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DEERFIELD/WINDSOR-Mary J. (Larson) Olson, age 50, of Windsor and Deerfield, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. She was born on June 9, 1962, in Madison, the daughter of Donald and Darlene Larson. Mary married Mark Olson on June 22, 1985, in Deerfield. She graduated from MATC in 1982, with a degree in accounting. Mary worked at the Deerfield Greenhouse for many years. She was an avid gardener which was evident in her beautiful flower gardens and her large vegetable garden. Mary was a very kind and caring person who provided volunteer service for numerous organizations including the Windsor Elementary School, Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts troops. She was often referred to as the "professional volunteer". She was very active in her children's lives chaperoning many field trips and attending their many school events. She was an advocate for children of all ages allowing her to form some very special bonds with many children. She was a former member of St. Olaf's Catholic Church in Deforest where she taught religious education. Those who knew Mary thought of her as a very strong and independent woman always willing to help out whenever needed.
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Hello, I started fly flishing twards the end of last year. The flies that bait shop in my area sells are $1.75 each. And they come untied after a few uses... So I thinking about buying a tying kit. I was wondering if fly-tying is hard, and if it is worth it in the long run. I have 0 experience with tying flies right now.
I'll let the real pros reply, but for me, tying is a blast.
Kits are OK, but you might prefer to chat up someone in a good local shop. Buy a decent vice and the stuff for particular flies you want to tie and want to fish.
Note: Tying is as addictive as FF'ing itself. Hope your wife or girlfriend knows there will be features, animal parts, bobbins etc all over the work area.
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In my personal oppinion stay away from the kits. Start simple, buying the materials you need for a particular fly. You'll always have stuff left over and soon you'll have big enough of a collection of leftovers you'll surpassed the kit and have better quality material as well.
For now, try adding a little extra cement to the heads of the fly's. That seems to be the most common failure point. It's available at most shops and can be applied with a toothpick.
Search this forum, there was a great thread a while back that addressed the kit issue a while back.
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I just started tying a couple of months ago. My father-in-law gave me a kit for my birthday way back in May, but I didn't get around to tying anything until a long while later. I honestly had never had any interest in it despite having fly fished for 17 years now. But once I started, I got hooked. For me, I think the kit was a good idea. It's given me a bunch of random materials to play around with, plus the basic tools, and a vise. Sure, the vise isn't the greatest, but while I'm learning it does just fine. I think the kit was $40-50 so at that price I think they're worth it as a learning aid. Once you figure out if you like tying flies or not, go get yourself a better vise and more materials.
My passion for catching fish is eclipsed only by the fish's passion not to be caught.
To Kit or not to Kit ?
A $50. kit is a good way to go if you just want to try out what may become an obsession. It will allow you to tie a few patterns with various materials and hook sizes. An great learning tool with your kit is to visit a local shop, if convenient, and take a course about basic fly tying and if available join a local fly tiers club, most members will share their materials as well as their knowledge and skills. This will significantly increase your learning curve.
Bare in mind that most fly tiers will agree that once you get started, you will not necessarily save money... Consider that hooks, threads, bobbins, cement, feathers and fur, etc. will very quickly add up to hundreds of dollars.
So if you are looking at using 20-30 flies a year, that would cost about around $55. which is a lot cheaper way to go.
If you are looking for another hobby, a most rewarding one, with the advantages that have been noted by others who will/have posted a reply, then join the rest of us who have become fly tiers.
Pete AKA Frenchcreek from Calgary
Glad you are thinking about getting into tying your own. I've been tying for 43 years, since age 9, and have tied professionally for 20 years.
I am sorry to hear you have found out the hard way about flies from non-fly shops, or even the cheap flies (those under $1.50-$1.75) some fly shops carry.
To answer your question, first do yourself a favor and avoid fly tying kits. The primary reasons for not buying a kit are: 1) the vise, scissors, bobbin included in them are almost always poorly made, very inferior ones imported from third world countries; 2) the thread included is almost always too thick for good tying; 3) the hooks included are rarely of the sizes and types you need for the flies you wish to tie (not to mention they are also almost always of very poor quality); and 4) almost all of the materials included in most tying kits is horrible and not worth the room it takes up.
The best to get into tying is first buy the best quality vise you can afford. There are good vises on the market from Thompson and Griffin that don't cost an arm-and-a-leg, they sell for $35.00-$70.00. These are good quality vises that will last a long time; but most importantly, they have jaws that work well to hold hooks without slipping (unlike the cheap imports).
Secondly, get a good pair of tying scissors. There are good ones on the market starting at about $8.00 for the Griffin All-Purpose model up to the Anvils and other high-end ones at $20.00 to $35.00.
Third, get a good bobbin. These are actually rather inexpensive. The S&M (one of my favorites and one that A.K. Best uses and recommends as well) runs around $6.00-$7.50. There are also very good bobbins from Griffin, Thompson Vise Co. Renzetti, Tiempco, etc. on the market and they sell for between $7.50-$20.00.
Fourth, buy a bodkin, which is nothing more than a needle stuck into a wood, plastic, or metal handle. These are cheap, but you will need one.
Fifth, get a good Materrelli Whip Finish tool. They sell for about $15.00 but are well worth the cost since they are easy to use and last a long, long time. I still have one is use that has been used to tie over 1,000,000 flies.
After you decide on the above tools (which you should be able to get the complete set of for between $60.00-$100.00 depending on the price of the vise you choose), buy hooks in the sizes and styles of the flies you are going to tie. I'd recommend starting with simple wet flies like the hare's ear nymph, brown hackle, grey hackle, woolley bugger, etc. In other words, start with wingless flies, including dry flies after you tie 4 or 5 dozen of the wingless wets. Then as you gain some experience tying, add winged wet flies and then move on to winged dry flies and streamers.
Buy only the materials you need to tie 2-5 different flies! I can't emphasize this enough. If you get good materials and stick to only the materials needed to tie 2-5 different flies, it will not cost a lot and you will have materials enough to tie dozens and dozens of the flies. Plus, these will be flies that you will use and that are fish catchers. Also, pick up 2 0r 3 spools of 6/0 or 8/0 thread in black, other colors if it suits your fancy;, but all you really need is black to start out with. This may sound like fine thread, but myself and most other professional tyers and those who are experienced amateur tyers use 6/0 or 8/0 on everything from #24 midges to #3/0 salmon/steelhead flies. As you find yourself wanting to tie flies that require a material you don't have, simply buy the new material keeping in mind that one material is used on many different flies.
For wet fly hackle, brown, grizzly, black, and ginger genetic hen necks or Whiting American Hackle necks in bronze grade are excellent and will tie hundreds of flies (about 700) from each neck. The best part, theWhitng American Hackle sells for $20.00, and the hen necks are around $12.00-$15.00. For woolly buggers, the best hackle is cheap, strung chinese rooster saddle, which sells for about $3.00 a package.
For dry fly hackle, use Whiting 100's and buy the size your are going to tie. One package of Whiting 100's will tie a minimum of 100 flies of the size listed on the package. And these are not expensive either. The only colors you need are brown, grizzly, black, and ginger. To even further simplify it, brown and grizzly will cover 75%-80% of all your dry fly hackle needs.
Avoid at all costs those cheap, next to worthless Indian hackle capes. Yes, they sound like a bargain because they are under $10.00; however, they will only tie about 50-70 flies, the hackle stems are so short it makes tying trout sized flies a real pain, and they really are false economy. Also, don't buy Chinese hackle capes because although they are fine for large wet flies, they are worthless for dry flies and trout sized wets.
Hope this helps you and any others who are thinking a getting into fly tying avoid the common mistakes I've seen people make over that last 43 years.
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Costa Rica. We had really only seen one part of it, and it was unfair
to say that it sucked. Yesterday, we walked down the beach for about 20
minutes and then took a dollar boat across to Playa Grande. It was a
whole new world over there! Unpaved roads, untouched beaches, and lots
of peace and quiet. Wayyy more our style. We made our way to the Playa
Grande Surf Camp, where Teddy's friends Chelsea and Casey work. They
came down to Costa Rica for spring break two years ago, loved it, and
started applying for random jobs
managers/surf instructors at this hostel in Playa Grande. They had
never surfed before, but I guess you learn pretty quickly if you surf
everyday. We got there and checked into our little beach bungalow
(complete with mosquito nets - sweet!). Then, Chelsea asked us if we
were ready for our surf lesson. Seeing as I am probably the least
unathletic person ever, in addition to being a terrible swimmer, I have
never tried surfing before. But here was a free lesson, so I really had
no excuse. We grabbed surfboards (omg those things are ridiculously
huge, they make skis look easy in comparison!) and lugged them to the
beach. She told us the cool way to carry them was under your arm, but
when I almost fell over slash took out the fence like three times, she
told me �Well, you can just carry it on your head.� Awesome, I can't
even carry the darn thing
all the silly tourists who come to Breck and can't even manage to carry
their equipment. It's like, how do you think you're gonna get down the
hill when you can't even carry your stuff? I understand thy pain,
gaper. I must say though, we did look pretty sweet carrying our boards
and wearing our little �rashies� (this sweet neoprene shirt you get to
wear that makes you look like you're good even when you suck). But, I
was pretty terrified when we got to the beach.
First, we practiced hopping up on the sand as if we were in the
water. All we could think about was that hilar scene in Forgetting
Sarah Marshall - if you don't know what I'm talking about, please stop
reading and go rent that movie. Now. Then it was time to tie on our
leashes and take our boards out into the water
done. What follows is my best attempt at explaining the ridiculous
process of surfing. You have to get your board out far enough in the
water so that you can actually catch a wave and ride it into shore. If
you are too close to shore, by the time you stand up, the wave dies and
you will immediately fall on your face. (If you think I sound like I am
talking from experience, you are right.) The process of getting it out
far enough was definitely our least favorite part of the whole
experience. Especially for me, since I don't like putting my head
underwater. (Yeah, don't ask me why I thought surfing would be a good
idea.) You basically have to push your board and your head under the
wave as it comes crashing down on you so it doesn't pull you backwards
and take you back 10 feet closer to shore, reversing all the progress
you just made (again, I may or may not be speaking from experience)
All the while, you are attempting to pull your surfboard along behind
you like a disobedient puppy as the waves try to take it away from you.
Even better, in my case, the shark fin thingy on the bottom kept biting
me (and I have the bruises and cuts to prove it). Then, finally, after
you've swallowed fifteen gallons of saltwater, lost your hairthing due
to be tossed about in the waves like a ragdoll (and thus look like a
moron with hair plastered all down your face like surfing Barbie), been
hit in the leg about a thousand times by your stupid oversized
surfboard, and are so out of breath from swimming you feel like you've
just crossed the English Channel, oh then, it's time to surf. What the
hell have I been doing for the past fifteen minutes?! Now, you wait.
You have to sit there, getting tossed about by the waves, waiting for
the �right� wave. You've gotta be kidding me, right? And the right
wave, at least according to our instructors, is the one that looks like
a frickin tsunami, going a million miles an hour and frothing with
whitewater. Then you turn around, with your belly on the board, facing
the beach. And start paddling.. away from the wave. Whoever made up
surfing was on a lot of drugs. Then, when you hear the waves crashing
behind you like they are going to consume you whole, you paddle faster,
and then when the wave starts whooshing down on you and pushing you at
the speed of light towards LAND, you are supposed to assume a push up
position, and �jump up, replacing your hands with your front foot� and
then lean forward and ride the wave out. Haha. Yeah, lotssss of drugs
for Mr. Surfing Inventor.
I'm kidding, though. Mostly. Yes, the idea of surfing is
ridiculous, and it is very hard, but we had an absolute blast. Teddy
could stand up pretty much immediately (Mr. Athletic) and was loving
every second of it. It took me a little bit longer, but eventually I
stood up on the board as well. And let me tell you, it is a pretty
amazing feeling. Maybe because you just spent an hour getting to the
wave, but nonetheless it was really awesome. Chelsea was a great
teacher, and Casey stood on the beach and took a bunch of sick photos
for us. After about an hour and a half out there, we were beat. Surfing
is an insane workout. We went back to our cabana, laid by the pool,
then went and ate a massive lunch. The rest of the day was lazy (we
deserved it!), and was filled with Bocce ball and reading. That night,
it was turtle time! Or so we thought. We walked about half an hour down
the beach as the sun was setting to Main Playa Grande. It was really
gorgeous, and we saw all sorts of snail and crab tracks, and even
living sand dollars! We had to make it before 6 pm, as the beach is a
national park for the nesting turtles and closes after that. We got a
quick dinner and then went to register at the turtle place. We listened
to a lecture about the turtles, which was really sad. Back in the 80s,
they had thousands of turtles nesting here each year, and last year
they had under 30. Leatherback turtles are so cool, though! They come
back 20 years later to lay their eggs in the same place they were born
and lay something like 40 eggs 9 separate times during the season. And
they are huge - between 4 and 5 feet! We watched a video of the nesting
process, as well as a video of a baby turtle making its way to the
water. I almost died. Then it was time to wait. They herd you into this
room and you sit and wait for one of the park rangers to spot a turtle,
at which time they call the center, and we all get to go and watch the
turtle lay her eggs. The ranger warned us that the past 3 nights, they
hadn't seen any turtles, and the people had waited until 12:30 am and
not seen anything. It was, uh, 7 pm. We entertained ourselves for about
2 hours, and then Teddy got bored. To be fair, we brought the average
age of the turtle observing population down by about 40 years. We felt
like we were on an AARP excursion or something. Guess I am the only
backpacker who likes BABY ANIMALS. Seeing as I didn't think the chances
of seeing a turtle were high and I could see that Teddy was miserable,
and the fact that if we waited much longer, we would have missed our
ride and had like an hour walk home, we left. I know, very sad. I will
just have to come back someday. We then went back to the camp and hung
out with Chelsea and Casey for a bit before going to bed.
Today we woke up early, made some breakfast, and then went back
out surfing. I had thought Chelsea had told me that the best time to
surf for us was between 6 and 8 or 10 and 12, but Teddy said they were
going out at 9, so we did too. Big mistake. It was high tide, and the
waves were massive. I thought I was going to die, and after being
thrashed about for 20 minutes, I went and laid out on the beach. Teddy
chose to stay out and got totes destroyed on a few killer waves, but
the ones he got up on he said were amazing. And he looked really good!
At about 10:30, I figured the tide was down far enough that I could go
out, so I did. And I had a blast. Very frustrating, but very rewarding.
One of the major differences between snowboarding and surfing (ok,
besides the clothes, the weather and the liquid vs. frozen water
factor), is that when you are snowboarding and you have a terrible run,
you have the whole chair ride up to relax, compose yourself, and think
about what you can do better. When you eat shit on wave, you then have
to get up and battle through a thousand pounding waves before you get
back out to the spot, only to be beaten down by several more waves
before you have found a wave that is ready to ride. My only big
complaint. Besides that, the weather's way better and a bikini tan is
far superior to a goggle tan. We had a great time and then headed back
to the camp to pack up. Sadly, we had to come back to Tamarindo today
to catch an early bus to San Jose tomorrow. We are staying at our old
hostel where everybody knows us and where we just let ourselves in with
our old key. Pretty great. In the early afternoon, Teddy went on a
booze cruise with Chelsea and Casey (see attached photo) around the
bay, and I laid out on the beach for a while. All in all, a great end
to a great trip. Tomorrow is one last travel day before I head home on
Friday. We are going to do one more blog entry reviewing the whole trip
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Lyman is survived by his sisters, Marijo (Tim) Sandlin, Oregon, Laurel (Jerry) Sazama, Chippewa Falls, Dianne, Madison, Maureen, Belleville, and brother Daniel, of Fond du Lac. He is also survived by nieces and nephews, other family members, friends and his beloved cat, Elvis.
Lyman loved reading, going to flea markets, vintage cars, and restoring vintage bicycles. He also enjoyed repairing antique clocks.
A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 10, 2013, at GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC PARISH AT ST. JOSEPH PARISH SITE, 1905 W Beltline Hwy, Madison, with Msgr. Tom Baxter presiding. A visitation will precede the Mass at 9:00 a.m.
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It was one of the biggest news announcements of the year, but ever since Google picked Kansas City over thousands of other communities to build "an ultra-high speed fiber-optic internet network" there's been very little more said about the deal.
The newly selected point person for Google in Kansas City declined to appear on The Local Show saying there simply wasn't enough progress to report on yet. The co-chairs appointed by the Mayors of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri also said they didn't have anything substantive to share.
Just recently the Kansas City Star reported that the timeline for connecting the first neighborhoods has been delayed until next summer.
Interestingly, many of the articles about Google are quoting representatives of the social media club of Kansas City to help unpack what this all means. The 2,000 member tech-savvy group has been hosting forums to rev up community interest in the Google project and its potential for Kansas City.
Lisa Qualls and Aaron Deacon from Social Media Club KC discuss some potential uses for the new Google internet service.


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A federal initiative is adopted by the state of Wisconsin
ONALASKA, Wis. -- Reading is a fundamental skill when it comes to learning. That's why the state of Wisconsin has adopted a federal initiative called Response to Intervention, or RtI, as a way to respond to the needs of every child in our state in subjects like reading.
All three elementary schools in the Onalaska School District began implementing RtI a few years ago. But this month, Northern Hills Elementary has been chosen as one of six schools to lead the state on how to successfully use the RtI program.
"It's a sense of accomplishment," said Curt Rees, Northern Hills Elementary School principal. "All of our teachers across the district, and certainly in our school; we work hard to provide a great education for our students and just a great resource for families."
"Northern Hills has been doing this work," said Heidi Thuli, academic coordinator for the Wisconsin RtI Center. "We're just here to help support them and to be able to show it off to the rest of the state."
Thuli's team of professionals met with the school's principal and a few staff members to discuss the goals of this program.4810106
"In the federal language, RtI was initiated as part of special education language to say we, as a nation, need to reconsider the way we're determining if a student has a disability, specifically a learning disability," said Thuli.
But in the state of Wisconsin the program is much more than that.
"It's truly about having a responsive system for all kids," said Thuli. "Kids below benchmark, at benchmark or above benchmark."
So, as a parent you might be asking yourself what's changed and how does this affect my child's education?
"In past practice, we might have had multiple systems happening in one building, or we had individuals making decisions for their kids based on their classroom or their own best judgment," said Thuli. "Now, we have a system that says we're going to have one system that works for all of our kids."
And according to Northern Hills Principal Curt Rees, this should be a reassuring message to parents.
"We have a better understanding of what kids know," said Rees. "The science of assessment has changed. So, we can quickly understand what a kid knows, where they need help, and just put those practices in place right away."
"This is a way to say, collectively, we're going to look at this data, both quantitative and qualitative, to make decisions for kids in a much more systematic way," said Thuli. "So, all kids experience the learning in a similar fashion. And that we respond in a similar way when a student is struggling or a student's above benchmark.
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Big things are afoot in the world of Wine. Never before have we had so many dedicated developers working with their heart and soul to get us to the coveted Wine 1.0 Stable Release. The rate of progress is staggering, if not outright neckbreaking - a lesser person than Alexandre would pretty much have his hands full just commiting other people's patches every day, and still he does a lot of infrastructure work on his own.
Jeremy White and his CodeWeavers team is planning to show off Wine at Comdex, and since he thought the WineHQ website looked too dull to show off, he's allocated Jeremy Newman to effectively revamp the WineHQ website ASAP. Well, it might need it anyway, and Newman's new design doesn't look too bad.
Well, I did predict in WWN #64 that we were close to a major milestone, and indeed, only a couple of weeks later we (or mostly Ian Schmidt) had Slashdot coverage for being able to run MS Office 2000. Poor Ian's website didn't survive the onslaught of screenshot viewers... but it shows that Wine 1.0 is closer than ever.
In personal news, I'm going back to TransGaming Technologies's payroll, so that I can convince my bank to loan me enough money to buy myself a home in the Oslo area. I can't live on the street (my computer could get stolen, shiver), and if I'm going to get a university degree while I'm still relatively young, then I can't just move back to Karasjok either... so it's time to become a slave of capitalism, wages, and debts. And NDAs issued by companies like TransGaming...


text: So did anybody get any Transformers this year? I managed to get two figures: Universe Nemesis Prime and Alternator Hound. I like N. Prime, his beast mode is cool and he doesnt look bad in bot mode either. Im glad he wasnt sold as Optimus Prime, my Predacon ranks were in great need of another heavyweight so Nemesis fits in nicely. Hound was a figure i had to resist getting because i pretty much knew someone would get him for me as a gift. I really like his vehicle mode a lot, bots not too shabby either. I may have to bend and get a Decepticon, my Autobots look really lonely without anybody to stomp on.


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Rickerson allegedly struck his girlfriend and choked her; then, when she screamed, he threw her down on a bed and put a pillow over her face. He also blocked the door when she tried to escape, and grabbed her phone when she tried to call police. Cops eventually arrived at the scene and hit Rickerson with charges of felony domestic battery by strangulation.
These stories of chick-battering by football players just get worse and worse, and, dare we say it, it might be time to start asking if both the NCAA and leagues like the NFL are complicit in the problem.
Granted, Gators coach (and good Bill Belichick buddy) Urban Meyer did the right thing this past week by removing Rickerson from the squad. The normally squeaky clean Meyer immediately bounced Rickerson, saying, "That is not what our team is about."
The question is, how long it will take for some other college to pick up a guy who had been a good player for an SEC powerhouse. The one constant in college domestic-violence cases is the second chance — if the guy can play well enough. If and when he reaches the NFL, the same guy could then get a third and fourth and fifth chance.
Watch any NFL game this week and see if you can count the number of players on both teams who've skated on a domestic-violence incident at least once. Larry Johnson of the Chiefs is actually going to be back in uniform this week after his fourth domestic-violence incident. A one-game suspension for your fourth domestic-violence case? After you got caught going all Pacman on your ex, spitting in her face in a bar?
The curious thing is that Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter recently chose to make an issue of the league's inconsistent discipline policy by wondering aloud why first-time drug offender Matt Jones is still playing after catching a coke charge. But Porter's comments were actually off-base. If anything, the NFL and the NCAA go after drug abusers harder than they do batterers. Multiple offenders on the domestic-violence score — guys like Michael Pittman — can stay in the league for years. And too many teams draft guys with domestic-violence histories and then give them second chances once they misbehave in the NFL; the Bills' Marshawn Lynch, last seen getting stifled by the Patriots defense this past Sunday in Foxboro, is a great example.
Anyway, we'll keep an eye out to see if Rickerson resurfaces. Until then, 70 points for this vile business.
Long John dumped?Following up on this past week's John Daly story: as most of you know, the golfer was found passed out at a Hooters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on October 26. He wasn't arrested, but instead was taken to a local police station to sleep it off.
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Soon after birth, each Borg is fitted with bionic enhancers
which fuses their future life to serving the goals of their race
as a whole, thus eliminating any individuality. A typical
conversation with a Borg would go like this "We are the Borg.
Lower your shields and surrender your vessel. We will add your
biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Resistance is futile!"
Their first contact with humans occurred on episode No.142 "Q
Who" when an alien named "Q" (John DeLancie) transported the
Federation starship USS Enterprise-D across the galaxy to the
domain of the Borg to impress upon the earthlings their
vulnerability and insignificance in the universe.
The Borg traveled in huge cube-shaped vessels that dwarfed other
star craft. One such ship attacked the center of Federation in
episodes No.174/175 "The Best of Both Worlds" while attempting
to absorb and control their civilization.
Borg Queen
During this encounter Captain Jean Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)
of the Starship Enterprise-D was abducted by the Borg, named
Locutus ("I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life
as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service
us.") and fitted with bionic parts which controlled his will and
extracted all Picard's tactical and military knowledge. With
this information the Borg engaged the Fleet of warships sent to
protect Earth from this alien menace.
The space battle at WOLF 359 ended with most of the Federation
defense craft damaged or inoperative, leaving the Borg free to
attack Earth.
The Borg were ultimately defeated when a command to "Sleep" was
discretely transmitted to the crew of the Borg vessel. Just as
Captain Picard was rescued from the Borg starship, it
self-destructed. The Borg later appeared on episode No.123 "I,
Borg" and the finale of sixth season on episode No.152/153 "The
Descent Part I & II."
The Borg resurfaced on the motion picture First Contact (1996)
with a plan (that ultimately failed) to travel back in time and
conquer the Earth while in a primitive stage of space travel
In 1997, STAR TREK VOYAGER/UPN/1995-2001 introduced a Borg crew
member known as Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), a human abducted and
assimilated by the Borg as a child. Her human name was Anika
Hanson. After removing most of her Borg implants, she began her
gradual readjustment into the human culture.
On the February 17, 1999 two-hour VOYAGER episode "Dark
Frontier" the inside machinations of the Borg civilization were
revealed as the nefarious Borg Queen (played by Susanna
Thompson) tried to re-assimilate Seven of Nine back into the
hive-like collective.
The Borg's nemesis were Species 8472, an alien race that kicked
the Borg's cybernetic ass when the Borg attempted to conquer
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Reasonable concerns expressed by a bipartisan group of Mississippi legislators about costs to the state treasury of special-interest tax cuts and exemptions enacted without adequate fiscal estimates require corrective action in legislative rules during the next session.
Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, introduced a resolution late in the 2013 session to make it more difficult to pass special-interest tax exemptions without information about how much the breaks would cost the state.
He has been joined by Senate Appropriations Chair Buck Clarke, R-Hollandale, Vice Chair Terry Burton, R-Newton, and Hob Bryan, D-Amory, former chair of the Finance Committee.
All four say the Legislature needs to know the potential impact of tax cut and exemption bills before they're passed so that an accurate measure impact on state revenues is possible.
Common sense, beginning at the household level, dictates that costs must be factored into the larger budget process. Tax breaks without revenue impact estimates invite avoidable negative consequences on revenue with impact beyond the narrower interests of particular tax breaks.
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves' office issued a statement indicating Reeves, a Republican, is fully aware of Blount's concern and is sympathetic to the concerns expressed. The statement suggests a rule is in place that, if enforced, could address the issue.
A full hearing on the issue going forward can shed light on what's needed in terms of specific rules changes. An impact statement, also called a cost-benefit analysis, is routinely produced on most specific development projects involving state tax breaks.
Passing what Bryan calls "special interest" tax breaks is no different than any other revenue impact. How much will it cost?
The idea is not to prevent tax breaks but to make sure they are fully justified based on sound estimates showing that they will not endanger general fund integrity.
Blount's position is sold fiscal conservatism. Expending or committing money without specific information would be considered unthinkable by most of the legislative tax break proponents if similar action affecting funds came from the federal level.
If tax breaks take away from revenue that's needed in the general budget somebody will pay, either through higher taxes elsewhere or in program elimination.
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By Ben Levisohn
Mexico has been one of the biggest emerging-market success stories recently. But a scandal brewing in that nation may hit one of the big reasons for investor optimism: Its economic reform.
The iShares MSCI Mexico Capped Investable Market Index ETF (EWW) has gained 23% during the past 12 months, easily trumping the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF's (EEM) 3.2% increase. Part of the optimism can attributed to the nation's solid growth, low levels of inflation and proximity to the U.S.
But its market has also been given a boost by a strong reform agenda pushed by its president, Enrique Pena Nieto. While that's hammered stocks such as Carlos Slim's America Movil (AMX) and Grupo Televisa (TV), its also raised hopes for more competition and less corruption.
Now that's reform push is at risk. It seems the opposition National Action Party caught government officials wooing votes with promises of social spending, the L.A. Times reports.
Peña Nieto's highly touted Pact for Mexico, a kind of blueprint for his administration's agenda that had seemed to have won consensus from most major political groups, was on the verge of collapse after fresh reports of vote-buying by the president's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
The government was forced to cancel a series of public events under the auspices of the Pact for Mexico to avoid the embarrassment of a boycott by the main opposition factions.
That would mean no reform to the oil industry, among others that investors have been counting on. Bloomberg quotes Nomura's Benito Berber as saying that the breakdown of the accord between Mexico's political parties would cause "a strong negative reaction," in Mexico's government bonds and the peso.
The iShares MSCI Mexico Capped Investable Market Index ETF has dropped 0.9% today to $72.50, while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF has gained 0.7% to $42.32.


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Just so I understand, will you need to entirely do away with the hood or could you just change out the light?
This is a critical juncture for you. Definitely take some time to think about what you want. If you think you want to eventually do a variety of live plants in your tank then you'll need to get a good plant light. If you want to just keep it simple then you could just buy a hood with a single florescent t8 bulb. That's what I have on my ten and I grow java fern, moss, anubias and some type of sword without a problem.~Manna
120 gallon FW bowfront in progress
On the hood I have now, it appears that the lights are built in to it, so it seems that I would have to either get a new hood with more/different lighting, or do away with the hood altogether and get just a light, from what I've been looking at. From what I can tell, and from what I do as a profession (I'm a purchasing agent for facilities management at a local University), LED lights are taking the place of incandescents/fluorescents in all types of everyday applications...they cost more up front, but are much less expensive to operate.
As far as to have or have not a hood, I'm not certain if I need it or not, daughter seems to think it will prevent the fish from jumping out of the water (if that's possible)...in order for my AC30 filter to operate efficiently and quietly, we DO keep the water level very close to the top edge of the tank.
I WOULD like to have some live plants in the tank, have 2 now, but I'm not sure what they are...they seem ok, but don't appear to be flourishing...in an earlier post, I told you guys about my daughter buying (on her own) a pack of Aponogeton bulbs, that you supposedly just drop in, let them sprout, then move to where you want them to root...they've not done much, and have been in the tank about a week now...
Bottom line, the LED light(s) we have now seem cheap and undependable...the wiring to them actuall runs into the tank, along the underside of the hood door...I was just exploring my options...I want good dependable lighting, that at least moderately supports plant growth, and that looks nice when on...
Found this one while looking around on the web, but don't know if this brand name is a good one, or if this one is really any bteer than what we already have...the "night light" feature is kinda neat, and there are lots of positive reviews, but not quite sure: http://www.amazon.com/Marineland-LED...ght+20%22+hood
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I think you would be happier longterm with a glass top and separate light fixture. Some of the prefab hoods dont leave a big enough hole for a bigger filter (and they dont have a hole for a second filter either usually). I have a plant led fixture that is 35" long for a bigger tank that I like very much. It doesnt have the blue leds but all my plants are doing well. It was pricey though $100 and that was for the generic brand on ebay. If you look around there are led fixtures with 6500k or 6700k bulbs, but they are still pretty new to market so the price is still high.
I have a couple tanks with the hoods with the screw in incandescent bulbs and it seems the condensation is constantly shorting out the bulbs.
Glass tops for a 10 gallon should only cost you about $10 if you buy online (amazon is usually high though).
Okay so I would recommend getting a light that is good for plants. Something in the low to medium light spectrum so you can grow a good variety of plants in the low light spectrum without having to do any type of CO2 injection on your tank.
Choosing to go with a plant friendly light will cost you significantly more (in the $100 range) than getting lights that are not made for plants. There will be a wide range of options if you go this route. You can get fluorescent lights with T8, T5 or T5HO lights. These fixtures are often cheaper than LED, but you have a big expense on the bulbs themselves when you need to replace them. They are a little more flexible than LED though because you can change the bulbs out and try different ones if you aren't pleased with your lighting or plant growth.
You can also go LED which runs cooler than fluorescent and the fixtures are slimmer and lighter. They cost a little more up front, but save you the occasional need to budget for new bulbs. It's not something you can switch the bulbs out of if you don't like the way it lights your tank though.
Your daughter's concerns about jumping fish are valid. There are plenty of stories about people waking up to a dead fish on the carpet so if you decide to go with a free standing fixture (like those summarized above) you will want a glass cover. Not having a lid on the tank also increases evaporation rate. Once you're done with your cycling, you won't be doing water changes all the time so not having a lid sometimes requires you to top off a little more.
Keeping all that in mind. There are cheaper options if you want to buy a stock hood now and then foray into plants later. If you buy a hood that has lights that screw in as opposed to LEDs then you may be able to get a good low light compact fluorescent bulb to grow plants if you go that route.
I have this exact hood on my ten gallon
I got it for $15 from the discount shelf in the LFS where they throw misc items they can't sell. The nice thing about this is that it is a full hood, but the light strip on the top is removable. It has a single t8 fuorescent bulb inside. It grows java fern like crazy and the sword that I have, but my anubias doesn't grow at all. It doesn't die, but just stays the same size.
Do not pay that much for that hood though, that is a lot and I'm sure you can find it cheaper, that link was just to show you what's out there.
Sorry for the overflow of info. Once you decide what your budget is and how intense your desire to do lots of plants, I can point you to some more specific fixtures that might meet your needs.~Manna
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Ingomar News, October 29, 2010
Dana Bramlitt
Hello Falcon fans!
This week is Red Ribbon Week, which is a week to encourage students to abstain from drugs. The SADD club passed out the red ribbons on Monday, which is accompanied by a new sticker each day to represent the fight against drugs and the ribbons are necessary to participate. The students followed this schedule for the week: Monday, "Shade Out Drugs!" (wear sunglasses); Tuesday, "Put a Cap On Drugs" ( wear an interesting hat):, Wednesday, "Sock-it to Drugs" (wear mismatch or crazy socks); Thursday, "Drugs Turn You Inside Out!" (wear clothes inside out); and Friday, "Don't Be a Sucker! Stay Away from Drugs!" (SADD officers passed out suckers).
Class pictures were made for the following groups on Thursday: Who's Who, K-12 class favorites, cross country and slow-pitch softball. Also, Balfour was there to collect the $80 deposit for senior invitations and such.
Friday is a field day for 7th through 12th grades. This is a day of games and there will be grilled hamburgers or hotdogs supplied for lunch and concessions later on. The student council is sponsoring the games that each grade will have to compete in as a team. For example, a person will be drawn out of the class to compete in each game.
Following the field day is Falcon Fest, from 1 to 3 p.m., which students will have to pay $5 to attend. Donuts for Dad will be that morning for the elementary.
Kindergarten through third grade will be involved in Math Morning from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., on Monday, Nov. 1. The Turkey Feather Fundraiser will begin that day as well. Drape pictures will be made the following Tuesday, for which seniors will need to bring $25.
The student council will be going to an Ole Miss leadership conference on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The American Legion will be at Ingomar to present the first grade with a flag at 8 a.m., Nov. 10. The senior class will be going to Parchman as well that day. The Veterans program will begin at 10 a.m., Nov. 11, in the auditorium.
"Meet the Falcons" was last Friday, Oct. 22, and began with the junior high basketball team scrimmage. Each of Ingomar's teams were presented and then followed by the high school girls and boys basketball scrimmage games. Ingomar's cross country team competed in the District Tournament on Oct. 23, where both boys and girls placed second in the district. They finished with the following top ten:
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 89, May 31, 1996
ARSC Bids Farewell to Mike Ess
(If I may wax poetic...) Our farewell BBQ for Mike was exactly one week ago today, outside. It was a crisp spring afternoon in Fairbanks. The forests of black spruce and budding birch trees, backed by the distant snowy peaks, Deborah, Hess, and Hayes, of the Alaska Range, provided a podium for his "going away speech" of which prime ministers and presidential candidates would be envious.
We already miss Mike. His sense of humor and convivial spirit made him an irreplaceable office mate. His long experience in supercomputing made him an oft-sought resource. And, of course, the expertise he brought to our MPP program and this newsletter was one of our notable assets. We wish Mike all the best. But, as Frank Williams, the Director of ARSC, noted, Mike is the kind of guy who makes his own luck. Wherever he goes, I'm sure he'll do fine.
ARSC Seeks Parallel Processing Specialist(You knew THIS was coming...) The following announcement appears on HPCwire and also on ARSC's web site at:
University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Announcement of Available Position
Position: Parallel Software Specialist Salary: DOE Job Duration: Full time, regular Opening Date: May 20, 1996 Closing Date: Start reviewing applications May 27, 1996. Open until filled.
ResponsibilitiesThe primary responsibility of the Parallel Software Specialist is to take a leadership role establishing the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center as a center of excellence in applications software on the CRAY T3D massively parallel supercomputer system, emphasizing computational fluid dynamics, engineering, image processing, climate-weather-ocean modeling, and other advanced scientific application areas. In addition, the person holding this position will provide specialized software support and training for scientific researchers and programmers by consulting with individual users, teaching classes, and writing, disseminating, and maintaining documentation. To provide specialized support to customers in scientific disciplines, the Parallel Software Specialist will collaborate on and/or develop research projects and proposals.
Major Duties
- Work individually with ARSC Customers assisting in the development of CRAY T3D application software.
- Assist researchers with the optimization of their programs so that the hardware is used efficiently, and identify those programs that could achieve significant speedup if run on parallel architecture to demonstrate the effectiveness of massively parallel technology.
- Work with users to identify and investigate problems; coordinate with other technical staff as needed to provide solutions, and if needed, report system problems and recommend system changes in order to provide the highest quality user support.
- Develop and teach courses; lead seminars/workshops on parallel computing and other related high performance computing and communications areas.
- Initiate, coordinate, develop, and write proposals in cooperation with ARSC or other scientific investigators to obtain external support for ARSC development and research funding; organize field-specific training workshops to provide in-depth user support to researchers in those areas.
- Train other support staff; staff may include professional scientists, researchers, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students.
- Develop and perform technical demonstrations of various hardware and software items for visiting scientists, customers, and at conferences.
- Research and develop model algorithms and template application software that address the needs of ARSC customers.
- Be able to develop efficient load-balancing algorithms for heterogeneous codes.
- Provide support for hardware and software acquisitions, algorithm development, and applications for parallel computing.
- Maintain state-of-the-art technical knowledge in a rapidly evolving field.
Education and Experience Required
- Masters degree in physics, geophysics, fluid dynamics, oceanography, engineering, computer science or a related field with a strong emphasis on scientific computation. Ph.D. strongly preferred.
- Experience with optimizing vectorized programs and parallel programming techniques.
- Extensive scientific programming in Fortran and/or C.
- Extensive experience programming under the Unix operating system.
- Experience with a variety of scientific software application packages.
- Extensive first-hand high-performance computer programming experience.
- Experience in scientific research projects and writing research proposals and reports.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience in writing documentation for computer users.
- Ability to define and implement user support requirements.
Education and Experience Preferred
- Experience in successfully developing parallel software.
- Experience teaching technical subjects and making technical presentations.
- Experience with workstation tools and network access between workstations and supercomputers.
ApplicationApplicants will submit a letter of interest, complete resume, and three letters of reference to:
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Enhancing T3D/T3E Site-To-Site Information ExchangeGeorge Delic of NESC asked us to help distribute the following request to the T3D/T3E community:
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Hope College men's basketball will renew a rivalry that has been dormant for half-a-century when it plays NCAA Division I Western Michigan University on Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Kalamazoo. Tipoff at WMU's University Fieldhouse will be 7 p.m.
Hope will be playing a Division I opponent for the first time since the 1991-92 season when the Flying Dutchmen lost to Central Michigan University 109-90 in Mt. Pleasant.
"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to play a Division I team," said Hope coach Matt Neil. "(Western) coach Steve Hawkins runs a classy program. This game will definitely be a good early season test for us."
This is a rivalry that started in 1913-14 when WMU was known as Western State. Hope won that inaugural game 35-22. Over the next four decades the teams met almost annually, sometimes twice a season, with Western gaining a 42-14 advantage in the series. They last met in 1950-51 with Western winning 76-56. Hope's last victory over Western occurred in 1940-41 by a 47-43 score.
The November 30th game will be the fifth of the season for the Flying Dutchmen who open on November 15 at home against Rochester.


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The star of New York painter Nancy Chunn's epic installation "Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear" at the RISD Museum (224 Benefit Street, Providence, through April 15) is the fabled fowl — you know, the one who mistakenly thought the sky was falling when an acorn bonked her on the head and ran off to warn the king, only to be tricked by a fox, offering a shortcut, into becoming the critter's dinner.
At a hospital, an ambulance runs over a bird, horses and knights operate on Humpty Dumpty, a med flight helicopter burns, doctors juggle a heart in surgery, a coffin bears the sign "denied coverage," a mom has 16 babies, people cry in a billing office, and a vault is filled with gold. Finally "Poortown" offers a burning house, a burglar climbing in a window, shops of "closeout fashions," people protesting banks, prisoners escaping from a crashed prison bus, people buying guns at a drive-through, and a nun warming her hands over a trashcan fire at a tent shantytown.
It's an encyclopedia of American fears — real and imagined — since September 11, 2001. It's funny, but in a tired, predictable way. And Chunn's cartoons, which she swipes from the Internet, recomposes by computer, and copies into her paintings, have the cruddy and generic style of clip art, which may be intended as a reflection of America today, or may be just cruddy and generic. Ultimately Chicken Little is a simplistic and inaccurate analogy to describe our country over the past decade. The chicken's imagined problems blinded it to a real threat. But we have actually endured 9/11, our stalemate wars, Hurricane Katrina, the economic collapse, global warming and our ailing health care system. Our problem is that the sky really is falling and we've bungled the response.
London artist Jeremy Deller, who won Britain's big Turner Prize in 2004, delves into the industrial decline of Manchester, England, in his small show "Manchester Tracks" at the RISD Museum (through May 6). A video shows a steel drum band he commissioned to play Joy Division and Buzzcocks tunes, relocating the post-punk/alt-rock that emerged in the financially depressed white community into the bright, clear exuberance of a black immigrant steel drumming. And in doing so, Deller tells a story of an evolving city.
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