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10th May 2012 01:24 AM #16
Hi Tina,
Thanks for the update! Can you believe you'll be half way through your pregnancy at your next appointment?
So fun to see baby moving, and jumping inside.
Here's a video I thought you'd like:
Keep us updated. I love following along with your pregnancy.
Warm regards,
15th May 2012 03:29 AM #17
That's fantastic to hear Tina!
How exciting to see detail like the baby's hand moving! Wow - you are almost half way through your pregnancy.
I hope you are feeling well in yourself.
Best wishes,
30th May 2012 09:02 AM #18
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Hi everyone
20 weeks is here. Had an anomaly scan today. I'm having a girl. Everything is going great.
30th May 2012 09:27 AM #19
That is wonderful news Tina!! Thank you for keeping us updated! =)
30th May 2012 08:55 PM #20
How exciting Tina! I'm so pleased for you that the 20 week scan went well. Half way through now!
Have you had any plans for the birth yet?
Best wishes,
2nd June 2012 12:20 PM #21
Thanks for keeping up updated. We are all SO excited for you. A little girl - how FUN!
Do let us know if you're starting to think about the birth. Our resident midwife, Jane, wrote an excellent article about how to create your birth plan. Definitely worth reading!
Warm regards,
12th June 2012 10:11 AM #22
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Just another update. I had my doctors visit last Tuesday, everything is good. Baby even decided to play tricks on the Doctor. Every time he went to listen to her heartbeat she moved. He said that movement was good but not for him who cant listen, lol.
I started wearing maternity clothes to work from today. So I guess the baby is out of the bag for who didn't know. Those who approached me we ecstatic but still in disbelief because I did not look pregnant to them. Still the same because I am full figured. So in all it was a great day, finally I got to share my news with my friends.
Thank you all for listening to me. I really enjoy your input.
12th June 2012 10:01 PM #23
That's great news Tina!
I found a 'bump band' my most useful item of maternity clothes during my last pregnancy. It is like a 'boob tube' which stretches around your waist so that you can carry on wearing your normal skirts and tops (with the bump band in between).
Best wishes,
13th June 2012 02:51 PM #24
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is it comfortable?
14th June 2012 04:42 AM #25
Oh yes I found it very comfortable - it's not too tight and doesn't compress your tummy. Here's some more info on the bump band.
16th June 2012 06:36 AM #26
That bump band looks great! And speaking of a "boob tube" around the waist, my midwife put something like this (but tight) around my belly after giving birth to my 4th baby. She said it would help to keep the contractions that come with lactation from being as painful. I had never really noticed painful uterine contractions after birth, but I certainly did with baby #4, and I noticed that if I didn't have that band around my belly, that my contractions were quite painful during breastfeeding. I had to give it back to her after I was done with it, and then when baby #5 came along, she no longer had it :-( I tried finding something similar, but couldn't find something that fit and was comfortable.
In other countries I know that they use fabric to bind the belly after birth.
18th June 2012 10:58 PM #27
That's interesting Kate. With my son, I experienced quite painful after-birth contractions when I was breastfeeding him. I have a back support tube that goes around the middle so I may try this after the birth.
26th July 2012 11:34 AM #28
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Hello Ladies
It has been a while. Sorry about that. Everything is moving along nicely. I am in my 28th week and the Doctor said the baby is about 3lbs so far. It is getting closer and closer to the due date. I am taking it one day at a time. Don't want to get too anxious and overwhelmed. So far so good.
The hunger pangs have returned fully aggressive now and the gas which causes upset stomach. I have lots of support from my friends and we are all enjoying it together.
I am down to visiting my OBGYN ever 2 weeks and before I know it, it will be weekly visits. WOW. Is all that I can say. I am going to have a baby. It's unbelievable.
Daddy and I are so happy.
Oh forgot to mention the movements. Sometimes they are so strong I have to stop and ask the baby if everything is ok in there. You would think that you were at a football match spectating. The bathroom as become my new place of interest again and getting comfortable to sleep has become a thing of the pass. I miss sleeping. Everyone keep telling me to get use to it. I refuse to submit to that.
Well I will try to write sooner this time.
Thanks guys.
26th July 2012 09:41 PM #29
Hi Tina,
Thanks for your update - great to hear how you are getting on.
I can really emphasise with you! I'm 26 weeks and it has been gradually getting harder to find a comfortable sleeping position. Kate shared with link with me about Sleeping Comfortably Whilst Pregnant and I've found it useful.
I think it's great that you refuse to submit to everyone telling you to get used to having no sleep. It does get a bit tiresome when all people can say to a pregnant lady is 'well, you better get used to having no sleep for the next few years now'. Yes, sleeping is more challenging now but I think a flexible, gentle approach goes a long way and I can honestly say that, through co-sleeping, the sleeping hasn't really been a problem. As Pinky McKay says in this great article on co-sleeping:
'When my own babies were small, neither social ideology nor wakeful babies caused me a lack of sleep – my babies slept snuggled up with me at night.'
I'm so pleased for you and your partner. Sometimes it feels like there's a party going on inside me too!
I reckon it's good to take one day at a time and don't listen to any unhelpful 'advice' and it sounds like you have a great group of supportive friends. Have you had any thoughts on your wishes for the birth? I'm taking a Hypnobirthing course with my doula.
Best wishes,
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Hey folks, first post around here - of many, dont you worry . Was hoping to get some tips.
Ive started fly fishing this season, got myself my own rod and kit. Managed to get a Hardy Swift 9ft6 #7 on ebay for less than half the RRP, cause it had been used once or twice. As for experience, Ive been fishing ohh... 3 times now. Managed to catch a rainbow on each outing Rubbish compared to you guys who probably get full bags each time, but since I noly just started, I figured that was not bad =)
My problem, though, is with my casting.
I practice my casting a lot - every day, several short sessions - on my lawn, but when I shoot the line the end whips around at the end, rather than landing straight as I think it should? Basically, I end up with a curve of about 90º to the left, consisting of the last 6ish feet of line. I should mention I practice with line only, no leader and ofcourse no fly, since Im on my lawn.
Ive no doubt my casting technique is terrible, but I cant pinpoint what Im doing that causes the line to curl at the end like this. The only sure way ive found of getting rid of the problem, is keeping my rod dead vertical when I false cast, and finally shoot. But this cant be right because I see so many anglers with their rods held at an angle while casting, and they get perfect, dead straight and gentle presentation.
On the water, with a leader of around 9-10ft, its the leader that then adopts this curl at the end, though I think the line may curl a bit also - I will pay more attention when I go fishing tomorrow!
Sorry for blabbing on there.
Basically, when I cast the line out, it lands on the grass - or water - with a curl at the end, to the left. I hold the rod with my right hand, also, encase thats important.
So, any ideas? Its quite annoying that my younger cousin can cast straight (thought not as far! ;D) and I cant!
Any helps or tips would be appreciated, cheers!
I think you've already pointed out the cause. You see the tapering of the line down thru the leader acts like a brake taking the energy turning over thru the line and dampening it, or rather reducing energy to a whisper if you go fine enough.
Thus you need to first add an appropriate leader, then see if it still hooks or doglegs to one side. Also add a small puff of yarn to the end so there is a small bit of wind resistance on the very end to prevent cracking like a whip.
Give that a try and tell us what happens.
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Thanks for the quick reply =)
Ill have to try what you say tomorrow, as its dark now here in the UK and Id probably whip myself in the face if I tried casting now =P
Hopefully what you say works though, as its quite frustrating to have such a flaw in my cast.
So Ill try practicing with the leader attatched as you say, and add a piece of yarn in place of a fly? Not seen that done before, so just hoping I understand you correctly
I seem to be able to handle the line fine in the air, I can keep the loops tight (only learnt what was meant by "tight loops" today, watching a DVD =P), its just the final cast that I cant get right.
Well, tomorrow, as I say. Should actually be going to a local trout fishery also, so I can try it out for real there =)
Well unless you can post a video we have to take it a step at a time with the most likely culprit being the first to debug.
Looking forward to hearing from you tomorrow.
BTW - a good recipe for a temporary leader is to use the 60/20/20% rule.
A leader has at least three parts, the butt, the taper and tippet
These are often broken down into smaller segments again but for the purpose of the test just divide the leader (say 8ft) into 60% length (58 inches) depending on the fly line in this case a 7wt well just use 20-25# test, then a taper segment of 20% length (20") of say 12# then 20" of say 8#
You can see this would not make a good fishing leader, but for the purposes at hand go for it. Later on just split the three into pieces to step down more so a 30# butt could taper to a 4# tippet by stepping more as you go etc.
Keep in mind the more it tapers the more reduction in energy is achieved and the less kick you should experience unless the taper is too radical. The trick is to make it smooth turning over.
Then you might have other influences from the rod path, etc but even the best casters will get a whip-over without a leader.
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Tis reassuring to hear you say that ^^
But as for the leader being broken down into the 3 section you talk of... thats beyond me. I think maybe we do it differently here in the UK, either that or just my uncle, who has taught me the basics, uses a different method for the leader.
Basically I use a single length of leader connecting the line and fly. At the mo, Im using 6lb fluorocarbon for my leader, and just taking a 8-9ft length of that and tying it on to my line, then putting a single fly at the other end. This is the only way ive been taught.
From that, I can put extra flies on droppers, though until I get better at casting Im using a single fly to avoid tangles in my leader.
The flurocarbon leader material comes on a 50M spool, so I dont think its tapered at all.
Hi, TjP,
If I may jump in here:
For most of us, tapered leaders are an essential element in single-handed fly-casting. The idea is that gradually reducing the diameter from the front taper of the flyline to the tippet transfers energy properly for correct fly turn-over and for delicacy of presentation.
The butt section of the leader (Juro's 60%) should closely approximate the diameter of front taper of the fly line. From there, the middle portion of the leader stops down quickly until a small enough diameter of leader is reached to bend on the tippet section. The tippet then takes up the final 20%.
I'm impressed that you can cast a level leader at all, nevermind the hook to the left. You'll find casting a tapered leader much easier.
Some confusion may have arisen over the practice of many Spey casters of using level leaders (leaders of the same diameter throughout). While it may not matter (to some) in Spey casting, a tapered leader really does matter in single-handed, over-hand casting.
Try to use a "practice" fly. This can be a bit of yarn, as Juro suggests, or a fly with the hook broken off (these are easy enough to get if you fish anywhere near rocky banks). Having the fly on the end of the tippet helps you practice correctly and prepares you for the real thing on the water.
Getting back to leaders: look up the various formulae on the web. Note the creators remarks on brand names and relative stiffness of the leader material. This all makes a difference. Fluorcarbon tends to be of smaller diameter than conventional monofilament; so, if the leader formula you want is given in pounds or kilograms test, you must take that into account.
I prefer a stiff butt and taper portion; the tippet's limpness will vary with the species and conditions under which I'm fishing. Others will have different preferences.
On last thing: remember how you achieve that left hook! Sometime you might find yourself on the Gaspe dry-fly fishing for salmon, and being able to throw a upstream curve can be a real advantage in presentation.
Argh, well i went fishing today as planned, as Im really frustrated cause my casting is rubbish! Half the time the line landed with a splash, 85% of the time it was all curvy, and most of the time even with a 9ft leader, the line still curved a bit to the left (though not as much), and the leader landing in a random postion - usually not straight. I had the odd good cast, but I was unable to tell what I was doing differently.
Its plain embaressing casting with other people in view!
EDIT: Oh aye, I didnt catch anything either, but the lake owner said the fishing was a bit slow at the mo so I shouldnt feel so bad about that. My first outing with no catch so far though!
Another thought for you to consider:
1. purchase a premade tapered leader to rule in or out the leader itself as the issue;
2. If you still have a problem with curving, then it is possible that at the end of your fore-cast, you are twisting your hand either left or right. If this is the case...concentrate on keeping your thumb directly behind the rod (cork)....if casting at an angle also try and keep the thumb in that behind position. Make sure that your thumb is not left or right of center.
Sometimes this is easier if prior to casting (if you are a right hander), cocking the bottom of the reel towards your body a bit.....this makes it easier to keep the thumb in the right position.
Try not to shoot the lie at the water....if on shore, find a treeline across the lake or stream and shoot at the tops of the trees (or as if you wanted the line to land 8 ft above the water)...you want the line to go out not down...it will do that by itself :-)
By the way.....don't be embarrased....casting is like golf.....only 10 percent ever shoot par, the rest of us have problems...just enjoy yourself.
Thanks for all the tips folks, will keep at it!
Ill maybe try and get a recording of myself next time I go, so I can compare myself to other people I watch. Might help to see if Im doing one part particularly badly.
[QUOTE=. The only sure way ive found of getting rid of the problem, is keeping my rod dead vertical when I false cast, and finally shoot. [/QUOTE]
My advise to you is forget the complexities of leader for right now. The problem is with your casting stroke as manifested by the hook even when you have leader on.
What the rod was doing at the "STOP" portion of the cast when the energy is transferred, is what the line is going to mimic. So if we see the line doing something other than what we want it to do, we should be able to identify the cause and correct it. Follow that back a little further to what was done by the arm/body to cause the rod to do what it did. Now we can change the arm/body motion to make the rod do what it should have and see the results in the way the line acts.
For example: if the line takes a hook to the left just about the time it is all the way out then the rod must have taken a movement to the left. Video tape yourself or have someone watch you casting stroke. Watching the cast a couple of times will allow you to
locate the twist of the wrist that caused the hook. Then all that has to be done is to stop the twisting of the wrist. Keep practicing and remember, it's more fun to practice on water with the possiblity of catching fish than on a lawn.
Sounds simplier than it is but there you have it. When you rod is verticle, you must not be making the final twist.
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Let's slow down a minute. There are so many excellent points above but this can go two ways - (1) we provide many suggestions and you choose the ones which fit or (2) we address specific concerns and problems as determined.
(1) we are already well on our way and (2) requires specific details about the problems you want to resolve, one at a time. This is difficult at best in a bulletin board without a video clip. But we've done it several times with focused description of what's going wrong.
I think we resolved the most obvious issue, which as Eric pointed out best was a lack of a leader on the flyline. However as some point out above it's certainly not everything, just step #1.
Now let's see if we can move ahead...
You mentioned 'curvy line and splash' also a lessened hook in the cast. Are these the key issues you have remaining after adding an appropriate leader?
Sounds to me like you are losing the line tension somewhere thru the cast. This can be caused by a number of things but the most common are:
- stroke timing, getting ahead or behind the cadence of the line's load/unload sequence
- using arm power to compensate for tracking problems especially with men casters, in other words the rod tip is not traveling in a plane so energy is lost, and the arm uses extra power to compensate to power it thru the inefficiencies of a curved path
- hinging from too much running line beyond the tip (thin line can't cast thick)
Ooops! I've reverted to multiple choice again.
Well I will stop there and let you describe specific nuances you'd like to debug -or- post a video clip which is by far the more definitive way to get what you seek.
Or perhaps hire a FFF certified casting instructor or recruit a friend who's casting you admire to help you in person.
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Cheers folks, giving me lots to think about.
I'll try and get a video clip of my casting, though Ive only got my digital camera to do this with, which is not a camcorder, and the quality probably wont be very good. Hopefully the line will be visible though. Ill try my best to get someone to do the recording ASAP =)
Hi, TjP
If you are really frustrated by your progress so far and really want to become a proficient caster (as it would appear you do), get tuition.
This is not to undervalue the excellent tips given above. It's just easier to have someone hold your hand, quite literally, to show you how it's done rather than read, digest, and attempt to execute written instructions.
Find a recommended and endorsed fly-casting instructor. Don't go to an instructor than hasn't been recommended by persons whose advice you trust. Just because a teacher is qualified as an instructor doesn't mean he or she can teach. I took Spey casting lessons from a well-known instructor and the only help he gave me was to tell me I was doing it all wrong.
I taught myself to fly-cast.
It was a huge mistake.
I have spent fifty years trying to correct the wrong muscle memories I've built up through my trial years. I'm still far from a good caster, but I feel if I'd started out right, I would be OK now and not just a mediocre duffer.
Remember: Practice makes perfect for some, but practice makes permanent, also.
Get good, qualified professional help. It will pay off in the long run (and fly-fishing is for life).
My .02,
-- Eric
Last edited by Eric; 06-26-2006 at 11:52 PM.
I was thinking of getting some tuition, but I aint sure where its available in my area. Ill have to look into it... its possible they give tuition at a reservoir nearby where I live.
For now though, ive found a temporary solution so making the line shoot straight. Ive changed my casting so that on the forward cast, i hold the rod as vertical as possible, and kind of bring the handle of the rod down towards my chest area, rather than just moving my hand horizontally... hard to explain. Basically though, instead of keeping the rod t an angle during the whole false casting and final cast, I now backcast with the rod at whatever angle I want, but then forward cast vetically. The result is that the loop on the forward cast in nicely vertical - instead of the loop being at an angle -, and lands straight. Now I just need to try it out on some water this weekend, to see if I still get the splash with this method. If so I guess Im putting too much power into the final cast.
I will have to try and observe other anglers too, to see if this method is normal, but Im pretty sure its not, could be wrong though.
But hey, even if its not normal, if it works for me until I can get some tuition then its all good!
This is a very simple thing to diagnose and to correct.
" The fly line is going to travel in the direction the rod tip travels at the end of the stroke."
Your rod tip is traveling from right to left at the end of the stroke, and so the fly line must follow it. You are making what is commonly referred to as a, " Curve cast."
The fix is to ensure that the rod tip travels straight at the end of the stroke.
The same is also true of the line splashing in the water at the end of the cast. Simply aim the cast higher.
You can prove this to yourself quite easily, in the abscence of wind:
With about 25' of line out of the rod tip, make an overhead cast and at the very end of the stroke, flick the rod tip from left to right. See what happens when the fly line lands on the water?
Best of luck with it!
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Mass is great. Sitting among so many people we know. Holding hands; yes we hold hands while we are sitting. An uplifting homily, great music. Sharing at the most important banquet table of the day. A refuge in a sea of activity. Getting home from Mass the house is already beginning to smell great as final preparations are being completed. Who's sitting at the "kids" table? Family and loved ones start arriving. The table is set. All the food is ready. Marilyn has, once again, done a fantastic job! Brady, do you want to lead grace? Five year olds love to lead grace! All the questions have been answered. Let's eat!
Thank you Lord for the many blessings in my life. Thank you especially for our family and friends, for those with whom I work and the many volunteers who make our ministry to engaged and married couples possible!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.
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"The longer you let a dog go in the wrong direction the more they think they are going in the right direction" Don Remien.
It just happened they were from Mpls which voted very heavy Franken. As it now stands, I believe all of the ballots will be recounted/counted.
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Let the process work itself out.
The certified vote margin was 206 votes. This margin, by statute (e.g. law), requires a recount. The local folks are conducting the recount as I type this. The system is working just as specified in law. All legitimate/legal votes should be counted and we shall see the end result. If you want to know the positions of the candidates visit their websites.
The Star Tribune is providing an on-going report on the status of the recount (http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metr...nt/msenco.html). As of this morning, 18% of votes have been recounted. Coleman has challenged 146 votes, Franken 123. Coleman has lost 86 votes to date and Franken 45, meaning the gap between the candidates has shrunk to 174 with Coleman leading. There will continue to be changes throughout the counting process. At the end, the canvass board, which includes two republicans, with the balance independents (no Democrats) will review all challenges. They will also need to decide whether to review absentee ballots that were excluded from the counts or leave that to subsequent judicial review. It is pretty clear that there are some number of absentee ballots that were excluded incorrectly and that absentee ballots in this election favor Franken. Coleman does not want these to be reviewed until a winner has been declared, saying that the individual affected can then sue. He sought to prevent districts from disclosing a list of excluded voters to the Franken campaign to prevent challenges. Franken has sued to obtain copies of the names of excluded voters so that challenges can be put together and errors corrected during the recount. So far this case has had to be filed in each district that refused to provide the names (many already have). Only one case was decided and Franken won.
Unlike Florida, Minnesota appears to have an essentially non-partisan process in place and a good track record of performing recounts. They routinely audit the effectiveness of their counting machines and have a good understanding on what factors contribute to errors. Based on this understanding the expectation is that the final vote counts for each candidate may vary by several hundred votes.
The Minnesota law specifically indicates that a human interpretation is the final determinant of a valid ballot since machines are known to produce errors. The margin of difference between the two candidates is well within the range that could have resulted from an erroneous machine count which is why the law mandates a manual recount. For all intents and purposes, the election ended in a tie subject to completion of the recount. The preliminary certification of results won't happen until December 16 when the canvass board meets. At that point it can be expected that the loser will file a court suit concerning excluded absentee ballots. Since several thousand absentee ballots were excluded and the final result will presumably be within a few hundred, those excluded ballots will ultimately determine the election which is why the Franken campaign has asked for a review of them to be included in the recount to avoid prolonging the process even further.
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(April 20, 2007)--In response to the tragedy that occurred Monday, April 16 at Virginia Tech University, the UTSA Office of Student Activities, the University Center and the Center for Inclusion and Community Engagement hosted message boards this week at the 1604 and Downtown campuses.
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"MACBETH has murdered sleep!" and Dolly had murdered mine. Much good to shake up the pillows, to smooth the coverlet, and turning round compose oneself resolutely to the continuation of one's unfinished snooze; much good to think of a key, or the wards of a lock, or the legs of a chair, or anything else as intensely unexciting.
I am Orestes, and Dolly has hounded on the Erinnyes on my track. My Furies are—like the original ones that pursued Orestes,—three in number, viz.: Dick's poverty, as impeding our union, and docking his luxuries, (of which I grudged him but one item), not as affecting myself, for from my youth up I had been hard page: 16 up, and should not have known what it felt like to be otherwise: Dick's jealousy of Hugh, and Dick's flirtation with Dolly.
I had not sense enough to see that I need not worry myself about all three at once; since any two of them were exclusive of the third, as for example, that if Dick was going to jilt me, his want of money would in nowise prejudice me: be rather a matter of rejoicing,—or, that if Dick was jealous of Hugh, he was the less likely to be in love with Dolly.
All three of them, Megæra, Tisiphone, and Alecto, crowd their ugly faces round, and grin at me, and I have not strength to combat them.
After about a quarter of an hour, which seems to me about two full hours, I jump up. I have no watch, as you know, but I hear a clock ticking on the landing outside. I open the door, and peep out. Only five o'clock! An hour and a half till dressing time! I will go down. Fortune favours the brave, and I suppose also the fair, as they are mostly put in the same category, and I might meet Dick in the passages, or page: 17 the stairs, in the billiard‐room; as Christabel says, "All may yet be well!" (though that is rather an ill‐omened quotation, for all was not well in her case), and at the worst, the society of my fellow‐creatures, even though they are not Dicks, is pleasanter than my own.
At the morning‐room door I stop and listen; not with any eaves‐dropping intention, but simply to try and detect those tones that I foolishly imagine would wake me "Had lain for a century dead!" Lain for a century dead indeed! It is all very well, and a pretty conceit to say so in a love song, but it will require a louder than human voice to re‐form those scattered dust particles into the marvellous image, of which the great God Himself condescended to be the model.
The tones I seek are not detectable; I hear instead ever so many women's voices; young and old, croaky and mellow. Nearly all the women, half of the Wentworth party, is scattered about the many cornered room, in groups of twos and threes. Each is provided with a cup of tea, and all page: 18 have apparently just come in from walking; judging by the large show of Mrs. Heaths' and Mrs. Browns' hats that are lying about, and by the display of a great many pairs of trimmest Balmorals. Lady Capel (the fat Viscountess) stands by the table, in a charming little point‐lace bonnet, chatting with Miss Seymour. I think it makes her feel comfortable to look at anything so thin.
She has had the post of honour this afternoon; and has been out driving with Lady Lancaster in the sociable. Honour and pleasure are not Siamese twins in this world. Our hostess also bonneted (in the literal and not metaphorical sense), is button‐holeing another philanthropic old woman, on the subject of the Shoe Black Brigade. As I come in, she turns round and utters an exclamation of surprise, "Come down after all! So glad! Your sister gave us such a sad account of you, that we were afraid we were going to lose you for all the evening; there does not seem much the matter now, does there?" patting my cheek as she would have patted page: 19 the cheek of the Hottentot Venus, if Sir Hugh had seen fit to throw his Sultanic Majesty's pocket‐handkerchief to her.
"You are quite a heroine, my dear!" says Lady Capel kindly, "we are all dying to hear your version of this unlucky contretemps!"
"Men are so stupid!" cries the sharp young lady, whose name is Miss Gifford, coming over from the other side of the room, "they never know how to tell a story; they always leave out all the details, which are the most important parts."
"It must have been a great shock, and—very embarrassing," says Miss Seymour, in that whiny‐piny voice, with which an inscrutable Providence has seen fit to visit her.
"I should have put on my seven‐league boots, and set off walking home!" says Miss Gifford smartly. She would have done nothing of the kind, as indeed she would have given all her back hair, and two or three of her fingers for a six or seven hours' nocturnal tête‐à‐tête with Sir Hugh.page: 20
"It was very fortunate that it was not one of the other young men," says Lady Lancaster, stiffly; "it certainly was a trying position for a young woman to be placed in; and you could not have found yourself in better hands than my son's."
I receive this assurance in silence, and bite my lips. Perceiving that I am pro. tem. a small lion, and am expected to roar in my humble way, I execute a slight mugissement. "I don't know much about it, except that the horses were frightened at the train—they had been rather frisky all along, I thought—and then they ran away, and upset me into the hedge bank. I don't know where they upset anybody else, and then I suppose I fainted, for I don't recollect anything else, until I woke up in that inn‐parlour. Ugh!" (with a shiver of aversion at the remembrance.)
"Poor child, it must have been very disagreeable!" Lady Capel says good‐naturedly, fat women mostly are good‐natured, whether it is a cause or an effect I cannot say.
"Dreadful!" I answer emphatically, page: 21 "I never was so miserable in my life!" Lady Lancaster takes my emphasized remark as a personal affront.
"You should have been very thankful, my dear, that your life was spared," she says rather rebukingly, "and that you were with a person Who would be sure to take such excellent care of you!"
"What on earth did you do all those hours?" puts in Miss Gifford, rather quickly, to save us a sermon, "talk, or go to sleep, or play picquet! oh, I suppose they had not such a thing as a pack of cards in the house, had they?"
"I looked at Sir Hugh's watch half the time, and read an awful book about the End of the World, and the Third Vial the other half," I answer rather grimly.
They all laugh except Lady Lancaster.
"What a picture!" "How wretched!" "I cannot imagine anything more dreary!" "And what did Sir Hugh read? Drelincourt on Death?" (this is from Miss Gifford).
"He read nothing!"page: 22
"Poor man! he was worse off than you even; how did he amuse himself then? smoked? took a nap?"
"He did nothing, he sat quiet."
"You don't seem to have been very sociable," remarks Miss Gifford, with sprightliness, "nor to have taken much pains to entertain one another."
My thoughts fly back to poor Hugh's well meant efforts to entertain me, and I feel myself blushing.
"Did nobody miss us?" I ask hastily, fiddling with my tea cup, "was no one ever coming to look for us?"
"Oh, I believe there were people hunting for you all over the country half the night, only they did not manage to find you somehow; weren't there Lady Lancaster?"
"They went the wrong road," replies our hostess, sitting very upright, and looking over her spectacles, "that was how the mistake arose. Hugh never was known to come by that lower road in his life before; it is three miles longer too; I cannot imagine what possessed him."page: 23
I can imagine, and I dive under the table after an imaginary pocket‐handkerchief.
"Aren't you very much shaken and bruised?" asks Miss Seymour, making up her face into a sympathetic shape.
"Oh, yes! I'm black and blue from top to toe."
"My dear child! why did not you say so before?" says Lady Lancaster, very kindly, though fussily, as 'tis her nature to, "and I would have sent my maid with some arnica for you; it's the best thing in the world for contusions and sprains, and anything of that sort. I'm afraid, dear, that if you are so stiff and sore, you will not be equal to much dancing to‐night to night ."
"Dancing!" repeat I, pricking up my ears, as a horse does, when in the distance he hears the horn and the hounds giving tongue.
"Haven't you heard of it?" says Lady Capel, "why, we have all been on the qui vive all day about it; we have been making decorations, and hanging up flags page: 24 and standing on step‐ladders ever since breakfast, haven't we?"
My thoughts revert to my one ball, and Captain Dashwood, who has become a very hazy mist figure of late. He was a 'heavy' too. I seem fated to be the prey of the Cavalry.
"We are not very dancing people generally," Lady Lancaster says in her stately slow way, "it is many years since there was a ball in this house; it was quite a sudden thought, but my son thought perhaps it would amuse the young people."
"How very kind of him," I say very gratefully, while my eyes begin to shine like carriage lamps.
"It is quite a small affair! only nine or ten couples, but everybody is in town."
Lady Capel sighs. Fain, fain would she be there too, but the Newmarket Stud, and a long course of point‐lace bonnets have necessitated the letting of the Capellian mansion in Park Lane this season.
"Small impromptu dances are always the pleasantest," she says politely, "the page: 25 only thing is that in the country gentlemen are not to be had for love or money."
"It is indeed very true!" says Lady Lancaster, shaking her head, and her marabout feathers with it, as solemnly as if it had been question of the famine in India. "The young men of the present day cannot be content to stay at home and look after their properties; they must be running about to Egypt and Palestine, and half a dozen other places that they never thought of in my younger days," (very likely not, for it took eighteen months to get to India in her younger days.) "I consider that it's quite one of the greatest evils of this generation; one of the signs of the latter days!"
"A very unpleasant sign!" think I, if it is to entail a Spurgeonic dance on me this evening. Lady Capel sees my countenance falling.
"You need not be afraid of lacking partners," she says, nodding to me; "for I heard Sir Hugh saying that he had invited a number of the Scots Greys over from Nantford."page: 26
"My son is a host in himself," says Lady Lancaster; "he is a very energetic dancer!"
There is nothing, from the writing a book on the Differential Calculus to making cabbage nets, that 'my son' cannot do in his mother's opinion.
"How many are we in the house?" says Miss Gifford counting. "Sir Hugh, one, Lord Capel, two. Does he dance, Lady Capel?"
"When he is wanted; he does not think it fair to stand in the young men's light!"
The dressing bell rings.
"Dear me! I had no idea that it was so late!"
"We dine at seven to‐day," says Lady Lancaster, explanatorily, and then we all separate to make ourselves beautiful for the Scots Greys.


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I always start the new year by writing a list of ambitious resolutions that are harder to achieve than fitting into my pre-pregnancy jeans. Although I always start out with the best of intentions, this year I figured I might be more successful if I lowered my standards and modified my resolutions to more reasonable goals.
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Description A mid-sized, yellowish chipmunk. Has brighter colors than the Least Chipmunk, with a reddish (not yellowish) undertail. Larger than the Alpine and Least chipmunks, smaller than other chipmunks..
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Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Forests & woodlands
Range Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Northwest, Western Canada
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A Once-in-a-Lifetime Truly Double X Event: Venus in Transit
By DXS Physics Editor Matthew Francis, who usually brings you Everyday Science. As you will see, this is science of the Not-So-Everyday sort.
Perhaps the most important question to ask in science is "how do we know?" While it's appropriate to ask this every day, today it feels even more so, as we prepare to witness a very rare astronomical event. This time, it's happening on June 5, 2012; when this event occurred during the 18th century, it allowed astronomers to make the first precision measurements of the size of our Solar System. Captain James Cook, best known for his exploration of the Pacific (for Europe, that is—the natives already knew what was there), took a set of scientific instruments aboard his ship to Tahiti; other teams of researchers took measurements at those locations.
The rare event they observed was the transit of Venus: when Venus travels directly between Earth and the Sun, blocking a tiny amount of light. Astronomers in different locations timed the crossing of Venus across the Sun's disc, and by comparing their numbers, were able to determine the distance between Earth and the Sun. With that distance in hand, they were able to calibrate the size of the entire Solar System. The 1769 observation was an international scientific effort (to use modern language), and while the results weren't as good as the astronomers of the day had hoped, they still agreed with modern measurements.
Today we use a variety of techniques to measure distances, including radar ranging (bouncing radio waves off planets and timing the round trip), so we don't have to wait for Venus transits anymore—which is good, since they aren't common! The last Venus transit was in 2004, but the previous one before that was in 1882, and the next one will be in 2117. I got up very early in the morning on June 8, 2004, joining some fellow astronomy enthusiasts at the Rutgers observatory, where we took the photo you see at the top of the post.
The seemingly odd intervals between transits are because Earth's and Venus' orbits around the Sun don't lie in the same plane. If you draw Earth's orbit as an ellipse on a sheet of cardboard, and Venus' orbit on another sheet of cardboard, they need to overlap in a small X pattern, as shown in the picture. The only times Venus will transit is when both Earth and Venus are on the same side of the Sun, and only when they are in the region where the cardboard pieces overlap. The angle (3.5°) in the picture is correct, but I've exaggerated the size of the Sun and the sizes of the "transit zones"; in truth, even though the Sun is huge compared to Earth, it's not that big on the sky. If you do the real calculation, you find that Venus transits happen roughly twice per century, and those two events are separated by 8 years. It's a rare and wonderful event!
Viewing the Transit
If you want to view the Venus transit, the first thing you should do is see if it will be visible where you live. (Hopefully the weather will cooperate too! Such is the life of an astronomer.) In Richmond, Virginia (where I live), the transit begins around 6 PM. If you're in the area, the Science Museum of Virginia is hosting a free viewing on the lawn; many other cities and towns have similar events.
A common sense warning: please don't look directly at the Sun! However, you don't need fancy equipment or a big observatory to witness the transit. Two weeks ago, I observed the solar eclipse using nothing but a microwave macaroni-and-cheese container. By piercing a hole in the bottom of the tub, I created a simple pinhole camera. A small and kind of fuzzy image of the eclipse appeared on a piece of paper, which I photographed. (Obviously you can do better if you have better equipment—I happened to be far from home during the eclipse and used what I had on hand.) A piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil with a small hole works better, and you can project the image right onto the sidewalk, the side of a building, or another screen.
If you have a pair of binoculars that use glass lenses (since plastic will melt), point the larger lens toward the Sun and the smaller lens onto a flat surface. (Again, don't look through the binoculars if you value your eyeballs!) If you have a telescope with a mirror or glass lenses, you can also project the image onto a flat surface, or create a sun funnel. There are a lot of ways to view the Sun if the ones I mention don't appeal to you.
As a word of caution: the Venus transit won't look as impressive as a solar eclipse, since Venus is a lot farther away than the Moon. It will appear to be a small round shadow on the Sun's disc. The thrill (for me at least) lies in the knowledge: you are viewing a planet not much smaller than Earth as it crosses between us and our home star! If it isn't enough these events are rare, think of how significant it is to catch a glimpse of the sheer size of our Solar System, in a way we don't usually get to see. And always, always remember to ask the question: "how do we know?"
Further Reading
If you want to know more about transits and why they are still scientifically important today, try these links:
- Nicole the Noisy Astronomer has some details about her adventures making a sun funnel, along with some other tasty transit bits.
- Summer Ash shares how the Venus transit reveals the distance between Earth and the Sun, and includes some additional viewing tips.
- The Hubble Space Telescope will be using the Venus transit, not for what it teaches us about our Solar System, but to help the search for planets orbiting other stars, known as exoplanets. Mark Anderson has the scoop.
- I wrote an essay last year with a lot more about how the Kepler telescope uses transits of exoplanets to hunt for other worlds. While it doesn't mention Venus specifically, the ideas are the same!
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The Bruins were outshot, if not outplayed, in the opening 20 minutes as the Islanders peppered Tuukka Rask with 16 shots while the B's could only get off seven shots on Dwayne Roloson.
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Tide pools cover the sand at low tide on Kent Island. Photo by Michael Rhian Driscoll
Maryland has made progress managing development in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Unfortunately, the proposed Four Seasons project in Queen Anne's County, which illustrates what we shouldn't be doing, is a striking reminder that we still have a way to go.
If constructed, Four Seasons at Kent Island would be one of the largest major subdivisions in Maryland's Critical Area history.
First proposed by a New Jersey developer in the 1990's and approved more than 10 years ago, this subdivision—on 425 acres of farmland between the banks of the Chester River and Cox Creek—is the wrong project in the wrong place. It was ill-conceived then and it remains ill-conceived. More than 1,000 units of housing are proposed within Maryland's Critical Area, on mostly flat land that is significantly vulnerable to current flooding during heavy rains and the certainty of more and more storm surges as sea level rises.
The problems here are scale (way too big), design (1980's sprawl instead of clustered and compact, with small-scale, green runoff practices), and location (where flooding is commonplace and will become more so, on the banks of two bodies of water). The other problem—a big one—is that development would occur in the face of the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, which requires a reduction in polluted runoff, but which wasn't in effect when the project was approved.
Developers and those in the county who support this project argue:
The developer has also agreed to "voluntarily" give up 131-acres across the creek, move polluted runoff outfalls out of tidal wetlands, and raise first floors a couple of feet.
But none of these statements means the project is a good one, nor in the right place.
The facts are:
A final consideration is the developer's environmental record. Not too long ago it paid huge fines to the federal government for failure to manage polluted runoff requirements from its construction operations.
The bottom line is, does putting a project of this magnitude make sense for Kent Island,
In other words, does this project make sense?
The straightforward answer is no.
There are many steps citizens and state and local leaders can take to make situations like this less likely to occur.
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How does your DNA send a message?
DNA is the blueprint that provides the directions on how to build all the proteins your body needs to function. However, DNA is confined to the nucleus and, therefore, isn't involved directly in the process of actually making the proteins. So how does DNA tell the rest of the cell what to do? It sends a message! The messengers consist of a special type of RNA.
Three RNAs
DNA contains the instructions to create proteins, but it does not make proteins itself. DNA is located in the nucleus, which it never leaves, while proteins are made on ribosomes in the cytoplasm. So DNA needs a messenger to bring its instructions to a ribosome located outside of the nucleus. DNA sends out a message, in the form of RNA (ribonucleic acid), describing how to make the protein.
There are three types of RNA directly involved in protein synthesis:
- Messenger RNA (mRNA) carries the instructions from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
- The other two forms of RNA, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA), are involved in the process of ordering the amino acids to make the protein. rRNA becomes part of the ribosome, which is the site of protein synthesis, and tRNA brings an amino acid to the ribosome so it can be added to a growing chain during protein synthesis. There are numerous tRNAs, as each tRNA is specific for an amino acid. The amino acid actually attaches to the tRNA during this process. More about RNAs will be discussed during the Transcription and Translation Concepts.
All three RNAs are nucleic acids, made of nucleotides, similar to DNA (Figure below). The RNA nucleotide is different from the DNA nucleotide in the following ways:
- RNA contains a different kind of sugar, called ribose.
- In RNA, the base uracil (U) replaces the thymine (T) found in DNA.
- RNA is a single strand molecule.
A comparison of DNA and RNA, with the bases of each shown. Notice that in RNA, uracil replaces thymine.
- RNA: Single-stranded nucleic acid involved in protein synthesis.
- mRNA: Molecule that carries the instructions from the DNA to the rest of the cell; messenger RNA.
- rRNA: One of the molecules that makes up ribosomes; ribosomal RNA.
- tRNA: Molecule that carries a specific amino acid to the ribosome to make protein; transfer RNA.
- Messenger RNA (mRNA) carries the instructions from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
- The other two forms of RNA, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA), are involved in the process of ordering the amino acids to make proteins.
- RNA is a nucleic acid, like DNA, but differs slightly in its structure.
Use the resource below to answer the questions that follow.
- Three types of RNA at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf5NeG97-38 (1:13)
- What does mRNA do? Where does it do this?
- What does tRNA do? Where does it do this?
- What does rRNA do? Where does it do this?
- What is the role of the mRNA in the cell?
- Compare and contrast the composition of DNA and RNA.
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In July, EFF called for the immediate release of open source developer and Creative Commons volunteer Bassel Khartabil, who had been detained in Syria since March 12, 2012 as part of a wave of arrests made in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. We felt that the situation was especially urgent in light of a recent Human Rights Watch report documenting the use of torture in 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies. Now it appears that our concerns were well-founded.
Press freedom in Sri Lanka has come under further attack over the course of the past month. On June 29, the Criminal Investigation Department's Colombo Crime Division raided the office shared by news websites Sri Lanka Mirror and Sri Lanka X News. The latter website is widely known as the official journalistic outlet of the United National Party (UNP), which is the main opposition party against the ruling coalition, United People's Freedom Alliance. Authorities arrested nine journalists and confiscated much of both websites' computer equipment for "propagating false and unethical news on Sri Lanka."
This weekend, EFF learned that Bassel Khartabil, a longtime member of the open source software community and Creative Commons volunteer, has been detained in Syria since March 12, 2012, as part of a wave of arrests made in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. For months, Bassel's family has had no knowledge of his whereabouts or the reason for his arrest. Only recently have they heard from previous detainees at Kafar Sousa that he is being held at this location. This news is especially alarming in light of a recent Human Rights Watch report documenting the use of torture in 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies.
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In the latest twist in a bizarre lawsuit targeting The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman and his "BearLove Good, Cancer Bad" fundraising campaign in support of the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation, attorney Charles Carreon has run to court to try to stop the distribution of the fund. Today, with the help of EFF and co-counsel Venkat Balasubramani, Inman fought back with an opposition to Carreon's demand for a temporary restraining order.
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A founding dean of California environmental law, Professor Dan Selmi has established himself as a professor who derives his expertise from a mélange of courtroom experiences and scholarly endeavors.
Selmi most recently argued Coatings before the California Supreme Court. The case was a challenge to a California Court of Appeal decision that held that local air quality districts only had the authority to order sources of polluting emissions to reduce based on technology that already existed.
"Air quality districts were up on arms across the state and asked the Supreme Court to take the case, and the court did," he said.
At the Supreme Court, Selmi argued that air quality districts should be allowed to order emitters to comply with a higher standard of pollution control than exists today. And he won. He is now representing a client in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Selmi's path to environmental law began in law school, where he found the zoning component of property c lass to be the most compelling. Now, he is constantly on the lookout for environmental laws that need to be created – or modified.
"We tend to pass laws generally and then we don't go back and fix them in the way that they should be fixed," he said. "The first law that gets passed tends to stay in place for a long time."
Selmi has argued more than 30 environmental cases at the appellate level. And for him, that speaks volumes about the school he has called home for 30 years.
"Loyola has always prided itself on turning out lawyers who were more equipped to start practicing law than anywhere else," he said. "That's why I teach Appellate Advocacy: because it's a hands-on class that teaches lawyers how to practice appellate law. So when you get an opportunity to take a case like Coatings, I can do the case and then take what I've learned there and use it in the classroom, which I've certainly done this fall teaching Appellate Advocacy."
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WHEN SENTENCED to life, an inmate in Massachusetts will often serve at least two years under maximum security. Bernard Baran spent two weeks.
Prison officials knew when he entered Walpole State Prison that Baran was a special case. Almost immediately, inmates began placing cigarette bets on who would be the first to beat, rape, or even kill him, Baran says. He would need protection.
Baran fit the classic profile of an easy target. He was small, gay, effeminate, and a convicted pedophile — and he swore his innocence. His survival depended on negating these attributes as best he could. Ironically, the easiest one to change would have been his stance of innocence, the one he clung to the hardest.
His adamant denial of guilt should have kept him out of Bridgewater Treatment Center, the medium-security facility for sex offenders where Baran is now held. Acknowledging his crimes would have sufficed for an automatic transfer to Bridgewater, a safer environment where inmates receive counseling. Instead, Baran was admitted through a bureaucratic technicality, and it took four years. Why? Because he was considered a "sexually dangerous person."
Baran explains that he was regarded as a greater threat than other sex offenders because he refused to admit to his crimes.
"In a way, saying you're innocent makes it more dangerous because [therapists] don't want to hear it," says Baran. "They think it makes you more sexually dangerous because you're not admitting to your crimes and they don't know how to treat you unless you do."
Immediately following his conviction, Baran spent two and a half weeks at Walpole, separated from the general population. The Department of Correction (DOC) extended his stay in the Hostile Segregation Unit, where all inmates are first kept. Unable to find him a safe location within the prison, officials placed Baran in the hospital unit until a transfer could be arranged.
After Walpole, Baran was shuffled through five medium-security state prisons to ensure his safety, but the abuse did not let up. At Concord, he was beaten several times, and fellow inmates stole most of his property. At the now closed Southeastern Correctional Center, three inmates beat and gang-raped him.
The beatings intensified at Norfolk, where Baran says his eye was split open in one incident. In another, a fellow inmate slammed a metal tray on his head in the cafeteria, giving him a concussion. Baran was hospitalized both times. Despite the DOC's standard investigations into the savage beatings, he never identified the perpetrators.
"If you snitch, you're gonna get killed," Baran says. "At least if you don't tell, you get a little respect for that." It was also at Norfolk that he twice attempted suicide.
Although Bridgewater has proved to be a safer place for Baran physically, it has been more difficult psychologically. Catcalls and epithets follow him down corridors regularly. Even more frustrating than harassment from fellow inmates are the group sessions, where therapists attempt to "heal" those with sexual illnesses. His profession of innocence complicates matters for all parties involved. But Baran works with what he's been handed: he uses the group-therapy sessions, where inmates are taught how to manage their anger, to instead reckon with the frustration of his imprisonment.
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