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The so called "Day of Silence" has nothing to do with education. It is a waste of educational resources and sends the wrong message to our children. The best way to discourage the practice of allowing these radical homosexual groups from commandeering our school systems is to vote with our feet, and take our tax dollars with us.
—Beetle Blogger
See this from CRI:
Capitol Resource Institute is encouraging families to keep students home from school on Friday, April 16, unless their schools expressly expect students to speak on that day.
April 16th is the Day of Silence, a campaign of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which is often used to make homosexual behavior appear normal on school campuses.
"Students should focus on academics in school. They should not be allowed to end their verbal engagement in class for a social agenda," said Karen England, Executive Director of Capitol Resource Institute.
"We pay California teachers to teach — by speaking in classrooms — and teachers should also be expected to fully discharge their duties on all schooldays," she said. "If a school allows teachers to stop teaching, it should not get tax dollars for educating our students on that day."
By urging a one day absence, CRI joins more than two dozen organizations in the Day of Silence Walkout Coalition. The coalition includes organizations such as Concerned Women for America, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, and more. It reaches out to parents across the nation who do not want their children focusing on sexuality at school.
Classrooms and campuses should focus on academics, and any student harassment should be handled with appropriate school discipline. Yet Day of Silence is one of five GLSEN events that are designed to focus campus attention on student sexuality. These events — including No Name-Calling Week and TransAction! — take a total of 16 days.
In addition to these 16 days, California public schools regularly promote the acceptance of homosexual behavior in their school safety programs. State law equally prohibits the mistreatment of all students, whether homosexual, religious, or other students are harmed.
"Every parent, teacher, and student should oppose bullying of all kinds, but Day of Silence moves beyond simple opposition to bullying," England said. "Day of Silence equates being anti-harassment with being in favor of homosexual behavior. That is unfair to the millions of people who are respectful and friends with homosexuals, while maintaining traditional views of male and female sexuality," she said.
Call your school to ask whether it is permitting participating in Day of Silence. Schools do not technically sponsor this social protest, but hundreds permit or encourage it. To make sure there is no disconnect between the school office and your classroom, also contact your child's teacher and ask whether students will be allowed to participate in the Day of Silence.
Also check whether your school has a Gay-Straight Alliance Club. If your school is among the 700 California public, private, and religious schools with a GSA, chances are high that silence will be observed by at least some people on campus.
"In every generation, parents need to teach their children about treating all people with respect, while maintaining their own convictions," England said. "This is a great chance to do so."
Reasons for the Day of Silence Walkout
Watch the video that exposes the intolerance of those that promote the Day of Silence.


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Henry Webber
U. of Chicago expert to discuss urban campuses
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(Feb. 26, 2008)--As part of UTSA Homecoming 2008 and the 10th anniversary celebration of the UTSA Downtown Campus, urban affairs expert Henry Webber will speak on the relationship of urban campuses and the communities they serve at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27 in the Buena Vista Theater at the Downtown Campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
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Webber's presentation will provide perspective on the UTSA Downtown Campus and its interrelation with the UTSA strategic plan and the community.
Webber is vice president for community and government affairs and senior lecturer in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He has been responsible for building university/community relations, developing partnerships and promoting programs to encourage local economic development and enhance the quality of life in Chicago's mid-South Side communities.
Webber contends that there can be a symbiotic relationship between communities and academic institutions, and that regions experiencing economic success are commonly associated with academic institutions. According to Webber, among the elements necessary for healthy university-community partnerships are linkages to job training, child care and use of local and minority vendors. Additionally, a university's goals of service, training and research can easily be linked to the community. He says that community partners can benefit from efforts of student interns, while interns receive invaluable experience in professional fields.
Engaging the community and faculty invests the university's interests and resources in the community, creating self-sustaining relationships. Additionally, students carry a university's name and reputation with them into the community with the potential to build good will.
For more information, visit the UTSA Homecoming 2008 Web site.

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|Gear Talk - Fly Stuff Spoken Here Sage advice & fresh perspectives
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...Don't the folks at the library get a bit annoyed when you sign out the furniture? And what sort of late fee are you looking at?
All right, here's my seceret:
Remember the Dewey Decimal System? Remember the card catalogues?
Those card catalogues make a great bench, millions of drawers, nice handles with matching label brackets. I just took a piece of MDF & screwed it to the 2 pull out shelves, with shims to account for play, and I have an organized, good looking, huge tying surface.
Of course there's still a mess of materials all over the desk top....
Yes I agree it is a problem, keeping order over the fly tying inventory, probably for me until one of my three sons moves out permanently to get an extra room all to myself.
Right now I have built up such a supply of material over the years that I should concentrate on using it up. But then when you walk in the fly shop or now shop on the net, the new stuff coming out is so tempting to not try on a new pattern.
Actually possibly fly tying is more fun and productive than fly fishing !!
Definitley warmer than the steelhead fishing weather we are faced with in the Midwest.
Don't know how I missed this one..
I have agreement from Ground-Control to make the undecorrated 4th bedroom my fly-tying / fishing theme room so the ideas above are all very helpful. I knew I was on to a good thing when she bought me a small hand vacuum cleaner for Christmas.
Over the years I've acquired a huge assortment of plastic containers of varying types from the small to the rather large and still can't get stuff organized right - it's the old can-of-worms scenario played out for real.:eyecrazy:
I was thinking along the line of something like a mini-fly shop layout where everything is neatly displayed and organized on wall mounted brackets but that wont fly with G-C. I thought about a second mortgage and going the whole hog to buy a flyshop but that was a no-no too.
Penguins pal sounds like he's got it sussed! A bit of architectural wood-working on the doors and it would even look respectable
The wife noticed the new furniture
Yep, as I thought the wife has now noticed the new fly tying cabinet and is asking questions as to where all this stuff came from.
May have been better to keep it distributed through out the house and garage where she never knew how much there was.
Hope she understands
I did it today.. Organization Feels Goods
Did it today, had to go to Office Depot for the wife (Real Estate Agent) could not find what she wanted, but looked at the plastic office drawers as described above. $ 25 on sale. I bought a couple of these for my college son last year, but never had the time to get myself organized. Last 4 winters have been hell out at work so not much fly tying or time for anything but work.
This year is different at least until February !!
Well consolidated everything by categories into the six drawers
and have another large 4 tray tackle box for everything else.
Found things I had forgotten about, probably saved myself $ 50 in not bying things I already had. Bad thing is now everything is consolidated into two places, the wife may be able to figure out how large the fly material investment is over the last 20 years. Before it was distributed in several locations garage and house.
Oh well its our 25th wedding anniversary this May so if this the event which ends it, so it shall be.
It feels good to be organized again for a low price tag. Maybe in the future I will go for the high cost stylish fly tying bench but for now I will save that money for the spey rod and spey lines I will be needing.
If you need a low cost solution check out these plastic file cabinets at your Office Supply stores should have.
That is the chest I use as well, except rather than run a rod through it (which I did consider) I just drilled a hole on the top and the bottom of the frame and hooked either end of a bungee cord into it.
|I have a large chest of draws that I keep some of my flytying gear in, but I found that I can carry a good supply to just about anywhere, by altering one of those 6 drawer Mini Chest that Staples or Office Depot sell, I think now you can get them for about $20, I paid $30 . What I did was take a 3/4 inch Composition Board, cut it large enough to hang over the edge by about 6 inches, to hold a clamp still flytying vice. drilled 4 holes one in each corner, down through the board, and through the chest top. I bolted the two together. I added a toolbox handle. I also put 2 small screw eyes, one on the top, and one just below the bottom drawer. I have a small rod that is bent at the top, and goes down through the screw eye at the bottom. This is to hold the drawers in when moving it. It is great to take to flytying places, as you can hold a lot of material in it, and it has wheels. It may seem to be a lot of work , but it really isn't.
...A seriously ingenious friend took a commercially available cabinet (hangup space on top with doors and two drawers on the bottom) and he worked wonders with additions/mods.
He did a slide out "desk" with heavy duty hardware/rollers for a working surface...hung slide out boxes on the sides...used hook velcro where ever he had room (like on the inside of doors) and placed small velcro hook patches on material zip lock bags so they hang where placed...put the unit on large caster wheels... put shelves inside the cabinet over the slide out working surface.
The final project looked sensational...alot of storage, wheels, etc.
He finished it off with a powerstrip on the back so he can use his halogen light, glue gun, epoxy turner, etc.
Rubbermaid Products
Rubbermaid Products have several compartment type things that are cheap and easy to see into, so you can organize what you need. Shopco Costco KMart Sams Club any of these will have some neat things to pick up, and they store well under the desk of in a closet!
for materials storage I use a 7 drawer plastic "file cabinet" type thing - got it for 25 beans at Costco. drawers are large on the bottom to small on top - works so far.
travel kit is in development...
Thanks, keep the ideas coming.
Tying at work for me is not an option, with a corner office and windows on all sides except one, would not look good in an international financial services company modern office building.
I am envious though :hehe: :hehe:
Had some stuff stored in cabinets in the garage, little critter field mouse I suppose must have decided he liked some of my old bucktails and just ate them to the bone. Oh well it was old stuff I had not used in years. I am thinking about getting some more of those large plastic storage boxes you see construction workers use and college students in their rooms. Organize all materials by type of flies you tie trout naturals, steelhead naturals and flourescents and then just pull out what you need to ty the types you are going to do that day.
If any one has figured out how to tie more than one fly at once I want to know about it.
Couple soluctions
There are a couuple solutions. My fiirst recomendation is a roltop desk if you have the room. I have a large rolltop tha has so much room I actualy have room to fil up with supplies LOL. Ii actually keep my fly rels in bags in one of the desk drawars with my fly boxes. Now, I keep a Plano 777 box for my portable kit. It's a paramedic box tha can hold a TON of fly tying stuff. I just throw in my goods and go.
Now, you can get by with a rubbermade and put your goods iin ziplocks. Stash it somewhere, a closet andget when you need. By a portable bench for about $50-$70 an off you go.
Now, any of you who live in the Pacific Northwest, mainly WA area. I do hae my old fold down front desk. It's smaller desk I used for flytying (it was also my study desk in gradeschol/colege.Once I got my roltop desk it's ben sitting stagnant. If anybody is interested, I'd sel it for $30. It's not a fancy dancy desk, but has rom for suplis,a d an area t tie flies.
I have two solutions. The first is a tying station at work ... shhh! As a high school teacher I get a prep period. It is in a large closet into which I have a small table and chair, a gooseneck lamp, a small garbage can, as well as a couple of shelves on the back wall. It is a sweet set-up. While I would never dream of tying during work time, I do regularly tie on my preps. After whatever prep work is done I can get 2 or 3 flies tied. Doing this a couple of times a week can really keep the fly-box well stocked. My wife also works at the same school and is notoriously slow in leaving, it used to drive me crazy - not now - I can tie a couple of flies while I wait. Needless to say, this virtually eliminates the need for a messy (or otherwise) tying station at home!
To facilitate the tying away from home I maintain an "in season" kit of materials I will be using and keep that at school. Most of which I can cram into a gym-type bag if I need to take it home or on a trip. The rest of my materials goes in a really cool plastic cabinet. I got it for Christmas a couple of years ago and it is great. It is a plastic shop storage cabinet that is about 4' high and maybe 18"x18". It has 5 large drawers and sits on casters. When I go on extended trips in the trailer, it goes along - it fits easily into a nook in the trailer and travels without probem. It is large, light, clean and mobile - and its pretty cheap. I have seen them at Home Depot and other similar places. I am considering a second one but the overflow is not quite at critical mass yet!
Tying Area
My wife also decreed in Dec that my area for tying and computor station was beyond anyones idea of organized mayhem. The solution it appears was to Have some unfinished pine tables and hutch built to fit the area that I call mine. This is an area of approx 8by 10 FT. small room. This is going tripple my hidden storage area and make things easier to find???
This solution was realtively inexpensive fix other than the time involved in finishing and re-painting. Furniture finished now and starting on the room. This is the biggest job as you have to moove everything and you have lurkers advising that you dont need that what are you keeping that for.
Lots of Luck saltRon
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|Classic Atlantic Salmon No pursuit rivals salmon rivers, flies & legacy
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In answer to your question regarding ruling out killing of large females(Salmon of course) No there hasn't been any proposal ,as such.However I do believe that tags for MSW's will be reduced in the not too distant future.
(I'm going from memory here, so if others in Zec's see this, chime in).
Originally, there were kill quotas for the river (as elswhere in Quebec) per Zone.
After a zone was "closed" or bagged, they went to C&R on Adults (63cm) and griles would stay open.
In 2002, around prime time, there were very few salmon arrived. There were tons of theories, ... maybe the deluge of '96 was the problem. Anyway, to make sur this population (that years spawning group) didn't get wiped out, the river "closed" rigth away, instead of waiting for quotas to be filled.
Now, who closes a river ?? I believe it is Fish and Wildlife (provincial) that is FAPAQ. but I could be mistaken. Anyhow, it wasn't a unilateral decision by the ZEC. Gouvt was involved.
Ever since, the C&R on adult salmon has been maintained.
On the fish side of things, I'll have to get back to you on that. On the Clients side, we lost quite a few. Even in 2002, they had a large number of cancellations.
Did this make us lose lots of clients in the long term, ... Can't say. Ya see, in 2004, the Bardsville site didn't open (as for this year as well). We lost many clients who'd usually come for multiple day visits.
Did this measure make a difference, ... we'll have to see in the long run. IMHO, if the Govt is willing to close down 20% of our forest industry just because they can't get their number straight, I feel that the closure of the kill fishery on adults is easily justified. (my opinion).
|Salmon Chaser
How did the Ste-marguerite go about a 100% release policy for MSW salmon? Which level of government, Zec's etc were involved? Was it a long battle to do so? Or are you talking about your own personal business? In the three years since this was implemented, what pros/cons, if any have you seen on this watershed? Have spawning escapements increased? Dramatically? Angler hours and rod/catch,etc ratio's go up? Same?
interested to hear of the nuts and bolts of your river.
My 0.02$
When I moved from BC to Quebec, I was amazed at the bag limits as well as the C&BBQ culture (trout and Salmon).
Being from a mostly C&R area, I wondered why, if anglers C&R "simple trout", why a C&BBQ fishery could exist for Salmo salar.
Since 2002, the Ste-Marguerite is 100% release for adult salmon. We lost quite a few clients and members, but IMHO, that is the price to pay for a longterm fishery.
|Salmon Chaser
i agree with you 100% that river management is responsible for the good numbers of salmon that return to the Matane each year. I have met fishermen from all over Canada and the US and as far away as Ireland that come to the Matane each year for the sole purpose of going home with a large fish. There argument is the same. Historically the runs remain and therefore they feel they are not harming the resource.
As to the discussion of which lines to use and which tactics,, well i run into the same sort of thing on the Margaree in the fall. If 10 of us are fishing tips and large fall patterns and two are fouling fish,, well we are ALL fouling fish and grouped as dredgers and jiggers. There are alot of ill feelings amongst locals, guides etc on the Margaree as to the use of sinktips in that system. Many anglers use them all the time and wont change when conditions dictate and that may be the root of the problem. There are times when conditions do indeed require a certain method and the sectors in question SCREAM of bombers, wulff's etc.
Bill I realize the Matapedia is many times larger than the rivers you guide on but the spring fishing that Pete Dube (amongst others)offers is wildly popular.
Personally I feel that swinging flies to kelts in the cold flows of spring offer no real threat to salar. The real thraet is kelts coinciding with bait/rapalas and the unknowing, uncaring hordes of spring trout fishermen and woman and kids. That is where the real horror lies. I would love to see to see the opening of Trout season on PEI moved to May15 as this would ensure safe passage to the kelts as they head out to sea to grow
Bill my friends also spoke highly of you too.
I have no problem with the floating line but still believe that anglers should have the choice about flies and technique. There are anglers who don't like throwing dries under any conditions.
Your right it doesn't justify the slaughter,and it IS a slaughter,but the fact remains that the run is strong due to the upper sanctuary.I don't fish the river any more and never really did like fishing the river. Besides, the Cap Chat ( C&R) is right next door and is just a gorgeous , and well manged,river to fish !
Bill, you're right ,however, both these sectors WERE sactuaries and SHOULD heve remained so considering the the rather low runs on both rivers.
Ann is also right in saying that if fishing on these sectors is allowed, that NOTHING and I repeat NOTHING should be allowed except for FLOATING line AND a dry fly. anything else should be subject to immediate deportation (we all know NO Quebecer would be using anything else under these circumstances)
I have never fished for black salmon partly because I don't know if there would be a negative impact. My instinct says yes but I have nothing to base that on froma scientific perspective. I had this same discussion with a Quebec biologist this week with respect to the black salmon fishing that will occur in Gaspe this year. It seems as though this issue was rasied at last year's annual meeting and though many doubt that it will provoke much interest or prove successful they are going to give it a test run.
The Gaspe rivers are much smaller than the Restigouche or Miramichi and have only a fraction of the numbers of salmon. Add that to the fishing sectors for black salmon being well above tidal water (lots of snow still along the rivers and roads) and it does not seem to me that this will be viable. We will know shortly.
I do understand that in NB black salmon fishing extends the season for people to work and brings in $ to the region. Without strong scientific data to prove harm, I personally don't have a problem with the lodges putting people to work.
The pools with barriers (to protect the salmon) like sector 12 york are monitored on a constant basis to guard against poaching.
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Brian, you raised some valid points and on most I'am with you. However, I really dont see the argument of large runs on the matane justifying the slaughter that goes on every season. Should the Miramichi system be opened up to MSW retention because 60,000 salmon, or more, head up river to spawn? Why is it that Quebec must be the only Salmon province that has a MSW kill fishery?? While other provinces and river groups are bucking for a decrease in tags, the numbers of large salmon killed in Quebec are in the thousands, and thousands.
brian, ann, bill, and others,, i have asked this question on other boards without any definitive answers so I''l try it again. has there ever been a proposal to Government, ZEC's, etc, to abolish the killing of large HEN fish??
I think that kelt fishing cme about as a way to make more money(for the camps) and also to keep the guides on the river longer than the 2 months they would normally work in the bright season. As for the harm it causes??? There are definately alot of salmon that die each spring that would otherwise have made it to sea. There are a lot of "cowboys" out in the spring and some awful treatment of the salmon when caught played and released. There is a practice used by some on the Miramichi that has the angler"toss" the salmon from the boat and this, they think, revives the fish quicker.
Do I think angling for blacks has an impact if they are hooked played and released properly? Well to be honest, i wouldnt do it if I thought it had a negative effect.
Would I stop if they closed the black salmon season? You bet!
Ann, is this pool guarded 24/7 when they are being held up like that?
Salmon Chaser
We enjoyed having your friends up last season. They were a lot of fun and really enjoyed themselves. They spoke highly of you.
I haven't kept a grilse in 8 years (11 for a big salmon) and won't in the future, regardless of whether the runs return to historical numbers. And, I don't relish seeing salmon either killed on the river or brought to a zec for registration purposes.
As Brian knows, there is a long tradition in Quebec (they are not the only anglers who register large salmon) of retaining salmon. Catch and release is fairly new to the province; there has only been a C&R license for about 7 years. In that time a lot of changes have occurred. The introduction of C&R; rivers being managed as C&R rivers instead of being completely shut down to fishing (ie Maine); C&R periods on rivers; C&R zones on rivers, etc. This has not taken place overnight but is an evolution. Personally I would like to see C&R mandatory for large salmon but that is a decision of many as I have mentioned.
I do have the choice about whom I take as a client and we are a catch and release camp. Last season guests retained 3 grilse and no large salmon. This season we are only taking full C&R clients (I have turned away several potential bookings) and that is my choice. Most of the commercial establishments on the Gaspe that I am aware of share the same views as myself. There are still a few that do take customers who retain large salmon but that, too, is their choice.
I am not sure what has been proposed relative to tags. I would think that this info. will become publicized as the process for change (or potential change) moves forward.
I am not sure what your concern is with sector 12 on the York or sector 6 on the Grande. The fish have plenty of room to spread out and rest in these areas. If you prohibited fishing in zone 6 on the Grande how would you propose making up that lost revenue? That represents over $30,000 to the zec in rod fees every year and is one of the most scenic places to fish, period. No traffic, no garbage, tranquility, lots of moose, deer and bear, etc.
As to fishing in low water, as long as people properly play salmon and make sure they are adequately revived there is no issue with fishing in low water. When water temps are too warm salmon simply shut down and don't take flies. Those of us who fish for them in mid-August during low water understand that if you haven't hooked up by noon it is time for the beach! Having spent more time fishing in August and September than most (my home river doesn't open until August 1 and I have been fishing there since 1979) I have seen very few dead fish in a river (the presumtion is that they would die from overplaying, water temps, etc. Last season I saw 2 and I don't think my guides saw more than another couple. Considering that we had at least 4 guides on the rivers, particularly during the low, warm periods, I would say that is not bad.
As to fishing techniques I would presume that most anglers know what they are doing and don't have a problem if people want to throw dries, wets, streamers, or choose to strip these flies. If a fish grabs a fly it grabs a fly. Personally I don't have a problem with 3 releases in a day on a river or in a sector. There are plenty of 0 fish days. Again, this is a personal choice.
Bill Greiner
Morning Salar-1
I must say I agree with your last post!
Catch & Release in pools holding 100 to 400 fish in low water conditions, I think should be dry fly only and NO MORE than 2 releases / angler.
- respect for the salmon
- respect for the anglers fishing the next day
- I would ban mid-sink lines and stripping flies in low water conditions pools.
On another point, we are a very few permitted to fish (since yesterday) on the three Gaspé rivers for black salmon ( until May 25th). It's an experimental fishing...(not open to public) to see if there could be a good fishery etc...
I'll keep you posted with photos and our catches, if any.
And as you say, it must be "graceful" fishing!!!!!
(out with my spey notes..... )
I'm mostly a C& R fisherman .I will ,however, keep the occasional fish ,and that does include the very occasional Atlantic.
Bill mentioned Habitat and logging practices.
THIS IS ,IMHO, the prime important factor in protecting the species !
You mentioned the Matane and Matapedia rivers. The Matane is well known for it's particular horror show,in that very few fish are released. That being said, (and please don't get me wrong here, I'm NOT condoning aggressive C&K practices)the very long stretch of head waters of this river are aggressively protected , resulting in one of Quebec's largest run of fish. If this practice was followed on other Quebec rivers we'd definately see greater returns of Salmon. Personally ,harassing fish, even when practicing C&R, on sectors such as Maison Blanc on the York, sector 5 on the Madeleine and Sector 6 on Grande Riviere is nothing short of criminal ! Especially indulging in the sport during hot summer months ! May I humbly include the ungracefull practice of intentionally fishing for black Salmon as a damaging factor to returns?
Fine here is a little guy about to go back. I love looking at these pictures and wondering where these fish are, if i am going to meet them again, or if i am going to catch their progeny later in my life. There was one fish with a big seal or net mark on it that we caught twice 2 years ago. Very distinct mark. I think it was about 7 days apart. But great to be able to catch it twice.
I am going to have to find some of the old hard copies of pictures we have... there are some good release shots in there.
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David, you and i have to fish together someday!! And by the way, that is an awfully small little fish you just let go
And yes, onr here and one there does not hurt. One male grilse from time to time is entirely irrelevant in the grand scheme(even better if its a hatchery).
I am not so set that i cant see the (whats the word) in keeping a grilse from time to time. I choose not to and thats just me. Bill, You may or may nort know how i stand on the retention of MSW salmon,,, if you dont,, I think its appalling!!!!!!!!!!
Regardless of counts, individual rivers, provinces or countries,,, the killing of a large salmon should carry a prison sentence in my eyes I have seen it firdt hand on the Matapedia and Matane and it almost makes me cry at the thought of seeing those big fish smacked and tossed into those clear plastic body bags that are so popular up there.
With regards to your comment of C&R being a personal choice- I agree but dont be afraid to voice an opinion astream though as how else are they going to know?
What is the number of tags they are shooting for?? PEI Has just gone down to four from seven,, and Robert Anderson on the River Philip(Nova Scotia) has been pushing for a decrease to two for that system.
BTW Bill, last year you had some friends of mine with you. They bid the trip you donated to the PEISA dinner. Blaine dunnett, Jean Beauregard, Tom Mann , and Mark Duguay. All had a wonderful trip!!! Perhaps you and i will meet on a river somewhere and someday.
Dwayne Miller
i havent caught the newer ones yet. I believe my friend has them "TiVo"ed for me but i am not possitive...
That photo is from Jimmy's Pool, Restigouche River, new brunswick. A very bright day. July 7 2004 On a rusty rat if i remember correctly
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Finally got some more time for hacking on GNOME Bluetooth. Hopefully, fixed the service discovery so it works with Palm devices. Added a Nautilus context menu item "Send via Bluetooth..." and removed the crack-laden bluetooth:/// gnome-vfs hack. Got a few more tidyups and removal of lunatic bits to do, but I'm very near checking this lot into GNOME CVS -- finally!
There's a large amount of work needed to get it production-ready, but I hope that when it makes it into CVS then I might find some helpers who have the patience to write help files and make the dialogs conform to the HIG, etc, etc. Glade is a cool tool, but I always seem to fall foul of the way it decides where to put pixmaps, and end up hacking the Glade XML by hand. I need to fix that before checking into GNOME CVS.
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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journal Corinth Bureau
CORINTH – The last few easements have been acquired to allow drainage projects for the last three Corinth drainage projects to be scheduled.
Drainage Commissioner Milton Sandy said he had received the final signature last week from one of the 65 landowners along Corinth's drainage canals.
"I was quite pleased to get that," Sandy said. "There was no particular problem getting any of the easements, only people's time and their priorities."
The final landowner from whom Sandy was awaiting the easement approval lives in New Jersey, and Sandy speculates that Hurricane Sandy may have been the prod that got him thinking about flooding issues and pushed signing the papers for Corinth to the top of his priority list.
"It took a while to get him on board," Sandy said.
Next step
The process of processing the appropriate paperwork through the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors is the next step before sending it to the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District. TRVWMD has already approved the drainage district's five projects and has completed two of them.
Sandy expects to present the paperwork at the county board meeting next week.
65 land owners
This completes acquisition of easements from all 65 property owners representing each parcel of property adjoining both sides of approximately five miles of Bridge, Phillips and Elam Creeks, he said.
"I'm hoping by early spring or maybe within a few months TVRMDD will be working to get these cleaned out," Sandy said. "Meanwhile the city has done a lot of good work to get these cleaned out and make it easier for them, but they have highly trained personnel and just the right equipment for the job."


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The ULI Infrastructure Initiative, in cooperation with ULI Atlanta, convened this forum in December, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. The forum explored how best to approach the infrastructure needed for compact growth in suburban centers and corridors. It identified trends in the use of traditional infrastructure funding tools, and explored new approaches being used by regions and projects, including the use of special tax assessment districts.
Case studies included transit oriented developments in Dallas, an infrastructure partnership in Maryland, community improvement districts in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Beltline. In preparation for a July, 2012 vote by the Atlanta region to dedicate a 1 penny sales tax increase to transportation, forum participants engaged in a mock debate.
Site Tour of the Cumberland Community Improvement District
Emerging Projects: An Examination of Two Places
This panel discussed two case studies—White Flint, in Montgomery County, MD, and Perimeter Center, in Atlanta. How are developers thinking about transit, and rethinking how roads and other infrastructure function and should be paid for?
- Francine Waters, Managing Director, Lerner (PDF)
- Donna Adams Mahaffey, Chief of External Affairs, Perimeter Community Improvement Districts
- John Heagy, Vice President, Hines (PDF)
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Expansion
DART and its partners have developed a unique approach to planning transit expansions, including an innovative development rating system and value capture techniques. The panel discussed how these tools have been applied in Dallas, and lessons for elsewhere.
- David Leininger, Chief Financial Officer, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (PDF)
- Jack Wierzenski, Director of Economic Development, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (PDF)
- Gary Slagel, Former Mayor of Richardson, Texas (PDF)
The Atlanta BeltLine
The Atlanta BeltLine is one of the nation's most ambitious transit and open space investment programs. BeltLine President and CEO Brian Leary shared updates on progress and funding needs.
- Brian Leary, President and CEO, Atlanta BeltLine (PDF)
Referendums to Fund Transit- What Works and Why?
Panelists discussed what's at stake with a transportation vote in Atlanta, and shared lessons learned from other transit ballot campaigns.
- Jason Jordan, Director, Center for Transportation Excellence (PDF)
- Kathleen Osher, Executive Director, Transit Alliance, Denver (PDF)
- Jim Stokes, Interim Executive Director, Livable Communities Coalition of Metro Atlanta (PDF)
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Leveraging Transit to Remake Suburbia. Urban Land. December 15, 2011.


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A Pew Research Center report reveals growing opposition to the possibility of a nuclear armed Iran, but finds that nations still support imposing tougher economic sanctions versus military intervention.
A 21-nation Pew Global Attitudes survey finds widespread opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. And in most countries, there is majority support among opponents of a nuclear-armed Iran for international economic sanctions to try to stop Tehran's weapons program. The Chinese and the Russians are notable dissenters in this regard. The poll also found majorities in Western Europe and the United States disposed to taking military action to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Again, the Russians and Chinese disagreed.
The U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – known as the E3+3 – are currently negotiating with Iran in an effort to keep Tehran from crossing a threshold that would enable it to quickly produce a nuclear bomb. But there are differences between these negotiating partners in their opposition to the Iranian nuclear weapons program, in their support for economic sanctions and in their willingness to resort to the use of military force if necessary to blunt Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Nine-in-ten people or more among the transatlantic E3+3 partners oppose Iran's nuclear weapons aspiration. But just over half (54%) of Chinese agree. There are even greater differences among the negotiating partners over economic sanctions. Among those who oppose Tehran's nuclear armaments program, about eight-in-ten Americans, Germans and British back sanctions, but only 38% of Chinese and 46% of Russians are in agreement.


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The IFC Center, the ultimate entertainment space for New Yorkers seeking out the best in independent film, opened in June 2005 in the historic Waverly theater. After a four-year renovation, the new complex features:
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- New independent foreign, and documentary features
- Weekend Classics – Fridays-Sundays at 11AM
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I use TT controls on my thunder launchers. I'm thinking the range is quite a bit shorter than it should be. I have trouble getting anything over 120 yards with it... Fresh charge & everything.
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I logged on moments ago to witness what I believe what will the beginning of the end for my Star Wars collecting. Ever since POTF2 was introduced, I have been spending my hard earned money to establish a collection once again. I always have opened my figures up and put them out for display in simple dioramas.
I'm not into variants or keeping them case fresh. I just like the fun of Star Wars. Then things started changing ... when Lucas released the Special Editions, I thought they were fun, but all the discussion we've talked about before ... Greedo firing first, Jedi Rocks, something seemed wrong. Still I collected.
Then Episode I, and after initially comparing it to the original on first viewing, I see how flawed the movie really is. Jar Jar? Jake Lloyd? Midicholrians? Still I collected.
Now in the past couple months ... Episode II: Attack of the Clones? How can you people defend George Lucas for such an awful title is beyond me. And I'm sure legions more will defend this new Episode II packaging.
What's worse, the title or the packaging - I can't decide. The light-blue background is something for micro-machines, the lightsaber hands cannot replace either Maul's or Vader's face, and there sure is enough plastic to go around.
And this Obi-Wan figure, I don't know if he's even worth buying. Is he ready to jump on a horse or does he spend the movie bow-legged? What about the karate chop right arm? And the "droid," forget about it.
I guess this means now all the characters from the original trilogy will be subjected to this new packaging. Great job Hasbro, now for the few kids remaining who buy Star Wars, they may end up coming home with BoShek and wonder where he was in Episode II.
Lucas and his Hasbro goons have given me a first round knockout. My anticipation of Episode II has gone down to nil. Sure I'll buy a Jango Fett or some dyanmic figure, but I'm not going to spend money on the Episode II equivalent to Boss Nass.
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Thread: Help with sick tang...flukes??
08-22-2013, 10:02 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Help with sick tang...flukes??
Hello Everyone-
Long time stalker, first time posting.
I have a Powder Blue Tang - approx 3" long. She was added to my main tank after three weeks of QT and dosing with PraziPro as a preventative treatment. Upon 12 hours or so after entering the MT (180 gallons) I noticed the tang with periods of swimming erratically and twitching. She also had a small grey blotchy area on her right side...so needless to say she was removed from the MT and put back into QT. The best thing I could find which matched her symptoms was flukes?? she has no white spots.
She has now been in the QT tank (which is a 10gallon - and I know is not ideal size for this tang but it is all I had in the emergency) for 6 days now. I did the first dose with PraziPro on 8-15. Then on 8-19 did a 1.5 gallon water change and re-dosed PraziPro. She still has an appetite and loves seaweed, cyclops and mysis shrimp, although the twitching and erratic swimming doesn't seem better yet. Does this seem normal after 6 days of treatment? The small grey blotchy area on her side seems to be getting better. She has been trying to rub against the PVC pipe at times.
This tank is 10 gallons with a heater, HOB filter Aqueon Quietflo20 - no carbon, only floss, and a small powerhead for surface tension and a large PVC pipe for hiding.
Other parameters are in check, although I struggle keeping the pH up - Almost seems the PraziPro drops the pH each time.
-Salinity 1.021
-Ammonia < 0.25
-Nitrite 0
-Nitrate 0
-pH 7.8 (just finished dosing with pH up. pH was 7.6, so I will check and dose again tomorrow)
-temp 79 F
I am considering upgrading this tank to a 30 gallon thinking maybe the stress of a small tank is preventing her from getting better until I can add her into the 180 gal main tank... thoughts from anyone?? anyone else had luck with prazipro? I am nervous to freshwater dip her and put further stress. I also have Dr. G antiworm caviar but she doesn't like to eat the eggs.
Any input is greatly appreciated. thanks so much!
One of the potential reasons for your struggles with a low pH is most likely your low salinity. The salinity of the ocean were tangs are commonly found is actually around 1.026. The lower your salinity is from that, the harder your pH will be to stabilize as a low salinity will also lower your alkalinity and calcium levels (which help to stablisze your pH)
You really need to run the full 10 day treatment for the pazi-pro to work on flukes. I have found it to work each and every time when you follow the directions on the bottle
The grey(ish) patch sounds more like ick than flukes. If the light colored patch and flashing behavior is still there after 12 to 15 days, then I would suggest treating the fish for ick with coppurmine (as fairly safe copper based ick med).
The bigger the QT tank, the more comfortable the tang will feel which will go a long way to help your tang. I use a 40 gallon breeder for my QT tank for any tang that I buy. Just go with the biggest one you can get.
I would never recommend a FW dip for a marine fish. IMO, that can case more harm than good. Just my $0.02 tho
The below links might also help
http://www.reefaquarium.com/2013/the...er-parameters/If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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08-22-2013, 11:40 PM #3Junior Member Guppy
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Thank you so much for the great info and great links! I have bookmarked them for future references.
I do agree my tang has some of the symptoms of ich. Today is day 7 of Prazipro. So maybe I give it until this weekend and if still no improvement I would like to move forward with the coppurmine treatment.
Would I need to use a carbon filter to remove all prazipro before I started the coppurmine treatment? Also if water changes are preformed with the coppurmine is it redosed accordingly?
I also hope her 12 hours in my DT didn't cause the other fish/corals any potential for ich. They all seem okay so far.
Great article on the salinity...which now makes sense why I battle my alkalinity in the DT.
Thanks again for your help!
Prazi-pro and coppurmine are safe to use at the same time, however, it is easier on the fish is you remove as much of the prazi-pro as you can. It certainly won't hurt to complete a water change or run carbon for a day before starting the coppurmine (if it comes to that).
Just keep a close eye on your fish in the DT for the next few weeks. Healthy and happy fish will have a very good chance to fight off ick when / if they are exposed.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Goodreads vs LibraryThing vs Free software
Four years ago I started using Goodreads to maintain the list of books I've read (which had lived in a flat text file for a decade+ before that).
Now it's been aquired by Amazon. I doubt it will survive in its current form for more than 2 years. Anyway, while Goodreads has been a quite good way to find what my friends are reading, I've been increasingly annoyed by the quality of its recommendations, and its paucity of other features I need. It really doesn't seem to help me keep up with new and interesting fiction at all, unless my friends happen to read it.
So I looked at LibraryThing. Actually, I seem to have looked at it several times before, since it had accounts named "joey", "joeyh", and "joeyhess" that were all mine. Which is what happens to me on sites that lack Openid or Browserid.
Digging a little deeper this time, I am finding its recommendations much better than Goodreads' -- although it seems to sometimes recommend books I've already read. And it has some nice features like tracking series, so you can easily tell when you've read all the books in a series or not. The analytics overall seem quite impressive. The UI is cluttered and it seems to take 5 clicks to add and rate a single book. It supports half stars.
Overall I get the feeling this was designed for a set of needs that doesn't quite match mine. For example, it seems it doesn't have a single database entry per book; instead each time I add a book, it seems to pull in data from primary sources (library of congress, Amazon cough) and treat this as a separate (but related) entry somehow. Weird. Perhaps this makes sense to say, librarians. I'm willing to adjust how I think about things if there's an underlying reason that can be grasped.
There's a quite interesting thread on LibraryThing where the founder says:
Don't say we should open-source the code. That would be a nightmare! And I have limited confidence in APIs. LibraryThing has the book geeks, but not so much the computers geeks.
I assume that the nightmare is that there would be dozens of clones of the site, all balkanized, with no data transfer, no federation between them.
Except, that's the current situation, as every Goodreads user who is now trying to use LibraryThing is discovering.
Before I ever started using Goodreads, I made sure it met my minimum criteria for putting my data into a proprietary silo: That I could get the data back out. I can, and have. LibraryThing can import it. But the import process loses data! And it's majorly clunky. If I want to continue using Goodreads due to its better UI, and get the data into LibraryThing, for its better analytics, I have to do periodic dumps and loads of CSV files with manual fixups.
This is why we have standards. This is why we're building federated social networks like status.net and the upcoming pump.io that can pass structured data between nodes transparently. It doesn't have to be a nightmare. It doesn't have to rely on proprietary APIs. We have the computer geeks.
Thing is, sites like GoodReads and LibraryThing need domain-specific knowledge, and communities to curate data, and stuff like that. Things that work well in a smallish company. (LibraryThing even has a business model that makes sense, yearly payments to store more books in it.)
With free software, it's much more appealing to sink the time we have into the most general-purpose solution we can. Why build a LibraryThing when we could build something that tracks not only books but movies and music? Why build that when we could build a generic federated network for structured social data? And that's great, as infrastructure, but if that infrastructure is only used to build a succession of proprietary data silos, what was the point?
So, could some computer & book geeks please build a free software alternative to these things, focused on books, that federates using any of the fine APIs we have available? Bear in mind that there is already a nice start at a comprehensive collection of book data in the Open Library. I'd happily contribute to a crowd funded project doing this.


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Teen royalty visits Nisswa Elementary in support of Jump Rope for Heart
Three pageant winners visited Nisswa Elementary School in support of the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.
Lizzy Thurlow, Miss Central Lakes Outstanding Teen; Serena Schreifels, Miss Brainerd Lakes Outstanding Teen; and Bailey Wachholz, former Miss Minnesota Outstanding Teen, all jumped rope and played games with students during their gym period Thursday, Jan. 17.
Thurlow and Wachholz both attended Nisswa Elementary School. All three teens are now Brainerd High School students.
Thurlow's platform in pageant competition is Building Healthy Hearts: Heart Disease Awareness. The platform was fitting with the Jump Rope for Heart program, which engages students in jump roping and raises money to help children with heart-health issues.
Physical education teacher Chad Holm reported the school raised more than $3,000 through the program. First-grader Sam Simpson was the top fundraiser, raising $510 for Jump Rope for Heart.


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I feel like the ide will have a bigger impact when learning c++ than it did when I was learning Java as I'll be using features other than the text editor much more often(correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm looking for something that is widely used and therefore easier to google anything I might need to find out about it.
I'm familiar with eclipse using Java, I'm not sure how good it is for c++ I know it's an option though. Just from googling around I see a lot of people who love VS but also a small subset of people who absolutely hate it. Also I don't know how hard it'd be to get without spending hundreds of dollars/how good the express edition is.
What would you recommend for someone who wants to learn c++ and eventually use it for much more complex programming?
for the record; I love intellisense, and I'm using windows 7 on a reasonably fast computer
this is my reply I posted further down, I just wanted to include it here so more people see it because I'd like to get some more feedback on it but it doesn't really warrant a new thread.
Thanks for all the great replies everyone! I think I'm going with Visual studio 2012 express(is there any reason that I might use 2010 instead?). I tried a few tutorials already just using visual c++ express cause apparently I already had it, but it always got build errors. just from simple hello world programs. I'm assuming It's something to do with my setup because i tried several tutorials copying the code exactly and they all got the same error. even the default hello world program errored. hopefully I wont have that issue in VS
Hmmm. that actually sounds like a good idea, my main goal here is to learn everything thoroughly and properly from the beginning so I can be a good c++ programmer soon. I think forcing myself to do that will help me learn things that I'd usually just happily ignore and let my IDE do it for me. How important and how hard is learning all that? Anyone else think this is a good idea?
I would recommend not using an IDE at first, actually. Using a toolchain of separate tools (initially this can be just text editor and compiler, with build control, memory analyzer, static analyzer, debugger added into the mix later one by one) lets you learn faster what is going on. Also, while you have a small amount of code, like just a couple of thousand or ten thousand lines, I don't see an IDE actually doing anything for you over separate tools.
Also while I'm here, should I start with c++ 11? I know nothing about the different versions, is it backwards compatible? is it or will it be the standard soon? which version do you recommend I start with and why? The only concern I might have about that is that its new and might not be as well documented, I love have a wealth of resources when learning something new and complicated like c++.
Anyone have any other general suggestions for learning resources or tips? I wanna learn this as thoroughly and as well as possible but I'm also eager to get my hands dirty with some real programming as soon as I can
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A Foreign Policy Skirmish On The Romney Campaign
Scheuer vs. Schoenfeld.
As Mitt Romney tries to keep the final days of the presidential race focused on the economy, a former CIA station chief is accusing one of Romney's aides of waging an intense, personal e-mail campaign against him.
The skirmish is the latest flare-up in a running battle between the former CIA officer, Michael Scheuer, and the Romney aide, Gabriel Schoenfeld — and one that reflects deeper rifts over foreign policy on the right. Schoenfeld is part of a contingent of hawkish neoconservative thinkers around Romney; while Scheuer is a vocal critic of the interventionism championed by George W. Bush.
Schoenfeld has been campaigning against Scheuer at least since 2007, when he accused him of anti-Semitism and "nuttiness," and urged the mainstream and conservative media to stop relying on him as an expert source. Scheuer, for his part, has dismissed Schoenfeld as a "reliable Israel-firster" bent on entangling the U.S. in the Middle East on Israel's account.
The feud bubbled back up last week when Scheuer — in emails to the campaign, shared with this reporter — accused Schoenfeld of orchestrating an aggressive campaign to "defame" and discredit him, by convincing his employers that he's an anti-Semite.
Schoenfeld's campaign past campaign against Scheuer — based in large part on Scheuer's criticism of the U.S.-Israel alliance — had, Scheuer believes, gotten him fired from the Jamestown Foundation and banned from CNN. This time, Scheuer complained, e-mails have been sent to Fox News, where Scheuer often appears as a guest, and Georgetown University, where he works, demanding that he be fired for his "anti-semitic hysterics."
One e-mail, sent to Fox News by an "M. Gilbert," read:
Michael Scheuer, who recently appeared on your program, receives high praise from David Duke [links below], the notorious former klansman and bigot, racist and anti-Semite, for Scheuer's anti-Semitic and Israel-bashing tirades. What were you thinking in having Scheuer on your show?
Other e-mails asserted that Scheuer had a "psychiatric disorder," and cited The Weekly Standard's William Kristol as someone who has "documented his sickness."
None of the e-mails appeared to come from Schoenfeld, but several made reference to him, implying to Scheuer that the writers were in contact with him.
Scheuer, who ran the CIA project targeting Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s, responded by e-mailing senior Romney campaign official Kevin Madden — and copying BuzzFeed — to ask whether the candidate approved of one of its employees waging such a campaign. When he didn't hear back, he sent another, more forceful e-mail.
"As they say, silence connotes consent, so if I do not hear from you I must assume that the participation of Mr. Schoenfeld in a campaign to deny me employment and a voice in America's debate on foreign policy has the consent of Governor Romney and his advisers," Scheuer wrote.
Madden responded, "Mr. Scheuer: I know nothing about this. I'm also not sure why the inquiry would be directed to me."
Schoenfeld did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Madden did not respond either.
- Trump's supporters are just as frustrated as he is about not getting things done — and they're blaming everyone but Trump.
- Lyme disease patients are feeling neglected by traditional science and turning to the internet to conduct a study of their own. Critics are worried.
- Model Bella Hadid, who promoted Fyre Festival on her social media, spoke out about the chaos and apologized to ticket holders.
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Create an appetizer surprise in your slow cooker: these beef bites, simmered in garlic and herbs, and served with a Greek-inspired cucumber-yogurt dipping sauce.
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Well.... the hack has been a success.
For the uninitiated, this is the hack to port Qt/Embedded to the Agenda VR3 - something I started last week wednesday night for fun, and its turned out quite well.
The hack itself was finished on Sunday. There are a few things that need tidying, like the fact the cursor is still enabled by default on the Agenda for normal builds. This is trivial to fix. (single #ifdef in the qte config headers).
The patch itself is here
Please ask no questions for a few days - I have to catch up on work. If you want to play with this, I'm assuming you're smart enough to wrangle your agenda sufficently.
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GAME OF THE NIGHT- Marquette 79 Notre Dame 57 We had a bit of a role reversal in this one; Marquette was the squad who was golden from downtown. Usually it's the Irish who flourish from deep. Notre Dame had open looks from beyond the three-point line all night, but the shots simply didn't fall. The Irish shot an abysmal 3-of-18 (18.8%) from downtown as Marquette destroyed Notre Dame ...


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ASH Mourns the Passing of Our Beloved Trustee Martin A Jacobs
By ash | Published May 15, 2013
It is with deep sadness that Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) announces the passing of devoted ASH Trustee and former Chair, Martin Adam Jacobs, on May 14, 2013. Mr. Jacobs was a true pioneer in the public health movement. His vision prompted him to take action against the tobacco epidemic. He was instrumental in… Read the full article >
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Americans have become such a transient culture, adult children
are now finding themselves having to deal with an ever-growing
crisis: taking on the new-found role as long-distance caregiver.
A recent study on long-distance caregiving showed that the
out-of-pocket expense of caring for an elderly or physically
challenged loved one who lives more than an hour away has
doubled since 1997. It is estimated that long-distance
caregivers spend about $392 a month on phone calls, travel
expenses, medicine, medical supplies, meals, and home
maintenance, as well as other necessities, compared with monthly
expenditures of about $196 seven years ago. Presently,
long-distance caregiver's yearly expenses are more than $4,700,
which is roughly the same amount of money needed for a year of
community college education. Along with the financial costs,
there's also the cost of time. About 80% of all long-distance
caregivers are employed, and of this, at least 44% of them have
had to rearrange their work schedules, with the other 36% of
them having to miss an average of 20 hours of work each month in
order to conduct caregiving duties. These costs may even be
higher among those long-distance caregivers who worry about
people in rural areas, where it is not so easy to have a
community agency check-up on them. How do you not only juggle
the caregiving duties of a long-distance nature, but how can you
be sure that relatives in rural areas are getting the care that
they need? In this case, you're not only dealing with distance,
but you're also dealing with isolation.
When caring
from a distance for a person who lives in a rural area, you must
first realize that certain services in these communities will not be
as abundant as those in metropolitan areas, due to a much smaller
population. However, living in a rural setting can actually have an
advantage - the closeness which exists among the people in these
communities is genuine and strong - this can be a very valuable
resource. When you visit your loved one in their rural setting, it's
important for you to get to know their neighbors and friends. By
engaging with this community, you'll also be able to make sure that
your loved one won't be isolated when you are unable to be there.
Attend as many community events with your loved one as you can, such
as fairs or church functions. Check with local churches, community
centers, and local service clubs in order to learn about volunteer
and support services which may benefit your situation.
Getting a case
manager can also help decrease the pressure that's on you, since
they can work with services available in your loved one's area, like
personal support, nursing services that can come to their home,
delivery of meals, in-home foot care (important for those with
diabetes), as well as help with personal hygiene. When you return to
your own home, be sure and stay in touch with the friends and
neighbors you've met. Talking to them will make you feel less
guilty about not being there, and also less afraid for your loved
one's well-being.
regarding other things you can do to be proactive in the care of
your loved one, even from a distance include:
Investigate the
options for a personal emergency response system for your loved
one's home. This will allow 24 hour assistance for your loved one
in the event of an emergency; it may be a good idea to leave a key
to your loved one's home with a friend or neighbor so that they have
quick and easy access to your loved one in case of an emergency;
when you're back on a visit, plan to meet with the care providers
involved, and have them bring you up-to-date with your loved one's
progress; create a "communication book" where care providers can
make note of concerns or questions for you, then you'll have the
ability to follow-up on a weekly basis; prioritize the tasks that
you want to accomplish with each visit; in order to stay focused and
less confused on visits, keep a list of people you'll need to speak
with; and make sure that care providers know where and how to reach
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Rigging for Billfish
In March, me and a buddy are going to Roatan, Honduras for some fishing. Although bluewater is not the main purpose of our trip, the lodge we are staying at, has recently aquired a 31' boat that looks perfect for billfish (outriggers, etc.). They do, however, have little to no experience with trolling for billfish, teaser setups etc. Flyfishing for billfish they know even less about. We do have some experience from a couple of trips to Costa Rica and Mexico last year, so in general I think we can get it almost right. While in Costa Rica, we always had at least one teaser out which in addition had a baitfish attached to it....with no hook, of course. The mate on the boat rigged these fish using dental floss, copper wire, etc.. We didn't pay close enough attention to how he did this rigging, so I was wondering if any of you experienced bluewater guys can point me to a source, preferably on the net, for how we stitch these baits together. I remember some neat cross stiching, etc. which I think must have been to reinforce the bait to better handle the high speed trolling as well as the attacks from, in our case, sailfish.
I have read what Trey Combs write about rigging baitfish for teasers, but without any illustrations to go by, I got easily lost.
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By Tiernan Ray
Yahoo! (YHOO) will report Q1 results tomorrow afternoon, and analysts have been refining their models, projecting perhaps slightly better revenue and profit based on some better search and display trends last quarter, though there is still a great deal of concern about slow to little growth, and about encroachments on Yahoo!'s turf from Google (GOOG) and Facebook.
Estimates have been on the rise of late, and the Street is modeling $1.2 billion in revenue, before subtracting for traffic acquisition costs, or "TAC," and $1.06 billion including TAC; and 17 cents in GAAP EPS last quarter. Cost-cutting initiatives remain one of the bright spots, with Yahoo! having announced two weeks ago it will lay off 2,000 people, or 14% of the work force.
CEO Scott Thompson is nearing the 100-day mark, analysts note, and so they are hoping to hear more on tomorrow's conference call following the report about Thompson's "strategy" to return the company to growth and fend off the competition.
And of course, the company's ongoing battle with 5% investors Third Point LLC over board nominations also floats in the background here.
BGC Capital's Collin Gillis reiterates a Hold rating on the shares today. He's projecting $1.085 billion and 19 cents a share. Display revenue may have risen 5%, year over year, to $494 million, while search revenue may have risen 1.9%, to $363.7 million, he thinks.
"Display growth remains under pressure from the audience-buying efforts from Google, and competition from Facebook in our opinion," writes Gillis.
"We also see that the format is becoming antiquated and that Google is pushing fast to establish itself as the market leader in the ad display market given the accountability and transparency of purchasing on its exchange."
Gillis is wondering if the new strategy might involve something regarding commerce or electronic payments, or both, given Thompson's prior job running eBay's (EBAY) PayPal.
Meantime, J.P. Morgan's Doug Anmuth reiterates a Neutral rating on shares of Yahoo!, and a $7 price target. He's modeling $1.065 billion in revenue and 15 cents EPS, reflecting his view the "company has greater control over near term expenses relative to revenue."
On the one hand, there's been some more encouraging data from last quarter for search advertising, writes Anmuth, as "Some SEMs [search engine marketers] reported seeing search ad spend strength in the Yahoo!/Bing combined entity, based on better broad match and ad tools for advertisers."
But comScore data still show Yahoo and Microsoft (MSFT) losing share to Google. He's modeling just 0.4% growth in display revenue, year over year, to $473 million, and a drop of 1.7% in search revenue, year over year, to $351 million.
He, too, thinks the focus is on the strategy:
As Yahoo! is undergoing a major reorganization of its core operations with 2,000 layoffs announced, we believe investor focus has shifted somewhat to the core business and new CEO Scott Thompson's pending strategy.
And Citigroup's Walter Pritchard reiterates a Neutral rating on the stock, writing that "we believe Street Q1 estimates are reasonable, with slight probability of upside on the bottom line due to cost controls."
He's modeling $1.08 billion in revenue and EPS of 19 cents.
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Friday Customer Submitted Challenge12/21/2012
Posted 21 December 2012 - 09:04 AM
Today's challenge comes from SandiC...congratulations!!
The Challenge: It's almost time for us to make our New Year resolutions. My challenge is to pick one basic value you hold above others and that you want to keep as the center of your life in the coming year, use that as your title and scrap a page about it. Maybe as part of a quote, or a photo that shows where or how in your life that value is important to you. Maybe do this before you set your resolution so that your resolution fits your most important value.
Do you have your thinking cap on yet?? If you don't do resolutions, you can come up with one word that you want to embody for the year and scrap about it. You can make a layout, or a new desktop for your computer. How about a layout/sign to hang/frame in a visible spot? Cannot wait to see what your resolutions for the year will be!
I haven't even started my layout...but I will post it when I'm done!
Please post your layout in the General Message Board Challenges Gallery and post a link back in this thread.
Also, don't forget to send in your own ideas for the Friday Customer Submitted Challenge. You could win a prize from Scrap Girls if your idea is selected. Send those ideas to email@example.com
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This one's going to take some thought.
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A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author Unknown
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And yes, I guess the world is still spinning around - at least here in North Carolina! My son was worried to death about the world coming to an end - I'm so glad we're all here!
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Keep smiling...this makes me think of Finding Nemo when Dory sings "just keep swimming swimming..."...so I sometimes sing in my head "just keep smiling smiling..."
This was easier than I thought. I did mine as an ATC. Keep smiling everyone.
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This sounds an interesting challenge..... I am ready for 2013 as this has not been a good year.... but need to do some thinking about a value as I hold a few highly.
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On a lovely Fall day, I shot this pan from the gun emplacements above the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see the sweep of the headlands along the Marin Coast in great detail
This shot shows how wonderful SF can be in the Fall. The pan sweeps from the Golden Gate bride, across Marin, Alcatraz, SF Skyline, Palace of Fine Arts. 1 stip pan interesting fishing pier


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By Ben Levisohn
A day after news broke that the European Union had agreed to hit Chinese solar firms with tariffs, the stocks of such companies are heading higher–much higher.
Trina Solar (TSL) has surged 9.6% to $5.25 today at 11:55 am, while Yingli Green Energy (YGE) has climbed 7.8% to $2.23. Suntech Power Holdings (STP) has jumped 9% to 61 cents, JA Solar (JASO) has gained 8.5% to $5.22, and Jinko Solar (JKS) has gained 8.1% to $6.94.
The rally continues the one that began yesterday, as China started making noise about solving the problem with negotiations, not tariffs. And news reports today suggest that European companies are worrying that the duties will do more harm than good. The Financial Times reports on German chemical company Wacker Chemie:
…Wacker's factory, with its 2,400 workers, is looking vulnerable. The company has been caught in what is shaping up to be a decisive trade fight between Europe and China and Wacker executives are worried about collateral damage…
…For Wacker, the fear is that such measures will backfire by pushing up solar equipment prices for consumers and further undermining an industry already under pressure in Europe.
The tariffs could have other unintended consequences, as well. In a note released yesterday, Axiom Capital's Gordon Johnson wrote:
Tariffs on Chinese cells/modules…will make export to Europe increasingly difficult for Chinese suppliers; this will likely lead to a flood of cheaper Chinese solar panels into emerging markets (i.e., China, Middle-East, U.S., India, etc.) which spells trouble for those companies looking to diversify out of Europe (i.e., First Solar (FSLR), SunPower (SPWR), SolarWorld, etc.)…
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:26 PM GMT on June 23, 2012
An area of low pressure and heavy thunderstorms in the Central Gulf of Mexico (96L) is close to tropical depression or tropical storm status, and all interests along the Gulf of Mexico coast should pay attention to the progress of this disturbance. The disturbance has brought heavy rains to Western Cuba, South Florida, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula over the past two days, but the disturbance's heaviest rains are located well offshore over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, where heavy thunderstorms are generating winds near tropical storm-force. A buoy 243 miles east of Naples, FL measured sustained winds of 31 mph, gusting to 38 mph, with 10-foot waves, at 8 am EDT Saturday morning. Our wundermap for the surrounding ocean areas shows a large region of the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico is experiencing winds of 20 - 30 mph. Satellite-based surface wind measurements taken at 7:22 am EDT Saturday from the newly-available Oceansat-2 scatterometer, courtesy of India, showed a broad, elongated surface circulation over the Central Gulf of Mexico that was not well defined. The satellite saw top surface winds of 30 - 40 mph over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Visible satellite loops show that the circulation of 96L has become more defined this morning, and the heavy thunderstorm activity is slowly expanding and growing more intense. Upper-level winds out of the west are creating a moderate 10 - 20 knots of wind shear over the region. Water vapor satellite loops show a modest region of dry air over the Central Gulf of Mexico, which is interfering with development and keeping the western side of 96L's circulation free of heavy thunderstorms. Ocean temperatures are about 28.5°C (83°F) in the Central Gulf of Mexico, which is about 1°F above average. A hurricane hunter mission is scheduled to investigate 96L this afternoon to see if a tropical depression or tropical storm has formed.
Figure 1. Saturday morning satellite image of tropical disturbance 96L in the Gulf of Mexico.
Figure 2. Radar-estimated precipitation for South Florida from tropical disturbance 96L.
Forecast for 96L
Wind shear is predicted to remain in the moderate range through Sunday night, which is likely low enough to allow 96L to develop into a tropical depression or tropical storm by Sunday; NHC gave 96L a 90% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Monday morning, in their 8am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook. The future path of 96L is still unclear. The disturbance will drift slowly northwards through Sunday night, which will likely bring heavy rains of 2 - 4 inches to the Gulf Coast from Central Louisiana to Central Florida. A storm surge of 1 - 3 feet is also likely along the Southeast Louisiana coast on Sunday; coastal flood advisories have already been posted there. By Monday, the majority of the reliable models, including the ECMWF, NOGAPS, HWRF, and UKMET, agree that a ridge of high pressure will build in over the Southern U.S., forcing 96L westwards across the Gulf of Mexico and into South Texas by Wednesday. However, the GFS model, which has been our 2nd most reliable track model over the past two years (behind the ECMWF), has consistently been predicting that a trough of low pressure pushing off of the U.S. East Coast will be capable of grabbing the disturbance and accelerating it to the northeast across Florida north of Tampa Bay on Monday. The GFDL model splits the difference between these extremes, taking 96L northwards to a landfall near the Alabama/Florida border on Tuesday. Given that the majority of the models predict a westward track to Texas, that should be viewed as the most probable path for 96L, but this is a low-confidence forecast. None of the models is predicting 96L will become a hurricane, and the SHIPS model is predicting just a 4% chance of rapid intensification for 96L. Given the moderate levels of wind shear and dry air over the Gulf, only slow to modest intensification of 96L is likely over the next few days.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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By Reshma Kapadia
Richard Titherington, chief investment officer for emerging markets equities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management and a manager on the $435 million JP Morgan Emerging Economies Fund (JEEAX), likes China recently –including the country's banks that many others avoid.
He thinks the market is too pessimistic about net interest margins, rising non-performing loans and economic growth. "At current valuations even if the market pessimists are right, bad news is priced in," Titherington says.
That's not to say he considers banks to be particularly high quality or transparent, but he says they do have the banking of the Chinese government. And that counts for a lot. As the financial system matures and infrastructure continues to be built out, Titherington says there is plenty of opportunity ahead. He notes that investors loved these banks at 3 times book value but hat them now that they are trading near one times book price. As a value-oriented investor, he likes what he sees.
As the government begins to take more steps after its recent Congress, Titherington favors more domestically oriented firms like automakers over commodity- or export-dependent plays.
He's not as upbeat when it comes to Brazil--a market that he has been been positive on for much of the last decade. Currently, he is neutral to underweight Brazil, noting the currency–which is weaker–is still expensive. The increased political intervention in the corporate sector also puts pressure on profitability.
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