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The Congress for the New Urbanism announces the recipients of the Charter Awards for 2009. The 10 professional and 2 academic projects selected by a jury of leading urbanists represent the best of the New Urbanism. They will be recognized in a ceremony at the annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver, CO, June 13.
The 12 recipients bring excellence in urbanism and sustainability to sites large and small, ranging from the blocks around a formerly abandoned streetcar storage facility in Toronto to the Crystal City office corridor near Washington DC to the entire Hertfordshire region in England. The honorees showcase the adaptability of New Urbanist principles to this extraordinary range of contexts while also illustrating how today's urbanists are building on collective experience and successfully tackling ever more ambitious challenges.
Plans in Buffalo, NY and Washington, DC draw inspiration from reviving historic street patterns and restoring urban fabric partially obscured by freeways and disinvestment in those cities. The Washington, DC plan uses the future office and security needs of the U.S. House of Representatives as a catalyst for bringing graceful urbanism inspired by the L'Enfant Plan to the neglected, freeway-traversed area south of the U.S. Capitol.
A second D.C. area award went to a daring plan to transform the notorious Crystal City area in Arlington, VA, bringing residential life, street activity and urban order to a precinct that, despite its status as a longtime hub of business and government, had come to symbolize for new urbanists the bleak anonymity and oppressive public realm of the motorized "modern" city of the mid-20th Century. "Only urbanism could fix this," said jury chair Victor Dover, principal of Dover Kohl & Partners.
Two large-scale planning studies lay out the retrofitting of suburban areas in the Bahamas and the United Kingdom. (Like many environmental and planning challenges, sprawl is not strictly indigenous to the United States.) The UK project elaborates several different scenarios for growth, and illustrates how to repurpose suburban structures like shopping malls in ways that draw on the British heritage of townbuilding. The Bahamas project also draws heavily on traditional settlement patterns, thereby reducing impacts to sensitive lands and softening the division between resort and worker communities.
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with much of the recycled material used on site. Wetlands were enhanced in consultation
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Several winning plans propose building on the success of well-designed city fabric to catalyze improvement of nearby areas. A project in Savannah, GA extends the parks and blocks of the central city into and adjacent former industrial area. A plan for central San Antonio, TX extends from the Riverwalk area, connecting it to nearby institutions by improving walking and transit routes, while setting the groundwork for the renewal of three adjacent neighborhoods.
The San Antonio plan incorporates a form-based code, a method pioneered by new urbanists to make land development regulations more conducive to mixed-use, walkable development. Continuing this theme, the jury also recognized the innovative SmartCode and its accompanying Manual with a Charter Award. "This is particularly overdue recognition," said Dover.
Smaller-scale designs receiving Charter Awards also demonstrate New Urbanism's capacity for small interventions that improve neighborhoods in big ways. Artscape Wychwood Barns resurrects a set of streetcar storage sheds as a neighborhood hub for artist live-work galleries, urban agriculture, a multi-use arcade that hosts a weekly a farmers market and other vibrant uses. A student-designed theater complex in Beijing, China acts as a new hub for its neighborhood. Building on traditional theatrical and architectural forms, it impressed jurors with its meticulous, professional execution. At a windswept crossroads formerly known for vacant lots, the Columbia Heights, D.C. mixed-use project offers a compelling testimonial to the sustainability and vitality of transit-oriented mixed-income development.
This year's submitters were also given an opportunity to demonstrate their projects' relationship to the Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, a set of operating principles that expands on the Charter of the New Urbanism's vision of a sustainable built and natural environment. At a time of major simultaneous challenges involving economics, energy and the environment, these projects serve as important models for growth and redevelopment that promotes long-term sustainability, livability and community value. See listings and descriptions of winning submissions from 2009 and previous years.
Members of the 2009 awards jury are: Jury chair Victor Dover, Dover Kohl & Partners, Coral Gables, FL; Karen Parolek, Opticos Design, Inc., Berkeley, CA; Eduardo Castillo, Castillo Arquitectos, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Doug Farr, Farr & Associates, Chicago, IL; Ferhat Zerin, Gingko Planning & Design, Orland Park, IL; Diane Miller, Envision Central Texas, Austin, TX; and Evan Jones, Multuplex, Perth, Australia; Special thanks to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for providing the jury with the use of studio space in Louis Sullivan's Carson, Pirie, Scott Building.
The winning projects for 2009 are (with location and submitting firm):
Buffalo Comprehensive Plan, Buffalo, NY
The Urban Design Project - The School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo
Hertfordshire Guide to Growth – 2021, Hertfordshire, UK
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Crystal City Vision Plan 2050, Arlington, VA
Torti Gallas and Partners
East Riverfront Extension, Savannah, GA
Sottile & Sottile
The SmartCode
Center for Applied Transect Studies and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Baldwin Park, Orlando, FL
New Broad Street Investments
River North, San Antonio, TX
Moule & Polyzoides, Architects & Urbanists
House Office Buildings Facilities Plan and Preliminary South Capitol Area Plan, Washington, DC
Wallace, Roberts & Todd, LLC
Columbia Heights, Washington, DC
Torti Gallas and Partners
Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Ontario
du Toit Architects Limited
Guo He Lou Theatre Complex, Beijing, China
Kai Hu, University of Notre Dame
Planning Abaco, Abaco Island, Bahamas
The School of Architecture, Andrews University
Large photo: Future traffic circle and monument, Crystal City, VA, courtesy of Torti Gallas & Partners.


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Disappointing setlist
I enjoyed another great Korn show (number 7) in Nashville, but the setlist was definitely not one of my favorites. I was at least expecting to hear more of the Paradigm Shift, but got just as many songs from Path of Totality. Below is the setlist for Nashville... Freak on a leash as a closing song???? Booo .... Bring back My Gift To You ... I'm interested in yalls dream setlist..
Blind (best opener)
Twist (keeper)
Falling Away from Me (liking how they changed it up, it can stay)
Love & Meth (best song on Paradigm Shift?)
Narcissistic Cannibal (Should have been replaced with Paranoid and Aroused)
Dead Bodies Everywhere (Awesome)
Coming Undone (Move up Got the Life or Freak on a leash)
Shoots and Ladders / Somebody Someone (Seeing JD with bagpipes is a must, but should be more of a Shot Liver Medley)
Here to Stay (Prey for Me)
Never Never (for the ladies)
Y'All Want a Single (setlist savior)
Get Up! (Replace with It's On)
Got the Life (Faget)
Freak on a Leash (My Gift to You/ Kill You, something that gives you chills)
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RE: Disappointing setlist
Right now (with epic keyboard opening)
Love and meth
Narcissistic cannibal
Hollow life (acoustic version)
Alone I break
Lullaby for a sadist
Open up
Die Another day (incredible song!)
Fear is a place to live
Freak on a leash
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At least four former high-level managers in the VA Montana Health Care System, including a former human resources director, attorney, physician and facilities manager, are calling for Director Robin Korogi to resign immediately because she has created an acrimonious work environment, jeopardized patient safety and subjected VA Montana to lawsuits.
"She has to go," said Charlie Hail, who worked as an attorney for the VA for 21 years. "Absolutely. No questions asked. She continues to fire people without cause and is opening up the VA to litigation."
The chorus of voices calling for Korogi's resignation comes on the heels of a Billings Gazette article published Sunday focusing on why VA Montana has failed in recruiting in-patient psychiatrists to staff a mental health facility at Fort Harrison. The eight-bed acute-care wing has not been in operation since the $7 million facility was opened in June 2011. Current and former employees say the toxic work environment makes it impossible to recruit psychiatrists to the facility, and they hold Korogi responsible.
The situation has become so dire that it was a subject on Capitol Hill last week when U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., the state's only member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, brought it to the attention of VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki and VA Undersecretary for Health Robert Petzel.
"I met with the head of the Veteran's Health Administration to tell him to fix the situation at the Montana VA, and I expect to see action soon," Tester said Wednesday.
Korogi did not respond to several invitations from The Gazette to comment.
As a member of the legislative branch of government, Tester does not have authority to make personnel decisions in the executive branch. As a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, he has an oversight role that he is using to raise this issue with top officials at the VA.
Michael Harris, former chief of Facilities Management Services, and Aggie Hamilton, former human resources director, also on Wednesday called on Korogi to resign. Harris, who left the VA in December after nearly 26 years, said he retired early in part due to Korogi.
"I don't think she's an appropriate director," said Harris, who served as chief of the department for 13 years. "She's created a poisonous atmosphere and a difficult work environment. It was my observation that there was a feeling of intimidation and fear throughout the organization, especially for (department managers.)"
Moreover, Harris said Korogi might be a distraction to the mission of VA Montana. Instead of helping her department managers, Harris said she undermined and micromanaged them.
"Morale was as bad as I had ever seen it there," Harris said. "It concerns me that the current director may be negatively affecting the ability to perform."
Dr. Patrick Morrow, an internist at the VA for nearly seven years before leaving in July 2011, also called for Korogi's resignation. While at VA Montana, Morrow served as vice president of the union representing licensed professionals.
Morrow now works as assistant medical director for a major Montana insurance company. He said he found Korogi's administrative policies to be incompatible with his values.
"I do believe the policies she was instituting and the direction she was taking created safety issues for patients as well as the providers," Morrow said. "We were forced to do things that ultimately could have put our licenses and reputations at risk."
Korogi, who does not have a medical background, repeatedly made clinical decisions that affected patients' lives, which she was not qualified to make, Morrow said. He's not the first to cite concern for veterans' health and well-being.
Hail also told The Billings Gazette that he left because he grew increasingly concerned that Korogi was "jeopardizing patient safety."
Dr. Peter Wendt, the only full-time orthopedic surgeon at VA Montana for nearly 11 years, said he also left because of Korogi. Once planning to spend the rest of his career at VA Montana, Wendt is now in private practice in Anaconda.
"Patients were not treated as patients," Wendt said. "They were treated as a number. It was harder and harder to deliver care I was proud of. In the end, I was no longer proud to say I worked at the VA."
Physicians, Wendt said, were questioned about the medical care they were dispensing and were instructed on how to care for patients. Under Korogi's administration, Wendt said the facility was run as a business, not as a medical facility. Basic communication between patients and their physicians became difficult, even impossible, because of the way Korogi set up the phone system.
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can a mix of fire clay ,sand, and portland cement be used in place of refractory cement for joints and flue assembly on a casa oven?????????????
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my whole build was using a similar mix, 1 part fireclay, 1 part hydrated lime, 1 part Portland cement and 3 parts brickie sand. Two years down the track and not a crack anywhere even with plenty of very hot 500˚C cookups.
I would use this again and will for future builds. The refractory adhesives are expensive and many who have used them have reported cracking problems.
I have no doubt that they are good, possiblt too good and cracks are generated through the bricks and not along the mortar joints.
Wet your bricks well and keep your mix nice and workable and you should have no problems.
Check out my build for the finer details and hints.
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Doesn't the Casa oven come with a bag of Refmix? I'd follow the instructions if it were me.
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yes it does and i used it for the dome placement and seam. i do have another bag i bought extra i am just asking in case it is not enough for the vent and brick arch assembly. the fire clay i can get locally, and was told a mix of 1 part clay 2parts portland and 3 part sand would work also up to 2000degrees.
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just another thought in the directions from fb it says you can coat the dome with refratory cement for a better heat retention would fire clay also help this???
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Yes, the homebrew stuff will work fine. You can coat the dome, but why add mass? It's engineered for the exact right performance the way it's built.
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that was a suggestion in the forno bravo directions for installation so i was just curious if it would be benificial
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Hi Moto,
FB tries to say that the standard Casa oven is perfect for a majority of uses -- though a very serious bread baker can build up the thermal mass of the oven as an option. For a vast majority of users, the standard Casa oven is exactly what you want!
I will double check the text in the installation guide and see if I can tune it up a little to be more clear.
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I just read a post from earlier this year that caught my attention and alerted me that I may have just picked up a less-than acceptable HW refractory mortar from ANH. The earlier post from geisen said that the HW rep he talked to said that any refractory mortar used on a WFO must be hydraulically bonded, which is not water soluable, like the 50lb of Sairbond, I just picked up. I left a message for the HW rep who sold me the bag asking if they sold their hydraulically-bonded product Mortar 413. It's been a week and no call back.
Is the homebrew mortar hydraulically bonded, and if so, could it be the hydrated lime that makes it so? I'm thinking maybe I can just add some lime to the bag of Sairbond I purchased in the event I can't switch it out for the Mortar 413.
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Wikipedia states "Hydraulic limes set under water and Non-Hydraulic limes need air to carbonate and therefore set . Modern non hydraulic lime mortars are produced from lime derived from high calcium lime stones . These lime stones are burnt in kilns producing quick lime for other industrial uses other than building. Non-hydraulic lime mortar sets by reaction with atmospheric carbon dioxide (commonly called 'carbonation'). This is in contrast to the setting of Portland cement and hydraulic lime which sets by reaction with water in the mix.
Lime mortar is more porous than cement mortars, and it wicks any dampness in the wall to the surface where it evaporates. Thus any salt content in the water crystallises on the lime, damaging the lime and thus saving the masonry."
My 'poor mans mortar mix' has minimal portland because it cannot handle the heat put into an oven, the fireclay to make the mortar a lot 'stickier' and the lime to adds workability and time to the mix. Apart from that, lime mortars have been used for centuries without real problems.
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Big dual for these two teams coming up this weekend with both teams coming off a runner up performance that their respective big tournament. Some great individual match ups here in this dual.
125: #13 Andrew Long v. #3 Zach Sanders 3-0 Minnesota (This in my opinion will probably wind up being the most exciting match of the dual. Both of these guys love to put points on the board. Both guys were impressive in action this weekend. Long put his first really marquee wins on the board, and Sanders had a high quality win over Morrill in the Scuffle wrestle backs)
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141: UR Dalton Jensen v. #6 Mike Thorn 10-0 Minnesota (I'm assuming that Gallick isn't going to wrestle here so I'm just guessing on who this is going to be for the Cyclones. Jensen however didn't wrestle at Midlands either so we'll see. Giving Thorn the major for now, but this is a match where he could get 6 and his team could certainly use it)
149: #13 Mitch Mueller v. #9 Mario Mason 10-3 Minnesota (Mueller had a good tournament and Midlands, Mason looks like he still has some things that he needs to work on putting together. He seems to still be getting his feet under him after missing the early part of the year with an injury)
157: UR Andrew Sorenson v. UR Joe Grygelko or #13 Jake Deitchler 10-6 Minnesota (I'm going to run under the assumption that its going to be Grygelko here for the Gophers, just put Deitchler's name down just in case. Grygelko had a couple nice wins this weekend at the Scuffle but I think Sorenson probably gets him here)
165: #3 Jon Reader v. #4 Dustin Schlatter 13-6 Minnesota (Both of these guys did nice jobs running scores up against their first three opponents this weekend before settling for chess matches in their matches in the semi's and finals. We should see another chess match here. Dustin got him in freestyle without much trouble this spring, I think he wins a close one here)
174: #11 Duke Burk v. UR Scott Glasser 13-9 Minnesota (Another match up between two guys who had very solid tournaments this weekend. If Glasser is finally healthy this is a match that he could very easily win and that would be massive in terms of the dual for the Gophers)
184: #12 Jerome Ward v. UR Kaleb Young 13-12 Minnesota (In my opinion it may be a better idea to put Yohn down here if he is able to get back to weight quick enough as Ward is a guy that I think he might be able to match up with pretty well. If this is Young then Ward probably wins a decision without much trouble)
197: #1 Jake Varner v. #18 (at 184) Sonny Yohn 16-13 Iowa State (Much as I like Sonny, Varner is Varner and Varner just dominated his way through the Midlands. This is a match that Varner could conceivably get 6 in if he's able to get on top and use his all that pressure he puts on people with his half)
285: #5 David Zabriskie v. #10 Ben Berhow 19-13 Iowa State (Z took the upset loss to Trice in the finals at Midlands but other than that looked pretty solid overall. Berhow took a tough loss to Palma in the first round of the Scuffle and then I don't even know what happened after that, didn't look. Z wins a decision to close things out)


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The old-fashioned movie theater is in Netflix's crosshairs.
Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at the on-demand video service, tore into movie theater owners over the weekend at the Film Independent Forum in Los Angeles. At issue: their widespread resistance to same-day on-demand / theatrical releases.
"Theater owners stifle this kind of innovation at every turn," Sarandos said. "The reason why we may enter this space and try to release some big movies ourselves this way, is because I'm concerned that as theater owners try to strangle innovation and distribution, not only are they going to kill theaters — they might kill movies."
The idea that Netflix will do an end-run around the theater owners—given their success at original programming with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black—ought to send chills up many a proprietor's spine.
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"Subscription movie services and cheap rentals killed the DVD business, and now Sarandos wants to kill the cinema as well," Fithian said. "The only business that would be helped by day-and-day release to Netflix is Netflix. If Hollywood did what Sarandos suggests, there wouldn't be many movies left for Netflix's customers or for anyone else. It makes absolutely no business sense to accelerate the release of the lowest value in the chain."
Movie theaters are far from perfect as a business. For one thing, ticket prices have far outstripped inflation over the past decade. Theaters also seem to really annoy a certain kind of tech evangelist who sees them as hopelessly outdated in the world of social media and the second screen. Maybe it's because, as far as I can tell, they have more or less worked the same way since the 1920s in that they are big dark rooms where movies are shown at very specific times (the opposite of on-demand). Prominent bloggers such as YouTube alumnus and venture capitalist Hunter Walk and Anil Dash, cofounder and CEO of ThinkUp, have both said the moviegoing experience needs to be updated. Many people disagree.
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Tea Pigs (http://www.teapigs.co.uk/) are not just a great name, they offer some of the widest choice of herbal teas on the market offering everything from detox tea to chocolate flake tea.
A personal favourite of mine is their spiced winter tea. It infuses to create a wonderful deep red and has a great fruity flavour. A common misconception with herbal tea is that it is tasteless. Take a sip of this bad boy and that myth will be proven untrue.
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As well as their fun and tasty teas, they also have some 'serious' options. Their 'soothing sweetness' tea is pure lemongrass, and is a tasty, refreshing blend for all to enjoy. 'Marrakesh mint' is a green tea with mint. Green tea is known for its benefits, I swear by it to cure a hangover. This version with mint adds some welcome flavour to a sometimes bland taste.
'Energy brew' is a good alternative to your normal morning cuppa. They recommend it with a sprinkling of ginger or cinnamon, and I second this.
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In people, addictive drugs such as heroin and cocaine desensitise the brain by raising the threshold of "reward" activity that is needed to feel satisfied: more drug is needed to achieve the same effect.
Paul Kenny and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, wondered if a diet rich in high-calorie, fatty food might also cause desensitisation and lead to obesity.
They used electrodes to measure the sensitivity of rats' brains to reward activity. Some ate normal rat food while others had limited or unlimited access to junk foods, tasty to both rats and humans. After 40 days, the brains of those that ate junk freely were less sensitive to reward activity than those in the other groups. They were also obese.
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To see if these rats would display compulsive eating in the face of negative consequences - a telltale sign of addiction - all the rats were taught that a flash of light led to a painful electric shock.
Rather than try to avoid the shock when the light came on, as the rats with limited or no access to junk food did, "addicted" rats just kept on eating. "We see the same thing in animals with extended access to cocaine," says Kenny. Like drug-addicted humans, the obese rats also had fewer receptors for the reward chemical dopamine.
The term "food addiction" is slowly becoming accepted in the field of psychiatry, says Jon Davis, an addiction biologist at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
"Once we start to consider obesity and pathological overeating as a psychiatric illness we're going to move a lot closer towards understanding how to come up with therapies or treatments," he says.
Pietro Cottone, a neuroscientist at Boston University, is not surprised that an excess of tasty food might "short-circuit" the brain's reward sensing system. "In western societies, we are observing a sudden increase in food availability. We didn't evolve to survive under these conditions," he says.
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It's amazing just how many excuses I can come up with when I don't feel like getting out of bed to go fishing on a cold morning. Why even bother? It's too damn cold and the fishing is going to suck, I'll tell myself. I bet that the boat won't even have enough passengers to run today...
This was went through my mind as I lay in bed listening to the alarm clock beep. Eventually, my wife rolled over and said, "If you aren't getting up, at least turn off your alarm." I turned it off and got out of bed. I still didn't feel like going fishing, but I learned a long time ago that the only thing worse than waking up to go fishing when you'd rather stay in bed is sitting around the house all day regretting not going fishing.
I grabbed a couple of rods out of the garage and headed down to meet up with some friends at Pierpoint Landing for a half day trip on the Southern Cal. I arrived to find my friends there, but hardly anyone else and as the 6:30 a.m. departure time rolled around, we realized that we were two passengers short of having enough people for the boat to run. Rather than give up and head back home, the six of us there pitched in a few extra bucks apiece and bought the additional two tickets needed to get the boat out.
We swung by the bait receiver and picked up some live squid before heading out to one of the local reefs to target sand bass and sculpin. It was still cold when we left the dock, so I retired to the galley, put in my breakfast order and joined the poker game that was just starting up.
After a quick stop at the bait receiver and a short run to our first spot, Capt. Ryan Carino anchored the boat on a wreck in 75 feet of water. With only six guys on board, there was plenty of room for everyone to spread out around the boat and within minutes the first sand bass of the day came over the rail.
The go-to rig that morning was a live squid pinned on a 1-ounce banana style lead head.
Just about any style of lead head will work for this type of fishing, but keep in mind that you need to get your bait down into the wreck or reef to get bit, so you want a lead head that's both cheap and somewhat snag resistant — the banana style meets both of those criteria.
I usually bring two rods when I'm fishing wintertime bass with squid. The first is a Rainshadow ISWB 946 matched with an Abu-Garcia Revo Inshore with 50-pound Spectra and a short 25-pound fluorocarbon leader. This is my general use outfit, but if the big bass start to bite, I put that rod in the rack and grab my heavier outfit — a Calstar Graphiter 900M matched with a Shimano Trinidad 16 Narrow with 50-pound Spectra and a short 40-pound fluorocarbon leader. This may seem like overkill for sand bass, but if the big fish are biting, it's nice to have a little extra pulling power to get them out of the rocks.
Fishing a lead head and squid for wintertime bass is pretty simple. The most important thing to remember is that to get bit, you need your bait to be in direct contact with the structure you're fishing. If you don't feel your lead head banging against structure when it's on the bottom, you're most likely fishing in the wrong spot. If you're not feeling the structure, take a look around and see if anyone is snagging the bottom or catching fish and if there's room, go fish near them. You can also ask the captain where the structure is in relation to the boat.
Once you've figured out where to fish, concentrate on technique. I like to make a lob cast to get my bait away from the boat and let it sink to the bottom before slowly hopping it back. You don't want to make a long cast when fishing this way because the greater the angle in your line, the more likely your bait will snag the bottom as you bring it back to the boat.
To hop the bait along the reel in any slack line, lift the rod tip slowly and then drop the rod tip reeling in any slack line before repeating. You're going to snag the bottom when fishing this way, but if you don't set the hook into the snag, you can usually just shake it free. A good rule of thumb is that fish pull back when you lift the rod tip and snags don't. So if you feel resistance against your line, lightly lift the rod tip. If you feel a tug, swing for the fences. If it's dead weight, give the tip a shake to free the lead head from the snag.
We ended our trip with a couple dozen sand bass and at least that many sculpin. Despite the cold weather and scratchy fishing, it was still a great day on the water for the six of us that showed up, and the crew of the boat was glad to have some business during this tough time of the year.
Next time you're lying in bed listening to your alarm clock, remember that fishing is always better than staying at home.
Join me next week for the first of a two-part series on targeting wintertime sand bass from your own boat.
Erik Landesfeind is BD's Southern California Editor and has over 30 years of experience saltwater fishing for a range of species in both California and Mexican waters. Erik is also an active freelance writer and the author of the weekly column So Cal Scene, which BD publishes every Friday. In So Cal Scene, Erik keeps all of the BD readers up to date on what's biting in Southern California.
Erik divides his fishing time on local boats, long-range trips and Mexico excursions. For the past six years, Erik has been competing in the SWBA (Saltwater Bass Anglers) tournament series and has several tournament victories to his credit. His sponsors include Batson Enterprises / Rainshadow Rods, Robalo Boats, Tilly's Marine, Abu/Garcia, Penn Reels, Humminbird, Minn-Kota, MC Swimbaits, Uni-Butter Fishing Scent and Bladerunner Tackle.
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Bill - My thoughts are that suspension geometry performance is very personal. The truth is that very few people in the world push the bike to its performance limits through the corners where they are riding the bike to its adhesion limits. Yes a proper geometry raises the bar of those limits, however if you are tooling along the fire roads taking in the sites and don't have your weight forward, chin over the numberplate, and front tire struggling for grip, then in my eyes you've got a lot more flexibility in your geometry setup. Meaning if you don't push the bikes limits then you have the freedom to set the bike up in ways other than optimum grip.
The Best Dual Sports mods suggests lowering the rear shock. This will provide more trail that will result in increased stability. Whether you want that trait is up to you. By lowering the rear you take weight of the front tire of the bike and this will effect front tire grip. Whether you notice this change or not can only be determined with testing. Case in point; Recently I spent a day on a track setting up my 250 XCFW juggling preload settings on the rear spring and fork tube height settings only. I could only feel differences in the rear spring preload when utilizing changes in rear sag of 5mm, less than that I could not notice the differences in handling, my pro friend could feel 2mm changes in the handling of the bike. The point is that the bike may handle one way or another due to the changes but it is only our own personal experiences that will dictate whether we notice those changes or not.
So if you goal is increased stability and the current set-up on your bike you feel completely happy with the front end bite, then you can try lowering the rear, testing and see if the lower rear effects the bikes front end to the point you will notice it or not. A quick easy test to see if lowering the rear will effect your front end bite too much is to simply lower the forks in the triple clamps, try a large change like 1/4" and see if you notice the changes and what you feel.
Personally I liked my 250XCFW handling with less sag than normal, however the seat height was too much for my 5'5" frame to ride in the jungle comfortably so am riding with more sag than optimum so I can get a toe on the ground. In my eyes though the handling is not my favorite, i crash more often due to not being able to get a foot down than because I have asked too much of the front tire grip (crashed only once because of this) in the corners.
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Kobe Bryant
my top five are, 5.kevin garnett, 4.dwayne wade, 3.dirk nowitzki, 2.lebron james, 1.kobe bryant
dirk, lebron, or kobe
Chris Paul or Kobe.
i think its KOBE .
LeBron James thats who i say
i think its lebron or d. wade
Its not Kobe, Its Not lebron, and its not dirk.
1. Derrick Rose
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Using a telescope at the South Pole, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have mapped cold molecular clouds surrounding the galactic centre. The observations suggest that the clouds have almost reached a critical density that will make them collapse, triggering a burst of star formation.
Many of the stars will be very massive and live only about a million years before dying in supernova explosions, which currently happen in our Galaxy only about once a century.
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San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - The San Diego Chargers were able to get some business out of the way prior to their upcoming training camp, with the team agreeing to terms with running back Danny Woodhead on a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season.
Woodhead, whose 76 receptions in 2013 were the second-most by a running back in the NFL last season, had one year remaining on the original deal he signed with San Diego in March of 2013.
The versatile five-year pro put together a strong debut with the Chargers, recording a career-high 605 receiving yards and adding 429 yards on the ground on 106 carries. Woodhead also scored a personal-best eight touchdowns (six receiving, two rushing) and added 262 yards on 12 kick returns.
"Danny is an integral part of our offense," said Chargers general manager Tom Telesco. "His work ethic and on-field production were key elements last year. We look forward to having him be a part of the Chargers organization into the future."
Woodhead spent three seasons with New England prior to joining the Chargers and was a member of the Patriots' 2011 AFC Championship team. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the New York Jets in 2009.
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- Resource Description and Selection for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces: Problems and Problem-Solving Approaches (2015)
- In times of an ever increasing amount of data and a growing diversity of data types in different application contexts, there is a strong need for large-scale and flexible indexing and search techniques. Metric access methods (MAMs) provide this flexibility, because they only assume that the dissimilarity between two data objects is modeled by a distance metric. Furthermore, scalable solutions can be built with the help of distributed MAMs. Both IF4MI and RS4MI, which are presented in this thesis, represent metric access methods. IF4MI belongs to the group of centralized MAMs. It is based on an inverted file and thus offers a hybrid access method providing text retrieval capabilities in addition to content-based search in arbitrary metric spaces. In opposition to IF4MI, RS4MI is a distributed MAM based on resource description and selection techniques. Here, data objects are physically distributed. However, RS4MI is by no means restricted to a certain type of distributed information retrieval system. Various application fields for the resource description and selection techniques are possible, for example in the context of visual analytics. Due to the metric space assumption, possible application fields go far beyond content-based image retrieval applications which provide the example scenario here.
- Business process standardization : a multi-methodological analysis of drivers and consequences (2015)
- Technostress: Theoretical foundation and empirical evidence (2014)
- The main objective of this dissertation is to provide theoretical explanations and empirical evidence for the causes and consequences of technostress. The results of this dissertation posit that the IT usage context matters. This means that users perceive technostress when using IT for work and for private purposes; but the causes and consequences differ for both contexts. In the case of using IT for work, technological characteristics and techno-stressors cause employees to feel exhausted at the end of their work day, feel dissatisfied with their job, and develop intentions to quit their job. In the case of IT usage for private purposes, social stressors are identified as new sort of stressor influencing psychological and behavioral strain even more strongly than techno-stressors. Although users of a stressful IT become dissatisfied with its usage and develop intentions to stop using it, the dissertation finds that switching to and using one or more alternatives can be even more stressful. In this context, this dissertation also emphasizes the influence of additional variables, such as user personality on technology characteristics, stressors and strain, concluding that the perception of stressors and strain varies among individuals. Bearing these conclusions in mind, IT can be seen as a double-edged sword: using IT can be a source of fun, but potentially also a source of stress to others and to ourselves.
- Sampling techniques and weighting procedures for complex survey designs - The school cohorts of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) (2014)
- The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) set up a panel cohort of students starting in grade 5 and grade 9. To realize the corresponding samples of students NEPS applied a complex stratified multi-stage cluster sampling approach. To allow for generalizations from the sample to the universe especially aspects of complex sample designs have to be considered and are reflected by design weights. When applying multi-stage sampling approaches unit nonresponse, that is, units refuse to participate, may occur on each stage where decisions towards participation are made. To correct for potential bias induced by refusals of schools and students the derived design weights need to be adjusted. Since participation decisions differ in many ways, for example by stage (school- or student-level), time (in the forerun of or during the panel) or reasons (school-level: workload or participation in other studies, student-level: not interested in the study, resentment to testing), design weights need to be carefully adjusted to reflect the participation decisions made on each stage properly. Participation decisions on the school level take information from sampling and the school recruitment process into account and are modeled using binary probit models with random intercept considering the federal-state-specific recruitment. Schools participating are subsampled providing access to students in grade 5 and 9. Subsampling within schools provides a sample of two classes if at least three are present, otherwise all classes are selected. In creating design weights this subsampling needs again to be incorporated in the weights. The students decision process on the next stage has to be accounted for in providing unit nonresponse adjusted weights. These decision processes take clustering at the school level as well as information on the initial sample, that is, respondents and nonrespondents, into account. The resulting net sample forms the panel cohorts of students in grade 5 and 9. Based on the panel cohorts each student can again decide whether to participate or not for each successive wave. Providing additional information obtained in a parental interview with one parent this multi-informant perspective makes consideration of an additional participation decision necessary. Since participation decisions of a student and a parent are unlikely independent they should be modeled appropriately using bivariate models. To again account for a cluster structure these models are extended with a random intercept on the school level. All these aspects of complex sample and survey designs as well as the different participation decisions involved need to be considered in weighting adjustments. The results point at typical characteristics influencing participation decisions of schools, students and parents. Besides that the results stress the need to account for sample design and the nature of decision processes involved resulting in the actual participation.
- Bank Regulation - The Leverge Ratio Requirement from the Perspective of Stabilizing the Financial System (2014)
- The dissertation investigates the impact of a non-risk-weighted leverage ratio on the stability of financial institutions. We calculate leverage ratios (LR) and estimate probabilities of default (PD) and find a significant positive relationship between LR and PD. This might be explained by the fact that higher leverage ratios increase the cost of capital which in turn also increases interest rates that banks require for their loans. In fact, we find a significant positive relationship between LR and net interest margins. Following Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) increasing loan rates might attract borrowers who are more likely to default. This suggests that the potential introduction of a LR might lead to a destabilization of the banking sector since credit worthiness of borrowers might be reduced.
- Emotional Intelligence - A Personal Resource for Employees who Work With People: Processes and Implications (2014)
- Previous research indicates that emotional intelligence (EI) is a personal resource for employees who work with people. Emotionally intelligent people have repeatedly been found to perform better on the job and to be less likely to experience burnout than people with low emotional abilities. However, the mechanisms that underlie such well-established relations are largely unknown. Furthermore, testing the supposed potential of EI in the context of personnel selection has been widely neglected in previous studies. To address some of the existing gaps in this research, I wanted to examine whether EI would have the potential to operate as a personal resource for people working in and applying for jobs that are associated with emotional demands. The present dissertation consists of five parts. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the construct of emotional intelligence and explains the relevance of EI in the context of working with people. At the end of Chapter 1, I present an overview of my empirical research on EI by presenting the central research questions that are revisited in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 concerns the processing of emotional signals as a function of EI. Working with people is characterized by frequent and sometimes even conflict-laden interactions with clients. Previous research has indicated that EI is positively related to the quality of social interactions (e.g., Lopes et al., 2004). As emotions convey information about inner states, thoughts, and intentions (see Keltner & Haidt, 1999), the accurate appraisal of others' emotions may help employees to act successfully in their social interactions with clients. For this reason, I examined the relation between EI and nonverbal dominance, which can be considered to be an adaptive strategy of emotion appraisal. As expected, emotionally intelligent people, especially those high in the ability to understand emotions, relied more strongly on the nonverbal part of emotion-relevant information when appraising others' emotional states than people low on EI. In Chapter 3, I take up existing gaps in research on the indirect effects of EI on work-related outcomes. Understanding the relation between teacher EI and student misconduct as an indicator of poor job performance for teachers was the goal of the research that is presented in this chapter. The results showed that teachers' self-perceived EI was negatively related to student misconduct and that this relation was mediated by teachers' tendency to attend to student needs. Furthermore, I investigated processes that may underlie the relation between teachers' perceived abilities to appraise emotions and burnout. Results showed that both an intrapersonal (i.e., proactive coping) and an interpersonal process (i.e., attending to student needs) were mediators of the relation between the self-perceived ability to appraise one's own emotions and burnout as well as between the self-perceived ability to appraise others' emotions and burnout. Chapter 4 concerns the relevance of EI in the context of personnel selection. Although a large number of studies have pointed to the potential of EI in personnel selection, research in real-life selection contexts has been scarce so far. Thus, the aim of the study that is presented in this chapter was to examine whether the EI of people who applied for the job of a flight attendant would predict aptitude ratings. There was a trend toward a positive direct effect of applicants' ability to perceive emotions on the aptitude ratings. Furthermore, applicants' abilities to understand and regulate emotions exerted indirect effects on the aptitude ratings through observer ratings on their job-relevant competencies. An integration of and a conclusion about my research on EI in the context of working with people is shown in Chapter 5. The main research findings are summarized by providing answers to the central research questions of my dissertation. In the overall discussion, I take up the processes that seem to underlie the effects of EI on job performance and burnout and elaborate on the transferability of these processes to other professions. Furthermore, I point to the uniqueness of the EI facet emotion understanding and discuss possible maladaptive effects of an exaggerated EI. Following the general limitations and suggestions for future research, practical implications with regard to EI training and personnel selection are illustrated and an overall conclusion is drawn.
- The Accuracy of Financial Analysts' Forecasts and the Impact of Individual Characteristics, Conflicts of Interest, and Regulation (2014)