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Microsoft finds itself on the defensive for once
Somewhere in Germany sit stocks of handsets from Google Inc. (
) subsidiary Motorola Mobility. The handsets were
seized by German authorities
after the courts found that the onboard mobile operating system likely violated user interface and file system patents owned by Microsoft Corp. (
) makers of the ubiquitous Windows operating system. Soon the handsets may be destroyed.
But after preying on newcomers to the operating system world like Google's
pay-or-be-sued approach
, Microsoft finds itself in the crosshairs of a major mobile suit that could compromise its most critical platform launch -- the
Windows 8
Windows Phone 8
The case lands in an unusual jurisdiction --
U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
-- far from Microsoft's home on the West Coast. The suit alleges Microsoft "stole" the concept Live Tiles, which the plaintiffs claim they invented in 2000 and received a patent for in 2004, with
U.S. Patent 6,724,403
Customizable Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8
The owners founded a startup named
. They describe it, writing:
SurfCast designs Operating System technology and has four issued patents with additional applications pending.
SurfCast designed a new concept referred to as 'Tiles'.
Tiles can be thought of as dynamically updating icons. A Tile is different from an icon because it can be both selectable and live -- containing refreshed content that provides a real-time or near-real-time view of the underlying information.
Tiles can provide dynamic bookmarking -- an at-a-glance view of the current status of the program, file, or content associated with it.
Tiles enable people to have all their content, applications, and resources, regardless of whether on their mobile device, tablet, computer, or in their Cloud -- visualized persistently -- dynamically updating.
It's hard to deny Microsoft's Live Tiles narrowly mirror the technology described in SurfStar's patents, which came out before the Live Tiles landed as part of the "Metro UI" in Windows Phone's 2009 launch.
SurfStar's Live Tiles (left) are uncannily like Microsoft's Live Tiles (right).
Microsoft appears to have known for some time about SurfStar's IP, so this suit shouldn't come as a big surprise. The electronics giant in 2005 tried to patent Live Tiles with
U.S. Patent 7,933,632
. The patent was finally granted in 2011, but only after Microsoft cited SurfStar's "relevant prior art".
The SurfStar suit targets "Windows Phone, Microsoft Surface with the Windows RT Operating System, Microsoft Windows RT, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8 Pro, and Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise Operating System" -- pretty much all of Microsoft's next-gen operating system platform. SurfStar also suggest that devices with Windows 8 or Windows 8 apps that use animated Live Tiles may also be in infringement and potentially liable for future damages.
SurfStar asks the court to force Microsoft to "account and pay to SurfCast all damages caused to SurfCast by reason of Microsoft's patent infringement."
On the surface (no pun intended) it appears that SurfStar has a compelling and valid case, but it's always hard to pick out savvy trolls from earnest inventors. Either way, the turn of events is certainly highly ironic, given the hell Microsoft has put Android through in terms of aggressive intellectual property threats and litigation.
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Everyone who's anyone in the indie comics scene is currently at MoCCA Fest 2011 in New York. But me? I'm just linking to stuff.
Write: Comic book retailer and blogger Mike Sterling is part of a group that runs Fake AP Stylebook. They've got a book out, Write More Good, and for those of us who love to laugh, it's a must-have. Back away from the DC and Marvel relaunches and put your money to a better use. Here's a taste from the book: "While it's tempting to call them baristi because of the Italian roots, the plural of barista is journalism majors."
It even got a nice review in The New Yorker. "Write More Good, like the account from which it grew, is a tongue-in-cheek takedown of an industry already on shaky ground."
Maberry: Marvel Comics writer Jonathan Maberry is also a novelist. SF Signal breaks down his latest Joe Ledger novel and gives it thumbs up. "Great conspiracy thinking with large events; misdirection; interesting, complex criminals who don't like each other; a great dog and destruction of one of Maberry's favorite writing places!"
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Thor, Green Lantern, Captain America, Cowboys & Aliens.
Yeah, I got all that. But did you know there's another comic book movie coming out this year that should be worth checking out?
This one's an animated feature called Gene-Fusion.
It's based on the comic book by Jeff Amano (Red Warrior) that was written by Ivan Brandon (Doc Savage), and illustrated by Neil Vokes (Dr. Strange) and Jay Geldhof (Grendel).
Here's the pitch from the press release: "In the year 2310, a new sport, Gene-Fusion, is all the rage… specially-trained athletes, called Fusers, design their own super-creature by combining three forms of animal DNA..."
Against that backdrop, four teens become Fusers only to find themselves part of a greater conspiracy that threatens the Earth.
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Do you like Mrs. Doubtfire for its location? Does the idea of all day fog make you tingle? Or do you just want to drive around San Francisco like Steve McQueen in Bullitt?
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First up is an Associate Producer for the DVD division of their Animation Production team. You need the equivalent of 3-5 years experience "in delivering high quality video coordination duties related to Japanese-produced animation videos, TV programs, film, comics, or other related products." And they'd really like it if you had experience in "coordinating and/or managing DVD, TV, post production, or Media production in an entertainment, advertising, or design department."
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Last night the third volume of "Heroes" came to end, and while it did introduce a whole new batch of characters and powers, I was underwhelmed. Of course I was underwhelmed all season. Sure they gave us the best interpretation I've seen of Puppet Master and a good helping of Kristen Bell, but those were hidden gems to be found in a season that moved at a snail's pace. But there is hope for next season. Despite firing a high profile Marvel Comics employee, the producers of "Heroes" are going to take another page from the Marvel Universe with their version of the Super Hero Registration Act.
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Where do sperm meet the egg?
You might guess that sperm meet the egg in the uterus, the organ where the baby develops. But that is incorrect. The sperm meet the egg in the fallopian tubes that carry the egg from the ovary to the uterus. Then the developing embryo travels to the uterus.
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The sperm and egg don't look anything like a human baby (Figure below). After they come together, they will develop into a human being. How does a single cell become a complex organism made up of billions of cells? Keep reading to find out.
Sexual reproduction happens when a sperm and an egg cell combine together. This is called fertilization.
Sperm are released into the vagina during sexual intercourse. They "swim" through the uterus and enter a fallopian tube. This is where fertilization normally takes place.
A sperm that is about to enter an egg is pictured below (Figure below). If the sperm breaks through the egg's membrane, it will cause changes in the egg that keep other sperm out. It will also cause the egg to go through meiosis. Recall that meiosis, cell division that creates the egg, begins long before an egg is released from an ovary.
This sperm is ready to penetrate the membrane of this egg. Notice the difference in size of the sperm and egg.
The sperm and egg each have only half the number of chromosomes as other cells in the body. This is because when they combine together, they form a cell with the full number of chromosomes. The cell they form is called a zygote. The zygote slowly travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus. As it travels, it divides by mitosis many times. It forms a hollow ball of cells.
After the ball of cells reaches the uterus, it fixes itself to the side of the uterus. This is called implantation. It usually happens about a week after fertilization.
- fallopian tube: Female reproductive organs that carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus.
- fertilization: Union of the sperm and egg.
- implantation: Process in which an embryo fixes itself into the lining the uterus.
- meiosis: Process in cell division during which chromosome number is halved in order to produce gametes.
- zygote: Cell with a full set of chromosomes that forms when sperm and egg unite.
- Fertilization occurs when an egg and sperm come together to form a zygote.
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It seems that both the Rs and Ds are now talking about a variant of some form of amnesty for present illegal residents.
The Rs sticking point is that reform must be preceded by the commitment to secure the border.
The question always raised with amnesty is that it encourages more illegal immigration in the future. This did materialize after Reagan's amnesty. However, nobody has mentioned what the penalties will be for illegal immigration AFTER this reform is put in place ... so that we don't go through all of this again in another 10 or 15 years. Wouldn't that seem reasonable stipulation as well?


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I'm pretty confused and sick of failing, I searched like crazy and resisted the urge to make a new thread for a long time but here it is.
I don't feel like my attributes are getting passed into my shaders properly. Here is my code for when I bind objects to VBOs
(this is LWJGL)
int vaoId = glGenVertexArrays(); glBindVertexArray(vaoId); int vboVertexHandle = glGenBuffers(); int vboTextureHandle = glGenBuffers(); int vboNormalHandle = glGenBuffers(); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboVertexHandle); glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertices, GL_STATIC_DRAW); glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, 0); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboTextureHandle); glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, textureCoordinates, GL_STATIC_DRAW); glVertexAttribPointer(1, 2, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, 0); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboNormalHandle); glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, normals, GL_STATIC_DRAW); glVertexAttribPointer(2, 3, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, 0); glEnableVertexAttribArray(0); glEnableVertexAttribArray(1); glEnableVertexAttribArray(2); glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0); glBindVertexArray(0); return vaoId;
when I call glVertexAttribute(), the first number can be whatever I want...right? It is the position that I want to find that information at in the VAO in the future?
and then I did this
glBindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 0, "VertexPosition"); glBindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 1, "TextureCoordinate"); glBindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 2, "Normals");
before using the shader, and tried initialize access of the information in the vertex shader like this
in vec3 VertexPosition;
Is this right? What is missing?
Also, if I'm using GLSL 4.0 is using the location like this
layout (location = 0) in vec3 VertexPosition;
a direct replacement for this?
glBindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 0, "VertexPosition");


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Emulating Ruby Blocks in Perl
Ruby Blocks
Ruby blocks allow you to run code in the caller from within a method:
# definition def twice yield 1 yield 2 end # example call twice do |n| puts "croak! (#{n})" end # output # croak! (1) # croak! (2)
In case you never saw something like that before, twice expects to be called with a block. That's the code between the do ... end keywords in the example call. Each call to yield runs the block in the caller. Arguments may be passed, in the example we pass a integer.
This is a powerful tool, Ruby is full of all sorts of internal iterators thanks to it:
array.each_with_index do |item, i| # ... end
You can wrap/decorate chunks of code with them providing a very easy and intuitive usage. For example:
File.open(filename) do |file| # ... end
opens a file, passes the filehandle to the block, and when the block is done it closes it.
Another example from my Rails Contributors application (simplified here):
acquiring_sync_file do # ... end
The code within the block runs only if acquiring_sync_file could get a lock on some given sync file. If it could, once the block is done the lock is released.
Ruby Blocks in Perl
Perl does not have blocks like that, but you can emulate them in a way that may cover some use cases:
acquiring_sync_file { # ... };
The trick comes from a feature of Perl that is not widely used: subroutine prototypes.
You may have noticed that some builtin Perl subroutines behave in a strange way. For example push:
push @array, 5;
If push was an ordinary subroutine, it would receive the elements of @array and a 5 in @_, with no possible way to modify @array, which was lost by its evaluation in list context before the function call.
But push somehow is able to tell @array from the 5, and actually modify it. There's something special going on there. You can write you own subroutines like push and other thanks to subroutine prototypes. They are documented in perlsub.
Point is: if the first argument of a call is an anonymous subroutine, Perl forgives you the sub keyword if you set an appropriate prototype:
sub twice(&) { my $coderef = shift; $coderef->(1); $coderef->(2); } # as if it said twice sub { ... } twice { my $i = shift; print "croak! ($i)\n"; };
The rationale for that is to give you a way to write your own subroutines with map-like syntax. As you see, we can pass arguments as well.
Opening a file with automatic close would be:
sub xopen(&@) { ... } xopen { my $fh = shift; # ... } $mode, $filename;
As you see xopen arguments would go after the anonymous subroutine, because this trick is only allowed if the coderef is the very first argument.
The whole range of subroutine prototypes have a few gotchas, but what's specifically needed here works fine and some Ruby idioms can be emulated quite well. Subroutine prototypes do not work at all in methods though.
Simon Cozens' rubyisms Perl module provides a hackish yield so that you do not need to execute coderefs explicitly.


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Titolo: Ya'akov Ahvah (Projnski): minhah li-gevurot
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Illus pub cont: (Harpaz) ve-kibutz 'Enat. In Hebrew. Ahvah, born 1883, was the first Canadian halutz, settled in Israel in 1913. 63 pages. Codice inventario libreria 001045
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Thread: Sad clowns, sad rothenb1
Sad clowns, sad rothenb1
This is my second time trying to keep clowns.
My first time I had a school of five 2 inchers. After moving them to a larger tank (90gal) I went through a mini-cycle, and did water changes until the cycle was complete. A few days later I saw ich spots. After asking about treatment options on here, I did a 50% water change + gravel vac, turned up the heat to 82F, and treated with quick cure. I did this daily (for how long, I don't remember) but still I watched my loaches die one by one. The other fish were fine.
A month later, after making 100% sure my parameters were perfect and all together the tank was healthy, I purchased two 4 inchers. I decided to go with the larger ones because the tank was much larger than my old one, and I had room. I only purchased two because I didn't want to add too many fish at once, and because the 4 inchers are twice the size and therefore twice the price of the 2 inchers!
A week later I purchased two more. I had planned on buying two more, but money got tight so I decided to put it off until I had some extra change. I figured they'd be fine in a school of four for a month or so.
Everyone was looking very happy, their colors were vibrant and they were swimming together and dong silly loach things. They'd been doing well in the tank for almost a month, and then four days ago I saw the ich spots on one of them (I hadn't added any other fish since the two clowns).
I went right into action, water change + gravel vac, upping the temp, adding meds (this time rid ich-- I was out of quick cure, and I had heard rid ich worked well). I have done this daily (should I do it every 12 hrs?)
The thing is-- none of my other fish have it. There are 2 juvenile severums, a moonlight and pearl gourami, a juvenile redtail shark, and some otos that I never see. These fish are completely clean and seem healthy.
The clowns have been hiding for two days. I poked in their cave a couple times to make sure they were alive, and they swam out then went right back in. They look horrible, like someone rolled them in salt.
I'm just so sad and confused. How could the ich attack them out of no where, and not my other fish? Am I going about treatment the wrong way? I really can't bear to lose these guys, I was so traumatized by the loss of my first school. I actually bought the big tank for the sole reason that I could house juvenile loaches happily for a few years, when I would upgrade once again.
Anyway, after that spiel... is there anything else I can do? Am I doing something wrong? Why did the ich attack the clowns and no one else?
*sigh* Thanks, I really appreciate any help.
Clowns are susceptible to ick because they're crawling around on the bottom where the Ick reproduces. I would use half doses of ick medications with clowns or even the Quick Cure for Senative fish. Full doses can burn them. You need to follow directions on the different medications. Treating the tank every day may be too much and certainly every 12 hours.
Medications deplete the oxygen in the water and so does raising the heat. Therefore, you should not do both of those. With either treatment, add an airstone.
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Thank you for the reply. I've got a bubble wall (like an air stone) that is always on, and it creates a lot of aeration. We've been doing 5 capfulls as opposed to the 9 that the directions say (1 capfull/10gal). Should I still put the heat back to a normal temperature for them even though there's a lot of aeration throughout the tank? (I've also got 2 HOB filters that have 2 waterfalls apiece, so that also creates some aeration).
Sadly, I discovered one of my loaches dead. I only saw three in the usual hiding spot (good news is that one of them has since come out and started swimming around), and didn't see the fourth when I looked around the tank. I found him tucked inside the faux driftwood piece, highly dead.
Thanks to LH for the advice. Anyone else have their two cents?
They may do better by omitting the medication and just raising the heat. Could be the medication is killing them but Ick will also kill them if it gets in their gills. I believe you are supposed to do 25% water changes before re-medicating the tank. At least that's the instructions I've also read.
Ick is not killed when visible on the fish but they are killed when they fall off the fish and fall to the bottom and reproduce. I would also be vacumming the bottom every single day to pick up reproducing Ick.
Oh I have absolutely been doing a gravel vac every time I do the water change. So I should discontinue the meds but keep the temp at around 82-83?


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I think it is important to have "Hero's" in life. People that we look up to or try to learn from chapters of their lives. William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt is one of my hero's. His love for the Scouting program drove him and in the end elevated him to a father of Scouting in one sense or another. Scouting in America would not be what it is without Green Bar Bill. I wish I could have met him.
William Hillcourt wrote the following essay on his life. I want to share it with you, because I think that in the end we will all find that there is a hidden treasure out there with our name on it.
The Life of a Serendipitist
By William Hillcourt
Did you ever hear the story of the King of Serendip? He had three sons. He was proud of them and saw to it that they had the very best upbringing. He brought in the finest swordsmen and athletes of his kingdom to coach them in all the fitness skills of a true knight. He had the wisest men of the country teach them about the world and its wonders. He himself taught them kingship: how to rule with compassion and fairness.
He loved his three sons equally well. But as he grew old, he wondered which of them would make the best king when his own days were up. He decided to put them to the test: He sent them out into the world with one year to find a very special treasure. When the year was up, they returned.
All three had failed! Not one of them had found the treasure he had been sent out to find. BUT-each of them had found a treasure far more precious than any their father could have imagined!
Out of this story of the King of Serendip have come two words for the English language: serendipity, a gift for finding valuable things not sought for, and serendipitist, the person who does the finding.
Columbus, the greatest serendipitist of all time, became one at the age of 41. I became one at 25. The treasureColumbussought was the fulfillment of his dream of findingIndiaby sailing west. Mine was the fulfillment of a similar dream: of circling the globe before settling down in my nativeDenmarkfor the rest of my life.
Columbusfailed in his quest. He did not find the route toIndia. He found something far superior: a new world. I failed in mine-for the time being. But I, too, found something far better than what I sought. I found a different country to treasure and serve, a girl to love and cherish, a challenging career and a lifework in Scouting.
It took some doing. It took timing, special skills, willingness to take a chance and the ability to recognize treasure when I saw it, plus some extraordinary coincidences. As to timing: I was born at exactly the right time for Scouting, in 1900, the year when a British officer by the name of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell became the greatest military hero in the war the British Empire was fighting in South Africa.
I was 10 at the right time for becoming a Scout inDenmark: Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys had just been translated into Danish. I got it for a Christmas gift. It told me how to become a Scout. I became one in January 1911.
I was at the right age also and had reached the right advancement-the Danish equivalent of Eagle-when my troop picked me to represent it at the first World Jamboree inLondonin 1920. I celebrated my birthday that year by joining 5,000 other Scouts in proclaiming Baden-Powell Chief Scout of the World.
And my timing was right when, at 25, I set out to see the world, fit and prepared with the kind of know-how I would need to get along.
But let me get back to my beginnings.
I was born on August 6, 1900, inAarhus,Denmark, the third son of a prosperous building contractor. My childhood years were carefree ones. My teen-age years were rough. My father nearly went bankrupt in an economic depression of 1909. He kept the family afloat building stations for the expanding Danish railroad. We moved from place to place wherever his work took him. My Scouting became Lone Scouting: Troops were few and far apart in those early days of Danish Scouting. When we finally returned to my home town, my Scout life really took off. I became a patrol leader and senior patrol leader in Aarhus Troop 3 under an extraordinary Scoutmaster, Jorgen Boje.
By then I had to think of my future. My main hobbies as a boy had been chemistry and botany. They added up to pharmacy. For my early training, I became a "disciple" in the 400-year-old pharmacy of my home town. When my disciple years were over, I went toCopenhagento finish my studies at thePharmaceuticalCollege. I had hardly arrived before I was invited to become the Scoutmaster of Copenhagen's most famous troop, Vedel's Own. I accepted.
I had another childhood hobby to satisfy: writing. In whatever time I had left from studying and of the Danish Boy Scouts, got out a Scout handbook and wrote a boys' book based on the experience of my own patrol camping on a desert island in Denmark's largest lake. It wasn't a runaway best seller, but it had a respectable sale for a first novel by a 23-yearold.
Danish Scouting was astir in those days. The Danish team at the lst World jamboree inLondonhad won the world championship in Scouting. Because of that, the 2nd World Jamboree was coming toDenmark. I made up my mind that my wholeCopenhagentroop would take part in it. It did.
At the same time I made up my mind about my own future. I had become a full-fledged pharmacist in May 1924. One week after, I walked into the office of one of the largestCopenhagennewspapers and offered my services as its jamboree correspondent. "I know all about jamborees," I told the editor. I had been at the only one ever held. "And I can write." I had two books to show him. He took me on. And I left pharmacy forever.
My reporting must have been satisfactory. After the jamboree, the editor made me the managing editor of the paper's Sunday magazine. I could look forward to a good solid newspaper career.
But I had become a restless dreamer. The two world jamborees had stirred my blood. I had met people from around the world. I wanted to meet them on their home grounds. I arranged with my newspaper to be its roaming reporter on a trip around the world. I took off in September 1925, coveredLondonand southernEngland, then settled down for a month inLiverpoolto write another boys' book. It paid my boat fare forNew York, where I landed in February 1926. There I spent the spring writing articles about its teeming life.
From time to time I visited the national office of the Boy Scouts to pick up my mail fromDenmarkand to see a friend, Bill Wessel. He had been the Scoutmaster of the American troop that won the world championship in Scouting at the jamboree inDenmark. He arranged for me to spend the summer at the camp of the New York Boy Scouts.
It was here that I became an Indian "expert." Besides taking part in the camp's main activities, I spent much of my time in the sub camp run by Julian Salomon who later wrote the book Indian Crafts and Indian Lore. He was to have staged four Indian dances for the large pageant that was to close the camp season but was called home because of illness in the family. The pageant director was frantic. Julian calmed him. "Use the Danish Scout," he said, "he knows the dances." So I was put to work teaching half-a hundred Brooklyn Scouts four Indian dances. The pageant was a success.
The Danish Chief Scout had asked me to find out how the sales of Scout uniforms and equipment were handled in other countries-inDenmarkthey had been in private hands from the start. To learn, I took a job with the BSA Supply Service.
On a cold December day I was checking in a shipment of World War I surplus army signal flag poles in front of the warehouse when one of the heavy boxes tumbled over, knocked me down and broke my right leg. An ambulance rushed me to the hospital. The bones were set and a plaster cast applied. I was out on the street on crutches three days later. I wasn't particularly perturbed. "The Lord will provide," I figured. He did.
A week after my accident I hobbled into the national office on my crutches to pick up my mail. I was walking to the elevator when an astonishing coincidence changed my life completely. Someone else was on his way to the same elevator: James E. West, the dynamic Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. He knew of my accident. He stopped to greet me, then said, "Well, my young man, what do you think of American Scouting?" The elevator came. We went down together, chatting.
His words may have been just a casual remark. But I took them seriously. I wrote an 18-page report and sent it to him. It was complimentary in spots, critical in others. But for each criticism I offered a suggestion for remedying the situation.
Within a week, he had me in his office. "While I don't agree with everything in your report, I am interested in what you say about the Boy Scouts of America not using the patrol method effectively. You suggest that we should have a Handbook for Patrol Leaders. What should it contain?"
I told him what I had in mind.
"Would you be interested in writing it?" he asked.
"I should like to," I said, "but my English isn't that good."
"For any person in this world who has an idea," he told me, you can get a hundred to put it in final shape. So why not try?"
And that's how I became a member of the national staff of the BSA.
My English in those days was the English of a 13-14-year-old American school boy, exactly the age of the boy leader for whom the book was intended. My manuscript was hardly touched in editing. I received the first copy of my first book in English the day I arrived atArrowePark,Birkenhead,England, for the opening of the 3rd World jamboree, July 31, 1929.
That fall the bottom fell out of the American economy with the stock market crash of October 29. The United Statessank into the deepest depression in its history. All phases of American life were affected, including magazine publishing. James E. West was determined that Boys Life, the Boy Scout magazine, should survive. But money was needed. He applied for a Rockefeller Foundation loan. The foundation studied the magazines contents. It came to the conclusion that Boys Life was not sufficiently different from the other boys' magazines to warrant the loan. But it hinted that it might reconsider if more Scouting material were added.
I suddenly found myself an assistant editor of Boys' Life responsible for editing its Scouting sections and writing a monthly feature of MY own. What should it be? I decided on a page of hints for patrol leaders. To make it more exciting, it should be written by a mysterious person. By what name? The patrol leader's badge in those days was a square of cloth with two green bars embroidered on it. I took those bars, added my nickname and became Green Bar Bill in the October 1932 issue of Boys Life.
The following spring I made one of the most important decisions of my life. I had found the girl of my dreams, Grace Brown, the Chief Scout Executive's personal secretary. As a teenager, she had vowed never to marry a foreigner, never to marry a blond, not to get married in June. But when a blond foreigner said to her, "The boat leaves forEuropeon June 3, will you marry me?" She didn't say "No" and she didn't say "Yes'-she said, "Of course!" She knew that all Danes spend most of their lives riding bicycles. She decided that our honeymoon trip throughDenmark,Germany,Czechoslovakia,Austriaand intoHungaryfor the 4th World Jamboree should be by bike. We had an adventurous journey of exactly 100 days.
Back home again, we settled into aNew York Cityapartment-but not for long.
The Schiff Scout Reservation, a beautiful 480-acre estate in the rolling hills ofnew Jersey, had been dedicated in 1933 as a training center for the Boy Scouts of America. Green Bar Bill had a dream that he conveyed to the Chief Scout Executive: "If Green Bar Bill is to go on urging patrols to a vigorous life in the outdoors, he should live in the outdoors he is writing about. He should live on the Schiff Scout Reservation." West agreed. Green Bar Bill and his mate moved into their new home-a remodeled sheep barn in September 1934.
The twenty years that followed became the most productive of my whole life.
My first major assignment at Schiff was the writing of a new Handbook for Scoutmasters. I had been a Scoutmaster inDenmarkbut knew nothing about Scoutmastering American boys. To write the book, I had to know. I gathered the boys of the nearby Mendham village into a troop and took on the job of Scoutmaster. During the sixteen years of my Scoutmastership, Troop 1,Mendham,New Jersey, was the most photographed Scout troop in the world.
The earliest photographs were used to illustrate the Scoutmaster handbook. But when Life magazine came out in 1936 with a new kind of news reporting-photojournalism, combining photographs and captions-I figured that Scoutcraft could be learned the same way. I got the camera equipment I needed, a studio, a darkroom and a helper. With the Mendham Scouts as enthusiastic models, we turned out Boys Life photo features on hiking and camping, cooking and pioneering, swimming and Indian dancing, and many other subjects.
The hundreds, yes, thousands of pictures that were taken came in handy for my next brain storm: a handbook on Scouting illustrated entirely with photographs. It became our first Scout Field Book.
But, possibly, the most important thing to come out of the years we lived at Schiff was the relationship we established with the Chief Scout of the World and his wife, Lady Baden-Powell.
It began on a visit by the Baden-Powells to Schiff in 1935, when Lady B-P, by the coincidence of being with "the right people" at the right time came for breakfast with the Hillcourts and asked her husband to join us afterwards in our cottage. The relationship was greatly strengthened two years later during and after the 5th World Jamboree inHolland. The Baden-Powell's adopted Grace while I was in camp and had us for house guests at "Pax Hill," their home inEngland, afterwards. This close relationship specifically with Lady Baden-Powell after B-P's death in 1941had some important outcomes: She granted me permission to edit Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys into the World Brotherhood Edition that helped reestablish Scouting in devastated countries around the world after World War II. She helped me with the research for my biography about the founder of Scouting,BadenPowell-The Two Lives of a Hero, by turning over to me all her husband's letters, diaries and sketchbooks. She later presented all these valuable documents to the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1954, the national office of the Boy Scouts of America was moved fromNew York Cityto its own building inNorth Brunswick,New Jersey. In addition to my regular work, I was now assigned the most important task of my whole Scouting career the writing of a new Handbook for Boys to celebrate the forthcoming Golden Jubilee of the Boy Scouts of America. This would involve intensive work in the national office. And so, the Hillcourts left the Schiff Scout Reservation after twenty years and moved into a garden apartment within walking distance of the office.
The new handbook, for the first time with color illustrations and written by a single author, and with the new title of Boy Scout Handbook, was ready for the 50th anniversary festivities in February 1960. So was another book of celebration, The Golden Anniversary Book of Scouting, with text by Bill Hillcourt telling the 50-year history of Scouting inAmerica.
The day for my retirement from the national staff of the Boy Scouts of America arrived August 1, 1965. Grace and I, in 1971, celebrated it by taking off on the trip around the world I had failed to complete at 23. We made it coincide with yet another jamboree, the 13th, inJapan. It was Grace's sixth and last before she died in 1973. It was my ninth. I finally managed to attend 13 world jamborees out of 15 and all the national Jamborees.
Except for traveling, I had expected a fairly tranquil retirement. But something else was "in the works" that would change my plans again.
A new handbook for Boy Scouts was needed, one that would tell about the romance and excitement of Scouting. I came out of retirement and gave the Boy Scouts of America an offer they couldn't refuse: "I will give you a year of my life free, gratis, without pay, to write a new Boy Scout Handbook." My offer was accepted. I started the book October 25, 1977. I finished it October 25, 1978. It came out on schedule, February 8, 1979. Today, three million copies are in print.
After that Boy Scout Handbook came out, I traveled around the country and spoke to Scouters by the thousands at council dinners and conferences. I have met Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers by the tens of thousands at large council shows and camporees, at Diamond Jubilee celebrations and at the National Jamboree.
You may even be one of those Scouts. Did I sign your book? Were you one of the Scouts who asked me if he might shake my hand? Did you possibly press a troop badge or a council patch into my hand? Wherever we may have been together we must both have felt the same vibrant spirit all around us: a great pride in the past of our movement and faith in its future.


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Not surprising
Their profits would be slightly lower because they would have managed this element of risk better.
quote:So in order to protect the entire league he tries to throw one franchise under the bus. I know what I do if I'm Tom Benson. I do my best to get rid of the guy.
This is why Goodell hammered the Saints. It wasn't about punishment for their crime, it was about being able to defend his actions and the league in a massive lawsuit that is coming in 5-10 years.
why did the NFL lie about this in the first place? It is pretty obvious to anyone with a brain that playing football can cause brain damage, just like boxing, getting in head on collisions, etc. What was the NFL thinking?
It seems like there is an implied assumption of risk when playing a violent sport if it isn't explicitly defined in their contracts
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So, some interesting things happened since I last reported. TurboGears finally entered experimental, and has received a bit of good feedback from some users; I became sqlobject co-maintainer, and packaged a svn snapshot to experimental to make that happen, too. TG 0.9a8 has just been uploaded, btw. Feedback would be great! I would welcome people willing to help on deciding the best way and doing packaging of TG add-on widgets.
In other news, I've been doing some last feature aditions to libgksu and gksu. The former now ships a gksu-properties capplet that allows users to set up some of the behavior. The gconf options and this capplet surely need some love, but they'll get it in the future. After the "redesign" libgksu now holds almost all the code that does the gksu magic, and should be more secure in some ways.
The application, gksu, ships a nautilus extension, which adds a 'open as administrator' item in the context menu for files and directories in Nautilus. I'd love to receive feedback and buf reports on this new feature. Right now the nautilus extension uses the gksu application, instead of the library, since there seems to be problems with doing async calls of libgksu inside of another main loop, or something, and I could not get it to work.
The gksuexec application, which provided the 'Run as another user' menu item has been removed in these last versions. Will anyone miss it? I'm willing to have this functionality implemented in gksu itself, if needed, but I'm not sure it's that useful.


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Explosive device thrown at journalist's home in Peru
Unidentified assailants threw an explosive device at the house of a Peruvian journalist at 2 a.m. on December 10, 2013, according to news reports.
Unidentified assailants threw an explosive device at the house of a Peruvian journalist at 2 a.m. on December 10, 2013, according to news reports.
Two Peruvian journalists in the central Peruvian city of Ayacucho who had reported on alleged government corruption were convicted of criminal defamation, fined, and handed suspended jail sentences in two separate cases on October 21, 2013, according to news reports.
Peruvian journalist Humberto Espinoza Maguiña was convicted twice in two consecutive days in September 2013 on charges of defaming the governor of the northeastern state of Ancash, according to news reports. He received a two-year suspended prison sentence and was fined US$2,000 in damages.
Bogotá, July 9, 2013--Peruvian authorities should immediately investigate a bomb attack on the offices of Radio Tropicana in the town of Satipo on July 4, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. No one was hurt, but the station's offices were badly damaged, the station's manager told CPJ.
Peruvian journalist Jorge Alberto Moncada Mino was attacked by unidentified assailants in the city of Chiclayo in the northern department of Lambayeque on May 24, according to news reports. Moncada, who reports for the daily El Ciclón de Chiclayo and Radio Caliente, was entering a store near his home to buy bread when two men got out of a vehicle and beat him with the butt of a gun and a wrench. The journalist was hospitalized with several bone fractures and wounds to his abdomen and head.
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Dear OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Ahead of the assembly of the Organization of American States on Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to oppose any attempts to debilitate the regional human rights system. The failure of member states to preserve the autonomy and independence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its special rapporteur on freedom of expression would make citizens throughout the hemisphere more vulnerable to human rights violations and represent a blow to democracy in the Americas.
Bogota, Colombia, February 25, 2013--Authorities in Peru should immediately determine the motive behind the murder of a journalist on Saturday and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Anti-press violence dipped slightly, but impunity persisted in past attacks. The prosecutor in charge of investigating the 2011 slaying of TV journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva was murdered himself in April 2012, the same week he was to announce his findings. The following month, national police announced that Flores' murder had been ordered by a local mayor in reprisal for the journalist's reporting on government corruption, but the mayor was never formally charged in the case. Separately, the former mayor of the city of Coronel Portillo was acquitted in May in connection with the 2004 murder of radio journalist Alberto Rivera Fernandez. After condemnation by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Peruvian Supreme Court overturned its own decision to free Alberto Pinto, former head of the military's intelligence service, who had been serving a 15-year sentence for the 1990s-era murders of civilians, including journalist Pedro Yauri. Pinto went into hiding in the face of an arrest warrant. Several assaults were reported. One journalist was beaten unconscious after reporting on local corruption. Journalists who covered violent protests against a mining project were attacked by police and demonstrators. No journalists were imprisoned in 2012, but two were given suspended prison sentences on criminal defamation charges. A bill that eliminated jail terms for defamation has been stalled in Congress since mid-2011.
Bogota, Colombia, February 6, 2013--A provincial radio journalist in southern Peru who has reported on local government corruption was shot in the leg while riding his motorcycle to work today, according to local press reports and the regional press group Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS).
Do you believe the free flow of information must be protected? Sign the #RightToReport petition and demand that President Obama immediately:
1. Issue a presidential policy directive prohibiting the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organizations.
2. Limit aggressive prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers.
3. Prevent the harassment of journalists at the U.S. border.
Or click here to see the full petition, and join leading journalists like Christiane Amanpour, The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the AP Kathleen Carroll, and Arianna Huffington in signing on.


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Roy Riddiough
Roy Riddiough, 98, of Madison, formerly of Fennimore and Avoca, died Saturday, February 16, 2013 at Harmony Living Center in Madison. He was born December 16, 1914 in Fennimore the son of Frank and Anna (Fischer) Riddiough. On May 4, 1936 Roy married Geneva Degenhardt in Fennimore. Roy and Geneva farmed for 35 years mostly in the Avoca and Fennimore areas. In the 1960s Roy went to work for the University of Wisconsin doing janitorial work and later worked on roads for the State Highway Department, retiring in 1978. Roy enjoyed playing cards, gardening, drinking coffee, and wine.
Roy is survived by three children: Lee (Donna) Riddiough of Avoca, Paul Riddiough of Cross Plains, Eldonna Crary of Madison, Seven grandchildren: Dennis (Kandi) Riddiough of Seattle, Washington, Dale (Kathy) Riddiough of Avoca, Dianna (Brent) Cole of Avoca, Steven Riddiough of Cross Plains, Lori (Kevin) Baer of Fitchburg, Wade (Pam) Crary of New Glarus, Kristine (Craig) Lee of Edgerton, Twelve great-grandchildren, Four great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
Roy was preceded in death by his parents, wife Geneva, granddaughter Denise Riddiough, one brother, and one sister.
Private funeral services will be held. The Godager Pratt Funeral Home of Muscoda is assisting the family with their arrangements. Online condolences can be made at prattfuneralservice.com.


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It's been a long 4 months of waiting for both Chris Brown and Drake after they were both involved in a brawl at WIP night club in NYC this past summer.
The two have been waiting to see if charges would be pressed against them, but reports have surfaced revealing that they've been dropped.
PHOTOS: Chris Brown and Drake Fight Pictures: Before, During And After
According to TMZ, the police have decided not to press charges since there is a lack of evidence in the case.
Drake's lawyer told the site:
'Drake was never even a suspect so it's no surprise.'
Drizzy and Breezy were rumored to have gotten into a fight, over Chris' ex-girlfriend Rihanna, who has been linked to Drake in the past.
PHOTOS: BURY DA BEEF! Chris Brown and Drake Fight In New York
After a bottle was thrown at Chris, which hit his bodyguard and left a cut on his chin, a brawl ensued in the club and all mayhem took place.
Well these fellas sure are lucky! Hopefully they can stay out of trouble here on out.


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Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Maurice Ravel
Within a cavernous ballroom, La Valse presents a young woman at once horrified and fascinated by her own vanity, seduced by the figure of Death.
"We are dancing on the edge of a volcano," Maurice Ravel wrote in his notes to La Valse. His words are an apt description of both the music and Balanchine's neo-romantic choreography: couples waltzing in a cavernous ballroom where a woman in white is at once horrified and fascinated by the uninvited figure of death.
Intrigued by the disintegration of the waltz form, Ravel envisioned La Valse set in the Imperial Court of Vienna in 1855, and called the score "a choreographic poem … a sort of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz … the mad whirl of some fantastic and fateful carousel." Serge Diaghilev commissioned the score for his Ballets Russes, but rejected it for being "untheatrical." When Balanchine created La Valse in 1951, he found the score to be too short and preceded it with Ravel's Valse Nobles et Sentimentales, eight short waltzes, which establish the mood of the ballet — a mood of superficial gaiety mixed with an uncertain feeling of impending catastrophe.


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But I don't know if I would be smiling unless I took over my entire university and reformulated the curriculum and indoctrinated everyone else in my own standards - especially in my specialized disciplines.
I was really at a point where few people could teach ME anything, but I wanted to instruct everyone else, while I was constantly teaching myself even more. I swear I need to become dictator of my own little island or something.
BTW, I was a teaching assistant just once - for a political science course that I was asked to help out one of my favorite professors with. I hated grading papers - just hated it. And as much as I think I'd like some aspects of teaching - like getting to lecture a captive audience - I couldn't do it for a career. No way.


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Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) are down $1.23, or 4%, at $29.05, after two downgrades so far, from Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund, and from Goldman Sachs's Heather Bellini, following last night's reports by IDC and Gartner of PC sales numbers for Q1 that were the worst in years.
Sherlund, cutting his rating to Neutral from Buy, while holding onto a $32 price target, writes that that the sluggishness uptake of Windows 8 is partly to blame right now for holding back PC sales, but that "An upgrade cycle later this year to a new generation of Ultrabooks that offer longer battery life and lower prices could be a positive catalyst for the stock."
Bellini cut her rating to Sell from Neutral, while maintaining her $27 price target, writing that she's now looking for "Plan B" options that could help, but finds that "we do not find any clear option to act as a meaningful catalyst to drive our below consensus estimates higher over the near-term."
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Shares of other PC-related names are also lower this morning. Intel (INTC) shares are down 62 cents, or 3%, at $21.64, Dell (DELL) stock is off 7 cents, or half a percent, at $14.14, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) shares are down $1.31, or 6%, at $21.01, and Apple (AAPL) shares are off $3.53, 0.9%, at $432.16.
Needham & Co.'s Richard Kugele, who rates HP Underperform, and rates Dell a Hold, thinks that they're in very different positions. In a note to clients this morning he writes, "We believe that investors willing to give HP the benefit of the doubt on its restructuring progress should take a pause and let their 23.6% yoy decline in shipments sink in."
"At least Dell has long been straightforward about its intention to maintain a margin profile. But it is clear from this data that HP's quarterly unit victories over Lenovo may be pyrrhic ones. We reiterate our Under Perform on HP and our Hold on Dell."
The weakness has spooked some semiconductor observers, as well, with Barclays's Blayne Curtis cutting his view on the group from "Positive" to Neutral, and specifically cutting Broadcom (BRCM) to Underweight from Overweight, and cutting his price target to $28 from $40.
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|Art of Casting Analysis, refinement of the cast
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video self-analysis
Recently I have been setting up the camcorder in the yard and throwing casts to track what my arms and body are doing, and to see the reaction in the line. I know many of you do this already, but I just started in earnest.
WOW - what an amazing source of feedback! This could take years off a persons learning curve provided they were given enough tutelage to know what to look for. If a person knows what to look for then they could compare what they did on bad casts verses good casts and pick out some real useful experiments for the next day, and so on.
Adding "indexes":
I used to play guitar into a tape recorder and listen to the playback. At first I just flipped it on and jammed into a never ending solo. Listening to it didn't accomplish much. So I started talking to myself on these tapes. Silly but it really helped.
Likewise, at first I just flipped it on and cast but that led to an unstructured never-ending monotony. It was hard to connect what I was doing at the time with the footage, there was no structure. Same problem with the ol' guitar and the never ending solo.
So I started to put reference points in the tape. Either a little voice blurb, or an action if far off. The camcorder I have comes with a remote mike and I used to think "yeah right, like I'll ever use mr.microphone". Recently I've dug it out of the box and am going to use it to add voice indexes like "working extended stroke, left hand up for distance".
Afterall, it will have an audience size of one - myself! Who cares if I look and sound like an ass.
Video analysis of casting has been a huge help for me, thanks to Dana and others who inspired me to give it a try!
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quote:How much advantage is it if you know where not to look when you are mining? The founders could eliminate large search areas for themselves such that where anyone else might have a 1 in 50 trillion chance of an operation finding a bitcoin they have a 1 in 5 trillion chance. That is a sigificant advantage, and there is nothing that could have been done to protect against this.
Regarding the mining operations, IF (and I'm not saying they are, I'm just wondering if it is possible) one one the founders were inclined to game the system, couldn't they sporadically award their personal wallets with successful mined bitcoins and have it go unnoticed?
i dont think the consumer confidence is there yet
It sure is fun to watch it grow, though.
but does that give you access to the current number of users? I assume that you could potentially see the number of wallets, but I think you also mentioned that users can spoof or create multiple wallets so I guess that would be inexact.
Regarding the mining operations, IF (and I'm not saying they are, I'm just wondering if it is possible) one one the founders were inclined to game the system, couldn't they sporadically award their personal wallets with successful mined bitcoins and have it go unnoticed? Ending up with 5% of awarded bitcoins would net them around $40M at the current value.
but blockchain.info is down right now for a server upgrade.
It really is. Download and install Truecrypt. Then create an encrypted volume on a thumb drive or external hard drive Quick Tutorial. Now you have encrypted offline storage for private data.
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I don't know why any American would care unless you want to store stuff you want to hide from the government. If you live in a country with a shaky financial system I think your point is valid. Similar comments apply to some of your other points I'm omitting here.
No, it's generally one business day. Maybe some people care about that, I don't.
I've never had this problem but can see where some might care.
I get cash back by using my credit card, fwiw.
Right now I don't see the appeal
Encryption is easy
take the hour or two it takes to learn how to use encryption
That's why I can't take all these security arguments in these threads too seriously.
What do you predict will happen when all the coins are mined. ie "the gold rush is over"
Why doesn't a supercomputer, say Watson, not just go snatch them all up? Why is it only (or seem to be) computer nerds trying to justify their bad arse rig they have?
What are some of your favs? Looking to pick up a nice watch and I don't want to do Rolex, seems to cliche to me
quote:So 10,000,000 bitcoins yet to be mined X $44/bitcoin = $440,000,000 is not worth it?
I imagine IBM probably don't think it's worth it
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The So Percussion ensemble -- Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting and Lawson White -- has performed nationwide and recently earned the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming award. The group will perform the works of Professor Paul Lansky and graduate students Gregory Spears, John Supko, Alan Tormey, Stefan Weisman and Miriama Young.
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|I'm still waitikng on a few stragglers, but it's amazing hw similar the flies turned out to be (with a few exceptions). I hadn't really thought about posting them, but I think the swap will be a worthwhile enlightenment for those who contributed. I know it will help me have more confidence in the patterns I'll be pitching this summer.
Josko, How did the swap go?
I am not worthy to enter this year because by the time I got a fly into a school of BBFT they had spooked out for the day. I am very interested in what worked last year and any good tuna tales. Will you be posting pics of the swap flies? Recipies if anyone included them? I am most interested in what hooks stuck and held fish. I've tied on the Trey Comb's 4/0 but it's a bit large for P-nuts. Anyone hook and hold on the Varivas 900S? They have a nice wide gap for thier size with a nice return on the point.
|Josko, what is your deadline again, can you e-mail me your address and how many flies again?. I am in..but just need to gauge the timing so I can be certain to get them to you in time for you to do your thing.
|I thought I'd bump this up. Flies are starting to come in. Please let me know if you'd like to participate. It looks like this will be a great collection of flies which worked on tuna last year.
This started as a way for local tuna flyfishers to share info on fly patterns, but I see no reason it shouldn't encompass other PROVEN patterns. I'm in with 2 or three patterns: one that worked for me in Mass. bay this fall, one that worked south of MV in July, and possibly one that worked for me off Hawaii.
If you know for a fact that someone has caught a tuna on a particular fly, feel free to offer it up to the swap.
Hooking a tuna on a fly certainly counts just as much as landing it.
|I take it it has to be one that the tyer caught or is a fly thst has caught Tuna...by that I mean I have not caught a tuna on a fly yet..only conventional gear, but I know of flies that have caught tuna,plus people like Combs, etc. have proven flies for this..like the Sea habit's, etc...I would love to participate..just need a clarification. I can always stop in to visit Bob Pink in Brookline when I visit my mother who lives a couple blocks from him and get some of his patterns and ask him if I can tye one of his proven patterns.
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Just thought I'd mention we're running a tuna fly swap this winter. Only one rule: the fly you submit must have caught a tuna (any offshore species). I've been running the thread on FFSW, and we're up to 8 people. If interested, tie and send in a dozen (or couple dozen) flies. I'll make sure you get at least as many flies back, selected across all contributions.
It's an honor system, but remember, the fly you send in must have caught a (bluefin, longfin, yellowfin, blackfin, or other) offshore tuna.
Let me know, here or elsewhere, if you'd like to participate.
My mailing address is:
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Tackling climate change is a monumental challenge. Power-company CEOs discuss long-range plans for a climate-friendly energy economy.
Michael Burr is editor at large at Public Utilities Fortnightly .
Tackling climate change is a monumental challenge. Power-company CEOs discuss long-range plans for a climate-friendly energy economy.
When the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) both announced new climate-change policy principles in early 2007, they signaled the U.S. power industry was going through a dramatic climate shift of its own.
Rather than emphasizing voluntary efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), as past policies did, the new climate policies focus on regulatory actions that encourage technology R&D and reward companies for investing in those new technologies.
These new policies demonstrate that U.S. power companies expect carbon constraints to become mandatory in the foreseeable future, probably before the end of the decade. And rather than fighting a losing battle against a rising policy current, they are trying to direct that current in ways their stakeholders can accept—and even support.
This change in thinking also confirms what analysts and consultants have been saying—that carbon constraints can represent a major business opportunity for the electric-power industry, as efficiency and conservation become core value propositions for companies that traditionally have been rewarded for building capacity and selling volume.
"If we get the right regulatory treatment, energy efficiency is the lowest-risk strategy we could follow," says Michael Chesser, chairman and CEO of Great Plains Energy, parent company for Kansas City Power & Light (KCPL). "As it gets put into rate base, it will provide a steady stream of earnings and will improve our image and our relationship with the customer."
However, not all companies agree on the "right treatment." Integrated utilities that rely heavily on coal will face different challenges from those of retail transmission and distribution (T&D) companies. Independent generators will face different risks from those of IOUs and public-power utilities.
Nevertheless, despite a diverse set of ownership structures and business interests, the electric power industry will be expected to achieve at least one-third of America's required GHG reductions in the coming decades.
"To me this is the definitive business issue of our generation—and in fact a series of generations," says David Crane, CEO of power generator NRG Energy in Princeton, N.J. "Nothing like this has come along since the paradigm shift in workplace safety at the beginning of the 1900s. The importance of GHG regulation should not be underestimated."
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