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I mentioned in a previous post lately that I used an old Siera Designs down summer bag (40F) inside a WM Alpinelite (wide version of their 20F down bag) combination during a 2F night. I'm 5'6" and ~160, so there is extra room inside my WM bag alone. I thought it was a great, versatile combination that was better than spending another $300-400 for a 0F bag.While there might have been some compreession of the bags, the inner bag filled up all of the voids next to me and provided a really good bafle around my neck. When I'm cold, I want everything tucked in around me. I don't know how to do that more efficiently with just a single bag and typical tossing during the night. There is probably a more optimum inner bag for to use, but I already have this other one. I don't know if my combination is more weight efficient than a single 0F bag, but there are other things I could buy with that money I saved.
Pluses and Minuses of Overbags and Other "Bag Warming" AlternativesThere are several ways to extend/reduce the temperature range of your "basic" or "core" sleeping system:In Hot Weather:Pull the hood off your head if you are using a mummy bag; unzip the bag partially; stick your feet out with designs that permit this; unzip the bag completely and use it as a quilt. OR just use a quilt which allows a lot of these variations on the fly (by wiggling around and shrugging). Skip a tent, use a bug net over your head (tents are notoriously hot and muggy in the summer). Use a tarp if rain is a possibility. Adjust the amount of clothing based on the temperature (take off clothing and sleep in base layer - to keep the bag clean). Once again a quilt is useful because you can go to sleep in your trail clothing (or switch to your alternate set, if your trail clothing needs to dry out. I like to have the stuff in my pockets and feel naked if – I am, well, naked or just in base layer.In Cold Weather:Add a tent. Nothing keeps a secondary envelope of warmer air around you like a tent.Add a bivvy sack. The secondary envelope of warmer air isn't as great as with a tent, but it's better than just the sleeping bag.Add vapor barrier layers. This is especially important if you are going to be in a tent or bivvy sack, since otherwise moisture will accumulate in your sleeping system and reduce its efficiency. Oware used to sell a very light, impermeable emergency bivvy sack that you could wear as an "inner bag liner." I prefer using my "light" rain gear – Houdini jacket and pants (the original Dragonfly version is REALLY a vapor barrier, but the Houdini builds up a "comfort zone" around your skin while keeping your sleeping system relatively dry). Wear the vapor barrier right over your base layer, which means your clothing will be "inside out" with the jacket and rain pants closer to your skin, and extra clothing on top of them.Add clothing. Before thinking about an over-bag, think about puffy jackets and puffy pants (I like the Patagonia Micropuff with hood.and their pants). You should be thinking survival – if it's really nasty, you will probably never have enough layers and overbags to just lie around waiting for rescue, so you have to count on building up therms by moving (hiking out!) and figure out the minimum you need for the coldest, wettest projected or historical weather (or somewhere in that vicinity, depending on your taste for risk). Naturally Primaloft, Thermalite, Polaguard all all superior to down, which can wet out. (If you hike out in worst case scenario, the "light rain" gear goes OVER the puffy layers. There will be some wetting out but probably not enough to impair the insulating layers.)If you are STILL pushing the limits on your basic bag, ONLY NOW should you think about an overbag. OVERBAGS ARE INHERENTLY INEFFICIENT. You are trading a single, high loft bag with only TWO layers of shell fabric for an EXTRA TWO LAYERS OF SHELL FABRIC, not to mention potential weight additions like zippers.If you are not a believer in vapor barrier/slow down clothing layers (the ultralight "light rain" clothing), the extra fabric layers are somewhat helpful in preventing humidity soak through/rain soak through, but the only advantage of using two bags is to save money.My personal preference for the overbag option is to combine a summer weight quilt (which I usually spec in Jardine's "extra insulation" configuration and a little oversize, since I sleep cold) with an ultralight mummy bag like a Montbell or Western Mountaineering – something around 16-20 ounces. It's important to spec the quilt oversize so you can tuck it under you (and during the summer it's adequate for couples camping). It's also critical to use a bivvy bag (like the Bibler Winter Bivvy, except it runs a little small) to make sure air doesn't seem under the edges of the quilt, or else to wrap a tarp around you (which traps air, another reason why you need vapor barriers as your first defense). As an alternative, you can purchase elastic bands (an inch or so wide) and sew them into "hoops" to wrap around your quilt over mummy sack.Finally, check the stats and reports. You need a MASSIVELY thick (relative to ultralight hiking standards) ground pad to keep from losing heat through the ground, and it needs to be long enough to cover your legs – now is not the time to let your legs dangle on cold ground off the pad, or to drape them over "just" your backpack.
Brett,I was hoping you'd weigh in with your thoughts since I know you are very familiar with and use the Montbell products. Although I've been looking at true quilts for stand-alone summer use and as an overbag to my #3 UL SS DH (MLD's new XP quilt looks very interesting), I do have a UL Alpine Burrow bag #7 coming that I will probably use for summer. I've been using the #3 this year, always fully unzipped as a quilt so far, but it's too warm and heavier than necessary.Specifically on the Burrow bags, do you have any thoughts on the tiled Exceloft insulation of the #7 compared to down? You mentioned owning both a #3 and #7 but didn't say which model although it read like they are both down; I assume you put the 7 inside the 3. How does the Burrow bag compare for bulk (loft) with the equivalent temperature down bag? Interesting that you get 32F out of the #7 with a thermawrap layer (both top and bottom?). I always use light long underwear in my bag to keep the dirt off if nothing else; I would guess with both bags nested there wouldn't be room for anything else without compressing insulation.I'm also puzzled as to why the SS Burrow #7 Long ($125) is so much cheaper than the UL Alpine Burrow #7 ($164); it would seem that the SS system would be more complicated (it also weighs considerable more).Synthetic on the outside bag would seem to be the better combination for moisture control, but I'm sure that won't work with the two bags I'll have. Anyway, am interested in any thoughts and experience you have with the different Montbell versions: Down Hugger vs. Burrow, UL vs. regular, SS vs. Alpine, etc.Thanks, Sig
Sig, I just saw your post. Ill edit this post with answers tomorrow, sorry; really busy today!
I am planning on doing some winter hiking in the San Bernardino Forest, and I am curious to know what people feel is a safe/ light and warm winter bag or quilt for such conditions. I plan on watching the weather so I hope to keep the bag/quilt as dry as possible (Not backpacking in freezing rain and falling snow). Temps. will sometimes be around 15 degrees F. I sleep cold. Any suggestions.
I am planning on a quick 1 night trip in AZ, Payson or Prescott I am thinking. We may be near water. The temps appear to be at 26 at night, but that is in town, so I could see it being in the teens.My planned gear- WM 35D mummy- SD Lightning tent (mesh inner + full fly)- full length closed cell foam pad (1/2 inch?)- 3/4 inch Thermarest ultralite pad- Fleece pants, tops + poly or silk under thatI am thinking I will probably still need something else on top... I have a fleece liner I could cover the bag with, or I could use a emergency blanket (the thick kind silver/orange). I could also put on my Precip rain gear as well... Any thoughts on this on?Does this sound like it would be warm enough, I would be warmer then another time at 10F in AZ... I think some cover or "topper" on the bag makes sense...- Jake
I've used a 0 Degree Down Marmot mummy bagged stuffed into a 20 Degree Down rectangle bag for temps down to -10F and I was plenty warm. The rectangle bag is big enough not to compress the mummy. The downside is the combined weight is close to 6 pounds with the extra stuff sac you have to carry.
I've done something similar to Mark, a rectangular bag over a mummy. One advantage to this setup is you can store water and other things you don't want to freeze inside the rectangular bag and they won't be in contact with you inside the mummy.I did a little math:My Western Mountaineering UL weighs 29 oz, of that 16 is down.A MontBell Thermal Sheet weighs 14 oz, of that 4.5 is down.So, the combined fill is 20.5 oz and the combined weight of both "shells" (nylon, cord, zippers, etc) is 22.5 oz. That's a lot of "shell". For comparison the shell of the WM UL is 13oz.
Did you think this all the way through?"In Cold Weather:Add a tent. Nothing keeps a secondary envelope of warmer air around you like a tent."Except a second sleeping bag!A 3 to 5 pound tent is not nearly as warm as a 3 to 5lb sleeping bag.
personally i'd probably opt to get a quilt (like stormcrow's burrow) that can have the footbox totally undone, therefor allowing me to lay it on top of my primary sleeping bag. this would allow both pieces of insulation to loft to their max.
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Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster and has won awards in all three capacities. Born in Liverpool, England in 1957, he was educated at the University of Lancaster. He came to Australia in 1983.
Ford has composed orchestral and chamber music, operas and music-theatre pieces, and a wide range of vocal and solo instrumental works. His music has been featured internationally at such festivals as Adelaide, Aspen, Ferrara, Houston, Istanbul, Kuhmo, Melbourne, Seoul, Sydney and at Salzburg's Aspekte. All the major Australian orchestras have played his works, and so have groups such as the Brodsky Quartet, the London Sinfonietta, the Australia Ensemble, Het Trio, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble and the Black Dyke Band. His piano pieces have been played by Peter Donohoe, Lisa Moore, Gerard Willems and Michael Kieran Harvey, while his vocal music has been sung by Sarah Leonard, Lyndon Terracini, Merlyn Quaife and, above all, Gerald English, for whose voice Ford composed more than a dozen pieces.
Ford's music has won several national awards. In 2003, The Waltz Book, an hour-long sequence of 60 minute waltzes for solo piano, written for Ian Munro, was awarded the Jean Bogan Prize. In 2004, Ford's song cycle, Learning to Howl, won both the AMC Award for Best Composition by an Australian Composer and the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize. At the 2004 Adelaide Festival, Jane Edwards and the Australian String Quartet gave the first performance of Tales of the Supernatural (an Ian Potter Commission) which went on to win an APRA award in 2005. His radiophonic work Elegy in a Country Graveyard was shortlisted for the 2007 Prix Italia.
Ford has been composer in residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (1992 - 94) and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellow (1998 - 2000). He was awarded a fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council (2005 - 06), during which period he composed, among other works, Scenes from Bruegel, jointly commissioned by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the New Juilliard Ensemble, first performed by the latter at Alice Tully Hall, New York in April 2006.
Recent works include Headlong for the Sydney Symphony, Thin Air for the Sydney International Piano Competition and A Singing Quilt, commissioned by Wingecarribee Shire Council for choirs in the NSW Southern Highlands, where Ford lives. His Symphony was premiered at the Australian National Academy of Music in November 2008, conducted by Brett Dean, and in 2009 Ford was ANAM's composer in residence. Other highlights of 2009 included a week as composer in residence at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, and the premiere of his opera, Rembrandt's Wife (libretto by Sue Smith) by Victorian Opera. In 2010 Rembrandt's Wife won a Green Room award for Best New Opera.
Beyond composing, Ford has been an academic (on the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong from 1983 - 1995) and has written and broadcast on a wide range of music. In 1998 he won the Geraldine Pascall Prize for critical writing. Ford wrote and presented the ABC radio series Illegal Harmonies (first heard in 1997), Dots on the Landscape (2001), Music and Fashion (2005) and The Sound of Pictures (2010). He has also written six books and, since 1995, presented The Music Show each Saturday morning on ABC Radio National.
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Awards & Prizes
|Awarded for
|Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Instrumental
|String quartet No 5
|Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Vocal/Choral
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|Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize
|Learning to howl
|Classical Music Awards - Best Composition by an Australian Composer
|Learning to howl
|Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition
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Selected Commissions
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|Scherzo perpetuo : string quartet (2014)
|Commissioned by Flinders Quartet.
|Common ground : for two string quartets (2014)
|Commissioned by Barbara Blackman for performance by Canberra International Music Festival.
|String quartet No 5 : string quartet (2013)
|Commissioned by Australian String Quartet.
|Australian aphorisms : for six voices (2013)
|Commissioned with financial assistance from Father Arthur E. Bridge for Ars Musica Australis, Greg Dickson and Penny LeCouteur, Barbara Blackman, Penny Lee, Janne Ryan, David Sidebottom and Daphne Sivasubramaniam.
|Uproar : for at least 11 trombones and 4 bass drums (2013)
|Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
|Once upon a time there were two brothers... : for solo flute and speaking voice (2013)
|Commissioned under the terms of the Albert H Maggs Award.
Analysis & Media
- Article: Untamed melodies at the frontiers of sound
- Program note: Andrerw Ford The Laughter of Mermaids 1991
- Review: The Song Company Australian Made with Italian Glasss
- Article: Art Imitates Life
- Document: Harbour Noise is a Fatal Distraction
- Review: The Song Company
- Review: Australian Made wirth Italian Glass 20 March 1992
- Program note: Fast Talking: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
- Review: M for Murder The Song Company 20,21 June 1997
- Review: M for Murder The Song Company 20, 21 June 1997
- Program note: The Laughter of Mermaids (1990)
- Review: 11th Sydney Spring The Song Company 5 August 2000
- Review: 11th Sydney Spring Festival The Song Company 5 August 2000
- Video: The Waltz Book Interview - Part 1
- Video: The Waltz Book Interview - Part 2
- Article: Sound Harvest: David Lumsdaine's 'White Dawn' and 'Big Meeting'
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Published in The Monthly, July 2011, No. 69
- Video: Elegy in a Country Graveyard Pt 1 (interview with Andrew Ford, extracts from 'Elegy')
- Video: Elegy in a Country Graveyard Pt 2 (interview with Andrew Ford, extracts from 'Elegy')
- Program note: Andrew Ford's "Swansong"
by Andrew Ford
Source: the score of this work
- Review: Australian Made with Italian Glass: The Song Company 20 March 1992
- Video: You must sleep, but I must dance (interview with Andrew Ford, and performance excerpts)


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Dave and Laverne Peter and Chris and Karen Gayer, all of Tell City, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their son, Todd Gayer of Bloomington, to Jamie Barnes of Bloomington, daughter of Richard and Cheri Dover of Godfrey, Ill.
The bride-elect is a 1998 graduate of Alton Senior High School in Alton and graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a degree in human resources.
She is currently employed at Indiana University as a compensation consultant.
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kleaving of Tell City and Mr. and Mrs. Brad Henrickson of Tell City announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Laura Beth Kleaving and Todd Michael Henrickson.
The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Tell City High School and a 2008 graduate of Spencerian College. She is a radiologic technologist at Tri-State Orthopedic Surgeons.
Mr. Henrickson is 2005 graduate of Tell City High School and currently attends Owensboro Community and Technical College. He works at ATTC Manufacturing.
Renate Jobst and Neal Warner of Tell City announce their engagement and approaching marriage.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Doyle and Selma Brooking of Cache, Okla. She is a graduate of University of Oklahoma with a master's degree in communications. She works for Purdue University as the 4-H youth extension educator for Perry County.
Mr. Warner is the son of Sharon Warner of Tell City and Edwin Warner of Degonia Springs. He is a graduate of Vincennes University with an associate's degree in mechanics. He works for Roland Mulzer Farms.
The Perry County Girl Scouts had the opportunity Aug. 14 to take a three-mile hike along the railroad from Tell City to Troy, offering a change from the usual hike in the woods and a different view of the city.
The railroad hike was just one of several events held over the summer for the Girl Scouts and was made possible by the Hoosier Southern Railroad.
Tinley Michelle Jones of Rome is pictured here with her donation of her hair to Locks of Love.
The 7-year-old is the daughter of Tim and Tabitha Jones and is a second-grader at Perry Central Elementary. She said the reason she donated was because she wanted to do something nice for others who are sick.
While sifting through some older pictures in the News archive, this picture, which was sub-mitted by Pat Clark of Vincennes, was found.
The Perry County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Indiana Realty Group to celebrate their move to 337 Main Street in Tell City Aug. 9.
TELL CITY – The 2011 Marksmen cheerleading camp will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 17 at the William Tell Elementary, 1235 31st St., Tell City.
Cost is $25 and includes a T-shirt and lunch. Children ages 6-13 are invited to participate. Registration packets can be picked up in the office at William Tell Elementary and Tell City Junior-Senior High School or by contacting Terria Mowery or any senior high cheerleader. For more information call Mowery at 719-4864.
The Tell City High School class of 1941 recently held their 70-year reunion. Seated left to right: Mary Ahlf Thrasher, Beatrice Miller Smith, Dorothy Scott Reed and C. M. (Mac) Kramer. Standing left to right: Frederick (Bud) Carter, Mary Ruth Heck, Alvada Marchal Laflin, Helen Karney Howe, Cyrina Holman Goffinet, Leona Bruggenschmidt, Walter Graves and Ada LaMar Hoover.
TELL CITY – The descendants of James C. and Hannah (Newton-Enlow) Faulkenberg will be having a family reunion at Patoka Lake Shelterhouse No. 1, Sept. 18, 2011.
Their children were Ida, James, Leora Enlow, Mack, Ella, Charles Edward, Minnie and Essie Faulkenberg.
Bring a covered dish and drinks. Lunch is at noon.
FULDA – The annual Birchler reunion will be held Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011 at the St. Boniface Parish Center, Fulda. A pitch-in meal will be served at noon.
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Player: David Amerson
Position: Cornerback
College: NC State
Height: 6-1
Weight: 205
Scouting report: Talent evaluators say Amerson possesses the size, athleticism, physicality to become a productive NFL cornerback. One attribute, however, stands out above the others: He's a ball hawk.
The Greensboro, N.C., native burst onto the national scene in 2011 when he snagged a college football best 13 interceptions, which fell one short of the FBS single-season record. As a junior, though, Amerson was beat on a handful of long passes and his confidence slumped as a result. He finished with five picks in 2012.
Although some teams have projected Amerson as a safety, he said he's been informed by the Redskins that he'll play cornerback.
Two weeks ago, the Redskins hosted Amerson on a visit, during which he watched film with defensive coordinator Jim Haslett and secondary coach Raheem Morris.
The selection marks the earliest the Redskins have taken a defensive back since 2005, when Carlos Rogers was the team's ninth overall pick.
Current depth chart: Josh Wilson, DeAngelo Hall, E.J. Biggers, Richard Crawford, Jerome Murphy, Chase Minnifield.
Where he fits: The Redskins enter the 2013season with three veteran cornerbacks who are expected to receive the bulk of the playing time in Wilson, Hall and Biggers. Amerson, though, could play his way into a significant role and almost certainly will be counted on to start in 2014. Wilson, Hall and Biggers will all be unrestricted free agents after the season.
What Shanahan said: "Well, it has to do with how talented you are," the coach said, asked if a defensive back could start right away. "I've seen a lot of young players, especially defensive backs, come in and start in the NFL. A lot of it has to do with their awareness, how sharp they are, relative to their football-related intelligence."
What Amerson said: "I was trying to make every play, make every interception, trying to jump every route," he said about the drop off in his interception total from his sophomore season to his junior year. "I started sitting on routes, eyes in the backfield. So it was a lot of beating myself more than getting beat by receivers. That' something I had to eliminate."


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Stocks Fall After Consumer Confidence Disappoints
The consumer-confidence index fell by over 10 points this month to 46.0, with expectations of a 54.8 reading by economists which were surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires. This was enough to send leading stocks plunging for the day with energy, financials, and technology shares all taking a hit on increased volume. Having witnessed the overbought conditions leading up to today, some selling was to be expected. Listed below are some of the highlights, or lowlights depending on how you look at it, for the day.
This wild moving stock continued on it's plunging ways today as energy took a hit. These solar stocks really whip around and it's not my preference to trade them, but rather use the analysis of them to gauge market direction.
Goldman Sachs saw volume pick up as it's stock came down to test support at the green trendline with a close on the low of the day.
Just as Financial Stocks saved the day yesterday, Tuesday's action saw a fairly significant reversal on increased volume with a close below the 50 and 100 simple day moving averages.
In the commodity sector Freeport McMoran was unable to hold the rising wedge that was highlighted yesterday. Personally, I like cash here or maybe dipping of toes into some of the inverse exchange traded funds for the thrill seekers among us. Some of the inverse etf's include SDS, QID, SKF, BGZ, and TZA.
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Lighter Volume Consolidation Monday
Stocks were mostly at a standstill on Monday as traders held back prior to congressional testimony by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke this week, while some financial stocks did manage to drift higher on the session. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too is the interpretation of the light volume to technical analysts. On the one hand we can view it as a digesting of recent gains acting as the pause that refreshes. On the other hand we could say the absence of buyers could lead to increased confidence for the bears to apply pressure. Many stocks have a stochastic oscillator reading that is getting overbought. Let's take a look at the charts:
The OIH which represents an undivided beneficial ownership in the common stock of a group of specified companies that, among other things, provide drilling, well-site management, and related products and services for the oil service industry, saw a slight uptick in volume on its minor reversal. The green support area did hold but the stochastic lines are above 80 and look to be crossing. Keep an eye on support.
FCX continues on in its rising wedge like pattern while the stochastic on this name also is above 80 and threatening to cross.
The XLF Financial Index was a bright spot seeing prices poke above the 100 day simple moving average on fair volume.
In summary, even as many traders are expecting a pullback or downright sell off, the market has been resilient and continues to surprise to the upside. Charts suggest we could see some consolidating or pullback action soon, the Ben Bernanke testimony will probably determine to what extent this does or does not occur.
Source: http://www.bigmovingstock.com/blog/?p=279
A Cloudy Day For Solar Stocks
First Solar shares tumbled 8% Friday to close at $116 after the company gave a poor outlook beyond the June timeframe. During a post earnings conference call CEO Robert Gillette stated "orders look very strong up until June." Couple this in with pricing pressure in the industry and expected subsidy cuts solar panel makers get from the German government, and traders put a gap down on most solar names for the day. Let's take a look at the chart:
From a technical standpoint, FSLR broke down below a long term support area noted by the red arrow. Shortly after a nice rally brought price back in the range of the triangle. Unfortunately the 50 day simple moving average along with an overbought reading on the stochastic oscillator brought Friday's drop back below support. Other stocks in the solar group showing similar price action include ESLR, DSTI, ASTI, ENER, and LDK.
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from the film MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
H.Martin, R.Blane
G Em Am D7
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
G Em Am D7
Let your heart be light
G Em Am D7 B7 E7 A7 D7
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight
G Em Am D7
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
G Em Am D7
Make the Yuletide gay
G Em Am B7 Em G
From now on, our troubles will be miles away
C Bm
Here were are as in olden days
Am D7 Gmaj7
happy golden days of yore
Em F#7 Bm
Faithful friends who are dear to us
D Em Am D7
gather near to us once more
G Em Am D7
Through the years we all will be together
G Em Am D7
If the Fates allow
G Em Am D7 Em
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
C Am D7 G
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
Sounds good to me. I gave it a five. KK.
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ANDREWS, WILLIAM (?–ca. 1840). William Andrews, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, married Susan Clark on August 20, 1805, in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. He moved to Texas before December 1821 and received title to a league and a labor of land in what is now Fort Bend County on July 15, 1824. His daughter Martha (Polly), aged fourteen, married Randal Jones on October 12, 1824. Twin daughters were born to the Andrews family on January 7, 1825, but one of them must have died before the census was taken in 1826, for at that time Andrews had with him his wife, four sons, one daughter, and two slaves. He was classified as a farmer and stock raiser aged between forty and fifty. Sometime before the Texas Revolution Andrews sold his league in Fort Bend County and moved to the San Bernard area, where he operated a trading post. A son, Walter, who spelled his name Andrus, was still living in Fort Bend County in 1850. Andrews died before January 10, 1840.
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924–28). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). William Barret Travis, Diary, ed. Robert E. Davis (Waco: Texian, 1966). Clarence Wharton, Wharton's History of Fort Bend County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1939).
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Can I ask if anyone has any opinion on the synergy of particular films with particular lenses? I know this sounds crazy, but I think my Zuikos don't end up as sharp with Tri-X as they do with FP4/HP5.
I scan my negatives (Coolscan 5000) so it might be that the extra sharpness of my Leitz Summaron works in the Tri-X grain better than a slightly softer/less defined Zuiko image. Meaning that it might be that the grain structure of, say, FP4 sharpens up better in Photoshop after scanning than does Tri-X.
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I apologise for only being a half decent member of this group in that I scan and don't use a darkroom, but at least I don't take more than about 5 digital images a year.
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You edit audio waveforms in Audacity in much the same way as you would edit text in a word-processing document. When you are editing text you first select the text you want to change and then choose what you want to do with it. You might want to cut or copy the text, delete it, paste new text in it's place, or change it to bold. You do the same thing in Audacity: first zoom and select the range of audio you want to change, and then choose what you want to do with it. (Source1)
This chapter contains a summary of the use of some of the tools that will allow you to start to edit your file.
The image above shows the Edit Toolbar with the Zoom buttons highlighted. This is the Zoom In tool, and this is the Zoom Out tool.
To zoom in to get a closer look at the waveform, first choose the Selection Tool , then click near the point you're interested in, then click the Zoom In button. Keep clicking the Zoom In button until you see the detail you need. Note that when you click the Zoom In button the cursor is centered on the screen.
There are also menu commands and keyboard shortcuts for zooming. CTRL + 1) is the same as clicking the Zoom In button. (or CTRL + 3) is the same as clicking the Zoom Out button. (or CTRL + F) will zoom the waveform so it fits in the window.(or
Use the Zoom commands so that you can make maximal use of your Audacity window to see as much detail as you need, or to make sure you see the entire file when necessary.
The easiest way to select a region of audio is to click and drag. If it's not already selected, choose the Selection tool from Tools Toolbar, below:
Now click the left mouse button anywhere inside of an audio track, and click and drag to the other edge of your selection, and release. Some tips:
To extend or contract an existing selection, hold down the SHIFT while clicking the mouse. The nearest edge of the selection will jump to the current mouse pointer location. This is really useful if you know exactly what you want to select but it doesn't easily fit on the screen at once:
You can also extend or contract a selection by hovering the mouse near the edge of a selection, then clicking and dragging. When you hover close enough to the edge of a selection, the mouse pointer changes to a hand with pointing finger, indicating you can now click and drag the selection:
Press Space to listen to the entire selection. Playback will stop when the end of the selection is reached.
A convenient way to listen to only the adjusted start of the selection is to move the mouse pointer a little after the start of the selection then press B. The selection plays from the start of the selection to the pointer. To hear the adjusted end of the selection, move the pointer close to the selection end, then press B to play from the pointer to the selection end.
You can also play a length of audio either side of the selection by pressing C. This lets you make sure there is no audio you want to keep that will be removed. Playing either side of the selection would also be useful if you later wanted to cut a small piece out of that selection - you would select the small piece to be cut, then could preview how the audio would sound after the cut. To adjust the length of audio played before and after the selection, go to Cut Preview in the Playback Preferences.
There are some simple methods that form the basis of editing with Audacity. We will look at deleting sections of audio ('cutting') and shifting audio by pasting it in . With these two methods you can already do quite a lot.
You've now selected the portion of the audio that you want to keep. Make sure you have pressed Space to stop if the track is still playing, then to delete everything except the selected audio, click on .
If you make a mistake, you can always click on. Audacity has unlimited Undo and Redo. You can undo your editing actions all the way back to when you opened the file. You can also Redo actions that you have undone.
You now have a region of audio that starts several seconds (or perhaps minutes) from the beginning of the track. You could move the audio to the beginning of the track, using
You will of course have Audacity open in front of you with an audio file ready to edit. The process of editing requires that you first know your source file (the file you will edit). You need to know where a cut needs to be made so play the audio file and listen for where you want to make your first edit.
Lets assume you have chosen the area to be cut. You need to know select the area by clicking on where the cut should start, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the mouse to the end of the area to be cut. If you do this correctly the area to be deleted will be highlighted in grey :
In the above example you can see that I have highlighted the area from 1 minute (1:00) to one and a half minutes (1:30). A selection of thirty seconds. To delete the file I can now click on the Edit menu and choose 'cut' :
When you release the mouse button you will see that the selected area has disappeared and the length of your file will have been reduced.
If you wish to shift audio from one place to another then you can easily do so with Audacity. First select the area you wish to shift. I will use the same area I used in the cutting example :
Now choose cut like you did in the above example.
The audio will now be cut from the track. Now click on the audio that is left at the point you where you want this audio to be shifted to.
In the above example you can can see that I ahve decided to insert the audio at the 4 minute mark. Now choose the Edit menu and select Paste:
The audio will now be inserted and you if you look at the Audacity window you should see the selected audio in its new place :
Now experiment with cutting and pasting audio!
Navigate to the end of your audio clip by clicking the Skip to End button .
Zoom In until you can see the last two or three seconds of the audio clip and then Select the last one second of the waveform.
Click on . The last second of the audio is smoothly faded out.
Note that we always select some audio first, then choose what action we want to perform on it.
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This is another shot from my daily commute. There are two trees which trunks are completely encased by these vines. They almost look mystical like that might start walking and talking at any moment. Maybe I read too much into things!
Anyone who has read my blog knows I love trees, I am happy I found this one to add to my collection!
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Set of images taken at the nearby Bangour Village Hospital. Many people i know were born here...hard to believe it when you wander round it.
It was built in 1909 and was a psychiatric hospital but later developed buildings specialising in burns treatment and maternity care.
The final ward closed in 2004.
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excellent use of dof and angles, really like this
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Excellent set of varied photographs providing fairly comprehensive cover of the subject. V5 is a fine abstract while V2 really shows my sort of decay. But V1 is very much the star with its shallow dof leaving the building scarcely more than hinted at in the background. Great stuff, Julia!
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V1 is very Halloween in feel. Scope for a B&W here perhaps???
Love V5!
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This is a very good set, with an interesting variety. The angled camera works very well in #1, allowing you to fit the mossy post and hte building in the frame without having to zoom out too much and include a lot of boring sky and grass. The dramatic side-lighting in #2 really brings out the textures and the pealing paint. #4 has nice areas of light and shade and #5 makes an excellent abstract.
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I was hoping to hear what symptoms people have had before they are told that they are not fused, or that their hardware is failing.
I am hoping that all is well, but last x-ray taken at 8 weeks post fusion didn't show any fusion at all. That was a long time ago, and hopefully things are now fusing well.
I am now at 8 months post fusion. I am having quite a lot of neurological symptoms in my feet and legs and occassional nerve type pain in my buttocks and lower back.
More worrying, over the last month or two, I have been having a slipping/clicking type of pain especially when I am lying on my side and turn over. I have also felt this when sitting in a chair and I cross my leg.
Pain wise, things are not too bad at all; much better than before surgery. I hope that is a good sign that all is well. I trying to remain very optimistic.


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|Clonal evolution in chronic myelogenous leukemia.
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|PMID: 15271399 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Clonal evolution (CE) may be a marker of disease progression in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and is thought to reflect the genetic instability of the highly proliferative CML progenitors. The frequency of CE increases with advancing stage, rising from 30%in accelerated phase and up to 80% in blast crisis. Given its association with disease progression, CE is considered a feature that defines accelerated-phase CML; however, not all studies have demonstrated a uniformly poor outcome for patients with CE. Chromosomal abnormalities in Ph chromosome negative metaphases increasingly have been recognized in patients treated with imatinib. The true incidence of this phenomenon is not clear but appears to occur in 2% to 17% of imatinib-treated patients. Regardless of the precise mechanism and the long-term clinical implications, the findings described in this article underscore the importance of routine cytogenetic analysis for patients treated with imatinib. The continued study of these phenomena will help us to understand better the pathogenesis of CML and improve the long-term treatment of patients with CML.
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Durban - Christmas came early for some in Durban's Lillian Ngoyi (Windermere) Road as they grabbed R100 notes on Friday.
When Suzannah Patterson heard screams she thought it was from a hijacking, only to find scores of R100 notes fluttering in the wind.
Patterson, owner of The Wedding Store, and her mother, Frances Hicks, stood on the elevated business property and shouted down to car guard Victor Zibula, telling him where the notes were landing – in the gutter, on the pavement and under cars.
"There were R100s flying all around the street. It was like a movie," Patterson said.
She said a man in a Post Office uniform dropped a black file containing the notes and was running around trying to get them back.
"The car guard had a handful of notes but didn't keep any. He must have had about R1 000 – he gave it back," Patterson said.
However, not all were as kind and at least one woman and a man made off with what they could.
"I don't know how much money but it was a lot. We all helped pick it up," Zibula said.
He said the man had driven away in a white panel van without giving his name. – Independent on Saturday
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The Sports Authority created by resigning Wausau/Central Wisconsin Convention & Visitors Bureau executive director Darien Schaefer provided $3,000 to help bring the 2014 U.S. Senior Menâ??s Curling Association National Senior Championship to the Wausau Curling Center. About 350 athletes are expected to participate at the February event. Schaefer was photographed at the curling center, Wausau, Wednesday, October 30, 2013.
Darien Schaefer is stepping down from his role as the executive director of the Wausau/Central Wisconsin Convention & Visitors Bureau after 13 years on the job with a sense of accomplishment.
Schaefer, 46, is leaving to become the president of the Geneva Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and the Lake Geneva Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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I haven't seen very many change over time pictures for off the track horses. So I wanted to show how my new horse is doing. This is Merab she is four years old and was really bad at the track (she only got third once and placed last in the rest of her races). I got her for free from a training farm, probably because she had a really bad problem with biting. She used to be really high strung and all over the place. She has gotten way better since I got her. No more biting ! Just today I rode her and two geldings were running around the ring and trying to touch her when we passed. She was so good and just kept going. We are getting to the point now that when I lead her I don't even have to touch her to stop, back, or turn.
Please ignore me in the pictures I'm exaggerating my position with her so I don't use my hands except for turning.
The order is:
1-the day I got her
2&3- the first week and her first time outside in a long time.
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5- two months
6- third ride ( two months)
7- four months ride
8&9- third time jumping
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In Rugby World Cup year, the Blues top the table after nine rounds but a late season capitulation sees them slip to fourth. A grueling travel schedule takes its toll on the team as they fade in the second half of the semi-final against the Sharks to lose 34-18.
Ahead of the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, All Black coaches Graham Henry, Wayne Smith and Steve Hansen introduced a controversial conditioning programme and rotational selection policy designed to have the All Blacks arriving in Europe primed, physically and mentally. This resulted in four Blues players – Joe Rokocoko, Keven Mealamu, Tony Woodcock and Ali Williams – being made unavailable for selection until round eight of the competition, and not available for training with the team until round six. Ulitmately this turned out to be a total flop, with the lack of game time impacting heavily on the All Blacks' performances and Nucifora refusing to pick them over players who had performed well for the Blues in the opening rounds.
The Blues made a sublime start to the season, dropping just one game in nine matches to go six points clear at the top of the table. With Jerome Kaino, Luke McAlister and Isaia Toeava really growing as players, the Blues juggernaut looked unstoppable as they surged to consecutive victories over the Reds, Highlanders, Lions, Waratahs, Chiefs and Cheetahs.
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Playing their fourth successive match overseas, and having crossed the Indian Ocean three times in two weeks, proved to be too much for the Blues in their semi-final against the Sharks in Durban. After leading by four points with less than 20 minutes remaining, the Blues faded in the final quarter and were run down by the Sharks 34-18 to end their Super 14 campaign. But Nucifora refused to blame his side's heavy travel schedule, saying his side had opportunities to close out the match but did not take them, while the Sharks cashed in on every opportunity they got.


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So. I think I just realized I can't really do it all.
And I need to, like, pick what I choose to do with my time.
Work is work, so that can't do away. But with my non-work time, I just have more things I want to do and I don't have the time to do it all.
This might not sound round breaking to you, but to me, this is pretty revolutionary stuff.
Ok. In no particular order, these are some of the things I want to spend that free time on.
- Personal Development – getting deeper with my personal faith, reading, thinking, etc.
- UU Organization, UU development – finishing organizing manual for 20/30s groups, more on the building up young adult programming side, our youth program, etc. etc. Doing more with our congregation.
- Politics – ramping up the political blog and the political twitter stuff I did during October. There's now a severe dearth of progressive voices in Georgia.
- Writing – getting NaNoWriMo:Atlanta, NaNoLanta, uber organized and a well oiled machine. Further the NaNoWriMo cause in Atlanta, etc. Be an ML all year round. And also personal writing, finishing the story, editing, etc.
But I probably can't do *all* of them like I want to. Because each of these in its own right is time intensive. Holy crap. What am I going to pick? Politics would be probably the easiest to drop, although I'd feel, well, guilty about it, but then again I will end up feeling guilt no matter which I withdraw from. And I know I shouldn't feel bad about it, but y'all clearly don't know me if you think telling me that will work.
There's only so much time we have alive. What should I do with it. Make the biggest difference I can, or deepen myself while having fun. AHH! I don't KNOW. I *hate* not knowing sometimes.
Great. Another existential mini melt down. Do these EVER go away as you get out of your 20s?


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Just saw this today at REI; I don't always love TNF stuff, but this looks promising: 60g of "Flashdry" insulation + 20D fabric (that info isn't showing on the REI site, but was on the garment tag) at 7 oz. http://www.rei.com/product/842418/the-north-face-blaze-insulated-vest-mens
The weight is correct came up 7oz on my scale. Haven't really had a chance to use it yet, but I'll give a mini review after trying it out.
So, I've had a chance to wear TNT blaze vest around SF and took it on a 8 mile hike in Point Reyes. Very pleased with it. It's a nice wind blocker/layering piece and works well on its own in temps of 50f with 16 mph winds. I have a backpack coming up in sept and ill let everyone know how it holds up.
Been backpacking in Marbles and Yosemite and TNF blaze vest has been a champ. If you can still find it at the discounted price get it!
Altrec has some on sale. I carry an REI Revelcloud vest for summer day hiking CYA insulation, but I use a windshirt too. I have a Power Stretch fleece vest that can fill the same slot if used with the windshirt and is brewer for rainy weather with the added breathability and moisture transfer. The fleece vest is 8oz in XL size. The Revelcloud vest is 9oz in size large. It uses PrimaLoft Eco 60g insulation with a Pertex Quantum shell. To get more of an apples and apples comparison, what size is your 7oz Blaze vest? Other than that, it would have to be shell fabric, zippers and features like pockets and drawstrings to make up the 2oz difference in weight. Assuming that the shell fabric is lighter, I wonder how the Blaze compares for breathability?I still think fleece wins on versatility for mid layer cool weather insulation over the 60g insulated/shelled jackets and vests. Fleece is heavier and bulkier, but the breathability is so much better and it makes a better layering system with windshirts and rain shells. The shells on the insulated garments just duplicate the windshirt layer IMHO. My focus for cool weather insulation is 40-55F, high humidity and rain. If it is colder, 100g insulation is worth the weight and bulk and the 60g garments just don't deliver enough protection.
Dale,Can you post what it is, and where can it be obtained?Would love to know.Finally bought one of the Patty waffle grid fleece tops with large grids featured in articles on this site in order to get something fleece at around a half pound. But in Powerstretch? Can't imagine what you've got there. Sounds super.
It was made by Marmot and now discontinued. I just double-checked the weight and compared it with an XL Patagonia Synchilla vest which is still good at 10oz. Vests deliver a lot of good core insulation for less weight and bulk. I think they make great summer insulation options where temps might be cool to chilly, but not sub freezing in many regions.
My size large weights 7oz. Here are the specs from the Rei outlet site.The Blaze Vest from The North Face is a superlight, synthetic-insulated vest that packs down incredibly small so you can be ready with dependable core warmth whenever and wherever you need it.FlashDry™ Thermal 60g synthetic insulation is extremely lightweight, warm and packable; plus, it retains warmth when damp and dries quicklyFlashDry microparticles are embedded in the insulation to dramatically improve dry time and breathabilityMade of crushed coconut shells and crushed volcanic rock, the FlashDry additive leads to faster dry times and will not wash outLonglasting center, front, 3-color Vislon™ zip closure with interior windflap; drawcord hem; zip hand pocketsThe North Face Blaze Vest stows in its own pocket for easy They still have a full size run in Cosmic blue for $96.73. Since its an outlet item the return policy is limited to a month. I tried the Rei Revelcloud but found the fit to be boxy for me.
I got my Revecloud at Goodwill for $12 :) I'm barrel-shaped, the boxy fit works for me :)
Dale,Now I get it - it was a vest - lighter of course.Thanks.
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Jeff Soto at Comic-ConJuxtapoz // Thursday, 20 Jul 2006
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If you know Comic-Con, you know the jaw-dropping silliness that awaits Jeff as he heads out for his tenth year, though this year with a schedule other than cruising the booths, ogling the babes, and giggling at the costumes. He'll be signing and doodling in copies of his book and present for the debut of his new Terrarium Keeper 8" Egg Qee colorway, the "San Diego Egg". For those who can't make it and want the new egg, he'll have about 30 for sale sometime next week. Check his website for more info.
Jeff's schedule at the Con:
Thursday: 12-1pm Hi Fructose booth 4735
and 3-4pm at Toy2R booth 4636 (debut of the San Diego Egg)
Friday: 12-1pm with Giant Robot Booth 1729
and 6-7pm at Murphy Books (table F5)
Saturday: 12-1pm at Murphy Books (table F5)
and 4-5pm at Murphy Books (table F5)
Sunday: He'll be there but not signing anything, just hanging out. He invites you to "Look for a guy dressed up as Dog the bounty hunter.
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Jeff Soto: www.jeffsoto.com
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The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in this story of a Klondike prospector looking for gold (and love) in the Yukon. Featuring some classic Chaplin sequences, the film is a great place to start for anyone unfamiliar with his ouevre. Long Beach School for Adults, 3701 E. Willow St., Long Beach, (562) 997-8000. Fri., 7 p.m. $1 materials fee.
FLOW: For Love of Water
This documentary addresses water-access issues across the globe. Following the screening, Merle Moshiri, president of Residents for Responsible Desalination, will conduct a panel discussion. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 840-7496; www.regencymovies.com. Fri., 7 p.m. Call for cost.
Gone With the Wind
Legendary American film concerning Civil War-era Southern passions. Starring Clark Gable in his best-known role. CinemaFusion, 321 W. Katella St., Anaheim, (714) 399-0300; www.cinemafusionanaheim.com. Thurs., Sept. 25, 7 p.m. $7.50.
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Tarantino's over-the-top tribute to the exploitation films he used to love as a youth (isn't that all his films?), Kill Bill Vol. 1 concerns the efforts of a trained assassin to take revenge on her old partners, who slaughtered her husband-to-be and her guests on her wedding day. Ridiculously bloody, ridiculously entertaining. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701; www.regencymovies.com. Wed., 7:30 p.m. $6.50.
Purple Rain
The definitive Prince movie, Purple Rain is a very loosely autobiographical tale of a young Minnesotan trying to make it in the music scene. The soundtrack is classic, and the onscreen musical performances are smoking. Wear purple. Regency Rancho Niguel Cinemas, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-4359; www.regencymovies.com. Thurs., Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m. $7.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
This cult classic will probably be screening at midnight well after the extinction of man. Newlyweds Brad and Janet are ushered into the dark side of life and love at the hands of a transvestite mad scientist. This screening will be accompanied by live cast participation. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701; www.regencymovies.com. Fri., midnight. Call for cost.
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Open any outdoors magazine and reports of the hottest new gear often dominate the coverage.
That's hardly surprising. Hunting, fishing, hiking and camping are part of a huge industry, and shiny new gear can help you be comfortable, successful and safe.
But some expensive solutions to outdoor pursuits can be reverse-engineered. Costs can be whittled down to pennies without sacrificing an iota of functionality.
For example, I own some nice shooting sticks, the kind that collapse down and are carried in a spiffy camouflaged nylon case. I also have a carbon-and-plastic monopod with a retractable shooting rest.
But let's face it: A monopod crafted from a sturdy 1.5-inch-diameter sapling with a nice notch at the top where branches began to fork can be just as functional. A couple of hatchet swings, some clipping off of small, emerging limbs and presto you have both a monopod and a walking stick that cost nothing.
Marine Lt. Col. Mark Mackey, an avid hunter and angler, understands the desire to save money on outdoor pursuits and had several recommendations.
Some of Mackey's hunting buddies call him "cheap." He prefers "frugal."
Some advice for saving big bucks on outdoor gear:
Shooting sticks
Many shooters use two or three ½- to ¾-inch-diameter, 3-foot-long dowels and wrap a fresh, heavy-duty rubber band tightly around them about 6 inches from one end to form bipod or tripod shooting sticks. These can be used in tree stands or in sitting or kneeling positions when shooting from the ground.
Big bird decoys
Feel free to buy expensive, molded plastic snow goose and tundra swan decoys, but if you're hunting in fields, basic white garbage bags make excellent dekes.
Virginia is one of only a couple of states where hunters can enter a lottery to draw a permit to harvest a tundra swan. My first time hunting the big birds, our hunting party placed the trash bags over sticks that we stuck in the ground. When we were finished, the group organizer said, "How do you like my $1.99 decoy spread?"
Everyone filled their tag as birds landed among the bags.
Mackey says he has used white garbage bags and paper plates for snow goose decoys in Saskatchewan. To prevent high winds from ruining your decoy spread, he advocates tying or fastening the bags on a 30-foot string and then staking the ends of the string a foot or two off the ground. This technique would also speed the decoy setup.
Duck decoys
Some products marketed to outdoor enthusiasts are variations of things you can find cheaper in other sections of hardware or department stores.
Instead of paying big bucks for a spinning-wing duck decoy (either battery- or wind-powered), Mackey advises buying a wind-powered spinning bird from the lawn and garden aisle sometimes for half the cost of a decoy.
Repaint the lawn ornament with some flat colors similar to the target species, and make sure one side of the spinning wings is white and the other black or brown.
Mackey grew up hunting the big, open waters of Lake Superior. Duck decoy spreads in the hundreds are routine, and a spread like that can cost thousands of dollars. Cut the cost in half by fashioning about half the decoys from empty two-liter plastic bottles. Remove the labels and rough the surface with steel wool or sandpaper before painting with flat paint with a white stripe across the middle.
Placing and removing large spreads in deep, icy water is "a real chore," Mackey says. To make it easier, link the decoys, a dozen or more, on strings. Plastic one-quart milk bottles filled with sand can anchor the string of cheap dekes.
"From a distance, you can't tell which decoys are which," he says. "Neither can the ducks, because we shoot an awful lot of ducks over those spreads."
Shotgun wrenches
Shotguns with interchangeable choke tubes typically come with special at least they look special choke tube wrenches.
Lose a wrench? Don't buy a new one for $10, Mackey advises. A quarter unscrews most 12-gauge choke tubes. A nickel handles a 20-gauge.
Tree stand rail covers
Metal tree stands can be noisy, especially when you bump into them with any metal you're carrying.
A cheap alternative to buying fitted, camo tree stand rail covers is getting some gray foam pipe insulation from the hardware store and cutting it to the desired length.
"Zip-tie them into place on rails and ladders. They also work great on the gunnels of a boat to rest shotgun barrels while duck hunting," Mackey says. "Mole skin works, too, but needs to be colored and isn't as durable."
Ice-fishing shelter and gaff
Ice fishing can be a blast, but winter winds can be brutal. Manufactured shelters can cost a few hundred bucks, but a $5-$10 tarp configured around some two-by-fours creates a shelter that slides on the ice and gets you out of the wind.
Mackey employs a homemade alternative to expensive fishing gaffs when trying to heft a big fish, such as some huge winter northern pike, through the ice.
The ice can be a couple of feet thick, and a gaff with a single, giant hook leaves little room for maneuverability and visibility in the hole. He cuts a broomstick to the desired length, usually about 3 feet, and fastens a 7/0 or larger double hook to one end, connecting it with a screw through the eye. Stick a cork over the hook point when traveling.
Turkey calls
Turkey wing bones can be cleaned and fashioned into calls that faithfully reproduce the yelp of a turkey. Mackey saves the wing bones of every turkey he shoots and then makes wing-bone calls, giving them as gifts or hunting mementos to friends and family. Wing-bone calls are tricky to learn, but once mastered, they sound authentic.
John Byrne, legendary wing-bone call maker from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, believes wing-bone calls match the tonal qualities of birds the same age and sex as those from which the calls were crafted.
Coyote or fox calls
If coyotes or foxes are on your to-do list, Mackey advises hanging on to worn-out or retired duck calls. "Take the reed assembly out of the barrel and hold it sideways in the corner of your mouth. It takes some practice, but once you have, it's the best and loudest predator call out there," he says.
Rifle-cleaning solution
Retired Marine Col. Chub Madden saves money when cleaning rifles by making his own black-powder rifle-cleaning solution instead of buying an expensive packaged product.
Mix one part rubbing alcohol, one part hydrogen peroxide, one part Murphy Oil Soap and one part water. "It works great and dries quickly due to the alcohol," Madden says.
Sale items
Finally, if you must buy a name-brand product, be patient and wait for sales. Catalog discounters such as The Sportsman's Guide offer clearance or discontinued items. The Cabela's online "Bargain Cave" is a good place to watch for deep discounts.
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