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Soldier Raises Flag To Honor Grandfather
Passing on a legacy by raising a flag is a yearly tradition for Lt. Col. Chris Moretti.
"I make it a point now to teach it to my family, teach it to the young generation and then pass it on," Moretti said.
It was 68 years ago that Moretti's grandfather, Pfc. Joseph A'Hearn, died during World War II from injures suffered at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Now, every February 27, Moretti raises the flag that came home with his grandfather's body.
On Wednesday, that flag was raised during a ceremony on Fort Drum.
It's something the proud soldier has done at military bases and posts throughout the world, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The environment that you're in and the message that it's sending, it goes for all generations that have served," Moretti said.
That's why this personal ceremony is actually a tribute for all soldiers.
"To recognize that, we'll never forget the ultimate sacrifice that they paid for our freedom," he said.
It's a powerful message.
"To be able to do this for his granddad, and as well as the other fallen comrades, it was an honor," Erric Gordon said.
Moretti says he hopes to keep the tradition in the family.
"I'd love to pass it on to my son who, though he's still in high school, going through the ROTC program, my wishes would be to pass it on to him."
That way, Pfc. A'Hearn's flag will continue to fly once every year, honoring family and so much more.
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I can't pass up getting a lecture on accuracy from a former Board of Health member who wrongly tried to take credit during his County Board election campaign for getting McCullom Lake's wells tested to calm brain cancer fears.
I read with interest a letter to the editor in today's paper from former Board of Health President Ed Varga. He calls out the Northwest Herald for some recent mistakes, some small, one quite large in the form of a source who outright lied to us. As well he should be critical – a newspaper's job is to get it right, and the community it serves deserves better.
Hopefully, Varga's interest in accuracy means he'll formally retract the claim he made during his unsuccessful County Board race in 2012 – a claim he still has on his website – that it was his guest column in our newspaper that got McCullom Lake's air and groundwater tested for carcinogens blamed in 33 lawsuits to date for starting a brain cancer cluster.
[UPDATE: As of March 5, Varga has taken the incorrect claim down from his website. He's not very happy with me, but the claim is retracted.]
I never called Varga out on it because he lost in the 2012 primary. But as long as we're writing letters about the need for accuracy, now is as good a time as any.
As longtime readers may know, I've been writing an award-winning series of stories since 2007 chronicling cancer cluster accusations against chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, the Department of Health's boondoggle of a "study" that called an all-clear, and the board of health's shameful response.
Fast forward to 2012, when Varga is running in the Republican primary for McHenry County Board District 4. Among his claims on his campaign website:
"On February 23, 2010, in a guest column which appeared in the Northwest Herald, Ed suggested the County Board pursue environmental testing in McCullom Lake to assure that residents were not currently exposed to suspected cancer causing substances brought to light by pending litigation. After that column appeared, the County Board Chairman secured funding to test both air and groundwater in that community."
This version of events reads as if former Chairman Ken Koehler picked up the paper, read Varga's column (you can find it here), exclaimed, "By Jove, he's right!" and then worked to get the people of McCullom Lake some long overdue peace of mind.
This version of events is also 100 percent, grade-A homogenized wrong.
In a sentence, McCullom Lake's wells and air got tested because Village President Terry Counley had enough of county government screw-ups on the issue, and had more than enough of health department screw-ups on the issue, and demanded that county government find the money to get the wells tested.
What's more, Counley insisted that county health officials, which includes the health board, have absolutely no involvement because they couldn't be trusted.
Here's an abbreviated account of what really happened, with links to the germane stories.
By summer 2010, Counley was pretty sick and tired of failed attempts by County Board leaders - who finally got involved three years and 27 plaintiffs into the cases - to find outside researchers to investigate the alleged cancer cluster.
Examples of failed efforts included reaching out to a federal agency accused by a Congressional investigative committee of being a shill for polluters rather than an advocate for the citizens, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pronouncing the slipshod work of county and state health officials as valid. I compiled a comprehensive list of shortcomings here.
Knowing that the CDC's pronouncement wouldn't satisfy village residents (especially after a judge ruled the county, state and federal research all but worthless and inadmissible at trial), county officials reached out in summer 2010 to environmental and occupational health experts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who offered to serve as "neutral observers."
Except they weren't.
I revealed in my story about the offer that UIC had in fact been involved in the early litigation. The plaintiffs' attorney had hired a UIC epidemiology professor to help develop a study, but she promptly quit after receiving a phone call from a colleague that had been retained by the law firm representing Rohm and Haas.
That was the last straw for Counley – he said enough was enough and told the county to find the money to get the wells tested. After some wrangling – neither Koehler nor Counley were keen on asking their constituents to foot the bill – Koehler reached out to Rohm and Haas itself. The plant announced Aug. 19, a month before the first trial was set to start, that it would pay up to $55,000 to test wells and air. Those tests took place in December 2010 and early 2011, and you can read about the all-clear here.
What further discredits the idea that anyone on the health board can pat themselves on the back for getting this testing done was Counley's repeated insistence that county health officials have nothing to do with the testing:
"I wouldn't believe them, because of everything starting with the very first meeting when they came out here and told us that everything is all clear, The people here know they were shanghaied. They don't want to hear anything from the county," Counley said in my story.
One thing I've come to respect about Counley is his forthrightness – he lets you know whether he thinks you're a straight shooter or 10 pounds of fertilizer crammed into a 5-pound bag. In several stories he made it abundantly clear what he thought of county health officials, and that his constituents would not believe any test result in which county health officials had even the slightest bit of involvement.
In all of my cancer cluster conversations with Koehler, Counley or current County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill (who grew up in the area and has three childhood friends who developed tumors and sued) – and I had a lot of conversations, believe me – not one of them cited Varga's column as an impetus. The effort to get testing done started more than five months after Varga's column appeared.
In short, Varga's column had nothing at all to do with the environmental testing.
That means that Varga's lecture on accuracy and fact-checking leaves a little something to be desired.
We do our best to correct mistakes like the ones Varga cited in his letter. I've been waiting seven years for our county health officials to correct their mistakes regarding McCullom Lake. I suspect I'll be waiting at least another seven years.
Hopefully, we'll see a correction from Varga by either taking down the election website or deleting any reference to playing a part in coming to the aid of frightened McCullom Lake residents.
Because as long as we're clearing up the record, the board of health has absolutely nothing to be proud of regarding how it handled the situation or treated the plaintiffs.
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Lions promoted WR T.J. Jones from their practice squad.
Patriots placed TE Rob Gronkowski (back surgery) on injured reserve.
Brandon Marshall (knee, foot) practiced in full Saturday and will play Monday night against the Colts.
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T.Y. Hilton (back) is questionable for Week 13 against the Jets.
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Charles Clay (knee, questionable) did not travel with the team to Oakland because of the expected birth of his child.
Jeremy Maclin (groin) was downgraded to out for Week 13 against the Falcons.
ESPN's Field Yates reports Patriots DT Alan Branch won his appeal of a four-game suspension for violating the substance-abuse policy.
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The route from the centre of Athens towards Kórinthos (Corinth) follows the ancient Ierá Odhós – the Sacred Way – as far as Elefsína, ancient Eleusis. There's nothing sacred about it these days, though: this is as ugly a road as any in Greece, traversing an industrial wasteland. For the first 30km or so you have little sense of leaving Athens, whose western suburbs merge into Elefsína and then Mégara. Offshore lies Salamína (ancient Salamis,), these days just another suburb. The Attikí Odhós motorway from the airport meets the road from Athens just outside Elefsína.
Beyond Elefsína, the old road to Thebes and Delphi heads northwest into the hills. This route is described in Chapter Three, and is highly worthwhile, with its detours to ancient Aegosthena and the tiny resort of Pórto Yermenó. Directly west, towards the Corinth Canal and the Peloponnese, there are shingle beaches along the old coastal road at Kinéta and Áyii Theódhori. This highway, with the Yeránia mountains to the north and those of the Peloponnese across the water, follows the route where Theseus slew the bandit Skiron and threw him off the cliffs to be eaten by a giant sea turtle.
The Monastery of Dhafní, a beautiful example of Byzantine architecture, was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1999, and only reopened in 2011. Still not fully restored, it is held up by scaffolding – set to be there until 2014 at least – which offers an exceptional chance to climb right up into the dome and get up close and personal with the magnificent eleventh-century mosaics, considered among the artistic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Ascending by rickety ladders, you pass first the Life of Christ, then the Prophets, before reching the Pandokrátor (Christ in Majesty) in the dome itself. The restored mosaics, glistening with gold, are magnificent, and the stern Christ depicted here is a classic Orthodox image. A chamber next to the church has an excellent display on the monastery's history and restoration, along with close-up detail of the mosaics and identification of the saints and events depicted.
The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis was one of the most important in the ancient Greek world. For two millennia, the ritual ceremonies known as the Mysteries were performed here. Today, the extensive ruins of the sanctuary occupy a low hill on the coast right in the heart of modern Elefsína.
The best plan on arrival is to head straight for the museum, which features models of the sanctuary at various stages in its history: Eleusis is impressively large, with huge walls and gates, some of which date back to Mycenaean times, but the numerous eras of building can also be confusing, especially as signage is poor and mainly in Greek. Exploring outside, the most important structure of ancient Eleusis was the Telesterion. This windowless Hall of Initiation lay at the heart of the cult, and it was here that the priests of Demeter would exhibit the Sacred Objects and speak "the Unutterable Words".
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Most people use the Apache web server for web services because it can scale to match growth. It works well on low- and high-end server hardware and it has an extensible API for adding new modules. Also, since HTTP is a stateless protocol, you can add more web servers to handle the same content.
If your CGI scripts are taking too long, you can modify your code to turn your Apache server into an application server that runs the scripts in the background. If you want redundancy, you can put multiple servers in a load-balanced pool. If your outgoing bandwidth costs are too high, you can use a distributed caching service like Akamai or Mirror Image.
But by adding more components to your web server environment, you increase the chance that something will go wrong. When something does go wrong, the complexity makes the problem analysis more difficult.
In almost all cases when an Apache web server is performing outside of normal specifications, a good administrator will check the web server log. This comes from the most common theory that a web server's slow performance is due to the server being hammered with requests. Maybe a web designer is now serving a five megabyte MPEG file, or maybe there is a worm out there that is running a distributed DOS attack against your site. In these types of situations, checking the log file is a good thing.
My current work assignment puts me in a team of administrators handling roughly 20 web servers. The servers are load-balanced and hand out both static and dynamic content. We proxy almost everything through a distributed caching service to reduce our bandwidth costs and to improve client load times.
It isn't foolproof. We usually see balanced traffic 99.9% of the time, but sometimes a group of cache servers will fail, or new content may be added that does not have properly set expires headers. Sometime during my first month, I experienced my first unexpected traffic surge, and my boss asked me to see if I could find anything in the log files.
When I started my analysis, I made the assumption that most of the content will be cached. I should be seeing a lot of hits from unique IP addresses during the allowed cache lifetime of each object. It is also possible that the cache server will expire the object itself if it ran out of disk space, or the cache tries to reload an expired object that may not have changed. With that in mind, I whipped up a couple of log-file parsing scripts.
Just to review, here is a tiny clip of a web server log using the common log file format.
10.0.1.51 - - [15/Feb/2004:14:47:33 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2401
10.0.1.22 - - [15/Feb/2004:14:49:07 -0600] "GET /manual/ HTTP/1.1" 200 701
10.0.1.51 - - [15/Feb/2004:14:49:11 -0600] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 300
The most obvious information you can get from each entry is the source IP of the request, the request string, and the time of the request. With a parsing script, you can also find the size of the largest file served, the highest number of requests that came in during one single second, a breakdown of all the source IPs, and the ratio of 200 to 304 hits.
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After some checking I discovered that a few objects had a much higher hit ratio than others. Those hits all had unique IP addresses, and none of those addresses had hit other URLs handled by our server. My conclusion was that the cache servers were being bypassed for a few specific objects, which would explain the high traffic load. Later, we discovered a group of URLs was posted to a public web site that incorrectly pointed directly to us.
Since that incident, I worked on more tools to handle log-file hit analysis. I took older log files and ran them through more parsing scripts to find out as much as I could about our traffic patterns.
Unfortunately, I learned that there was performance data out there that I would never be able to find in the log file. I couldn't see whether keep-alives were being used by the web clients, which child processes handled which request, and I couldn't determine how many different clients were coming from the same source IP. While the common log-file format (and the combined format) are great for hit tracking, they aren't suitable for getting hardcore performance data.
Fortunately, the Apache web server is known for being incredibly flexible.
mod_log_config module makes it easy to put together a log file
format that will give you the data you need. The Apache manual lists all of
the logging directives you can use to build your own custom format.
In this article I will discuss a format that uses the best logging directives of Apache to create a running record of what Apache is doing when incoming clients access the server. The name of the format is called Blackbox.
A black box is a device that records information on the performance of an aircraft. Airspeed, direction, and status indicators combine to give an accurate account of what happened during a flight. If the aircraft develops problems (or in the worse case, crashes) technicians can use the data in the black box to find out what went on within the aircraft.
This log format is meant to supplement the common access log file, not to replace it. Since Apache can handle multiple log files, administrators can have Apache write to the second log file by adding two configuration directives.
The directives listed below are most compatible with Apache 2.0 with the
mod_logio module. Later in the article, I will discuss cross-compatibility with Apache 1.3 and other server environments.
%t, and
These directives are already used in the common log file format. They are the three most obvious request metrics to track.
When logging the remote host, it is important to log the client IP address,
not the hostname. To do this, use the
%a directive instead of
%h. Even if
HostnameLookups are turned on, using
%a will only record the IP. For the purposes of the Blackbox
format, reverse DNS should not be trusted.
%t directive records the time that the request started. It
could be modified using a
strftime format, but it would be better
to keep it as is. That makes it easier to correlate lines between the Blackbox
log file and the common log file.
%r directive is the first line of text sent by the web
client, which includes the request method, the full URL, and the HTTP protocol.
It is possible to break up this data using individual directives. For example,
you could log a URL without a query string. Again, it's better to keep the
request line intact for comparison.
%{pid}P and
When the Apache server starts, it spawns off child processes to handle incoming requests. As it runs, it shuts down older processes and adds new ones. Apache can add additional child processes if it needs to keep up with a high demand. By recording the process id and thread id (if applicable), you will have a record of which child process handled an incoming client.
You can also track the number of Apache processes for a given time and
determine when a child process shut down. If you are running an application
handler (
mod_python), recording the PID
will make it easier to find out what hits a child process was handling when
debugging an application error.
The connection status directive tells us detailed information about the
client connection. It returns one of three flags:
X if the client
aborted the connection before completion,
+ if the client has
indicated that it will use keep-alives (and request additional URLs), or
- if the connection will be closed after the request.
Keep-Alive is an HTTP 1.1 directive that informs a web server
that a client can request multiple files during the same connection. This way a
client doesn't need to go through the overhead of re-establishing a TCP
connection to retrieve a new file.
For Apache 1.3, use the
%c directive in place of the
%X directive.
%s and
There's nothing really new about this directive, since it's already used in
the common log file format. The CLF records the status code — after any
redirections take place — with
%>s. For the Blackbox
format, we will want to record the status code before and after the redirection
took place.
%T and
The common log file format cannot accurately determine the amount of time it takes to serve a file. Some parsing programs will try to make estimates based on the timestamp on hits from the same source, but it is very unreliable, especially if the hits are being made in parallel.
These two directives will give you the exact metrics you need. The
%T directive will report the time in seconds it took to handle the
request while the
%D directive will report the same time in
Apache 1.3 does not support the
%D directive.
%O, and
Apache 2.0 includes the optional
mod_logio module which can
report on how many bytes of traffic a client sent and how many bytes the
server returned.
%b directive does a good job, but it only reports the bytes
returned in the requested object, excluding the bytes from the HTTP headers.
The header traffic is usually small, but you may want to record it to get a
better idea of outgoing TCP traffic for a given interface can be like.
Recording the incoming bytes is helpful when your users are uploading files
with the PUT or POST methods.
%I to record incoming bytes,
%O to record
outgoing bytes, and
%B to record outgoing content bytes. In cases
where no content is returned, the
%B directive returns a zero,
%b returns a dash. Since we're dealing with integer
values, it's better to use
%{REMOTE_PORT}e or
Logging the client source TCP port can provide some useful network data and can help us associate a single client with multiple requests.
If two clients from the same IP address make simultaneous connections, the common log file format cannot distinguish between those clients. Otherwise, if the client uses keep-alives, then every hit made from a single TCP session will be associated by the same client port number.
The port information can indicate how many connections our server is handling at once, which may help in tuning server TCP/IP settings. It will also identify which client ports are legitimate requests if the administrator is examining a possible SYN-attack against a server.
This is the part where Apache doesn't really help you out. The only native
way to record the source port is by using
%{REMOTE_PORT}e, which
grabs the value of the
REMOTE_PORT environment variable, but
environment variables only come into play when
mod_cgi or
mod_cgid is handling the request.
The only way to record the source port for every request is by modifying the
source code of
mod_log_config.c or by creating a custom logging
module. In both cases, a new format directive could then record the source port
of the client connection.
If you want to record the remote port, here's the source code modification
for Apache 2.0. All of the changes are made in
modules/loggers/mod_log_config.c in the source distribution.
Find the function definition for
log_remote_address. Add the
following function after it:
* log_remote_port patch
static const char *log_remote_port(request_rec *r, char *a)
apr_port_t rport;
apr_sockaddr_port_get(&rport, r->connection->remote_addr);
return apr_itoa(r->pool, rport);
In layman's terms, the function sets up a variable to hold the port number,
which we obtain from a
sockaddr_in structure, and then convert it
into a string to return.
Next, find a function called
log_pre_config at the
end of the file. We need to insert two lines into that function to
register the function we just wrote.
static int log_pre_config(apr_pool_t *p, apr_pool_t *plog, apr_pool_t *ptemp)
log_pfn_register(p, "s", log_status, 1);
/* log_remote_port patch */
log_pfn_register(p, "S", log_remote_port, 0);
return OK
Save the code changes, then recompile Apache.
At this point there are 14 fields in our log file format, which is getting pretty close to the limits of readability. Before considering making the format bigger, let's consider what doesn't need to be logged.
A lot of data in the combined log file format is client supplied, which means our log analysis depends on a client being truthful. The HTTP username, ident username, HTTP referrer, and user agent strings all come from data sent from the client. For example, some robots pretend that they are really a web browser, so you can't tell when your site is being spidered. It's difficult to verify this data, so it's best to ignore it.
Keep logging the data in the combined log file format. If you need to refer to the data at a later time, it shouldn't be too difficult to match a Blackbox log entry to a combined log entry.
The following is the configuration syntax for the Blackbox log format. It's
designed to group similar directives together and still be readable when using
tail command.
# Blackbox log format
<IfModule mod_logio.c>
LogFormat "%a/%S %X %t \"%r\" %s/%>s %{pid}P/%{tid}P %T/%D %I/%O/%B" blackbox
<IfModule !mod_logio.c>
LogFormat "%a/%S %X %t \"%r\" %s/%>s %{pid}P/%{tid}P %T/%D 0/0/%B" blackbox
CustomLog /var/opt/apache2/logs/blackbox blackbox
# Blackbox log format
LogFormat "%a/%S %c %t \"%r\" %s/%>s %P/0 %T/0 0/0/%B" blackbox
CustomLog /var/opt/apache/logs/blackbox blackbox
If you decide not to use the remote port logging patch, replace
%S with
0, otherwise Apache will refuse to run.
The formats above include all of the directives to log and still provide a cross-compatibility between the Apache 1.3 and 2.0 server releases. Even though 1.3 does not support threading or newer 2.0 logging directives, any parsing script will work with both versions.
Once the directives are in place, restart Apache. You will need to modify whatever scripts you use for log file rotation to take the Blackbox log file into account. You might want to consider retaining at least 10 days of logging data for your records.
Now that you're logging the data, you'll need to find a way to put it to work.
The Perl Cookbook featured a field extractor regular expression for the common log file format. That same code can be modified to extract all of the fields in the Blackbox format.
# Our pattern matching format
# A "\s" is used at the end of lines 1 and 2 to catch the space character
# in the format
^([^/]+)/(\\d+)\\ (\\S)\\ \\[([^:]+):(\\d+:\\d+:\\d+)\\ ([^\\]]+)\\]\\s
"(\\S+)\\ (.*?)\\ (\\S+)"\\ (\\d+)/(\\d+)\\ (\\d+)/(\\d+)\\s
(\\d+)/(\\d+)\\ (\\d+)/(\\d+)/(\\d+)\$
# Read a piped log file from standard input
while (<STDIN>)
There are a few things to keep in mind when parsing your log files.
Apache only logs attempted client requests. If someone connects to port 80 and doesn't send any data, it won't be logged. At a minimum, a client needs to send some text and one carriage return. Also, the pattern above assumes a proper request line will be transmitted by the client. If a client only transmits garbage, the regex will fail.
The timestamps refer to the time the request was started, so it is possible to see log file entries that are out of order, especially if you are dealing with a mix of large files and small files being served.
%T and
%D directives refer to the time it
takes to handle the entire transaction, including the amount of time it takes
for the client to transmit data. If you see wide variances in the amount of
time it takes to serve the same file, it may be related to a web client network
Listed below are a few ideas for potential analysis tools that you can develop from the Blackbox log.
Long-term collection of Blackbox data is better suited to a graphing environment like RRDTool. You can graph metrics including bytes in and out, maximum clients per second, and child process lifetime.
To do this, you need to write a program that continually scans the Blackbox log in short intervals (5 or 10 minutes), grabs all new entries, and then imports the data into the RRD file.
RRDTool collects time-based sampling data for any duration. One data file can keep data for durations of a week, a month, or even a year. You can merge data files into a single graph if you want to report on the performance of a group of load-balanced servers.
See the RRDTool web site for more information.
You have almost enough data in the Blackbox format to see exactly how a single client handled a series of requests. You can extract a full HTTP session by filtering on the remote port and IP.
You could also program a HTTP client to replay the exact same data if you wanted to try and simulate the client actions. The downside is that you won't have a record of all of the client headers passed, such as cookies or authentication data. Plus the timestamp resolution is to the second, which may not be a 100% match with when the original client transmitted the request.
Everyone has been logging web server traffic as long as the web has been around, but the emphasis has always been aimed toward the content served, not the server itself. There are tools and modules out there that can monitor performance, but most of them generate reports of data you can already find just by logging it.
The Blackbox format is a simple alternative since it doesn't require additional modules. Further, you can examine the data without a running web server. All the work to get it up and running requires the addition of Apache logging directives and an optional patch to the source code.
Chris Josephes works as a system administrator for Internet Broadcasting.
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Home List of Titles Coupled laser molecular trapping, cluster assembly, and deposition fed by laser-induced Marangoni convection
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- Title
- Coupled laser molecular trapping, cluster assembly, and deposition fed by laser-induced Marangoni convection
- Author(s)
- Louchev, Oleg A; Juodkazis, Saulius; Murazawa, Naoki; Wada, Satoshi; Misawa, Hiroaki
- Abstract
- A coupled mechanism for molecular aggregation in a thin water solution film by laser-tweezers is suggested based on (i) simulation of light intensity distribution and (ii) order of magnitude analysis of heat and mass transport induced by Marangoni convection. The analysis suggests that the laser induced temperature distribution develops within 1 ms and Marangoni convection flow commences within 0.01-1 s, which increases by 1-2 orders of magnitude the mass transfer of dissolved molecules into the laser focus where they are trapped and aggregate by attractive van der Waals forces. This mechanism, considered for the particular case of polymer assembly, suggests that it can also be successfully applied for assembling other types of clusters and molecular aggregates from solutions.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Optics Express, Vol. 16, no. 8 (Apr 2008), pp. 5673-5680
- Publication year
- 2008
- FOR Code(s)
- 0205 Optical Physics; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 1113 Ophthalmology and Optometry
- Keyword(s)
- Cluster assembly; Deposition; Laser trapping; Light intensity distribution; Marangoni convection; Optical tweezers; Temperature
- Publisher
- Optical Society of America
- 1094-4087
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Optical Society of America. This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.16.005673. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan No.19360322.
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From Miss Jane by Brad Watson:"She was born into that time and place, in the farmland cut from the pine and broadleaf woods of east-central Mississippi, 1915, when there was no possibility of doing anything to alleviate her condition, no medical procedure to correct it. It was something to be accepted, grim-faced, as they accepted crop failure, debt, poverty, the frequent deaths of infants and small children from fevers and other maladies."The novel Miss Jane is a beautifully-written character study of a girl born alone in every way—an odd duck in a family worn down by hardship, alienated from society due to the unique nature of her disability and in no small part to simple geography. She is alone save for the paternal kindness of a country doctor. But there is something about Jane Chisolm, something deep inside, that allows her to connect with nature and build a meaningful life in solitary. I can't say enough about this book; Brad Watson writes with empathy for his heroine, an empathy that extends out to all of us experiencing the human condition. Using beautiful descriptions of nature to foster tone and atmosphere in the novel, Watson creates a striking sensory experience that propels Miss Jane to the forefront of great contemporary fiction.
Filmmaker Nate Parker made history at this year's Sundance Film Festival when he sold his film, The Birth of a Nation, to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million, the highest amount ever paid at the festival. The film went on to win the festival's U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. The film follows the life of Nat Turner, and the slave revolt he led in Virginia in 1831. When asked in an interview why he chose to use the same title for his film as the 1915 silent film often credited as a catalyst for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, Parker responded, "I've reclaimed this title and re-purposed it as a tool to challenge racism and white supremacy in America, to inspire a riotous disposition toward any and all injustice in this country (and abroad) and to promote the kind of honest confrontation that will galvanize our society toward healing and sustained systemic change."When news of this film at Sundance first emerged many months ago, some friends and I were discussing our eager anticipation of the film, which opens in theaters today. Those conversations led me to think more about slave revolts and how these episodes in American history are often minimized, or completely ignored. In fact, well into the mid-20th century some white scholars of American history still claimed that Africans passively accepted enslavement. We know this isn't the case, but it's not a topic covered very thoroughly by most history courses before university-level. Wanting to learn more, I began reading more works on slave resistance.The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne Historian Gerald Horne argues the Revolutionary War was a tactic used by the founding fathers to prevent the abolition of slavery in the colonies, challenging the traditional narrative of our country's founding. Highly recommended. American Uprising: the Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen This book details the 1811 revolt in what is present-day Louisiana. Hundreds of slaves from several different sugar cane plantations marched together in an attempt to overtake New Orleans. It is thought the Haitian Revolution, ending in 1804, partly inspired this uprising, which was ultimately unsuccessful and led to the execution of 95 slaves. Nat Turner by Kyle Baker This award-winning graphic novel details Turner's life, beginning with his mother's enslavement and ending with his execution for his role in the revolt.Ardency: a Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin YoungThis is a poetic retelling of the Amistad revolt by poet and scholar Kevin Young, who was long-listed for this year's National Book Award for poetry and was named director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture this past August.
This coming-of-age novel by Jane Hamilton centers on Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard and her family's sprawling apple orchard. Her idyllic life on the farm begins to fray in the complexities of family dynamics, love, and loss as the future of the farm becomes increasingly unclear.
Hamilton writes almost a love letter to a threatened way of life. One reviewer says it "takes us back to being a child and believing in one thing wholeheartedly."
There is much to discuss and appreciate in this novel. It would be a good book group choice.
Do you need more dinosaurs, time travelers, and girl power
in your life? If so, I have two fantastic graphic novels for you. First up, is Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian
K. Vaughn, the writer named by Wired Magazine as " the greatest comic book visionary of the last five years." This suspenseful mystery starts
with a slow burn as four paper delivery girls head out to cover their route the
morning after Halloween in 1988. After
the girls accidentally set off a strange machine, the story kicks off at
break-neck speed, and soon the girls are facing off against dinosaurs,
laser-blasting knights, and sub-human creatures that might just be from the future. It's intense, fast-paced, wicked
fun, and the series is only just beginning.
Also, make sure to check out the Lumberjanes series by Grace
Ellis and Noelle Stevenson. Lumberjanes follows five "hardcore lady types"
spending the summer at a crazy camp surrounded by bizarre supernatural
mysteries. The girls fight werewolves, solve riddles, and avoid the ever-watchful
eye of their group counselor in this manic, off-beat, fantastic read. This
series has been out for a while, but you can catch up on Hoopla digital.
Both of these series are a great mash-up of sci-fi, fantasy,
action, and mystery with fabulous artwork. So what are you waiting for?
My book group's choice for April is The Summer Before the War, the new book from Helen Simonson, author of the popular Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. Although we haven't yet met to discuss it, I'm confident my reading friends will have enjoyed it and we'll have a good conversation.
The story is set in a small town in England just before World War I. It begins with the arrival of a new teacher – Beatrice Nash – younger and prettier than expected. The war first touches the town when some Belgian refugees arrive, then as the town's young men go off to war with a sense of adventure.
This novel evolves – it begins as a pleasant small town, with the English class snobbery, and becomes an account of war and its aftermath. Some of the reviewers call it a "novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal."
Last month the National Book Critics Circle Award winners for 2015 were announced. "The NBCC annually bestows its awards in six categories, honoring the best books published in the past year in the United States."Here are the 2015 winners in each category:PoetryCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross GayCriticismThe Argonauts by Maggie NelsonAutobiography Negroland by Margo JeffersonBiographyRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte GordonNonfictionDreamland: The True Story of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam QuinonesFiction The Sellout by Paul BeattyThe John Leonard PrizeNight at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez QuadeThe Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in ReviewingCarlos LozadaThe Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement AwardWendell BerryYou can see a recording of the ceremony here.
Marie Kondo started a throw-everything-away organizing trend with her bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, a book that advocates for getting rid of anything in your home that doesn't spark joy. Some people seem to think her method, called KonMari, is extreme or even a little saccharine, but I think it makes perfect sense: who wouldn't want their home to be filled with things they love and devoid of things that annoy them? That's why I'm reading her follow-up book, aptly titled Spark Joy. Spark Joy goes into more detail regarding the storing of items; how to fold clothes, display beloved items, and organize other accoutrements. It also addresses a number of questions Marie Kondo has received since publishing her first book, such as getting through the untidy stages of tidying and keeping things that don't spark joy but are necessary (she gives a screwdriver as an example). I recommend starting with the first book, but if you need more information or inspiration than that, or you just like cute illustrations, I definitely recommend following up with Spark Joy.
I have a history of being a latecomer to particular pop culture moments. Though I tend to love low and high brow culture fairly equally, I have snobbish moments and tend to assume if millions of people like something I probably won't. The best example of this is Harry Potter. I was about 13 years old when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published and I had absolutely no interest in joining that craze. I was in Moscow when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published ten years later, and refused to even tag along with friends for the midnight release at an English-language bookstore. But after I started library school I decided I should probably see what all the fuss was about. And of course I loved the books. That is all to say I am fully aware The Walking Dead is presently one of the most popular series on television, you are probably watching the current season, and you may have already devised ways to cope with waiting a week to see a new episode (or even waiting months between seasons!). I know, I am really late to this party. Since I binge-watched nearly 80 episodes in less than one month, and only four episodes remain of the current season, I'm looking for ways to feed my obsession between new episodes/seasons.It appears Hoopla, a library service perhaps best known for streaming movies and music, will fill that void. Hoopla now offers access to comics, including all 24 volumes of the collected The Walking Dead. Comics check out for three weeks, and the great thing about Hoopla is that everything is always available – no holds, no waiting.
I just finished Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich. If you like an easy read with comedy infused, this series is a good one. Stephanie Plum is a Bounty Hunter, a rather incompetent one, who finds her skip more by luck than skill. She hangs with Lula a retired hooker, who you do not want to call fat (she hates that and will sit on you). Stephanie has two men in her life, Joe Morelli, who she grew up with, and Ranger. Morelli was a "bad boy" growing up and is now a police man. Ranger is Cuban-American and runs a very successful security service. Ranger is mysterious, drop dead gorgeous, can open any lock, and has a fleet of black vehicles. This is especially helpful for Stephanie, as in each and every book her car somehow gets destroyed, usually in a huge fireball.In Tricky Twenty-Two Morelli tells Stephanie that he is breaking up with her, that he wants to find a different line of work, one that is less stressful. This is odd because being a cop defines Morelli, so what is really going on. Of course Morelli, like so many men, keeps it all to himself and does not communicate with Stephanie. Ranger is a man of few words but he packs in so much meaning. He can say "Babe" and it can mean so many different things. Both men have deep feelings for Stephanie. Ranger is not the marrying type so we all know that eventually Stephanie and Morelli will get hitched. In Tricky Twenty-two we are aghast that Morelli breaks it off with Stephanie and we know that they will get back together and it will probably take the whole book to do it and it does. During a marriage ceremony, there is the lighting of the candle. The soon to be wed each have a candle and they symbolically light a single candle together, signifying that they are now one. Having personally been married 36 years, communication is paramount. If Morelli would have just shared his thoughts and fears with Stephanie as he should then this the book would be a lot shorter. You should start with book one "One for the Money" although you could read them in any order. I prefer to read them in order and grow with them. It's kind of a formula read, Grandma Mazur will always be attending funerals, possibly trying to pry open a closed casket to peek inside. These are humorous books, even the funerals are fun events. Grandma and Lula both will be carrying huge caliber guns that they freely fire off and hit everything except what they are aiming for. Lula's outfits are usually 2 sizes two small and the coloring is blinding at best. Stephanie has a pet named Rex, but you are going to have to read the books to find out what type of pet he is, and when you read the books you will find out where Stephanie hides her gun. Stephanie is described as cute, perky, adorable, short etc. If you turn the book over and look at the picture of Janet Evanovich on the jacket, I think Janet Evanovich is describing herself. Check it out at KPL.
The literary awards season is now in full swing, with the recent announcements of the Man Booker Prize shortlist, the National Book Awards longlist, and the longlist for the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Non-fiction.The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom. The 2015 shortlist:A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesSatin Island by Tom McCarthyThe Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev SahotaA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe winner will be announced on October 13.The National Book Awards honor the best American writing in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Fiction 2015 longlist:A Cure for Suicide by Jesse BallRefund: Stories by Karen E. BenderDid You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggThe Turner House by Angela FlournoyFates and Furies by Lauren GroffFortune Smiles: Stories by Adam JohnsonWelcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo JohnsonHoneydew by Edith PearlmanA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaMislaid by Nell ZinkNon-fiction 2015 longlist:Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia BarnettBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesMourning Lincoln by Martha HodesHold Still by Sally MannThe Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii by Susanna MooreLove and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael PaternitiIf the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla PowerOrdinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. SmithTravels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael WhitePoetry 2015 longlist:Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross GayScattered at Sea by Amy GerstlerA Stranger's Mirror by Marilyn HackerHow to Be Drawn by Terrance HayesThe Beauty by Jane HirshfieldVoyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste LewisBright Dead Things by Ada LimónElegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick PhillipsHeaven by Rowan Ricardo PhillipsMistaking Each Other for Ghosts by Lawrence RaabYoung People's Literature 2015 longlist:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliSymphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. AndersonThe Thing About Jellyfish by Ali BenjaminWalk on Earth a Stranger by Rae CarsonThis Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs by Gary PaulsenBone Gap by Laura RubyX: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla MagoonMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve SheinkinChallenger Deep by Neal ShustermanNimona by Noelle Stevenson
The finalists will be announced on October 14, and the winners will be announced on November 18.The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the United States during the previous year.Fiction 2016 longlist:The Distant Marvels by Chantel AcevedoThe Harder They Come by T.C. BoyleMothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo CampbellDid You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggOutline by Rachel CuskThe Green Road by Anne EnrightPurity by Jonathan FranzenBest Boy by Eli GottliebCity on Fire by Garth Risk HallbergDelicious Foods by James HannahamWelcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo JohnsonMarvel and a Wonder by Joe MenoThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenHoneydew by Edith PearlmanThe Book of Aron by Jim ShepardPrudence by David TreuerA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerThe Dying Grass by William T. VollmannThe Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy WilliamsA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaNon-fiction 2016 longlist:American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian G. AppyGive Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari BermanThieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah ChayesBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve FraserSomething Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen GreenShowdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil HaygoodListening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden HerreraH Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldHold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry MarshHow the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family by Peter NabokovEmpire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay PariniOn the Move by Oliver Sacks Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff M Train by Patti SmithTo Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon WinchesterInvention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea WulfThe shortlist will be announced on October 19, and the winners will be announced on January 10.We are fortunate to have two of these authors visiting Kalamazoo in the coming months, as well as one visiting Ann Arbor.Bonnie Jo Campbell will visit Central Library on October 15.Ta-Nehisi Coates will be the keynote speaker for the Kalamazoo Community Foundation's Community Meeting on November 3.Marlon James will give a reading at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor on November 2.
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Guided Float Trip
Allright let me get right to it! I got a pretty awesome xmas present from the family! A guided float trip on any east TN, or western NC river system! So my question is this, Which river system would you pick to float and why specifically that river system? Keep in mind my father and I don't regularly get the chance to float and this will be our first ff float trip. I want the trip to be an educational one. I know every river system has it's differences but i'm looking for the one that contains everything from etomology to river specific techniques and technical ff. Basically I'm looking for the key (river system) that will open the pandora's box of all river systems. Which river system offers up the most and why? I know it's a broad question with many possibilities and I'm sure any river system would be good I just would like to get the most from this trip.
Oh I almost forgot to mention this trip will probably be in the early spring but I'm open to any other suggestions!
I certainly look forward to any responses from the great message board group!
Re: Guided Float Trip
Fishermansfly, you have really asked a lot from one particular river system. There are several that could possibly fit into that catergory, but---they all have their own particular little nuances that can make them special at a given time. The thing that is going to be a real problem in finding what system is best may be weather and generation schedules. We could point out the ones that are special to us and if the water levels are high and TVA or the Army Corps says "we've got to dump some water" then that system will not be so good. I'm going to step out on a limb and give you a couple of rivers that will probably be the best systems at the time of the year that you mentioned. Those choices being mentioned, there is still the possibility that another river may be better at the time you get ready to fish. The Holston River below Cherokee Dam will be my first choice. A close second would be the Hiwassee River. Right behind that would be the Watauga River. All these choices might change if the trip is done a little later in the season. Each of these rivers are special and have their own ecosystems and fly hatches. Some of the others are just as good if conditions are okay at that time of the year.
Hugh Hartsell---East Tn.
Hugh Hartsell---East Tenn.
Re: Guided Float Trip
As much as the stream itself, the guide is very important, especially if you are interested in this being an educational trip. Personally, all you have mentioned have their own little special traits about them, although a specific guide can point out things that are often overlooked by many, including those who fish those streams on a regular basis.
Re: Guided Float Trip
'Bout ready to throw this brand new laptop out the window I have tried 6 times to post a reply and each time the overly-sensitive touchpad sends my reply into that great junk heap of unfinished replies in cyberspace before I've finished typing it.
Giving it one more try.
Let's broaden our search parameters here. What I think Brett's really looking for here is a question of etiquette. What's the best way to approach a full-day guided trip?
Having fished with Brett almost every weekend this past spring and summer, I can tell you that what he wants more than anything else right now is to tie into a large (16" - 24"), wild, brown trout That was the primary inspiration for the gift certificate. In a way he's looking for the most productive water, but what I think he really wants to know is: What's the best way to use a qualified guide?
Do you tell them what you hope to get and then just follow their lead? Do you ask them to cover as much water as possible in one day? Do you tell them that your heart's desire is to hit a Smoky Mountain grand slam in the same honey hole on only three casts?? Do you ask them to work on a specific style or technique such as nymph fishing vs. dry flies? Do you ask them to critique your casting or your ability to read water?
In short, since this isn't a class we're talking about, how have you folks handled this situation - i.e. your first guided trip? And we'd also like to hear from some guides. What's your favorite kind of client? Fully-knowledgable? Somewhat knowledgable? Beginner, Intermediate, Experienced? Do you prefer a client who gives you a goal and then defers to your expertise in stalking and capture or would you rather spend the day in a give and take with a clent? How do guides function best??
Input from all, please
Gerry Romer
"I've since learned to use the best knot rather than the one that uses the least line. I go through more tippet material but compensate by drinking cheaper whiskey. One must have priorities." ... Art Scheck
Re: Guided Float Trip
Gerry, since you phrase the question in a whole different set of desires, wishes, cicumstances--- this changes the answer quite a bit. First of all, it changes the stream to the South holston River if you are looking for a "16-24 in. brown trout". That might not be the best stream "at that time of the year" if you are just wanting a good day of fishing. To be able to catch a fish of the size that you mentioned, really changes the way that a guide would handle the way that he looks at the client. The average flyfisherman, off the street, would really have to have a lot of skills to just even be able to get a fish of that size to hit a fly. Handling a hooked fish of that size really gets into the highest of skill levels for any fisherman to have. Unless you're streamer fishing, you will probably be using a 6X tippet and that really narrows your chances of landing a fish that size down to about 5-10%. I don't know what Brett's skill levels are, but I do know that almost 95% of the clients that I take out need to have a considerable amount of work done on their casting and mending techniques. This is something that takes almost all day to get smoothed out, but when you get to where you can make 50-60ft. cast smoothly and mend properly afterwards, your chances of hooking a nice fish will go up a great deal. I think what I'm trying to relate is that if you have to work these other matters out while you're on your first trip, then asking to hook a real nice brown may take a few trips to get to that level. If he already has good casting and mending skills, he starts off with a great advantage. The guide only has to provide the right flies and show him where the fish are lying, or some that are feeding. The chances then go up many fold.
* This what most guides would do. Brett could tell the guide what he is wanting to do and what his skill levels probably are. The guide would either advise Brett to work on his casting and mending skills before they hit the water or he would immediately check Brett out when they get to a river and start working with the areas that need any improvement. That would probably happen in a wading scenario before the float starts if it's needed. He would also talk about insects and how to determine what the fish are feeding on "ie.dries or emergers" and how to tell the difference. He would show Brett the flies to use for each circumstance and how to present them. When this area is smoothed out , they should be ready to fish. This helps the client and also shows the guide any area that might need some work or attention.
* To get back to the original question, the time of the year will make a great difference on which river will provide the best fishing and I should note that the possibility of catching a large brown on the South Holston River will be much better a little later on in the summer when the Sulfurs start hatching in earnest. June or July are better months. The rivers that I mentioned first will be better in the earlier part of the year for just good all around fishing. I hope this answers some of your thoughts.
* *Hugh Hartsell---East Tn.
Hugh Hartsell---East Tenn.
Re: Guided Float Trip
Thanks, Hugh! I think this is the kind of input/feedback that Brett's looking for. Very helpful. He obviously wants to get the most out of this trip and is prepared for either a full-day wade trip or a full-day float trip. He just wants some help figuring out the best way to do that and what to expect.
Any more guides want to throw in their 2, 4, 6, 8 cents worth?
Heck, we'd even take a penny's worth
Gerry Romer
"I've since learned to use the best knot rather than the one that uses the least line. I go through more tippet material but compensate by drinking cheaper whiskey. One must have priorities." ... Art Scheck
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I vote for the Holston river. There are several local guides who float the river but probably none more than Tim Doyle. He has a reputation for putting people on good fish. I would contact him at smokymountainfly.com. He also floats the Tuck in NC where you can find some big browns! *I like the Holston river because it is a good yearound fishery and I like to flyfish for anything. The Trout and Smallies are abundant but you can also fish for bluegills and carp. The river is full of caddis so there is good dryfly action thoughout spring and summer. The smallies get good in July thru Oct. If you want to learn a lot of different techniques on one river give the Holston a try.
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I have never been guided by Mr. Hartsell although he has an excellent reputation. I have fished with others, and would definitely second Tim Doyle, especially if you like to mix up a trip of trout and smallmouth. Tim also knows where the larger fish hang out and will work with you to at least hook one of them. The landing part is up to you.
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Spring? Holston. Why? The Holston is a blast in the Spring with all the caddis. Who? Hugh Hartsell (because Hugh knows that river) or Tim Doyle would be good choices. But, considering what you're looking for, wanting a broad experience, I would say wait and fish the South Holston during the sulfur season. Why? I don't want to go into a lot of details and post photos but let me just say that it's something you'll want to experience. Who? Scott Lewis (Alpha Trout Outfitters) Scott knows the river like a brother. He has a Biology degree and is always on top of what's going on up there. Want to go with someone that will teach you just about anything you want to know about flyfishing and have a trip that rivals just about anything in the country? This would be the one for you. If you really watch what's going on you won't believe it. The South Holston has been dubbed one of the most techincal tailwaters in the country by many folks.
I guide but I had to leave Tennessee last year to help my parents out. Scott would be my number one pick for something very much out of the ordinary.
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I just read your response. I agree 100% that client skill has everything to do with where and when you take someone. If casting and mending skills need a lot of work then the Holston would definitely be a better choice. Even during the sulfur hatch on the SoHo the guide needs to anchor the boat to fish risers. Casting and mending come into play here more than anywhere else. 2500cfs, conflicting currents, and discerning fish can test the skill of any angler. But, and this is a big but, it forces one to up their skill or go home.
This narrows it down to 2 things. If you want to learn flyfishing, go to a DH like the Tuck. If you want to learn trout and their environment, go somewhere technical like the South Holston.
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Hugh Hammond Bennett directed the pioneer National Erosion Reconnaissance Survey of 1934. This survey, the first well-documented nationwide resource inventory, estimated the degree of erosion caused by wind and water on the total land area of the United States. Six months after the survey was completed, Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act of 1935, which established the Soil Conservation Service, the forerunner of NRCS, and Bennett was named the agency's first chief.
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