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It's Sharon Stone's night at AARP's annual Movies for Grownups Gala
Cast members Robert Forster, left, and Matthew Lillard, introduced The Descendants director Alexander Payne, who accepted the film's award for Best Picture.
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If ever there was a night to feel ageless, it was Monday at AARP The Magazine's 11th annual Movies for Grownups Awards.
Honorees Meryl Streep and Glenn Close, both in their 60s, have been dazzling movie audiences for more than 30 years and they certainly dazzled the crowd, as did Lifetime Achievement Award winner Sharon Stone, 53, looking hip and chic in black leather boots and jacket.
The ladies weren't the only ones looking good at the event celebrating films with particular relevance to the 50-plus demographic. Host Michael Nouri and old friends Perry King and Bruce Boxleitner, all in their 60s, were as dapper on the red carpet Monday as they were handsome in their 1979 miniseries, The Last Convertible. In fact, glamour was the watchword of the night.
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Gutmann awarded Centennial Medal by Harvard
Posted June 30, 2003; 10:38 a.m.
Princeton Provost Amy Gutmann has been awarded a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal from Harvard University, which bestows the honor annually on graduate alumni who have made exceptional contributions to society.
"As one of our most astute and thoughtful political philosophers, Amy Gutmann has grappled with some of the more vexing issues confronting our democracy," such as race and political responses to racial justice and the place of morality in the making of laws and public policy, Harvard's award citation noted.
Gutmann's latest book, "Identity in Democracy," examines the role of group identity in democratic justice. Her other books exploring democratic principles include "Democratic Education," "Democracy and Disagreement" (with Dennis Thompson) and "Color Conscious" (with K. Anthony Appiah).
The Harvard citation noted that Gutmann's doctoral dissertation, "Equality and the Liberal Tradition," sent "a clear message that here was a vigorous mind, eager to take on the complex issues of liberty and equality in Western society. She has continued as she began. And her students over the years -- as well as those of us who have read and discussed and debated her ideas on how to better our democracy -- are the better for her efforts."
Gutmann has been provost of Princeton since 2001 and the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values since 1990. She earned her Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1976 and joined the Princeton faculty that same year as a professor of politics. She is the president of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy and was founding director of the University Center for Human Values.
Gutmann was honored June 4 along with three other Harvard graduate alumni: Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Leon Kass, a bioethicist and the Addie Clark Harding Professor in The College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; and William Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst.
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Website seeks donations for couple in starved teen case
Couple accused of starving, torturing girl
MADISON, Wis. - The Madison parents accused of starving and torturing the man's 15-year-old daughter are asking for help from the public to pay for their legal defense.
A website has appeared online asking visitors to donate to the legal fund for the girl's father, Chad Chritton, and stepmother, Melinda J. Drabek-Chritton. They are accused of abusing the girl over a five-year period.
There are 11 pages on the website, which is registered to the physical address of Chad Chritton's attorney in Beloit.
The website paints the couple as loving, doting parents struggling to raise a troubled child, in part because of thin financial resources.
The website is at http://chadandmelindachrittonlegalfund.com. The site appears to have been online for less than a month. It was registered in mid-April.
The website features photos of the couple looking much younger, and every page offers visitors a way to donate to their legal defense.
One paragraph on the website reads: "Chad and Melinda are vehemently opposed to child abuse and believe that anyone who abuses a child should be held accountable. They also recognize teenagers lie and some teenagers have severe mental health problems that can account in part for their actions."Website seeks donations for couple in starved teen case
People to whom WISC-TV showed the website to in downtown Madison on Thursday said they weren't buying them couple's claims.
"I think she should have gotten the help that she needed. I don't see them using it as any excuse for the result," said Candy Porter, of Reedsburg.
"I don't think they showed any compassion at all toward their child, and I just don't have any compassion toward them at all," said Bill Barnes, of Madison.
An attorney for Chad Chritton didn't want to discuss the website, but he said Chad Chritton initiated it. Since Chad Chritton remains in jail, it's highly unlikely he created the website, WISC-TV reported.
The couple makes a number of claims on the site about why their daughter was in the physical shape she was and attempts to explain her living conditions.
At a hearing in March, defense attorneys for the couple argued the girl was mentally ill and tried to harm herself. The attorneys said that the couple had tried to get medical help for her before.
Dr. Barbara Knox, the doctor who examined the girl after the teen ran away from home only wearing thin pajamas, has testified that she believes the girl faced torture and starvation at the hands of her father and stepmother. She diagnosed the 70-pound girl as a victim of "serial child torture with prolonged exposure to definite starvation."
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne wouldn't comment on the open case.
The next hearing is scheduled for May 18. WISC-TV has tired to interview the couple, but they have declined those requests.
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(March 6, 2007)--Researchers from UTSA, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC) and the University of Hawaii (UH) have found that assisted reproductive technology (ART) does not increase the risk of genetic mutations in developing fetuses. Results of the collaborative study in mice were released in last week's edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Although there have now been more than 3 million humans conceived by some form of ART, there have been very few studies of potential genetic abnormalities resulting from these methods," said John McCarrey, UTSA professor of biology. "The results of our study in mice indicate that these methods do not lead to any increased risk of mutations."
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McCarrey and UTSA graduate student Patricia Murphey, collaborators Ryuzo Yanagimachi and Yukiko Yamazaki (University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine), and UTHSC's Lee Caperton, Alex McMahan and Christi Walter compared mice produced by five assisted reproductive technologies (in-vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, pre-implantation culture, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and round spermatid injection) with mice produced by natural reproduction.
The scientists reviewed the DNA of each group looking for point mutations, or genetic errors known to underlie many genetic diseases in humans. The analysis was conducted using genetically manipulated mice to more easily detect point mutations. DNA was extracted from mice fetuses at mid-gestation, approximately 10 days after conception.
"We must make conception by assisted reproductive technologies as safe, or even safer than natural conception," said Yanagimachi.
ART is responsible for more than 1 percent of births in the United States and most Western countries. In Denmark and some other countries, the figure is 6 percent or more.
"This new study indicates that these methods of in-vitro conception are not disrupting naturally occurring processes that function to maintain genetic integrity during embryonic development," said Christi Walter, UTHSC professor of cellular and structural biology.
It has been 29 years since Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born with the assistance of in-vitro fertilization. More than three million babies have been born to otherwise infertile couples who used ART.
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This demonstration project is being developed with NSF funding to explore the use of gigapixel image technology for science communication and learning. The exhibit is based on museum archaeologist and curator, Dr. Sandra Olsen's petroglyph research in Saudi Arabia desert where boulders and rocky outcrops have been found carved with ancient figures of people and animals. The rock art depicts lively scenes of hunting, herding, camel raiding and warfare, and they appear to range in date from prehistoric times to the present.
The gigapixel image featured in the exhibit is Shuwaymis West, a site with remarkably intact neolithic carvings visible.
We are experimenting with our external evaluator, Camellia Sanford on ways to use gigapixel imagery of a museum exhibit space to report and share research findings using a multiscalar explorable image medium.
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Running Toward Danger, Syria's Citizens Become Journalists
In a country filled with paranoia and fear, citizens learn to be reporters. By Oliver Holmes
In a country filled with paranoia and fear, citizens learn to be reporters. By Oliver Holmes
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I already know what happens during the finale, I'm just curious what object he's talking about. Hopefully not the obvious...
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I saw that picture immediately after 'End Times' aired. It was confirmed real by an article earlier today, so that's how I knew.
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1) Love that the finale's title was Face Off, no hyphen.
2) Gus is the chicken man. It's not surprising he kept moving after he was basically dead.
Incredible season of tv. I'm glad more is coming, but that could have been the series finale and it would have been satisfying.
Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
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And to those who figured out it was Walt that poisoned Brock, nice call! I had my doubts about that theory because I figured there was no way they'd have the main character do something that would give the audience such a good reason to root against him, or at least not sympathize with him.
Do all of you still find yourselves rooting for Walt despite what he did?
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And I found myself giving Walt a "tip of the cap" as the camera panned in on the Lily of the Valley flower. He outsmarted one of the biggest and smartest criminals on the planet, and took down the most powerful man he had ever come in contact with, and did so with an amazing plan that actually worked.
As twisted as it sounds, I kinda wish the kid died even though Walt used a "milder" poison. Even if he only intended to "just get him sick" itd be interesting to see how close his justification scenes with after the plane crash would mirror or contrast how he processed doing such a terrible thing.
Im pretty sure S5 has to be contain these main story arcs.
1. we know the Cartel never could Kill Gus bc of "who he was." Walt never knew about this. This has to become a central part of S5. If the cartel wouldnt kill him without being scared, Walts gonna get got or really close to it.
2. Hank v Walt as Hank continues to probe around and has to eventually find out. Also, they might be completely effed bc Gus was killed meeting a known cartel guy, and if they examine Gus's computers and stuff at Los Pollos, he has video surveillance of Walt and Jesse all over the place stored on his computer, unless they are gonna say bc the cameras were destroyed, then that destroyed the stuff on his computer
3. Jesse v Walt, likely concluding with Jesse finding out or figuring out Walt poisoned Brock. Possibly culminating with Jesse or Walt killing the other. Would be an emotional wreck to watch Walt kill Jesse, especially given that Jesse is practically more his son than Walt Jr.
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Welcome, JJ!
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I'm not sure if this is exactly were I should be posting this thread but, let's give it a shot. Has anyone had any experiance building a drift boat? I can't get this idea out of my mind and I am looking for some advice. I've done some seaching on the internet and was supprised to find how many suppliers of kits and / or plans there are available. Having spent some limited seat time in a 16' hyde I think a 16'-17 footer is what I would be interested in building. Utimatley I would like to be able to take three adults and gear for multi day trips. Realistically it would probably be three adults for day trips. Utimatley I would like to get on one of our classic western floating rivers realistically I will probably spend most of my time on the upper Delaware or Lehigh Goerge. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have just enough drifting experiance to know there is a lot I don't know about drift boat design.
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
Hi, Tight,
Yeah. I built a drift boat from a kit (Ray's River Dorys, it's on the web), and had a wonderful time doing it. I was working the Deschutes at the time and went for a really big boat to carry gear as well as people on multi-day trips (18 foot). A picture of the completed boat is the center of my avatar.
When I started the project, I had very limited woodworking skills, but was lucky enough to be friends with several people, including fellow Hooknoser John Quiggle, who had considerable experience, and they were able to help me through the rough spots.
The whole project took a bit longer than I thought, but it was with a tremendous sense of personal satisfaction that I lauched the boat in time for the early June salmon-fly fishing.
I'd be glad to answer any specific questions you might have either on this forum or through personal messages. Bottom line: I would cheerfully and confidently build another kit boat if it were the quality of the kit I received from Ray's River Dorys.
Thanks for the reply Eric. I did see the site for Ray's boats. And by the way your boat looks great in the picture.
I'm not too worried about the building as I am a carpenter I'm more concerned about picking the right design. Living in the east my drifting options are limited but I would hope someday I can take it west for a few trips with the family. I found a 17 footer kit offered by "Tatman Wooden Boats" which I think may be as good a comprimise as I can get. As I read and please correct me if I'm wrong a 16 footer would handle three people but not much gear and a 18 footer might be too much boat for just two or three on a day trip.
Another thing was protecting the bottom did you use that ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE as a skid plate?
Also did you use fir plywood or an exotic I can quite tell from th epicture weather your boat is painted.
And lastly maintenace, what is your yearly up keep with a boat such as this?
thanks again for all your help
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
A 17' foot boat is your best bet, I think. Big enough to carry gear, but not too big for smaller waters or short trips. I don't take my wooden boat steelheading on the Alsea.
The bottom of my boat is double-sheathed marine plywood coated with carbon-fiber impregnated epoxy over fiberglass. Very tough and very slick (but very heavy).
Yearly maintenance is simple: interior is oil finish. I recoat that as soon as it gets warm enough each spring. The clear wood on the shear rails and gunnels is coated with spar varnish. This again is a once-a-year touch up. The remainder of the exterior is painted with a marine paint. I've only painted this once and never repainted.
Incidentally, the whole boat is glassed.
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I have a friend who built a Greg Tatman boat. Nice looking boat. He put a 3/4 thk uhmw skid plate on the bottom which added quite a bit of weight. And he has had maintainence problems with the skid plate.
Somewhere on the web, I once found either uhmw or kevlar sheet in thicknesses of .060 to .090 to be glued on the bottom of drift boats. That makes more sense to me.
Things to check out when considering DB kits are specified length. Some are measured straight down the center line ,as you would suspect. Others are measured around the side. Like a 17 ft boat takes a 17 ft long piece of plywood to build it. But, in reality,, it may only be 15 ft down the c/l. The other thing that is important is the amount of rocker and the amount of freeboard. Being a rather specialized design in itself, there are no hard, fast rules for drift boats. And everyone will tell you theirs is the best for one reason or another.
You will probably have the only drift boat on the east coast. Enjoy.
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Thanks JD
Their are a few drift boats in the east but not many, and I have yet to see a homemade one. To be honest that is a lot of my problem not much handy to compare too. I've done a lot of canoe tripping so at least I have some basic idea of what boat design entails. How much rocker would you suggest the boat have at a minimum? As I understand it if you want to fish with an angler in the back it is important that the stern be kept out of the water so as not to act like a rudder. Was your freind generally happy with his Tatman boat aside from the skidplate?
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
Great Thread: Wish I'd Thought to Start It
JD makes some excellent points above.
Being a Bibliophile of Addiction, I would recommend you secure a copy of Dan Alsop's book, _Driftboats_ (Amato Publications, ISBN 1-57188-189-1) to get some real background on these remarkable, unique and wonderful craft.
Re Anglers in the Stern: Bear in mind that drift boats are white water craft. They were not designed with float fishing in mind, but rather maximum manueverability in heavy white water. When the boat tilts, as it does in heavy water, the chines on either side act as rudders to stabilize the boat. JD refers to rocker: the bow and stern should be a bit out of the water, but, in a heavily laden boat, this isn't always possible. I would never want to be in a boat that was laden below the rock boards if any heavy white water was to be encountered.
Bottom line, though, is to pull the weight. Make sure your load is in front of you. If you anticipate running class 2 or better rapids, make sure your stern angler sits up front. In flat water, doesn't really matter much.
When running, you'll want your passengers to distribute themselves so that the boat is centered. I have a gauge mounted on my brace board so that my passengers can see when Nimue is riding level.
Again, these are white water craft. There's a real high mixed with gripping fear that comes when you enter the tongue of a difficult rapid. Ahead you see only tumbling white water -- in your head you must see the boulders in your careening path and follow the plan you laid when you scouted the rapid from below. Pull, pivot, Pull, Pull, Pull, Pivot, Pull, Pull, Pull, whew! It's exhilarating!
Not that these aren't fishing boats. They are as stable a craft as a johnboat and can accomodate two fly fishermen very well (maybe only one Spey caster at a time). They are versitile boats and can be launched anywhere you can drag them or throw them (most of us Steelheaders carry 100 foot ropes for impromptu launchs).
But, as I said, they are built to get you safely through the rapids.
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Good tip about the book Eric I will find a copy somewhere. I understand your points about loading the boat for running white water as opposed to drifting and fishing. I have done many white water canoe trips to northern Canada many of which well over 100 miles. Part of the allure of a drift boat is that it will allow me to run water I wouldn't be comfortable running in a loaded canoe. Nothing like getting soaked, loseing your gear, or worse at the start of a ten day trip! Also rowing is a completely different dynamic than paddeling a canoe I love the sense of "setting up" a shot a drift boat gives you. I've also considered going the way of a raft or cat but there is just something about building a boat that intregues me even if I don't use it to it's full potential.
Thanks for all the insight
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
I grew up 15 miles from Hazleton and fished the Upper Delaware, West Branch, and Lehigh in the gorge a lot before I left PA at age 25 back in 1978. A drift boat would be a great fishing craft on either the Delaware or the Lehigh. Although I spent a lot of time walking the old RR grade on the west side of the Lehigh between Lehigh Tannery and Jim Thorpe, it would have been a whole lot nicer to have a drift boat to access this area.
You will find the drift boat to be very nice to take through the many rapids (yes, even the class III's found in this stretch). Likewise, a drift boat on the Upper Delaware mainstem, west branch, or east branch would have made a lot more water available.
I have two friends in Vt who built their own driftboats- they do the Delaware every May for a week. They also use them on the Upper Connecticut and two years ago on the East Outlet, the headwaters of the Kennebec River in Maine. There are quiet a few drift boats operating up here in Maine on the Kennebec, Androscoggin and Penobscot Rivers.
Good to hear from you again BTW I finished that spey rod I was working on this fall thanks for your advice. I didn't have much luck catching with it but had fun trying. Will give it a go again next season.
Yes I thought a D boat would be great in the upper Lehigh and Upper Delaware. I'm not much more than 40 minutes from Jim Thorpe. I think I mentioned the last time we spoke they are trying to make the Lehigh a year around trout fishery from the Damn down to Bowmanstown. They are haveing their difficulties, mid gates failed this spring, rafters worring about losing buisness,but they have raised the water levels allowed in the lake once and are trying to get another increase. It's a tough battle especially since water runoff is such a heated topic here in the northeast but, three hundred year floods in two years will do that to people.
Back to the boat, I think It would work out great and should be a fun project.
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
Glad to hear you got the 2-hander finished and that was able to be of some help to you with it.
Personally, I would have been much happier if the damn dam had never been built on the Lehigh because I remember how good the Lehigh was before the dam. I remember well the white water rafters arguing and getting their way for having the flows get ramped way up several times in summer back in the early 70's so they could do their thing in the Class IV rapids that result when flows are up in the willows, which they like.
It is good that the dam was raised so that cold water (instead of the tepid stuff that was released before it was raised) is released. This helps keep it the cold water trout river it was before the dam was built.
I have been told by my father and one of my brothers that PA is considering re-introducing shad to the Lehigh. I'd like to see that happen because there once was a very good shad run in it prior to the acid mine, zinc mining, and zinc smelting polution killed everything in the river below Jim Thorpe. Now that the polution has been cleaned up (and the zinc operations have closed up) the river has come back nicely and I think it is time to put the species back into it that were there before the polution killed them.
I've heard stories about the way it used to be before the Damn Dam :-)
They are trying to get it figured out with the flows and temps. I think the rafting industry is losing some of it's muscle and fishing interests are starting to be heard. To be honest maintanable flows and temps should benefit all. They are also setting up lime beds to try to get a handle on the mine drainage on some of the feeder streams.
Shad: two ladders were built about ten years ago both at the dams in easton. To my knowledge after much fan fair the runs have been very poor the only thing I've seen through the viewing windows have been lamprey eels. To be honest it's my understanding the shad runs on the Delaware as a whole have been way down. It's been quite a while since I spent a sunny april day fishing for shad but I hear the runs have been dwindleing. Some say they are netting them off shore for fertalizer others that the Stripped bass which are much more prevelent in the river are eating them up. I don't think it's a polution problem the rivers are probably as clean as they have been in quite a long while. My dad tells me stories of how he used to go swimming in the Lehigh in the 30's and come home with an oil slick around him. Although both rivers do suffer from run off from develpoment and sewage instead of industrial polution. On a whole considering how populated both these drainage systems are it's amazing they do so well.
"Nothing's Free" (Dad)
Just saw this thread and thought I'd throw in my .02 cents. I built a Tatman about 12 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the process and, as Eric mentioned, felt a lot of satisfaction fishing and rowing that boat. I built the 16 footer which is really a 2 man boat. It will fish 2 anglers and an oarsman, but it didn't handle well with the second angler in the back. I would definately go with the 17 footer if you plan to have three people in the boat.
Maintenance and storage are two factors to consider carefully. You will have maintenance and you need to have a covered space to store a woodie. After 10 years, I sold my boat to some friends because I didn't want to go through another painting/varnishing session. I now own a Boulder Boatworks boat and have virtually no maintenance issues with the hull.
Wooden boats are the prettiest boats on the water. Since you are a carpenter, the maintenance issues probably won't bother you a bit. Love to see apicture of how it turns out.
In my opinion, it is going to take a lot more than ladders at the two dams at Easton to get the shad back in the Lehigh. I think that it is going to take a fair number of shad fry being put in the river, preferably at the mouth of (or possibly in) each of the currently clean, larger feeder streams (Mud Run and Hickory Run come readily to mind and I know there are others because I used to access the canyon above Jim Thorpe via them) as well as the river just below the dam, at White Have, Lehigh Tannery, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Palmerton, and Bowmanstown. I think a rather large number of shad fry in all these spots is needed to begin the re-eatablishing the run because hatchery raised anadromous fish have return rates of around 5% and of those returning, very few will probably successfully spawn and produce another generation in the wild.
I have many fond memories of shad fishing in the Delaware in the area around Callicoon.
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Imagine, if you will, a world of Ole Miss football that does not include Hugh Freeze. Ross Bjork is imagining that.
Not that Bjork, the Ole Miss athletics director, thinks Freeze is leaving after guiding a downtrodden program to a 6-6 finish and a bowl game.
It's that Bjork wants to make sure he's doing the things from the big chair that make Freeze and his staff want to remain in place.
'Tis the season for coaching change. At Ole Miss a new head football coach has been hired every 3.3 years, approximately, since Billy Brewer's 11-year run ended in 1993.
Bjork said last week that he was working on a restructuring of Freeze's current contract.
The word Bjork used here is "proactive" amid a landscape that "shifts by the hour."
With a coaching search season that had four openings until Kentucky hired Florida State defensive coordinator Mark Stoops, there was loose and distant use of Freeze's name in the speculation about various openings.
One reason Freeze's name hasn't exploded among the searches is the same thing that caused some to wonder aloud if he was the best choice for Ole Miss last year: the relatively small sample size. Freeze had been very impressive at Lambuth, an NAIA school that has since shut down, and had been a head coach at an NCAA school, Arkansas State, for one year.
His body of work is still developing, but you can be certain this year placed him in the consciousness the hiring people.
money talks
That Freeze talks about his love for Ole Miss, his growing up a Rebels fan, etc., should give some measure of comfort to Ole Miss fans. Some.
When you start throwing around cash, things can change. A million here, a million there, and pretty soon your'e talking about real money.
I believe Freeze is sincere, but he also deserves to be paid what he's worth as determined by the market.
Bjork understands this and has seen enough from the coach he didn't hire to be aggressive in keeping him. One example of this is his handling of strength coach Paul Jackson. How many AD's go to their coach and say a certain assistant isn't making enough money?
"He helped me re-work Paul Jackson's contract. He initiated that, I didn't. For our AD to seek me out for that tells me he gets it," Freeze said.
A year into the Freeze Experiment, things are looking good, and among his assets Freeze can claim an AD who, it appears, understands that helping a program reach its potential begins with hiring good people and investing in them.
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I have not had the energy to go down to the harbor and see the whale. My friend came over and she treated me to lunch at a local cafe and we just stayed and visited at my place. I had a treatment at the hospital that kept me there until nearly 3am on Saturday morning and it's messed up my sleep so now I'm over-tired (else I'd feel fine - all labwork done thus far on my kidney transplant shows me doing excellent - but sleep helps!)
Today would be nice to go watch the whale. It's sunny, blue skies, and back to the low 70's.
Whale watching season pretty much ends by mid-April as they leave the area for Alaskan waters for the summer. Next go-round will be in December when they head to Baja for the winter and to give birth and do the wild nasty.
I went on a whale watching cruise as a kid (out of Oceanside) and it was an awesome experience! Highly recommended adventure!
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Yeah, I too enjoyed whale watching cruises, but you can't beat a 10 minute drive (at max) including parking (probably - it might be awkwardly busy down there on the boardwalk, what with the whale now) - and getting to see a whale right away, for free, and garaunteed (almost - some have said you must be patient for an hour or so).
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Washington's saltwater fly-fishing community has won an in-writing acknowledgement from the state Fish and Wildlife Commission that the state will manage specifically for catch-and-release << salmon>> fisheries as well as for catch-and-keep sport fisheries.
The acknowledgement is contained in the commission's recently adopted North of Falcon policy for 2001. The policy is named for the federal-state-tribal process under which co-managers negotiate each spring to set << salmon-fishing>> regulations for state waters in the area from Cape Falcon on the northern Oregon coast to Olympia on Puget Sound.
The new policy says that when managing sport fisheries, "meaningful recreational fishing opportunities will reflect the diverse interests of fishers, including retention and catch-and-release fisheries."
The Department of Fish and Wildlife told the commission that this had been "an implicit intent in past years, but a number of constituents have requested more explicit recognition."
Some anglers, including fly-fishing groups, have pressed the state for catch-and-release seasons in the belief that it allows fishing to continue during some periods when it otherwise would be closed to avoid exceeding catch quotas.
Another new provision in the policy puts into writing what the department said had been "a traditional exception" to the general practice of allocating most chum, pink and sockeye << salmon>> to commercial netters. The exception is for Lake Washington sockeye, and the policy now specifies that the first 200,000 of those fish harvested by non-Indians will go to recreational fishermen. For allowable non-tribal harvests above that level, the policy says, commercial harvest "will be considered."
Most non-tribal commercial sockeye fishing in Washington is directed at Fraser River fish.
Commercial fishing representatives who spoke at the commission meeting acknowledged that recreational anglers traditionally have had first shot at the Lake Washington fish in years when their abundance was great enough to allow a harvest. They objected, however, to including a specific threshold number in the policy. One spokesman also pointed out that, because federal courts have ordered a 50-50 sharing of harvest opportunity between treaty Indians and others, the return to Lake Washington would have to reach 400,000 harvestable fish before non-Indian commercial fishing would be considered.
Another new part of the policy acknowledges an intent that "recreational opportunities will be distributed equitably across fishing areas" throughout Puget Sound.
No explicit formula for that can be established, the department said, but the agency will try to ensure "that individual fishing areas are not unfairly disadvantaged when looking at the balance of available recreational opportunities."
In the past, the department has managed marine fisheries around Tacoma more liberally than those in most other parts of the region because most of the fish returning to the Tacoma area have been hatchery << salmon>> and not endangered stocks.
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In Willapa Bay, harvest will be managed so as to provide "meaningful" opportunities for both recreational and commercial fishermen.
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If you found my check book it would take more than a couple of years to get your stuff. LOL No money in my account! By the way the link did work for me a little later.
RE:Wow... a moment of thanks...
The Osprey people decided to put a selection of older articles on the web, hence the 1999 date. I think they missed a couple of past issues due to editor problems but they are back on helm now with a new editor. They publish 3 times a year and issue 38 just arrived. Some good articles on the Skeena, Umpqua, and the latest updates on wild steelhead stock status.
Kerry, lucky you! If I ever find your check book I'll probably go out and buy you a new rod, reel, and drift boat. Might take me a few years to deliver them though.
RE:Wow... a moment of thanks...
The link works for me, but the date's sure archaic (spring 1999).
I remember teasing Steve about his "Steelheading in Ancient Times" article, and that was quite a while ago.
The Osprey's a neat paper, but how often do they put it out?
RE:Wow... a moment of thanks...
I resemble that guy kneeling in the river waving his arms around but, I didn't see you or lose my check book. Your hyperlink doesn't work.
RE:Wow... a moment of thanks...
In this place, I think we all realize the gifts these rivers bring us. We realize also that gifts are meant to be exchanged.
I was walking down to Lyman bar the other day, taking the muddy path past the plunker fires, and just as I was about to break through the young willow shoots and out onto the bar I heard this strange moaning. It sounded like an old heron with larangitis. Out on the bar there was a wild haired fellow kneeling in the river, waving his arms and shaking his fists at the cloud covered sky. I didn't think it prudent to get to close. Maybe he had lost his checkbook. Walking back up the bar in stumbling twilight I found a checkbook once. I called the phone number on the checks from a phone booth in sedro Wooley. The address on the checks said Sedro Wooley. Nobody answered the phone so I dropped the checkbook in the night deposit box at the bank. Maybe it was his checkbook. Maybe he never got it back. Maybe he was just another fool steelheader with a fly rod kneeling in the river and waving his arms around. Ectasy will do that to a person.
Hey and check this out. These people have been fighting the good fight for a good long while. The Osprey newsletter is a leader in bringing the latest in updates on current science, politics, policies, and the state of our wild steelhead through out their range. Check it out, then subscribe.
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Todd -
Ya' know I just might be there some Sunday... even though I've since moved 3,000 miles east to Boston. But that never stopped me from arriving for the spring natives or fall greaselining since I left the pacific northwest.
I also look forward to meeting you, and if I know the gang - we'll on be swingin' a fly on a steelhead river any day now.
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Nice note, Juro.
Another personal thanks for the job you did on our WSC logo. I'm envisioning it all over...
Will you be at Sunday's meeting? If so, I look forward to meeting you. If not, I suppose I still look forward to meeting you, just not Sunday!
RE:Wow... a moment of thanks...
I kneel in the river with head held high, arms out stretched and give thanks for all I see and feel.
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Single malt is in hand. Here's to you Juro, great board.
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Thought brought a tear to my ear. It is our duty!
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Wow... a moment of thanks...
When I saw my first steelhead, I was stricken with awe. When I saw a steelhead last, I was also stricken with awe. A large part of me never leaves the pacific northwest.
Hearing these reports makes me realize, amidst all the excitement, that somewhere, somehow, someone deserves a thank you. Of course there is mass genocide of native strains all over the northwest, hatchery-based management policies are atrocious, poachers still lose their full punchcards every winter to get a new one, and we encroach further each day into the streams where wild fish are born... but because some people care, there can still be the miracle of native steelhead within minutes of the major metropolitan mecca of Seattle.
That's not to say there is cause for complacency, and no one is beating their chest... it's just that at times like these I just gotta stop and say thanks to the collective spirit of the conscientious steelheader.
I will raise a toast of single malt when I work my way home through this nasty nor'easter to the Wild Steelhead Coalition's charter year - native steelhead forever!
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Description ADULT Has soft gray upperparts, including the tail; these lack the warm brown hue seen in Oak Titmouse. Dark eye is emphasized by the rather pale face. Underparts are pale gray with a subtle pinkish or buffy wash sometimes visible on the flanks. Bill is pointed and gray, and legs are gray. JUVENILE Similar to adult.
Dimensions Length: 5 3/4" (15 cm)
Habitat Widespread and fairly common resident. Typically associated with open juniper woodland, often on mountain slopes, but sometimes also in other woodland habitats outside the breeding season.
Observation Tips Geographical range is the best pointer to identification in the first instance. In the few areas where both species might occur, concentrate on assessing the plumage hue (brownish in Oak and plain gray in Juniper).
Range California, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Texas, Southwest
Voice Song is varied and generally lower pitched than Oak Titmouse with phrases often delivered in threes, e.g. whidlidli-whidlidli-whidlidli; call is a sharp tsi-chk-chk.
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This fly is my first choice for carp in lakes and ponds. Place it carefully near the head of a feeding (mudding) carp and move it veeeery slowly along the bottom. Try to move the fly into the stirred-up mud right in front of the carp's nose without spooking the carp. (Easier said than done!) If you see the carp flare its lips or turn its head towards the fly or even "wiggle" a little then pick up the slack and see if you feel any resistance. If so, set the hook and hang on -- but not too tight or your leader will pop!
In addition to carp, this fly has also caught numerous largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, panfish and even a trout or two.
I tied this fly following Dble Haul's recipe (see below) using a #6 streamer hook, brown thread, brown maribou for the tail, brown wool yarn for the body, brown hackle and copper wire. Although the wire works very well for securing the hackle, I have had a few come unraveled so I started adding a dab of head cement at the tail end of the body before trimming the tag end of the hackle.
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