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Cultural anthropologist discusses rituals, March 2
Posted February 23, 2006; 11:05 p.m.
Pascal Boyer, the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective
Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, will speak on "Why People
Perform Rituals" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, in 101 Friend Center.
Boyer is an internationally recognized scholar whose work brings together anthropology, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience to examine the relationships among cultural evolution, the mind and the brain. He has developed innovative ways of examining subjects' responses to specific language about God and other supernatural beliefs in cross-cultural experimental settings.
Trained in cultural anthropology, Boyer has for the past decade pioneered the application of cognitive theory to an evolutionary understanding of religion. His major publications include "The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion"; "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"; and "Religious Thought and Behavior as By-products of Brain Function."
The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion.


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Has anyone used the bird basket from BB? Just wondering how far it will launch bird.
Has anyone used the bird basket from BB? Just wondering how far it will launch bird.
I have never used one because I have not been able to find one, but I think they say it will launch a bird 15 yards.
Talk to the people at BB. Years ago even they weren't too crazy about them. I think the basket was meant to throw pigeons.
Some disagree, but we've done well by putting ducks near the fall area and launched a bumper, slightly beyond or behind them. Dog sees the bumper launch and finds a bird. Of course you have to have a person at the short bird station and the pile of ducks and unretrieved bumpers as a longer station.
John Lash
"If you run Field Trials, you learn to swallow your disappointment quickly."
"Field trials are not a game for good dogs. They're for great dogs with great training." E. Graham
Don't waste your money. I bought one several yrs.ago. Dog see the basket when launched may or may not see bird, also had to redo seams.
Don't use it anymore. Best thing to do is what John Lash suggested, this works for me too.


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Micheladas are a very popular drink here in Austin. I remember when I was first introduced to one it sort of blew my mind, it was all of the savory spicy things I loved paired with my favorite refreshing beer. I was recently introduced to a beer that I'm kind of crazy about so I've been playing around with it in all of my recipes too and I decided it […]Pin It


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High school football, soccer highlights - Thursday, 11-1
Spokane - In GNL football, Pullman and Cheney punched their post-season tickets, while the GSL's Central Valley and Rogers both won their cross-overs. And the Mt. Spokane girls soccer team continued its perfect season, clinching the region title.
Heading into the night, five different teams with a shot at two playoff spots: Pullman, West Valley, East Valley, Deer Park, and Cheney. Here's how those playoff spots were decided, starting with Thursday night's results:
Colville def. Pullman (4-2), 26-20
Cheney (4-2) def. Clarkston, 28-19
East Valley (4-2) def. Deer Park (3-3), 35-24
West Valley (4-2) no game because of byeHigh school football, soccer highlights - Thursday, 11-1
Pullman, Cheney, East Valley and West Valley all finished 4-2. The tie-breaker is record versus other 4-2 teams. Pullman and Cheney were both 2-1 versus the other three teams, while East Valley and West Valley were 1-2 versus the other three 4-2 teams. So Pullman and Cheney will represent the GNL in the 2A playoffs.
Central Valley had no problem with Hanford, beating the Falcons 42-0 at CV High School.
Rogers also notched its first win of the season, beating North Central 28-21 at Joe Albi Stadium.
3A Regional Girls Soccer
Mt. Spokane (17-0) added another title to its perfect season with a 2-0 win over Kamiakin in the 3A girls soccer regional. Alyssa Lloyd scored late in the first half, and Riley Richardson scored on a set-piece with 13 minutes to go in the second half to lead the GSL champs to victory. The Wildcats will play in the 3A state tournament beginning next week, time and site TBA.


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|elephant skin print - black t w/pink stripe - 2y :: SALE!
|This season I asked RISD student, Meagan Phipps, to work on the t-shirts for Nonchalant Kids. She was going to intern for me but after seeing her amazing portfolio I thought it would be more exciting for her to create some things directly for the collection. I asked her to create two prints, make the screens and print the t-shirts herself and I am completely in love with the unique way that these turned out! for this print she was inspired by a collage of her own charcoal drawings and drew and erased over the collage in many layers to achieve the pattern. "In doing this, I was thinking about the worn surface of elephant skin, as well as what it means to erase something or reverse a process" I love they way she said this to me and it brings it all to life! These are 100% cotton hand printed t-shirts - we have tested and washed them in cold and they can also be put into the dryer on medium to low. These were printed on American Apparel blanks so the fit runs a little small if you have dealt with these before.
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I was wandering if you could help me. I have a 2D game built using directx 9 and its all working fine. I would however like to reduce the load time for the game as there is a substantial amount of graphics to load. My sprite class uses LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 for the images and an image is loaded using D3DXGetImageInfoFromFile().
This approach works perfectly its just I have some animations that have a large number of large individual frames to load. This increases the load time and the size of the overall game by quite a bit. I was looking at a way to replace these animations with some form of flash animation sequence but i cant find a way to maintain the transparency of a flash animation in directx.
Any help of this would be greatly appreciated,
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Palantir Technologies, the "big data" miner that the counts the CIA and the FBI among its clients, is poised to announce a new round of funding that will value the company at roughly $9 billion, according a person familiar with the matter.
In a securities filing Thursday, Palantir is expected to disclose that it has raised $58 million in the current funding round, the person familiar with the matter said. The person said Palantir could expand the round to as much as $100 million. The names of investors could not be learned.
With the new funds, Palantir has now raised roughly $650 million since its founding in 2004.
The valuation is a 50% increase from September, when Palantir was valued at $6 billion. Palantir disclosed in September it had completed a funding round that raised $196.5 million.
Palantir's employee ranks have been growing as well, to 1,200, from 700 a year ago. Most employees are software engineers, tasked with writing code that can digest vast pools of data and quickly connect dots that would take people months or years to decipher.
The software has been a hit with intelligence agencies like the CIA, investigative agencies like the FBI, federal prosecutors, private investigators and others.
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It sure is nice to hunt over a well-mannered dog and see them do their job with such enthusiasm. Makes all the hard work worth it for both of us. Plus he did a good job of keeping me warm in the blind on a freezing morning at Summer Lake while we waited for the light to go off.
I only hope he performs as well next week at the hunt test we're going to


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Local Families act Together in "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
When you attend the Fairmont State University Town & Gown Summer Theatre production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," you will notice a lot of related names in the program. Multiple members of several local families take the stage together for this musical.
Tickets for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" are $10 and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at (304) 367-4240. Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. June 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21 and at 2 p.m. June 15 at Wallman Hall Theatre on the FSU main campus.


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Our main activity here has been the city tour we went on this morning. Although it must have looked funny just the two of us sitting in this huge tour bus, it was great to have the tour guide to ourselves as he showed us just how much in fact the city was developing. He also took us by some very fascinating sites, including where the soldiers that had been protecting the Prime Minister during the genocide had been taken and made what could be called a last-stand, if one is to judge by the bullet holes in the wall anyway. The place has been turned into a memorial to remember the genocide in general, but in particular these soldiers who were killed. We also were taken to the Genocide Memorial Centre, which recalls in sometimes very graphic detail the genocide from start to finish
Anyway, I realize this is a bit heavier than usual, but somewhat difficult to avoid! Tomorrow Allison and I are off to Gisenyi for yet more lakeside relaxation (Lake Kivu this time). Talk soon!


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Happy Presidents Day all. Mondays are my normal day off so no big deal for me, except no banks open and no bills in the mailbox. So that is cool.
So I ask.
Who is / was your favorite President of the United States of America? And why?
Who was / is the worst President of the United States of America? And why?
In your opinions.
My favorite was Ronald Reagan. He was the first President I was able to vote for and it seemed, in his speeches he was speaking directly to me.
My worst was Richard Nixon. (surprised?) He was the first President I became Politically aware of. I can remember watching Walter Cronkite on the evening news with my Grandfather. And how angry Nixon made him. Honor, respect of the office, all politics are local politics, I came to understand. Mr. Nixon made my Grandfather very angry. That is stuff little kids remember.


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The ceiling of a room in a "Caribbean-style bed & breakfast" in an old Victorian house. See www.theparadorinn.com / for info about the B&B. I thought the ceiling was interesting.
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The gigapan image stitcher made some large errors (left side) and small (all over) in this image mosaic. It would be nice to resample this panorama onto a plane so that the corners of the ceiling, which are straight lines, of course, are projected to straight lines in the image. -Paul Heckbert, the photographer


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Miriam Goldstein is a doctoral student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She likes invertebrates, ecology, and the zombie apocalypse.
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by Miriam in Deep Sea News
For centuries, mariners sought the Northwest Passage, a route through the Canadian ice that connected the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. Today, the Arctic ice has melted so much that the Northwest Passage exists – there's already multinational wrangling over shipping rights. Why is the Arctic melting so fast? There are a number of reasons, . . . → Read More: How microscopic plankton explain the opening of the Northwest Passage... Read more »
Spielhagen, R., Werner, K., Sorensen, S., Zamelczyk, K., Kandiano, E., Budeus, G., Husum, K., Marchitto, T., & Hald, M. (2011) Enhanced Modern Heat Transfer to the Arctic by Warm Atlantic Water. Science, 331(6016), 450-453. DOI: 10.1126/science.1197397
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
There a new ocean carbon sequestration scheme in town - dumping crop waste. A study published in Environmental Science and Technology last month proposes baling up corn husks and wheat stalks, weighting them with rocks, and tossing them into the deep sea. (Here's the NYT blurb.)
The authors claim that marine creatures will be unable to [...]... Read more »
Stuart E. Strand, Gregory Benford. (2009) Ocean Sequestration of Crop Residue Carbon: Recycling Fossil Fuel Carbon Back to Deep Sediments. Environmental Science , 43(4), 1000-1007. DOI: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es8015556?cookieSet
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Geoengineering - the deliberate manipulation of the earth's atmosphere in order to mitigate global warming - seems to be gaining more credibility worldwide. Just today, Wired reports that an iron fertilization experiment is being conducted in the Southern Ocean by Indian and German scientists.
Though iron fertilization is the best-known geoengineering proposal (thanks to Planktos' shenanigans), [...]... Read more »
Philip W. Boyd. (2008) Ranking geo-engineering schemes. Nature Geoscience, 1(11), 722-724. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo348
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
All animals need oxygen. Land animals have it easy, with all this air just floating about free for the breathing, but marine animals rely on oxygen that is dissolved in the water. Oxygen can only dissolve into the ocean from the surface, so it's a limited resource. That's why there's natural low-oxygen habitats, like deep [...]... Read more »
R. Vaquer-Sunyer, & C. M. Duarte. (2008) Thresholds of hypoxia for marine biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(40), 15452-15457. DOI/10.1073/pnas.0803833105
by Miriam Goldstein in Deep Sea News
In which a distraught marine snail seeks advice about a penis sprouting from the right side of her head.... Read more »
Cardoso, R., Caetano, C., & Cabrini, T. (2009) Biphallia in imposexed females of marine gastropods: new record for Nassarius vibex from Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 69(1). DOI: 10.1590/S1519-69842009000100030
Matthiessen, P., & Gibbs, P. (1998) Critical appraisal of the evidence for tributyltin-mediated endocrine disruption in mollusks. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 17(1), 37-43. DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620170106
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Dear Oyster's Garter,
I'm a coccolithophore, a single-celled marine plant with a shell made of tiny plates. I come from a long line of mighty ocean warriors. Our massive blooms rule the waves, thriving in nutrient-poor waters where punier plankton fear to tread. (I don't want to sound too scary, though - we are benevolent overlords, [...]... Read more »
M. Frada, I. Probert, M. J. Allen, W. H. Wilson, & C. de Vargas. (2008) From the Cover: The "Cheshire Cat" escape strategy of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in response to viral infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(41), 15944-15949. DOI/10.1073/pnas.0807707105
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Never mind plain old antibiotic resistance - some soil bacteria can actually EAT antibiotics. In this week's Science, researchers reported that they isolated hundreds of types of bacteria from regular soil and grew them in the lab with antibiotics as their sole food source. Not only did the bacteria survive, but some strains happily munched on common antibiotics like penicillin & ciprofloxacin. NOM NOM NOM indeed.... Read more »
G. Dantas, M. O. A. Sommer, R. D. Oluwasegun, & G. M. Church. (2008) Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics. Science, 320(5872), 100-103. DOI/10.1126/science.1155157
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
For nearly 100 million years, sponges alone ruled the seas. In a study published in this week's Nature, researchers found chemical traces of sponges that were over 635 million years old. ... Read more »
Gordon D. Love, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Charlotte Stalvies, David A. Fike, John P. Grotzinger, Alexander S. Bradley, Amy E. Kelly, Maya Bhatia, William Meredith, Colin E. Snape.... (2009) Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period. Nature, 457(7230), 718-721. DOI: 10.1038/nature07673
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Dear Oyster's Garter,
I am an attractive male sea squirt (a Styela plicata, in case you were wondering) in the prime of life. I live alone on the underside of a nice dock, I've got plenty of tasty phytoplankton to eat, and my siphons have extremely handsome pleats. But I'm worried, because every time I [...]... Read more »
A. J. Crean, & D. J. Marshall. (2008) Gamete plasticity in a broadcast spawning marine invertebrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(36), 13508-13513. DOI/10.1073/pnas.0806590105
by Miriam in Deep Sea News
Time: 9 PM, after a long day in the lab.
Place: Lucha Libre Taco Shop
Internal Monologue:
Bad Miriam: "If I do not have a Surf 'n' Turf burrito I will surely perish!"
Good Miriam: "No! Shrimp is bad! You know shrimp is bad! You are a goddamn marine biologist!"
Bad Miriam: "But it is sooooo delicious. Plus it tastes so . . . → Read More: DON'T PANIC: Sustainable seafood and the American outlaw... Read more »
Anh, P., Kroeze, C., Bush, S., & Mol, A. (2010) Water pollution by intensive brackish shrimp farming in south-east Vietnam: Causes and options for control. Agricultural Water Management, 97(6), 872-882. DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.01.018
Myers, R., & Worm, B. (2003) Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature, 423(6937), 280-283. DOI: 10.1038/nature01610
Rosenberg, A., Bolster, W., Alexander, K., Leavenworth, W., Cooper, A., & McKenzie, M. (2005) The history of ocean resources: modeling cod biomass using historical records. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 3(2), 78-84. DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0078:THOORM]2.0.CO;2
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
My very first blog post at the new Slate spinoff Double X is up. As Double X's resident marine biologist, I figured that I needed to get the dolphin issue out of the way post haste.
It never fails. Every single cocktail party, as soon as someone finds out that I'm a graduate student studying marine [...]... Read more »
Connor, R., Richards, A., Smolker, R., & Mann, J. (1996) Patterns of Female Attractiveness in Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphins. Behaviour, 133(1), 37-69. DOI: 10.1163/156853996X00026
LYAMIN, O., MANGER, P., RIDGWAY, S., MUKHAMETOV, L., & SIEGEL, J. (2008) Cetacean sleep: An unusual form of mammalian sleep. Neuroscience , 32(8), 1451-1484. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.05.023
Patterson, Reid, & Wilson. (1998) Evidence for Infanticide in Bottlenose Dolphins: An Explanation for Violent Interactions with Harbour Porpoises?. Proc Biol Sci., 265(1402).
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Though I'm totally thrilled that my ode to squid sex appeared in Slate, I only brought the funny to existing research. Since the format at Slate does not allow for citations, here they are.
The videos and the excellent sneaker male facts were from Dr. Lou Zeidberg's research up at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, CA. [...]... Read more »
Zeidberg, Louis D. (2008) First observations of sneaker mating in the California market squid Doryteuthis opalescens (Cephalopoda: Myopsida). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. 2 Biodiversity Records, 5998. DOI: http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/biodiversityrecords.php?jmbaref
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
I've written about my love of urban wildlife before, but this French weed is taking it to a whole new level. In the latest edition of PNAS, French scientists report that a humble sidewalk week has actually changed its reproductive strategy in just a few generations in order thrive amidst the vast concrete plains.
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P-O Cheptou, O Carrue, S Rouifed, & A Cantarel. (2008) Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(10), 3796-3799. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708446105
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography and local oceanography that may have consequences in the debates surrounding marine reserve design. Castillo and colleagues examined the spawning behavior of intertidal tunicates (Pyura praeputialis, an invasive) . . . → Read More: Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex... Read more »
Castilla, J., Manriquez, P., Delgado, A., Gargallo, L., Leiva, A., & Radic, D. (2007) Bio-foam enhances larval retention in a free-spawning marine tunicate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(46), 18120-18122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708233104
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool!
Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the potential exchanges of species in cold methane seeps across the Atlantic Ocean from the Congo to the Gulf of Mexico. By culling data from the literature, the authors demonstrate, despite great distance, . . . → Read More: Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals... Read more »
Olu, K., Cordes, E., Fisher, C., Brooks, J., Sibuet, M., & Desbruyères, D. (2010) Biogeography and Potential Exchanges Among the Atlantic Equatorial Belt Cold-Seep Faunas. PLoS ONE, 5(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011967
Miljutin, D. (2010) Deep-sea parasitic nematodes of the genus Trophomera Rubtsov et Platonova, 1974 (Benthimermithidae) from the Equatorial Atlantic, with the descriptions of two new species. Helgoland Marine Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10152-010-0225-0
Cain, S. (2005) Magnetic Orientation and Navigation in Marine Turtles, Lobsters, and Molluscs: Concepts and Conundrums. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45(3), 539-546. DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.3.539
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
I could write about a detailed account of a new study in PLoS One. I could discuss how the researchers imported information on the spatial extent of marine scientific research, submarine communication cables, radioactive waste disposal, munitions and chemical weapons waste disposal, military operations, oil and gas industry, and bottom trawling OSPAR maritime area of the . . . → Read More: Our Impacts on the Deep... Read more »
Benn, A., Weaver, P., Billet, D., van den Hove, S., Murdock, A., Doneghan, G., & Le Bas, T. (2010) Human Activities on the Deep Seafloor in the North East Atlantic: An Assessment of Spatial Extent. PLoS ONE, 5(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012730
by Miriam in Deep Sea News
You are probably aware that Smoove A* is an authority on crustaceous love. Some have gone so far as to describe Smoove A as the authority on all multi-legged ladies. I am an amphipod (Gammara pulex), a microscopic crustacean that inhabits lakes and streams, and I cannot confirm or deny this report, I can only say . . . → Read More: How To Cuddle Your Lady Right, by Smoove A... Read more »
Galipaud, M., Dechaume-Moncharmont, F., Oughadou, A., & Bollache, L. (2010) Does foreplay matter? Gammarus pulex females may benefit from long-lasting precopulatory mate guarding. Biology Letters. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0924
by Miriam Goldstein in The Oyster's Garter
There is much buzz these days about marine protected areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. We are approaching the age of assessment. There has been enough time passed where we should see a signal of improvement to verify conservation theory. While the data has been trickling in for many MPAs and there is in general an improvement . . . → Read More: Penguins Immediately Benefit From MPA... Read more »
Pichegru, L., Gremillet, D., Crawford, R., & Ryan, P. (2010) Marine no-take zone rapidly benefits endangered penguin. Biology Letters, 6(4), 498-501. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0913
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McCosh on alert for flu-like symptoms
Posted October 25, 2001; 12:16 a.m.
Princeton University Health Services soon will have available quick-detection flu kits that can rule out the likelihood of influenza. University students who exhibit flu-like symptoms (fever, muscle aches and cough) should seek care at McCosh Health Center.
People infected by inhalation anthrax normally exhibit flu-like symptoms. Should University students have flu-like symptoms, taking this test will help healthcare providers in their diagnostic efforts.
Several reported cases of anthrax in New Jersey and in the nation have increased community fears that an anthrax threat may occur on campus. University public safety and health officials are taking appropriate precautions and, to date, there has been no evidence of anthrax on campus. If there is a high likelihood that someone has contracted anthrax, treatment can be initiated at McCosh Health Center.
A one-day walk-in clinic also is being sponsored by University Health Services from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in Multipurpose Room B, Frist Campus Center. At the clinic, flu and meningitis vaccines will be available for University students.
Flu vaccine for employees is being offered on Thursday, Nov. 1 and Friday, Nov. 2. Employees should call 8-5035 for an appointment. Everyone is encouraged to be immunized.
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Most of the international airlines operate flights to Israel. El Al, operates many direct flights from the United States, Europe, the Far East, and Africa. Other Israeli airlines such as Arkia and Israir operate flights from central locations in Europe. There are no direct flights to Israel from distant locations such as Australia or South Africa, or from countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel. It is therefore a good idea to reserve a connecting flight from these places, or to arrive in Europe and then purchase a ticket to Israel.
Flight times to Israel from some cities:
From London - about 4 ½ hours
From Los Angeles - about 17 hours
From New York - about 11 hours
From Singapore - about 11 hours
Most international flights land at Ben Gurion Airport, which is located near the town of Lod - approximately a half hour's drive from Tel Aviv. Ben Gurion airport has recently opened a new, modern terminal with a large variety of duty-free shops, restaurants, and coffeehouses. Some flights from Europe also land at Sde Dov in north Tel Aviv or at Ovda Airport near Eilat.
Israel Airport AuthorityTelephone: 011-972 3-975-5555
Website: http://www.iaa.gov.il/Rashat/en-US/Rashot
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British Airways Tel: 011- 972-3-6061555
Website: www.britishairways.com
Continental Airlines International Reservation:1- 800-231-0856Tel: 011- 972-3-5116777
Website: www.continental.com
Delta Air LinesInternational Reservations: 1- 800-241-4141Website: www.delta.com Iberia Tel: 011- 972-3-5163239 Website: www.iberia.comKLM Tel: 011-972-3-7967999Website: www.klm.com
Lufthansa German Airlines Tel: 011-972-1-800-937-1-937
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Lot Polish Airlines Tel:011- 972-3-5104044/5
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Malév Tel: 011-972-3- 5621100
Swiss Intl. Airline Tel: 011-972-3-7148555, 1-700-700-257
Website: www.swiss.com
Tarom Tel:011- 972-3-5275526
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By Gene Phelps/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – This year's state championship was a lot sweeter for New Albany High School tennis twins Christopher and Christian Scott.
The brothers, sporting their trademark mohawk haircuts, defeated St. Stanislaus' Mitchell Walk and James Luffey 6-3, 6-4 Tuesday to clinch the Bulldogs' 5-2 victory in the MHSAA Tennis Championships at Bridges Tennis Center.
"It's the best feeling," Christian Scott said. "We lost our court last year and didn't contribute to the win. Today, we were the court that won it for our team."
Christopher Scott was just excited to be playing. He missed most of the postseason recovering from a back injury.
"I'm 80 percent, but that's all we needed," he said. "It feels really good to win as a team. We all came together and played well."
New Albany, coached by Warner Creekmore, has now won two consecutive state titles and three of the last four in Class 4A.
"I knew we'd probably win four courts, but I'm excited we won five," she said. "You never know.
"I've got good kids. The have a good work ethic and they do well in academics.
"I couldn't ask for a better group."
Seventh grader Morris Kelly Clayton won girls singles for the Bulldogs. Marcus Crotts and Parker Nail (boys doubles), Meghan Van and Katie Davis (girls doubles), and Olivia Dunnam and Hannah Anderson (girls doubles), all won their courts.
Mooreville returned to the Class 3A team championships for a second straight season only to lose to 11-time state winner St. Andrew's.
The Saints swept Tuesday's 7-0 match at Ridgeland Tennis Center.
"I'm proud of my players. They made Mooreville proud," Troopers coach Kristy Rowland said. "We're a growing program. We have plans to keep it growing."
Zach Shumpert and Jay West, who lost their boys doubles match, admitted it wasn't their best day.
"We didn't play really great," said Shumpert, a senior. "We worked really hard to get here. I've enjoyed it."
Another senior, Dylan Lewis, is proud of what his team accomplished.
"We've helped build this program," he said. It's sad to know it's over."
The Chargers defeated Stone County 6-1 to win their sixth consecutive Class 5A state championship.
Hattiesburg Sacred Heart (1A), Madison St, Joe (2A) and Ocean Springs (6A) won the other team championships.


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Found this buffalo meatloaf very good! I put left-over tomatoes from freezer around meat, & added some chopped up kale & greens from garden. I'd use more garlic & vegies next time, has so much flavor!
This is so good! I made it with venison with and added a tablespoon of smoked paprika and it was moist and delicious! I did not do the tomatoes and shallots, but served it with potatoes and gravy.
Could not pass on writing a review because this was so exceptional. I made this as specified, but made my own gravy in a crockpot with beef stock, roasted shallots, tawny port, diced tomatoes and sauted mushrooms that sat on low all day. I also basted the loaves with a mixture of ketchup, mustard and brown sugar and baked it in the convection oven at 350º for 1 hour. It was exactly 160º. For some reason I expected it to be on the dry side because of the lack of fat in bison/buffalo. I was stunned. It is the most moist and tasty meatloaf I've ever eaten. It wasn't cheap- regular supplier suffered a fire therefore I paid $23 for nearly 2 lbs of meat- but in the long run, it was definitely worth it.
The best meat loaf I've ever had. We've made it several times now, and each time it's been terrific. Only once did I have enough juice at the end to make gravy, and even that was really good. After a small bit of experimentation, I've replaced the bread crumbs with instant cook oats, and I double the carrots. Sometimes I use new potatoes instead of tomatoes around it, and either work. Make sure you mince the vegetables really well. The smaller they are, the better the meat loaf will turn out.
I've made this recipe many times since it was first published in 2000, and it has never disappointed. Tonight I used 1 lb bison, 3/4 lb ground pork shoulder, and substituted green pepper for celery. My family of four scarfed down the whole thing. Yum.
Used lean ground beef instead of buffalo, skipped the shallots & tomatoes and used BBQ sauce instead of ketchup. Very lean and tasty.
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I made this in a loaf pan, skipping the shallot/tomato part and glazed with ketchup instead. It was moist, tender, and very flavorful. I'll definitely make it again!
This is a great meatloaf recipe. My family prefers it to the "regular kind". It moist and has its own "gravy".
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New program funds PPPL projects
Posted August 17, 2001; 12:17 a.m.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will receive approximately $2 million over the next three years under a new U.S. Department of Energy program called Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing.
The program is intended to advance fundamental research in several areas, including climate modeling, fusion energy sciences, chemical sciences, nuclear astrophysics, high-energy physics and high-performance computing. Nationally, the 51 projects funded this year involve collaborations among 13 Department of Energy laboratories and more than 50 colleges and universities.
Managed by Princeton University for the Department of Energy, the PPPL performs research in fusion energy science, leading to the development of an abundant and environmentally attractive means of generating electricity.
The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program is designed to help create a new generation of scientific simulation codes. The codes will take full advantage of the extraordinary computing capabilities of terascale computers (computers capable of doing trillions of calculations per second) to address ever larger, more complex problems. The program also includes research on improved mathematical and computing systems software that will allow these codes to use modern parallel computers effectively and efficiently. Additionally, the program will develop "collaboratory" software to enable geographically separated scientists to effectively work together as a team, to control scientific instruments remotely and to share data more readily.
"This innovative program will help us to find new energy sources for the future, understand the effect of energy production on our environment and learn more about the fundamental nature of energy and matter," said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. "A major strength of many of the projects is a partnership between scientists at the Energy Department's national laboratories and universities."
PPPL researchers will participate in four projects focused on the development and improvement of physics models and computer resources needed for integrated simulations of plasma confinement systems and data analysis. Plasmas are the hot, ionized gases that fuel the fusion process.
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Daryl M. Pagel
Daryl M. Pagel, age 85 of Monticello, died Friday, January 25, 2013 at the Monroe Clinic Hospital. Daryl was born June 17, 1927 in Orangeville, IL, the son of Manuel and Hulda (Morris) Pagel. Daryl served in the National Guard for three years before his marriage to Marie Neuenschwander on December 26, 1948 at Grace Lutheran Church, Monroe. Daryl and Marie farmed in Juda, Albany, and for the last 55 years in Washington Township. He was a faithful member of the Washington Reformation United Church of Christ. Daryl loved his family and enjoyed working with wood, his draft horses, hunting, playing cards and board games.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Marie Pagel of Monticello; two daughters, Joyce (Larry) Hummel of Monticello, and Janice (Ray) Forney of Forreston, IL; five grandchildren, Julie (Earnie) Ruegsegger, Steve Hummel, Robert (Stephanie) Forney, Lisa Kaehler, and Laura Forney; a step-grandson, Ray (Doreen) Forney; eleven great grandchildren; two brothers, Allan (Rosemarie) Pagel of Denmark, WI, David (Karen) Pagel of Juda; a sister, Mary (Leonard) Harrison of Belvidere, IL; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Doris Seffrood.
Memorial services will be held on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., at the Washington Reformation United Church of Christ, Monticello, with Pastor Mary Gafner officiating. Visitation will be at the Newcomer Funeral Home, Monroe, on Tuesday from 4:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund will be established in Daryl's name for the Washington Church. To share a memory or sign the guestbook go to www.newcomerfuneralhome.net


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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times best-seller and literary phenomenon of 2009: The Magicians.
The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges.
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.
The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest for the Harry Potter generation. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling. Once again Grossman proves that he is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis and at the cutting edge of literary fantasy.
©2011 Lev Grossman (P)2011 Penguin Audio
"[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out." (The New York Times Editor's Choice)
"The Magician King is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy." (The Boston Globe)
"Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary lift that positions The Magician King well above the standard fantasy fare." (The New Yorker)
"King Grossman the Magician"
It is unusual when a following book is better than the original, and even more rare when considering that the first book is marvelous in its own right. In the first book Quentin was somewhat pathetic, but you loved him even so (one of those negative people who is never satisfied, regardless), he was an antihero who yearned to be a hero. But discovering Breakbills through Quentin's eyes was nonetheless magical, and haunting, and when the first book ends you pretty much have to go back and read it again. Book 2, The Magician King is even more all that than the first book, replete with Julia's experiences, and Julia is probably even a better character than Quentin, although her unbelievable constant fury matches Quentin's omnipresent ingratitude and teenage lack of direction. Julia and Quentin are both utterly believable as highly intelligent, unique-thinking braniacs (Grossman is brilliant, in dialogue, characterization, and plotting). Fillory is much more engrossing in this second book and finally provides a worthy contender to C.S. Lewis' Narnia (albeit a raunchy, F-bomb laced Narnia, drunken and drugged). There is a lot of raunchy language, but The Magician King is haunting and beautiful, and quite a read, and more satisfying than the first book (which was quite satisfying, read it first). Mark Bramhall as narrator is skilled and sophisticated (and I keep thinking I'm listening to David Hyde Pierce's Niles Crane, with a slight cold, and a little drunk on cough syrup, but his voice changes and delivery is masterful). Great book, and worth the wait! Art et Amour Toujours
After finishing the second book, I am wondering if the polarity of the first book was actually between people who have experienced the spinning wheels of significant depression, anxiety, or other mental malady and those who have not. ( For those who have not, good for you, stay healthy! ) Lev Grossman's ability to convey what it feels like to be a smart person suffering from depression and ennui hits a bit close to the bone, but that is what makes the characters ring deeply true.
The second book is likely to hit a nerve differently than the first book. The result is that, as our anti-hero muddles along, there are plenty of new emotional hurdles to face as a reader.
The bottom line is that I continue to both love and struggle with this story. That, to me, is the mark of literature.
I'm a voracious audiobibliophile, mainly interested in speculative fiction, with the occasional mimetic fiction or non-fiction title sneaking in.
"A voyage in a different direction"
After 2009's groundbreaking The Magicians, Lev Grossman takes his "hero" Quentin on a hero's quest, by ship, magic gate, hell, and high water. Where the first book saw classroom scenes of painstaking practice and learning, here Quentin, Eliot, Janet, and Julia are the kings and queens of Fillory and have been for a good while -- long enough for boredom to set in, and Quentin realizes that he really must find something to do. That something turns out to be a tax collection at the Outer Island, setting Quentin and Julia off on a magical, poorly understood ship East into the half-charted seas. There may or may not be a magical golden key which winds the world. There may or may not be dragons. There are prices to pay. Then there is the other half of the novel. Interleaved with the story of Quentin's hero's quest are "the Julia chapters", filling in the backstory of Julia, one of Quentin's childhood friends, left behind when Quentin passed the entrance exam for Brakebills. Slowly, Julia unravels, at the same time unraveling the mystery of what happened to her, and discovering that there is a world -- an ad-hoc, more jagged-edged world -- of magic beyond Brakebills, found in basements and squatted buildings and various other safe houses. Through these compelling, moving, memorable chapters we see the price Julia had to pay for her magic, with both storylines coming together for a stunning finish and very satisfying denouement. On the narration: Once again, Bramhall brings his at-times delicate and heartbreaking, at other times sarcastic and dry, narration back to wonderful life. Particularly memorable in The Magician King is his characterization of the whiny, bookish Benedict, as well as the greater beings encountered along the way. Throughout, he builds a magical atmosphere and tone, never saccharine, maintaining the perfect knife's edge between the fragile and the real, charting well the heady waters of a truly worthy sequel to one of the new century's great fantasies.
Make no mistake: We're all mammals here.
"Even Better"
The follow-up to a really great work often pales in comparison to what went before, but The Magician King is, if anything, better than The Magicians. The story is even more riveting, and it is intricately and expertly told, with two plot-lines that appear to have little to do with each other coming together in the end in a surprising way to sum up the whole story. In the first book we learned about how Quentin came by his magic. In this book we learn about Julia, as her magical education is explained in a seemingly unrelated side story that actually climaxes as the main story also climaxes, the two becoming one.
I can't wait until book 3.
"Amazing, Once More"
I am going to start this with a secondarily related commentary: What on earth are you all thinking who put spoilers in your reviews? If I wanted to read a poorly written paragraph long summation of the major plot points, I wouldn't be downloading a 15 hour+ book to listen to.
In any case, on to the actual review.
Grossman takes the capital he built in The Magicians and redoubles his efforts. The primary cast returns with some notable and brilliant additions. A broad sweeping fantasy epic which switches between two primary story lines flawlessly, The Magician King explores concepts of loss, love, sacrifice, and ultimately, what it means to be the hero of your own story.
Bramhall does a magnificent job once more- I can't imagine anyone else reading these books at this point.
I agree with what one reviewer said- there seem to be two 'camps' of people who either love or hate this series. If you are looking for spoon fed and neutered magical story time where everything works out perfectly in the end, this is really not the book for you. If you've ever made horrible decisions with the best intentions, have a realist's view of the human condition, or can understand satire and allegory, you might really love this book. Yes there is profanity and "adult concepts". This isn't a children's book...
This is a bittersweet book which plumbs the depths of its characters and, by proxy, the listener. If you can't identify with something or someone in this book, I think it's time to live a more adventurous life for a bit.
Highest marks.
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"Smart, sardonic literary fantasy"
The Magicians, the novel that preceded this one, was one of my favorite works of fantasy of recent years. Grossman took the sugary soda pop of novels like the Harry Potter or Narnia series, and spiked it with a stiff shot of vodka. Instead of cute, well-mannered kids, the protagonists become a group of brilliant, angsty, self-absorbed young adults, who go to a special school to learn a lot of complicated magic, but don't pick up a whole lot of maturity or direction to go with it. Indeed, there's strangely little for them to DO after graduation, at least not until their poking around with powers above their heads reveals a dangerous world they all thought was fictional.
Had it just been a sardonic send-up of cherished works of children's fiction, I might not have enjoyed it so much, but under the hood, it also felt like a metaphor for the coming of age of the more privileged members of the generation that read all those Harry Potter books. A blurring line between fantasy and reality? Check. Too much power at one's fingertips? Check. Being well-trained to jump through hoops without necessarily being well-prepared to make good decisions? Check. An absent older generation? Check.
However, you can't make a series out of gifted youth disaffection and parodying CS Lewis, and so The Magician King offers its characters the opportunity to grow up. For Quentin, now one of Fillory's four rulers, the chance comes after the boredom of an easy life in the royal palace inspires him to set off on a diplomatic mission to the far end of the kingdom. As one might expect, this minor quest unlocks a much bigger one, which drags our mopey hero and various friends back to Earth and to other places, teaching him lessons about heroism, sacrifice, and seeing the potential of others. Those readers who felt there wasn't enough plot in The Magicians might be pleased that there's more structure in this outing, though I thought all the place-hopping got to be a little too on rails. Sure, Quentin makes fewer bad decisions, but more often than not, the right pathway simply lines up in front of him. Go through this door because, well, the talking sloth says so.
Grossman also uses this book to fill in the backstory of Julia, who got rejected by Brakebills in the first book, suffered the kind of emotional breakdown one might expect from a brittle overachiever who doesn't get into Harvard, and then disappeared until the end, at which point we learned that she somehow picked up magic on her own. Here, flashbacks interspersed with the main story reveal exactly how that happened, and introduce us to a gnarlier, off-the-grid alternative magic community. To be honest, I found this tale a bit of a slog, given that Julia's as unlikable as the other characters were in Book One, albeit in a fiercer way. But it's not uninteresting, and expands the world in ways that'll no doubt figure into Book Three. Until now, we've only seen the bored, bourgeois side of magic education -- here we get the Fight Club kind.
The story also answers a few other questions, some probably of more interest to readers. We learn more about the forces behind the magical multiverse (old and powerful, of course), meet some new characters, and find out what became of Josh and Penny. And plenty of groundwork is laid for a sequel.
All in all, The Magician King, if not as bracingly original as its predecessor, carries forward its momentum without too many stutters. More than just Harry Potter with f-bombs, it's "adult" fantasy in the truest sense: the magic isn't safe, the people best suited to it are flawed, and being a hero can come with steep costs. As before, Grossman continues to balance a dark, smartly sardonic sense of humor with a world whose unreality is genuinely haunting. And as before, it's a rather narrow, self-aware audience that will see much of themselves in his characters, but, if you do, this series might speak to you.
I would certainly recommend the audio version. IMO, Bramhall's slightly arch but sophisticated reading finds the grain of the story while buffering some of Grossman's snarkiness.
"Extremely boring second book."
I was on the fence after first book as to whether I'd continue. But as I bought the trilogy I figured why not. What a waste of time. The overall activity in this book could literally be a 20 page short story. The amount of meaningless drivel just banging on and on is mind bending. Aside from sbout two points you could I'm sure skip this.
If you were not sold on the first. Definitely don't continue. If you lean to more then read a summary. If you loved the first. Well. I guess get this.
So far this series has been a huge disappointment. It took me five times longer to get through this than other books of the same length. It was painful.
The performance is intelligible. Horrible accent work. Devoid of any sense of character. It's literally someone just reading s book. No wouldn't I consider it s performance in the least.
Unfortunately a boring story read wth boring voice makes this s brutal title to get through. I may push on to the book onky because I can't imagine there's be another one in the series where almost nothing happens. And this "character development" must be going somewhere.
If you haven't bought he series. Don't. It's really overrated.
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"Just as cynical and nillistic as the first"
As much as I enjoy books stealing ideas and remaking stories (like Fuzzy Nation or Orson Scott Card's Enchanted), Lev Grossman has soured me on the concept for a while.
I was not a big fan of the first book of this series, The Magicians. I thought it was really well written and had some great ideas. But I just did not like the characters. But I still wanted to read the second book. It was written so well, I figured the second would have to be better.
After having read it, I think this opening line from an Amazon review gets it exactly right. "Joyless, dismal, and cynically nihilistic--that was the first novel in this series."
This book I think is just as well written, but even more cynical. The characters have not learned anything. At least in the first book they were teens and might have some justification for being self centered. Now they are older. They are kings and queens in a Narnia like world where they have everything they could ever want. The economy is magical so everyone is prosperous. There is very little fighting or disagreement. And there is even the occasional quest to go on.
But Quentin, the main character, is never happy. In the last book he found everything he wanted, he was a magician, he had a wonderful girlfriend, he could get anything he wanted and he even found a way to Fillory, the setting of the series of magical books that he loved as a child. And he threw it all away because he thought that the next thing might make him happier. And it didn't. No surprise there.
In this book he is doing the same thing. He has everything he could ever want, but it is not enough. So he keeps risking things to get more. And nothing is ever satisfying for him.
The best part of the book was that it spent a lot of time on Julia's back story. Julia joined the last book right at the end. She was a childhood friend of Quentin's but she did not get into the magical school and instead learned magic on her own.
Hers is a story of depression, addiction, rejection of her family and pursuit of a goal as if nothing (including herself) matters. It is one of the better written portrayals of depression that I have read. But because it is Grossman, the story is cynical and lacks all hope.
Even the fantasy elements seemed missing in this book. There are lot of actions, like a war that includes dragons, but so much happens off the page. There is a quest (pretty much exactly like the Voyage of the Dawn Treader) but much of it happens while Quentin is gone and is dismissed in a couple of sentences. These powerful magicians seem to have almost forgotten that they can do magic in most of the book.
There is clearly a third book on the way because this book ended on a cliff hangers. But I would advice most people to just skip these first two books. There is so little redeeming value in them that if you have not started I would say don't. If you have read the first one, wait until the third one is out to see if it is any good before reading the second.
I also want to note that this book continues to be full of language, sex and a lot of drinking. There is also one graphic rape scene that came out of no where and I though added nothing to the story. This is just a book I would encourage most people to stay away from.
"This is not another Harry Potter story"
I read the reviews and was pleasantly surprised to confirm that they were accurate. I enjoyed the ride and especially loved that this was more of an "adult" magic story - if this world existed I'm sure it would be very similar to the picture that was painted here.
"Just as good as the first!"
Great audio! Very original and just as great as the first. If you liked the first you will like this one too... However, if you didn't like the first, it is a different plot, but with the same style of writing as the first.
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Great advice on helping me get me started. Thank you! I"ll look into gear for the Baxter Brook Trout I hope to catch this fall. I do have a friend who has been teaching me how to fly fish so I'm looking forward to speaking to him again soon.
You guys are great! Thank you.
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To Moose's point, we can't assume that Jeff is gonna buy his gear and then just try to learn on his vacation. If he's fishing Baxter State Park in Maine, then I assume this will be brook trout fishing and may still be a few months away. That's plenty of time to get outfitted, practice, and maybe even get a lesson or two so that he's not entirely green on his trip.
Whatever outfit you choose, let us know how it works out for you. Good luck.
How cheap is cheap
What do you really want to spend? That is the real deciding factor. $200.00 will get you a nice little outfit (Cabelas, LL Bean). $100.00 will get you something (Wal Mart, like the S.A. beginners everything included kit), probably something that you will get rid of quickly if you decide you like flyfishing. If you can't spend at least $100.00 and don't already know the basics of fly casting, take your ugly stick spinning rod and some spinners and spoons and go fishing. To heck with it. Listen, I'd rather catch fish! Besides, if you're asking this you probably don't know how to effectively fly fish (and honestly, that is not intended to be sarcastic or demeaning) and the truth is you'd spend your vacation in frustration trying to make the dang thing work and not catching fish. Wouldn't you really rather go catch some fish? I'm a long time spin fisherman who loves to fly fish too. I will be honest with you. It will take a minimum of a couple hundred bucks in gear and a couple hundred bucks in lessons, plus some dedicated time on the water LEARNING to fly cast, not actually fly fishing and catching fish. This is great as long as you square this with yourself. If you spend your vacation trying to figure it out you will come away dissapointed, unless the whole idea is to spend your vacation trying to learn. Do yourself a favor. If you can afford it, buy decent gear and take a couple lessons. If not, plan to do it sometime in the future and go spinfishing now and have fun. At the core of this, that's what it's all about.
$175.00 to $200.00 is able to get you into a good rod, line, reel, and line backing. There are several combo set up available in this price range that include everything but the flies and casting lessons.
If you take a look is the areas Fred suggested, you could get yourself commpletely set-up for less. Remember, you don't need to have the most expensive rods and reels in order to get started and enjoy fly fishing.
You left out some important information for us to give good recommendations to you though. We need to know what fish you are gong to pursue, the size of the waters you are going to fish, and how much you want to spend or think of as expensive.
Check your 'main stream' fishing catalog retailers ..
frequently they will have some very good 'combo deals.' You just have to have a good idea what your looking for before you pull out your credit card. Don't forget to look at the 'bargin basement' sections of their boards; some VERY good deals are frequently found there .... even from folks like Orvis, etc.
How much 'out of pocket' are you looking at?
(e.g. size/type of target fish, length of rod appropriate, etc.)
Ultra Cheap Gear
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get into fly fishing very inexpensively? I will hike into Baxter State Park for the 2nd straight year with my friends and would like to fish with my own gear. I considered making my own gear but a guy from the Kittery Trading Post at the World Fly Fishing Expo in Wilmington MA said it would still be very expensive that way.
I could go used or convert my spincasting ugly stick (if possible).
Thanks. Any ideas would be great.
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You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Glad to hear it all went through, and am very grateful for the person that stepped up to donate the kidney. I was really getting worried if the day for the operation would ever come.
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Awesome stuff for Tycho and the Donor. Good luck to them both.
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So the donor came right here from the boards? That's amazing and inspiring....can't wait to hear this story.
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Most indeedy he's from here. If you read the threads you can figure it out. I'm sure Tycho'll let it out soon.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
If everything from here on out goes as well as I hope it will, Tycho, you can look forward to becoming a ninja superhero with more ladies hanging on your arm than you can possibly entertain . . . if not for your ninja superherodom. That'll totally guarantee each one of them her due attention. Take care.
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Very happy to hear that everything went great!
Although I thought the not-so secret identity of the donor was revealed in this thread. I guess I'm confusing it with a conversation on another site.
Tycho, I'm very glad to read that you'll be around to annoy us for years to come!
And to you Mr. (fighting the...urge...to make...a..slightly witty comment that...would reveal...his...identity...) Donor, as I said before you sir, are a saint.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Thanks for the update. I am very happy to hear he's doing well.
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That is the best news I've heard all week. I wish Tycho and his new BF a speedy recovery. I also really admire the bravery and sacrifice of the donor. His selfless act is truly an inspiration.
great news to hear that things went smoothly for both of them.


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