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I agree 100% and will also write them....
This is a discussion on Have you written the NRA? within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I've written my representatives (from local to federal) voicing my concerns over proposed gun legislation until my fingers hurt. I never really bothered writing the ...
I've written my representatives (from local to federal) voicing my concerns over proposed gun legislation until my fingers hurt. I never really bothered writing the NRA folks because I just assume that they have my best interest in mind. The more I read and the more I learn, the more I realize the NRA really only has the NRA's best interests in mind. They are too cozy with too many that think restricting the 2nd Amendment further is a good idea.
Joe Manchin is one of those they are too cozied up with. Sen.Manchin has an "A" rating from the NRA.....I'm betting quite a few others that have an "A" rating are ready to jump in bed with Sen.Manchin's idea of furthering gun control. With a bunch of those "A" ratings and the added support of the NRA the floodgates could easily be opened because most of those who wouldl jump don't have yours and mine interests in mind, they have their political careers in mind.
Joe Manchin fights uphill battle for gun deal - Manu Raju and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
So I've written the NRA-ILA folks (NRA-ILA | ILA Home) and will continue to do so....you might want to reach out to them as well.Please be aware that I am closely watching the collaboration of the NRA and Sen Joe Manchin.
I am not pleased with the current involvement the NRA has with Sen.Manchin and his efforts to expand background checks.
The NRA should be against ANY further restrictions of law abiding citizen's 2nd Amendment! Playing nice and being cordial is for dinner parties and membership drives not for the defense of the most critical constitutional right given to the American people.
Please distance yourself from ANY member or group that fancies more restrictions on the law abiding public. Push for enforcement of current laws and better mental healthcare.
Criminals don't follow the laws, criminals will be 100% unaffected by any efforts you and Sen.Manchin engage in.
It's a slippery slope on which the NRA stands. Members are watching you, non-member sportsmen are watching you...stand tall, stand proud and fight!!
Thank you for your time.
Concealed means hidden from ordinary observation so as to prevent disclosure or recognition. A deadly weapon is concealed when it is carried on or about the person in such a manner that another person in the ordinary course of events would not be placed on notice that the weapon was being carried.
I agree 100% and will also write them....
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson
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It's a great idea to contact the NRA. After all, they are supposed to represent us, their members. I'm going to write them today! Thanks Rook. That was a terrific reminder.
Yeah, unfortunately the NRA "grades" based on past voting record and here's why they claim his A rating:I believe it's time to reevaluate that rating and I will also send them an email asking that they do just that. In this game, you're only as good as your last 'pro-gun' vote. It's all too common for politicians to change their song as their party pressures them to, and it appears that Joe would rather tow the party line than support the Constitution.Joe Manchin (D) NRA Endorsement A
Concealed Carry Reciprocity - Cosponsored S. 2188, "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act." This bill would ensure that law-abiding Americans with valid concealed handgun permits would be able to carry a concealed handgun in any other state that does not prohibit concealed carry.
Opposed a federal gun database Cosponsored S. 570, a bill that would prevent ATF from circumventing the will of Congress by centralizing records of thousands of Americans' long gun purchases.
U.N. Gun Ban Treaty Signed bipartisan letters opposing any international treaty by the United Nations or any other global organization that would impose restrictions on American gun owners.
"The Castle Doctrine" As Governor, signed state "Castle Doctrine" legislation to restore the right to self-defense in a persons home and property.
West Virginia Right-to-Carry As Governor, signed state legislation to increase reciprocity for West Virginia Right-to-Carry permit holders.
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Bosch provides sensors for a range of uses in the automotive and consumer electronics industries. For instance, MEMS sensors measure pressure, acceleration, rotary motion, mass flow, and the earth's magnetic field, and act as the sensory organs for cars or smart phones. Bosch has been producing these sensors for vehicles since 1995. A yaw-rate sensor that records the rotary moments around its vertical axis is at the heart of ESP, for example, and today each modern vehicle is home to up to 50 MEMS sensors. Thanks to Bosch Sensortec acceleration sensors, a smart phone or tablet knows how it is being held, and adjusts the image accordingly. Tiny MEMS microphones made by Akustica, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bosch Group, detect sounds and speech. Now every second smart phone worldwide uses Bosch sensors.
Bosch has been at the forefront of MEMS technology since it first emerged, and is the world's leading supplier in this extremely dynamic market, as the experts at IHS Technology and Yole Développement have confirmed. Since the start of production in 1995, Bosch has manufactured well in excess of four billion MEMS sensors. In 2013, around one billion sensors emerged from its state-of-the-art wafer fab in Reutlingen or three million each day. Bosch is the only supplier that manufactures sensor types for so many different applications itself. Overall, Bosch holds more than 1,000 patents and patent applications related to MEMS technology to ensure we stay on top of our innovative capacity, says Klaus Meder, president of the Bosch Automotive Electronics division.
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MEMS sensors can measure an ever greater range of variables. In early 2014, Bosch Sensortec unveiled a world exclusive in sensor technology the BME280 integrated unit, which combines sensors for pressure, humidity, and temperature in a single housing. The new unit was specially developed for applications related to environmental monitoring, indoor navigation, smart homes, personalized weather stations, and sports and fitness. Within a second, it can determine humidity the fastest response time in the industry. It also offers remarkably precise measurement of ambient temperature and impressively low energy consumption. In addition, Bosch is making its sensors increasingly smart. Production is about to begin on the first sensor for measuring physical variables, such as acceleration, rotary motion, and the earth's magnetic field, and it will also include a micro-controller for evaluating readings.
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Chaos uncorked
An ill-conceived plan to clean fouled waters with exotic carp goes awry down South, and now - three decades later - the Great Lakes could pay the price.
First of three parts
Lonoke, Ark. - Jack Vadas sells night crawlers in a bait shop tucked under the rumbling Chicago Skyway, about a half-mile from the southern shore of Lake Michigan on the Illinois-Indiana border.
If ever there were a piece of the Great Lakes you could call ruined, this is it - a shoreline poisoned for decades by raw sewage and manufacturing excrements such as cyanide, ammonia, oil and lead.
The wanton dumping from the mills, refineries and sewer pipes has been largely stanched, yet it remains a place forested by flaming refinery stacks, shadowed by mountains of coal, pocked with petroleum tanks and blighted by Superfund sites.
Beyond all the industrial fouling, in recent decades the lake has also endured a type of biological pollution; invaders such as zebra mussels, alewives, sea lampreys and gobies are among the 182 Great Lakes foreign species that are steadily strangling what's left of native fish populations.
The 75-year-old Vadas and his 55-year-old bait shop have survived all this.
But Vadas said he hasn't yet seen the worst of it.
He hasn't seen the bighead and silver Asian carp.
These super-sized cousins of the common carp can consume as much as 20% of their weight in plankton a day - food upon which virtually every other fish species in the lake directly or indirectly depends. They can grow to 100 pounds and carry up to 5 million eggs - 1,000 times more than the Great Lakes' iconic Chinook salmon. And the fast-growing carp have apparently yet to encounter a worthy predator in their adopted waters since they escaped their containment ponds and began gobbling their way up the Mississippi River and its tributaries more than two decades ago.
The fish, now so thick in some stretches of river that they literally roil the water, are on our doorstep. They've been found 50 miles downstream from Lake Michigan.
Vadas knows these numbers, and he doesn't like the way they add up for the Great Lakes and their $4.5 billion commercial and recreational fishery.
"If they do get in, and I don't see how you can stop them," Vadas said, "it's curtains."
The only thing left standing between the marauding fish and the Lake Michigan surf is an experimental electric barrier on a canal that is an artificial connection between otherwise separated waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. Everyone agrees the barrier isn't robust enough to keep the fish out for good. That likely would take damming the canal, a costly prospect considering it is the core of a local waterway system that handles about 20 million tons of cargo annually.
But the scientists who know both the Great Lakes and these Asian carp say the stakes couldn't be higher for the world's largest freshwater system, and the millions of people who live along its shorelines.
"It's difficult to underestimate the potential impact of these critters in the Great Lakes, once you see what's happened to the rivers," said John Dettmers, a biologist with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
'We're losing the river'
An invaded community smacks back
When baby fish began to flutter like swarms of grasshoppers in the wakes of motorboats on the Illinois River about eight years ago, people thought it was kind of funny, even cute.
The humor has since turned to bitterness. Lifelong river residents grumble that the invading silver and bighead carp apparently have overwhelmed native species such as largemouth bass and buffalo fish.
But more than the native fish are hurting.
The darting silver carp are getting bigger every year, ballooning in some cases to 20-pound missiles that literally launch out of the water as high as 10 feet when irritated by the whir of boat motors. They have hit so many unsuspecting boaters that locals are parking their Jet Skis, deflating their inner tubes and adjusting to the notion that their kids will grow up on a changed and increasingly menacing river.
Some will grow up without knowing the river at all.
Betty DeFord said she used to take her grandkids on boat rides along the flat backwaters, but she won't anymore.
"They're deadly," she said of the carp. "I don't think there is a place on my body that hasn't been smacked."
DeFord is trying to smack back.
In late August she hosted the second annual "Redneck Fishing Tournament," a ridiculously dangerous three-hour competition in the western Illinois town of Bath in which anglers - some wearing helmets and ski goggles - catch the leaping fish with nets, or swoop under airborne schools and let the fish flop straight into the boat.
Unlike the big-time bass tournaments that have disappeared since the arrival of these carp, this event didn't take a lot of skill.
Marie Tucker motored out onto the river as a spectator only, but left with a welt after a 20-pound silver carp smashed into her lap.
The tourney's 78 registered boats together brought in 1,840 fish, with a typical fish weighing about 5 pounds. All were buried by a backhoe on the riverbank.
DeFord said that mass grave scarcely dents the fish population just outside the riverfront tavern she manages, but she said reducing their numbers is not the point of the tournament. The point is to let the rest of the country know what could be coming to their own lakes and rivers. She has a certain group of lakes in mind.
"If these things get into the Great Lakes," she said, "you are in trouble."
Redneck tournament contestant Mike Pernet tasted that trouble. Literally. The 48-year-old was whacked in the jaw by a carp the size of a rolled-up Sunday newspaper, and he spent much of the next hour spitting blood and fingering two loose teeth.
DeFord said another contestant went to the hospital with a broken nose and a purple eye.
United States Geological Survey biologist and Asian carp expert Duane Chapman can't fathom why people would actually court collisions with the fish. He was on the Missouri River earlier this summer with a group of Boy Scouts when the adult pilot in the back of a three-boat convoy was smacked in the face and flipped backward off his seat. The boat full of kids was cruising at about 20 mph.
"He was stunned, but he had enough sense to get up, and he was able to turn off the (ignition) switch," Chapman said. "Scary."
Chapman's own work boat is equipped with a net cage for the skipper.
It looks goofy, but he won't go on the river without it. He's thinking about buying lacrosse helmets for his crew.
Now, imagine how these fish could change the way people play in the Great Lakes region, home to more than 4 million recreational boats, about a third of the U.S. total.
To date, the people most concerned about the Asian carp invading the big lakes have been government biologists, and that has them flummoxed.
"I'm surprised there isn't more pressure from people who own things like Jet Skis and boats - that people aren't up in arms," said the USGS' Cindy Kolar. "Come on! You're messing with their recreation time here. It doesn't get any more personal than that."
Maybe that's why many at the redneck tournament appeared more interested in punishing the fish than catching them. One youngster lunged over the edge of a boat with what looked like the leg of a chair, swatting at the fish Little League style.
Mark Shoemaker confessed he wasn't out to win the tournament as much as he was out to give the fish a taste of their own brutality.
"Today," he said with a pinball-sized dose of tobacco stuffed in his lower lip, "is payback."
Pontoon boat owner Frank McMahan said the zaniness of the day belied the sadness of it all.
"It's funny to watch them jump," he said. "But . . . we're losing the river."
McMahan has no idea where these fish came from, the ones he calls "Illinois porpoises."
A myth exposed
Government shares in blame
"Two species of Asian carp - the bighead and silver - were imported by catfish farmers in the 1970s to remove algae and suspended matter out of their ponds. During large floods in the early 1990s, many of the catfish farm ponds overflowed their banks, and the Asian carp were released into local waterways in the Mississippi River basin."
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This simple, plausible explanation is something of a salve for outraged Northerners hunting for a villain in the environmental mess that has been unleashed on the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers. It's also simply not the whole truth.
Retired fish farmer and onetime Arkansas gubernatorial hopeful Jim Malone is by all accounts the first person to import bighead and silver carp from Asia in the early 1970s, but a Journal Sentinel investigation revealed that he promptly handed the fish over to government biologists, and he likely had nothing to do with their initial escape into the wild.
Blame the government for that. Even the EPA itself.
The truth, much of it buried in Malone's personal papers housed in the archives at the University of Central Arkansas, is that there are loads of tax-funded culprits tied to the four species of Asian carp - bighead, silver, black and grass - that have now invaded U.S. waters. By and large, the people who unleashed these fish on our environment were well-intentioned government and university biologists who thought they could find a job for the giant foreign fish that are so devastatingly good at stripping nutrients from the waters.
Their goal was to replace chemicals with carp. It was to employ the fish for weed control, or to give them a job cleaning up sewage lagoons and chronically fouled waters on fish farms. They also hoped to cultivate a fresh food source for an increasingly crowded planet.
They had no concept at the time, but they were tinkering with a type of biological fire that escaped their laboratories and is now raging uncontrolled across the continent.
What they did doesn't make sense today, but "I don't think we should be too harsh," said Carole Engle, director of the aquaculture center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
"What are we doing now that 30, 40 years from now somebody is going to look back and say: 'What stupid fools!' "
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Good intentions, bad results
"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in the soil - all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?"
Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"
In 1962 ecologist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," a famously frightening argument against the modern world's reliance on increasingly lethal pesticides and herbicides.
Carson, herself in the final stages of breast cancer, begged the scientific community to seek more natural ways to control unwanted vegetation and insects.
The federal employees paid to keep weeds out of Southern fishing holes and fish farms apparently were listening.
The year after "Silent Spring's" release, a station wagon loaded with three cardboard boxes of a state-of-the-art weed control agent rolled up to a research lab at Stuttgart, Ark. The label on the boxes made it clear this was not another batch of the ferocious chemicals that flowed so freely in those Cold War days. The label said: "Live Fish."
The shipment from Malaysia contained finger-sized grass carp famous even then for taking to forests of seaweed like cows to a pasture.
It was the first documented shipment of grass carp into the U.S., according to Andrew Mitchell, a researcher at Arkansas' Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center who earlier this year co-authored a paper detailing the grass carp's history in the U.S. that appeared in the journal Fisheries.
"They were motivated by the greatest environmental concerns," Mitchell said. "They were acting in a very aggressive and appropriate manner for the time."
They also weren't as careful as they should have been.
Mitchell detailed that tiny offspring hatched from those original fish likely escaped from some jars in 1966 and spilled into runoff water that ultimately flows into the Mississippi, and he documented similar escapes in 1970.
Nobody sweated it.
Why would they?
By that time, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had its own grass carp hatchery program, and it was going wild with plantings in the state's open waters, according to annual reports from the agency.
Four years after its grass carp stocking program began in 1970, the commission reported that "extensive stocking has been accomplished in more than 100 public or semi-public lakes. Over 50,000 acres have been stocked with more than 380,000" grass carp.
Surprisingly, the big worry of the Asian carp pioneers was not whether the fish would escape into the wild and breed out of control, but whether hatchery workers could keep the fish reproducing. It proved to be an incredibly complicated process, involving injections of things such as dried fish pituitary glands and human hormones.
Natural reproduction was considered out of the question, and even if the fish did somehow manage to do it, scientists doubted the ability of juveniles to survive in rivers full of potential predators for which they had developed no natural defenses.
"That was a mistake. Obviously," said biologist Chapman of the Geological Survey.
Spawning a catastrophe
Using fish to treat sewage
Fisheries biologists and ecologists have reasons to be cautious about introducing exotic species of animals and plants, but so far as I can see it, the silver carp and bighead, as they are pure plankton feeders, will not produce any detrimental effects on the native flora and fauna after their introduction."
Carp pioneer S.Y. Lin, 1974
Several years after the first grass carp escaped from Stuttgart in 1966, fish farmer Malone had a private broker import a fresh batch of Asian carp.
Malone was interested mostly in acquiring grass carp, which he hoped to market as a weed control agent, but he also received a shipment of the other three Asian carp species, bighead, silver and black carp.
There were subsequent importations of these fish, but biologist Chapman and retired Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Chairman Mike Freeze, as well as a representative of the Malone family, all agree this was the first documented arrival of these three species in the U.S. It was the Pandora moment for a group of fish now overwhelming stretches of river across the Mississippi basin.
Malone saw no immediate need for the filter-feeding bighead and silver carp, or the mollusk-gobbling black carp, so he turned them over to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
"We had this little agreement that if we learned how to spawn them, that he got some of the stock back," recalled Arkansas Game and Fish Director Scott Henderson, who at the time was a biologist at the state hatchery. "It was all cordial. We were interested in doing some research to see what they were, and I guess at the time, getting them out of the public."
Malone gave the state 22 adult silver carp, 20 adult black carp and 18 adult bighead, according to a March 7, 1974, letter from Malone to renowned aquaculturist S.Y. Lin.
Like cavemen trying to spark a fire, the state hatchery workers tried feverishly to get their brood of exotic fish to breed.
They killed all the black carp before they could reproduce a single fish, but they had better luck with the other species when they turned to Lin, a professor at National Taiwan University who had moved to Washington, D.C., as an employee of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
In his three weeks in Arkansas, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Fisheries Division annual report for 1974, Lin took two 12-pound silver carp and made nearly 1 million eyelash-sized silver carp fry. The one 15-pound bighead Lin worked with made 20,000 little bigheads.
And the Arkansas fish biologists had fire.
The experiments started soon thereafter.
Among the first was to see whether bighead and silver carp could improve catfish production on fish farms by cleaning up the pond waters.
Henderson then employed the silver carp to eat human sewage as part of an elegant if a little stomach-turning plan to help small municipalities fund their sewage disposal operations by using carp to consume the stews of sewage, and then selling those carp as food. The experiment was funded in part by an $81,000 grant from the EPA.
"Not only did it clear up water," said Henderson, "but it produced unreal amounts of fish."
But the whole concept hinged on finding a market for the flesh.
The Food and Drug Administration "said if it touched a sewage lagoon, you can't do anything to make it human food," Henderson said. "So then I went to pet food. Well, as it turns out, there are damn near as many restrictions on what can go in pet food."
Henderson said the enterprise eventually died when federal funding for alternative sewage treatment systems dried up after President Carter's defeat in 1980.
The fish, however, lived on.
Retired Arkansas Game and Fish Chairman Freeze, now a fish farmer, was once a young biologist on the commission staff. He looks back at his days running the Asian carp breeding program at the state hatchery and remembers protective screens regularly flapping open and said he is "sure" at least some bighead and silver carp escaped on his watch.
"Bio-security was not an issue then," he said. "I don't think anybody thought: What if one of these fish gets out?"
Freeze said the EPA-funded experiment also was a likely source for some fish escaping into the wild.
"The control structure there was not fish-proof, is what I'm saying," he said.
"I can't say that we really armored everything and treated them like the plague," Henderson added.
Henderson said he does not recall his department ever specifically releasing the fish into open waters, but he couldn't rule that out.
"There probably was a place where we put some in the wild, but I don't recall us actually stocking fish purposefully, silver and bighead," he said.
He said his major regret is how loose the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission was with the fish it raised. Some went to the Illinois Natural History Survey, where researchers tried raising the fish on hog excrement. Others went to Auburn University in Alabama, where Pine Bluff researcher Engle remembers bighead and silver carp swimming freely in the drainage ditches and streams around campus research ponds in the 1970s. She was a graduate student back then, and recalls selling iced bighead out of her car trunk to needy Alabamians. She agrees that nobody at the time was worried that the fish were getting loose.
"People didn't understand anything (about) what was going to happen with the introduction of these species," Engle said. "People didn't even think about it."
Asian carp most surely did also escape from private fish farms during the Mississippi floods in the early 1990s, but by then it's clear they were already swimming free.
"It's really kind of infuriating. The fish farmers are getting blamed, and for the most part, it isn't their fault," said Anita Kelly, an assistant professor of fisheries at Southern Illinois University, who co-authored the Fisheries grass carp article with Mitchell. "These things were getting out before they even actually got into fish farmers' hands."
A quarter of a century later, Henderson's eyes still get big as checkers when he talks about the filtering capacity of the silver carp: "It's amazing, the stuff it filters out."
That probably should have been a red flag.
"If they're that spongy, that effective at consuming . . . well, that does cause a concern that it could interfere with energy flow in natural ecosystems," said Mike Hoff, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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With bighead, grass and silver carp already on the loose, politicians and fishery managers are now trying to slam the barn door shut before the last of the Asian carp species - the black carp - becomes equally established in the wild. A 2005 U.S. Geological Survey report says the species has yet to be documented reproducing in the wild. But emerging reports of wild, fertile black carp being caught in the lower Mississippi River basin suggest otherwise.
The true monsters of the four Asian carp species now in the U.S., black carp can grow about six feet long and weigh 150 pounds. The fish are still raised in a handful of Southern hatcheries and sold to fish farmers who use them in their ponds to eat parasite-carrying snails.
While methods have been developed to create sterile versions of the fish, there is a push in Congress right now to make it illegal to transport any black carp across state lines. These fish, however, remain critical in some farming operations, and Engle predicts that losing them could cripple a Southern fish-farming industry that is not so unlike the dairy farms that underpin Wisconsin's economy. She sees the transport ban as more a punishment than anything else.
"There is this atmosphere of trying to find a scapegoat in this process, and Arkansas and Mississippi fish farmers have been blamed," she said.
"These are not big corporations," she added. "These are small family farms - people who just want to stay on a family farm. They're trying to keep hold of family land and maintain a farming lifestyle."
Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries chief Mike Conlin is baffled by that argument. He acknowledges that his own state has a history of tinkering with the silver carp in sewage treatment experiments, and it has in the past allowed the importation of non-sterilized grass carp as weed control agents. Bringing those fish into Illinois, he said, was a mistake. And not doing everything we can now to slow or halt the black carp's spread is a mistake, too.
"How many times do we have to repeat this?" he asked.
He said he appreciates the black carp's value to the fish farmers, but the farmers should appreciate what is at stake.
"They've got to have some consideration for the rest of the nation, in terms of the potential spread of this species," he said. "Just like common carp, silver carp and bighead carp, this fish is very likely going to do very well in the wild."
And just as with the other fish, the government played a role in their early dispersal.
Former Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Chairman Freeze recalls turning to the Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1990s when it ran the Stuttgart fish farming research center after his fish farm was infested by parasite-carrying snails. He said a Fish and Wildlife worker suggested that he acquire some snail-eating black carp, which were already being used by other Southern fish farmers. The researcher even agreed to travel to Taiwan and fetch some black carp for Freeze.
"We did bring back a limited number, maybe a dozen or two dozen," acknowledged Billy Griffin, a retired researcher from the Stuttgart research center, which is now operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Freeze said Fish and Wildlife later helped him expedite more black carp shipments from Israel, and he offers receipts to prove it.
"We all deserve part of the blame," Freeze said. "None of us were as careful as we should have been."
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A lot of knitters purl more loosely than they knit, and one way to compensate for that is to use one needle size for knit rows (in stockinette, this will be the right side), and a slightly smaller size for purl rows (wrong side).
Tight knitters might want to use circular needles with a smaller left needle tip so that their stitches are not as tight when knitting off on the left needle, but are the desired size when being formed on the right needle.
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In this morning's newspapers, we learn much about lawmakers' wrangling over public records — but the question isn't about what should be public. Rather, the Legislature is debating whether the court records that are unquestionably publicly accessible ought to be publicly convenient, i.e. online where everyone and their iPhone can read them at their leisure.
The Docket is our daily summary of Wisconsin court-related news in the Journal Sentinel and elsewhere. Check this space each weekday morning for a quick digest of the state's legal happenings, and send your news tips here.
- It's a footnote here that the bill to restrict access to Wisconsin's online court records database is not likely to be seriously considered this Legislative term, but the fact the long-debated matter has risen to the level of Legislative debate has drawn a sizable amount of media attention. It's an interesting debate: the records are going to be open, but should they be convenient? State AG J.B. Van Hollen says keep 'em online, and newspapers and judges are pushing for openness while a handful of Milwaukee's legislators say making prosecutions so immutably public adds to the burdens faced by the people already having a hard time finding work.
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The Gina K. Design Team is excited to invite you to another fabulous Release Party tonight!!! The party starts at 7:00 pm Central Time in the Stamp TV Release Party Forum. Join us for Challenges, Contest Questions, Design Team Samples, Full Stamp Set Reveals and, of course, party chit chat!!! Everything will go "live" at 7:00 pm Central in Gina's Store so there won't be any long wait to start shopping! Hope to see you there!
If you came from Emily's blog, then you're right where you should be. If not, please go to Stamp TV where you will find a list of all those participating.
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My card is showcasing images and papers from the new StampTV Kit!! You are going to love it, this kit has beautiful images and the new papers are gorgeous!!
Go to Jimmi's blog, to continue the hop and see you tonight at the party!
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The wonky rectangles look sooo cute here, I wasn't feelin' 'em before, but this is super CUTE!!ReplyDelete
This rocks Giovanna! I love the stitching, perfect with those wonky rectangles, which I need too! LOLReplyDelete
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I adore those little birds. Great layout!
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Software and Data Technologies: First International Conference, ICSOFT 2006, Setúbal, Portugal, September 11-14, 2006, Revised Selected Papers / Edition 1by Joaquim Filipe
Pub. Date: 08/27/2008
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
This book constitutes the best papers of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2006, held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 11-14, 2006.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
This book constitutes the best papers of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2006, held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 11-14, 2006.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on programming languages, software engineering, distributed and parallel systems, information systems and data management, as well as knowledge engineering.
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Invited Papers
Adaptive Integration of Enterprise and B2B Applications Leszek A. Maciaszek 3
Ambient Intelligence: Basic Concepts and Applications Juan Carlos Augusto 16
How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure Tom Gilb 27
Metamodeling as an Integration Concept Dimitris Karagiannis Peter Hofferer 37
Engineering Object and Agent Methodologies B. Henderson-Sellers 51
Part I Programming Languages
From Static to Dynamic Process Types Franz Puntigam 61
Aspectboxes: Controlling the Visibility of Aspects Alexandre Bergel Robert Hirschfeld Siobhan Clarke Pascal Costanza 74
On State Classes and Their Dynamic Semantics Ferruccio Damiani Elena Giachino Paola Giannini Emanuele Cazzola 84
Software Implementation of the IEEE 754R Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic Marius Cornea Cristina Anderson Charles Tsen 97
Part II Software Engineering
Bridging between Middleware Systems: Optimisations Using Downloadable Code Jan Newmarch 113
MDE for BPM: A Systematic Review Jose Manuel Perez Francisco Ruiz Mario Piattini 127
Exploring Feasibility of Software Defects Orthogonal Classification Davide Falessi Giovanni Cantone 136
Mapping Medical Device Standards Against the CMMI for Configuration Management Fergal McCaffery Rory V O'Connor Gerry Coleman 153
A Systematic Review Measurement in Software Engineering: State-of-the-Art in Measures Oswaldo Gomez Hanna Oktaba Mario Piattini Felix Garcia 165
Engineering a Component Language: CompJava Hans Albrecht Schmid Marco Pfeifer 177
Part III Distributed and Parallel Systems
Towards a Quality Model for Grid Portals Ma Angeles Moraga Coral Calero Mario Piattini David Walker 195
AlgorithmicSkeletons for Branch and Bound Michael Poldner Herbert Kuchen 204
A Hybrid Topology Architecture for P2P File Sharing Systems J.P. Munoz-Gea J. Malgosa-Sanahuja P. Manzanares-Lopez J.C. Sanchez-Aarnoutse A.M. Guirado-Puerta 220
Parallel Processing of "Group-By Join" Queries on Shared Nothing Machines M. Al Hajj Hassan M. Bamha 230
Impact of Wrapped System Call Mechanism on Commodity Processors Satoshi Yamada Shigeru Kusakabe Hideo Taniguchi 242
Part IV Information Systems and Data Management
Adding More Support for Associations to the ODMG Object Model Bryon K. Ehlmann 257
Measuring Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes: A New Solution for a Difficult Problem Smriti Sharma Veena Bansal 270
Combining Information Extraction and Data Integration in the ESTEST System Dean Williams Alexandra Poulovassilis 279
Introducing a Change-Resistant Framework for the Development and Deployment of Evolving Applications Georgios Voulalas Georgios Evangelidis 293
Smart Business Objects for Web Applications: A New Approach to Model Business Objects Xufeng (Danny) Liang Athula Ginige 307
A Data Mining Approach to Learning Probabilistic User Behavior Models from Database Access Log Mikhail Petrovskiy 323
Part V Knowledge Engineering
Approximate Reasoning to Learn Classification Rules Amel Borgi 335
Combining Metaheuristics for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times Miguel A. Gonzalez Maria R. Sierra Camino R. Vela Ramiro Varela Jorge Puente 348
A Description Clustering Data Mining Technique for Heterogeneous Data Alejandro Garcia Lopez Rafael Berlanga Roxana Danger 361
A Pattern Selection Algorithm in Kernel PCA Applications Ruixin Yang John Tan Menas Kafatos 374
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The closest thing related to this I know of is ipython. If I type a class name, then dot ('.') then TAB, it can show the class members. Instead of a class I could use a name of an object (which is an instance of a certain class) and it would work too. As soon as I choose a method name from the provided options, I can type '?' or '??' and get some help if there's a docstring.
I wonder if ipython can do some intelligent scanning based only on 'methodName' string.
If you know alternatives to ipython that could possibly help with this, please do suggest them.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Restricting shooting of prairie dogs is one way states can keep the burrowing rodent off the list of threatened species, the head of an interstate wildlife task force said.
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Reducing recreational shooting is one option that would fit within a draft management framework put together by a team of wildlife officials from 11 states in the black-tailed prairie dog's historic range.
"I think the states have crafted a reasonable, fair, middle-of-the-road approach to black-tailed prairie dog management that addresses the needs and concerns of everyone from private landowners to conservation interests," said Bob Luce, who is coordinating the Interstate Conservation Team.
Luce, on sabbatical from his position as Wyoming Game and Fish Department nongame mammal biologist, said the draft proposal assumes that control programs will continue to be a significant and necessary part of prairie dog management.
"State wildlife agencies are also considering ways in which they can manage recreational shooting to limit take by shooters if populations fall below the acreage objective set in their individual management plans," he said.
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The new estimated cost is around $9.3 million, which is the cost of moving the rail lines. Another, costlier, option would be to build bridges at Third and Grand, and at Eastern and S.E. Third Avenue. The city prefers the rail-relocation option.
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