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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev stormed to a victory with a whopping 85 percent of the vote this week, in an election that opposition politicians and international observers said was massively marred by fraud.
The question is: Should anyone be surprised?
But the future is uncertain in this ex-Soviet nation, which just weeks ago signed a multimillion-dollar base agreement with the United States, and confronts possible Islamic unrest in its south.
The July 23 presidential vote had an air of inevitability about it, and followed a well-worn routine for anyone who has followed electoral processes in the former Soviet Union.
First, media outlets, especially television, weighted their coverage heavily to the incumbent. Bakiyev likewise enjoyed an expansive election war chest, and seemed to benefit from a savvy campaign fine-tuned by foreign consultants.
The opposition meanwhile struggled to find a voice and squabbled among itself for a period. Opposition supporters were subjected to intimidation and harassment. In some cases it appears they were beaten up, and one died.
On election day the fraud was omnipresent. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the main body monitoring the vote with more than 200 observers, said that the process was marked with "obstruction and intimidation" and fostered "an atmosphere of distrust" which "undermined … genuine democratic elections." More than half of the OSCE observers criticized the vote counting that they observed.
Bakiyev's camp declared a great victory, while the Central Election Commission dismissed the violations, or else said that it would investigate. Opposition leaders, including the main anti-government candidate Almazbek Atambayev, for their part called the vote illegitimate even while people were still voting, and said that they would stage a series of protests. So far, the country is quiet however, and the opposition — forever divided and indecisive — seems uncertain of which path to take.
All this took place almost according to a pre-determined script.
"This is not really a real election," one Western elections expert in Bishkek, who asked to remain anonymous for the sensitivity of the issue, said on the eve of the contest. "What is painful for me is the pretending game among everyone involved."
Bakiev conducted another heavily criticized vote in 2007 when his Ak Zhol party swept nearly all seats in parliament, and his main contender, Ata Meken, was locked out of the legislature due to an electoral technicality, despite evidence that it polled as well, if not better, than the ruling party.


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an announcement in a newspaper, on the Internet etc inviting people to apply for a job that is available
an advertisement in a newspaper or magazine that looks like one of its normal articles
a small sign that you can stick on your car with a message on it that may be funny, political, or advertising something
a document, especially a letter or advertisement, that is sent to a lot of people at the same time
a short advertisement that you put in a newspaper, for example so that you can sell something
an advertisement on a website that you click on in order to move to another page or website
a short interruption in a television or radio programme when advertisements are broadcast
advertising that has features such as photographs or a logo (=symbol representing a company) as well as writing
a bag containing small presents given by a company to help advertise a product or service
a small printed piece of paper advertising something that someone gives you in the street. A more usual word is flier.
a long advertisement on television that is made in the style of an ordinary programme
a page that appears before or after another page on a website, often showing advertisements or asking if the user is old enough to view the material
a short phrase, usually with music, that is easy to remember, used for advertising something on the radio or television
advertising and other information sent to you by post, email, or fax, although you did not ask for it and do not want it
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FWIW, the leather supply problems that Eric described have been driving us insane. Two of the last three shipments have been pretty good - the last one being very good - and these are the best results I've had from Hermann Oak in nearly a year.
I will not ship a holster that is not right, and unfortunately that does sometimes (like now) result in delays. I cannot ever promise you fast, but I will make sure that I never send any of you a holster than I will not stake my own life on. That's the best I can do when the supply of material is so unreliable. I wish things were different, believe me. I have not spent nearly 24 years in this business only to intentionally alienate my customers. We are doing the best that we can under the circumstances.
There are two alternatives, and I'd like some feedback. The first option is to steel reinforce all of our holsters - then they will work fine with leather that I currently cannot/will not use. However, the down side is that they will naturally be somewhat bulkier and heavier.
Or, I can go to horsehide. Horsehide will not mold terribly well, nor will it have the detailed boning that my present work has. In short, most horsehide holsters I've seen just look kinda rough to me.
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George Zimmerman's lawyer says at the heart of the Trayvon Martin murder case lies a constitutional prerogative: The right of Americans to carry guns and use them in self-defense. Is he right?
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Within 24 hours of Seminole County, Fla., Judge Kenneth Lester issuing a stern order allowing George Zimmerman, the defendant in the Trayvon Martin murder case, to post a $1 million bond, the volunteer neighborhood watchman received over $25,000 in donations, bringing his defense war chest to nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
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But in making an appeal for more funds, Mr. O'Mara also suggested on Friday that many Americans have given because they feel "this case is an affront to their constitutional rights," namely the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
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I agree, beren, except when it impacts upon resources that have become a leading resource and everything else is just a scattered fragment of that resource. So, when is works, it's a great tool.
We do want to keep this thread focused on the patent, so I suggest that people take site-specific questions to another spot.
Thomas Phelps and Robert Wilensky, for their project, Robust Hyperlinks. Traditional hyperlinks are very brittle, in that they are useless if the page later moves to a different URL. This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future
Sure, but that doesn't mean Google wants (or that users want) duplicate content in search results.
Press releases are a good example: The same release from Widgetco about its new WC-1 digital camera might turn up on 50 different photo sites, but from a user's point of view, there's no value in having all 50 copies of the press release listed in a Google SERP.
I tried to find this current patent there, but it said: "Your search - ininventor:Charikar - did not match any documents." and the same held true for a search for the title or specific keyords. Is it just too new, or is google patents broken similar to the link: command?
I'm new to patents at all: Is there a considerable increase in the number of patents released by google? does the new Big-Daddy-infrastructure allow google to implement the functionality of such patents easier than before?
As for this specific patent: I was again wondering about the status of "words" as the basis of a vector matrix (or overall analysis like in this thread [webmasterworld.com]). Sounds as if an arbitrary deletion of spaces (or substitution of spaces by hyphens) would disable the detection of duplicate content. It cannot be that easy, can it?
[edited by: Oliver_Henniges at 9:33 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2007]
By the way, we mostly find these through a combination of alerts, feeds, and just plain keeping lots of feelers out. Plus we have a lot of mods on the job here -- that improves our chance of catching a story early on.
[edited by: tedster at 8:17 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2008]
That is a 200-year old mathematics. How this could possibly stand up in any courtroom is beyond my understanding. Boo.
Other than that, interesting leasure reading
Is it just me or does this sound like a forum killer?
All forums inherently place the titles and tags in exactly the same places for every page. Would forums be penalized further with this? Its no secret that big G dislikes forums and dynamic content already, so webmasters go to great lengths to make their forums more friendly. Is this the return of webmasters needing to create every page differently, manualy and one by one?
Did they write somewhere they are only using this now?
[edited by: tedster at 5:12 am (utc) on Jan. 3, 2007]
Aha .. that was the missing bit of info :)
I second your opinion, though in practice this supposedly depends on the lawyers one can afford.
Indeed the patent is held very common: the vector analysis is primarily based on "words" or phrases, but "...the concepts described could also be implemented based on any object that contains a series of discrete elements." The question is whether it HAS been impemented that way, or whether google has developed some other (prior) engines to "normalize" text-bodies according to their lexemes beyond typing mistakes.
To me, one of the key future issues is the fact, that google now probably has the infrastructure to COMBINE and TWEAK all such patents quite easily. As Anna Patterson said here [acmqueue.com]:
"The really hard problem with crawlers is to perform dynamic duplicate elimination�eliminating both duplicate URLs and duplicate content..."
Looks as if crawling and evaluation of websites under this new infrastructure are performed in one and the same big (everchanging) process, thereby from time to time shoveling big parts of the results to the outside world in "data-refreshes." And most of us are wondering, how pagerank-calculation fits into this scheme.
Has anyone yet done a synopsis of some of these patents? Maybe "similarity engine 124", "server device 110", "memory 109" and all these denotations remain the same in all writings? What did the latest patents on pagerank say in this respect?
I have a website that contains many pages that are copied dayly. It drives me nuts to see my content somewhere else.
But who decides who the original author is?
Hopefully the algo. In the beginning, it's a first come, first serve basis. As time goes on, the original author usually gains natural links which are then factored into the equation. That's how I've seen it work.
If spam was a spear, this would certainly be a great heel. I'd be prone to keeping it short as well.
Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files [patft.uspto.gov] Improved duplicate and near-duplicate detection techniques may assign a number of fingerprints to a given document by (i) extracting parts from the document, (ii) assigning the extracted parts to one or more of a predetermined number of lists, and (iii) generating a fingerprint from each of the populated lists. Two documents may be considered to be near-duplicates if any one of their fingerprints match.
Detecting query-specific duplicate documents [patft.uspto.gov] An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as "snippets") is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity.
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Kristen was reportedly self conscious about showcasing PDA with Rob while out to dinner with friends at the Beatrice Inn on Nov. 9. They say Kristen must not be 'that into' Rob! What do YOU think?
Kristen Stewart has always been shy. Until recently, we've never seen her and Robert Pattinson kiss in public! Unfortunately for Kristen, Rob's friends allegedly took her evasiveness, while out to dinner on Nov. 9, as a sign of disinterest in the Breaking Dawn Part 2 hunk!
"Maybe [Kristen's] just not that into you [Rob]," one of Rob's friends was overheard saying while out to dinner at the Beatrice Inn in New York, according to New York Daily News.
According to the source, Kristen told Rob, "Don't kiss me."
We find it hard to believe that Kristen is not that into Rob! We can clearly see that they are in love with each other.
Kristen revealed to The Los Angeles Times, "People are just going to write the movie version of your life and consume it the way they please. I get the inclination to be entertained by that as well, so go for it. Have at it. Take it. Take it. But you knew nothing about my relationship before. You know less now. How could you?"
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Stop judging people after they made ONE mistake. How do we know about their private life? If she didn't love him, what for she beg him for forgiveness and another chance? If she's not that into him, she would definitely just let him go and be together with that stupid married director after the cheating news broke. Just let them be, they need some privacy. What for we judge them? We're just the outsiders okay, something we're just annoying !
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I really hate her after her cheating news broke! She's really cold-blooded, but rob forgave her, and for Rob's sake. I forgave her. But..but till now I don't really trust her anymore. But for Rob's sake, I just endure it. If she dares to cheat on rob again, I hope that he will just dump her for good!
Sometimes I feel like she's such a b*tch, arghhh..
That stupid director is nothing compared to Rob!!! Kristen is blind!!
But like I said, for Rob's sake, I just endure everything she'd done.
How about you Lisa? You like Rob? =')
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As I've said before, don't count on the relationship continuing after the last movie is out. I think Kristen is a cold woman. You would have to have ice in your veins to behave as she did and then have the nerve to say she would show everyone that she could get Rob back. I'm telling you guys, she has a dark side and she scares me for Rob. I think he will realize her lack of real affection one of these days. Right now he is getting what he wants from her apparently, staying at her house overnite, etc. but I notice nothing is reported about him giving up his own place. Hope he doesn't. She likes all this publicity, obviously and has no problem with discussing the 2nd Snow White movie and all the dialog tweaking she did with the director (what a joke!) on the first one. No, something is wrong here. Any ideas, anyone?
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@jeanne—-i agree with you—-she seems to have a side to her that we are all starting to see—-i mentioned in a previous comment how she professed her love for rob in her so called apology yet i see nothing has changed in the way she acts when she is with him or the way she talks—-IF she was honest and sincere about her comment we would SEE IT but i see the same little girl who gets what she wants and when she tires of it—oh well—————————————i am actually getting very tired of these two—-what is the big deal to say yes we are together???—i can understand the privacy thing but i think she enjoys all the attention by NOT letting people know how she feels—like she said–keep them guessing—-she is very into herself and it is beginning to show with her actions———————-as far as swath-i was shocked she would even mention that——i mean it hasnt been that long ago when this whole mess started with her and rupert—-and she seems generally pleased that there will be a sequel—-maybe she will insist on the same director!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i dont think she was EVER into rob as much as he was into her———after seeing how "affectionate" she was with sanders and she wont let rob kiss her in a private club?????? she is really messed up——what is wrong with him ????????????????????????? i think those two need to seperate immediately and give up this charade!!!! bd2 is almost over and hopefully once the hype is over rob and kristen will also be OVER !!!!!!——i never wanted to believe this so-called romance was just for the movies but i am seriously beginning to change my mind——
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I also think she is not that into him, like he is to her. I can clearly understand her, because when you are young, you want to date different guys… So it becomes boring. The realationship I mean. Even though, I thought she had overcome that with the separation, I guess not. They can seriously breakup anytime.
Posted at 10:19 PM on November 11, 2012
@woody88, she was in a public place she knew they could be seen by somebody easily. I can imagine 3 options: she set everything up, she cant control herself or she is a complete idiot for for going to cheat with a married man in a public place in the middle of the day. I dont know which one can be
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@ICU, i dont know how many times did kristen cheat and with whom, I believe its not her first or Last time. I dont know if Rob is insecure or an idiot 4 taking her back. But in one thing I agree with you: all kristen fans defends kristen so hard and says she is young and all of that crap and it was one time indiscreation and only was a kiss and are Happy that Rob took her back, but Im convinced that at least 90% of them would never take back their boyfriend if he cheats on them and the rest never have had a boyfriend
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With the new season of the hit TV show Glee in full swing, I thought it would be fun to re-post about the show's use of our Purple Bijoux Floor Lamp.
The lamp can be seen prominately in lead character Rachel's bedroom (see photo above) in a scene from last season.
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President Obama calls on the Senate to avoid using "parliamentary maneuvers" to stand in the way of passing health care reform in his weekly address.
"For the first time – there is a clear majority in the Senate that's willing to stand up to the insurance lobby and embrace lasting health insurance reforms that have eluded us for generations," the President says in his weekly address, "The question is whether the minority that opposes these reforms will continue to use parliamentary maneuvers to try and stop the Senate from voting on them."
After a week of hurdles in the Senate, and a weekend ahead of work for them, Mr. Obama says that whatever a senator's position is, they "ought to allow for an up or down vote."
"Whatever their position on health insurance reform, Senators ought to allow an up or down vote. Let's bring this long and vigorous debate to an end. Let's deliver on the promise of health insurance reforms that will make our people healthier, our economy stronger, and our future more secure. And as this difficult year comes to a close, let's show the American people that we are equal to the task of meeting our great challenges.
The President devotes a large amount of his weekly address to highlighting the patient protections in the House and Senate proposals in Congress, and noted that the last time a Patient Bill of Rights was within reach was in 2001 – which brought together Senators form both side of the isle – like Kennedy and McCain.
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Volvo Cars is presenting the next-generation battery electric Volvo C30 with a range of 150 kilometres at the Detroit Motor Show Volvo Cars will build a test fleet of 50 electric Volvo C30s which will be used in real-life traffic from 2011
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The City of Brownsville held a swearing in ceremony for two new city commissioners on Thursday evening.
John Villarreal was sworn in as commissioner for the District 4 seat and Estela Chavez Vasquez was sworn in as the At Large A commissioner. Both Villarreal and Vasquez won their seats after a run-off election on Saturday. For the first time four female commissioners now sit on the city council in Brownsville.
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Yesterday in the Everglades National Park
Yesterday in the Everglades National Park
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My friend Paul Raffety and I fished with Captain Steven Tejera on Friday, December 20. We launched in Flamingo and fished as far north as the Shark River. Though the winds were honking, Steven kept us on the fish. Here's few images of our trip.
SaltyShores Close-Up: Flamingo, Florida by Jan Maizler
SaltyShores Close-Up: Flamingo, Florida
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Though recent times has seen the Everglades National Park shut down for about two weeks, and now re-open, the flats fishing was, is, and no doubt will be stupendous- providing the habitat does not get peppered by debilitating cold fronts.
This is the story of two half-day trips Alan Williams and I made with Captain Jason Sullivan. If my schedule were less hectic, I'm sure the same marvelous results could have been achieved in one day. Jason's 17-foot Maverick HPX performed wonderfully and got us into the skinniest waters.
Alan and I would meet Jason in Florida City and drive with him down to Flamingo.
On the first day, Jason made a long run in search of a huge school of redfish he'd "been on" during the last few days. After an hour, we found them. The school seemed to stretch for fifty yards with tails popping up seemingly everywhere. When Jason got us in casting range Alan and I both fired off weedless soft plastics into their midst. I immediately got a strike, and my fish blew up the water instantly with thrashes, spooking the huge school in all directions. After a minute, my hook pulled, leaving us with nothing more than some frothed -up water and fast-beating hearts! Though I wanted to pursue the reds, Jason declined. He felt the tide would be perfect for snook back towards Flamingo and he wanted to pursue un-pressured fish in the few hours we had remaining for the day.
It turned out to be a great decision, as we caught a pile of snook in the remaining time, including a trophy-sized snook Alan took on a topwater plug.
On our second half-day trip, Jason was highly optimistic about the redfishing we'd be doing for three reasons: glassy calm water, fishing during the low tide, and the recent reports of lots of single fish to make presentations to, versus huge spookable schools.
Towards that end, we were into tailing reds within ten minutes of leaving the Flamingo marina. Indeed, those superb conditions plus Jason's expert guiding delivered up redfish all morning long.
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A short Keys and Flamingo trip
This past weekend I made the 3 hour drive down to Miami to fish with good buddies Capt. Honson Lau and Capt. Jeremy Alderman to do some Tarpon fishing in their home waters. We launched Honson's 18ft Maverick Mirage HPX at Jeremy's house in Key Largo and made the long run all the way to Islamorada. The 115 Mercury Pro XS made the run a piece of cake, and man, that motor scoots!
Fishing the Tarpon migration is not easy. You gotta know where to sit, what direction to point, what tides are doing, what fish to feed, what flies to throw, how to strip the fly, where to put the fly and so on, and these guys know it all, and exactly what to do.
Sure I wanted to catch a Tarpon on fly while I was down there, but what I really wanted were some good action shots of Tarpon jumps. I was on bow a couple times and had some good shots at some laid up and cruising fish, had a few follows but no takers. I had Honson take my place on the bow while I was behind the lens and Jeremy on the push pole. Sure enough after a few shots, Honson jumps a nice fish that gave us a spectacular air show! The cool thing about this fish was that the first cast at this fish, it tracked the fly all the way to the boat but didn't eat because the fly was fouled, Honson quickly picked it up, fixed the fly, slapped it back in front of the fish and next thing you know, there's explosions in the water. Of course like what most Tarpon would do, this one gave us a good short show then shook the fly out of its jaw. You can see the fly ejected from the fishes mouth on some of the photos.
In this first photo, you can see the fouled fly and the Tarpon just thinking about crushing it.
Next up on the bow was Jeremy with Honson on the push pole and me behind the lens again. After sitting at a spot waiting for fish to show up only seeing a few here and there, we decided to leave since it was a little slow. As soon as we were about to power up. a pod of 50-60 Tarpon come heading our way and Jeremy quickly grabs his rod, strips out some line and fires out a shot into the pod and hooks up! The fish never knew it was hooked and stuck with the school just daisy chaining around the boat and then shortly after, th hook pulls without a jump. Frustrating, but that's the name of the game. After that, we called it a successful day and made the long run back to Key Largo.
The next day, my friend Ramiro invited Honson and I to hop in his Maverick Mirage HPX-T and fish the Everglades National Park. The conditions were horrible with 20-30kt winds and some storms brewing so it was going to be a short trip. We launched at Flamingo and made a good run to some spots that were holding a bunch of Redfish. It was too windy for fly rods so we all threw some D.O.A. Cals on spinning outfits. The fishery down there is amazing, beautiful water, healthy grass and lots of fish. We caught Redfish, Snook, and Sea Trout until we got chased out by storms. Great day on the water with great company, that's what it's all about!
I'll be back down very soon for more action and hopefully better conditions. Stay tuned for part 2….
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Gone are the days of wearing jackets, jeans, and hoodies…hopefully. Gone are the days of sitting in a creek in the Everglades to catch 50 undersized redfish…hopefully. And gone are the arctic blasts that keep our warm weather fish from being happy…hopefully.
It is really starting to feel like the warmer weather starting to set in. My 2 favorite species to target on a fly rod are starting to find this favorable and fishing has certainly been pretty good when the stars lined up. As the warmth really starts to settle in, the sight of dark water will soon be replaced by bright torquise hues, green backed figures, and spiked up fins. The early season stuff is fun, but I can't wait to get to the meat and potatoes.
Speaking of warm weather… I got a couple of technical fishing shirts from Howler Bro.'s the other day and have been wearing them during these warm days on the water. I can honestly say that I have found the most comfortable fishing shirt on the market that I've worn so far. The unmistakable monkey brand is definitely cool and made unique from everything else on the market. These are definitely premium clothes, that are comfortable to wear, and make a statement about the fly fishing and surfing lifestyle. Check it out… www.howlerbros.com
Seeing red…. The MINGOnians…
The cool winter weather should send lots of fish up on the shallow mud flats trying to warm themselves in the afternoon sun. At this point in the game, a quiet shallow draft skiff and a good pair of polarized glasses will be vital for sneaking up on these weary fish. Think small flies, small arties, and stealthy presentations… break out the 6wt or 7wt and tie some small weighted and unweighted muddlers.
Happy Holidays… stay tuned…
Muddy Fall fishing in South FL.
Fall has definitely set in, followed by cooling temperatures, lobster sized live shrimp in the baitwell, blue bird skies, and lots of muddy minded fish. Redfish in Flamingo are swimming on the mud in the afternoon heat and hanging off the deep end of mud banks on cool mornings. Bonefish on the other side of this little world in Islamorada are mudding their tails off, fattening up for the winter. The deep backcountry of the Everglades is also teeming with life. On a recent day in the backcountry, we caught snook, redfish, bream (I haven't caught a pan fish on fly in over a decade), and gar all in the same few coves. As temperatures cool, catches of 40+ redfish are becomming less uncommon in a single day. We've been having a ball catching a bunch of backcountry redfish on DOA CAL shad tails in the new Fiji Chicken color fished on a 1/8oz or 1/4oz chartruese CAL jighead. Fall fishing is just straight up fun and relaxing.
Days have been real windy so it has been fun tackling some big chop in big water in my new 18 Maverick Mirage. I recently added a Minnkota Riptide ST trolling motor with iPilot for some of the deeper water backcountry stuff and it has worked amazing. The spot lock feature on the iPilot trolling motor is pretty amazing (thought it does kinda promote my laziness).
This is definitely a cool time of year to fish…
Stay tuned for more skiff fish porn…
The Locals…
The Everglades is part of what I consider my local waters. The usual shallow water suspects sought after during chillier days are redfish and snook (yes snook). The temperatures are starting to stabilize with highs in the 80s during the day and lows into the 60s in the evening and wee hours of morning. Though I did not miss the massive cold temperatures of this past winter, I did miss the occassional warmer winter days and slightly chilly morning run through buttonwood canal. The backcountry of Flamingo becomes a real special place after extreme warmth of summer passes. Whether planning on coralling wads of finger mullet and pilchards into your baitwell or simply tying on your favorite lure or fly, the Everglades will fail to dissapoint the bait soaker or sight fisherman in us. Once you are exiting out of Buttonwood canal you enter natures realm of big fish eat small fish, starting from Coot Bay, into Whitewater Bay, Oyster Bay, Shark River, and the entire gulf coast outside of there. The incredible fishing is only bested by the vast unspoiled wildlife that surrounds you. Now that the mullet are here, porpoises, tarpon, and other big predators are having their fill devouring massive quantities of these half-brained delicacies. It's pretty cool watching a redfish chase down and flare it's gills at a small mullet imitation fly or soft plastic, but feeling a helpless baitfish at the end of your line struggling as a big redfish or snook closes in, is pretty exciting in it's own aspect.
Fall Field Testing and upcomming events…
As we wake in the early hours now to grace the cool fresh morning air, I'm not the only one who is glad that the days of hot sweltering summer heat are almost behind us. A transitional change is definitely in the air. With the arrival of the equinox, the Chinese mid-Autumn festival, and season premiers of your favorite soap operas on TV, Autumn/Fall is upon us. This change in season should bring about days when fish will stay active through most of the day. This also brought about the massive migration of mullet and other baitfish down the Florida coast, with them pelagic predators nipping on their heels. I welcome this change and embrace it with an entire arsenal of baitfish flies and the latest lures from DOA Lures.
Speaking of DOA Lures, they have released a new color for the CAL jerkbait known as #425 Watermelon/Clear Holographic. This new color is VERY fishy as have been wacking quite a few clear water redfish from Flamingo to Islamorada with it. We term the phrase "match the hatch" in Fall and this color matches the miriad of small fin fish that are found in vast numbers on the flats this Fall. When matched with one of DOA's hot heads on either a weighted or unweighted weedless hook, they look absolutely irresitable. You can also chuck these light jerkbaits a mile with the G Loomis Greenwater GWR930S 10lb Power Pro.
The ideal conditions have provided shots at some tarpon, both big and small. With all the baitfish roaming around, you sometimes don't know when to expect to find some laid up tarpon or group of baby tarpon to throw a fly at.
Redzone apparel had provided me with a couple of their SPF50 micro-fiber shirts. The printing is guaranteed not to fade on these shirts as they are permanantly embeded into the color on the shirts. They are comfortable to wear all day and look real sharp. I like them!!! They also produce shirts for the many boat manufacturers on the market, including Maverick Boat Company. Jeff Harrell of Finatic Designs (same guy who designed that cool Rasta Tarpon "one love" sticker) and Ken of Breathe like a Fish have sent me a couple of their face masks with the breathable vent holes. Unlike the popular Original Buffs, these face masks have overhanging flaps on the front and rear of the mask that are perfect for shirts that don't have some sort of mock turtleneck or raised neck. I just thought that idea and the meshed breathe holes were a great idea I'd mention. Also be on the lookout for a new bonefish and fly shirt design from Ihuntfish. I had a chance to see it in person and thought it was a pretty cool design.
I have been eyeing MinnKota's new iPilot system on their trolling motors and it looks like I will be testing a reveiwing one very soon as I have on the way to be part of a removable setup on my Maverick 18 Mirage. This new skiff is extremely versatile and the addition of a trolling motor should open some doors for a variety of different types of fishing. I used to shun trolling motors but I think having the iPilot system with spot-lock will be pretty cool. Of coarse, it will be removable for days when I plan to stay on the pole all day. I'll look forward to using the new iPilot and reviewing it.
For those of you who fish EP Flies, Enrico Puglisi will be at the Vero Backcountry this coming Thursday (Oct. 7th). Maverick Boat Co. and Vero Backcountry will be hosting the Maverick/Backcountry Cup, fly tournament on Saturday, December 4th. Mark your calendars for this date, as this proves to be a real fun tournament with lots of cool prizes and great comraderie. I will have more info on the tournament up shortly. If you are interested in registering or inquiring about the tournament, contact Capt. Eric Davis at the Vero Backcountry or Charlie Johnson at Maverick Boat Company.
Stay tuned… Fall is only starting to rev up and there should be lots of great things to come from big bonefish in Islamorada to absolute baitfish slaughtering mayhem in the Gulf.
Mirage in "the Glades"
My buddy Paul and I set out a couple of weekends ago to put the new 18 HPX out in it's paces covering quite a bit of water in the SW portion of the Everglades from Shark Rivers to Snake Bight and a bit further East. We met up with my Dennis and Jason in their 17 HPX-V and set out on a 2 boat adventure into the unknown. We encountered windy creeks, big storm brewed chop, drastic changes in weather, and lots of redfish in muddy water and clean water. While fishing on each side of Flamingo, we saw tons of bait.. mainly finger mullet. But the redfish didn't show much interest in the mullet… rather they followed the mullet around and pounced on every little shrimp or crab that the schools of mullet would spook up. It was pretty neat to watch aggressive redfish in the dirty water pounce our DOA Shrimp , then travel 50 miles back to the shallow clear flats of Snake Bight to watch schools of big redfish blow up on the same DOA Shrimp. By far the coolest sight though was sneaking right up on top of a tailing redfish rooting in the grass for a crab and seeing it dig out the crab and munch on it right under my feet (crab legs were still sticking out of the fish's mouth and mud flaring out of gills). The 'Glades always offers a spectacular show for it's visitors. This is a very special place.
Stay tuned for more ahead…
The end of one and beginning of next…… the INCUBATION.
All my life, I have always tried to seek out the best of the best and this comes especially true when choosing my next flats skiff. This will my my third skiff I own and my third product from Maverick Boat Company as well. Currently, Maverick Boats is building my next skiff… and for the first time, I was able to build one from scratch with every little nit pick detail that I desired. After a 12 year run fishing the shallows from Flamingo to Islamorada, I have finally spec'ed out everything I wanted in a skiff; both for guiding and for fun fishing days.
I learned to run a boat and fish the shallows at age 12 on a Hewes/Maverick Light Tackle 18 flats skiff (currently the Redfisher 18). It had a 2 tone commander blue and white hull with Yamaha 150HP Saltwater Series motor, lots of weight, and a fishy attitude. I tried to get into places where this big flats boat was pushed to it's limits from big water Dolphin fishing to shallow water Redfishing. This was hardly a skiff, but a big water flats boat, which my buddies and I actually did end up still trying to pole. For many years, I first learned to fish Whitewater Bay before learning how to fish the flats out front in Florida Bay. Along the way, my buddy Capt. Frank had also taught me how to bonefish in Key Largo as well as introduce me to fly fishing. I did a lot of this in either Frank's Hewes Bayfisher 18 or my Hewes Light Tackle 18. These bigger skiffs were adequate and got me where I needed to be dry and comfortably. I fished the hell out of my 18 Light Tackle from the day I bought it in 1998 until the day I sold it in 2004.
In the next few weeks, I will keep an updated blog on Saltyshores of the entire skiff building process that goes into a Maverick Mirage HPX from start to finish. Until next time…. stay tuned for the "Hatching"!!!


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American Airlines pulled its flights from the Orbitz travel website on Tuesday in a dispute that could eventually affect the way travelers buy airplane tickets online.
The airline said its tickets sold previously on Orbitz are still valid. And American Airlines tickets can still be bought at the airline's own website as well as other travel websites. American pulled its tickets from the Orbitz for Business site as well.
The dispute is the latest sign of strains between airlines and the companies that sell airline tickets, including online sellers like Orbitz.
Airlines have traditionally paid sellers a commission. American also pays fees to the global distribution companies that provide the flight information.
Now, American wants Orbitz to get that flight information directly from the airline, cutting out the global distribution systems. American has said that will reduce costs and also allow it to make more personalized offers to customers such as hotels and car rentals.
The global distribution systems have not moved as fast as they could have to upgrade their technology, but American's move with Orbitz is "rather severe," said Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst for Forrester Research. "It seems like they want to scorch the earth."
He predicted that travelers who want to fly on American will seek out its tickets on the airline's website. Travelers who don't know what happened with Orbitz, or don't care which airline they fly, are unlikely to notice American's absence from Orbitz, he said.
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Pakistan court refuses to release US official, denying immunity
(Read article summary)A Pakistan court refused to release Raymond Davis, an employee of the US Embassy in Lahore, saying that diplomatic immunity only goes so far.
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A Pakistani court refused today to release an American official to US authorities, igniting a diplomatic rift between the two countries as well as speculation about the official's role within the American government.
Embassy employee Raymond Davis is accused of murdering two Pakistan citizens in Lahore last Thursday as The Christian Science Monitor reported then. However, he has claimed that he was acting in self-defense after two men on a motorcycle attempted to rob him at gunpoint, according to a BBC report.
The State Department released a statement saying that Pakistani authorities are obliged to hand over Mr. Davis because he has diplomatic immunity.
"He is a member of the embassy's technical administrative staff and therefore entitled to full criminal immunity. He cannot be lawfully arrested or detained in accordance with the Vienna Convention," said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley on Monday, according to an AFP report.


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'Rabbit Hole' Scribe Pens 'Spidey' Sequel
U.S. playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his heartbreaking stage drama "Rabbit Hole," is writing the next "Spider-Man" screenplay.
The Hollywood Reporter said Lindsay-Abaire was hired to write his first "Spidey" script, while franchise director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire are set to return for their fourth outing. The entertainment industry trade newspaper did not say whether Kirsten Dunst, who played the webslinger's leading lady in the first three films, will be back in the next installment of the superhero series.
The playwright has written the screenplays for the movies "Robots" and "Inkheart," as well as the book for the stage musical "High Fidelity" and the book and lyrics for Broadway's upcoming "Shrek" musical.


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Capitol K
- Artist: Capitol K
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I was djing at the Sprawl club in London in mid '98 when a girl came up to me (which they do) and handed me a demo tape (which they don't) entitled "Capitol K". I didn't hear what she said (I was mixing in Urban Shakedown's Arsonist VIP dub at the time) but I assumed it was hers. When I got home I put on the demos I had received along with a few others as you do, but the Capitol K one jumped out at me. It contained 2 tracks, "Jump Off The Box" which captivated me with it's backwards guitar, mumbled vocals & faux afx hi-Q snare rolls and this "Song For Belgium" which had thundering live drums and great smudges of tape manipulated atonal guitar loops (in dub). Well, this was not the sort of thing I was used to getting and I rang the number on the tape. Turned out it was this guy Kristian Robinson (and it was handed me by his flatmate who was also friends with Elf-Cut, the label where his debut ep was released). Over the next few months K sent me the remaining tracks which made up his debut "Sounds Of The Empire" which is still one of the best debut albums I have heard. His sound combines lo-fi electronics with lo-fi rock and the results are fucking great. Kristian is really an original artist doing his own thing. We have now released 2 album's worth of K and his second: "Island Row" was subsequently licensed for release worldwide by XL Recordings.
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SpeedUpTV is a new highly rated video player for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, brimming with added features, from mix1009. With 4+ stars as of this review, it seemed time to find out what all the hype is about.
As the name suggests, SpeedUpTV gives the user some control—actually, a lot of control—over playback speed. Users can play back videos on their device from half the original rate of speed and up to twice as fast. While that's the feature that the app pushes in its title, it offers a few pleasant surprises for those that expect nothing more.


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Building on the success of the 2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change, AIGCC – an ASrIA initiative – and its partners take to New York for Climate Week and the Climate Summit 2014 to unveil the 2014 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change…
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20/05/2007 | Simon Pirani
Investment needed after Russia oil spat
Belarussian economy minister Nikolai Zaichenko will today ask the EBRD to help his country find private investors for six small hydroelectric stations and two combined heat and power plants.
Given the increase we have had in the prices of fuels [imported from Russia], we are very interested in doing energy saving schemes in cooperation with the EBRD, Zaichenko told Emerging Markets in an interview.
We are putting the accent on private business, and these enterprises will be privately owned whether partially or totally can be decided in the course of negotiations.
It is understood that, under the terms of the EBRDs country strategy which limits the bank to working with non-state companies in Belarus, because of the lack of political reform under president Aleksandr Lukashenko such projects could be undertaken as public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Any final decision would be made by the EBRD board. While it is understood that the US opposed amending the country strategy to specifically allow energy-saving projects in the municipal sector, nothing in the current wording excludes these projects.
Whereas previously we considered this a state sector, we have made a principled decision to encourage private investment, Zaichenko said. Let investors come, produce electrical energy, and sell it for a profit.
Zaichenko is due to raise the issue in a meeting with EBRD president Jean Lemierre today in Kazan. Mike Davey, the EBRD senior banker responsible for Belarus, told Emerging Markets: The fact that the government is looking at private sector involvement in the power sector is a positive step.
Zaichenko said that the gas price increases and changed terms for oil exports, imposed by Russia earlier this year, had not done serious harm on a macroeconomic level. In the first four months of the year, inflation had risen slightly, and stood at 2.8%, up from 2.5% in the same period of 2006. More serious was the increase in the cost of industrial goods, which was 6.5%, up from 3.1% the previous year.
But changes in the terms of Russian oil exports have had a substantial impact on our oil refineries, Zaichenko said. Profitability had sunk from 26% last year to 1% this year. This follows the decision of Russian exporters to scrap a scheme under which oil was exported 60% on a tolling basis (with refiners paid to process the oil before returning it to Russia for sale), and 40% sold outright to the refineries. All oil is now being sold to the refineries at world market prices, and they have taken out bank loans to finance the purchases.
Asked whether the government saw privatization as part of the answer to the price hikes, Zaichenko said: We have kept this issue under review since 2002, and dont forget that 42.5% of the Mozyrsky refinery [Belaruss largest] is already privately owned.
Our companies will listen to serious proposals from those who have money to spend and who can guarantee a supply of oil. Any final decision would rest with the government, he said. He declined to comment on whether Rosneft or Gazprom had expressed an interest.
Zaichenko said the ministrys analysts estimate that the European Unions decision in December last year to exclude Belarus from its system of trade preferences will cost the republic $20-$30 million. The harm this does to us is not critical, but it makes a difference. It will make our exports less competitive in the European Union.
The exclusion came after an international trade union campaign calling for sanctions against Belarus, for its failure to meet International Labour Organisation standards on labour legislation and workers rights.
Jamaica is getting back on track and could become an unlikely poster child for the IMF. However, elsewhere in the Caribbean the threat of default looms and some countries are not ready to ask for help
Pakistan has had an impressive year under new premier Nawaz Sharif. But the government needs to keep up its reforming zeal to get the South Asian state's finances back on track.
With every resource that it needs to become a wealthy country, Kazakhstan should be doing better, but its economy remains stubbornly tied to energy and metals prices. President Nazarbayev is running out of time to transform his nation
Rising US interest rates should in theory lead investors to withdraw money from emerging economies so those in Latin America suffering weak growth. But leading debt bankers feel that the party has some time to go.
Mexico is reaping the rewards of recent economic reforms, an upbeat Luis Vidagaray tells Emerging Markets, as he indicates that the economy can hit a 5% growth target.
Women's participation in the labour force still lags men's by 12% even in developed economies. In the MENA region it can be up to 50%. That is a wasted resource - and best practice examples show countries and companies that tackle the problem outperform
Something needs to be done to improve lending in the country. That's what competition should do… We're so far from where we should be in terms of credit-to-GDP
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ATLANTA -- Many of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education's "Top Ten Issues to Watch in 2010" are connected by a common thread: money.
The sixth annual report outlines 10 issues that will likely affect public education in the coming year. The findings are based on current research, national trends and state policy developments.
The Partnership is a nonprofit, nonpartisan independent organization that focuses on impacting education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
The report's author, the Partnership's Policy and Research Director Susan Walker, said the issues are not ranked in order of importance. The first issue discussed in the publication, however, is the state budget.
"Revenues are still down. The cuts to education are deep," Walker said. "The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act relieved some of the impact. It's been helpful in plugging some of the budget holes, but it can't plug all the holes."
Although Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced in September that it was "very likely" the recession had ended, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged a month later, "For every person out of work, for every family facing foreclosure, for every small business facing a credit crunch, the recession remains alive and acute," Walker said.
For schools, the fiscal outlook remains grim, Walker said.
The next issue discussed in the report is Georgia's application for Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion competitive grant fund established by ARRA. Walker said it's the largest amount of discretionary funding for K-12 education reform in history.
The Race to the Top competition includes four core reform areas: standards and assessments, data systems to support instruction, great teachers and leaders, and turning around the lowest-achieving schools, Walker said. Forty states, including Georgia, and Washington, D.C., submitted an application for the first phase of the competition.
Gwinnett County Public Schools was one of 23 school districts that decided to partner with the state in implementing Georgia's Race to the Top plan.
The next four topics in the report focus on the four core reform areas required by Race to the Top.
Other topics include college access for all, the expanding charter school frontier, education litigation in Georgia and understanding rural Georgia.
Sloan Roach, spokeswoman for Gwinnett County Public Schools, said the top 10 issues identified by the Partnership are aligned with many of the issues the district is watching.
"Budget concerns top the list for all districts in Georgia, including Gwinnett," she said. "We also are very interested in Georgia's Race to the Top funds and how these funds and initiatives might advance our school system.
"Another focus in Gwinnett is in the area of great teachers and leaders. We have to ensure we continue to recruit quality candidates, while retaining the outstanding employees already here. We also want to make sure that we are effectively evaluating and compensating our employees. And, it goes without saying that teaching and learning is our core business; so, student achievement continues to be a focus in 2010."
Georgia Partnership President Steve Dolinger said it's important for people to be knowledgeable about the key education issues facing the state.
"When I hear someone say they don't have a child in the school system so they don't care or follow what is happening, I realize we must redouble our efforts to better inform the public," he said. "We are all education stakeholders. What happens in our schools has a direct economic impact in all our communities and directly upon us as citizens."
The report is available online at www.gpee.org. The Partnership will provide up to two copies for free upon request. Post reimbursement will be requested for orders of more than two. For more information, call 404-223-2280 or e-mail Bill Maddox at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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