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Contax has today announced a lookalike of the SL300R T*; the four megapixel Contax U4R. The swivel lens camera has a curvier body and boasts a Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar 3x zoom lens and a 2-inch LCD. It will be available in October priced £399 (approx $595) and we're told that will include a 'fairly large' SD card of around 256MB.
Contax launches 4 megapixel digital camera with swivel lens in retro look
Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar T* lens and RTUNE technology for crystal clear images
Hamburg, September 27, 2004 – Beautiful images from a beautiful camera: brushed magnesium body, genuine leather and an ultrasharp Carl Zeiss lens. Contax is launching its 4-megapixel U4R camera to coincide with Photokina 2004. Easy operation, an ergonomic shape and the ability to shoot images continuously mean that the Contax U4R will be a real photographer's camera. will be The model will be available in Europe in advance from early October 2004 at a price of €498.
"We are particularly proud of the Contax U4R. It is a fusion of everything the Contax name stands for: timeless design, outstanding quality and the pinnacle of camera-making expertise," states Dirk Hülsermann, Marketing and Corporate Communications Manager at Yashica Kyocera. "Those with an eye for the unmistakable will love the Contax U4R. A brilliant lens, the finest leather and the timeless form make the Contax U4R both a visual and a tactile experience."
Optimum handling thanks to ergonomic design
The ergonomically designed body sits in the hand perfectly thanks to its rounded lines. A high-strength magnesium alloy has been used for the body to make the camera impact-resistant. Genuine leather, in three different colours (black, camel and indigo), provides further protection for the body against damage and permits the camera to take on a patina with increasing age and use.
Swivel lens with titanium knuckle joint
The swivel lens enables the two housing halves of the Contax U4R to turn by up to 240 degrees relative to each other. This makes it possible to take images from unusual perspectives and also to take self-portraits easily. A titanium industrial joint developed specially to withstand high loads holds the two camera halves together. Its service life is ten times longer than conventional industrial joints.
Carl Zeiss T* multicoating
The interaction of the Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with the 1/2.7-inch CCD chip delivers impressive performance: with a resolution of 4 effective megapixels the Contax U4R serves up stunning image quality. A zoom lens developed specially for the slim camera format guarantees high-fidelity colour and image rendition. Thanks to the T* multicoating the images show scarcely any loss of contrast. The maximum aperture over the entire zoom range with focal lengths from 5.8mm to 17.4mm (equivalent to 38mm to 115mm in 35mm format) is f2.8 – 4.7. The integral zoom enlarges subjects three times optically, and no less than six times digitally.
Top image quality and continuous shooting thanks to RTUNE
Apart from the precise matching of the lens and the CCD chip, Kyocera's RTUNE technology is crucial to the high image quality. The RTUNE double processor which is responsible for signal processing reduces digital artifacts in the image and guarantees excellent colour fidelity. This double processor has all but dispensed with the problem of shutter lag. Furthermore, high-speed continuous shooting at extremely high resolution is possible. The 9-field autofocus assists continuous shooting mode by focusing up to twice a second. At 130,000 pixels the high-contrast 2-inch display is superb for viewfinding and for direct playback of the images already shot.
Numerous setting options and a revised control concept
The Contax U4R has eight automatic programs, for example for action, portrait or low-light photography. The camera adjusts to the respective light conditions (cloud, sun, artificial and neon light) via one automatic or five preset white balance modes. Its sensitivity can be set manually in the range 50 to 400 ISO or automatically regulated, while the integral flash can be controlled by four flash programs.
Docking station and PictBridge
The Contax U4R comes complete with a docking station. The docking station is used to charge the battery and to provide a straightforward link to a PC, TV and printer. Images and videos can therefore easily be transferred to the computer, or video clips can be played back on the TV. The camera supports USB 2.0 for high-speed data transfer. It is also PictBridge-compatible. If connected to a printer which supports PictBridge, photos can be printed directly without first downloading them to a computer.
Accessories and availability
Power supply to the Contax U4R is provided by a powerful rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Measuring just 102 x 63.5 x 19 (W x H x D in mm), the Contax U4R is one of the slimmest digital cameras with a 3x optical zoom. The camera will be available from early October 2004 at a price of €498.
Main features
1. Photographer's Dream, A Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* 5.8-17.4mm f/2.8-f/4.7 Lens
The Contax U4R offers a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* 5.8-17.4mm f2.8-4.7 lens (equivalent to approx. 38mm to 115mm in 35mm film format) consisting of 6 elements in 6 groups and includes three aspheric and two high index lens elements. This Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* 5.8-17.4mm lens has been developed specifically for digital usage and achieves outstanding color reproduction and rich gradations. In addition, Carl Zeiss' special multi-layer T* coating dramatically reduces flare and ghosting which results is crisp, ultra sharp images. For greater creative control, 28mm filters can be used via the included filter adapter. The U4R also incorporates a 3x optical zoom and 6x digital zoom for a maximum of 18x total zoom and includes up to 8x digital zoom in play back mode.
2. RTUNE's High Speed Image Processing System Enables High Speed Continuous Shooting At 3.3 Frames Per Second
The Contax U4R provides high speed continuous shooting up to a maximum 3.3 frames per second up to the full capacity of memory card ( *1) at the highest resolution, thanks to Kyocera's RTUNE image processing system. Even during continuous shooting, the LCD monitor displays in real time. The Contax U4R starts up in less than 0.9 seconds and features a shutter lag time of approx. 0.07 seconds ( *2), giving the camera the title of being one of the fastest performing cameras available. The performance of the Contax U4R also eliminates the stress that photographers endured in the past caused by waiting for the camera to start up or being able to capture an image at any moment due to long shutter lag time. The U4R is ready when you are to seize the exact moment and capture images at anytime without fail.
*1) When using a high speed SD card formatted by the camera with. The high speed SD cards of which full performance have been confirmed are listed on Kyocera global site ( http://www.kyocera.com). Depending on shooting conditions, the memory may not be fully utilized. The speed of continuous shooting or movie shooting depends on shooting conditions, camera settings and memory card conditions.
*2) The time from locking focus via the shutter release button and releasing the shutter to capture the image.
3. High Resolution 4.0 million effective pixel, 1/2.7 Inch CCD With Improved Image Gradation Thanks to "RTUNE"
Contax U4R uses a CCD with 4,230,000 gross pixels (1/2.7 square pixels, using an original color filter) as an image pickup device. By adjusting RGB color balance of the signals from the CCD at the analog front end, color noise is minimized which is easily created in the A/D conversion. The A/D conversion provides 16-bit internal processing to minimize a lack of data and then outputs as 12-bit data to the next image processor. In doing so, drastically reduces a wide range of noise generated in a captured image and is reproduced with natural colors and a fine array of gradations.
4. Easy-Framing Body Is Only 19mm (.55 inches) Thin
At only 19mm thin and rounded edge design the U4R can easily fit into a shirt pocket or bag for easy of portability. The covers are made of magnesium and the front panels are covered with genuine leather for superior grip ability and are available in three elegant color variations (black, indigo, and camel). The "Easy-Framing Body" with rotating lens allow you to find a comfortable position to shoot in a variety of photographic situations such as self-portrait, low/high angle and macro mode shooting.
5. Enhanced Continuous AF Shooting Function Stays Focused Even On Moving Subjects
The Enhanced Continuous AF shooting function that has been incorporated into the Contax U4R, enabling it to lock onto virtually any moving subjects for precise focus. It provides superlative performance under conditions which were previously difficult to capture images, such as children playing or pets whose actions are unpredictable. With Enhanced Continuous AF, the Contax U4R can capture continuous images at up to 2 frames per a second until the memory is filled (*1).
*1) When using a high speed SD card formatted by the camera with. The high speed SD cards of which full performance have been confirmed are listed on Kyocera global site ( http://www.kyocera.com). Depending on shooting conditions, the memory may not be fully utilized. The speed of continuous shooting or movie shooting depends on shooting conditions, camera settings and memory card conditions.
6. Increased Focusing Accuracy With 9-point Multi AF Function
For increased focusing accuracy and convenience of use, the Contax U4R incorporates a 9-point Multi AF function. The 9-point Multi AF Function is the perfect solution especially with subjects that are not centrally located in the composition. With the 9-point Multi AF system, the U4R automatically selects focus via one of the nine focusing points for precise focusing accuracy. This ensures increased focusing accuracy. Digital photographers who would like to control the focusing point, the U4R also includes Spot AF for user control.
7. Easy View 2-inch LCD Monitor With Continuous Zoom Playback And Group Mode
The large, Easy View 2-inch LCD monitor makes it simple to compose an image which is one of the most important elements of digital photography. In addition, the large two inch LCD is also perfect for viewing captured images, movies and it also makes it extremely easy to navigate the menu selections. Images that are captured RTUNE's Continuous Shooting mode can be viewed in a big way. After capturing a series of images in continuous mode, the photographer can zoom in on one of their continuous shots in playback mode and then scroll through the rest of the images captured in the series at the same magnification. This is extremely important when checking for that perfect image. In addition when multiple continuous captured image series wish to be viewed, the i4R makes it easier. In group mode, the first image of each group is shown for easy selection of a continuously captured series. This is extremely helpful when viewing two or more continuously captured image series.
8. Easy Charger USB Cradle
With the Easy Charge USB Cradle, the user no longer needs to be concerned about plugging an ac adapter into the camera each time the battery needs to be charged or a USB cable to transfer images. With the Easy Charge USB Cradle user hooks it up once to an ac outlet and to a personal computer via the supplied USB cable. Once the Easy Charge USB Cradle is connected to an outlet and computer, whenever the camera needs to be charged, it is just placed in the cradle for charging. When captured images need to be transferred from the camera, the camera is just placed in the Easy Charge USB Cradle for convenient transfer of images.
9. Superfine, VGA Movies With Audio
Movies with audio (30 frames per second) can be shot up to the maximum capacity of the memory card with easy operation (*4). The recorded file is in AVI format and you can easily played back and seen in superfine movies without image dropouts at 30 frames per second on the U4R's two inch liquid crystal monitor or a personal computer. (To play back your movies on a personal computer, it is necessary to install QuickTime 4.1 or later.)
*4) High speed continuous shooting up to the full memory capacity is possible when using a high speed SD card formatted by the camera with. The high speed SD cards of which full performance have been confirmed are listed on Kyocera global site ( http://www.kyocera.com). Depending on shooting conditions, the memory may not be fully utilized. The speed of continuous shooting depends on shooting conditions, camera settings and memory card conditions.
10. Eight Scene Modes For Any Situation
The Contax U4R offers 8 predefined scene modes that enable the camera to make the most just about any photographic setting according to the situation. The 8 modes scene modes include, Sport Å @ Action, Portrait, Night Portrait, Sunset, Twilight, Night View, Black and White and Sepia. For example, in Sport mode and Continuous AF, the decisive moment like a goal in an athletic meet can be captured.
11. Customizable Single and Multi Image Startup Screen
The Contax U4R incorporates a user, customizable startup screen that allows them to select a favorite image that has been captured as their startup screen whenever the camera is powered on. In addition, the Contax U4R includes a Multi Startup Screen feature. With the Multi Startup Screen, 10 separate images or continuous captured images can appear as a movie within the approximately one second camera startup time.
12. In Camera Image Resize Mode
With the Contax U4R is easy to resize an image to 320 x 240 pixels or 160 x 120 pixels after it has been taken, and save it so that it can be use with a PDA or sent via e-mail. You can also crop the area to be resized from the whole image, quarter or one-sixteenth.
13. "Pictbridge" Compatible, The Industry Standard For Printing Images
The Contax U4R supports "PictBridge" technology, the industry standard for printing digital images. By directly connecting the U4R via its USB cable to a PictBridge printer that supports the PictBridge, images can be printed directly from the printer without the use of a personal computer. You can also make changes in settings for the prints as well, such as the number of images to be printed.
14. Hi-Speed USB 2.0
The Contax U4R meets High-Speed USB 2.0 standard by allowing large amounts of image data to be transferred to a personal computer. Due to the advent of high resolution still images and movies and large capacity memory cards, the demand of speed data is essential. Adopting Hi-Speed USB 2.0 standard with a maximum transfer speed of 480Mb/s, one can handle large image files on a personal computer as comfortably as an external hard disc drive. Of course, personal computer using USB1.1 standard also can be used (the transfer speed is limited by USB specification of the personal computer). The installation of a USB driver is not needed, except Windows98 and 98SE.
Contax U4R specifications
1/2.7" Type CCD
|Image sizes
| 2272 x 1704
1600 x 1200
1280 x 960
640 x 480
|Movie clips
| 640 x 480 (30 fps)
320 x 240 (30 fps)
|File formats
Still: JPEG
| 38 - 115mm (35 mm equiv) 3x optical zoom
| Autofocus
|Focus distance
| Standard: 60 cm - infinity
Macro: 20 cm - 60 cm
|ISO sensitivity
|Exposure compensation
1/3 stop increments
|Shutter speed
|1 - 1/2000 sec
| F 2.8 / F 7.5 (wide)
F 4.7 / F 7.5 (tele)
|LCD monitor
130,000 pixels
|Print compliance
| Exif 2.2
| SD/MMC card
| Lithium ion battery
|Weight (no batt)
|140 g (4.9 oz)
|102 x 64 x 19 mm (4 x 2.5 x 0.7 in)
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Guest Author, Rhonda Press, is an Adult Program Coordinator at the PJCC and an avid Hiker.
I happen to love hiking. Being out in nature restores my soul. Living in San Mateo County, we are lucky to have many miles of hiking trails. There are hikes that are more like city hikes and others that will take you deep into the redwood forests. I'll share 3 of my favorite hikes plus one that is brand new.
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Donald King, former artistic director for the Providence Black Repertory Company, gets the queries quite frequently these days.
"There's really serious looks of concern and excitement: 'Sound Session is going to happen, right?' " he says.
Sound Session, for the uninitiated, is a summer music festival that is, perhaps, the closest thing Rhode Island has to Mardi Gras.
Launched out of the Black Rep six years ago, in partnership with the city of Providence, it began as a two-day event and has turned into a weeklong carnival of what King calls the sacred and the profane.
It starts with a morning prayer along the water — everyone dressed in white — and ends a week later with a raucous parade of the loud, bright, and scantily-clad.
And those looks of concern? Well, the financially troubled Black Rep went into receivership in September. And while an interim board works to revive the performance space, there has been uncertainty surrounding the Rep's signature event.
King, who is offering his services to the board, and Lynne McCormack, the city's director of arts, culture, and tourism, say the show will go on — from July 18-24. "The city decided it's made a large investment in this event and we need to work hard to make it happen," says McCormack.
Sound Session, she says, draws significant numbers of out-of-towners, adds some life to downtown Providence in what can be a slow period, and brings together the diverse strands of the city. "It's really kind of a snapshot of Providence," she says. "It really looks like the whole city."
The budget for the event has hovered around $120,000 in years past — about half put up by the city and half by corporate sponsors. And at least one major sponsor, BankRI, has pulled out this year.
Organizers say the main elements of the festival — the parade, the big outdoor concerts — will be in place. But McCormack says organizers will build slowly, in keeping with the budget.
King says there are already some cost-cutting measures in the works: instead of an expensive, large stage on Westminster Street for the culminating event on Saturday afternoon, there will be three smaller stages in the Kennedy Plaza area. And planners are inviting local promoters to stage some marquee events this year, and share in any proceeds.
But King says locals should never truly be concerned that the festival, which is co-sponsored by the Phoenix and draws some 45,000 on the last day, will die. It has become bigger than the organizers. "They should never wonder whether or not Sound Session is going to happen," he says, "because it is a product of their will — the will of the people."
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In 1920, Baden Powell wrote in his book "Aids to Scoutmastership":
The Patrol System is the one essential feature in which Scout training differs from that of all other organisations, and where the System is properly applied, it is absolutely bound to bring success. It cannot help itself!
The formation of the boys into Patrols of from six to eight and training them as separate units each under its own responsible leader is the key to a good Troop.
The Patrol is the unit of Scouting always, whether for work or for play, for discipline or for duty. An invaluable step in character training is to put responsibility on to the individual. This is immediately gained in appointing a Patrol Leader to responsible command of his Patrol. It is up to him to take hold of and to develop the qualities of each boy in his Patrol. It sounds a big order, but in practice it works. Then, through emulation and competition between Patrols, you produce a Patrol spirit which is eminently satisfactory, since it raises the tone among the boys and develops a higher standard of efficiency all round. Each boy in the Patrol realises that he is in himself a responsible unit and that the honour of his group depends in some degree on his own ability in playing the game.
The Patrol is the place where that happens.
I can not appreciate enough the part in which he states that the Patrol is the key to a good Troop. Not a good Troop is key to good Patrols. The foundation that is built with Patrols will stand as strong as granite that a Troop can build on.
Constantly, we need to build up our Patrols by teaching, coaching, and mentoring the Patrol leaders. Being great examples of the values of Scouting and skilled in the methods.
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Nine Instagram Accounts of Inspiring Design
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on 29 January 2016
Instagram is one of the best platforms to discover beautiful design from around the globe. However, that completely depends on who you're following, and finding those individuals is half the battle. Luckily, Luxe Magazine has rounded up nine of the best US-based Instagrammers who are uncovering creativity in their hometowns and abroad. Head to Luxe Mag to see the full list and, for an extra dose of inspiring snaps, don't forget to also follow @coolhunting.
Archiving Prince's Paisley Park Artifacts
via nytimes.com
One year ago today the world lost a great talent. Now the same group of people who run Elvis Presley's Graceland are archiving Prince's possessions at his Paisley Park mansion/studio/museum. Already, 7,000+ artifacts have been archived, and that's believed to be less than five percent of the building's pieces. From shoes to jewelry, sketchbooks and guitars, the items aren't meant to tell Prince's full life story, rather, "The goal of the museum [is] to capture what it was about his home base that reflected his creativity and vision." Take a closer look at the New York Times.
NASA 3D Prints Metal Space Fabric
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A chainmail of the future, 3D-printed flexible metal space fabric is being produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. As far as functionality goes, there are four important attributes: reflectivity, foldability, passive heat management and tensile strength. Each of these has untold applications. Because of its sheer strength, it could be used to shield spacecraft but its insulation capabilities could translate to future spacesuits. The foldability, however, may prove most valuable as the fabric is easy to transport and expand once in space. Any way you look at it, this material is an advancement in 3D printing and the opportunities are endless.
Canndescent Grows Marijuana for Every Mood
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To coincide with the fact that humans are complex and have good days as well as bad, cannabis company Canndescent grows marijuana for many different moods. With five different strains—Calm, Cruise, Create, Connect, and Charge—users can choose what feels most appropriate at any given moment. A super-pragmatic approach, the company "hired an in-house PhD in neuroscience to test and measure how specific strains effect people." They're also working on an app so users can share their personal experiences with the different types of pot.
VW's Four Affordable Electric Cars
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Christian Senger, head of the Volkswagen AG's marque electric-car project announced a few goals and advancements in Shanghai this week, while the brand revealed its first battery-powered crossover named "I.D. Crozz." By 2018, VW hopes to have small battery-powered vehicles on the Chinese market and more globally shortly thereafter. Altogether, VW's battery-powered I.D. line will include two SUVs, a sedan, and a hatchback, and as Senger affirms, at prices similar to those of combustion engine vehicles. Further, through its Audi nameplate, they plan to debut a luxury battery-powered crossover in 2019, the E-tron. As the electric car market grows—and continues to be dominated by Tesla and Chevy—Volkswagen AG has some challenging roads ahead.
Wingman Dating App Puts Your Pals in Control
via mashable.com
Yet another dating app is available on your smartphone, but this time it's substantially different. Instead of swiping left or right yourself, Wingman (thought up by London-based Tina Wilson) puts your pals in control. More of a matchmaking app than a dating one, "singles can't create their own profiles or connect themselves with people" so you better trust your friends a bunch. There are a lot of positive factors, but perhaps the best is that you remain unaware if you're rejected—your wingperson deals with everything for you. Find out more at Mashable.
The First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon Did It Again
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In 1967, though there were no official rules banning women from competing in the Boston Marathon, race director Jock Semple tried to rip 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer's bib off her mid-race. Registering without suspicion by using only her first two initials and last name, Switzer (after the ambush) finished the marathon in just over four hours. This week, 50 years later, Switzer participated in the marathon again. (In 1972 women were officially allowed to register for the race.) Read an interview with her at the Boston Globe.
Debunking a Long-Lasting Star Trek Theory
via space.com
Mathematician James Grime has debunked a very popular Star Trek theory by using fairly simple math. The widely held belief that "redshirts" (those who work in engineering or security) die more often than any other character isn't true, Grime says. While technically 10 gold-shirted, eight blue, and 25 red-shirted die in the series, that calculation ignores the fact that there are more redshirts than anybody else—so probability needs to come into the equation. "Out of 239 redshirts, 25 died, which is 10 percent. Out of 55 goldshirts, 10 died, which is 18 percent," so it's actually more likely to cop it if you're wearing gold. Find out more at Space.
Extracting Water From Thin Air
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Even scorching desert landscapes have water molecules floating in the atmosphere. Until now, the technology required to extract them has required vast amounts of energy. But a scientific duo from MIT and UC, Berkeley has just prototyped a new machine employing an MOF, or metal-organic framework. Here, a thin MOF powder layer absorbs water vapor—and ambient sunlight then releases it into a basin within the device. The prototype used was quite small but one of the two scientists, Evelyn Wang, says a full-sized system could pull almost three quarts of water each day—quite literally extracting the liquid from thin air.
Star Wars + Record Store Day Milestone Anniversary Turntable
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In celebration of the 10th annual Record Store Day, as well as the 40th anniversary of the very first "Star Wars" film, Crosley Radio has made a limited edition record player. Only for sale at select retailers who are taking part in 2017's Record Store Day, the turntable is the brand's Cruiser Deluxe—a portable player that includes full-range speakers. Available on Saturday 22 April for $110, the record player features a take on Tom Jung's iconic film poster.
1970s Chicago Gangster Business Cards
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After finding a business card for a gangster among his father's keepsakes, Brandon Johnson did some research and found that it was quite common in the 1970s and '80s in Chicago—when "street gangs made business cards displaying their symbols, nicknames, territories, and enemies." With basic but somehow charming deigns, these cards are the subject of Johnson's book, "Thee Almighty & Insane: Chicago Gang Business Cards from the 1970s & 1980s." Hand-drawn symbols, slogans, Old English type, codes and more, gangster business cards are even better than many we see each day—spelling mistakes and all.
Lauren Greenfield's Photos of Extreme Wealth
via nytimes.com
From the USA to Russia, Dubai and China, photographer Lauren Greenfield has traveled the world photographing wealth for some 25 years. Greenfield (who made the 2012 documentary "The Queen of Versailles") is now releasing a book of her portraits documenting wildly rich people, but it's more than flashing cash—there is an underlying theme questioning morality and consumption. Greenfield herself says, "It's not about Birkin bags or the Kardashians, it's about the culture that gave rise to them." The book, "Generation Wealth," will be out 15 May. See more from it at the Times.
The Forgotten History of Women Pirates
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The author of "Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas," Laura Sook Duncombe came up with the concept of this new book quite simply. A fan of the movie "Hook," Duncombe simply wondered where all the female pirates were. Her book explores the history of several women—including Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra and ancient Norse princess Alfhild. "But Duncombe's book does more than revel in the mystery and infamy of lady pirates," The Smithsonian's Lorraine Boissoneault says, "It contextualizes them, providing history and background on the societies they came from."
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I was wondering if anyone else uses I Scrapbook on their Mac? I have PSE 10 and use it often, but really like the ease of I scrapbook. I am wondering how/if the templates can be used in this app?
I Scrapbook Users?
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:16 AM
Sorting through the scraps to generate the gems!
Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:19 AM
Jeanne, I don't know "I Scrapbook" Program but I am sure someone here probably uses it and will be along to answer your question. We love learning about all of the different applications our members use so I'll be watching this thread to see what kind of advice you get.
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 04:16 PM
I'm not familiar with that either, but it seems like someone was asking about it recently. Maybe they's chime in here. Cute avatar, Jeanne!
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Masonic Center on the market for $1.75M
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Masonic Center opened it's doors in 1905. In fact, President Theodore Roosevelt was there for the groundbreaking. Now, 107 years later, the historic building is up for sale.
In an area where history means everything, there is change come to Riverside Avenue.
"It's the story of that all those buildings together tell. Their alignment along what really was a civic center for Spokane in its heyday," City / County Historic Preservation Officer Kristen Griffen said.Masonic center for sale
The Masonic Center is a part of the Riverside Historic District and has been a neighbor to the Spokane Club for more than 100 years.
"We sure have enjoyed being in this location and having neighbors that value that tradition and value that purpose," John Pilcher, CEO of the Spokane Club, said.
Now, in-between the festive holiday ribbons, something else catches the eye -- a for sale sign. Fraternity membership is going down, and the building is just too big.
The building has been on the market for a month and a half. The asking price is $1.75 Million.
"The history is critical here. If you look at the Masonic Temple it has a real stately feel to it," Pilcher said.
It's listed as a historical building both national and locally. It means at a city level the owners are in a management agreement to protect the interior and exterior of the building. The same goes for whoever buys it.
"The owner of the building and a new owner would acquire that contract along with the building (and) would agree to work with the landmarks commission and to follow certain standards if they do need to make changes to the building," Griffen said.
Those who have come to love it hope the building's character will stay just the way it is.
"It's definitely one of Spokane's most loved and important landmarks," Griffen said.
The Masonic Center would not respond to calls for comment on this story, saying the person designated to talk about the building sale is out of town.
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A Williamstown soldier who died while serving in Iraq will be honored with a Memorial Highway along US 25 Dry Ridge Bypass in Grant County.
State and local officials will recognize SFC Jason Bishop at 10 a.m. May 11 at US 25 at the intersection of KY 467 in Dry Ridge.
Bishop, 31, was killed Jan. 1, 2006, in Bayji, Iraq.
He was a platoon sergeant who took on a suicide bomber who had an IED, saving all 15 men in his platoon.
Discussion continued well after the Grant County Fiscal Court approved a final reading May 7 of an ordinance for subscriber fees for fire departments.
The cost of the dues, which residents of Dry Ridge and Williamstown will be exempt from, will be $25 for the first year.
A property owner who owns multiple real estate parcels will only have to pay fire dues on three of those for a total of $75.
The fee will be put on the tax bills mailed to residents in the fall.
The deadline to register to vote in the May 22 primary is Monday, April 23. Grant County Clerk Leatha Conrad will accept voter registration cards until her office closes at 4 p.m.
Mail-in voter registration applications must be postmarked by April 23.
Voters who have recently moved need to update their voter registration information by April 23.
For more information about voting or where your voting precinct is located call 859-824-3321.
The 2012 session of the General Assembly is winding down as legislators meet this week in a special session to iron out funding for a six-year road plan and discuss a bill involving pill mills.
From the re-districting battle in the courts to an expanded gaming bill that went down in flames, the regular session has had a lot of action.
A revitalized downtown, beautification and tourism development are just three strategies the City of Williamstown may use as it looks to the future.
The city recently held a community meeting at Williamstown High School outlining a proposed master plan to shape the city's development.
That plan, along with a draft of a strategic plan for the city, was created by a variety of public input and the help of the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC.)
If your home, business or property was damaged in the March 2 tornado that ripped through Crittenden, you may be eligible for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration and time is running out to register.
Officials from FEMA, the SBA and Kentucky Emergency Management, are worried that not everyone who received some damage from the storms will apply in time to be considered for assistance.
Things may be moving slower than expected, but the Ark Encounter is still coming to Williamstown.
That's the message Mike Zovath, senior vice president of Answers in Genesis, expressed to about 50 attendees at a March 13 meeting at Williamstown High School updating the much anticipated project.
• Inspector's Call: After you register - either online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 1-800-621-3362 - a nine-digit application number is assigned. An inspector will call to schedule an appointment to visit your damaged property, generally no longer than 10 days after registration.
Grant County has been declared a disaster area and is eligible for federal assistance after the March 2 tornado ripped through Crittenden.
Gov. Steve Beshear received notification March 9 that President Barack Obama has authorized assistance for residents of nine more Kentucky counties, including Grant, that suffered significant damage as a result of tornadoes and severe storms.
The declaration brings the total number of counties receiving federal aid from FEMA to 16.
Rick Willoby, Grant County's director of Emergency Management, has a plan and when a tornado hit Grant County March 2, the plan went into action.
But he wonders how many Grant County residents have a plan in case of a disaster.
"You can't wait until a siren blows to get a plan," Willoby said. "This time of year is just the start of severe storm weather and you've got to know where you're going to go and how you can check in with others after it's over."
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This could have far-reaching ripples ... will certainly hit some small businesses hard in the pocketbook.Also makes me wonder how important some govt jobs are that we can "survive" with them being vacant for over 5 years? Evidently, there are several IG positions that still remain vacant as well.If the changes to the overtime regulations are made, it will fall to the Labor Departments wage and hour administrator to put them into effect. That position has been vacant since Mr. Obama took office. David Weil, a professor at the Boston University School of Management, is the latest nominee for the post. He is awaiting confirmation.
Wonder what happens to the $ that was appropriated to pay those positions when the positions are vacant?


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Description Largest member of the weasel family, with a pair of yellowish bands running from shoulder to rump. Has a large head and a short, stout neck. Typically holds tail and head low while walking with an arched back.
Dimensions 94-107cm, 22-26cm, 11.3-16.2kg; / 86-93cm, 21-25cm, 6.6-14.8kg
Warning The Wolverine shies from human contact but is a fierce and fearless carnivore best left alone.
Breeding Breeding is in spring, summer, and fall, and delayed implantation results in 1-5 young born in February-April. Maximum lifespan is about 5 years in the wild. Dens are excavated in snow, under uprooted trees, or in rocky crevices.
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Forests & woodlands
Range Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Wide-ranging, solitary scavengers and predators of Caribou and smaller prey, such as ground squirrels, snowshoe hares, and ptarmigan. Mainly nocturnal, but occasionally out in the daytime. Lives at low densities in tundra and forested habitats.


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The Student Alumni Association (SAA) is a student group that serves as a link between current students and graduates (alumni) of Rhode Island College. Members of the SAA will organize and participate in a number of events throughout the year that are aimed at promoting networking, school spirit, and meaningful connections between students and alumni, bolstering their level of engagement with RIC. Members will also take part in valuable leadership and professional development experiences and will gain a stronger appreciation for RIC while having a positive impact on the college as a student and later as an alumnus/a.
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The mission of the Student Alumni Association will be to connect current RIC students with RIC alumni through leadership, social and networking events and programs designed to enhance the experiences of both students and alumni. Working with the RIC Alumni Association, the SAA will prepare its members to serve as future alumni leaders furthering the goals of RIC whenever possible and maintaining a lifelong relationship with their alma mater.
Any full or part-time student, graduate or undergraduate enrolled at RIC is eligible for SAA membership. There is no specific GPA requirement, however students are expected to be in good academic standing.
SAA members are expected to take on leadership roles within the RIC community. They will assist alumni affairs staff in event planning, serve as hosts and hostesses at RIC Alumni Association events, and represent fellow students on various planning committees (as deemed appropriate by the SAA itself or by the RIC Alumni Association). SAA members will be dedicated to strengthening the college at all levels.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:05 PM GMT on February 29, 2012
Strong tornadoes plowed through the Midwest U.S. last night and this morning, killing at least nine people. Six people died in Harrisburg, Illinois when a tornado hit near 5:37 am CST this morning, damaging or destroying 200 buildings. Another person was killed in southwest Missouri near Buffalo when a possible tornado ripped through a mobile home park. Thirteen others were injured in the mobile home park. Two others died in the Cassville and Puxico areas. A tornado also moved through downtown Branson, Missouri early this morning, causing heavy damage to the city's famous theaters, and injuring at least twelve people. A tornado plowed through the small town of Harveyville, Kansas (population 275), twenty miles southwest of Topeka, at 9:03 pm last night. The tornado destroyed 40 - 60% of the structures and injured ten, one critically. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logged fifteen preliminary tornado reports yesterday and today.
The same storm system also brought the heaviest snows of the winter to portions of the Upper Midwest, which has received scant snowfall this winter. Blizzard warnings are posted in South Dakota this morning, where snowfall amounts of 6 - 10 inches are common. According to NOAA's latest storm summary, five states have experienced snowfall amounts of ten inches or more--Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan, and Nebraska. The highest snow amount as of 8 am CST was recorded at Tripoli, Wisconsin, where fourteen inches had fallen.
Figure 1. Radar image of the squall line that passed through Harrisburg, Illinois this morning, spawning a tornado that killed three people. The position of Harisburg is marked by a circle with a "+" symbol.
Figure 2. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logged thirteen preliminary tornado reports yesterday.
More tornadoes likely today
The powerful late-winter storm system that spawned the deadly tornadoes will move eastwards, bringing snows of 5 - 10 inches to northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and northern New England. The storm's cold front is triggering severe thunderstorms over much of Kentucky this morning, and these thunderstorms are expected to grow in severity and spawn more tornadoes this afternoon, once the heat of the day destabilizes the atmosphere. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has posted tornado watches for portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio this morning, and has placed much of Tennessee and portions of surrounding states in their "Moderate Risk" area for severe weather today. Consult our Severe Weather Page and Interactive Tornado Page to follow today's severe weather.
Figure 3. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed much of Tennessee and portions of surrounding states in their "Moderate Risk" area for severe weather, one level below the highest level of alert, "High Risk."
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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note I use the word continuation below for a closures. This is not exactly what is meant by a continuation in scheme but the used closure function as a sort of delayed computation. Then
this computation object is passed as an argument to various functions until it under the right circumstances is evaluated. So call CPS semantics. Continuations can be implemented to a large degree with the help of this technique though.
Using the guile-2.0 virtual machine and adding a few opcodes targeting the evaluation of prolog programs yields quite good performance (from a few tests maybe less then 2x of gprologs VM). This is accomplished although continuations allocated from the heap are used. The conclusion is that this overhead is not too visible compared to the VM overhead. Actually the version I use combine setjmp like sematics for backtracking with continuation that represents a delayed computation and hence lead to slightly less need of heap compared to using continuations for the backtracking as well.
How are these features used? let's consider the quest of a tree search to solve for example the n-queens puzzle. What features do we have? Well for one thing we need variables that we can set to values that should be visible down the tree as we go out on a limb. If then a failure in the search is signaled we would like to go back and the movie for the values of a variable should be played backwards in order to restore a state at a branch point further up so the search can continue. Another thing is the need to sequence facts, first A should be true, then B and so on. lets write this as
(%and% A B ...)
Another basic building block is to model a branch point e.g. try A, if fail then try B etc. e.g.
(%or% A B ...)
finally we need a way to express that we fail if the fact is true e.g.
(%not% A)
In code %and% could be translated as
(compute (%and% A B) CC Fail)
(compute A (/.(Fail2) (compute B CC Fail2)) Fail)
where CC represents what should be computed after (%and% A B) have been computed (/.(arguments ...) code ...) can be looked at like a definition of a function with associated variables inside A B etc. captured e.g. the variable addresses is stored in them. This happens indirectly as in scheme or If you look at /. the creation as a creation of a object from a compute (used variables would then have to be passed explicitly on in the constructor arguments). Fail is the backtracker and is a continuation or can be a setjmp like backtracking. Let's assume that it is the continuation computation that represents whats need to be done if the computation fails. Now over to %or%
(compute (%or% A B) CC Fail)
(compute A CC (/.() (unwind) (compute B CC Fail)))
Note here that we need to unwind the variables int the failur computation ((/. ()) e.g. run the movie backwards before we restart computing the next branch. Also the failure computation does not have any arguments.
And finally %not%,
(compute (%not% A) CC Fail)
(compute A (/.(Fail2) (Fail)) (/.() (unwind) (CC Fail)))
Note here as well if we success e.g. A fails, we will undo any changes to the variables.
This is a closer look at some of the elements needed to construct prolog like semantics. There are something left like unifications and matching But this is a description to better understand the thoughts flowing out on my posts.
Now I have made a little macro package that outputs from a scheme like language pure c-code. I added closures without a correct set! semantics, allocating the closures from the heap. Also a tail call trampoline framework was added. The generated code is three times slower then compiled gprolog and also it's quite obvious that a lot time is lost due to a hefty use of gc and the heap. So this system did not have a significant improvement compared to the VM approach with a setjmp semantics replacing the failure continuation computation. My next quest will therefore be to modify the macro package to allow allocating the closures from a stack instead. Here the key fact to note are that the Failure continuation should be able to reset to the same position on the stack at a branch. In all there should be hope that memory consumption can be bounded enough to make it practical.
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Getting Started With Centers
In our first lesson, you'll gain a clear understanding of what centers are. We'll dig into the three components that will make your centers effective and beneficial for you and your students. You'll discover the reasons centers are a valuable part of your daily routine—from increased success with core concepts for your students to additional small group instruction time for you. You'll also begin charting your own course by establishing the very first steps you need to take to make your centers the best they can be.
Mistakes People Make
You'll learn about some of the common mistakes teachers make when creating centers and discover some ideas for centers that will help you avoid these pitfalls. You'll also examine the benefits of creating durable and open-ended centers and discuss the importance of consistency in making students more independent workers and buying you more small-group instruction time. Finally, you'll gain some useful insights about creating paperless centers and begin your own centers planning by developing a center idea from the information in the lesson.
Planning for Centers
This lesson teaches you how to pare down your centers planning and keep it that way, even as you add more centers for your students to complete each week. We'll talk about how long planning should take and where you might find ideas for centers. You'll examine your daily schedule and figure out how long your centers session should last each day and how to determine the number of centers you'll need.
Helping Students Manage Centers
Wouldn't it be great to have a simple way to set up a centers schedule that all of your students could follow independently? That's what you'll gain in this lesson. You'll discover the reasons behind my centers grouping strategy and how to rotate your students quickly and easily to ensure that every child visits every center every week. I'll also share with you my secret for supporting both individual work paces and early finishers.
Managing the Papers, Places, and Materials
While you're planning your centers, you can save time storing the materials you'll need as you go. In this lesson, you'll learn a great method for doing this. I'll also share a simple suggestion to help you put students in charge of their work for the week and keep track of what needs to be done. You'll also discover an effective way to track student progress and give feedback. Plus, we'll continue our conversation about permanent and portable centers and space-saving ideas.
Practice Makes Permanent
In this lesson, you'll learn how to navigate the ins and outs of center introductions. We'll talk about the different parts of an introduction, and I'll give you specific strategies for achieving the best possible result when helping your students discover how to use the schedule board and centers materials independently.
Launching the First Week of Centers
There are always last-minute, not-to-be-forgotten details that you need to have in place when you're getting ready to have your students start centers for real. We'll explore the items you may want to review with your students, and I'll share a fun game to make that process more memorable. You'll also learn about your role in the first week of centers: watching and adjusting. Finally, we'll do a double-check and make sure your centers are as kid-friendly as possible.
Moving Forward With Centers
In this lesson, I'll take you through the simple but purposeful process of changing centers each week. We'll explore how to handle new centers you add as your students become ready for more. You'll also gain a few more examples of every-weekers as we examine how important they are in helping you keep planning under control. Finally, you'll see how you can use the data you gather about your students' progress to inspire you as you create new centers.
Small-Group Instruction
One of the biggest benefits of doing centers is that it "buys" you time for small-group instruction. In this lesson, you'll explore different grouping strategies for three kinds of small-group instruction using data. You'll understand the purpose of each type of small-group instruction and get a taste of what each kind of instruction looks like with some examples of questions, conversations, and activities that might occur during each lesson.
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Did you know that you can use the choice activities we introduced as part of our centers routine during other parts of our day? Here, you'll learn how choice activities in other subject areas are the same and different from those used at center time, and you'll discover an added benefit of using this technique in content-specific areas. You'll also gain a slew of ideas for choice activities for math and language arts times.
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Next, we'll talk about branching out from more traditional literacy and math centers to include centers that revolve around different subject areas. We'll explore centers possibilities in science and social studies that include art, literature, and vocabulary practice. We'll also examine exciting center ideas that incorporate technology like interactive white boards, apps, websites, and software. You'll come away with some ideas to try in each area right away and resources to explore further on your own.
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New database compares hospital costs
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Comparing the cost of health care between hospitals just became a little bit easier.
A new federal database now gives people the ability to look up how much they can expect to pay at different hospitals.
The new federal data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered Medicare payments from thousands of hospitals in the U.S. for some of the most common treatments.
It found hospital charges for the same treatment can vary widely.
But here in La Crosse, it's a different story.20088612
Local health leaders say the new federal data is a step in the right direction.
"It's a good thing. It's absolutely a good thing," said Gundersen Health System Senior Vice President of Business Jerry Arndt.
"This is a good thing to have this available," said Mayo Clinic Health System CAO Joe Kruse.
While costs across the nation vary widely, Mayo Clinic Health System and Gundersen Health System have relatively similar rates.
For example, inpatient psychiatric treatment costs just more than $15,150 at Mayo. At Gundersen the price tag is almost $17,981.
For heart failure treatment, Mayo cost $18,405 and at Gundersen it costs 17,862.
They're prices that also fall below the national average.
While leaders at both hospitals like the new tool, they say it does have its shortfalls.
"The thing that's missing is the the severity of illness within that, so for example, if you have maybe 10 cases in a particular category they're not all the same and so some cases might have had more severe symptoms than others. So there are some variabilities in those prices that we have to be aware of," said Kruse.
"Charges are only a part of the story. There's at least three other key variables that come into play in the determination of healthcare value. First of all is quality and outcomes," said Arndt.
While the federal data is new to many areas of the country, Wisconsin already has tools for residents to compare prices that could be even more accurate.
"I think that if you go to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Price Point, which is representative of all patients, remember this is just the Medicare patients which is a subset of all the patients, you'll see less variability in hospitals in Wisconsin than what showed up in that report," said Kruse.
"The theme here is transparency. Wisconsin Price Point is a great example of the state of mind in Wisconsin," said Arndt.
While Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System were pretty similar in most rates, there are some treatments that have larger discrepancies.
For example, a major small and large bowel procedure at the two hospitals has about a $58,000 difference in cost.
To look at the federal comparison data, visit https://data.cms.gov/Medicare/Inpatient-Prospective-Payment-System-IPPS-Provider/97k6-zzx3
You can also look at the Wisconsin Price Point data at http://www.wipricepoint.org/
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The Heathrow Express is a fast train (24 min) trip to Paddington but then you need to either change to the Underground to Kings Cross or take a short taxi ride. This can be the fastest but certainly the most expensive.
Finally, if you are in small a group it can be quite cost-effective to hire a chauffeured car. We have found Airport Executive Cars (www.airportexecutive.co.uk) to be reliable.
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The Eurostar train service terminates at St Pancras International which is only a few minutes walk away from the Hotel. The Eurostar's main destinations are currently Paris, Brussels, Lille and Avignon. However it is possible to make connections to other destinations. The hi- speed trains use the tunnel under the English Channel. A London- Paris trip takes about 2 hours 15 minutes, while Brussels is less than 2 hours away. The proximity of the hotel to St Pancras International makes it quite possible to take a day trip to Paris or Brussels - stay in London and lunch in Paris!!


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Well, now that it's all behind us, I hope everyone had a good, safe, and fun 2014 turkey season...I know I sure did! It was a challenge at times, and those hainted gobblers that we love to hate were acting funny and gobbling less everywhere I went, but I had more than enough highlights to keep me looking ahead and anxious for next year. I think everyone here shares those feelings! A short apology is in order though; I didn't take nearly enough pictures other than "kill shots" for this "photomentary," and I think it suffers because of that. But, it's always fun to post my pictures on the web and see it all in linear form, and I hope you agree.
As per normal, we started off in the Sunshine State, where I guide on some real decent private property and hunt on some highly pressured public land. A couple weeks prior to the season, three of my scheduled guys cancelled on me, so I was in "panic mode" before I ever arrived in Lakeland. I was able to scramble around and fill a couple of those spots, so everything ended up ok, but I have to tell ya, those guys who cancelled really blew it, because we were into gobblers down there from Day 1! Everybody I guided had their birds in minimal time afield, and first off was Asif Majid, from Canada. We had a great time hunting together! His gobbler hobbled into the field an hour after daylight, fuzzed all up, and hobbled towards us. I have never seen a turkey limp so badly, but he never broke strut until Asif ended his day at 20 yards. Being a Muslim, Asif had to first "bleed" the bird and say a prayer over him so it was fit to eat, and then we went back to camp and celebrated with my Florida "family." Later, we all decided to drive to town and eat at a local spot that supposedly served fine tablefare, and by the time it was all said and done, there were 5 vehicles following us to town. Not really knowing where this restaurant was located, Asif used his smart phone to plug in the address, and then directed me as we wound our way through downtown Lakeland. Halfway there I realized (and was thoroughly amused by) the irony of the fact that here were a bunch of camo-clad, redneck turkey hunters from all parts of the country, following a Pakistani Muslim from Ontario, Canada in a quest for the best chicken gizzards and BBQ pork in town (Asif had the fish). Here's Asif and his bird, who's right leg was broken, healed, and frozen stiff from the knee on down, and emaciated to only half the size of the other one:
Next up were a pair of fellows who were originally scheduled for 2015, but who jumped at the chance to fill in the gaping hole in my 2014 itinerary. Charlie Southworth had hunted with me previously, and that hunt had successfully ended before we'd hardly gotten to know each other. That's how it goes some (most) times. Now, he brought his buddy David Rogers along, and we hunted that first afternoon without making a kill, although we had 4 toms gobbling their brains out for a couple hours. Unfortunately, they wouldn't leave the neighbor's property with its corn feeder and 9 nearby hens...can you imagine?! The next day was more of the same until we moved to a different property across the highway, and about 3:30 in the afternoon we saw a huge gobbler strutting towards us without gobbling. He came to about 50 yards and hung up for some reason, but then I saw why....2 more gobblers suddenly started chasing him back the way he'd come. I cut hard on a glass call and they slammed on the brakes, turned on a dime, and hustled towards my DSD flock of 2 strutters, 2 jakes, 5 upright hens, 3 feeding hens, 2 laying-down hens, and a "leading" hen (no, they aren't all mine, but when me and my buddies throw them all in together, you oughta see how they look....AND the results they get!!!!!). Picking out a jake to beat up, the gobblers half-fuzzed up and advanced rapidly, only to be smote down by David and Charlie nearly simultaneously....SWEET DOUBLE!!! Here's David on the left, Charlie on the right, and some of the flock scattered behind them):
My final client was Robert Lee, and we went back to the other side of the highway for our hunt. We heard a little gobbling at dawn, and shortly thereafter we saw 3 hens and a gobbler slowly working towards us. The hens wanted to go on a direct line past us at 50 yards on their way to the neighbors' feeder 250 yards away, but the tom just couldn't resist making a detour and aggressively charging up to my DSD strutter. Shame on him.....
It was then my time to hunt on public land, and on my second day I had a classic encounter with one of its evil, hainted Osceola toms. He gobbled quite a bit for one of his kind in the roost, but then sailed past me at flydown and soundlessly snuck back in to my muted, contented calling. It was a great hunt, and here's his picture:
I'd put in for some limited quota hunts this year at other properties just for fun, and was drawn for a 3-day hunt at a place I'd never seen before. The first day I found a gobbling tom at 13 minutes before 1 o'clock (public land hunters must quit at 1), so the next day I am the first guy through the gate, but when I reach my area, there's someone camping (illegal) right there! I wasn't sure what to do, but I knew he wasn't supposed to be there, so I stood around awaiting a gobble back in the swamp. The only decent way into the swamp was a narrow path 30 yards from his tent, so about 8 a.m. I walked on by him eating breakfast and said, "good morning" as I passed, but he never even looked up or acknowledged me. What an ass. Another 125 yards down the path (sort of an elevated "causeway" through the deep, wet swamp) was where the tom had gobbled yesterday, so I quickly built a cabbage frond blind to await the tom showing up. I didn't have long to wait, since he gobbled 175 yards back in the swamp as I was sitting down. He answered my first and only call, and gobbled several more times as he drew near, then I could hear the rhythmic "sploosh, sploosh, sploosh" as he walked in the water before stepping up on my causeway. I shot him as he stuck his neck out parallel to the ground to gobble in full strut, and this tom was one of only a handful of turkeys I've killed over the years who never so much as quivered after being shot. Stone-cold dead as a doorknob. The shot must've got the attention of the illegal camper too, because he was packed up and GONE by the time I took pictures and walked back out. You can see my cabbage palm hide over my left shoulder in the picture:
One of my good friends (Doug Pickle) then came back with me to this area for the final day's hunt. We'd scouted the day before and found huge tracks in an isolated section of the property, then heard 2 separate birds gobbling to our owl hoots as we drove out, so we had options for the following day. We both thought our best bet was the area with all the tracks and strut marks in the sandy road, but at dawn we heard exactly zero gobbling. Not wanting to waste any more time on "potential as opposed to certainty," we then hiked out the 1.25 miles, hopped in the truck, and quickly drove 2.5 miles to the first of our roost-gobbling birds. He'd sounded waaaaaay back in the swamp the previous night, and sure enough, we soon heard him gobble after parking the truck. Hot-footing it down another elevated old tramway, we hadn't gone far before the tom sounded MUCH closer. I guess that swamp was soaking up all the sound and making him appear much further than he was in reality. Anyhoo, we quickly set up but it's a terrible mess....THICK swamp, DEEP water, NO openings...just terrible! But, it was all we had and the tom ripped into any call I made on the Cane Creek Glass. He was on us in no time, and I swear that bird strutted across water that must've been 3 feet deep! I don't know how he did it, and I'm not sure I want to know, but there wasn't any dry ground or places for him TO strut, and we both saw him doing it. Doug made the shot count, then fell in the water up to his neck 3 times AFTER making the retrieve....that boy would make a helluva Labrador Retriever, if he had a nose on him!!
Then came easily one of my favorite hunts in all my career. I know that I've mentioned David Caudill on here before. He is 85, the "patriarch" of my Florida family, and one of the most talented and distinguished turkey hunters I've ever known. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that he's a hero to me. David had drawn a "Special Opportunity" hunt this year. These are offered by the state of Florida as a way to bring in additional money, and they are hunts with limited access and lower hunter densities than those found on regular WMA's. They can be pretty good, too! Well, we didn't hear a bird the first day, but after shooting hours were over we drove around and found lots of gobbler tracks in a particular spot, so we moved our blind and hunted there the next day. We managed to call a gobbler up to about 50 yards too, but he seemed reluctant to leave the edge of a large cypress pond/strand and approach our setup on the pine ridge along the road. After the hunt I again moved our setup to where the tom had been standing, and from there I could see exactly why he had been where he was....the cypress strand was beautiful, open, and covered in lush green pinkroot shoots (and turkey tracks!). The next day was cold (38 degrees), so we put a heater in the blind and I even brought a blanket and fleece jacket/hat to keep David warm. The previous day he'd also had terrible trouble with his hearing aid, and had only been able to hear the tom gobble once or twice when very close. Today he'd put in an old model, and suddenly he could hear nearly everything I could! Owls hooting, crows cawing, treefrogs and songbirds chirping....and hens yelping...David heard hens yelping!!! Then, a gobble! Straight in front, across the dry cypress pond, I then hear drumming....and so does David!!! Then, there he was in all his glory....a magnificent Osceola gobbler strutting for all he was worth. He came in slowly until he was 70 yards, and at that point he saw the strutter and the fight was on. David shot him at 20 yards. There was so much good about this hunt, but the best was that David saw it all, heard it all, and shared it with me!! Here's my hero and his bird:
Well, Florida had been a hoot, and it had been great hunting, so I was anticipating the rest of the year going as smoothly and successfully as that. Then, I went to Georgia. It was everything FL hadn't been, even though I chose a WMA near Macon that had a good reputation and a high kill tally from previous years. Oh, I heard birds gobble, but they were usually off-property or so far away I couldn't reach them quickly, and once they got their hens around them after flydown, you wouldn't hear another gobble all day long. It was TOUGH, but then I killed a tremendous tom on a great afternoon hunt, then 5 days later I did the same thing. Here are my first 2 GA birds of 2014:
At that point I'd decided to hunt one more morning, then head on up to the mountains of GA to finish up my 3-bird limit. It was starting to get hot that far south, and buggy, and if I could quickly shoot a mountain tom, I could easily hop over to hunt NC and TN on my way home. I needed to be there by the 23rd of April for guiding commitments, but it was only April 13th....plenty of time, right? Ha!! The next morning I called in a tom straight out of the roost, but then I made a grievous and uncharacteristic error by letting the tom see me make my final barrel adjustment when he was strutting at 30 yards. The tom boogered out of there like I'd hit him with an electric cattle prod, and this left me thinking, "I sure hope that doesn't come back to haunt me."
Well, it did. For the next 9 days the mountains smacked my arse. I couldn't seem to do anything right, and the turkeys didn't help, either. They were acting just like their southern cousins by gobbling sporadically at dawn, then hushing all day. The only thing I had to show for my trip were these American Chestnuts that I found way back in a hidden cove of the mountains one day:
But, I left for home thinking that maybe if everything went incredibly well, I might still slip back down to fill that last tag. I don't like to leave a state without getting my money's worth, and especially a state that costs so much to hunt! Heck, the leaves weren't even out yet, so perhaps the birds might be more "normal" in a couple weeks. GA would remain open till May 15th, so maybe, just maybe......
Guiding my cousin's son (Tyson Torrence) in Indiana, I called in several birds up a steep hill. The first one that presented a shot was a jake, but at 12 years old, Tyson wasn't grading them yet, and we were both thrilled with his first kill. We also got a good laugh when my 12 gauge Benelli M2 knocked Tyson to the ground like he'd been bowled over by a George Forman straight right! Then, we intercepted another of the toms on the way back to the house, and I was able to shoot my own Indiana bird. Here's Tyson and I:
I had a couple southern Illinois tags in my pocket, so I then drove over there to an old familiar spot. On Day 2 I shot a tom right after flydown, so I hung him in tree and made a long, circuitous route over ground that is normally full of turkeys. Not today, though. Returning to the kill site, I took a few pictures, then set up amid two acres of fresh scratchings and called a while. It was now very windy, but at one point I'd thought I heard the "chump" of a turkey going into strut several times. Twenty minutes later I cut hard on a call and a tom gobbles CLOSE, and in only a couple minutes, I had 2 longbeards strutting in front of my gun. Here are my 2 toms, shot from the same spot, 4 hours apart:
Back to Illinois, I'm guiding an old friend (Gary Shepherd) and a new one (Louie Vennard) on Louie's farm. Gary has killed many toms with me, but Louie has never killed one at all, so he's to be shooter #1. On Day 1 we did no good, but a river-fisherman friend of Louie's told him he'd been seeing 4 or 5 huge gobblers walking the levee along the Wabash River every day at 10 a.m., so after we did no good early of Day 2, we drove over and I set up the pop-up blind right atop the levee, and stuck a couple DSD's 20 yards further down the levee. At 9:45 a big tom stepped up on the levee 150 yards from us, sees the dekes, and here he comes all fuzzin' n' buzzin'. At 100 yards I'm getting Louie's seat arranged for the right angle to make the shot, and at 75 yards we are all 3 telling ourselves, "this is gonna happen!" Then, all of a sudden the blind rises up over our heads and is gone. Louie and I are quite suddenly naked and exposed atop that levee, and staring straight at a very surprised gobbler. He didn't stay long, and it didn't take us long either to figure out what had happened, for there at the bottom of the levee lies my wadded up Double Bull blind, with Gary tangled up in the middle of it! He had somehow lost his balance and tumbled into the side of the blind, then rolled down the levee!!! Louie and I can't stop laughing, Gary is hung-dogged ashamed and embarrassed, and the turkey was simply gone, but after I got everything rearranged we worked several more turkeys across the river for an hour. I thought they might fly over to us, but the fisherman drove by in his boat and they backed away. I swear, that is the funniest thing I've ever seen in the turkey woods, and it just gets funnier every day!
The next day Louie had to quit early and do some farming chores, so Gary and I went back at 9. It was so windy that day! I had to literally stake the blind down and then sit on its edge to keep it from doing the same thing (but for a different and more "natural" reason) that it had the day before! About 9:15 I saw a bird fly across the river 200 yards downstream, but at the time I only thought it "could've" been a turkey. Maybe it was a cormorant or something, but my initial, brief impression was, "turkey." Then, nearly an hour later as I'm literally lying against one side of the blind while holding out my arms to brace it against the wind, I swear I heard drumming! Again I heard it! Looking out 3 sides of the blind, I can see no turkeys and the only direction I can't see is towards the river, down over the levee...where Gary had rolled to the day before. I tell Gary there's a bird, "RIGHT HERE" with us, then hear drumming twice more. If I was hearing it over that gale force wind, the tom was obviously within 10 yards of us!!! Five minutes go by without anything else, but I just know that tom has seen the top of my strutter fan up over the levee top from where he's at, and it's only a matter of when, not if, that he pops up. And then, there he is. After taking a couple vicious swipes at my decoy, I tell Gary not to let him do that any more, and he hammers the tom from 19 yards. This brute weighed 25.5 pounds, had an 11 inch beard, and matching 1-3.8" spurs. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to take any pictures. The next day we called one in for Louie on a classic hunt elsewhere, and the following day I shot my 3rd Illinois tom after Gary and Louie both had to leave early. Had a great time with Louie and his wife Lynn, along with Gary and his wife Karen. Here's myself, Louie, and Gary in the first picture, and me with my "half-cocked" gobbler in the second:
With all my obligations and expectations out of the way, I was now free for a GA return, so that's what I did. For a while it looked like the GA curse might still be upon me, but then I found a couple toms still willing to gobble and act like normal turkeys, and on my 5th day back down there I put it all together on a beautiful morning with low-hanging fog. Overall, it took me 29 days to kill 3 toms, but like I'd said earlier....I hate to leave a state without getting my money's worth, so all that time wandering around in her hill's 'n' hollers most certainly did that! Here's my final GA tom:
Next up was an annual reunion with some of my best friends in PA. Doug Pickle came up from VA, Craig Morton lives close by anyway, and Bill George owns a camp right there in Tionesta. We had a large time of it for 6 days, and all managed to kill birds, as well. Here are my two:
I then headed on up to Maine and before I ever hunted, I got my fill of the best fried clams imaginable at a little place called, "3 Bouys" in Kittery. Awesome good! Then I went hunting. Called in a couple jakes at one spot, but I was having a terrible time finding birds on WMA land I had hunted in the past, or any unposted land at all. Then, as I was driving around looking, I kept seeing signs around a place that said, "Access By Permission Only," and it gave a phone number. I get out of the van and am writing down the phone number when I heard a turkey gobble nearby, but since it's only 7 a.m. I think it's too early to call, so I sit there listening to the tom gobble his brains out. At 8 I make the call and the guy says, "sure you can hunt!" He was coming up to spray his apple trees and I wanted to meet him and personally thank him anyway, so I drove back to his gate. This is the view from there, except for one notable exception...the tom was standing just about in the middle of this picture when I drove up, and he merely walked off to the right and into the trees:
We stood around talking for a long time, then signed a "thank you" gift book for allowing me to hunt his land and we talked for a long time again, until the turkey gobbled. It was now about 10:30, so I said, "I suppose I oughta go kill that tom." Roger then left, I walked over to the corner of a field you can't see in that last picture, and within 15 minutes I shot this tom:
I then hunted around a couple more days, killing nothing but time as I awaited meeting up with a friend of Doug Pickle's (Les Peters). Les was a very interesting character, and we struck a bond immediately. He had a friend named Henrik who is a fishing guide and yet another interesting character (I think it goes without saying that most folks in ME share these traits!), and we also immediately became good friends. Les had been wanting to take me to an absolute honeyhole that Henrik had found, but when we finally get the chance, we heard not a single gobble. Les is amazed, as he'd heard no less than 8 or 10 the only other time it had been hunted, but it was a rainy day and not totally unexpected by me. We sat it out a good long while though, then tried a few other spots before coming back at noon-thirty. About 2 o'clock I called in a jake, then a few minutes later a barred owl lands 20 yards away and hoots...and a turkey gobbles. From that point in happened very quickly, but the gist is that we soon had 2 toms and 3 hens right there in our face, and here's Les and I with my 2nd Maine tom of 2014:
Finally, I traveled over to New Hampshire. This state is absolutely one of my favorites...beautiful beyond comprehension, welcoming to hunters, friendly citizens. I had a great time while there, but a combination of abysmal weather and difficult gobblers teamed up to keep me from finalizing the deal until May 30, when I shot this tom. His yackity hen flew over beside me and landed in another tree early, then really scolded me for opening my mouth. When I talked back again, she flew down and just about landed on my head, but saw me at the last moment and flared a bit, landing 30 yards behind me. This put me right smack dab in between her and the tom, and she really shouldn't have treated him like that....he didn't stand a chance at that point. Here he is in my final picture:
Well, that's the summary of how things went in 2014. It was a tough year for me overall, with much less gobbling than normal, and I noticed a strong proclivity for early gobbling followed by long hours of silence every place I hunted. This made for some long days of unexciting hunting, and in fact, of my 72 days afield, there were no less than 17 when I heard no gobbling at all for the entire day, plus a few others when the only gobbling heard was late in the morning or even deep into the afternoon. There were actually a few times when I thought to myself that I could be doing something else, but thankfully, such crazy thoughts didn't last long before I was right back into "turkey mode." Many of the toms we killed were absolute brutes, leading me to think there might just have been a shortage of 2-year-olds this spring (further reason for lack of gobbling).
Despite the difficulties, it was a glorious spring and I got to meet lots of interesting characters (both human, and turkey) along the way. I also sold and signed lots of books as I traveled around, and this further opened up lines of communication and friendships in state after state. I tell ya....I have had so much fun because of writing that book!
In short, I had a great time and got to experience all the wonderments of spring in 7 states....what more can a turkey hunter ask for?!


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(First of all, my apologies to any of the original sign-ups that show up here after they have been replaced. Because you did not check in, we were forced to assume you might not be back at some point. You will be placed back into the supplemental list, and if you report in and we end up adding additional team members, we will try to get you back into the contest.)
I have completed the "supplemental draft" for those teams that ended up being short because of team members not reporting in. There were four teams in this category with a total of seven members needing to be replaced. By luck and shear coincidence, we had seven supplemental signers,....so we are in good shape,...assuming we don't lose anybody else.
The following is the the result of the replacement draft.
Team #1 Added.....60turkey, nativ, Shad309 (replaced....akish79, hoytshooter, Rocky)
Team#2 Added.....Duke0002, TXlongbeard (replaced....the Reverend, turkeytracks)
Team#5 Added.....SpitnDrum (replaced....bcouture)
Team#6 Added.....trkyhntr80 (replaced....tracebusta32)
I will note changes in team listings.


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