling with the boat and the elements, I was amazed by a spectacle that I could not have imagined. In the midst of what became a downpour, trout were rising in every square yard of the river, many jumping clear out of the water! Witnessing this, the soreness of the day's labor went out of my back. With dark coming on as we pulled into the first campsite on the river, I was already planning the next day's fishing.
Day Three: The 0swegatchie
But waking to the sound of rain pelting our tent, I knew that fishing this day would be difficult at best. The river was now swelling and muddied. Narrow and contorted, making 90-degree turns every 30-50 yards through bushy banks—this stretch was no place to give a casting lesson to a beginner. We would probably use the day best by making some distance and, if the rain kept up, by finding a better site farther downstream and battening down for the duration. During our spiraling three-mile cruise through timberland and quiet dark water, I managed to grab a few free moments to describe to them the mechanics of casting.
In bait or spin casting, the principles of what you need to do are self-evident. You're casting a heavy concentrated weight with a flexible lever, your rod. You bring the weighted object up close to the tip of the rod before each cast, you haul it back over your shoulder as far as you need to for the cast you're about to make, and then you fling it, stopping the rod short on the forward stroke so that the rod catapults the lure or bait. The longer the cast you want to make, the farther back you bring the rod, and the higher you aim when you bring it forward and stop it for the final fling.
But now imagine you're holding a skinny nine-foot fly rod. At the end of your line you've tied on a little cluster of hair and feathers that's about the size of your fingertip. It weighs practically nothing. Where is the weight concentrated so that you can cast this weightless object at least 30 or 40 feet? Yup, in the line.
In fly-fishing, you cast the line not the lure. But the other principles that I've described are much the same, i.e., the farther you want to cast, the farther back you bring your rod and the higher you aim when you bring it forward and stop it. The main difference is that with a fly rod you'll often be casting 40 feet of line or more on both strokes, forward and back. You've got to time your stroke appropriately, allowing the line to move and to straighten out, behind you as well as in front of you, each time you cast. In order to accomplish this, you need to move your rod tip in practically a straight line toward and away from your target. If you move it in a deep arc, as you do in bait casting, you'll end up throwing your line inaccurately downward into the water behind you and in front of you.
These principles, as simple as they sound, were until recently looked upon as a practically heretical method of explaining or teaching fly-casting. Even at the beginning of this decade, fly casting was most often taught according to the traditions of the previous century and took practically no account of the developments in rod materials and line design. People were routinely told to practice the casting stroke as if they were standing in front of a clock face. The rod, we were told, should only move between the positions of 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, and it should move in a rigid and regular beat. This was the original English tradition, and it was the foundation of most modern casting techniques...
Until two fellows, Bernard "Lefty" Kreh and Ed Jawarowski, came along to wreck the rigid mythology. I can highly recommend them as the best sources available for learning both your basic stroke and more advanced casts. Their style of casting and teaching casting is natural, understandable, relaxed, and completely adapted to the graphite rods of today. Ed's well-illustrated book, The Cast, is arguably the best available guide to fly casting. I only wish it was around some 25 years ago when I took my first stabs at fly-fishing. It would have saved me years of frustration.
For comprehension though, there's nothing like a demonstration. As we camped that evening, a dry northwest breeze promised that the following day would provide us with the opportunity that we needed in order to complete our swap. Kit and I were now both able to maneuver the canoe well enough in river currents. Peter had his equipment and he understood basic dynamics. But he still had not put a line to water, much less brought a trout into the boat.
Day Four. High Falls and Home
Feeling far more confident than we had two days previous, Kit, Ditte, and I crewed together again. As we set off downstream, the sun punched through the thinning cloud cover and warmed us all. With every paddle stroke the sky steadily cleared. After less than a mile, we shed our now superfluous rain gear.
The river now seemed to widen by the yard. Gone were the challenges of snaking hairpin turns and countless beaver dams. Now a swifter, stronger river uncoiled alternately through stands of virgin timber 80-100 feet high and lush open meadows wearing the bright colors of an Adirondack spring. Proud of our newly acquired skills, we played with our canoe in the currents, smoothly gliding to our final portage around High Falls.
It was during lunch on these rocks that the casting lesson finally came. I brought Peter and Patrick to a large flat boulder overlooking a deep pool at the head of the falls. I went over once more all that we had talked about during the rain the day before. Wanting them to have time to make and appreciate their own mistakes, I gave only one or two brief demonstrations of the basic casting strokes separately, forward and back. Then I handed Peter his rod, stepped aside, and encouraged him to play. Within an hour both Peter and Patrick were throwing a solid 30-40 feet of line properly, on both the forward and the back stroke. The tip of the rod moved in level planes and the loops of the line were small. Watching them on the rock, mesmerized by the long rod and line, I knew they had begun what would almost certainly be a lifelong journey.
We deftly completed our final portage around the falls. We scooted down the sun-drenched river to our take out near Wanakena, deftly skirting hidden rocks and gliding with the true rush of success through the small rapids in this stretch. The smiles all around predicted the fun of years to come. Banging the tailgate of our truck closed as we finished loading up for the long haul back to Jersey City, we were now content to consider our deal complete. The scales of exchange were, for a brief moment, well-balanced.
Two weeks after Charlie's trip, thunderstorms with hurricane force winds leveled thousands of acres of forest in the Adirondack Park, including much if not all of what he had been so privileged to see. In a natural upheaval not seen since the Big Blow of 1950, the East Branch of the Oswegatchie has been rendered impassable and is likely to remain so for some time. It may be one hundred years or more before the forest can fully recover, so be sure to update your guidebooks if you plan on going this year. — MOTHER.
Further Reading
If you'd like to explore fly-fishing tackle and technique or the Oswegatchie River in greater detail, the following books will serve as a useful starting point. All are currently in print and available either at your bookstore or library. Borger, Gary A. Nymphing: A Basic Book. Stackpole Books (1979), Harrisburg, PA. Hauptman, Cliff. The Fly Fisher's Guide to Warmwater Lakes. Lyons & Burford (1995), New York, NY. Jamieson, Paul, and Donald Morris. Adirondack Waters: North Flow. The Adirondack Mountain Club, Third Edition, (1993), Lake George, NY. Jawarowski, Ed. The Cast. Stackpole Books (1992), Mechanics burg, PA: Kreh, Lefty. Modern Fly Casting Method. Odysseus Editions (1991), Birmingham, AL. Sosin, Mark, and Lefty Kreh. Practical Fishing Knots II. Lyons & Burford (1991), New York, NY. Talleur, Dick. Fly Fishing for Trout: A Guide for Beginners. Lyons & Burford (1992), New York, NY. Waterman, Charles. Black Bass and the Fly Rod. Stackpole Books (1995), Mechanicsburg, PA.


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