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|Bonefish, Tarpon, and other Obsessions Turquoise water, silver demons on the fly
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|wind roper
what area are you going to be in? i know some great spots for tarpon in the 5 to 50lb range. if you are going to be in the ft. myers area or naples area then you will want to fish small deceivers around the us-41 bridge of the estero river(packed full of babies) behind the hotel at the us-41 bridge at tin city in naples, or along the road (951) to marco island.the marco bridge holds a ton of tarpon year round from the 30lb-200+lb range at night you can poke them with your rod tip under the cat walk under the bridge, the current is a bit of a problem there though.
Thanks for the second opinion. This is sort of what I was hoping for. I just wanted some recreational fishing, where I might catch a couple of fish of modest size on light tackle and have some fun doing it. I don't really have the time, resources or opportunity to develop the skill it would take to pursue giant tarpon.
|Pat Bahan
I am going to have to respectfully differ with some of what I have been reading on this post. Actually I'm not saying it is wrong as far as it goes, its just not the whole story. Back in the late 60s & 70s I used to get to the keys & back country a couple times a year. We had a lot of fun with baby tarpon and it was more like bass fishing than the flats sight fishing previously described. (then in the mid 70s I got the West Coast mega tarpon bug and did that for a while) I haven't been down there in 20 years but I can't immagine that the small and baby tarpon fishing isn't still to be had.
And buy the way, when you are in the Mangrove "creeks" you are frequently protected from the wind and can enjoy casting conditions when the flats are howling.
Thanks, Mel,
I guess that's what I needed to hear. Obviously, tarpon are not something I would ever want to pursue, given the grim picture you paint. It wouldn't be so much the concentration, casting and technique, as it would the blistering conditions. I don't do well in heat, which is why I live in the northwest.
Good post, yes that is what I always thought tarpon fishing was like. Good description. Well at least it is warm no waders or any walking and wading required in frigid rivers like us steelheaders have to endure. I don't think I would want to use my steelhead rods for tarpon though. 7/8/9 weights but would want at least a 10 weight even for the baby tarpon, just in case I hooked into a bigger one.
P.S. Woke up at 3 AM couldn't sleep went down stairs to get something to drink, saw the computer on, (teenage sons!!), and decided to see if I would have the forumn all to myself, you know how we all wish for our favorite pool or run as you arrive at the fishing locations, well there was one other member on but no visitors. Can't even cyber FF in solitude any more.
|Capt. Mel Simpson
John, email me and I'll give you my phone number.
Eric, everything about saltwater is different from steelhead, with the exception of I can use an 890 rod for both, given the same size of fish as I explained before. This is some of what I mean:
We usually fish from a boat, we sight cast to moving fish, we move the fly by stripping, we strip strike to hook the fish. We use different fly lines that are stiffer, we cast quickly with 1 to 3 false casts and that may be 60' to 80'. We stand with the fly and leader in our left hand, the belly of the fly line hanging from the tip top, and it's "fish at 10 o'clock 55' cast, now" type of attentativeness required and that may be after standing trying to see fish for long perids of time.
All of this is probably in 85 to 90 degree temperatures with 95 to 100 percent humidity with a 10 to 15 mph wind that is not always coming off your non casting shoulder. Again, you can not take your eyes off the fish you are trying to see, no you do not look at the water, you look through it.
The biggest difference is how easy it is to waste "windows of opportunities". You spend long periods of time stareing and searching for fish and just like that there they are and you screw up the cast and you never get that "window of opportunity" back.
And then there is the fighting of a fish that can run under or around cover to cut you off and can run anywhere even in a 360 degree circle, or head for Cuba as we say.
I love steelhead fly fishing because of the fish, the rivers, especially big rivers, but I find saltwater fly fishing more than just long casts, and pretty flies. I find saltwater requires a more continual mental focus and I like that!
Man, I rambled on way too much.
Big minnow fishing
I will be in Marathon around the time of the Holly. I have a ton of questions if you don't mind taking the time to share your expertise. Maybe via fax or phone, I don't really enjoy typing 3 page emails. We have a house there for a month (thanks to the new ordinance). So I hope we will be getting in our fair share of fishing time.
John W. Wilson
Any chance you could undelete what you deleted? I would be very interested in what you have to say about why you can't make a meaningful comparison between the two fisheries. I was thinking more about the tackle and size of fish than I was about feeding versus non-feeding fish, river currents, holding water, and all the rest of the steelhead stuff.
I've done a bit of salt-water fly-fishing for salmon in estuaries and bays and have watched a couple of videos on tarpon. Looks like fun to me and I'd like to try it.
But, I also would like to hook, play and land a few fish. I just assumed I'd have more action and success with the smaller sizes of tarpon.
Thanks for your help,
|Capt. Mel Simpson
A comparative
I just spent the last 20 minutes writing and trying to explain why you can't compare steelhead to saltwater fly fishing. I gave up and deleted it all.
In the 70's when I first started saltwater flyfishing, and still living in Oregon, I would ask the same questions, and got very few answers.
Let me ask a question, how many hours has it taken you to catch the steelhead you have landed? .....So standing on the deck of a flatsboat all day for a shot at jumping a giant tarpon does not sound so bad does it?
Fighting a hot 20lb Dean River steelhead may take me a half hour, that's 40 lbs an hour! A 125 lb tarpon may take me an hour, that's 125 lbs per hour, right?
Can you compare? I don't think so.
You can use your steelhead rods, other than spey, for snook, redfish, bonefish, permit and yes baby tarpon, but that's as far as it goes, they're really just tools used in a different way in saltwater.
If you are wondering about equipment, any good fly fishing guide has good fly fishing gear.
I'm a saltwater guide who grew up steelhead fly fishing, and I will share all of my knowledge about either, and if I didn't answere your questions just ask again.
Maybe I didn't ask the right questions...
Thanks, Mel,
Your response, and the lack of others, make me think I must be asking the wrong questions.
Where would be a good place to go for baby tarpon? When would the best times be? How expensive is it -- who are the "best" captains for the novice who is just looking for some high-flying excitement with small to medium sized fish? What about accomodations during peak versus just-off-peak seasons, etc. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Juro is right. My orientation is to steelhead and salmon, albeit with the occasional sea-run cutthroat thrown in. I'd love to tangle with some high-flying tarpon on tackle I'm used to. That way, I could certainly do some side-by-side comparisons with what I'm familiar with.
I see where Eric is coming from... first of all, steelheaders, salmon fishermen and striper guyz are used to that size of fish. Second, our flygear matches it well. Third, for me anyway four 15 minute fights where the fish never gets exhausted is more fun than a one hour fight where the fish must be beat to be boated.
Easy for me to say, I know - kind of like someone coming to steelhead country and saying wow those are some nice 3 pound cutthroats!
|Capt. Mel Simpson
Baby Tarpon
There really isn't a major baby tarpon fishery on this coast that I'm aware of. Now, there are some canals and other protected areas that will hold them at times, like during unusually warm winter periods. Mostly I leave them alone and that has something to do with the fact that we are mostly giant tarpon fisherman.
You probably know that we have the world record fish here in this area each May thru July, they average 125lbs, so you can see they kind of get our attention.
I can see my customers enjoying a day where we found snook, redfish and then had some shots at baby tarpon also but it just dosn't happen.
Good Luck, Mel
Western/south western Florida Baby Tarpon
For a long time I've been wanting to try my hand at baby tarpon (4 - 40 lbs) and was wondering what the possibilies were in the Gulf off Florida.
What are the seasons? What are the most welcoming regions for beginners and how much should I be expecting to pay, both as a guided client and as a self-directed angler. What are the options?
What's the weather like during the best seasons; how hard is it to find fish; how hard is it to find accomodations during peak season; how bad is the fishing during the off-seasons; etc.
Any background or advice on this that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
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UPON those moments of rapture followed days of trembling, during which the sands of Richard Calmady's life ran very low, and his brain wandered in delirium, and he spoke unwittingly of many matters of which it was unprofitable to page: 510 hear. Periods of unconsciousness, when he lay as one dead; periods of incessant utterance—now violent in unavailing repudiation, now harsh with unavailing remorse—alternated. And, at this juncture, much of Lady Calmady's former very valiant pride asserted itself. In tender jealousy for the honour of her beloved one she shut the door of that sick‐room, of sinister aspect, against brother and friend, and even against the faithful Clara. None should see or hear Richard in his present alienation and abjection, save herself and those who had hitherto ministered to him. He should regain a measure, at least, of his old distinction and beauty before any, beyond these, looked on his face. And so his own men‐servants—Captain Vanstone, capable, humorous, and alert—and Price, the red‐headed, Welsh first mate, of varied and voluminous gift of invective—continued to nurse him. These men loved him. They would be loyal in silence, since, whatever his lapses, Dickie was and always had been, as Katherine reflected, among the number of those happily‐endowed persons who triumphantly give the lie to the cynical saying that "no man is a hero to his valet de chambre."
To herself Katherine reserved the right to enter that sinister sick‐room whenever she pleased, and to sit by the bedside, waiting for the moment—should it ever come—when Richard would again recognise her, and give himself to her again. And those vigils proved a searching enough experience, notwithstanding her long apprenticeship to service of sorrow—which was also the service of her son. For, in the mental and moral nudity of delirium, he made strange revelation, not only of acts committed, but of inherent tendencies of character and of thought. He spoke, with bewildering inconsequence and intimacy, of incidents and of persons with whom she was unacquainted, causing her to follow him—a rather brutal pilgrimage—into regions where the feet of women, bred and nurtured like herself, but seldom tread. He spoke of persons with whom she was well acquainted also, and whose names arrested her attention with pathetic significance, offering, for the moment, secure standing ground amid the shifting quicksand of his but‐half‐comprehended words. He spoke of Morabita, the famous prima donna, and of gentle Mrs. Chifney down at the Brockhurst racing‐stables. He grew heated in discussion with Lord Fallowfeild. He petted little Lady Constance Quayle. He called Camp, coaxed and chaffed the dog merrily—whereat Lady Calmady rose from her place by the bedside and stood at one of the dim, shuttered windows for a while. He spoke of places, too, and of happenings in them, from Westchurch to Constantinople, from a nautch at Singapore to a page: 511 country fair at Farley Row. But, recurrent through all his wanderings were allusions, unsparing in revolt and in self‐abasement, to a woman whom he had loved and who had dealt very vilely with him, putting some unpardonable shame upon him, and to a man whom he himself had very basely wronged. The name, neither of man nor woman, did Katherine learn.—Madame de Vallorbes' name, for which she could not but listen, he never mentioned, nor did he mention her own.—And recurrent, also, running as a black thread through all his speech, was lament, not unmanly but very terrible to hear—the lament of a creature, captive, maimed, imprisoned, perpetually striving, perpetually frustrated in the effort to escape. And, noting all this, Katherine not only divined very dark and evil pages in the history of her beloved one; but a struggle so continuous and a sorrow so abiding that, in her estimation at all events, they cancelled and expiated the darkness and evil of those same pages. While the mystery, both of wrong done and sorrow suffered, so wrought upon her that, having, in the first ecstasy of recovered human love, deserted and depreciated the godward love a little, she now ran back imploring assurance and renewal of that last, in all penitence and humility, lest, deprived of the counsel and sure support of it, she should fail to read the present and deal with the future aright—if, indeed, any future still remained for that beloved one other than the yawning void of death and inscrutable silence of the grave!
The better part of a week passed thus; and then, one fair morning, Winter, bringing her breakfast to the ante‐room of that same sea‐blue, sea‐green bed‐chamber—sometime tenanted by Helen de Vallorbes—disclosed a beaming countenance.
"Mr. Powell wishes me to inform your ladyship that Sir Richard has passed a very good night. He has come to himself, my lady, and has asked for you."
The butler's hands shook as he set down the tray.
"I hope your ladyship will take something to eat before you go downstairs," he added. "Mr. Powell told Sir Richard that it was still early; and he desired that on no consideration should you be hurried."
Which little word of thoughtfulness on Dickie's part brought a roundness to Katherine's cheek and a soft shining into her sweet eyes; so that Honoria St. Quentin, sauntering into the room just then with her habitual lazy grace, stood still a moment in pleased surprise noting the change in her friend's appearance.
"Why, dear Cousin Katherine," she asked, "what's happened? All's right with the world!"page: 512
"Yes," Katherine answered. "God's very much in His heaven, to‐day, and all's right with all the world, because things are a little more right with one man in it.—That is the woman's creed—always has been, I suppose, and I rather hope always will be. It is frankly personal and individualistic, I know. Possibly it is reprehensibly narrow‐minded. Still I doubt if she will readily find another which makes for greater happiness or fulness of life. You don't agree, dearest, I know—nevertheless pour out my tea for me, will you? I want to dispose of this necessary evil of breakfast with all possible despatch. Richard has sent for me. He has slept and is awake."
And as Miss St. Quentin served her dear friend, she pondered this speech curiously, saying to herself:—"Yes, I did right; though I never liked Ludovic Quayle better than now, and never liked any other man as well as I like Ludovic Quayle. But that's not enough. I'm getting hold of the appearance of the thing, but I haven't got hold of the thing itself. And so the woman in me must continue to be kept in the back attic. She shall be denied all further development. She shall have nothing unless she can have the whole of it, and repeat Cousin Katherine's creed from her heart."
Richard did not speak when Lady Calmady crossed the room and sat down at the bedside. He barely raised his eyelids. But he felt out for her hand across the surface of the sheet. And she took the proffered hand in both hers and fell to stroking the palm of it with her finger‐tips. And this silent greeting, and confiding contact of hand with hand, was to her exquisitely healing. It gave an assurance of nearness and acknowledged ownership, more satisfying and convincing than many eloquent phrases of welcome. And so she, too, remained silent, only indeed permitting herself, for a little while, to look at him, lest so doing she should make further demand upon his poor quantity of strength. A folding screen in stamped leather, of which age had tempered the ruby and gold to a sober harmony of tone, had been placed round the head of the bed, throwing this last into clear, quiet shadow. The bed linen was fresh and smooth. Richard had made a little toilet. His silk shirt, open at the throat, was also fresh and smooth. He was clean shaven, his hair cropped into that closely‐fitting, bright‐brown cap of curls. Katherine perceived that his beauty had begun to return to him, though his face was distressingly worn and emaciated, and the long, purplish line of that unexplained scar still disfigured his cheek. His hands were little more than skin and bone. Indeed he was fragile, she feared, as any person could be who page: 513 yet had life in him, and she wondered, rather fearfully, if it was yet possible to build up that life again into any joy of energy and of activity. But she put such fears from her as unworthy. For were they not together, he and she, actually and consciously reunited? That was sufficient. The rest could wait.
And to‐day, as though lending encouragement to gracious hopes, the usually gloomy and cavernous room had taken to itself a quite generous plenishing of air and light. The heavy curtains were drawn aside. The casements of one of the square, squat windows were thrown widely open. The slatted shutters without were partially opened likewise. A shaft of strong sunshine slanted in and lay, like a bright highway, across the rich colours of the Persian carpet. The air was hot, but nimble and of a vivacious and stimulating quality. It fluttered some loose papers on the writing‐table near the open window. It fluttered the delicate laces and fine muslin frills of Lady Calmady's morning‐gown. There was a sprightly mirthfulness in the touch of it not unpleasing to her. For it seemed to speak of the ever‐obtaining youth, the incalculable power of recuperation, the immense reconstructive energy resident in nature and the physical domain. And there was comfort in that thought. She turned her eyes from the bed and its somewhat sorrowful burden—the handsome head, the broad, though angular, shoulders, the face, immobile and masklike, with closed eyelids and unsmiling lips, reposing upon the whiteness of the pillows—and fixed them upon that radiant space of outer world visible between the dark‐framing of the half‐open shutters. Beyond the dazzling, black‐and‐white chequer of the terrace and balustrade, they rested on the cool green of the formal garden, the glistering dome and slender columns of the pavilion set in the angle of the terminal wall. And this last reminded her quaintly of that other pavilion, embroidered, with industry of innumerable stitches, upon the curtains of the state‐bed at home—that pavilion, set for rest and refreshment in the midst of the tangled ways of the Forest of This Life, where the Hart may breathe in security, fearless of Care, the pursuing leopard, which follows all too close behind.—Owing to her position and the sharp drop of the hillside, Naples itself, the great painted city, its fine buildings and crowded shipping, was unseen; but, far away, the lofty promontory of Sorrento sketched itself in palest lilac upon the azure of sea and sky.
And, as Katherine reasoned, if this fair prospect, after so many ages of tumultuous history and shock of calamitous events, after battle, famine, terror of earthquake and fire, devastation by page: 514 foul disease, could still recover and present such an effect of triumphant youthfulness, such an at once august and mirthful charm, might not her beloved one, lying here broken in health and in spirit, likewise regain the glory of his manhood and the delight of it, notwithstanding present weakness and mournful eclipse?—Yes, it would come right—come right—Katherine told herself, thereby making one of those magnificent acts of faith which go so far to produce just that which they prophesy. God could not have created so complex and beautiful a creature, and permitted it so to suffer, save to the fulfilment of some clear purpose which would very surely be made manifest at last. God Almighty should be justified of His strange handiwork and she of her love before the whole of the story was told.—And, stirred by these thoughts, and by the fervour of her own pious confidence, Katherine's finger‐tips travelled more rapidly over the palm of that outstretched and passive hand. Then, on a sudden, she became aware that Richard was looking fixedly at her. She turned her head proudly, the exaltation of a living faith very present in her smile.
"You are the same," he said slowly. His voice was low, toneless, and singularly devoid of emotion.—" Deliciously the same. You are just as lovely. You still have your pretty colour. You are hardly a day older"—
He paused, still regarding her fixedly.
"I'm glad you have got on one of those white, frilly things you used to wear. I always liked them."
Katherine could not speak just then. This sudden and complete intimacy unnerved her. It was so long since anyone had spoken to her thus. It was very dear to her, yet the toneless voice gave a strange unreality to the tender words.
"It's a matter for congratulation that you are the same," Richard went on, "since everything else, it appears, is destined to continue the same. One should have one thing it is agreeable to contemplate in that connection, considering the vast number of things altogether the reverse of agreeable and which one fondly hoped one was rid of forever, which intrude themselves."
He shifted himself feebly on the pillows, and the flicker of a smile crossed his face.
"Poor, dear mother," he said, "you see again, without delay, the old bad habit of grumbling!"
"Grumble on, grumble on, my best beloved," Katherine murmured, while her finger‐tips travelled softly over his palm.
"Verily and indeed, you are the same!" Richard rejoined. page: 515 Once more he lay looking full at her, until she became almost abashed by that unswerving scrutiny. It came over her that the plane of their relation had changed. Richard was, as never heretofore, her equal, a man grown.
Suddenly he spoke.
"Can you forgive me?"
And so far had Katherine's thought journeyed from the past, so absorbed was it in the present, that she answered, surprised:—
"My dearest, forgive what?"
"Injustice, ingratitude, desertion," Richard said, "neglect, systematic cruelty. There is plenty to swell the list. All I boasted I would do I have done—and more."—His voice, until now so even and emotionless, faltered a little. "I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son."
Katherine's hand closed down on his firmly.
"All that, as far as I am concerned, is as though it was not and never had been," she answered.—"So much for judgment on earth, dearest.—While in heaven, thank God, we know there is more joy over the one sinner who repents than over the ninety‐and‐nine just persons who need no repentance."
"And you really believe that?" Richard said, speaking half indulgently, half ironically, as if to a child.
"Assuredly I believe it."
"But supposing the sinner is not repentant, but merely cowed?"—Richard straightened his head on the pillows and dosed his eyes. "You gave me leave to grumble—well, then, I am so horribly disappointed. Here have life and death been sitting on either side of me for the past month, and throwing with dice for me. I saw them as plainly as I can see you. The queer thing was they were exactly alike, yet I knew them apart from the first. Day and night I heard the rattle of the dice—it became hideously monotonous—and felt the mouth of the dice‐box on my chest when they threw. I backed death heavily. It seemed to me there were ways of loading the dice. I loaded them. But it wasn't to be, mother. Life always threw the highest numbers—and life had the last throw."
"I praise God for that," Katherine said, very softly.
"I don't, unfortunately," he answered. "I hoped for a neat little execution—a little pain, perhaps, a little shedding of blood, without which there is no remission of sins—but I suppose that would have been letting me off too easy."
He drew away his hand and covered his eyes.page: 516
"When I had seen you I seemed to have made my final peace. I understood why I had been kept waiting till then. Having seen you, I flattered myself I might decently get free at last. But I am branded afresh, that's all, and sent back to the galleys."
Lady Calmady's eyes sought the radiant prospect—the green of the garden, the graceful columns of the airy pavilion, the lilac land set in the azure of sea and sky. No words of hers could give comfort as yet, so she would remain silent. Her trust was in the amiable ministry of time, which may bring solace to the tormented, human soul, even as it reclothes the mountain‐side swept by the lava stream, or cleanses and renders gladly habitable the plague‐devastated city.
But there was a movement upon the bed. Richard had turned on his side. He had recovered his self‐control, and once more looked fixedly at her.
"Mother," he said calmly, "is your love great enough to take me back, and to give yourself to me again, though I am not fit so much as to kiss the hem of your garment?"
"There is neither giving nor taking, my beloved," she answered, smiling upon him. "In the truth of things, you have never left me, neither have I ever let you go."
"Ah! but consider these last four years and their record!" he rejoined. "I am not the same man that I was. There's no getting away from fact, from deeds actually done, or words actually said, for that matter. I have kept my singularly repulsive infirmity of body, and to it I have added a mind festering with foul memories. I have been a brute to you, a traitor to a friend who trusted me. I have been a sensualist, an adulterer. And I am hopelessly broken in pride and self‐respect. The conceit, the pluck even, has been licked right out of me."—Richard paused, steadying his voice which faltered again.—"I only want, since it seems I've got to go on living, to slink away somewhere out of sight, and hide myself and my wretchedness and shame from everyone I know.—Can you bear with me, soured and invalided as I am, mother? Can you put up with my temper, and my silence, and my grumbling, useless log as I must continue to be?"
"Yes—everlastingly yes," Katherine answered.
Richard threw himself flat on his back again.
"Ah! how I hate myself—my God, how I hate myself!" he exclaimed.
"And how beyond all worlds I love you," Katherine put in quietly.page: 517
He felt out for her hand across the sheet, found and held it. There were footsteps upon the terrace to the right, the scent of a cigar, Ludovic Quayle's voice in question, Honoria St. Quentin's in answer, both with enforced discretion and lowness of tone. General Ormiston joined them. Miss St. Quentin laughed gently. The sound was musical and sweet. Footsteps and voices died away. A clang of bells and the hooting of an outward‐bound liner came up from the city and the port.
Richard's calm had returned. His expression had softened.
"Will those two marry?" he asked presently.
Lady Calmady paused before speaking.
"I hope so—for Ludovic's sake," she said. "He has served, if not quite Jacob's seven years, yet a full five for his love."
"If for Ludovic's sake, why not for hers?" Dickie asked.
"Because two halves don't always make a whole in marriage," Katherine said.
"You are as great an idealist as ever!"—He paused, then raised himself, sitting upright, speaking with a certain passion.
"Mother, will you take me away, away from everyone, at once, just as soon as possible? I never want to see this room, or this house, or Naples again. The climax was reached here of disillusion, and of iniquity, and of degradation. Don't ask what it was. I couldn't tell you. And, mercifully, only one person, whose lips are sealed in self‐defence, knows exactly what took place besides myself. But I want to get away, away alone with you, who are perfectly unsullied and compassionate, and who have forgiven me, and who still can love. Will you come? Will you take me? The yacht is all ready for sea."
"Yes," Katherine said.
"I asked this morning who was here with you, and Powell told me. I can't see them, mother, simply I can't! I haven't the nerve. I haven't the face. Can you send them away?"
"Yes," Katherine said.
Richard's eyes had grown dangerously bright. A spot of colour burned on either cheek. Katherine leaned over him.
"My dearest," she declared, "you have talked enough."
"Yes, they're beginning to play again, I can hear the rattle of the dice.—Mother, take me away, take me out to sea, away from this dreadful place.—Ah! you poor darling, how horribly selfish I am!—But let me get out to sea, and then later, take me home—to Brockhurst. The house is big. Nobody need see me."
"No, no,"' Katherine said, laying him back with tender force page: 518 upon the pillows.—"No one has seen you, no one shall see you. We will be alone, you and I, just as long as you wish. With me, my beloved, you are very safe."

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Hockey players skate across the ice at the Howelsen Ice Arena on Wednesday afternoon in Steamboat Springs. The Howelsen Hill city park/Emerald Mountain complex, which includes the ice arena, is one of the final eight projects that the lodging tax committee is considering.
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Sexual violence has not always been thought of as a public health problem. Most intervention programs in the past have fallen under the category of "crime prevention." But it involves more than just a single traumatic experience, and is not only a crime. Researchers have found that "adverse experiences" such as sexual violence lead to a range of emotional and health consequences for survivors. They are more likely to suffer chronic diseases, experience emotional and functional disabilities, engage in harmful behaviors, and have difficulties in their intimate relationships. The costs of sexual violence to individuals, communities, and society demands attention from experts in the field of public health to save lives, save money, and build thriving communities.
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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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The river is almost three feet lower than it was the last time I fished it a month ago. Stucture that held fish at sundown back then is now completely exposed. I drove around looking for secondary structure, and although I found some I didn't catch anything worth bragging about. The river was so low that I didn't stay out after dark for fear of having a collision with any newly exposed rocks and/or bars.
Fishing in difficult conditions definitely makes me think. I will take what I can away from this and learn.
Side rant: Waterskiers don't belong in "No Wake" zones!
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|That sounds great. I'm going to try a bit of after dark fishing for smallies tonight after work and will report on how I do. I hope I get results similar to yours.
Bass...in the dark!
Headed over to the local golf course last night and proceded to enjoy one of my more memorable bass fishing forays in recent memory. This particular pond has a sizeable population of small(12"-14") bass but the larger fish are few and very far between. So I decided a change in tactics was in order. I started fishing around 10:00 pm and was into fish almost immediately. I was using a very large(and noisey) dark colored popper that I normally use on rockfish here in the Chspke. Bay. I employeed a very steady cadence on the retrieve and the bass responded with vigor. Although I probably missed half of the strikes I still managed to land a half dozen or so in an hour or two. Although I caught a couple of "dinks" the average size was definitely much larger than encountered during my evening efforts. My best fish of the night was probably around three and a half pounds and I lost one that was probably pushing the 5 lb. mark. Not a monster but a nice sized fish in any part of the country!
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Please allow me to clear the air… of gun smoke and duck feathers…
It would be hard to exaggerate the success of A&E's Duck Dynasty and the seemingly boundless merchandising blitz which has followed the cable TV show as it soared to fame on riparian wings. All that DD regalia, posters, and plastic-ware making its way to the suburbs–to be snatched up by yuppies?
Phil Robertson couldn't have dreamed it, wouldn't have.
However, along the way Bible-waving and back pew-warming Christians alike have gotten caught up in a flock of heated discussions among themselves and with non-believers about whether Duck Commander Phil is a good role model and whether we should applaud or boo his direct-to-the-solar plexus, down-homey style of wit and simple life lessons, both on and off screen.
Don't get your feathers ruffled, Jack, but… nobody's perfect, including Papa Phil and the boys.
Let's not make them out to be more than men. If you're looking for a paragon of human living, you have it… in our Lord Jesus Christ and the four gospel accounts of his model physical and spiritual life. And if you still want a TV show to further inspire you, watch that other Robertson's The 700 Club (nonfiction).
Moreover, here are some things I don't think Jesus would have done, even if he'd had his own reality TV program.
- He wouldn't have lied (a staple in numerous DD storylines).
- He wouldn't have broken the law (put in some DD episodes, just for laughs?).
- He wouldn't have been contentious just for kicks (a dietary staple on DD, along with beef jerfy and black coffee).
Still… some ecstatically tout Willie's dad and his counter-social homilies (Notice, I didn't say anti-social) as what TV 'art to be' and give the show far too much credibility than sanity should justify, while others bemoan the right-wing conservative voices of a few multimillionaire duck hunters who just want to have fun and spread the gospel message on the second cable tier via A&E. Have we no room left now for some down-home preaching and cooking, after enduring the Kardashian
dynasty for so long?
Why have some Christians gotten more than a little quacked up over this?
After waiting so long for anything wholesome to watch on TV and eager to talk to somebody at church about what you saw last night, it's hard not to get enthusiastic about this generally good hearted, G-rated TV show.
But it is just a show, right? C'mon, say it with me… It is just a TV show. Now that was easy, right?
So… shouldn't I be saying something all pithy and academic about now?
I'm glad you asked! (I'll take a quack at it.)
In their intriguing study, Nabi and Clark (2008) found that "negatively reinforced behaviors on TV may be modeled anyway" (p. 407), that is, despite, and perhaps even because they are negatively modeled. And a plethora of mass communication research on everything from sitcoms to movies to TV ads and even the so-called reality of news violence has bolstered our understanding over the decades that there is something inherently attractive and, unfortunately, more memorable about negative portrayals than positive ones (be it strong/suggestive dialogue, anti-social behavior, immoral lifestyles, physical conflict/injury, and even damage to property).
Pointing to Social Cognitive theory (SCT), Nabi and Clark remind us that "vicarious learning" (p. 409) is indeed prevalent among TV audiences. Echoing Kellner's (1980) work, in which he warns that "[TV's] imagery is. . . prescriptive as well as descriptive," (p. 5), Nabi and Clark's research help us understand that what we view may ultimately become a guide for our own behavior thereafter. They point to Bandura (2002) whose seminal work with children and violent behavior goes back to the 1960s (see "Bobo doll study"). In more recent studies, Bandura has explained in detail that four process guide how one's "observational learning" and subsequent behavior are linked. And here I'll succinctly apply it to DD fandom:
Bandura's (2002) four processes are, in order:
- attention (watching the TV show with your undivided)
- retention (sharing it with friends and watching the reruns)
- production (doing as they do)
- motivational (why you like them)
By now you've surely convinced yourselves of some things I'll need to clear up. No harm, no… foul. But let me get them off my bill :
- So you're anti-Phil Robertson? On the contrary, I sincerely admire his pluck in standing up for Biblical principles and against unrighteousness. I'm grateful for his mealtime prayer at each show's conclusion, invoking the name of our Dear Lord Jesus. He is not, however, my idol.
- So you hate Duck Dynasty? No, I'm not down on the Duck Commanders. Several episodes I've seen multiple times, and I look forward to more this year! But as a mass media academic, I enjoy taking some shots at it!
- So you think merchandising is un-American? (Do you even know me? I'm thinking about getting someone a Valentine's candy box with the Duck Commander and crews' pictures on it. It don't get more redneck, southern, all-American, Walmart than that, Jack!)


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VIEW BY GALLERY : Helen Frankenthaler | Collaboration | Freefall | Essence mulberry | Tales of Genji | Madame Butterfly |
Freefall is the only woodcut by Helen Frankenthaler in which she incorporates paper pulp as a support. In the initial development of this large-scale image Frankenthaler first created a paper maquette – a kind of paper prototype. Using handfuls of wet, coloured paper pulp, manipulated with combs and a turkey baster, Frankenthaler actually painted with paper. This work served as a blueprint for Freefall from which the printers at Tyler Graphics created the edition of woodblock prints.
To produce Freefall as an editioned print rather than a one-off work in paper, Frankenthaler's maquette was traced. Then, using the traced stencils as a guide for the various colours and shapes, a base sheet of paper was sprayed with dyed paper pulp. Once run through the press, the paper pulp bled into the base sheet and fused with it. The background of the work was now complete.
To produce the wood-grain texture and opacity of Freefall, shapes from the original maquette were also transferred onto a giant plywood block. The woodblock was cut up into several pieces and each one was inked. The woodblocks were then reassembled and printed over the top of the paper pulp base sheet.
The vibrant colour-saturated surface of Freefall is the direct result of the artist's experimental combination of printing woodcut on paper pulp.
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Buffalo Bills
#10 Overall -- Stephon Gilmore / CB / South Carolina
This was a reach in my opinion, but I think he'll be a good player. #6 cornerback on my board and had an early 3rd round grade on Gilmore. Fast, athletic, and a terrific tackler. However, he just doesn't have the ball skills to warrant this high of a pick. Has starter potential and should be a solid player in the Bills secondary. I wouldn't have taken him this high. Grade: C+
#41 Overall -- Cordy Glenn / OT-G / Georgia
Glenn was the #2 tackle on my board and I had a 1st round grade on him. Took a game to get acclimated playing left tackle for the first time and struggled against Boise St. in the season opener, but probably had the best and most consistent film from that point forward of all the offensive tackles I looked at. Unbelievable athlete for his size. Incredibly strong upper body and adequate feet to play tackle. Looked more comfortable at left tackle to me once he adjusted than he did even at guard for Georgia. Struggles some to get out of his stance quick enough playing guard and loses leverage. I like him better at tackle where he can use those long arms and sweet feet to absorb pass rushers in vertical pass sets. Steal here for Buffalo. Grade: A
#69 Overall -- T.J. Graham / WR / N.C. State
The #9 slot receiver on my board and had a 5th round grade on Graham. Bills reached here for another kid who's been on my underrated list for a long time. Will struggle getting off press and needs to be in the slot where he has a two way go. Dangerous kick returner, but a reach here in the 3rd round. Grade: C+
#105 Overall -- Nigel Bradham / OLB / Florida St.
The #6 4-3 outside linebacker on my board and had a 3rd round grade on him. Vines for arms that will help him fight off blocks. Fast and athletic. Will deliver the big hit when give an opportunity. Not as good of a pick as when Buffalo drafted Sam Cowart out of FSU in the 2nd round of the 1998 draft, but could develope into a starter and didn't reach for him here. Grade: B-
#124 Overall -- Ron Brooks / CB / LSU
#26 cornerback on my board and had a 6th round grade on him mainly due to outstanding speed. One of the 2 or 3 fastest cornerbacks in this draft. Was overshadowed by Morris Claiborne, Tyran Mathieu, and Therald Simon in LSU's secondary, but Brooks made some big plays of his own (see Ole Miss game). Can blitz off the edge in nickel packages. Probably a nickel/dime package corner and special teams player for Bills. Grade: C+
#144 Overall -- Zebrie Sanders / OT / Florida St.
I had a late 4th round grade on Sanders and rated him the #12 tackle on my board. Was always a little overrated, but decent pick here. Just don't ask him to cut block. Grade: C+
#147 Overall -- Tank Carder / ILB / TCU
#6 inside linebacker on my board and had a late 4th round grade on Carder. Heart and soul of Gary Patterson's 4-2-5 defense and plays with his hair on fire. Shoots gaps and makes plays, although sideline to sideline range isn't elite. Pretty solid pick to get Tank here. Grade: B-
#178 Overall -- Mark Asper / OG / Oregon
Asper wasn't on my draft board. Grade: D
#251 Overall -- John Potter / K / Western Michigan
Nice kicker.
Miami Dolphins
#8 Overall -- Ryan Tannehill / QB / Texas A&M
Dolphins manage to stay put and have the best quarterback in the draft fall into the laps at #8. Ireland is a genius. Grade: A+
#42 Overall -- Jonathan Martin / OT / Stanford
Best left tackle in the draft somehow slips through the cracks for the Dolphins to land him at the top of the 2nd round. The black cloud is lifting. Grade: A+
#72 Overall -- Olivier Vernon / DE-OLB / Miami
Yeeeeay boyzz! Mo' playaz frum da "U" dats wut im talmbout. Grade: A+
#78 Overall -- Michael Egnew / TE / Missouri
Ireland land a sure fire Hall of Fame weapon in the passing game that will send Rex and Bill Belichick into early retirement in the 3rd round. Grade: A++
#97 Overall -- Lamar Miller / RB / Miami
OMGZZZ dis kid is so fast! All about da "U"!
#155 Overall -- Josh Kaddu / LB / Oregon
Ireland nabs the best linebacker off the West Coast just outside the top 150 picks. He's "killin it". Grade: A+
#183 Overall -- B.J. Cunningham / WR / Michigan St.
Ireland's genius again surfaces late in the draft by grabbing the next Muhsin Muhammad out of Michigan St. in the 6th round. Grade: A+
#215 Overall -- Kheeston Randall / DT / Texas
Ireland strikes black gold here in the late rounds by stealing a Richard Seymour clone. Grade: A+
#227 Overall -- Rishard Matthews / WR / Nevada
Dolphins get the next great receiver from Nevada here with their last pick, and wrap up the best draft in franchise history. Grade: A+
That's all 'til next year....
Hey, you forgot to put a grade on Lamar Miller!
Well Played... I'd love to read your real thoughts though.


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In managing what others say is the potential for a serious conflict of interest in his Building and Construction portfolio, Maurice Williamson has followed Cabinet rules to the letter.
He has bent over backwards to ensure his directorship in Holyoake Industries, a supplier of heating and air conditioning systems, falls within conflict of interest guidelines laid out for ministers in the Cabinet manual.
Labour isn't buying it. The Opposition party says while Williamson might well argue he is operating within the rules, there is no question he is still in breach of the spirit of those rules.
Williamson sees things rather differently. It seems to be almost a point of principle with him that he not be forced to divest himself of the directorship because opponents suggest there is a perception of a conflict of interest when he has made every effort to be transparent in order to demonstrate there isn't one.
As required by the manual, Williamson declared the directorship - which predates his appointment to the Building and Construction portfolio - in the MPs' register of pecuniary interests.
He informed the Prime Minister who gave him permission to keep the directorship. He advised the Cabinet Office which duly conducted a more than cursory investigation into the advisability of him retaining the role before deeming it okay.
Williamson says if a potential conflict of interest arose in his portfolio, he would order officials not to give him the relevant papers and exempt himself from discussions. Decision-making would be delegated to another minister. Such circumstances had yet to arise.
According to the manual, the point at which a minister should divest himself or herself of a shareholding or directorship is when a conflict of interest is "significant and pervasive". That does not seem to be the case - as yet.
Williamson is adamant he has played things by the book - literally. In Labour's view, that is not good enough. A minister being a director of a company which operates in the sector for which the minister has responsibility is just not a good look. It smells. It is unacceptable. Simple as that.


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Why We Started
The Children, Youth & Family Consortium (CYFC) at the University of Minnesota began in 1991. The University president at that time, Nils Hasselmo, appointed the CYFC founders was to ensure that the knowledge and resources of the University did not remain in libraries or office shelves, but were actively put to work to benefit Minnesota's children, youth, and families. It was not designed to be a teaching or research unit, but rather an organization that would serve as a catalyst for research and teaching to be more fully utilized in communities, and for communities to make connections to the University regarding issues of common interest.
An excellent example of this catalytic function was the incubation of the Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health (CECMH). A program sparked by the expressed need of the community for expertise related to children's mental health, CECMH was launched in 2003 as a part of the President's Initiative on Children, Youth and Families to bring together members of the University community who specialize in children's mental health, and to connect the University to the community and organizations working to promote the mental health of children, their families and communities. Though CECMH is no longer a separate center, its important children's mental health work continues as a central initiative of CYFC.
Originally called "The All University-Community Consortium on Children Youth and Families," and led by founding director Dr. Marti Erickson, CYFC served as a catalyst to create partnerships with community practitioners and University faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines to create discussions and engage communities in identifying and finding solutions to issues facing children and families. Although CYFC has pursued new topics and approaches and has changed leadership (with Dr. Cathy Jordan assuming the directorship in 2004), this has remained CYFC's core purpose.
In the beginning, CYFC was intentionally established as a "stand-alone" unit not under the auspices of any department, school or college, so it would not be connected to any one discipline and could more easily create multi-disciplinary partnerships. In 2009, with its capacity to bridge across campus units, as well as between the University and community, CYFC responded to changes in the University landscape by considering a different administrative model. On July 1, 2010, CYFC joined University of Minnesota Extension, as part of the Extension Center for Family Development.
The missions, guiding principles, and primary functions of CYFC and Extension are well aligned, and there is a particularly close fit with the work of the Extension Center for Family Development. We each ground our work in an ecodevelopmental model of human development, are committed to serving and learning from communities, and share a commitment to the translation of research evidence to enhance the work of practitioners. CYFC's transition to Extension offers numerous advantages and opportunities and we hope to complement and extend each other's work in exciting ways.


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Gym and health centre offers extra services to attract busy clients.
Burning away the extra kilos has built a strong business for Kirsty Wilkinson at a time when people are watching their money.
As the owner of re:ab on Selbourne, a boutique gym and integrated health centre in Grey Lynn, Wilkinson, 43, has seen membership double in the first six months of this year.
She says small classes and the health and well-being businesses associated with re:ab have resonated with people looking to keep fit and healthy.
Based in an old cinema, re:ab has some of the trappings of a traditional gym but also has a physiotherapist, dietitian, podiatrist, breathing specialist, hand rehabilitation specialist, massage therapist and beautician on tap.
These businesses operate independently but share the cost of overheads such as a receptionist and marketing.
The boutique nature of re:ab, with small class sizes for its Pilates, spin, circuit and boot-camp sessions, means clients get a one-on-one experience for a fraction of the cost of a personal trainer, says Wilkinson.
"We call ourselves the gym for people who hate gyms. And that's no disrespect to gyms."
After training as a lawyer and working as a graduate at Russell McVeagh, Wilkinson left law to spend 10 years working in the health sector, including a stint at Middlemore Hospital.
"I worked at the funders, the providers, an insurance company and a private hospital, so I had a really good, broad health background."
When her two children were born she stepped back from full-time work but kept her hand in consulting, helping people with business planning.
"Then when I got back on my feet I realised that really I wanted to do it myself. I'd given a lot of people advice on doing different things and I wanted to do it myself."
She bought a half share in the re:ab business, an established Pilates and physiotherapy business running out of 150sq m on Ponsonby Rd, before buying the other half a couple of years later.
The real change came in 2010, when a move to the current premises on Selbourne St saw her more than triple the size of the studio and step up the services.
"We needed to take a different approach to how we made the business work, and on top of that I'd always had a vision of an integrated health and well-being centre, a one-stop shop.
"People are time-poor. It's difficult enough to try and sort things out in relation to your health. You need to provide things easily in a format that they trust and in a way that is accessible."
In business terms, it hasn't been easy running an operation that is likely to be paid for out of its clients' discretionary spending.
"I know every dollar that goes out of my account," she says. "I am fixated on costs and I monitor everything, all the time.
"The other thing that I would say over the difficult times is that we have really listened to our clients." Wilkinson is often found sitting behind the re:ab reception desk, keeping an eye on classes and asking for feedback.
She knows that more than half her new clients hear about re:ab through word of mouth.
"What I know is we have to look after the people who are with us already as our most important form of marketing, because they are the people who are going out and telling other people to come."
Although she admits the re:ab model could be duplicated elsewhere, Wilkinson is coy about expansion plans, saying there is still room for growth at her Grey Lynn premises.
"I want to get things completely perfect and know exactly the right way of going about things before we expand it further. I think you've just got to be really sensible. It is a difficult environment but we are really, really pleased about how it's gone over a difficult time."
Wilkinson's interest in health extends beyond her business. Since 2009 she has been a board member of the Middlemore Foundation for Health Innovation, a charitable trust that raises funds for health services at Middlemore Hospital and the wider South Auckland community, and is on the board of the Mental Health Foundation.
"As well as raising money for a neonatal bed, we're also raising money to insulate homes in South Auckland to try and keep down the rates of respiratory illness."
Wilkinson says she believes strongly in giving back to the community. "I think it's really important in business to be thinking about what you can do to give back ... And also we all need to be mindful of what's going on with the rest of our community and how we can help."


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While Christie has had his requisite photo ops with Cory Booker, Republican Steve Lonegan has been chipping away at Booker's lead in the polls.
According to this article, Booker was once considered a shoo-in with lead of 35 pts in the polls, which is now down to 12 points.In case you haven't been following this at all, Lonegan is blind. He began losing his vision to retinitis pigmentosa when he was about 14 years old.Lonegan is now doing better in the polls three weeks out than Brown was at the same point in his famous 2010 upset race against the supposedly unbeatable Democrat state attorney general Martha Coakley.Lonegan says:Lonegans father died shortly afterwards, but Lonegan persevered. Still, by the time he had worked himself through college the liberal welfare state had its hooks out for this now almost-blind boy and he was told that his future would amount to weaving baskets. He was told to accept disability and simply forget the rest of a normal life. Lonegan would have none of it. He went to a rundown store that sold kitchen cabinets in search of a job. Refused, he asked for a deal: Lonegan would work two weeks selling cabinets for free to show what he could do and if he managed to sell cabinets he could get his job. It worked, Lonegan jumping into the private sector and becoming a whirlwind selling kitchen cabinets. By 1988, the one-time Social Security disability recipient who had been told he should simply surrender his life to the welfare state was the largest kitchen cabinet dealer in New Jersey.Booker has gone on record saying that he will do everything possible to have O-care implemented. Lonegan takes the opposing view.I know how destructive the entitlement state is. I have felt the cold cruel fingers of the entitlement program wrap around my own soul and government likes it that way. The more clients the better. And Ill go face to face with any single, solitary social worker who wants to tell me otherwise because I have been there.For those of you who may be from other parts of the country, Newark is sort of the Detroit of the East Coast ... except it never had an auto industry. It is part of the Port of NY. Prudential used to have its home office in Newark. It gradually moved more and more employees out of the city, keeping its headquarters there in name only. (Of course, Prudential was ultimately swallowed up by its largest competitor, Met Life).He talks about the nature of the primordial assault on America by the Obama Agenda and points to Bookers own breathtakingly bad record as Newarks mayor. The city has a 15% unemployment rate say again 15% and crime has skyrocketed even past that of Bookers liberal Democrat predecessor Sharpe James.
I lived in Newark briefly, MANY years ago, and it wasn't a nice place even back then.
It's pretty bad when even the NY Times reports on the shady dealings of a video website called Waywire, of which Booker was a stock holder. This was the company where the 15-yr-old son of the CNN CEO sat on the "advisory board", complete with stock options. Equally interesting is that another investor in Waywire was the CEO of Google ... which owns YouTube.Other than videos of Cory Booker, the only notable niche tiny Waywire has developed is extreme anti-Semitic videos. When the Washington Free Beacon broke that story back in March, Waywire responded: We are now evaluating the videos in question. We take these matters very seriously. Five months later, anti-Semitic videos are still rampant on the site.The special election is on Oct. 16.They say Steve Lonegan is an underdog.
Then again, he has been an underdog his entire life. Listening to the complete version of his struggle with blindness is truly inspirational. It is both Steve Lonegans American story and Americas story. A story of persistence, courage, and character.


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Polls show growing American dissatisfaction with the tea party as voter remorse sets in.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey out Wednesday shows a 21 percent increase in unfavorable views of the tea party with nearly half of all Americans no longer seeing the fake grassroots in a favorable light.
"This is the first time a CNN polls has shown the tea party's unfavorable ratings as high as those of the other two parties," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland says. "It looks like the rise in the movement's unfavorable ratings has come mostly among people who make less than $50,000."
Half of American households earn less than $50,000 a year and the tea party's favorable ratings have dropped 15 percentage points with that group, compared with five percent with those making over $50,000.
Tea party advocate Sen. JIm DeMint (R-S.C.) admits his party is in trouble without the tea baggers.
"Unless the tea party stays active, we will wilt," he said Tuesday.
Around the country, prominent Republicans show a shift away from the rabid right-wing rhetoric of the Tea Party. Barbara Bush supports gay marriage, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says the GOP should spend more time on budget and economic issues and less time on social agendas and Sarah Palin's poll numbers are plummeting.
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AIChE holds an annual election for the Board of Directors. Board members are elected for three-year terms. In any given year, one-third of the Board will be up for election.
Any qualified member, senior member, or Fellow can run by petition for president-elect, secretary, treasurer, or director (but not president) by filing signatures of 100 or more voting members with the Office of the Secretary no later than 25 weeks prior to the annual meeting.
Timeline for The Overall Election Process
|Appointment of Nominating Committee
|Nominating Committee develops election slate
|Election slate publicized to membership
|Petition candidate cut-off
|Election ballot mailing
|Election Commences
|Ballot receipt deadline
|Tellers Committee meeting - Candidates informed of election results
|Election results announced at Annual Business Meeting, All members are encouraged to attend this meeting.
|Election results published in CEP
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In order to keep campaigning on a highly professional level and to maintain fairness to all candidates, the Institute will rely on the integrity of the candidates. The Office of the Secretary of the Institute oversees the elections and will provide interpretation of the guidelines as needed. The following are the Board of Directors Campaign Guidelines for the election of the AIChE President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Directors.
- AIChE or any AIChE Group or Committee (e.g., AIChE Division, Forum, Committee, or Local Section) cannot endorse or oppose any Board of Directors candidate. Members of the Board of Directors shall not endorse or oppose any candidate; however, a current member of the Board of Directors may campaign on his/her own behalf.
- Campaigns shall be financed by the candidates themselves. Campaigns cannot be financed by AIChE or any AIChE Committee (e.g., AIChE Division, Forum, Committee or Local Section), or by any organization, company, or university. All campaign costs are to be borne by the candidate.
- Campaign committees may be formed. A Board Member cannot be on a campaign committee.
- Candidates may campaign via social media. A URL or link to the official election information on the AIChE election web page should be provided when possible.
- AIChE Committees (e.g., AIChE Division, Forum, Committee, or Local Section) cannot provide campaign information to their members. AIChE Committees cannot endorse or oppose a Board of Directors candidate via newsletters, emails, websites, or any form of social media.
- Members of the Board of Directors are not permitted to endorse or oppose a candidate via social media (e.g., "liking," reposting or commenting on "Facebook").
- AIChE will advertise the candidate's personal statement presenting his/her qualifications and views as published in AIChE's official magazine and on AIChE's web page. The candidate may provide an email address, website URL or social media information for more details on his/her positions in order to foster a dialog between the candidate and the voting membership.
- Interactions between the candidate and voting membership are permitted and encouraged; however, mailing lists and email lists cannot be provided by AIChE or any AIChE Committee (e.g., AIChE Division, Forum, Committee, or Local Section).
- Campaigning at AIChE meetings (e.g., the AIChE Spring, Annual, Local Section or Regional Meetings) is limited to personal interactions between the candidates and meeting attendees. Distribution and posting of campaign materials at AIChE meetings (e.g., the AIChE Spring, Annual, Local Section or Regional Meetings) are prohibited.
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Spent the day wrestling with Apache's FastCGI implementation. Time to admit defeat and hit the mailing list.
Spent the day wrestling with Apache's FastCGI implementation. Time to admit defeat and hit the mailing list.
Got TrustedCVS working, and wrote some new userv-based delegated namespace management utilities for it. Really need to package this lot up and remove all excuses for pserver.
Tigers have many children (Chinese proverb meaning all calamities occur coinstantaneously): I have no fewer than four speaking engagements this week. Oops. At least people are willing to listen.
Started work on my new essay "Who's really stealing the music?"
Gave a talk about the threat of privatised intellectual property law, to the Computing Society.
Incredibly nervous ... luckily I'd had several pints of lager to calm the nerves, and was pretty fluent :)
Spent yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. The defendant in the Sony v Channel lost the case, though the judge was excellent. See the obligatory Register article, with nice quote from me at the bottom. Obligatory article from the Register. Nice quote from Yours Truly at the bottom.
Mr Justice Jacobs was highly critical of Sony's case (though he agreed that the statute law was entirely with them). He noted that they could monopolise the Playstation games market through their copy-control mechanism, and he didn't like this at all. His ruling probably confirms the prohibition on DeCSS, criminalises the commercial sale of devices based on DeCSS, and certainly confirms that privately importing digital goods is a no-no.
On returning to Cambridge, I went to the Computing Society's talk, which was given by David Braben, author of Elite and now a PS2 games developer. We had a great old discussion of the piracy issue in the pub afterwards. As luck would have it I was to be giving a talk to the Computing Society this term about these sorts of issues; I'll have a lot more material now.
Didn't quite make it back home last night, which is good, cause the walk to the office is a killer (not that I slept at the office).
My euroDMCA article is bringing in interest.
Spent some time on the phone to journalists today in connection with the court case tomorrow. Someone who made a Playstation mod chip is being sued by Sony under the old-style anticircumvention laws the UK put on the books in 1988, long before DMCA.
If you want to attend the court, just to say you were there at the first anticircumvention case in England, then you want the High Court in London, at 9am. The plaintiffs are various parts of Sony Corporation. Wear blazer and tie or suit and tie.
Scarily, the poor chap would be innocent under the DMCA or the European Copyright Directive (EUCD / euroDMCA).
Have to get that article about circumvention rolling.
... posted the final draft of my paper on the Takedown provisions of the EUCD (the European DMCA). Get it from www.openrevolt.org.
I'm now about to start work on the anti-circumvention clauses. Fun.
On the tech front, I'm writing something to help get rid of telnet access (a thing notifying people recorded as using telnet that they want SSH).
Finished first draft of letter to my Member of Parliament. Letter asks five questions about the upcoming UK implementation of the EUCD (the European DMCA). Letter to be published on OpenRevolt.org once I've sent it.
Spent some time reworking one of my articles on the EUCD, and learning two songs, in Brazilian Portuguese and Russian, just for the hell of it. Ok, just because I needed an excuse to test the speakers after an office reorganisation.
Tidied my desk
I've now started putting up my criticisms of the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which is the EU version of the DMCA, on one of my websites.
Those interested can go to www.openrevolt.org .
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