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Lake Erie Brown Trout
Im going to post this b/c I thought it was interesting reading and I like catching brown trout. I have some friends that are involved in management of the local fishing/conservation club around town. I like reading the pros/cons of the effort. NY does a good job of this.
Google the words Cattaraugus Creek in NY. Its a great stream!
This past week while fishing, I had a good conservation with a fish warden about this. Good person to speak with. He had a biology background.
The stocking was tried once before in Lake Erie and did not have much success. The PA Fish Commission is making a more concerted effort to increase the brown trout fishery and make a more diverse fishing experience.
They are stocking larger fish now. The walleyes are smart. In the past, they wait for these fish to leave the rivers into the lake and CHOW-TIME starts.
When I was fishing Walnut Creek this past week, I had a couple of 9-12 inch brown trout swimming around my feet. My first thought was, dumb stock fish . . . I have no pellets to feed you . . .
For Immediate Release Date: September 15, 2009
Contact: Keith Edwards, firstname.lastname@example.com, 814-336-2426
Meadville, PA The PFBC will be stocking brown trout into the tributaries of Lake Erie beginning as soon as September 29, 2009. These seven inch long trout will be fin clipped for identification purposes before being stocked the next day. Planned stocking locations are Trout Run, Presque Isle Bay, Crooked Creek, Godfrey Run, and Orchard Beach Creek. All tributary stockings will be done as close to the mouths of each stream as possible as long as there is adequate water flow. If stream flow is low, the fish will be stocked directly into the lake near the stream mouth.
Lake Erie Fisheries Biologist Chuck Murray reported that, "The goal of this program is to emulate the brown trout program on Lake Ontario, but on a smaller scale. The intention of this effort is to add some diversity to the tributary fishery, create a near shore springtime fishery and enhance the offshore summer boat fishery. These brown trout stockings will supplant the surplus steelhead stocked since the elimination of the Coho program in 2003. The program was started through the gracious donation of 100,000 certified disease free eggs provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. As the program evolves, the PFBC will develop self sustaining Lake Erie brown trout brood program at their hatcheries".
Murray also added that, "This will be a cooperative venture between the PFBC and local cooperative sportsmans nurseries. In addition to the thousands of brown trout to be stocked by the PFBC, approximately 35,000 additional brown trout were already stocked earlier this year by 3-CU and the Wesleyville Conservation Club with the assistance of the PFBC Cooperative Nursery Unit. The success of the program will be monitored through creel surveys and existing assessment programs over the next several years. Brown trout stocking will be about 50,000-100,000 annually, representing about 5-10% of the steelhead stocking levels."
The mission of the Fish and Boat Commission is to protect, conserve, and enhance the Commonwealths aquatic resources and provide fishing and boating opportunities. For more information about fishing and boating in Pennsylvania, please visit our website at www.fishandboat.com.
From the local paper:
Can Erie Become a Lake for Brown Trout?
By Mike Bleech
Erie News-Times
February 15, 2009
An effort to build up the brown trout fishery in the Pennsylvania portion of Lake Erie has gotten some attention lately. While I fully support this effort, there are good reasons to be cautious in predicting success. Several years ago, Pennsylvania and other Lake Erie states attempted to establish a good brown trout fishery in Lake Erie. In fact, enough brown trout have been stocked into tributaries over the past decades to establish a good brown trout population.
Why has it never flourished, and will it ever? "We know that on Lake Ontario, they have a nearshore spring fishery for them in the lake itself. So if we can uncover some secrets here and share them with everybody, maybe we can develop a fishery that's going to be attractive to everybody," said Chuck Murray, biologist at the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Lake Erie Fisheries Unit.
Several years ago in an interview, a New York fisheries biologist who specialized in Lake Ontario explained that one thing holding that lake back from becoming a better brown trout lake is that brown trout just do not seem to like to inhabit water deeper than 100 feet. Although there is very fine brown trout fishing along most of the Lake Ontario shoreline, the better brown trout fishing is toward the eastern end of the lake where the bottom does not drop so steeply as it does across most of the southern shoreline.
This would seem to make Lake Erie the perfect lake for brown trout, since so much of it is less than 100 feet in depth. Temperature is another factor favoring Lake Erie. Brown trout would seem to be better suited to Lake Erie than any of the Pacific salmon that flourished here from the late 1960s and as late, to a small degree, as into 2003. "The thing is, I guess, just looking at the animal, it has wider temperature tolerances than Pacific salmon,"Murray said. And yet a good brown trout fishery never has been established in Lake Erie despite serious efforts going back as far as the late 1970s.
In 1977, there were 49,096 brown trout stocked into Lake Erie -- 11,096 in two tributaries and 38,000 in the lake. Obviously, there was an effort made to establish a brown trout fishery, even though this number paled in comparison to the 978,925 chinook salmon, 635,955 coho salmon, 141,333 domestic rainbow trout and 39,500 steelhead that were stocked that year. Note, however, that the number of brown trout and steelhead were about equal.
Brown trout stockings increased through the next several years, first peaking in 1985 when 112,537 brown trout fingerlings were stocked. But it should be noted that 95,000 of these were small fingerlings that had a lower chance of survival. After a decline to about 65,000 the next year, brown trout stocking was back up to 117,899 fingerlings in 1990. This included 64,500 of the special Seeforellen strain, imported from a European lake where brown trout were reputed to liv longer and grow larger. These brown trout also were stocked in New York until the program was abandoned because of lack of success.
New York made a more extended effort to get a brown trout fishery started in Lake Erie beginning in 1974 when 88,000 brown trout yearlings and fingerlings were stocked. From 1974-93, brown trout stockings averaged 63,300 per year. But the only encouraging results have been a fair brown trout fishery at Cattaraugus Creek each fall and a modest brown trout fishery during the winter at Dunkirk Harbor. Brown trout stocking ceased from 1994-2000, then have been stocked every year since, averaging 48,429 per year.
One possible reason that stocking brown trout in tributaries has not started a brown trout fishery in Lake Erie is because in their efforts to breed fast growing trout in hatcheries, most of our stocked trout live only about four years, although this does not mean that none can live longer. Also, many of these fish are harvested in the creeks.
Combined brown trout stocking by all state fisheries agencies connected to Lake Erie averaged 87,707 per year from 1989 through 2004. From 1989 through 1993, the average was 156,562 brown trout per year. The current effort to establish a brown trout fishery will involve stocking approximately 60,000 brown trout per year, with many of them coming from cooperative hatcheries. Obviously, this effort is no greater than past efforts.
I asked Murray why the Fish and Boat Commission is making another effort to establish a brown trout fishery in Lake Erie. "One thing was because the coho disappeared after 2003," Murray said. "So the anglers have been asking that we incorporate some diversity into the fishery again. Of course, we know the success the DEC has had on Lake Ontario, and a few years ago they implemented a similar but smaller-scale program on Lake Erie.
"We have caught a number of those fish in our gill nets when we're sampling for lake trout in August. Granted, those brown trout can be from a number of sources. They can be from the New York DEC's stockings of lake brown in Lake Erie, their lake brown program. They could be escapees of our put-and-take brown trout stockings that take place in Lake Erie tributaries. And then there's also, I think, some of the cooperative nurseries from time to time have been stocking a few thousand here and there right in the lake for the purposes of a trophy brown trout fishery as well. I guess what we're trying to do, though, is resurrect that."
This year, brown trout stockings in the lake will be done by local cooperative nurseries. These brown trout will be the standard domestic brown trout strain. According to Wesleyville Conservation Club president Ron Dombrowiak, his club will stock 16,000 brown trout this year. The brown trout they stock are about a foot in length, which gives them a good chance at survival. "We always put a couple thousand of the leftovers a year in," Dombrowiak said. "This year we have 16,000 to put in. "We put them in Peck Run last year, because it's real close to the lake, and they washed out real fast."
Dombrowiak explained that the new stocking effort is largely a result of urging by the Erie PA Sport Fishing Association and Capt. Pete Alex, who worked with PFBC District 1 Commissioner Sam Concilla. A new 200-foot raceway in the planning stage will be devoted to brown trout. Dombrowiak said most of the east side tributaries get a few returning brown trout each fall.
On the west side of Erie, 3-C-U will be stocking 25,000 brown trout, according to Bob Hetz. They will average about 9 inches in length when they are stocked. "We'll put them right directly in the lake," Hetz said, "probably anywhere from Elk Creek to Walnut Creek. Probably mostly Trout Run and Walnut because they're the most accessible." Hetz is one of few who remembers past 3-C-U brown trout stocking efforts. "Every year we put a few in," he said. "The most that we ever put in was about 10 or 12,000 several years back. But we've been putting in at least 3,000 or 4,000 every year, minimum. "They won't migrate. If you put them in the creek they won't go anywhere," Hetz said.
I don't understand why it worked so well in Lake Michigan and not in Erie. Maybe it is the depth. The Big Manistee and other tributaries in Lake Michigan produce some excellent Great Lake run browns. And, Erie is known for steelhead. I hope they find the answer.
I agree. Most of the experienced fishermen that have fished around the great lakes point to the shallow depth of lake erie - average of 60 feet - max around 200 feet on the eastern-end.
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Throughout chiropractic [3]'s history, the profession has conducted clinical research despite limited funding. Chiropractic does not use implantable medical devices or pharmaceutical drugs, so it has not received research funding from device or pharmaceutical companies, unlike conventional medicine. Most chiropractic colleges have self-funded their research programs with support from chiropractic foundations.
Federal support for chiropractic research began in 1992 with the establishment of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health [4] (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health.
The majority of clinical research in chiropractic has focused on its effectiveness in caring for spine-related injuries and complications from spinal stress. These studies have focused on the most common complaints treated in chiropractic offices: low back pain [1], neck pain and headaches [2], and peripheral nerve problems. The studies usually compare a typical chiropractic regimen with commonly utilized pharmaceuticals, or combinations of therapies. Any lasting effects of treatment are measured over time.
The major studies have found clinical benefit to the participants from chiropractic treatment, some showing superiority of short and long-term effects.
Here are three examples of analyses of pools of research:
It is far easier to study chiropractic as a treatment than as an approach to wellness. When a patient has a specific complaint that can be measured by level of pain or certain limitations, different interventions can be compared in their ability to affect changes. But how does one measure wellness?
This is one of the elusive issues in research. What should the measures be and how does one control for the confounding effects of daily living? The currently accepted standard of sound clinical research is the randomized controlled trial, but in order to study wellness, other approaches will need to be devised and validated. Because of these issues, there is little research on the preventive effects of chiropractic.
To find studies on the use of chiropractic and other alternative approaches, such as acupuncture [5] for specific conditions, go to PubMed [6] and conduct a search, using both the word chiropractic and the name of the condition. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine supports a CAM search engine for PubMed publications [7].
ClinicalTrials.gov [8], the National Institutes of Health website devoted to current clinical trials, lists several chiropractic trials that are currently recruiting patients for major studies.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/back-pain
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/headaches
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term12
[4] https://nccih.nih.gov/
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/acupuncture
[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
[7] http://nccam.nih.gov/camonpubmed
[8] http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
[9] http://www.chiroindex.org/
[10] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chiropractic.html
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/larry-kuusisto-phd-dc
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/baby-ear-infections-high-bandwidth
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/man-neck-pain-headaches-high-bandwidth
[14] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/woman-gets-spine-adjustment-high-bandwidth

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#16762 - 01/24/01 10:01 PM More shaggy dogs
Carpal Tunnel
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This one is from Geoff.
How about shaggy dog stories that include a REALLY bad pun? Here's one to start us off:
Atilla the Hun was among history's meanest men. He is reputed to have killed the first person he saw upon awakening, just out of sheer meanness. Needless to say, his attendants were thinning out rapidly, so they took council how to awaken Atilla in safety.
Upon pillaging a town, they discovered the town drunk in a wine vat unharmed. They thought that he might be a person whom they could use to awaken the boss - at least once. They told him that they would supply him with the finest wine they had in exchange for his awakening Atilla each day.
The next day the drunk staggered into Atilla's tent, shook him, and WHACK! out the drunk flew, slamming against a wagon, as Atilla bellowed his usual morning curses. The drunk staggered to his feet, unscathed by the blow.
The drunk withstood day after day, year after year of this ordeal, and became famous throughout the world as the
Souse of the Rising Hun.
#16763 - 01/25/01 07:40 AM Re: More shaggy dogs
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: Marion NC
The others on this board may come to curse your name. I have a very large collection of shaggy dog stories, and you've just given me "license" to post some of my favorites. Here's an old faithful to start us off. It's a bit PUC, but the story doesn't work without it.
Dust devils swirled around Laughing Cloud as she waddled proudly down the row of tepees, her hands crossed contemplatively above her swelling abdomen. It's time, she thought to herself. My new son will one day be war chief of this tribe. She soon reached the large tepee where Cold Hands Shaking, the famous Cheyenne medicine man, delivered babies on a regular basis.
"It is time," she declared to Cold Hands Shaking, gasping as another contraction gripped her.
The medicine man moved his hands over her belly, poking and prodding gently. He nodded and smiled reassuringly. "I think you will have twins. Good fortune for the tribe. It will mean good hunting for many years. Come, let us make you comfortable. It's going to be a busy day, there are two others who will deliver this day."
Inside the delivery tepee, there were three large screened off areas. Cold Hands Shaking led Laughing Cloud to the largest of the three and bade her to lie down on the large tanned hide which dominated the space.
Racked though she was with pain, Laughing Cloud immediately noticed the strange text ure of the hide on which she was lying. "What manner of animal is this?" she asked.
"Do you remember when the Wild West Show was traveling across the prairies three summers ago? One of their strange animals died, and Buffalo Bill gave me the hide. It is called hippopotamus. I wish I had hides like it for the other areas, but there I have only buffalo and elk hides. Excuse me, I have to check on the others."
Later that morning Snow Comes Again delivered a 6-pound baby boy. At noon Elk Calf also had a 6-pound baby boy. And late in the evening Laughing Cloud had twin 6-pound baby boys. Which proves once again that the sons of the squaws of the other two hides is equal to those of the squaw of the hippopotamus._________________________
#16764 - 01/25/01 08:54 AM Re: More shaggy dogs
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
others on this board may come to curse your name
Ah well, just call me hippopotamus-hide.
Ted, you are the very one I was most hoping would put some
good ones here! Um--do I want to know what PUC means?
#16765 - 01/25/01 11:03 AM Re: More shaggy dogs
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Loc: this too shall pass
speaking of twins...
a young mother gave her twin sons up for adoption when they were babies. one of them went to a Spanish family which named the boy Juan; the other went to an Egyptian family and they named him Amal. when Juan was 18 years old, he searched out his birth mother and sent her a picture of himself. she excitedly said to her husband that she would also like to have a picture of Amal. her husband replied, "But they're twins, if you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal".
#16766 - 01/25/01 11:20 AM Re: More shaggy dogs
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Posts: 13858
I can't remember (if I ever knew) how "shaggy dog" came to be name of this genre. Please, someone, take pity on my ignorance.
#16767 - 01/25/01 12:20 PM Re: More shaggy dogs
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Which proves once again that the sons of the squaws of the other two hides is equal to those of the squaw of the hippopotamus.
This is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you, TEd, for rendering it electronically, so I may inflict it on others..
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: Marion NC
I think I meant PIC. Politically InCorrect, not Politically UnCorrect._________________________
#16769 - 01/25/01 01:00 PM Re: More shaggy dogs
Carpal Tunnel
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according to M-W, a shaggy-dog story is ""a long-drawn-out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous but the hearer as boring and pointless; also: a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the punch line".
just for the sake of the semantic wars, here is a "true" shaggy-dog story (no pun)...
an Irishman comes into a bar and orders three beers. he slowly drinks them one after another, then he orders another three beers and slowly drinks them.
after repeating this for several evenings, somebody finally asks why he orders three beers at a time, as the last one must be quite flat when he gets around to it.
"It's for my two brothers who left for America. We agreed to always drink a couple of beers for each of us as long as we were all alive."
but, the night comes when he orders only two beers, and the entire bar falls silent while he drinks them. when he orders another two beers, the bartender expresses his sympathy for the dead brother.
"What? Dead brother? Oh, you misundertand... No, no, my two brothers are alive and quite well, I assure you. It's just that I've given up beer for Lent."
#16770 - 01/25/01 01:19 PM Re: origin of "shaggy-dog"
Carpal Tunnel
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...as to the origin of the term, here's our friend Michael Quinion's take:
#16771 - 01/25/01 01:26 PM That's what YOU say :)
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 3467
Loc: Marion NC
> according to M-W, a shaggy-dog story is ""a long-drawn-out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous but the hearer as boring and pointless; also: a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the punch line"
Technically quite correct, of course, but incomplete, I feel. Bennett Cerf (my personal hero) published a great many shaggy dog stories (his words) in Bennett Cerf's Bumper Crop, published of course, by Random, his very own publishing company. He included the types of stories that Jackie and I related above as shaggy dog stories. By the way, do you know why it was called Random House? Because they would decide what to publish by plucking manuscripts at random from the slush pile of submitted mss.
Anyway, your story of the Irishman reminds me that few people (other than myself of course) know what happened to the poor fellow. On a trip to the interior regions of South America, he was captured by a tribe of fierce cannibals. They did not, though, immediately immerse him up to his neck in boiling water. Instead, they kept him penned up, and on the night of the full moon they would nick a vein in his arm and drink of his rich Hibernian blood. Patty tired of this after several months, and on the night of the next full moon he roared at them, "Kill me and eat me if you will, but you've gotta stop sticking me for the drinks."_________________________
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The Lion in Winter
There isn't a whole lot to like about Massachusetts. The Patriots are cheaters and cocky loudmouths. The Red Sox and their fans have gone from being objects of pity to objects of disdain in the space of five years with their whiny crybaby antics. Even their success has now been called into the question with the slow leak of the Mitchell Report.
But if there's one thing that Massachusetts does well, it's politics. Deval Patrick's gubernatorial candidacy in some ways presaged Barack Obama. And no less a conservative than Mitt Romney once led the People's Republic of Massachusetts. However, there's one name that stands above all the rest, even if destined to live on now only in myth.
During the night, the last great flame of the Kennedy family flickered out. Tiny cinders like Patrick Kennedy still dot the political landscape but they fade in comparison to what used to be a towering inferno of political ambition. At least Ted got to go more or less on his own terms, without suffering the same fate as his brothers. But his death is no less devastating, especially since Kennedy had long championed the health care reform that is slowly inching its way through the Congress.
Today people from both sides of the aisle, those who watch FOX news and those who rely on MSNBC, will pay their respects to "The Lion of the Senate" before returning to the partisan war of attrition that defines politics today. And despite all the excitement of divisional races and the upcoming publication of A Magical Mystery Tour (Part II) which will take us deep into the frightening recesses of Jeff's brain, we here at RSBS also take a step back today to pay homage to Senator Edward Kennedy.
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Even though we here in Massachusetts knew it was coming, it was still shocking this morning to hear that Teddy had died. Love him or hate him – very few of our lives are untouched by the causes he championed. He will be missed. And that era is gone; there really is no more Camelot.
Well, you know what they say, if can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, so:
"Anything at all."
Ok, freakin mlb editor remove the strikeout from my "Anything at all." in the previous post.
Jeff, and (or) RSBS, I changed my twitter account to @tedbaseball cuz someone hacked mine. Thanks. Allen nice post he is,… well was a lion.
I'm with Jonestein…here's my "Anything At All"… just one question, is there something in this healthcare reform to assist people conected to bridges and drowning
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Skip to comments.Charlie Sheen spends Christmas in jail following wife's accusations of assault
Posted on 12/29/2009 5:40:17 AM PST by nikos1121
Charlie Sheen, the highest-paid television actor in America, spent Christmas Day behind bars after his wife made an emergency, early-morning phone call to the police complaining that she had been assaulted. The star of America's favourite sitcom, Two and a Half Men, was arrested and charged with the second-degree crimes of assault and menacing, which can carry a 12-month prison sentence. The 44-year-old actor was also charged with criminal mischief. Sheen is thought to have become angry after he and his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, also known as Brooke Allen, began drinking on Christmas morning. The row escalated at their rented house in Aspen, Colorado, and, grabbing her around the throat, Sheen is alleged to have violently pushed his wife. An ambulance was also called, but Mueller was not taken to the hospital. According to the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com, police attending the scene gave both Mueller and Sheen blood alcohol tests. Despite telling police Brooke was the aggressor and that he was just trying to defend himself, Sheen was taken to Pitkin County Jail, where he was locked up for eight hours. He was eventually freed on bail, after paying a bond of $8,500 (£5,325) and being advised by a county judge on the conditions of his release. A court date has been set for 8 February 2010. Well-known Colorado attorney Richard Cummins, who is representing Sheen, cautioned against any rush to judgment.
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What's this the third or forth time for this POS? Why is it that I'm not surprised? This pot smoking, cocaine head represents everything I hate about hollywood. He's a two bit actor who is the mouth piece for talented writers. A nobody otherwise. The fact that his wife couldn't see through this facade of his, is probably not surprising either. And let's not forget the idiot's political commentary.
Of course, this guy thinks this is good publicity...like sleeping with a porno actress and being jailed for drug and disorderly charges.
Let's see, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, who am forgetting?
Oh you mean Carlos Estevez
As obama would say "don't jump to any conclusions"
And just think they took the last name Sheen because they admired Archbishop Fulton J Sheen. Not so godly like wouldn't you say
Jeez, Hollywood, grow the hell up and respect the talent that God gave you.....99% of you make more money in a week than most hard-working people in this nation make in a lifetime. How much intelligence and personal integrity does it take to just behave? And you q-tip brains want to know why we stopped watching television and are all tuning in to Wii............because you guys will never appreciate what God gave you, but you did nothing to earn.
Both of them should have been arrested and charged, In all cases where there is nothing more than he said/she said, Take ALL PARTIES TO JAIL. They both participated, only a JURY can decide truth.
I dislike Charlie Sheen and his antics as much as the next person here, but what kind of person informs their spouse on Christmas Day that they want a divorce as it's reported his wife did?
I got my walking papers on my birthday.
I saw an article that said he held a knife to his wife's throat. Anyone who would do that to their spouse under any circumstances has serious problems. This guy is like OJ—a ticking time bomb.
You see my point then. It seems his wife is no winner either.
I agree, rbg81. Passive aggressive behavior doesn't warrant physical violence as retribution.
Hmmmm, I'm sure you didn't mean that to insult me.....seeing as how you don't even know me.............
Excuse me. I think if she did indeed say that, then I can easily assume that the disharmony, caused most likely by him, had reached serious proportions. Temper it with drinking in the AM. WE have an alcoholic marrying an alcoholic.
Excuse me. I think if she did indeed say that, then I can easily assume that the disharmony, caused most likely by him, had reached serious proportions. Temper it with drinking in the AM. WE have an alcoholic marrying an alcoholic.
Sorry for the double post. They're both badnews.... I agree with you.
I was referring to your ex-spouse, of course. :~) Anyone knows FReepers are the best! (perusing your homepage, I assumed you're female?)
Thanks.........(I have a home-page?.....I need to go see what I put on it last).
Please refer to my post at # 11. I said no such thing.
Agreed. I am baffled why women keep going after these men and marrying them. You would think they would run in the opposite direction from these men. All the Kennedy men, OJ Simpson, the list goes on and on......
You refer to chocolate and PMS. LOL
Oh ok, I guess I do have a home-page (lol!)........I don't ever suffer from PMS, but I do come in to work cranky after paying bills the night before, like today, if you read my most recent posts........the antedote is usually a chai latte and a bowl of raw almonds.
Alot of women suffer from the narcisistic belief that these guys were unhappy with their previous love interests, but they can change that, they will be different. Women can have egos out the wazzoo too.........
The phenomenon of celebrity many times attracts those only interested in money or living in someone else's limelight. The potential pitfalls are either ignored or not important enough to consider.
Many women are also attracted to the "bad boy" without realizing how "Bad" they can actually become.
"I dislike Charlie Sheen and his antics as much as the next person here, but what kind of person informs their spouse on Christmas Day that they want a divorce as its reported his wife did?"
-Still, you DON'T grab a knife and hold it to their throat unless you have SERIOUS problems in your head.
"Yer gunna STAY with me and LOVE me, or I'm gonna KILL you!"... I know this happens a lot but it's WAAAAAAY wrong.
He's frickin' Charlie Sheen - big time... well, you know.. movie star. He should have told her to not let the door hit her patootie on the way out.
You might have read my subsequent posts and discovered that we are on the same page on this subject. :~)
Ok..so the consensus if if you have a rotten spouse...you leave them. A knife should not replace your your lack of emotional security. If you hate them that much....Just leave.
I've heard it said that women marry certain men, thinking they will change.
And men marry certain women, thinking they will never change.
(I am not going to take your chocolate away, whether you have PMS or not, lol)
Not to be a traitor to my gender, but women do alot of things that don't make sense. Some men patiently understand that.
Honestly, I'm not a chocoholic........cheesecake, however, is another story.
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Crofutt tendered her resignation after months of contemplation, citing Dunn's declining health in his battle with multiple sclerosis as her motive.
"It's still going to be a tough departure," Crofutt said.
Her tenure with the ranch began in 1992 when Dunn brought her on board to market the ranch and develop new revenue streams. She remembers his words.
"Do you want to be part of something that is larger than life?" he asked.
Sally describes her 20-year working relationship with Dunn in one statement.
"I hitched my wagon to his star and together we made Texas Land Stewardship history," she said.
Brien's ideas were to achieve a for-profit renewable resource plan to keep land owners on their land. Sally's job was to make it happen, which is exactly what she did.
One of the many revenue streams she built was the bird-watching venue. Not only did she write the Fennessey's annual newsletter which brought in a large share of birders; she also began partnerships with the Port Aransas and Rockport Chambers of Commerce, taking part in various birding festivals by hosting birding tours on the ranch.
Over the years, Sally has also collaborated with the Corpus Christi Visitors Bureau and Convention Center, Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, Texas Parks & Wildlife and countless tourism, county and state offices in her quest to create revenue streams for the ranch.
Another effective collaboration came in 2002 when she brought the Fennessey on board with the University of Houston to establish the University of Houston Fennessey Conservation Center.
This partnership was meant to provide a research center for UH faculty and students involved in Texas coastal conservation research.
In 2006, Sally played an integral part with Brien in obtaining a conservation easement on the Fennessey purchased by the University of Texas at Austin and the Mission-Aransas Reserve which restricts development from occurring and ensures that the valuable habitats of Fennessey Ranch will continue to support wildlife well into the future.
Joining forces with these two universities brought boundless educational opportunities for the Fennessey such as Monarch Madness. Monarch Day was one of Sally's many "pet projects" where the Fennessey joined forces with the University of Houston and the National Aransas Wildlife Refuge in a program called Migration Stewardship Beyond Borders.
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The outdoor classroom also injects many other aspects of Coastal Bend wildlife preservation and conservation efforts.
Her latest collaboration was joining forces with Todd Steele PhotoArt. The Photo Club allows novice and professional photographers to purchase memberships to photograph the wildlife and beautiful vistas the Fennessey Ranch has to offer.
Sally is the middle daughter to Nebraskan wheat farmers and cattle ranchers Paul and June Crofutt. Her environmental ethic and love for the land come to her quite naturally.
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The Fennessey Ranch will live on just as it is now, with its undisturbed wildlife, lush grasses, prairies, wetlands and marshes; just as it was meant to be.
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The Sumatran tiger is natively found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra where the Sumatran tiger can be found inhabiting a variety of habitats from low and highland areas, to mountainous jungle and peat swamp forests.
The Sumatran tiger is the smallest species of tiger meaning that the Sumatran tiger is able to move through dense jungle with greater ease than it's larger cousins.
The Sumatran tiger is quite different in appearance to other tiger species as the stripes of the Sumatran tiger are narrower than those of other tiger species and they also have larger manes. Sumatran tigers have slightly webbed paws which allows them to swim more efficiently after their prey.
The Sumatran tiger is a dominant and carnivorous predator, hunting it's prey by stalking it until the Sumatran tiger has the opportunity to catch it off guard. Sumatran tigers primarily hunt larger mammals including deer, wild boar, cattle and goats.
Due to the size and power of the Sumatran tiger, it has no natural predators in its native environment. Humans that hunt the Sumatran tiger and habitat loss are the only threats to the Sumatran tiger.
After a gestation period of 3 to 4 months, the female Sumatran tiger gives birth to up to 5 cubs. Newborn Sumatran tiger cubs weigh about 1 kg (2 lb) and are blind and helpless. The mother feeds them milk for about 2 months and then the Sumatran tiger cubs are introduced to meat. Sumatran tiger cubs depend on their mother for the first 18 months and then they start hunting on their own.
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This is the second of a three-part series on the "JAX Pack," Sun's Java APIs for XML. In the first article, I introduced the Java API for XML Processessing (JAXP) and the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB). These two mechanisms provide the underlying framework to access XML data and encapsulate that XML data within Java objects. Let's move on and examine the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) and see how it provides underlying support for accessing various messaging formats.
JAXM (JSR67) is currently at version 0.93 (public review) with early access reference implementation version 2. JAXM is expected to be an optional part of J2SE and a standard part of J2EE.
JAXP and JAXB help us access XML data, but how does XML actually get between two cooperating applications? JAXM provides a specialized API for just this purpose. Effectively, JAXM is a specification for a Service Provicer Interface (SPI) to access standard XML messaging protocols, such as SOAP. JAXM allows for the transfer of complete business-level documents between two separate Web services. What JAXM does not do is attempt to define messaging standards of the so-called vertical markets; instead, it allows direct access to the various fields without regard to payload type. JAXM looks to provide an infrastructure for supporting whatever standard emerges, whether it be SOAP, ebXML or something else.
As I discussed in my article on Java and Web services, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) actually describes the underlying format of messages transfered between applications. It's a reasonable enough task to write a SOAP- based servlet that uses JAXP to access the various parts of a message and work with it. This begs the question, why do we need JAXM at all? The problem with what I've proposed is the level of complexity and understanding that a developer requires to actually process and manipulate a SOAP message.
As much as I hate to admit it, I programmed long ago using raw Unix socket calls. At first it was really cool, but as we developed FTP and SMTP clients, the coding became tedious and error-prone. We went through a similar growth period as people developed the first Web sites. We are now seeing those same issues with Web services. JAXM is designed to be a lightweight API that abstracts away the underlying messaging infrastructure. In theory, we should be able to develop JAXMServlets, extending HttpServlets, which allow us to access SOAP (or whatever protocol follows SOAP) messages quickly and easily. Figure 1 below shows just such a conceptual picture.
Before we move on, a word of caution. JAXM is in reality a fairly low-level or SPI-level interface. Effectively, JAXM is an optional J2EE package supporting the sending and receiving of XML messages using a pure Java API. JAXM allows developers to focus on the processing aspects of their applications rather than on issues associated with composing and decomposing XML messages using SOAP, ebXML, or something else.
JAXM version 1.0 is targeted at providing support for:
JAXM applications fall into two major catagories: synchronous and asynchronous, each taking advantage of various capabilities, as shown above. JAXM, in fact, supports five major catagories of client-client interactions.
A fair amount of SOAP knowledge is implied in processing a SOAP message. Developers with absolutely no SOAP knowledge are advised to poke around in the SOAP areas of W3C. For those who simply need a SOAP refresher, Figure 2 shows the JAXM SOAP packaging conceptual model.
JAXM is, for the most part, concentrated on accessing the various parts of a SOAP 1.1 packet today, although provisions exist for other messaging styles. JAXM base applications come in one of two flavors: message consumers or message producers. Rather than go into any more detail, lets look at a JAXM message consumer example.
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Java and XML, 2nd Ed.
The first, and perhaps simplest, method for taking advantage of JAXM functionality
is by developing a servlet that extends the JAXMServlet
interface and consumes XML messages packaged via SOAP 1.1. JAXMServlets
look surprisingly like message-driven Enterprise Java Beans, in that they have a single
msg) method that needs to be implemented. The reality, however, is that they
are traditional servlets and that the
method gets called whenever a servlet
POST or
GET action occurs. When
is called we can then decompose the underlying SOAP message, as required by the
application. Let's look at a complete example, adapted from public draft 1, that
takes a SOAP trade message and dumps it to
Listing 1:
00 /*
01 * adapted from a sun example
02 */
03 import javax.xml.messaging.*;
04 import javax.xml.soap.*;
05 import javax.xml.parsers.*;
06 import javax.xml.transform.*;
07 import javax.activation.DataHandler;
08 import java.io.*;
09 import org.w3c.dom.*;
10 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
11 public class SOAPListener extends JAXMServlet implements AsyncListener {
12 // implement the required onMessage method
13 public void onMessage(Message message) {
14 try {
15 //Get the soap part of the message (ignore attachments)
16 SOAPPart soapPart = message.getSOAPPart( );
18 // tunnel in and get the envelope
20 SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapPart.getSOAPEnvelope( );
22 // from the envelope get the DOM tree representing the content.
23 DOMSource domSrc = (DOMSource) soapEnvelope.getContentAs(DOMSource.FEATURE );
25 //Now use the dom tree to traverse the info.
26 //get some of the fields from it.
27 Document doc = (Document) domSrc.getNode();
28 Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
29 NodeList list = root.getElementsByTagName("GetLastTradePriceDetailed" );
30 Element element;
31 Element childElement;
32 for(int i = ; i < list.getLength(); i++){
33 if (!(list.item(i) instanceof Element )) continue;
34 element = (Element list.item(i) );
35 NodeList list2 = element.getChildNodes();
36 for(int j = ; j < list2.getLength( ; j++ {
37 if(!(list2.item(j instanceof Element) continue;
38 childElement = (Element list2.item(j ;
39 System.out.println(childElement.getTagName() ;
40 System.out.println("\t" ;
41 System.out.println( ((Text) childElement.getFirstChild()).getData()) ;
42 System.out.println("\n" );
43 }
44 }
45 } // end try
46 catch(Exception jxe ) {
47 jxe.printStackTrace();
48 }
49 } // end onMessage
50 } // end SOAPListener
Breaking the example down, we see that lines 3-10 simply import the required
packages to support JAXM (see the JAXM specification for details). On line
11 we've defined an
listener. Note that
are expected to return a
object. Servlets must implement either the
SyncListener, depending on
what behavior you want. Line 13 shows the first real line of code, the definition
of the
onMessage() method with
its single message argument, defined in the
package. It's interesting to note that the specification provides classes and methods
that closely parallel the SOAP 1.1 specification. Specifically, messages contain
a SOAP part, which contains a SOAP Envelope, containing a SOAP Header and Body,
Lines 16 and 20, respectively, show how we obtain the object representing the
SOAP envelope, as shown in figure 3. The various SOAP message class information
is detailed in the
package. Note that we could have just as easily obtained the attachment part
of the message by writing:
AttachmentPart attachmentPart = message.getAttachmentPart( );
A word of caution: the EA2 version of the JAXM contains documentation for the JAXM packages that is unfortunately sketchy. I have tried to be as accurate as possible, but some of the information on JAXM was obtained by decompiling and examining source!
Once we have the
we can obtain the data representing the encapsulated XML using the
GetContentAs returns any of a number of
javax.xml.transform.Source types, of which we chose
but could have chosen
STREAMSource.FEATURE, depending
on how we wanted to process the result.
Since we choose to process the content as a DOM Tree, we use the
object to get the DOM
representing the XML content; then we can then use the various DOM APIs to process
the data.
The steps we went through to develop our JAXM Servlet were:
onMessage method
(other parts may be available in the future).
return an appropriate
Before we close our discussion of JAXM, let's spend a few moments looking at message producers as well.
Building a message consumer is a much more straightforward process than building a message producer. However, the concepts as a whole are simple. Sending a SOAP 1.1 message with JAXM is a three-step process:
There are a number of ways to achieve these three steps using either direct connections or a messaging provider. Let's look more closely at how to develop message producers.
The first step in developing a messaging producer is to create a connection. When developing applications to produce SOAP 1.1 messages, we would normally build a message and send it over some connection. JAXM, however, defines the concept of a messaging provider. Those readers familar with JMS will be quite at home with messaging providers. A messaging provider is a sort of intermediary that collects, caches, and ultimately sends messages on behalf of an application. We can create one connection in one of two ways; using a messaging provider or not.
Creating a direct connection, without a messaging producer, is done using a
SOAPConnection object that has
a static
newInstance() method
for creating connection instances. SOAP Connections are created as shown below:
java.xml.soap.SOAPConnection connection = SOAPConnection.newInstance();
Creating a connection using a messaging provider is a somewhat more difficult process. Like JMS connections, using a messaging provider requires you request the connection from the messaging provider:
private static final String providerURI = "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxm/provider";
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
ProviderConnectionFactory cf = (ProviderConnectionFactory)ctx.lookup( providerURI);
SOAPConnection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection();
The code above assumes that the connection factory was registered in JNDI (again,
much like JMS) and fully implements the
Once we have a connection, we need a message to send. Again, much like JMS, we use a factory object to create the message.
Using a direct connection, we can use a simple
object to generate an instance of a
as shown below:
MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage mg = mf.createMessage();
If we were using a messaging provider we would need to obtain a MessageFactory from the connection, as the messages might use common profiles and are bound to the provider behind the scenes. A code snippet for obtaining messages from a messaging provider-based connection is shown below.
MessageFactory mf = connection.createMessageFactory(); // Create messgages from the message factory.
SOAPMessage message = mf.createMessage( );
Once we have a message, we populate it the same way for both connection types. For example:
//Get the SOAP part of the message. We could have gotten the attachment part as well.
SOAPPart sp = message.getSOAPPart( );
// Get the soap envelope
SOAPEnvelope se = sp.getSOAPEnvelope( );
// populate the soap envelope using a DOMSource object
DOMSource domsrc = null;
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance( );
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder( ;
Document doc = db.parse("file:///somefiles.xml" );
domsrc = new DOMSource(doc);
} catch(Exception e ) {
System.err.println("Error in creating DOMSource" +
e.getMessage( );
// add the DOMSource object to the soap envelop
Obviously, you will need to adhere to the SOAP rules, perhaps adding SOAP Header elements with appropriate content. See the SOAP specification for complete details on how to comply with the SOAP specification.
We then send a message and close the connection as shown below:
private static final String endpointURL ="http://somewebservice:7001";
URLEndPoiunt ep = new URLEndPoint(endpointURL);
SOAPMessage reply = connection.send (message,ep);
Alternatively, if we were sending many messages to the same end point, we might set the default message end point as follows:
private static final String endpointURL ="http://somewebservice:7001";
message.setTo(new URLEndPoint(endpointURL);
We could then update the message content as required, keep sending the same message, and later close the connection as required.
A complete message provider example is shown below. Note that this example is for illustration purposes and may not conform to the SOAP specification.
Listing 2:
import javax.xml.messaging.*;
import javax.xml.soap.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
public class SOAPServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final String providerURI =
private ProviderConnectionFactory connectionFactory;
public void init(ServletConfig servletConfig) throws ServletException {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
connectionFactory = (ProviderConnectionFactory)ctx.lookup( providerURI);
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response )
throws ServletException, IOException
try {
// A request comes in to send a message. So we create a connection from the factory.
// factories are used when we have an intermediate which caches and send messages on our behalf
// much like JMS.
SOAPConnection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection();
// Create a message factory from the Connection to produce messages.
MessageFactory mf = connection.createMessageFactory();
// Create messgages from the message factory.
Message message = mf.createMessage( );
// Get the SOAPPart from the message.
// Note the infrastructure takes care of creating the SOAPPart.
// The user needs to get the SOAPPart and get the SOAPEnvelope and populate it appropriately.
SOAPPart soapPart = message.getSOAPPart( );
// Get the SOAPEnvelope from the header container obtained above.
SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapPart.getSOAPEnvelope( );
// Create a SOAPHeader from the SOAPEnvelope
SOAPHeader soapHeader = soapEnvelope.createSOAPHeader() ;
// Create a SOAPHeaderElement that will be appended to the SOAPHeader.
SOAPHeaderElement she = soapHeader.createSOAPHeaderElement( );
she.setName("from", "http://foo.bar/", "m" );
she.addContent("email@example.com" ;
// Add a DOMSource object as the actual message content
DOMSource domsrc = null;
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance( );
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder( ;
Document doc = db.parse("file:///foo.bar/soap.xml" );
domsrc = new DOMSource(doc);
} catch(Exception e ) {
System.err.println("Error in creating DOMSource" +
e.getMessage( );
soapEnvelope.setSOAPBody(soapBody );
URLEndpoint ep = new URLEndpoint("http://foo.bar/Service" );
connection.send(message, endPoint );
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK );
} catch(Exception jxe {
} // end doGet
The JAX Pack APIs add an exciting element to Web services development in a J2EE environment. In this article, we saw how to process XML messages using JAXM -- an admittedly low-level API, but all in all, a very powerful set of tools for writing robust Web services. In part three of this series we will look at the remaining JAXPack APIs -- JAXR and JAX-RPC.
Al Saganich is BEA Systems' senior developer and engineer for enterprise Java technologies, focused on Java integration and application with XML and Web services.
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PHOTOS: John Suazo Rocks Out With His Jock Out
Walking six-pack John Suazo strips down and slips into American Jock's Summer 2012 collection in this gallery, which comes courtesy of The Underwear Expert. Whether you need the skinny on some new briefs or just another excuse to drag your ass to the gym, flip through our slideshow and get a heaping, healthy helping of hunk to go with your breakfast.
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Damn,he is sexy.
Yet another hairless wonder with ENTIRELY to much muscle. At least QT has a type!
Very hot ex-marine. Last name is Suazo, not Sauzo.
For me its the five o clock shadow that dos it for me, i'd love to feel that stubble as he kissed me
Well, another one keeping razor blade and waxing companies in business
Not a single pic of a guy in a jock. Must be the str8t girl posting again.
"makes my teeth sweat" Love that! LoL
So much Jealous Bullying from Queens on here….yawn….
@D – I also love the "makes my teeth sweat" comment!
@Brickman – Amen!
ROFL, "makes my teeth sweat" I love it!
@Daez: So do I. Men. Short, Tall, Smooth, Hairy, Muscle, Slim, Chunky (ok, not too) Young, Older. Love them all. Don't limit yourself.
I too, love the sweaty teeth. LOL
Damn…. Just finished tidying up & changing my underwear after viewing the pics of he NASA hottie…. And now I've gotta do it again… If this happens one more time, then I can claim the title of Threepeter…
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He is quite handsome, but if one is seeking to sell underwear and especially jocks, one should look for men who are a little (or a lot) more endowed than the average man. Even though we know rationally that we are not as well endowed, it doesn't stop us from wanting this underwear or jock worn by a man large enough to ignite our fantasies; at least in my opinion.
He's very hot! But of course, if you want to have a boyfriend like that, you must be equally hot. So for most people (including me), only in their dreams!
@MJ (different from the other one): Joderlo no….follarlo
eh…he could do a few more ab exercises. :)
HOT. Pic 10 you get a real shot of the goods, the white underwear seems stuffed
@Jeff York: As they say, variety is the spice of life, and I too like my sex extra spicy.
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I would. Repeatedly. Over a barrel.
I love men too. This man is particularly beautiful. I love white men. But is all of the gay world made of gay white men? An old and tired issue, yes, yet one would still have to wonder why it's still an issue at all.. Why is there such a disproportionate love of white gay men, and the only mention of gay men of color is usually about how well endowed we are? Myth by the way.


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The body of 71-year-old Angelo Zotto of Seldon, NY was recovered on May 30, in the Middle Delaware River near Dingman's Ferry, PA. The body had drifted some 25 miles downstream from where Zotto fell off a raft in the Upper Delaware River in the rapids at Butlers Rift near the Hawk's Nest two days earlier. He was discovered by boaters near the Dingman's Ferry bridge in the Delaware Water Gap.
Authorities said Zotto was riding in an inflatable raft with his wife and a friend when he was thrown from the raft when it hit a patch or rapids. Zotto had a life preserver on the raft with him, but he was not wearing it.
The victim's wife, who was wearing a life preserver, jumped into the water to try to save him but was unable to do so.
Zotto's wife and the friend were rescued by passing boaters.
Teams from Port Jervis, Sparrowbush, Westfall, PA and Milford, PA and from the National Park Service searched the river near the accident site for two days. The search was made more difficult by the depth of the river, which was 5.4 feet deep at the location of the incident, about two feet deeper than normal during this time of year.
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Age-group water polo players were tested using the SwiMetrics, the world's most sophisticated swimming analytical tool for swimmers, water polo players and triathletes.
SwiMetrics measures and records the velocity (speed in meters per second) and force (in kilograms) at specific points in the swimming stroke. The test results are synchronized with DartFish software to superimpose velocity and force curves (60 times per second) with an underwater video of the athlete.
The vertical green line in the middle of the graph indicates the athlete's position on the video (shown below). The real-time velocity data at every point in the swimming cycle is represented by a "Velocity Curve" (the continuous white line shown below the player in the video).
The players were tested in a series of 20-yard race-pace swims including pulling with a pull buoy and sprint freestyle (both head-up and regular swimming).
In the video shown below, the player is swimming at 1.2636 meters per second at that point in her stroke.
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The latest round of federal budget cuts have hit Hawaii's military causing the cancellation of BayFest 2013. The festival was scheduled for the first week in August but its future remains up in the air.
Kailua town is full of people passionate about the annual bash held just down the road in Kaneohe. Twenty-five thousand people show up every year.
On Tuesday, our news crew stopped by the Kalapawai Market in Kailua to hear what locals thought about not having BayFest around.
Paula Morath was behind the counter making sandwiches, and had already planned on going to BayFest this year. She hoped we were there to give away free tickets. Instead, we broke the news to her.
"I was kind of shocked but understanding the furloughs we're going through, things are tight right now. I can understand where they have to make certain cuts," said Morath.
Others feel the same way. We ran into Shirley Ratajczyk at Muddy Waters Cafe just down the road. She says her family has been attending the event for over eight years.
"That's a shame, but as soon as they said it was cancelled, we knew exactly why," said Ratajczyk.
On Tuesday, a Marine Corps Community Service representative explained the decision. The latest federal budget cuts may force furloughs of up to 1,500 civilian workers at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The two-and-a-half-day event takes 1,000 workers to run and more six months to plan.
"The manpower behind it is the most difficult piece of BayFest and really why we have to cancel it," said Bobbie Brock, MCCS Special Events Coordinator.
"You can't just move funds around, each dollar is specifically put in a certain pot of money and its difficult to move those around to pay for such a large event," said Pamela Marshall, Base Public Affairs Officer.
We're told that financially the festival rarely does anything but break even. A headlining act can cost anywhere from $20,000 to 30,000. This would have been the 22nd festival in Hawaii.
"It is sad but like I said we have to be fiscally responsible," said Brock.
"It's unfortunate because of the community aspect, we really like to have the community come out to the base, and host them and show them what we do," said Marshall.
"It's just a festive couple of days that they have over there and we've always enjoyed it, always," said Ratajcyk.
MCCS isn't ruling out a return in the future, but isn't guaranteeing one, either.
Also worth noting -- BayFest did not happen last year. Instead, it was replaced by the popular Kaneohe Air Show that recorded an attendance of around 100,000 people.
MCCS says it will host either one event or the other per year but not both. Next year's focus will be bringing BayFest back.


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Tracy A. Thomas is the Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law. She teaches Remedies, Women's Legal History, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Family Law. From 2007 to 2009, she served as Director of Faculty Research.
Professor Thomas received her B.A. degree, cum laude, from Miami University, M.P.A. degree from California State University and J.D. degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and production editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal.
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You may have asked yourself: "I've learned the basics. What do I do next?" Congratulations! You've made it around the circle of success. You are on your way to becoming a first-rate genealogist. So, what's next in your journey through genealogy? To keep on going! In this episode, Jesse will review with you the steps covered in the circle of success. You will learn what to do next with your family history.
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You may have asked yourself: "I've been doing a lot of research by myself, but I still haven't been able to locate the records I am looking for. Is there anyone searching the same records that might have more information?" "Is there anyone else searching my same family tree who might be able to get me more information or with whom I can share information I have found?" Even with patient and diligent searching, records can often be difficult to find when working alone. In this episode, Jesse and Tom will show you how online resources and genealogical societies can help you connect with people who may be researching your same ancestor. You will learn how to locate and use different resources, and how to work with other people in various parts of the world.
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Shumlin mum on gun control
MONTPELIER Vermonts usually opinionated governor has gone uncharacteristically silent on at least one hot-button controversy: a federal ban on assault weapons.
A school shooting last month that claimed the lives of 20 kindergarten students in Newtown, Conn., has sparked a national conversation about the adequacy of the nations gun laws. Asked repeatedly since the incident whether he thinks Congress should impose a ban on assault rifles, or the high-capacity magazines that maximize their firepower, Shumlin has deflected.
What I think doesnt matter, Shumlin said of his non-stance during a news conference Thursday.
On the issue of state-based gun laws, Shumlin has been far clearer, saying he opposes any attempts in Montpelier to restrict Vermonters access to guns. While Shumlin on Thursday said he welcomes the debate, he thinks state-specific laws designed to avert tragedies like the one in Newtown are misguided.
Because you can go buy it in New Hampshire or another state or on the Internet, Shumlin said. My point is we need a 50-state solution. Were not an island.
Shumlin said that in areas like renewable energy, health care and gay rights, it has made sense for Vermont to assume a leadership position nationally.
What I feel very strongly is its up to me to lead when the federal government isnt, Shumlin said. The federal government is not leading on single-payer health care they wont even say the word. They are not leading on renewables most of them (in the Republican-controlled U.S. House) dont believe in climate change.
On the issue of gun control, however, Shumlin said Thursday that President Barack Obama has demonstrated a commitment to act.
The last I saw the President of the United States held a press conference and asked Vice President (Joe) Biden to lead a group to come up with a national policy to deal with the crisis we have before us, Shumlin said. So I have confidence in them to do their job.
Asked whether he believes the federal solution should include some restrictions on guns, Shumlin said, Lets see what they come up with.
Eric Davis, professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College, said Shumlins reluctance to enter the gun-control fray might stem from a desire not to distract from his core legislative agenda.
He said it also doesnt fit well into his broader political strategy.
He wants to govern as a fiscal conservative and continue to appeal to voters on the left on issues like marijuana decriminalization, death with dignity, health care reform, Davis said. And I think he just sees the gun issue as not fitting in with his overall political strategy.
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In its Oct. 5 endorsement announcement, the NRA cited Shumlins past opposition to storage requirements of firearms and punitive taxes on lead ammunition. The organization also lauded him for supporting the creation and development of publicly accessible shooting ranges.
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- Flexible Lease Agreements Offer Alternatives
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- Determine base yield, prices
- Modification for input costs
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- Flexible cash rental lease is potentially fairer to both the landlord and the farm operator
- Best way to establish base rental rate is to have a rental rate per acre that is agreeable to both landlord and farm operator
- Flexible lease agreements, as well as all land rental contracts, should be finalized with a written agreement
The rapid rise in corn and soybean commodity prices in the past few months – and the resulting projected increase in gross crop income per acre – has caused many landlords to consider significant increases in cash rental rates on rented farmland for 2011. This comes after substantial increases in many rental rates from 2008-2010. Many crop producers are concerned that the favorable crop prices may not last long term, and that the gross income per acre in future years may not be high enough to justify the higher cash rental rates that are being proposed for the 2011, or potential future rental rate increases. In addition, crop input costs for seed, fertilizer, chemicals, fuel and crop drying are likely to be higher in 2011, as compared to the 2010 crop year. An alternative to the proposed high cash rental rates for 2011, or potentially even higher rental rates in the future, may be for producers and landlords to consider a flexible cash leaseagreement, which allows the final cash rental rate to vary as crop yields and market prices vary, or as gross revenue per acre exceeds established targets.
The use of a flexible cash rental lease is potentially fairer to both the landlord and the farm operator, depending on the situation and how the flexible lease is set up. A true flexible cash lease allows for the landlord to receive additional land rental payments for a crop year above a base land rental rate, if the actual crop yields and market prices – or the gross revenue per acre – exceed established base figures. A true flexible cash lease would also allow for the base rent to be adjusted downward, if the actual crop yields and prices – or revenue per acre – fall below the established base figures. However, many flexible leases have been modified, and only flex upward with added rental payment to the landlords if the base crop yield and prices are exceeded. The modified cash lease approach is probably acceptable if the base cash rental rates are within a reasonable range.
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Good riddance!
GM's bankruptcy marks the end of an era of second-best arrogance
By Jennifer Hadley 06/11/2009
When I logged onto Facebook last week, I saw my friend Chris had sent me a status update: "Can't believe that GM has been dropped from the Dow. As a kid growing up and memorizing the Dow components, this is truly the end of an era."
The first thing I thought was, "God, Chris, get a life." That thought was then followed immediately by "Good riddance!"
It was just last December when I opined how insanely arrogant I found it that GM was adamantly refusing to consider filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ("The Other Big Three," Dec. 4). And for six painful months I watched as one of America's iconic companies (listed on the Dow Jones since 1925) literally groveled at the feet of our government, pleading for more and more money.
Acting out of desperation, it truly seemed as if GM was saying "Just another $ 15 billion and we'll turn this around. Come on, we're GM, cough up another $10 billion, you know we're good for it" — all the while GM gave absolutely no indication that they had any viable plan for just how they'd use our loot to turn their disastrous situation around.
So it is with more than just a touch of smugness that I look at their June 1 Chapter 11 filing and think "Told you so." While I don't generally find self-righteousness a particularly attractive personality trait, in this case I'm cutting myself some slack. See, I don't know the slightest thing about corporate America. And I certainly don't know what it takes to run a global company. But even I could plainly see the writing on the wall here.
If a dingbat like me can see that bankruptcy for GM was only a matter of time, well for heaven's sake; shouldn't our government (or anyone with a little more "pull" than I have — Will Smith maybe) have been able to see it too? Perhaps they did, but figured prolonging the inevitable as we adapted to our new administration would be better for American morale. (Ironically though, with news of GM's Chapter 11 filing, stocks surged 2 percent, marking new year-to-date highs for the Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S & P. So take from that what you will.)
Nonetheless, I grieve for those who are getting the short end of the stick in this filing. That includes the more than 650,000 people who will see their health insurance coverage reduced, the investors who will watch their $27 billion evanesce, and the tens — if not hundreds — of thousands of Americans who will soon find themselves unemployed. Finally, I grieve for US taxpayers, who have already dumped more than $19 billion into the company, only to find that we have to pony up another $30 billion to foot the bill for the bankruptcy reorganization.
The truth is we all lose and, in a sense, it is the end of an era. But romanticizing GM's past, particularly the past several years, when we've watched it fall further and further behind Asian automakers in terms of affordability and technology isn't healthy either. We need to acknowledge that GM flat-out failed. They failed just as WorldCom, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual failed before them. And there's no doubt that more failures are sure to come.
Personally, far from lamenting the loss of an era in the American auto industry, I welcome in the new epoch. And I sincerely hope that those who will lead the auto industry into this new era will bear in mind that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
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