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The result has been a massive tightening of spreads across most sovereign issuers. Yields on two-year Italian government bonds went from 7% in November to 1.4% as of mid-March. Meanwhile the Itraxx, a proxy for corporate spreads in Europe, went from 205 basis points in November 2011 to 125 basis points as of mid-March 2012. However, while peripheral government bonds and risky assets from core eurozone countries both benefited from contracting spreads, information on trading flows have indicated differences in investors' appetites for such securities with risky assets from core countries benefiting from wider support while government bonds in peripheral eurozone countries benefitting almost exclusively from demand driven by domestic investors. Banks, and indeed other types of investors outside of Italy and Spain tended not to participate in the rally of Italian and Spanish government bonds (see Figure 2).
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Sea Transportation Network
Series of visualizations of sea transport data I developed at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (http://ciid.dk) during 2011. All paths were traced based on real GPS coordinates of the vessels during months of 2010. Ships visible in the video are simulated agents following the paths.
What's interesting in this visualization is how from this chaotic network of connections a number of patterns emerge. From hubs like Suez or Panama, through transportation belt between Europe and Asia, to how spreaded the routes in Pacific Ocean are. Surprising is that espite invisible geographical information we can still recognize shapes of the continents like Africa.
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The Canary Islands : Europe's favourite holiday destination
The Canary Islands are located just off the coast of North West Africa, 100 kms from Morocco, but technically, the islands are a part of Spain and therefore, Europe. It is an archipelago of thirteen islands but the top five destinations are Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gomera. The greatest attraction is of course the all-year round temperate climate. Although a lot of people club it with a visit to mainland Spain, the 'island of the dogs' is a destination all by itself.
There is so much to see and do that a ten-day vacation in the islands does not seem enough. There is something to suit every taste from the nature lover to a windsurfer.
Gran Canaria is the third largest island. At the northern tip is the capital of Las Palmas, but most of the activity hubs are in the south—at Maspalomas and Puerto Rico (popular for its water sports). Las Palmas is the capital and the Playa de la Canteras beach is for those who want more peace and quiet. One of the most interesting places in this part of town is the charming Vegueta district, which has an impressive plaza and many historic buildings—the High Court, Bishop's Palace, Cathedral, Museum and Town Hall. The island is well connected by local buses and the best adventure would be to explore the interior of the island.
Three towns that are worth mentioning are San Mateo, Teror and Tejeda. The route is scenic with some magnificent views of La Mina Ravine. San Mateo has a lovely church with a bell that arrived all the way from Cuba. You can stroll through the cobbled streets and enjoy the local architecture.
From this quaint little town you can head to Teror, which offers a completely different experience. A great example of traditional Canarian architecture, the plaza leads to Basilica de Nuestra Señora del Pino —Gran Canaria's most important church and home to patron saint—Madonna of the Pine. A quiet town with lovely houses and friendly locals, it turns festive in September for the Fiesta del Pino.
Marking the centre of the island is a giant cross in the town of Tejeda, which is a popular trekking destination in the island. At approx. 3200 feet above sea level, the views from this town are quite spectacular.
If you are looking for action, then first head to Maspalomas. The beaches are simply spectacular, there are lots of shopping arcades and the restaurants along the seafront are simply mind-blowing. The Dunes near the beach are an interesting land feature that is unusual for a coastline. Right next to the beach you suddenly feel like you are in the desert!
At the western end is El Oasis next to the sea lagoon La Charca. There is also the lighthouse standing 65 mts tall and the most prominent landmark. A short distance from Maspalomas is the popular Palmitos Park which is an absolutely delight for nature lovers.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Head to the southern end of the island to Puerto Rico and you will discover an entirely different world. The beaches are filled with European tourists, and the water sports are absolutely mind-boggling. Pitch your tent here and kick off the activity line-up with a dolphin and whale tour. The nightlife pretty much centers around Puerto Rico and Maspalomas. Every other place is quiet after sundown.
There are several other places to visit in this island itself, but depending on time limitations, you would probably need to narrow down your list!
All this while we have just explored one island. A short flight away is the most popular destination in the Canary Islands—Tenerife.
The island of the volcano. While the beaches of the south hog all the limelight, it is the central part of this island that offers something truly spectacular. Mount Teide is Spain's highest mountain and you can take a cable car and enjoy the breathtaking view. For the more adventurous, it is a six-hour hike to the top. Situated in the Teide national park, you can spend an entire day. To reach the park from the coast, head to the quaint little town of Villafor with its lovely pine trees.
There onwards, it is another experience altogether. If you can't make it to the moon, Teide is the closest option. The bizarre rock formations will leave you picking your jaw up off the ground every half an hour. Traces of ancient civilisation can be found at the Pyramids of Gulmar.
If you still up for more history, head to the northwestern coastline to the fishing town of Garachico with its quaint traditional architecture. Not too far away, at the foot of the Teno Mountains is the picturesque village of Masca. In the north, is also the town of Oratova, which has a lot of interesting architecture. You will find a similar town La Laguna, in the Ageurre valley near Santa Cruz.
Heading west, you will reach Los Gigantes with its imposing cliffs and dramatic skyline. For those looking for luxury head to the south. Costa Adeje is the place for everything upmarket and also has the best beaches. Golfers tend to go here to enjoy 18 holes in paradise. Nearby is the ravine known as Hell's Gorge, which is a nature lover's delight.
For sun, sea and sand combined with fun and frolic, there is the large expanse of coastline and lots of beaches to choose from. For a day trip, the nearby island of Gomera is a good option. A great place to savour traditional Canarian food and its main attraction is the Garajonay National Park.
While the Teide national park is the most unusual feature of the island, the beaches are the main attraction. Spectacular coastlines coupled with a temperate climate—with all kinds of activity to entice you.
Unless you are on a really long vacation this pretty much covers a ten-day trip to the Canary Islands. For more, the islands will draw you back again, seducing you with charm, mystery, and beauty.
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how far is it from morocco…what visa required if we go from spain to morocco ? and stop at canary islands in between
Been to spain and loved it , you just refreshed all the good memories .. Loved teror
Didn't know much about these islands before I read this. Didn't know they were part of Spain. Informative piece
peace with the waters…..the last pic posted is AWEsome
Beautiful place and a must visit for people who are looking for peace as well as adventure!
wow..wow ..wow is d only word for such a beauty..fantastic


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Wisconsin's public universities have agreed to turn over education course syllabuses to a nonprofit group reviewing teacher education programs nationwide.
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Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and a member of the founding board of edX, has been selected as the 11th president of Smith College (Mass.), effective July 1. During her time at Harvard, the HGSE raised $162 million, including two $10 million gifts supporting programs to develop partnerships between the schools of business and government and the education school. McCartney succeeds Carol T.
As university presidents gathered at this fall's conferences and seminars, the usual question of "How was your summer?" likely produced more than perfunctory, polite responses. It was a wild season for a number of higher education leaders. In June, the president of the University of Virginia was "temporarily" fired by her board for not being aggressive enough in pushing new initiatives.
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Gibbons served in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until his retirement in 1997. He was the chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means from 1994 to 1995. Gibbons's brief term at the helm of Ways and Means followed the sidelining of longtime Chairman Dan Rostenkowski as a result of scandals.
Prior to leading the full committee, Gibbons chaired the subcommittee on trade. He was much more supportive of trade liberalization throughout his career than most House Democrats, who have leaned toward protectionism since the early 1970s.]
Sam Gibbons has had a few verbal showdowns with the newly elected Republican congress in the mid 1990s. During a taped Ways and Means Committee hearing, Gibbons stormed off to the microphones explaining how the American children were being railroaded and given no time to speak. He compared the new Republicans to dictators and shouted that he had "to fight you guys 50 years ago," referring to Nazi Germany in World War II.


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The recipe below is part of a healthy and delicious spa menu developed exclusively for Epicurious by Ananda spa in India. The low-fat, low-calorie, and vegan broth is loaded with disease-fighting herbs and spices, including ginger, which has anti-inflammatory properties and is a digestive aid, cinnamon, which has been shown to help balance blood sugar, and garlic, which has powerful antimicrobial properties. If you are following an Ayurvedic diet, the experts at Ananda recommend this for vata and kapha doshas.
YIELD: Makes 4 servings
Make spice sachet by wrapping together in cheesecloth the cinnamon sticks, coriander seeds, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves, and cardamom pods. Tie with kitchen string.
In heavy, large pot over high heat, stir together 4 cups water, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, cilantro stems, 1 teaspoon salt, and spice sachet. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until reduced by 1/3, about 30 minutes. Strain through fine-mesh sieve into large clean pot, reserving solids. Discard spice sachet. Measure 1 cup of strained liquid in pot and transfer to blender. Add reserved solids and pureé until smooth. Strain through fine-mesh sieve back into pot with liquid.
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Letier, E; Van Lamsweerde, A; (2002) Deriving operational software specifications from system goals. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. (pp. 119 - 128).
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Goal orientation is an increasingly recognized paradigm for eliciting, modeling, specifying and analyzing software requirements. Goals are statements of intent organized in AND/OR refinement structures; they range from high-level, strategic concerns to low-level, technical requirements on the software-to-be and assumptions on its environment. The operationalization of system goals into specifications of software services is a core aspect of the requirements elaboration process for which little systematic and constructive support is available. In particular, most formal methods assume such operational specifications to be given and focus on their a posteriori analysis. The paper considers a formal, constructive approach in which operational software specifications are built incrementally from higher-level goal formulations in a way that guarantees their correctness by construction. The operationalization process is based on formal derivation rules that map goal specifications to specifications of software operations; more specifically, these rules map real-time temporal logic specifications to sets of pre-, post- and trigger conditions. The rules define operationalization patterns that may be used for guiding and documenting the operationalization process while hiding all formal reasoning details; the patterns are formally proved correct once and for all. The catalog of operationalization patterns is structured according to a rich taxonomy of goal specification patterns. Our constructive approach to requirements elaboration requires a multiparadigm specification language that supports incremental reasoning about partial models. The paper also provides a formal semantics for goal operationalization and discusses several semantic features of our language that allow for such incremental reasoning.
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From City Heights to PBS
He does not love the fact that the TV-viewing world will know what he looked like when his head was shaved and his face was scary. Or that the sweaty hours he spent jogging for the cameras resulted in just a few minutes of jogging screen time. Or that the awkward hours a camera crew spent following him around SDSU resulted in no screen time at all.
Such is the small price San Diego's Eduardo Corona paid for his starring role in "The Graduates/Los Graduados," an installment of the PBS "Independent Lens"documentary series that tackles the educational challenges facing Latino and Latina teens. Eduardo Corona — former gang member and human cautionary tale — is about to be a nationally televised success story, and he is more than OK with that.
"I hope when people see this, they will see that there are kids out there who are the same as me, and they just need an extra push," the 21-year-old Corona said earlier this week. "They just need a little bit of help so they can open up and change."
A smart, beautifully shot documentary by New York-based filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz, "The Graduates" follows six teens who have vaulted over some major hurdles on their journey to high school graduation and beyond. The first hour — which airs Oct. 28 at 10 p.m. on KPBS-TV — focuses on Latina girls. Part Two — which airs locally at 10 p.m. on Nov. 4 — is all about the boys
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In the boys' hour, we meet Juan, a gay Massachusetts teen who struggles with bullying. There is also Gustavo, a Georgia sparkplug whose college-bound dreams are derailed by his undocumented status. And there is Eduardo, the sweet-faced troublemaker who discovers the redemptive powers of education. The catalyst is Reality Changers, the San Diego-based nonprofit that gives teens from disadvantaged backgrounds the tools and support they need to become first-generation college students.
Filmed in and around the City Heights neighborhood where he still lives, Corona's segments introduce viewers to a kid who was headed down a bad path almost as soon as he could walk. His older sister was in a gang. His older brother was in a gang. His parents put in such long hours cleaning hotels, they weren't around when Eduardo started following in his siblings' dead-end footsteps.
Ditching. Flunking. Stealing. Before stumbling into Reality Changers, Corona did it all. For filmmaker Ruiz, the narrative was depressingly familiar. The young man behind it was not.
"Eduardo's story is emblematic of many young men's stories, but one of the things his story did was successfully tell why he was pulled into the gang," Ruiz said. "You see the lack of opportunity, the lack of economic pathways and the lack of community support. You see Eduardo facing jail time for breaking into an elementary school, and you see Reality Changers saying, 'We still believe in this student and we are going to continue to work with him.'


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Maryland Terrapins face tough road in ACC Tournament
If the Maryland Terrapins are going to make a stirring run toward an unlikely NCAA Tournament berth, they'll have to go through an arch-rival to get to the Big Dance.
As it stands, the Terps are the 7-seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, which starts Mar. 10 in Greensboro, N.C. Maryland's 7-9 conference record has them on the outside looking-in for nearly every projected NCAA Tournament bracket, including ones by ESPN and CBS Sports.
The consensus, clearly, is that the Terps will have to make a run through the conference tournament and capture the ACC's automatic bid to earn a spot in the 68-team field.
Maryland opens the ACC Tournament on Thursday with a 1st round matchup with the N.C. State Wolfpack, whom they defeated 87-80 Feb. 20 in their only duel of the season. The Terps have stumbled since that win, capturing victories in only one of their last four games.
And, to make matters more difficult, if the Terrapins escape the Wolfpack with a win, they face a quarterfinal matchup with the Duke Blue Devils.
It's an uphill battle, but Terrapins freshman guard Pe'Shon Howard says people might be surprised by their performance this week:
"A lot of people are counting us out right now, but I really think we're going to do well in the tournament," Howard said.
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The Volkswagen haircut, Stig the chauffeur and a 40mph ostrich: it's another weird week in the world of cars
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There won't be a Bugatti 'SuperVeyron' or a production version of the four-door Bugatti Galibier
Bugatti President Wolfgang Schreiber exclusively revealed to Top Gear that the Galibier won't ever see the light of production day, and that "1200PS is enough for the chapter of Veyron and its derivatives". While this may come as Bad News for the VEYRON brigade, we'd be inclined to agree that yes, 268mph is actually more than fast enough. But - he's already working on the next Veyron. "It will redefine the benchmarks," Schreiber confirms. Watch out, world.


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Everyone loves the sweet, buttery flavor of caramel.
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Rounds: 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Byes: no byes
Entry fee: FREE
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*Bring chess sets and clocks if you own them.
Also featuring GM Zapata Speed Chess Match at 10:00 a.m. GM will play with challengers throughout the day. There will also be chess puzzles for kids. Chess sets, trophies, medals, and other prizes will be awarded following the last round!
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Let me clarify that headline. Bernard Madoff did not personally take from 40 percent of American Jews.
But a new poll from J Street, which I discovered from a Gawker post linking back to me, explored, among facets of the American Jewish community largely concerning politics and Israel, just how deeply it was affected by the Madoff investment fraud. The results, via Mondoweiss, are not surprising:
The poll shows that 39 percent of American Jews had some degree of Madoff connection. 2 percent say they were personally affected. 17 percent know someone who was affected. 28 percent say: an organization I support has been affected. I'm in that group; some leftleaning orgs were affected. (Why do the numbers add up to 47? Because there's overlap of the three groups.)
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A: Alexanderplatz – This is one of the biggest squares in the city and a major transport hub. Aside from important historic buildings, it's a good place to visit and eat fast food after a long night of dancing – everything here stays open all night.
B: Bus 100 – If you want to see the entire city without spending a lot of money, it will not get any better than this! This public bus will take you to all the major city's landmarks and all for a symbolic price! Forget the same-old tourist busses; this is cheaper and even less busy!
C: Checkpoint Charlie – One of the most important places to see when visiting Berlin. This was the crossing point between the East and West sides of the city during the war. This checkpoint was the gate to freedom for the people who lived on the East part.
D: (Berliner) Dom – Berliner Dom is the main cathedral of the city, even though it has never officially been the seat of the bishop. The view of the cathedral is absolutely stunning and the huge lawns around it make it a great spot for a nice picnic.
E: Electronic Music – Berliners are known for their passion for electronic music. You will be surprised by the amount of electro-parties and bars you have here. Please note that in Berlin the evening starts late so most of the places are quiet until at least midnight.
F: Fashion – In the last couple of years, (ever since the wall was taken down) Berlin's upcoming designers started to develop quickly and made their mark in the international fashion world. Wolfgang Joop, Michael Michalsky and Dirk Schönberger are a few talented designers – if you never heard of them, be patient: it is just a matter of time until they will be huge.
G: Gay Pride – Berlin is probably the most gay-friendly city in Germany. The gay scene is huge and it is nice to see how extremely well the gay community is doing there. Getting into the gay parties is pretty hard as they are considered to be the best parties in town.
H: Heidestr Market – This fun flea market is heaven for all antiques and furniture lovers! You can find anything from vintage items to old records, unique car models and many more surprises. Try to be there early so you won't miss out on all the good stuff.
I: International Film Festival – The international Berlin Film Festival, also called "Berlinale" is one of the biggest film festivals in the entire world. More than 4200 journalists cover this huge event, which is being shown on TV in more than 110 countries.
J: Jewish Museum – The Jewish museum in Berlin is a must-see attraction even if you are not Jewish. German people still today, feel guilty for their (grand)parents' mistakes and you can see it in the monuments they built all over the city. The Jewish museum is one of the places where a lot of effort was put in to, for the visitors to see a little more about the lives of the Jewish people in the past.
K: Küchen – Küchen is the German word for cake and you can be sure you will have a lot of cakes in Berlin. Germans are known for their excellent bakeries and also for their love of coffee & cake. When you stroll around the city you will come across many cafes that offer plenty of small cakes to eat next to your coffee. If you're having trouble with choosing a nice cake, just pick more than 1, you're on holiday after all!
L: (A) Long night of museums – This amazing cultural event is organized every year, together with a couple of museums and important cultural institutions, with the vision to give people the chance to visit many museums all night long. Purchasing a ticket will allow you to visit these museums and multiple exhibitions, all for one price. It also allows working people to finally have the time and option to visit the museums during a weekday!
M: Museum Island – Located between the Spree River and the Kupfergraben, the Museum Island is the house for five institutions, (Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode-Museum and Pergamonmuseum) that alltogether create a district full of culture and history.
N: National Gallery – The new national gallery was designed by talented Mies van der Rohe and it is also called the:"temple of light and glass" because of its unusual steel and glass structure. The gallery is showcasing beautiful artwork from the 20th century in Europe and you will be able to view famous paintings and sculptures from that period of time in the museum.
O: Opera – The famous opera house in Berlin, or as it is called in German: Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), is the home for the amazing Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra. The opera house is an extremely popular tourist attraction, also thanks to its beautiful design.
P: Parks – Berlin is a beautiful city with interesting architecture but the city also boasts many nature parks. In the summer when the weather gets better, it is nice to grab some fresh fruits and a bottle of wine and go for a picnic in one of the city's green parks.
Q: Quadriga – Berlin Quadriga, (a horse drawn carriage with 4 horses – the Roman equivalent of Greek Tethrippon) is one of the most modern quadrigas in the world. It was used in the past for racing in the Olympic Games and other champion games.
R: Reichstag – The famous Reichstag building is one of the most important monuments in Berlin. It was use by the German Empire as the parliament and it was officially opened in 1894. Today, after many reconstructions that have been done during many years, the building is impressive and definitely worth a visit even if you just have time for a quick look.
S: Sausages – There is a big chance that from the entire list, this word sounds the most familiar to you. German sausages for some people are the main symbol of Germany. Würste, Frankfurters, Bratwürste and Rindswürste are just few of the delicious sausage types that you can find in Germany. Don't forget to add a lot of mustard!
T: Turkish Food – Some of you might not know this, but Turkish food is the most favorite fast food in Berlin, in particular the famous "Döner Kebab" dish. This dish is so popular that the annual sales in Germany reach an amount of EUR 2.5 billion! One thing is for sure: after a long night on the town, there is no better way to finish the evening than with a dish of dõner, trust me on this one!
U: Unter den Linden – Unter den Linden in German means: "under the linden trees". It is a beautiful boulevard in the famous Mitte district. This area is considered to be very luxurious and trendy thanks to the museums and other historical buildings that are situated there. The boulevard will lead you from the Schlossbrücke at the Museum Island, to the Brandenburger Gate, at the Pariser Platz.
V: Victory Column – This impressive tribute was designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 in order to honor the Prussian victory in the Danish – Prussian war. The Victory Column today is a symbol that not only inspires many music videos, but it is also a place where important events occur: it was the spot where Barack Obama gave his speech while he was visiting Germany.
W: (the) Wall – There's probably nothing we can say about the Berlin wall what has not been said before. The wall divided East and West Germany for twenty-eight years and a day, the wall was approximately hundred miles long, the destruction of the wall paved way for the reunification of East and West Germany in October 3, 1990. There are a lot more interesting facts about the wall, as it is the main symbol of Berlin.
X: X-mas Markets – Christmas shopping in Berlin and in all of Germany is a lot of fun. Germany is known for its beautiful and very organized Christmas markets. A few weeks before the holidays arrive, people travel to the Christmas markets together with the whole family. Aside from buying gifts, decorations and other items for Christmas, you also get the chance to feel the holiday spirit before its even time to celebrate!
Y: Youth Hostels – One of the biggest advantages in traveling to Berlin is the fact that the city is still relatively cheap compare to other European cities. You can find a lot of cheap apartments to rent here, hotels with good deals and mostly: a lot of good value for money youth hostels. Unlike other cities, here the youth hostels are actually very nice and clean. If you stay in one of these hostels chances are you will meet nice people from all over the world. Staying in a youth hostel is not only cheap but also a fun experience for youngsters.
Z: Zoological Garden – The Zoological Garden in Berlin is not only the oldest and best known in Germany, it is also considered to be one of the most visited zoos in Europe. Loved animals such as the polar bear and the giant panda make people come visit here from all over the globe.


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Four on the floorDespite the dry year in 2012, the longer-term trend has been toward wetter planting seasons.
By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek
FARGO, N.D. — Despite the dry year in 2012, the longer-term trend has been toward wetter planting seasons.
That's one of the factors driving the design of farm equipment. Case-IH unveiled its new Steiger "Rowtrac," at the Big Iron farm show, Sept. 11 through 13. Case-IH has taken the Quadtrac technology and put it into a narrow undercarriage.
Mitch Kaiser, of Racine, Wis., is marketing manager for the Staiger line of tractors for Case-IH, which includes the Quadtrac and Rowtrac models. Kaiser says the company is taking orders now and will start building the machines in Fargo after Jan. 1. They'll be built in the Case New Holland tractor plant that earlier this year announced it would invest $3 million in a 20,000-square-foot expansion.
Case-IH, one of the brands of CNH, is offering the tractor in 350-, 400- and 450-horsepower. This allows the use of 16-, 18- and 24-inch tracks. Case-IH has gone to an all-new drive wheel, so power can be transferred around to the narrower belts or tracks, Kaiser says.
"A customer can do 20-, 22-, 30- and 40-inch row crop widths now," Kaiser says. "If they want to lift beets, plant, side-dress nitrogen, or go back and pull a big sprayer, they can do all of that adaptability and flexibility, and also use it for heavy tillage. It allows you to get into the field earlier; cover more acres with less slippage. It offers four positive, integrated tracks."
Case-IH is asking 20 percent more money for the new version, compared with standard wheeled versions of the same horsepower. Farmers can get them for about $280,000 to $480,000, depending on horsepower.
"We've used the same transmission, the same axles that we use on our 450 Quadtrac and our 500 Quadtrac, but we've gone with the new undercarriage that's narrower," Kaiser says. "We've also made it a better suspension system. We have circular mounts in the undercarriage. We also have new, softer vertical mounts. The undercarriage rides smoother, and it keeps the track on the ground more positively so you get less compaction and you get more traction. You can pull a big 60- or 90-foot planter and only get 1 percent slip, which is virtually nothing."
The Steiger tractor oscillates up and down 26 degrees, and articulates 38 degrees, giving it full power in the turns, Kaiser explains. Each track is independently driven, allowing each track to travel up 10 degrees or down 10 degrees, for traction and contact with the soil, preventing sliding or skidding, with less compaction.
Increased efficiency
"Customers want to get into the field earlier, because their window and their timeline is getting shorter to get that crop in to get the maximum yields," Kaiser says. "When they farm bigger acres, they get less days to cover those acres. We're seeing a drive to more horsepower; get in the ground more efficiently.
"By picking up field speeds — say from 5.5 to 7.5 miles per hour, with a 24-row planter — they can pick up an extra 300 acres a day."
Increased yields
One trend especially true in the Red River Valley is that farmers are using more 20- and 22-inch rows than in the past. "They want to shade the rows faster, cutting out the weed growth and getting a better yield,"Kaiser says. "They're increasing population, but doing it by narrowing the rows. They want a tractor that runs between those narrow rows and gives them the maximum traction and doesn't skid, doesn't make a berm, and has a nice flat seedbed."
The new Rowtrac has a unique new cab, with more space and windshield, and "four-tab post" suspension design — four springs and four shocks that all ride independently for greater comfort and less operator fatigue.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The threat of wildfire will be above normal for at least the next month in the deep South, upper New England, the upper Great Lakes and the southwestern area. That information comes from the latest prediction from the National Interagency Fire Coordination Center (NIFCC) in Boise, Idaho.
Florida has seen some relief in recent days from the wildfires that have burned tens of thousands of acres since Jan. 1, but not enough to make a significant change in the drought conditions there. Despite the lack of rain, there was no reported significant fire activity in the state during the latest reporting period (May 5). As a result, there were no reports of additional structural loss due to fire.
The area of the southeast under the above-normal threat includes southern Georgia, southern Alabama, southern Mississippi, the lower half of Louisiana and a small sliver of the Texas east coast.
A large area of New England from Maine to northern Pennsylvania also falls into the above-normal category. There have been numerous wildfires in several New England states in the recent week to 10 days.
Conditions also remain quite dry in the upper Great Lakes, making conditions there very conducive to fire. A recent blaze in Minnesota was controlled and extinguished before it could consume nearly 20 houses. Firefighters battled that blaze near Andora, Minn., from both the ground and the air.
In the southwest, all of New Mexico and portions of western Texas, southeastern Arizona and Southern California are also in the above-normal category. Except for a small section of northern Arizona, which falls into the below-normal category, the remainder of the country is in the normal zone for wildfire activity.
The NIFCC publishes a monthly wildfire-prediction report. The next one is scheduled to be issued for the first seven to 10 days of June.


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Skullcandy has launched a campaign called 'Take A Supermodel To Work'. The video features Kate Upton doing supermodel things and looking hot in a studio while wearing a pair of Skullcandy headphones. That's really all we needed to hear for it to catch our attention. Kate Upton has been relatively quiet in the weeks leading up to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition's release. There was little to no new news and we were getting antsy. Then this video came out and she dropped the massive cleav-bomb we've all been waiting to see. Boom! This is just Kate's friendly reminder that she is still one of the best in the game. Sure she's mostly covered up but that is game-changing cleav right there. The video above is only a teaser so there is more coming. Skullcandy will release the full video on February 13. [h/t Skullcandy] Filed under: Other Sports, Video
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Mitt Romney Chooses Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as Vice Presidential Nominee
After an early morning announcement, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are set to appear for the first time as running mates at an event in Virginia Saturday morning. Tune in now as Bret Baier anchors Fox News' live coverage. Plus, get background info on Romney's choice for VP -- Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
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Background Info on Rep. Ryan:
Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) came out in support of Mitt Romney shortly before the Wisconsin primary and has been an ardent supporter of the Romney campaign ever since. Ryan's strong conservative record in Congress and vehement opposition to many of the new policies set forth by President Obama put the congressman right on par to be a great VP choice for Mitt Romney.
Current Position: U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District
Born: January 29th, 1970 in Janesville, WI
Political Factoids:
•Currently serving seventh term as a member of Congress.
•Ryan was little known outside Janesville when he ran for Congress in 1998 (age 28) and captured 57 percent of vote.
•Ryan's first budget plan, which he called "Roadmap for America's Future," was released in 2010.
•Early in his career as a representative to Congress, Ryan held office hours in an old truck he converted into an office.
•Ryan was the legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, 1995-1997.
Personal Factoids:
•Born and raised in the community of Janesville; Ryan is a fifth-generation Wisconsin native.
•Ryan moonlighted on Capitol Hill as a waiter at the Tortilla Coast restaurant & as a fitness trainer at Washington Sport and Health Club.
•One of Ryan's summer jobs in college was as an Oscar Mayer salesman in Minnesota, peddling turkey bacon and a new line called "Lunchables" to supermarkets – he even drove the "Wienermobile" once.
•Ryan worked as a marketing consultant for his family's construction business before being elected to Congress. The company -- Ryan Incorporated Central -- began as an earthmoving business created by his great-grandfather in 1884.
•Ryan's hobbies include hunting and fishing. He is a bowhunter and belongs to his hometown's archery association – the Janesville Bowmen.
•Ryan listens to Rage Against the Machine & Led Zeppelin.
Highlights of Ryan on Fox News Channel:
"We have still a chance in America to turn this around and get back to economic prosperity. We have a window of opportunity to get through this, but if we lose it, in the next two years, we could have our own debt crisis just like they're experiencing in Europe, and President Obama is bringing us toward that kind of a moment." --Rep. Ryan on the importance of replacing President Obama. Watch More Here
"Even economists from the president's own party say that this is a really bad idea for job creation," Ryan said. "So he even knows that raising taxes on successful small businesses is not good for job creation, yet he's pressing forward with this. --Rep. Ryan on the effects Obamacare will have on the economy. Watch More Here
"(The healthcare law) was sold on three broken promises. One, it's a tax on middle income taxpayers. Number two, President Obama said health care premiums will go down – no, they went up. They went up about $2,500 dollars. Number three, he said if you like the plan you have, you could keep it. Well now we're finding out that millions of people are poised to lose their health insurance once this becomes effective." --Rep. Ryan on how the law was pitched to the American people by supporters of the law. Watch More Here


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Awards Banquet!!!!
East Lincoln Speedway's awards banquet will be held on Saturday January 18 @ Whisky River in downtown Charlotte from 4 to 6 pm. All drivers, fans, and sponsors are welcome to come. Admission will be $10, and kids 10 and under will be admitted for free. Tickets will be available at the door. Please RSVP […]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We would like to wish our drivers, teams, fans, sponsors, and staff a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Race season is right around the corner! Keith and Donna Frye
Rules Meeting for Limited Sportsman
There will be a short rules meeting for the Limited Sportsman division on Sunday, December 29. It will be at 3:00 in the tower @ the track.
East Lincoln Speedway Banquet
We are very excited to announce that the East Lincoln Speedway Champion's Banquet will be held on Saturday, January 18 @ Whisky River in Charlotte! More details will be posted after Christmas!
Americarna TV Live! November 30, 2013!
East Lincoln Speedway, the Dirt track Racing School, and the Carolina RaceSaver Sprint Car series will be there! Come on out and support Ignite! http://americarnatv.com/LIVE/
CARS Show in Charlotte! December 5-7!
Mark you calendars for December 5, 6, and 7! East Lincoln Speedway, the Dirt Track Racing School, and the Carolina RaceSaver Sprint Car Series will be there!
Congratulations to our 2013 Points Champions!
Thanks for a great 2013 season! Congratulations to all of our drivers and crews! Limited Sportsman – Brandon White Micro Sprint – Joshua Rummage Stock 4 – Jason Sitterly Super Stock 4 – Junior Pittman Renegade – Chris Smith Open Wheel Modified – Manuel Johnson Late Model – Shaun Medlin
Saturday September 28!
This Saturday September 28 will be our last race of the 2013 season! Limited Sportsman, Renegade, Stock 4, Super Stock 4, Micro Sprints, Legends Modified, Open Wheel Modified, and Late Models are on the schedule. We will also have kid's bicycle races. Pit gates will open at 3:00, and the Grandstand gates will open at 4:30. […]
September 21 Race cancelled!
Tonight's race for September 21 has been cancelled due to rain.
Saturday, September 21!
This Saturday September 21, we will be racing Stock 4, Super Stock 4, Renegade, Limited Sportsman, Micro Sprints, and Open Wheel Modified! Kid's Bicycle Races are also on the program! Tickets are $20 for the pits and $10 for the grandstands. Kid's 10 and under are free.


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Wilson has penned a two-year extension, while Eddie has signed a new 12-month agreement. The news will come as a welcome boost to head coach Gregor Townsend ahead of Saturday's 1872 Cup second leg against Edinburgh.
Townsend has already secured fellow back-row men Rob Harley and Tyrone Holmes on fresh deals, and said: "Getting Ryan and James signed up adds further depth to the competitive group challenging for places in our back row next season.
"Ryan has improved every year since he's been at the club and is one of the most skilful back-row players in the game. He's very quick and has really good offload skills.
"He's put a lot of effort into improving physically and he tackles low and gets up and competes for the ball, which is what we like to see in our players.
"James is very popular and he's had an excellent season so far. He works very hard to improve himself and has made a big impact in a number of games this season. We always look to re-sign players we believe can drive us on to become a better side and Ryan and James will have big roles to play in our future."


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Sisters Jen Cortez and Becca Bighley opened The Hive in 2011 on NE Lowry Avenue in Minneapolis. They had a vision of "the open-air vibe of old-school beauty parlors; a cheery interior, a variety of magazines for inspiration, hot coffee and teas, outgoing individuals, and amazing hair care products." In February of this year, they brought in Alima Pure to complete their product line-up.
AP: Can you tell us a little about your background and past experience?
Hive: I've (Jen) been a hairdresser for over ten years, and my sister Becca has been a hairdresser for over 5; we opened The Hive Salon last March where we focus on providing local, natural, and organic approaches to haircare and grooming. We're one of the only dedicated Ammonia-Free salons in the area, and we eschew potentially toxic products and services, like 'Brazilian Blowout'.
AP: What inspired you to open your shop?
Hive: I hit a point about 5 years ago in my career where I felt drained, sick, and tired. I would get headaches, nausea, burning eyes and more after only a few hours at work, and I would go home feeling like crap. Years of exposure were finally taking their toll on me. I was already buying organic food whenever possible, using non-toxic cleaning products at home, and had already begun switching to natural health and body care products on myself, so it seemed only right to break away and establish a salon where I could find, and provide the safest alternatives to conventional hair treatments.
AP: What other brands do you carry?
Hive: We carry haircare from Maxgreen Alchemy, Hairfix, John Masters Organics, Intelligent Nutrients, and Simply Organic- Intelligent Nutrients and Simply Organic are both Minnesota companies as well. We also carry non-toxic bug spray and environment aromas from Intelligent Nutrients, body care from John Masters Organics, and ammonia-free permanent hair color from Simply Organic.
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So, I'm trying out a new installment on the blog here…a book club of sorts. No, we aren't discussing chic lit as in the genre. We're chics who enjoy reading and talking YA literature, and we want you to join us on the second and last Friday of each month (if we can keep this up).
One of the most rewarding aspects of writing this blog is not just that I get to acquire all of you wonderful cyber friends who love talking YA lit along with me. It's not just that in the short time I've been blogging, I've been able to make contact with some of the fabulous authors of the books I read. But it's also that reading books I love and recommending them here has actually strengthened friendships I didn't even know could get stronger.
Enter my great friend Linda, a fellow mom and educator, and a woman who almost two years ago didn't think she enjoyed reading. So I handed her what, then, was a YA series I thought she'd enjoy–Twilight. That's all it took, folks. She was hooked, and now she's a reading machine. The best part about it is that if I love a book and tell her to read it, she does…and she loves what I love! So now we have this virtual book club going on via the blog, and Facebook, and texting. We're always talking about books, and they are conversations I thought you other YA lit lovers would enjoy too…and maybe you'll even join us. So, we'll start today and see how it goes. Today we will talk briefly about Lauren Oliver's Pandemonium. I already posted a review of this book. It's book two in a trilogy that starts with Delirium, so if you have not read either, then you'll have to rejoin the conversation after you do because we don't want to spoil these wonderful books for you! I'm going to try a question and answer style to start. We'll see how this evolves as we go on. Thank you, Linda, for our Google doc discussion!
Pandemonium, by Lauren Oliver
We've talked about Lauren Oliver's pacing and how it's slower than other YA books we've read. Her attention to detail is beautiful, but her books are not for those with a short attention span. Now that you've made it to her crazy cliffhanger ending, do you feel the pacing was appropriate, or do you still wish it went faster?
I do understand the pacing. It made me fall in love with both Alex and then Julian. I feel though, that I have to add a disclaimer when I recommend the book to other people: "Keep with it. It is a little slower, but so worth it."
Totally agree! Oliver develops her characters so well, and her world building is extremely vivid. You have to appreciate the pacing because it's that pacing that brings Lena's world to life and allows us to experience it with her.
What is the worst part, in your opinion, of a world where falling in love is obliterated?
Something that sticks with me is the lack of love the parents have for their children. I love my children more than anything else in the world and would do anything for them, just like my Mom was/is with me. What happens if you don't have that person in your life? I think that would be the biggest loss for me.
When I first read Delirium, that aspect was so unexpected. I knew the book dealt with not being able to fall in love, but I was shocked when I learned that the procedure basically took away the ability to love or feel loved by anyone. Devastating. I am consumed with love for my children and can imagine nothing but emptiness without getting to experience that kind of love. Not getting to fall in love is unthinkable as well. Speaking of which, one of the best experiences of reading Lauren Oliver's novels is that she creates these forbidden experiences for Lena and allows us to get so immersed that it almost doesn't feel like a vicarious experience at all, which brings me to my next question…
Why do we fall in love with Oliver's fictional characters…Alex, Julian, both or either?
They love Lena for who she is, even if she doesn't think she deserves it. With Alex she said she could understand if he liked Hana; Hanna was beautiful, but why her? I think we all have that insecurity about what we look like or think why would anyone like us. And to see someone, just like us, have these beautiful men fall in love with her makes us feel like we are worth it too. We fall in love with Alex and Julian because when they fell in love with Lena, it felt like they fell in love with you too. (a little)
You are making me want to go read these books again. Stop it. My TBR pile is too big! Ok. One more question, and then we'll call it quits because I have to go attack that pile.
In general, why would you say that YA literature is not just for young adults? Why do we love it so much?
I said before, when I was reading Twillight, that I think the best audience for YA Literature is young adults and women over 30 that are married. The young people are reading about what is yet to come, anticipating what their first love will be like , imagining what it will feel like. Women my age, although happy with the life they have created, are reliving their first love or living that part of their life over again through the characters in the books.
Ahhh! That is so it for me! Even though not all YA deals with romance, I gravitate mainly to novels that do because falling in love, for the first time, there's nothing like it. It's an experience that is nearly impossible to replicate…unless you are a great writer who lets us come along for the ride. Thank you, Lauren Oliver, for letting us ride along with Lena. We cannot wait for book three.
And thank you, Linda, for doing this virtual book club with me! I'm looking forward to many more to come (and live ones too…where the discussion happens over a plate of fried green beans)!
***Join us on Friday, May 18th for the next Chic Lit Friday. We'll be discussing Veronica Roth's Insurgent, of course! And you don't have to be a chic to join in. Non-chics are welcome too.


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Help! Sherco 125 (06) Revs Out Of Control Suddenly ... Throttle Cable Issue?
A friend of ours just purchased a used 125 sherco, 2006 model year. We know the former owner, he never had a problem with this as far as we know.
twice today, the bike suddenly revved up SIGNIFICANTLY with no provocation, while ridden by a novice rider using very little throttle (once was a crash, once was a nice save by a very rattled rookie!); (Mike guestimates that it was sticking at, for example, 1/4 throttle ... and thus continuing to increase RPMs/accelerating.) (to be clear, I don't mean a simple small increase in RPMs like my GasGas does as it's running out of fuel ... this was a significant jump and continued to rev higher and higher)
then Mike (my hubby/our mechanic) rode the bike and eventually was able to repeat it. When it revved, he could snap the throttle several times until it shut back down.
no binding whatsoever at full lock either direction.
the throttle cable had a small amount of excess freeplay which he removed. still could make it stick and scream. cable is good otherwise.
We found that, when an adult rider is sitting on the seat-less seat area (not on the fender), the tank actually could pin the throttle cable. Zip tied the cable (loosely) to a segment of frame that keeps it away from said pinch point. Not certain if the bike reved out again after that adjustment.
Obviously, the new rider is nervous to get back on her bike, and Mike is nervous to let her ride it again until we're certain the problem is solved.
has anyone seen anything similar? any ideas what could be happening?
HELP???? :cry:cry:cry:cry
Hey lineaway,
There was enough excess that the throttle end of the throttle cable was close to being able to pop out of the trottle housing and hang. I am dont think this was the problem but am not sure. The throttle cable out the top of the carb you know the 45 degree bend was setting against the tank. This meant that when the tank moved it pushed the bend over just a bit. Again not sure if this was the problem. But a loose ziptie pulled the cable over so the tank does not touch it any more. I would like to get a look at another bike to see the routing. Not another one close to us. Maybe someone can take pictures for us.
Are you missing the little rubber boot that holds the cable into the 45 bend?
Had a similar problem on a Honda motocrosser back when I rode an arenacross BITD. After much frustration and loss of confidence we found evidence that the carb slide had a burr that was catching in its track. This was a flat-slide carb, and I don't know what carb you are dealing with, but if you find no evidence of the cable hanging up (far more likely) look for signs of scuffing on the slide and its path.
I will pull the carb apart today and check for any stiction. This one has really got me baffled, the throttle cable seems fine although I have not removed it from the bike to give it a complete visual. I will get that done today.
Thanks for the input.
So I should have just taken everything apart when the problem started. I found two things wrong and am pretty sure the problem is fixed.
1st The top of the carb was put on 180 out. This caused both the spring and the cable to be off angle inside the carb.
2nd I checked the airfilter to get and idea if the intake was clean but did not pull the filter to check. If I would have I would have found a fair amount of grit inside the airbox. There was enough grit on the slide to cause it to hang up. So after cleaning out the airbox the carb and greasing the inside of the airbox so it cant happen again the bike seems to be doing fine.
I know better to buy a used bike and start riding it without checking everything over. This was a great reminder to me to take the time to check everything over before riding.
Lesson learned.
Hopefully it stays fixed!
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Raleigh, N.C. - NC State sophomore cornerback David Amerson and senior returner T.J. Graham were both named first-team All-ACC on Monday as announced by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA). Junior linebacker Terrell Manning and senior tight end George Bryan were both named second-team All-ACC.
The Pack also collected three honorable mentions on defense; senior linebacker Audie Cole and junior safeties Brandon Bishop and Earl Wolff were all cited.
Amerson currently leads the nation with his 11 interceptions on the season. Last week, he was named one of three finalists for the Thorpe Award.
Graham has already secured the ACC record for most kickoff return yards during a career. He earned honorable mention honors as a kick returner as a freshman in 2008.
Manning was named the ACC Linebacker of the Week for his performance against Maryland. He caused a pair of fumbles in the Clemson win last week, and this past week against Maryland he recovered a pair of fumbles.
Bryan, who earned first-team All-ACC honors each of the last two seasons, posted a season-high eight catches in the Pack's win over Maryland. He already has the most receptions among any tight end in school history, and currently ranks eighth overall.


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Fishy photos: Pasi Visakivi
Published Mar 30th 2013
Finnish photographer Pasi Visakivi has been interested in photographing from very young age but is still learning new important things almost every day.
- I'm a 42 years old fly fisherman and a freelancer photographer from the southern part of Finland. I would like to share with your my fly fishing photos.
He added a few more details and a couple of links, and I of course immediately looked. I admit that the Finnish magazine web site that Pasi linked to had me more confused than enlightened (Finnish is no one of my core competences), but the gallery on his Google+ account counter-weighed that to full, and I of course invited Pasi to answer our fishy photographer questions. Here are his answers.
How did you start photographing - and what made you choose fishing related photos in particular?
Well, I have been interested in photographing from very young age but it did not develop into a significant hobby until I joined the editorial board of the Finnish fly fishing magazine called Pohjolan Perhokalastaja in 2001.
Since then fly fishing photographing started to interest me in a totally different way because couple of great photographers worked for the magazine. I started to fly fish in my early teenage years so I am firstly and foremost a fly fisherman and because of that I also started to photograph.
After I bought my first digital SLR camera I really started to get into the art of photographing. I used a lot of film and a pocket digital camera for years before that. I have read many books about photography in general but there is still so much more to learn. I feel that I am still in a very early stage of my photographing career and I am learning new important things almost every day.
I am definitely an all-rounder
Do you have a particular subject, region or a style of pictures that you mainly shoot or are you more all-round?
I am definitely an all-rounder. When it comes to regions, my photos have been shot mainly on Finnish brown trout rivers but also on several salmon rivers in Norway and Sweden. In the future I would like to cover many new interesting fly fishing places all over the world.
I really like to shoot widely different subjects of fly fishing lifestyle - from wide angle landscapes to macro shots of insects. I also like to cover flies and gear set-ups especially in winter times when fly fishing basically stops for a few months. I have a studio strobe system that I use for that purpose. In addition I also do some portrait, advertising, event and architecture photographing.
During the past two years I have been very interested in macro shooting. I am planning to purchase an underwater system for my cameras and get more into that part of shooting. I also like to use flashes and reflectors in my outdoor photographing.
Where are your photos used? Books, magazines, brochures, ads, web sites, prints, gallery exhibits or other places?
Naturally most of my photos have been published in our Finnish fly fishing magazine called Pohjolan Perhokalastaja (The Nordic Fly Fisherman). I have had three cover shots and I have published more than 20 articles in that magazine.
During the past two years the fly fishing tackle company Vision has used many of my photos in their catalogs and on their website.
A great online fly fishing magazine Catch Magazine has agreed to publish my three part essay called Nordic Encounters. First part came out last December and the third part will be published in April this year.
I have had three small exhibitions of fly fishing photographs in Finland and I have sold many fine art prints of my photos to individual customers.
Is photography your main source of income - if at all a source of income - and do you do other jobs as a supplement?
Photography is not my main source of income. I still have a full time day job, but photographing is no longer just a hobby. So, personally I consider myself being a freelance photographer.
Currently, my fishing trips maybe includes more photographing than actual fishing.
Can people buy your pictures and if so, then in which form and where?
Yes, of course everything is for sale. If someone becomes interested in my work they can contact me by email. Everyone can check my fly fishing photos in my gallery. There is only a small portion of my photos. On my computer is the rest of my thousands of photos.
Where do you currently live and work?
I live in a small town called Hämeenlinna in the southern part of Finland. I work as a production manager in a local Arts and Congress Centre.
What's in your bag? Preferred cameras, bodies, lenses and other gear?
I use Nikon camera gear.
I have two bodies D300S and D300.
I have Nikon lenses like 24-70mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8 VR2, 105mm f/2.8 VR macro and 35mm f/1.8. Then I have a Tokina wide angle lens 11-16mm f/2.8.
Lately I have invested a lot of money in lenses and now I can cover most of the situations I face while covering fly fishing related activities. Of course this set weighs quite a lot but I have no regrets. I have a couple of different Lowepro backs to carry the gear.
Lately I have invested a lot of money in lenses and now I can cover most of the situations I face
There is a lot of different gear to carry around while on fishing trips. You don't necessarily need all this stuff to get good photos. Regardless of the digital breakthrough in photographing, the same principal rules of how to take a good photo still apply. For me one of the most important aspects in photographing is the composition and the relevant rules have not changed at all when everybody moved to the digital world.
I use Adobe Photoshop for post processing and I also do HDR photos.
More Fishy Photographers
These are the shooters we have featured:
- Fly fishing photographers in Gallery. Published February 16th 2012
- Fishy photos: Jim Klug in Gallery. Published February 16th 2012
- Fishy photos: Mark Lance in Gallery. Published February 21st 2012
- Fishy photos: Aleksandar Vrtaric in Gallery. Published February 26th 2012
- Fishy photos: Jim Levison in Gallery. Published March 1st 2012
- Fishy photos: Angus Drummond in Gallery. Published March 10th 2012
- Fishy photos: Corey Kruitbosch in Gallery. Published March 28th 2012
- Fishy photos: Henry Hegeman in Gallery. Published May 13th 2012
- Fishy photos: Marcel Siegle in Gallery. Published May 28th 2012
- Fishy photos: Dennis Collier in Gallery. Published May 31st 2012
- Fishy photos: Jonas Hoholt in Gallery. Published June 3rd 2012
- Fishy photos: Stu Hastie in Gallery. Published July 6th 2012
- Fishy photos: Isaias Nicolaevici in Gallery. Published July 24th 2012
- Fishy photos: Harri Hytönen in Gallery. Published September 6th 2012
- Fishy photos: Barry Ord Clarke in Gallery. Published December 10th 2012
- Fishy photos: Michael Jensen in Gallery. Published January 10th 2013
- Fishy photos: Pasi Visakivi in Gallery. Published March 30th 2013
- Fishy photos: Nikola Novovic in Gallery. Published February 23rd 2014
- Fishy photos: Rudy van Duijnhoven in Gallery. Published March 14th 2014
- Fishy photos: Lukas Bammatter in Gallery. Published August 20th 2014
- Fishy photos: Soren Skarby in Gallery. Published March 20th 2015
Your photos too?
Are you an enthusiastic fly fishing photographer? Pro, semi-pro, amateur? We don't care as long as your pictures are good and get around.
Let us know. Contact Martin through mail and your work can become a part of the Fishy Photographers series.
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Soldier Tim Kenney falls deeper into post-war depression and anger
MONTROSE — Normal. That is all Tim Kenney wants to be.
Normal enough so that he no longer is compelled to check ridgelines and corners for danger. Normal so he can sleep without nightmares that have him flailing violently at his wife. Normal so that he can walk one of his daughters down the aisle in a month.
But normal is no longer coming easy for Kenney more than a year after he returned wounded from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Instead of feeling better as the days stretch out between being an Army infantry gunner near Bagram and being a family man and small business owner in a quiet rural town, Kenney's post traumatic stress disorder is worsening.
"I'm not doing so well. Things are not good. My life pretty much sucks right now," Tim said with candor fueled by a second glass of vodka.
Tim quit drinking 18 years ago but recently started dulling his wounded psyche with alcohol. He started that after giving up the pain pills that had tempered his back pain, as well as his mental trauma since his return. He is seeing a psychiatrist and a counselor and is on psychotropic medication.
He is learning from his counseling sessions that he needs to find a new normal. But he isn't there yet.
"When you kill someone, you cross a line and you can't cross back," he explained.
Tim killed more times than he can count during combat. Those deaths of enemy combatants aren't the ones that torture him in the dark of night. There is one he had buried in his subconscious. It came out during therapy sessions.
"I think I killed a little baby…" is his startling beginning to that story.
He was traveling in a convoy of armored vehicles when they had to avoid a beggar woman sitting in the middle of the road — a common occurrence. She was holding a tiny baby. Tim tossed a water canteen to her: It was his habit to throw water or packaged meals or anything he had that might help. But this time he is pretty sure the water bottle hit and likely killed the baby when he threw it from a vehicle moving 40 mph.
"I was trying to do a good thing. I'm such a family man you know," he said.
The memory of that, along with the recent suicide of his armored vehicle driver, triggered a breakdown. It happened when he accompanied his wife to Colorado Springs for her Air Force Academy reunion last month.
"I just went berserk. I snapped," he said.
When they returned home, he moved into one of the outbuildings on their property. He and Patricia, who have been married nearly 25 years, are back in marriage counseling. The tension got so bad that after his wife talked to his Army superiors in Salt Lake City, Tim said they considered placing him in an in-patient treatment program.
That hasn't happened, but Tim said the threat that he could be pulled away from his family has added to his stress.
He admitted he has learned through all this to say what his counselors want to hear. When he first returned, he said he answered the standard questions honestly.
"Did you kill people?"
"How did killing people make you feel?"
"It felt good."
That caused the military to flag him as a behavioral risk and channel him into counseling.
"Now, he said he answers that last question differently.
"It made me feel terrible," he has learned is the proper response — and one he has learned is more true than he ever knew.
When he enlisted in the Army National Guard at the age of 42 he thought his relatively old age would protect him from the after effects of war. It obviously didn't.
He was awarded a Purple Heart and some people view him as a hero, but he said he doesn't feel like one. He reserves that title for his wife. She raised their four children alone while he was gone. She cared for him when he came back broken and was allowed to recuperate at home rather than in a military hospital. She has stuck with him through his troubles since his return. She is currently planning their daughter's wedding while Tim said all he has had to do is get fitted for a tuxedo.
"I am just not up to talking about it now," Patricia said when asked about her husband's current state.
Tim said it bothers him that he can't figure out how to become the head of his household again. He is trying for smaller goals: He has to try to pull himself together enough for the wedding scheduled for four days after Christmas. He wants it to be an honor for his daughter to have her dad walk her down the aisle — not a disgrace.
"I am going day-by-day. I am trying. I am trying. I am really trying," he said wearily. "I haven't done anything stupid — yet."
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Community Spoofs Glee! How Did the Greendale Kids Do?
Not all utterly brilliant comedies with a massive cult following perform as well commercially as Glee. And with NBC's Community on the brink of getting canned, they definitely went out with a bang for their winter finale (and potential last-ever episode) with a Christmas special spoofing Glee.
In the episode, Jeff (Joel McHale) bestows upon the study group the gift of dismantling Greendale Community College's glee club to escape their annoying mash-ups (ha!) and hip hop remixes (whoa, Glee's Puck and Artie's surrious hip-hop skillz are not to be parodied). After ASCAP serves them with cease and desist papers for performing songs without the artists' permission, Greendale is left without a glee club to put on the Christmas pageant! Oh noes!
Of course, glee club runner (and Schue-like sweater vest-wearing, asexual, eventual psychopath) Mr. Rad needs someone to fill in, so who does he go after but Jeff and the study group?
They pass, but Abed (Danny Pudi)'s curiosity about joining gets the better of him after he discovers the "Glee of Glee" in a duet with Mr. Rad. He hooks Troy (Donald Glover) with a rap song (oh yeah, we get a taste of Childish Gambino spitting dope rhymes...you know, but Community-fied...HOLLA!). The two of them hook Pierce (Chevy Chase) with a ditty entitled "Baby Boomer Santa" in which they attribute the joy of Christmas to Pierce's generation. Troy and Abed hook Annie (Alison Brie) with a little harmonizing. Annie hooks Jeff by putting on a pseudo-sexy "Santa Baby"-esque performance, which eventually just devolves into baby stripper babble that becomes really uncomfortable and hard to watch. (But she looks super hot in her slutty Santa costume!)
Meanwhile, Pierce gets Jesus-loving Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) to join with a children's choir, bemoaning their public school's refusal to tell them whose birthday it is on Christmas (hey! Has Rick Perry seen this? It ALMOST proves his point!).
Britta (Gillian Jacobs) falls in line, too, but only as the mute tree (well, she sings eventually... and it's awkward).
Ultimately, though, Abed discovers Mr. Rad's secret plot to take this group all the way to National Lower Zone Semis after Regionals, despite the fact that they only signed on to save Christmas. So, Abed throws the performance, which eventually exposes Mr. Rad as a homicidal maniac (don't ask).
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - This is the "Down and Out" Bowl.
The winner of Saturday's game between Iowa and Purdue will snap a losing streak, that's the bright light here. For the Hawkeyes (4-5, 2-3 Big Ten), it's been three games, with last week's 24-21 decision at Indiana still ringing in their ears.
Purdue, believe it or not, has had it worse.
The Boilermakers (3-6, 0-5) have lost five straight since beating Marshall on Sept. 29. It's the Boilers' longest Big Ten losing streak since 2005. During this stretch, coach Danny Hope's team has lost three home games by a collective score of 116-26. Hope fired his defensive coordinator last season and the Boilers still have allowed 500-plus yards in three games this season.
"We now have a one-game season and have to win against Iowa," senior defensive tackle Bruce Gaston said. "We're disappointed at where we are, but we can still finish strong."
That's true. Purdue finishes with Iowa (4-5), Illinois (2-7) and rival Indiana (4-5). If it wins all three, it can bowl. It also might be able to save Hope's job.
Last week, Purdue athletics director Morgan Burke issued a statement on the program without mentioning Hope's name.
"Everyone around our football program has high expectations for the 2012 season," Burke said. "We have worked very hard over the past four years to improve our personnel, facilities and every phase of our program, which is evident. Our student-athletes, alumni, fans, coaching staff and administration all expect to see the program move forward and take a step up the postseason ladder.
"Currently, our performance has kept us from reaching our goals. But we have a third of the season left to play, and our focus is to achieve that consistency over the remaining four games. We need to press forward, converting potential into results and having fun playing Boilermaker football."
Hope, 19-27 in four seasons, has been here before. Just last December, Burke issued a statement on the team and then signed Hope to a two-year extension. He's guaranteed to earn a minimum of $950,000 in 2012.
"Obviously you want to be aware to stop any negative momentum or any downward spiral, but you hope that you surrounded yourself with the right coaches and players that can do something besides just being ordinary when you're going through tough times. This is a time for extraordinary people, not ordinary people," Hope said. "I believe we have enough extraordinary people around us to still manufacture a good season. There is still a lot to be played for or to play for."
In the here and now for Purdue, which has lost 11 of their last 12 in Iowa City and is winless since 1992, quarterback Robert Marve started and completed 22 of 39 for 138 yards. Marve suffered the third torn ACL of his career in week 2 against Notre Dame and is still trying to make a go of it.
He didn't finish the game, giving into Caleb TerBush, who completed 10 of 20 for 155 yards and a TD. Rob Henry also threw two passes. Purdue QBs took 10 hits and were sacked once.
"Obviously we're making a change at the quarterback position based on competition," Hope said before the Penn State game. "There never has been a quarterback controversy. It has been a management nightmare from an injury standpoint for the guys to get the reps that they needed.
"It had been competition all along. [Saturday] there was competition, and Robert competed and played better."
If Purdue loses, there will be no bowl and maybe a new coach for the Boilers. If the Hawkeyes lose, they will need to sweep at Michigan and Nebraska, the Legends Division leader, to qualify for a bowl.
There will be some drama in Kinnick. Not championship drama, but bowl desperation, if that does it for you.
Purdue stat leaders
Passing Yards: C. TerBush 1150
Passing TDs: C. TerBush 12
Rushing Yards: A. Shavers 489
Rushing TDs: A. Shavers 3
Receiving Yards: A. Edison 525
Receiving TDs: A. Edison 7
Interceptions: L. Feichter 4
Purdue in the national rankings
Offense (FBS Rank)
Yards: 3422 (81)
Passing Yards: 2045 (73)
Rushing Yards: 1377 (74)
Points per game: 28.4 (64)
Yards per game: 380.2 (80)
Touchdowns: 31 (59)
Field Goals: 5 (110)
Defense (FBS Rank)
Yards: 3773 (76)
Passing Yards: 2032 (51)
Rushing Yards: 1741 (97)
Points per game: 30.2 (85)
Yards per game: 419.2 (77)
Touchdowns: 30 (66)
Field Goals: 12 (93)
Iowa stat leaders
Passing Yards: J. Vandenberg 1786
Passing TDs: J. Vandenberg 4
Rushing Yards: M. Weisman 661
Rushing TDs: M. Weisman 8
Receiving Yards: K. Davis 543
Receiving TDs: K. Martin-Manley 2
Interceptions: G. Castillo 2
Iowa in the national rankings
Offense (FBS Rank)
Yards: 2952 (105)
Passing Yards: 1786 (99)
Rushing Yards: 1166 (98)
Points per game: 20.4 (105)
Yards per game: 328.0 (107)
Touchdowns: 17 (120)
Field Goals: 15 (10)
Defense (FBS Rank)
Yards: 3313 (43)
Passing Yards: 1978 (48)
Rushing Yards: 1335 (52)
Points per game: 21.4 (30)
Yards per game: 368.1 (43)
Touchdowns: 22 (30)
Field Goals: 14 (110)
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