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Physician to speak on future of public health, Dec. 3
Posted December 2, 2004; 09:59 a.m.
Paul Farmer, renowned medical anthropologist and physician, will present a lecture titled "Global Equity and the Future of Public Health" at 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, in 101 Friend Center.
Farmer is the founding director of Partners in Health, an international charitable organization providing medical care, research and advocacy initiatives to underdeveloped populations. Recognized for his clinical research, treatment and advocacy work in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, he has devoted much of his adult life to providing infectious disease medical care to some of the world's most impoverished communities.
Farmer is an attending physician in infectious disease and chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequities at the Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston. He also is a Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
Following the lecture, there will be a reception featuring the exhibition "Will to Live" by Danish photographer Torben Eskerod and Princeton anthropologist Joao Biehl in the Bernstein Gallery in Robertson Hall. This visual and anthropological work depicts the struggles of AIDS patients from a northeastern community of Brazil.
The event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , the Department of Anthropology, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Princeton AIDS Initiative, the Center for Human Values, the Student Global AIDS Campaign, the Princeton Justice Project and the Woodrow Wilson School Gender and Policy Network.
Contact: Ruth Stevens (609) 258-3601

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The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Life Sciences: For distinguished contributions to the field of molecular genetics, including the elucidation of the sequence and structure of centomeres and telomeres of human chromosomes. His findings point to the existence of a new type of DNA code that is 'structural' in nature and is shared by the DNA of many other organisms.
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Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones to appear, May 11
Posted May 10, 2001; 04:10 p.m.
Princeton University's Athletics department will be hosting two press conferences on Friday, May 11.
At 1:30 p.m. at the Weaver Track and Field Stadium, the press conference will feature the Golden Spike Tour with Olympic gold medalist Marian Jones. At 3 p.m. Princeton's new women's basketball coach will speak in the press box of the football stadium.
For more information visit www.GoPrincetonTigers.com .
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- Written by Dave Walsh
It has been too long (again), hasn't it? The LiverKick Podcast makes its return after two weeks of absence with all of the latest news from the Kickboxing world. This week we take a look at the It's Showtime, SuperKombat and Fight Code cards that went down this weekend, as well as a look forward for K-1 and the Glory World Series.. Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) and myself (@liverkickdotcom / @locuststar) give our thoughts on the cards, from the good to the bad to the downright ugly.


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Ho, ho, ho! Fix this strawberry and yogurt smoothie as an extra-special treat after the excitement of opening presents from Santa.
Host a Santa's Breakfast for the neighborhood kids! Enlist a Santa (the earlier the better) to join the kids for breakfast, and have a small wrapped gift at each place setting or in Santa's sack to be distributed.
Add an extra festive touch by serving each smoothie with a small candy cane hooked over the edge of each glass.
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The major texts of Western culture are a gateway to wisdom that can widen your views on self and society in enduring ways. The extraordinary body of literature given us by writers from antiquity to the present day, as Professor Weinstein notes, "is potent stuff, serving not only as transcription of history but also as a verbal Pandora's box, capable of shedding light on those transactions which remain in the dark for many of us: love, death, fear, desire. We are talking about more than artful language; we are talking about the life of the past and the life of the world."
It is truly a monumental legacy. And now you can examine its most important works - whether drama, poetry, or narrative - in this series of 64 penetrating lectures that reveal astonishing common ground. You'll see how this award-winning teacher uses several different analytical perspectives, including Feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, and New Historicism, to give us fresh insight into persisting human themes like rites of passage; the "fit" or "misfit" between self and society; the creation of an identity; and the play, weight, and presence of the past in understanding our present.
You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage. How poetry can go to the heart of human existence with a purity and power akin to surgery, bidding us to challenge and change the way we usually do business. And how narrative can tell life stories in ways that enable a possession of that life that is hardly imaginable any other way.
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"Great Course, Great Professor, Great Book!"
I have already recommended to several friends and my family; Prof. Weinstein is a thoughtful, intelligent and humorous teacher.
Prof. Weinstein's reading I Am Ceded by Dickinson.
Walt Whitman
I laughed, I cried, and I will listen to it again.
I am an old English major, retired librarian, and this was the best course I have ever taken. Thank you for offering it and thank you Professor Weinstein.
"What a PrivilegeTyp"
I wasn't the best student, so the hallowed halls of the Ivy League wouldn't be open to someone like me. That makes this series of lectures so profound. It's as if I met a whole new world of depth and thought. All I really want to say is thank you.
Learn, understand, then decide whether you accept or reject.
"Could have been more"
This is an analysis of a select few classic literary works and discussing the themes within it to a contemporary audience, with a consideration of the societal elements present when it was written.
It could have been doubled in length and not have covered everything available to analyse. It is an excellent, ambitious attempt in a subject that is massive in scope.
"Extraordinary insight. A work of professorial art."
Absolutely. The professor lectures in his southern accent but does a phenomenal job of mimicking speech as he recites texts from diverse sources.
There was a consistent theme of "finding ones own voice" throughout.
His passion, his focus, his voice, especially the latter: he can blend in to his object of interest so well as to transmit its essence to the listener, as if the listener were discovering it on his or her own.
By no means. This is one which ought to be interrupted by forays into source texts.
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This is the best course I've listened to so far--intensely interesting topics, captivating teaching style and beautifully written lecture full of thought provoking ideas,. I finished the course within a week, often forgetting what I was doing. I cannot wait to listen to this course again.
Novelist, & Graphic illustrator.
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This first part of these lectures is amazing. The delivery is astoundingly good. Did here and stood firm principles of psychoanalysis as well as literary analysis or great.
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I completely enjoyed these lectures. I felt I was in a real classroom and studying for my finals. I fully recommend this.
"Poor selection, slurping, Sex!!"
When I look for something non-fiction and academic I look for quality .i.e Poets corner by John Lithgow.
I doubt it.
It is clear that the presenter is very very capable but maybe I am not the market you are looking for.
Disappointment. There is so much uplifting quality stuff available. Maybe this is an academic situation and I am looking for something that is not so in-your-face. I believe that I want to be entertained as well as being educated. I don't expect that sex has to be such an issue in an academic presentation.
"Interesting, Informative English Literature course"
A great, if sometimes heavy listen. The issue for me was that I'm not particularly well read (one of the reasons I listen to The Great Courses!) so I hadn't heard of some of the poets and playwright's discussed here. T Weinstein's strength his he gets across the information in an easy listening way. Like all the Great Courses that I've listened to, well worth a listen!
"A great intoduction"
This is a great and wide sweeping introduction. Professor Arnold Weinstein is engaging and interesting.
This book has expanded my understanding greatly.
"Really great lectures but poor sound quality."
The lessons are great and show a great insight.
Great scope too, though some authors can be said missing.
By improving the recording!
The sound is really poor, it's like listening to radio on AM bandwaves. Any small local independent radio or studio can have a better recording quality. It's really a shame because because the lessons are really interesting.
Also, I'm not a native English speaker but I'm still able to get most Great Lectures series without a problem - and I sometimes find that the professor doesn't articulate enough, or mumbles a bit- which added to the poor sound quality, makes him hard to understand.
Which has never been the case for someone like Elisabeth Vandiver for instance.
"Very enjoyable narrative to listen"
Prof. Weinstein's way of presentation is engaging and interesting. The lectures are chronologically structured and different literary genres are introduced. I would definitely recommend the course.
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By Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Olive Branch High School won the Mississippi Invitational Marching Classic on Saturday at Tupelo High School.
The marching band competition was Saturday night after 28 bands from North Mississippi competed in the Region I Marching Band Festival, earlier in the day at THS. Those bands received ratings from judges but did not compete against each other.
Ten of the bands performed a second time for the evening competition. Bands were divided into two groups – blue and gold – based on their size.
Saltillo High School won the blue division for smaller bands, Oxford was second, Kossuth was third, and Amory was fourth. Olive Branch won the gold division, beating Southaven (second), Ripley (third) and Pontotoc (fourth). Finishing behind Olive Branch in the overall standings were Southaven, Ripley and Pontotoc respectively.
Placing first in the blue division captions were Kossuth (drum major), Oxford (drum line) and South Pontotoc (color guard). Kossuth was first overall in the drum major caption, while Olive Branch was first overall for drum line and color guard.
"I think everything went great," said THS Band Director Tim Matlock. "We had fantastic bands and good support from boosters, kids, parents and other directors. Everything went really well."
Several Northeast Mississippi bands will compete in the Mississippi High School Activities Association State Championships to be held on Oct. 27. Classes 1A and 6A will compete at Clinton High School, classes 2A and 3A will be at Hinds Community College, and classes 4A and 5A are at Pearl High School.


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Originally Posted by malkin: THIS IS THE TYPE OF CHICKS I GET WITH The Client List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia BECAUSE I CAN AFFORD IT - I DON'T WORK FOR MINIMUM WAGE AT BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY LIKE YOU
You don't even have a jobPosting and trolling around all night.
You are a joke. Like I said a jobless idiot living in his moms basement playing video games in between filling out proline slips.
Start posting at 12:53 AM and 18 posts later it's 11:12 AM
You need a hobby or something
It sure sounds to me like you got to pay for sex and with all your loses in this year, it's no wonder you're so angry. Stop losing at PL and save some cash and go get laid
Now I can root for you. Lets go Malkin Lets go Malkin
I hope you can save some cash to get laid
Maybe we can take up a collection here at Covers
or you could put a change box at Tim`s beside the cashier and make sure you tell your story and put your picture on it also.
In your story you can tell them all about winning ties and being able to get laid and now the ties have dried up and you can`t get laid.
Originally Posted by malkin: I LIVE THE HIGH LIFE WHILE THE MOST YOU CAN AFFORD IS SWISS CHALET
You don't have a job so where's the cash coming from?
Oh yeah you had that $4 ticket
You suckMALKIN
Originally Posted by malkin: YA BUT YOUR DOWN FROM YOUR STUPID VCU-13
I ran a total in il;revos thread and I'm up $145 for the week
All your losses keep Fn up your head
Leafs will be in for a tuff game tomorrow but if you think the Pens or any team will walk over the Leafs you're nuts. We have become a serious contender in the league and that comes from the mouths of some coaches who have won the cup.
This is not the same Leafs that you keep refering to and if you were up to date on sports you might know this. Kadri is turning into the star that we selected him for. The Schenn for JVR trade was huge cause we replaced Schenn with better guys. Check out our tops in the league on +/- defensemen in Fraser. He's paired with Frason who is up there in pts for d-men. We have kept on winning even after losing our #1 goalie and 2 forwards off our top 2 lines.
Leafs are the 2nd biggest team in the league. Guess who's the first, I will give you a hint they won the cup last year and nobody plays them without taking a beating.
Leafs are 1-0 vs Pitt, 2-1 vs Ott and MTL. Sure we are 0-2 to the Bruins butthey are not manhandling us like they have in the past.
FACT Leafs are one of the youngest teams in the league and we are also now one of the tuffest also.
By the way we also have one of the best farms systems and a great coach down there as well. And yes that was all started by Brian Burke
Brian Burke the man that built Anahiem and Vancouver.
Keep chirping the leafs just like you did with San Diego, and St Louis and so on and so on
Originally Posted by malkin: I NEVER DID HEAR OF THE WORD CAPPER TIL JUST RECENTLY ON HERE - IM JUST USE TO MAKING GRANDS AT A TIME ON PROLINE. I HAVE MADE OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS SO MANY TIMES ON PROLINE I CAN'T KEEP TRACK.
I'm sure everybody beleives that
A whole season of $38 and $34 wins. Yep you're a chump
There is no proof of any wins and that's why I don't talk about my past cause it really don't matter. It all comes down to what have you done lately and for you it is absolutely nothing
Maybe you should go tell some more story's in ilrevo's thread. Like everybody hyasn't heard enough already.
I better go to bed and you still have another 6 or 8 hours of your shift here on Covers tonight. Study up for your ties
Too bad you missed out on these nice Basketball ties. Whew Slooby made a post and I followed and cashed some nice tickets
Anyway have fun at home tonight playing video games and eating cheese sandwiches
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Informatie en kansen voor jongeren in heel Europa.
Pendant son Service volontaire européen en Slovénie, Marion a porté son regard sur les volontaires du monde entier qui apportent leur aide aux réfugiés.
Back from her European voluntary service, Garance talks about the key moments of her year in Hungary.
Mina Jaf from Denmark, a refugee, always wanted to give something back to society. Through EVS she was able to help refugees in Belgium, whilst also gaining new skills.
« EVS is such a life-changing experience »
Very attached to the notion of family, Amra dedicated her volunteering experience to well being of minors away from home. It was her first time working in the social sector.
Taking a sabbatical to live a European voluntary service, it's possible! That is how Marie spent a year in Denmark…
"I had always told myself if I had the opportunity to go and live an experience abroad, I will do it. So I quit my job, and I ventured to Armenia".
Loriane did a one-year voluntary service in Pécs, Hungary. Back to France, she tells all about her EVS experience.
"It was one of those opportunities that you go for without knowing it is going to change your life"
"EVS is an experience you can live only once in your life and you have to live to understand".
Dzemila, 28, joined the youth information centre of Vélizy-Villacoublay for her European voluntary service.
Meike talks about her 12-month European Voluntary Service (EVS) in Brittany
Helena and Timo, both German EuroPeers, talk about their European Voluntary Service experiences in Spain and Denmark.
Ophélie Bouin est partie en Service Volontaire Européen à Budapest. Elle relate son expérience au travers sa websérie "Parlez-moi d'Europe". Le 8ème et dernier épisode est en ligne !
Clémence a 22 ans. Après une licence de sociologie elle décide de faire un break et de partir en Service volontaire européen (SVE) dans une association en Croatie. Dix mois très riches.
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Did a nice thing recently... I rewrote GNU Smalltalk's bytecode interpreter, the new one has a new bytecode set which supports 192 superbytecodes, so it is 10-50% faster (50% on the P4, finally found a use for that trace cache!!!). I wrote some cute proggies to achieve this: a virtual machine generator, and a superoperator search program that embeds gperf. Sooner or later you'll find it on alpha.gnu.org or even later as part of GNU Smalltalk 2.2. Did I mention that GNU Smalltalk now has GTK+ bindings too? :-)
I just finished a patch for GCC's libffi and I am waiting for comments.
I am also going to add some expected failures to sed and release 4.0.8 with them so that the glibc people will hopefully come and fix them. They made that bad choice of including the new regex matcher in glibc 2.3, now they should mend it. Me and the gawk author are getting a lot of spurious bug reports because of that.


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In my new life as an itinerant entrepreneur, spending significant amounts of time both working from strange places and travelling on trains, my productivity depends at least in part on having a good development laptop. In my other current life lecturing in Creative Computing, I also need to be able to display reliably to a data projector. Neither of these was a problem until relatively recently.
For the last four years or so, after obtaining a recommendation from
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and laptops, I've used an
IBMlenovo X40: light,
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keyboard, and – importantly – fits into more or less any
carrying equipment. However, the relative instability (which I am not the
only one to experience) brought about by the change in Linux and
X.org's to Kernel-Mode Switching was beginning to get worrying; the
X40 has an Intel 855GM graphics card, which since Intel is
participating heavily in KMS support and development, means that new
things got turned on early; I follow squeeze (Debian testing), which gives me some
of the thrills and spills of being on the leading edge of consumer
Linux development; most pertinently for the start of the new academic
year, I've been suffering from odd display corruption on the VGA
In various combinations of Xorg and kernel versions, trying to work out a set of versions that work for me, I have experienced
- intermittent (about once a day) X server crashes, leaving the hardware in a sufficiently inconsistent state that the X server refuses to start again (linux v2.6.33ish, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.9.1)
- failure to start the X server on boot at all (linux v2.6.33ish, xserver- xorg-video-intel 2.12.0+legacy1-1)
- missing mouse cursor on X server start (linux v2.6.35, xserver-xorg- video-intel 2.9.1)
- substantial (~0.5s) latency about once every 10 seconds, with kslowd or kworkqueue processes taking about 20% of the CPU (linux v2.6.35 and v2.6.36-rc3, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.9.1)
The good news is that a large number of Intel-graphics-related fixes appeared in Linus' master branch yesterday, and at least some of these problems are fixed; with a module parameter poll=0 for the kms_drm_helper module, the 0.5s latencies are gone (put options kms_drm_helper poll=0 in a file in /etc/modprobe.d). The VGA corruption I was experiencing seems to have been fixed somewhere between Linux versions 2.6.33 and 2.6.35; I have hopes, too, that the X server crashes might be substantially less frequent (but I haven't been running a single kernel long enough to check yet). The one remaining issue that is definitely still present is the missing mouse cursor when X first starts; a suspend/resume cycle works around this fairly reliably for me. Thank you to all those who've worked on fixing these problems.
I'm particularly glad that all of this is just about sufficiently fixed, because the alternative would have been to get a new laptop, and as well as my natural disinclination to purchase new stuff when not strictly necessary (and let's face it, the initial phases of a startup are not usually those where money is abundant), it seems to be largely impossible to get a new one with the form factor of the X40: with the growing prevalence of widescreens, just about every modern laptop is substantially bigger than this one, and thus would not fit in some of my carrying equipment. I will just have to preserve this one as long as possible.


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Updated on 24 January 2013
RSA survey - Ninety percent of life sciences executives identify talent management as a key priority
Singapore: A global survey, of over 200 life sciences senior executives and HR directors carried out for executive search and interim management firm RSA, revealed that 90 percent of life sciences executives identify talent management as a key priority. The survey also highlighted that that almost three quarters (72 percent) of their organizations are failing to deliver this in practice, operating without an active strategy in place.
A trend has emerged over the past three years whereby talent management is less well planned and more ad hoc. Much of this is due to the continuing impact of market change and sluggish economic conditions. Around 76 percent of organizations have undergone an organizational review or restructure in the last 18 months, up 10 percent since 2011 and 93 percent have reviewed headcount (a fifth more than in 2011).
As in 2011, over half (53 percent) of respondents agreed the main trigger was generating increased efficiencies and six-out-of-10 said that their organisations had created new roles over the last year due to the changing business environment.
However, on a positive note, understanding between business and HR is improving. While only 59 percent of executives believe that HR has a clear understanding of the skills the organisation will need in five years' time, this has nearly doubled from just 24 percent in 2010. Almost eight-in-10 (78 percent) felt that HR would have a key role to play in redefining long-term resourcing needs, which is nine percent more than in 2011.
Mr Nick Stephens, executive chairman, RSA, said that, "In today's highly competitive life sciences industry, a critical success factor for executives is to fully understand the talent they have within their business and how they organise and supplement it for the future. Our research shows that in the life sciences industry, the active management of high potential individuals and leadership development remain high priorities. However the continuing pressures of the recession and major market change are forcing businesses and their HR departments to focus on short-term fixes, rather than long-term strategy."
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You've probably experienced more than a few "Eureka" or "Aha" moments in your life. These are experiences that often occur at times of relaxation after struggling with a difficult problem. For example, maybe you were making a volcano for a science fair and struggling to produce a HUGE eruption because you knew the biggest eruption would win the contest. You really wanted to win that contest because there was a cash prize, and you wanted to go skiing and that prize money would buy you a season pass. Life can be complicated at times, and volcanoes don't care about skiing. So after hours of work and frustration and swearing (when no one can hear), you put the project aside. It isn't working and you're sick of it. So you put it out of your mind. Then sometime later when you don't expect it, it happens. You have an "aha" moment and realize if you just add a little more potassium nitrate to your formula you'll get a bigger pop. This sort of thinking or learning is called insight learning. Different researchers will use slightly different definitions (after all that is what scientists do), but the common thread is making a connection which isn't readily obvious and just sort of appears in your head. You put different things together to make something new. Homo sapiens are known for this ability, some of the greatest discoveries of human beings have come from this sort of pathway. It was thought at one time that this sort of thinking helped separate humans from other animals. But does it really? Scientists are starting to discover that this is not necessarily an ability exclusive to humans. They have now added Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) to the select group of insightful animals. Watch this video to see what the buzz is about.
Not impressed? Think it's a fluke? Well, watch another one here.
Nope, it doesn't appear to be a fluke, researchers are now wondering how long they can keep moving this box to different locations before their test subjects get ticked off!
You can read the full study and see more videos at this link. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023251#pone.0023251.s005
But don't think elephants are limited to boxes in their learning ability. They also seem to know how to cooperate to solve problems. Watch this.
Pretty impressive! But not quite so quick - scientists love a good story, as much as anyone. That's why they have other scientists around to check and challenge their work. Read this to find out how other scientists are trying to balance out some of the research done in animal intelligence, to make sure scientists are seeking the simplest answer to behavior, not the coolest.
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Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- What was wrong with the first experiment conducted on elephant insight using sticks? How was this difficulty corrected?
- What important principle to remember when studying animals is illustrated by the change in the experiment?
- Do you think the elephant's behavior really represents insight learning? Can you think of an alternative explanation for the behavior? Remember the simpler the better.
- The study of two elephants working together is impressive, but elephants in the wild do not generally encounter ropes or sleds or bowls of corn. Do you think this situation demands a rethinking of the experiment and reinterpretation of the data? Why or why not? Think carefully before answering, the correctness of your answer is largely dependent on your reasoning.
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- http://video.sciencemag.org/News/817507568001/4/zoology
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/elephants-can-lend-a-helping-tru.html
- http://video.sciencemag.org/News/1114933333001/2/zoology
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/aha-elephants-can-use-insight-to.html
- http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/killjoys.pdf
- http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023251#pone.0023251.s005
- http://www.pnas.org/content/108/12/5116.full


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Barry's Pike fly
Does anyone know what Barry's Pike Fly looks like? If you,can you tell me how to tie it. For example the large collar. Is that A palmerd zonker strip. I need all the help I can get.
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Here's the recipe for Barry's Pike Fly:
Hook: 1/0 to 3/0
Thread: Color to match pattern
Tail: Rabbit strip and Krystal Flash
Body: Cross-cut rabbit strip, palmered
Eyes: Prismatic
Head: Epoxy
Best colors seem to be all black and all yellow, although I have a friend who swears by a yellow tail with a red body. The body is a rabbit strip, but it's cross-cut instead of the usual zonker style strips. This helps the hair to lay more naturally as the strip is palmered (i.e., swept towards the back).
Barry's Pike fly
Thank you Mark! The picture I saw looked as though the tail went all the way up to what appeard to be A thick palmerd coller. The fur looked as though it was perpendicular to the shank
I really appreciate your help. This Pike thing is all new to me.
About the hook? Iam using A tiemco 811 1/0. Now Inoticed the point is parallel to shank. Do you offset the point A little or does it make any difference. I know when I use plugs or quickfish,the hooks have to be singles. so i use Siawash hooks and offset the point jusr A little and it makes A big difference in hookups(Salmonoids).
Dutchman, You have a good question about offsetting the hook that I don't think I've seen discussed here or on any other fly fishing board. It's worthy of posting on either the main board or the gear board to solicit more answers.
Personally I've avoided using offset hooks on flys solely because they would be different to tie on. It's one area where I haven't experimented much, and probably should.
John Desjardins
Is the intent to catch and release or provide a meal?
We've seen the discussions of offset versus straight pull hooks several times. Offset certainly swings the balance in favor of hookset, yet presents problems a la potentially swallowed baits. No flame intention meant; just asking.
I did not take exception to your question. But I do really appreciate your concern in that regard. Thank you.
Now to the question. My intent is purely catch and release. From the responses to the thread,I keep getting the feeling that I am not expressing myself very well. I have never caught A Tiger Musky and wanted to know if I push the point out to one side a little would it improve my hook up ratio or is it even necessary. My understanding from your resonce is this will lead to fatal ingestion is that correct. They look to be magnificent fish and I would never do that just to improve my catch if it meant A potential fatality. I just don't see how that would happen. can you please help me understand this more clearly. As you can probably see I am one of those people who needs all the help he can get. Just for clearity I am fishing flys and not bait. Again i don't know if that makes A difference. I am really looking to your responce.
I think that we've discussed the offset hook causing mortality on circle hooks. To recap for Dutchman, when bait fishing on circle hooks an offset point can cut the fish's gullet when the hook is pulled from the stomach and set in the jaw. From my memory I don't think we've ever discussed the mortality or or the hooking effectiveness of offset J hooks.
I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time my memory was bad.
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Thank You. Now I understand more clearly.
Targeting these aggressive species suggests strong wire hooks, yet doesn't require an offset in the hook profile. No, I do not mean to imply every hookset will result in potentailly fatal damage; it is my mistake that I presumed the question to be oriented toward bait, more so than artificials or flies.
I am in the process of tying a few pike flies. These are Marabou headed, with several hackle and schlappen body profile feathers, and some assorted flash. I am tying them on a 2/0 long-shank stainless, saltwater hook made by Varivas. This hook is standard flat profile, no offset, and has a rather wide gape between point and hook shank. The hook is in proportion to the materials size, and I expect it to hook if taken, based on the gape.
The general presumption is that an offset profile hook is used with bait, and intended to hook fish for the table. I'd love to be out pike fishing, too - hope you have good luck.
[EDIT] John, you beat me by minutes. I hadn't had a chance to read over between sessions. I didn't mean to cause the gentleman any concern, as noted above.
It is my question as to why use a j-style hook, with an offset, when a wider gape - essentially creating more to 'bite' on, accomplishes the same purpose, and the fish then almost hooks itself in it's mad thrash to tear the bait from the water. Remember, we're talking about a targeted species in this scenario. These babies aren't noted for being civilized.
Circle hooks are, in general, a flat-profile hook. Different manufacturers may say "circle" and have consumers think all hooks are created equal; it's far from the case. A flat profile circle hook will generally slide up from the gullet without catching on the way up. With any type of offset hook, the hook will turn.
As always, this is just personal observation and opinion.
Last edited by DFix; 04-16-2002 at 02:53 PM.
I do a fair amount of pike fishing (flies) and on occasion, when I get back East, some muskie fishing(flies also). All of my flies are "flat". I use the Gamakatsu hooks (its the straight eye - with an semi open eye style ?? the correct name escapes me) because of their short shank, needle point and wide gap. Since these critters really attack a fly at the head, I find I get more and shallower hook ups, very seldom down deep, mostly on the jaw or lips. I tried long shank hooks and lost many more fish and had many more "deep throat" situations.
I have never tried the offset hooks but I do think this is a very informative topic and for all who are concerned with C&R, one that shoud get more "exploration". This forum can be the source of much experience on this topic, not only for pike & muskie, but for all species.
If anyone else out there has an opinion & experience on Flat Vs. Offsett, please share it with the rest of us.
In all of my tying years, hook selection has been one of the most crucial decision to a successfull pattern. AND I have changed hook selection to increase the ease of release with the result often being more "long releases" but overall more satisfaction and challenge in targeting a particular fish with a specific hook style that I know is more risky to me, but not to by fishy friends.
Pete AKA Frenchcreek from Calgary
Wow guys this has been great !!! For someone who knows nothing about fishing for Tiger Musky,this has been great
I'm tying my Berry's Pike fly on A3/0 tiemco 811s. That is A stainless ring eye with A9/16 hook gap. Sounds like I really don't need to bend the point out. I also tied some Perch and Northern Pike minnow patterns on A Partridge hook called A Carrie Stevens. It is A 2/0 ten extra long streamer hook. It is three inches from the eye to the bend. It is A great lookig iron. I know she would be pleased. But now I am conserned over the remark about long hooks. I guess that is one of the things I'll have to sort out. Thank you everyone for your input.
regarding concern about hook length
When I said long shank, I didn't mean anything with a very extended length. This hook I described is 4X long, which isn't very much longer than a standard shank. If you have any Mustad 34007 in 1/0 or 2/0 (stainless) to compare against 34011, then you have an approximate comparison of what I'm describing in a Varivas 990S Salt versus 994S Salt.
Here is another mental picture: These hooks nestle very nicely inside a 35mm film canister with a little distance left to the cap.
Pete: the bouface I'm tying is tied about halfway back, leaving shank wound withthread, similar to a tarpon tie.
Regarding my hook selection. My reasoning for going to the 10xl is that last year when I was checking out this particular fishery,I had Achance to talk with the state fishery biologist who has been incharge of this project for about ten or twelve years. Tiger Musky were introduced to this res. to control the N. Pike Minnow/Squawfish. When they started the average size (squa.) was fourteen inches. they had just shocked the lake recently and the average size was nine inches. Now my thinking(yes I do that,just not very often) is, at least one of my patterns should should come close to that. Particularly in light of the fact they only eat once A day and like big baits. Is my understanding close here. Go ahead let me have it. I'm tough. The biologist show me what was left of one of those articulated plugs. Idon't know just how big it was origonaly but the front half was about three inches I guess. I couldn't tell for sure because when the fish hit it he took the whole back half off above the eye that held the two halves together. that plug was CRUSHED! I have been salivating all over mysef Just waiting for A chance at these guys. After reviewing this post, I may have to stop doing this at 4:00 a.m. Thaks again
BTW, on two separate occasions I witnessed a larger pickerel attack a smaller pickerel that came unhooked right at shore. In both cases, the small pickerel sat motionless immediately after coming unhooked (the way they often do) and while it was sitting there the larger pickerel charged it, grabbed it by the middle of the body and backed out into deeper water to try to swallow its meal. I don't know if the feeding attempts were successful because the "food" wasn't much smaller than the attacker (about 2/3 the length). I have also caught a couple of scarred fish from pike-infested waters and the teeth marks were on the middle of the body. I'm not sure how much the feeding behavior of larger pike and tiger muskies differs from that of their smaller relatives, but these fish seem to target the area just behind the gills when attacking their prey. Perhaps that explains why FrenchCreek had better success with lip hooking the fish when using shorter shanked hooks, and tended to hook the fish deeper when using longer shanked hooks? This is just a guess based upon my observations and somewhat limited experience with catching pike and tiger muskies (I haven't caught any over 10# yet).
This marabou/hackle thing I'm doing measures between 6 and 8" max. The gape of the hook is somewhere in between 1/2" and 5/8" inclusive, if memory serves...it may be a bit wider.
I respectfully submit this idea: If a narrow gap, long shank streamer hook is used, how wide is the gap; where would the material tie-in begin or end, and where does the fisherman expect the fly to be attacked. I agree with Pete about lip or corner hooking, because these things tend to attack from oblique angles and then quickly turn away and toward the hiding place (my experience).
Here's a different way to ask the same thing.
1. Where would anyone of us position our materials, thus establishing the hook position for attack.
2. How much gape do we LIKE, visually, on a bare hook.
3. How much stuff are we tying in; how much gape are we eliminating with stuff.
Quentin, my answer to what patterns would someone tie for these guys is anything large enough to do the job, forage related or not, from old style streamer patterns right up to all the super flashy, super colorful salt patterns. If a Tarpon will grab something green, purple and yellow, a pike or muskie should be expected to grab a pink, orange or turquoise something or other...
By the way, this is all just mental gymnastics for me, and no measure of this is intended to start any flamefests or challenge anyone's intelligence. I'd love to tie up some outrageous color combinations and throw them at these guys.
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I posted this in another part of this site but I was told I would get some helpul advice in here.
I will be departing to Cancun for my honeymoon on August 8th 2005, and would love to ask for some advice from some of you who have visited the area, on what I should plan for, what I need to bring, who I can get in contact with for guides, and any other information you guys/gals may have to offer for me.
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This guys looks like a Matt Light clone. Would love to be able to trade down and grab this guy late int he first over Pouncey.
Edited: IF we go Oline in the 1st which is highly possible.
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i love danny watkins...again though not before a serious trade down...reason i think pouncey makes more sense for miami than watkins is pounceys the more athletic move guard we need...but watkins is a hell of a football player and despite the advanced age not close to a finished product
i've got zero problem with watkins in the top 30...
I have some pretty severe reservations about a guard in the first round, even one as "can't miss" as Pouncey (yes, when your identical twin goes to the NFL and becomes an All-Pro as a rookie, I consider you "can't miss"). But a 27 year old relatively small school guard who's making the switch from LT and really hasn't even played much football?
Jesus, man. I like Watkins as much as anyone... but stop the insanity.
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danny watkins lit up the senior bowl week and game...late 1st round grade in my book
No 27 year old first round picks please!!!!
Prov 3:6: in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Pouncey looks like a prototype LG for what the Miami Dolphins are trying to do, but you can't draft him at 15. If they pick up a 2nd, then I can make more sense of the pick.
I have never been completely sold on taking a QB in this draft anyways . . . A. drafting a first round QB on a regime that was damn near out of here and are 3 years in just doesn't seem sensible B. Can they develop a first round guy if we get one?
They had their chance at a QB, and they chose Henne . . . they promised 4 years . . . its year 4, they shouldn't even be allowed another shot at a QB. Do something with the one you drafted or get out and let somebody else get a crack.
I have no problem drafting Pouncey if the Dolphins are able to trade down and still nab Ponder with the 2nd pick they get.
...but since I don't see that being possible, I'd have to say I'm against Pouncey in the 1st.
Watkins <<< Pouncey
I dunno, I think purely as a Guard I probably would rate Watkins over Pouncey. But the age figures into it.
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In a puzzling turn of events, some Republicans in the Mississippi Senate – including its presiding officer, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant – have lost enthusiasm for getting a voter identification bill through the Legislature.
For years they've tried and the House has killed the legislation. This year the House passed a bill that would require most voters to present photo identification at the polls, but the Senate Elections Committee killed it last week because it contained provisions committee members didn't like.
The usual procedure would have been to strike the parts of the House bill the committee objected to, pass it and send it back to the other chamber. Instead, long-time supporters of voter ID killed the bill without even trying to amend it.
They say they're ready to use the state's initiative provision to gather enough voter signatures to get it on the ballot as a constitutional amendment.
This issue doesn't belong in the Constitution, and it's baffling in a year when progress has finally been made in bringing House members – especially black legislators – toward compromise, the Senate committee would call a screeching halt to it. Political gamesmanship, anyone?
Not all Republicans feel the way the committee majority does. Even the committee chairman, Sen. Terry Burton, R-Newton, doesn't see the logic and has said he will try to revive the bill.
The objections to the House bill are that it includes a provision for early voting and exempts current elderly voters. The latter provision is designed to counter concerns that some black voters who experienced harassment and intimidation when trying to vote in earlier decades would see voter ID as a reminder of those days. That's understandable, but it's not a reason for ditching voter ID altogether.
Nor is the early voting provision. Thirty-two states now have some form of early voting, including Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, and it has the potential to cut down on election day logistical headaches as well as save money.
But even if the Senate committee prefers a "clean" voter ID law, it ought to let the legislative process take its course.
No one involved in killing the bill has given a convincing reason for abandoning the legislative process, leaving the perception that the motive in tossing this long-divisive issue to the voters is to drive Republican turnout in the 2010 or 2011 elections, or whenever it gets to the ballot.
The Legislature should do its job and work out an agreement to get voter ID passed and a long-simmering issued settled. Thrusting it into the heat of a political campaign is not the responsible course.
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A report from the south:
Things have been hit or miss in S.I. I never say the UGH figures in the store, but a friend was able to score almost all of them for me.
The 7' Unleashed are hitting Wal-Marts in the area, as are the ROTS heroes and villians wave of figures.
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Princeton University Chief Medical Officer Daniel Silverman urges all students, faculty and staff planning or considering travel to Asia in the near future to visit the CDC and WHO Web sites for up-to-date information on this situation. University Health Services recommends that all members of the University community postpone or delay international travel, if possible, until further information is available.
Members of the University community with questions concerning the advisability of international travel in the case of an emergency or who are experiencing upper respiratory symptoms with a recent history of travel to the affected areas should contact University Health Services at (609) 258-3141 for additional information. For non-emergency questions or travel planning, please schedule a consultation with Travel Medicine during regular business hours.
The CDC has been working with the WHO since late February to investigate and confirm outbreaks of this severe form of pneumonia in Vietnam, Hong Kong and parts of China. No cases have been identified to date in the United States although cases have been identified in Canada.
"The emergence of two clusters of this illness on the North American continent indicates the potential for travelers who have been in the affected areas ... to have been exposed to this serious syndrome," said Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, CDC director. "The World Health Organization has been leading a global effort, in which CDC is participating, to understand the cause of this illness and how to prevent its spread. We do know that it may progress rapidly and can be fatal. Therefore, we are instituting measures aimed at identifying potential cases among travelers returning to the United States and protecting the people with whom they may come into contact."
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Debbie brought in her first quilt for the Parade of Quilts that Camille and Carrie concocted. Not too shabby, eh? What can I say, the lady was destined to make great quilts!
The quilt bug bite me about 22 years ago as I was anticipating making a quilt for the daybed in my soon-to-be new baby daughters nursery. I've been sewing all my life, including making my own clothes as well as my kids' clothing. So how hard could it be to follow a quilt pattern and make a quilt? Problem was, the pattern I chose was very difficult with lots of little triangles. But, I started in and soon found out that I needed some "tips". I made the phone call to my local quilt shop, signed up for a beginning quilting class, and the rest is history. The quilt I made in class is the one pictured.
After I mastered the techniques, then I went back to the quilt for the daybed and had no problem finishing it. I vowed to save this "first" quilt forever because I just knew that someday someone would want to know where I "started". I'm so glad I did, because now is the opportunity to show you! Good news is, I have aspired to bigger and better things! Who would have thought that I would be working for an online fabric company someday doing what I now do. So here is the "after" quilt 21 years later.
I love batiks and paper-piecing and have taught this class many times! I attribute my quilting ability to my very first beginning quilt teacher in Davis, California, and my mom who taught me how to sew!
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Debbie's First Quilt
Debbie brought in her first quilt for the Parade of Quilts that Camille and Carrie concocted. Not too shabby, eh? What can I say, the lady was destined to make great quilts!
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12 comments:
- Home of Creative Treasures said...
Both quilts are gorgeous, and what an inspiration Debbie is! :D
- July 9, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Sherri said...
Wow! Your first quilt is beautiful...your most recent...stunning!
- July 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM
- Vicky said...
What great quilts, both of them! I was thinking just recently that I had so much fun learning to quilt, that if I could, I'd want to do it all over again!
- July 9, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Magnolia Bay Quilts said...
Your first quilt is lovely. And your last quilt is amazing! Love the batik fabrics.
- July 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM
- Carrie P. said...
Both quilts are so great. I admire anyone who makes a NY beauty because it is one quilt I will never make.
- July 10, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- Carol said...
Both quilts are awesome. I've been wanting to make a NY Beauty quilt, yours is absolutely beautiful.
- July 10, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- Helen said...
That is an impressive first quilt. I'm glad you saved it. And the most recent quilt is awesome. I want to learn that technique some day.
Thanks for sharing!
- July 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- Camille said...
It is just me, or are your points pretty much perfect on your first quilt? Amazing! I'm so glad you hung onto it so we could all enjoy it 22 years later. And that second quilt- Wow! I'm going to have to bow down to you on that one. There is no way I could do that!
Thanks for joining in the quilt parade!
- July 11, 2009 at 3:19 AM
- Mary's Cottage Quilts said...
I love your latest quilt! I have always wanted to make one of these. Thanks for sharing
- July 13, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Carly said...
awesome quilt!
- July 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- heather said...
I love New York Beauty quilts done in bright colors. Your quilt is great!
- July 14, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Peanut Blossom said...
Oh my goodness, I don't even know where to start on that second one. I can't even imagine the work that went into it!! Fantastic!
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I am am in the middle of force to pile, and pile work with my pup and trying to get a grip on the terms and what they mean !
Is there somewhere that there is a list of phrases, and terms that explain all the sayings and phrases used in training ?


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birds were still henned up & happy as of MAY 20 in NE & MN so i assume there was still some major breeding flocks working in the hills when you were there gopher them loud mouth gobblers finely called in some hens B4 you got there??? there were roads that were inaccessible that late in MAY??? rain??? i never rule out hunter pressure lol it takes turkeys a few days to figure out that all that gobbling is not attracting the girls like it did a WK or so ago then they move on looking for more girls in my experience there not like easterns out west they move there roost around depending on what ever there reason is to move???
i guess after hunting in cold early season weather this season id rather hunt the black hills area early on in the yr when they are most vocal & grouped up & more predictable in there daily routine then after they have all split up & spread out in them hills like i said thats just a massive area to try to wonder around & try & work birds & when them birds are all spread out there is a lot of walking in-between callable birds??? id rather fight the weather & large flocks & be on birds daily then have to find a needle in a haystack after they quit back down & spread out threw the hills i guess??? like i said B4 im not a fan of huge woods hunting so i need them birds as vocal as possible when im hunting lol


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The following is excerpted from a November 30, 2011 article by Gregory S. Cordrey of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP published by Mondaq:
In three patent cases brought by the same plaintiff, Raylon LLC, against numerous defendants, Judge Davis of the Eastern District of Texas denied Rule 11 sanctions and motions for attorneys' fees under Section 285 of the Patent Statute, and Section 1927 of Title 28.
In denying Defendants' subsequent motion for Rule 11 sanctions, the Court stated its concern "about plaintiffs who file cases with extremely weak infringement positions in order to settle for less than the cost of defense and have no intention of taking the case to trial." The court further stated that "[w]here it is clear that a case lacks any credible infringement theory and has been brought only to coerce a nuisance value settlement, Rule 11 sanctions are warranted." On the other hand, the court countered that "there may be legitimate cases where a plaintiff settles with a few smaller defendants in an effort to raise needed capital in order to proceed to trial against the remaining major defendants. In those situations, plaintiffs typically settle with smaller defendants and proceed to trial against larger defendants who have larger damage potential. Such is a legitimate trial strategy. Moreover, the Court does not want to discourage early settlement of some or all defendants. This Court has always taken a favorable view of business resolutions to legitimate commercial disputes when those settlements are based on the case's merits and risks."
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I ran test dog awhile back and was thinking he was going to line the blind, but i sit him close to it and it was all a battle after that. At least we didnt get fired.
I also ran a junior test dog same day and made a good example for the handlers of what not to do
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Cantor Fitzgerald's Brian White who has been touring Asia this week and gauging demand for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5 models, has another note out today, showing that sales from the companies covered in his 'Apple Barometer' rose 10% month-over-month in September.
The month-over-month gains in the barometer companies—leading Taiwan-based suppliers that generate a high percentage of sales from Apple—were around historical averages, but exceeded September 2012 growth and were at the high end of his estimate, he wrote.
He also noted that Hon Hai Precision reported sales rose 20% last month, and although that company isn't part of his barometer, such figures from the largest manufacturer of Apple products are another bullish sign.
In addition, his thoughts on the iWatch: "Our meeting with a tech supply chain vendor during our China/Taiwan Tech Tour today highlighted a bigger iPhone is in the works, and our contact expects a launch in the 2Q:14/3Q:14 time frame. We are confident a larger iPhone will be launched in 2014. Additionally, our contact discussed the "iWatch." Thoughts around the "iWatch" have been widely covered by the media, but this potential device has yet to be launched. As an Apple supplier, our contact offered insight into the "iWatch" and described this potential new device as much more than an extension of your iPhone but as a multi-purpose gateway in allowing consumers to control their home (i.e., heating/cooling, lights, audio, video, etc.). In our Apple initiation report dated 9/4/13, we estimated that Apple would launch the "iWatch" before the end of CY:14, and we continue to stand by this view."
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Institutions change or they die. And nowadays they seem to be dropping like flies: Newspapers. Unions. Shopping malls. Pessimists say architecture belongs on the list. While that's a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact that the profession is getting older and struggling to retain younger members.
The numbers don't lie. According to the AIA's 2012 annual report, "Members of the baby boom generation are currently peaking, resulting in an organization in which members in the 60–69 age bracket increased and the percentage of architects under 50 decreased steadily over the same period."
It didn't help that junior staffers were usually the first to lose their jobs during the Great Recession, and many of them never came back. But the problem isn't just demographic and economic. It's also structural. School, graduation, internship, exam, licensure—the current career-development path is torturous and increasingly disconnected from the realities of practice, the demands of the market, and the aspirations of the next generation.
Architecture schools' curricula are often so removed from day-to-day office work that that first job after graduation causes serious culture shock. The Intern Development Program takes too long to complete (8.5 years on average); the term "intern" is just plain insulting; and I've yet to meet a fan of the Architect Registration Examination (ARE).
No wonder more than half of architecture school graduates end up leaving the profession. Many Millennials—not all, certainly, but too many to ignore—must see internship, the exam, and even licensure as irrelevant to their personal goals. They are voting with their feet.
Fortunately, the powers that be have begun to respond. Emerging professionals are a centerpiece of the Institute's Repositioning the AIA initiative. A group of them met this January and crafted a 12-point plan for education, licensure, career development, and firm culture, alongside leaders of the AIA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, American Institute of Architecture Students, National Architectural Accrediting Board, and National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). Stay tuned for more.
At NCARB—the historically unloved, seemingly inflexible body that regulates internship and licensure—fresh, reform-minded leadership has taken charge. A new version of the exam, ARE 5.0last month NCARB announced its endorsement of what it calls "licensure upon graduation." While the mechanics are yet to be determined, the basic idea, according to a statement from the organization, is to "integrate the rigorous internship and examination requirements that aspiring architects must fulfill into the years spent completing a professional degree in architecture."
If that doesn't seem like a big deal, read it again and remember, since time out of mind the term "young architect" has been an oxymoron. The legal profession, by comparison, has it right. You take the exam shortly after graduation, and if you pass you are admitted to the bar. Your boss and the marketplace dictate whether you have enough experience to tackle a particular assignment.
In law, as in architecture, young people have changes of heart and decide to pursue other fields. But in law, those who do (and who maintain their accreditation) can still rightly call themselves lawyers, and the title retains much of its value in other contexts. Interns who leave architecture have had comparatively little to show for their efforts, and the profession has lost a host of potential allies and ambassadors to other fields.
Next year, NCARB will invite schools to submit proposals for the venture. So while much work remains to be done to make licensure upon graduation into a reality, I pray the response is overwhelmingly positive. Because the architecture profession must grow.
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