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As long lines and short tempers challenge the best of our holiday intentions, those precious minutes at the post office might be a good time to reflect on why we ship what we ship.
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Bamboo Gathering - May '08
Let me preface this whole business with this: The situation has improved substantially and we seem to be looking good! We are still in the grips of a major drought, and the streams in the Smoky Mountains are not yet in real good shape despite recent rains. But being optimistic, we believe the situation will continue to improve. The Little River Outfitters website continues to be your best source of information.
This situation exists from the Blue Ridge in NC all the way south to the trout streams of Georgia. I continue to maintain a close eye on things in western NC, and keep up a regular correspondence with "Bo" Cash and Dave Male both of which are intimately familiar with the area. The USGS folks have a web site:
that shows flows in major tributaries one of which is a favorite of "Bo's" and mine. For the past 18 months this tributary has been running at 20% of normal flow. Whenever a major rain even occurs (very infrequently I must stress) the flow bumps up a bit, and within 24-48 returns to approx. 20% of normal flow. This trend continues .Hopefully; we will get sufficient moisture over the winter to alleviate this situation.
Given the foregoing, we will try to keep things simple again this year. I do want to run something by you folks. Many want a bit more structure and information included. Since everyone likes to fish, and the main fishing really peaks at dusk, I guess the best time to do anything "formal" is in the AM. Thus, I'm proposing the following:
Friday and Saturday mornings we will have formal presentations on:
No. 1 - Bamboo rod basics.
No. 2 - Who made them and their various attributes
No. 3 - Collecting/Using bamboo rods
No. 4 - Fishing the Smoky Mountains, and similar areas
No. 5 - Casting the bamboo rod.
I'm proposing that No. 5, No. 1, and No. 4 are certainly topic for Friday with possibly an abbreviated presentation on No. 1 on Sat. for customers of LRO.
Byron and Paula have again allowed us to use the class room this year.
Informal evening gatherings will continue as in the past!
We WILL MEET the weekend of 16 - 18 May; you will note that I have missed Mother's day this year. This is also the weekend of Troutfest in Townsend, which means more people and more activity. So if you are planning on coming then make reservations early. We are planning on using Dock's again as a headquarters. This should be a lot of fun, and a lot to do.
Our list of confirmed attendees is getting quite impressive. These gentlemen will also be available to talk to and learn from!!!
Tightlines and crew Collectors and fishermen extraordinaire
Harry Boyd Premier Rod Builder
Leaky Waders Collector of FINE rods
Paducah Michael Rod Maker and Restoration Expert as well as Author of Restoration Handbook (Copies will be available)
Bob Nunley Premier Rod Builder and Author
Dave Male Rod Maker, Local Fishing Expert, All Around Good Guy
Rich Margiotta . Rod Restorationist, Local Fishing Expert, Neat Person
And many more to come!!!!
Dave Male has graciously volunteered to provide ferrule tightening at little or no charge!!! What a guy!!!
Ralph Shuey
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Hi Ralph -
Finally got registered on this forum. The activation email got hung up in spam filter. Finally fished it out.
I plan to take Dave up on his offer to tighten ferrules. I have two old Heddons that need help.
Glad to hear the outlook for fishing is improving. If you've had the wet weather like we've had in Paducah for the last week, you should be about ready to launch the ark.
Take care - see you in May!
Michael, I would be glad to work on the ferrules. I just cannot believe you actually own a couple of Heddons.If I know the ferrule size,it would help me to judge what size vice-grips and sledge hammer to bring. dave
Hi Dave,
Yes, I do own two Heddons. And both were basket cases that I thought would be fun to work on. One's a trade rod with a #2 ferrule, the other is a big old #14 with a 2 3/4 ferrule.
Oh - but I'll bet you want those sizes in 64ths, don't you. I'll get those measured tomorrow if I can find my calipers.
Thanks for doing this! Michael
Please Michael this is not rocket science why would I need to know 64ths. It is quite obvious #2 is two inches long and the #2 3/4 is two and three quarters inches long. I am glad to hear that they are clunkers as the vice grip/sledge hammer method can be harmful to the structural make-up of bamboo(it can break it). Also if I need more info on those ferrules I have a book by some Sinclair guy. dave
You two are having FAR too much fun... these poor E. TN boys aren't going to know quite what to make of it!!!
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This year's banquet was hosted by Copano Bay Soil and Water Conservation District on May 2 at the Refugio Community Center.
Area III consists of 49 counties in South Texas.
Categories in which awards were presented include Outstanding Conservation District; Resident Conservation Rancher; Resident Conservation Farmer; Business/Professional Individual; and Conservation Teacher, to name a few.
Awards were also presented to area youth winners of the poster and essay contests.
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Sugarers anxious for spring
Stefan Hard / Staff Photo Burr Morse of Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks checks a tap Tuesday outside his sugarhouse in East Montpelier. The sap was running at Morse Farm on Tuesday, but just barely.
With unseasonably cold weather gripping the state this March, maple sugar producers around central Vermont are holding their breath to see what this years season will bring, although they are cautiously optimistic that it could turn into a successful one.
Matt Gordon, executive director of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association, said the Arctic cold this March will delay the start of the maple sugaring season but that it doesnt necessarily mean the season will be a bad one.
Its definitely going to start later, Gordon said by phone Monday. But whats going to affect the season more is the weather ahead, not the weather were already having. But its hard to tell.
Gordon said maple producers are hoping for a slow gradual warming over the next couple of weeks. According to him, the ideal weather for sugaring is temperatures in the 40s during the day and below freezing at night. This combination gets the sap moving in the trees and makes it easier to extract.
Henry Marckres, the Agency of Agricultures maple specialist, said he is still anticipating a successful sugaring season this year. Last autumns good foliage, which is an indicator of abundant sugar reserves within the maple trees, has him confident in this seasons yield.
Marckres also said there seems to be plenty of water this year, which he said has a lot to do with sap flow inside the maple trees.
What happens is the water in there goes into the root system and when the weather warms up it brings the water up and picks the sugar up and goes out to the tap, Marckres said by phone Monday.
Maple sugar producers dont want the weather to get too warm, however. According to Gordon, if temperatures rise to 60 or 70 degrees, the sap doesnt flow as well.
The average starting time of the maple sugaring season over the past couple of years has been around the first week of March, Gordon said, with one years season starting in February.
However, Marckres stressed that this years season is not overly late yet. He said that while the season has started earlier than normal in the last couple of years, before that, production used to start a little after Town Meeting Day.
A normal sugaring season usually lasts around five weeks, Marckres said. Syrup producers typically get the majority of their yield during the 10 to 20 days when the sap runs the heaviest. But predicting when that will be from year to year is anyones guess, according to Gordon.
Despite the uncertainty, Gordon said this season could be an excellent one if all of the determining factors go the right way. Gordon said last year was one for the ages, with Vermont making 1.32 million gallons of syrup, the most in the United States by a wide margin. It was the most syrup the state has made since the World War II era, he said.
However, syrup production is fickle. The 2013 boom was preceded by unseasonably high temperatures in 2012, which significantly shortened the sugaring season. According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report, Vermont maple syrup production was 76 percent lower in 2012 than in 2013.
This underscores the point Burr Morse, the owner of Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks in East Montpelier, makes about trying to predict maple syrup production from year to year.
I dont have any projections, Morse said Monday. Its really impossible to tell whats going to happen before the season starts. Its up to the weather. Were all hopeful that this year will be a good one. If its as good a season as last year, that would be great.
Morse agreed with Gordon and Marckres about it being too early to be worried about the extended cold spell.
Many years we have not made any syrup at this point, he said. Im not concerned about the cold. Its just a good old-fashioned Vermont winter.
Morse Farm has started its maple syrup operations by March 16 about half the time in the last 65 years, according to Morse. But its not looking likely that the season will start by that date, with a large snowstorm on the horizon this week.
Doug Bragg, the owner of Bragg Farm Maple Sugarhouse in East Montpelier, said he is not concerned about the season yet but that if the winter weather continues too much longer there might be reason to worry.
Bragg Farm usually makes around 700 gallons of syrup annually, he said.
Bragg said the farms traditional start time for sugaring has been around March 10 but that it really varies from year to year.
There have been years when we didnt really start boiling until March 20, Bragg said. The past couple of years the season has been starting earlier, but this winter and spring is a little more what we used to call normal.
For all the maple syrup fans out there, the annual Vermont Maple Open House Weekend will be March 22 and 23. Sugarhouses around the state will be open to show visitors how syrup is made. For more details visit www.vermontmaple.org/2014-maple-open-house-weekend.
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Just what I need... another forum to post on! lol. (Some of you may know me from other forums since my username is the same elsewhere.)
Anyway. DD is 9 months old, and we're pretty sporadic w/ her (spoon-fed) solids. Even those, though, we waited until she was over 8 months. Mostly b/c I am lazy and BFing is so easy. We do not have a high chair. When I do solids, I sit her in her Bumbo to feed her. We do not have the tray that attaches to it, but I wouldn't want to use that as a high chair anyway since she can escape it. I saw somewhere a shower curtain mentioned... but don't know if that's feasible for us either. It would be easy enough to spread it on the floor but it's the cleanup I'm worried about. I'm sure that all the food won't stay on the curtain, and I don't fancy digging it out of the couch and carpet and windows (at least not yet anyway. :P). Then there's the curtain itself. We live in an apartment so I can't just drag it out in the yard and hose it off, and it seems so unweildy to put into the sink. I wouldn't want to do the tub or washing machine since the larger bits of food won't go down the drain. And we really can't go buy even a cheap high chair right now, at all. Car repairs and inspections/registrations/new driver's licenses/etc from our recent out of state move have eaten up all spare money.
Anyway on to my swallowing question. DD has no trouble swallowing the baby food I feed her. I also feed her the occasional puff (treating them more like candy than a snack in their frequency), which she also has no trouble swallowing once it dissolves. But then every so often she'll be moving around, and I'll glance at her and see that she's "chewing". She doesn't chew unless there's something in her mouth, so I'll check and it'll be some fuzz, a tiny piece of styrofoam, a bug.. (Ok so the bug didn't make it to her mouth, but it almost did. lol). If I just let her be, she seems like she'd just chew and chew and chew these non-food items like a stick of gum. It's like since they don't dissolve or turn to liquid or anything, she just keeps them in her mouth to play with. If I start giving her soft solids to explore, I'm just nervous at this point that she'll just play with them, even if they get into her mouth, b/c they also won't instantly dissolve like the puff or aren't already semi-liquid like the baby food.
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Only 11 ?? I keep thinking its 2 more weeks away!ReplyDelete
This weekend I'll be buying a couple more presents from Santa. Hosting a drinks party for neighbours. Trying to get a manicure before said drinks party too!
Going to see the Polar Express with my daughter and the Huzz will see The Hobbit with our son. And Sunday.... nothing I hope.
Happy weekend.
Oh so much to be done...taking it a day at a time. I want to take my granddaughter to see The Polar Express!ReplyDelete
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Enjoy your weekend! Steff is coming home tonight, so will be baking with her and I still have a bit of shopping to do but the house and tree are decorated and am watching a few Christmas movies! xxooReplyDelete
Enjoy your preparations Simone... and have a wonderful weekend..ReplyDelete
Happy, happy Christmas... xv
Seriously I have come to the conclusion that Buddy the Elf is a genius!! Every quote I see is just lovely and perfect for this season. It has become my new fave Christmas film - move over Home Alone! Lou xReplyDelete
I LOVE it too, Simone...every year is just that little bit more magical...ReplyDelete
Hope you're having a fun filled Christmas weekend ;-)
Hope, Peace, Cookies.ReplyDelete
Now, this is perfect, Simone.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you & your darlings.
Buddy is the new Buddha for sure!ReplyDelete
I will practice the art of smiling too!
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Now it is 10 more sleeps! The tree is up and the lights are ablaze ~ I made my last batch of cookies today and have one more goodie to make tomorrow ~ then we will trim the tree and wrap the gifts. Woohoo ~ I too love this time of year. xoReplyDelete
Ahh you're way more organised than I am this year!ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas x
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A 14-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to helping his friend rob and kill the friend's great-grandmother at her Sheboygan Falls home last September.
Nathan Paape of Sheboygan entered his plea Tuesday in Sheboygan County. The plea comes less than two weeks after Paape's friend, 14-year-old Antonio Barbeau, also of Sheboygan, pleaded not guilty by mental disease or defect.
The Sheboygan Press reports Paape's attorneys want his trial moved because of pre-trial publicity. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 14.
Both teens are charged as adults with first-degree intentional homicide. They're accused of using a hammer and a hatchet to kill Barbeau's great-grandmother, 78-year-old Barbara Olson, at her home Sept. 17, and then stealing money to buy marijuana and pizza. Both boys were 13 at the time.
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If we do not heed that warning, call it a gut reaction or intuition, we regret not following our instincts, which are yet another name for the internal warnings that arise. We worry that someone will feel bad or be hurt by our change of mind and, to our own detriment, we consider another's feelings over our own and we live with the consequences.
The once sought after experience is tainted with having settled for less than what you had hoped. The "shoulda, coulda, wouldas" arrive and camp out with the "What if?' and "Why didn't I just?" families and eat away at our peace.
When we exhibit the courage to change our minds, we are faced with emotional blackmail, the guilt trips and being targeted as fickle or unable to make a decision. People lash out at us and we have to reconcile the attacks with what is ultimately best for us.
All of this reactivity can come from people we know and people we don't really know in an attempt to control their circumstances or ours. And when I say all of this, I am speaking in generalities over time. This is what life is all about. It is unpredictable and we have to learn to go with the "flow" of opposition to what we think, see and believe.
Life is not always going to be easy. Decision-making is not always cut and dried. The path that lies ahead may be nothing of what we had ever dreamed of traveling. What we thought of as a sure thing can change in a moment's notice.
We pray for an answer to a dilemma and suddenly we have it and we don't like God's response. Then we display a "God complex" in which we think we know better than Him.
"There is your answer – no," when His answer might be, "not yet." Sometimes we move forward with one decision when God pulls you aside to say, "Ah, but look over here at this."
Our sights are set on what is directly before us when He is trying to get us to move right or left of center to see something better beyond that. No matter what, He is a God of love, out for our best interests and His answers are never late or wrong; they are on His time and we have to be ready to make adjustments accordingly.
He gave me some answers this week and I know that I upset someone with a change but I made someone else happy that I had delayed a decision as well. Either way, I chose in the direction I was led after thought and prayer and I am good with that.
Jesus told his disciples that a comforter will come. "I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer! For I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)
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But tobacco is legal and a personal choice??
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Congressmen Introduce Anabolic Steroids Bill in House
May 30, 2014
WASHINGTONReps. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation in the House designed to crack down on anabolic steroids masquerading as dietary supplements, according to the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN).
The legislation serves as a companion bill to the Senates Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act (DASCA) of 2014, which was introduced in February by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).
The introduction of the House bill is the next step toward full passage of a much-needed law that will further empower the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with new tools to identify and quickly respond when new designer anabolic steroids are introduced and falsely marketed as dietary supplements," said Mike Greene, CRNs vice president of government relations, in a statement.
The Senate bill, introduced amid the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, would classify "designer anabolic steroids" found in gyms, retail stores and over the Internet as controlled substances.
According to Hatch and Whitehouse, the products are made by reverse engineering illegal steroids and slightly changing their chemical composition. Such reengineering avoids placement on DEA's list of controlled substances, posing a dilemma for federal authorities. According to a DEA official in 2009 testimony on Capitol Hill, if products containing designer steroids meet the definition of a dietary supplement, FDA must demonstrate that they are "adulterated"presenting "a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury"before they can be removed from the market.
Hatch and Whitehouse warned that designer steroids can cause such harm as liver injury and an increased risk of a heart attack and stroke, and may lead to addiction and aggression.
The Senate's legislation will "allow DEA to respond faster to stop those criminals who create new anabolic substances closely resembling listed ones, but tweaked just enough that they are not identical to the ones listed," CRN president and CEO Steve Mister wrote in a March 10, 2014 article for Natural Products INSIDER. "The misbranded steroids, illegally sold as dietary supplements, are not only dangerous for consumers, but also unfairly damage the reputation of responsible dietary supplement companies that provide consumers with legitimate, high-quality and beneficial supplements for sports nutrition and performance."
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Law makers a bunch of damn idiots.
Its all about controlling the populous...
Idiots aren't doing anything but wasting our money and there time to work on other acually important things
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All information discussed is for entertainment purposes only. I do not condone the use of illegal drugs and do not use them myself.
Its all about getting a bill to fix an issue that made it to the news (even though generally nobody cares) so people thing they are actually doing something and justify their huge paychecks.
At least it is a bipartisan bill. That's progress.
Cumming day and night.
Ben Franklin sometimes wished for an English victory, because Americans were a mob and still are. Just now were an assorted mob and the politicians get over on us because of it.
I'm thinking i'm going to do what Prince did and jump this coop?
Let's ban cars, tylenol, swimming pools, 5 gallon buckets, and hands and feet. These items combined kill and hospitaize hundreds of thousands every year.
Here is a novel idea. Require you to pass a steroids test. Then get all the 'roids you want. Lawmakers should enact a law requiring you to pass basic life skills before you can reproduce.
What an F'n joke....But you can drink coffee? I'm on the verge of a melt just reading the first paragraph of HI's post...
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i doubt this Bill will pass as it's written now...it's unconstitutional...DEA enforces the law it doesn't make it...by being the sole decider on what is "illegal" or designed to beat the system is not the the way the constitution is designed...
then again Gov just does whatever they want...what laws??
Seriously fuck the fact that we are in debt to our eyeballs, have serious drug problems (not aas or weed), and our education system is a joke. Let's crack down on pro hormones, that's a real issue....wtf
Anything said by exerciseordie is for educational purposes only! PERIOD!!!! Don't do illegal shit.
Fucking Republicans and their war on drugs .
I'm Libertarian. Even though I'm a registered republican (to vote in the primaries), I vote freedom and common sense. The rest of America wouldn't know what the fuck common sense and true freedom was if it were hanging from their ass holes.
this is another example of govt trying to protect you from yourself. It always leads to a loss of our liberties (freedom to choose what we do to our own bodies) and a tyrannical govt.


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New theater for Weston?Staff Report | January 02,2014Vyto Starinskas / Staff file photo
Steve Stettler, producing director at the Weston Playhouse, announced progress in funding a new intimate theater to complement the Playhouse.WESTON The Weston Playhouse Theatre Companys $10 million capital campaign has reached another milestone with the conditional approval by the Town of Weston Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Planning Commission of the Companys plan to build a new studio theater on the former Walker dairy farm in Weston Village.
Located on Route 100 South, also known as Westons Main Street, the new theater will complement the historic flagship Weston Playhouse on the Weston Village Green. The 2,900-square-foot building will accommodate up to 140 people in a flexible seating plan that allows for both theatrical and community uses. The five-acre parcel includes the Walker farmhouse, barns and two large silos, which will be preserved.
Steve Stettler, Westons resident producing artistic director, said, We will, of course, continue to offer great summer shows in the Weston Playhouse, but this project will allow us to extend our reach. During the summer the theater at Walker Farm will serve as a setting for thought-provoking pieces and other shows that are better suited to a smaller and more flexible space. The new theater will also expand our season into the autumn and provide a community resource for meetings and all kinds of events.
Stettler continued, Perhaps most important, the studio theater will be the centerpiece of our project to create an incubator for the performing arts in Vermont a greatly expanded program to develop new musicals and plays, bringing theater artists from across the U.S. to work and create in a quiet rural setting. The program will enhance Vermonts reputation for excellence in the arts, have a positive economic impact on our region, and make a major contribution to the future of the American theater.
The new theater is a major part of the theatre companys $10 million capital campaign. In addition to the land acquisition, design and construction costs of the new building, the campaign includes a half-million dollar education endowment, $1 million in improvements to the Weston Playhouse building, and a $1.5 million Fund for the American Theatre, which will provide approximately $200,000 a year over seven years in support of the new works incubator.
The campaign is being chaired by Wayne Granquist, chairman emeritus of the theater company, and has raised $5.4 million to date. With a target construction start date of April 2015, the Company hopes to be producing on the Walker Farm by the summer of 2016.
Granquist said, The Walker Farm was home to Kenneth and Anna Walker and to Gladys Walker, who performed in the communitys first production at the original Weston Playhouse in 1935 and remained active in the theater throughout her life. She organized the ushers, collected tickets, and attended almost every production, sitting front and center, up until the month prior to her death at age 102. This project is the culmination of her dream to bring world-class professional theatre to Weston on a year-round basis.
Amy Bannon, capital campaign administrator and a Weston resident, said, We are actively seeking donations during the final phase of this exciting campaign. We welcome comments and suggestions on how we can grow our dream that Weston will become a nationally recognized destination for theatre audiences and artists, with a reputation for artistic excellence and the development of exciting new work.
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Mr. Atwater: We have a 17-, soon to be 18-year-old son. He's a good kid and was an occasional pot smoker through most of high school, but within the past year he has started smoking much more often – sometimes before school, after school and later after work.
He's seen counselors for other issues but seems to feel fine about the pot use. His grades are starting to suffer, and he's much moodier and angrier. We caught him smoking at home, a big infraction of our rules, and now we're wondering what to do.
Dear Reader: Usually what your question means is "how do I get my kid to stop smoking weed?" There are too many pieces missing to the puzzle to give you a good answer, but I'll start by saying doing something now as opposed to when he was 12 or 13 will be different. First of all, you aren't going to get him to quit smoking weed. He might stop, and you might be able to help facilitate that decision, but you won't get him to quit.
Problems like you describe usually take a period of time to incubate and then pick up the necessary velocity to be noticed, so although it may seem to you like things changed in the past year, I guarantee you things were changing before that. You also mentioned he had been in counseling for "other issues," which might yield some clues (for him) as to what he needs to work on.
We almost have to handle two separate problems. The first is what you will do that might affect what he will do. The second is what he will do. With a 17-year-old living in your house, I assume you have some boundaries and some rules. You will need to continue to enforce those rules. With a 17-year-old who has a driver's license, you might have a little leverage to use. But the main focus needs to be how you can be most helpful.
I suggest building in a requirement for a drug evaluation and follow through with any recommendations as part of any plan you make with him.
A good evaluation will help to guide whatever comes next, whether treatment of some kind or not. If treatment is required, the first step is to provide a safe and nonjudgmental environment for each young person to begin to make good decisions for themselves and how they need to handle their issues.
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For many people, the thought of Ireland conjures up images of rolling emerald hills and quaint country folk with thick brogues popping down to the pub for a pint.
Or maybe just leprechauns and Shamrock Shakes.
Truth is, Ireland has given the world many great things. After all, the millions of Irish people who migrated to America in the midst of the Great Potato Famine in the mid-1800s help build this nation up into what it is today.
St. Patrick's Day is more than just a time to hoist a glass of beer tinted with green food coloring and think about how Ireland has no snakes thanks to, allegedly, St. Patty; it's also a day to celebrate everything Irish.
In that spirit, let's count down the five greatest things modern Ireland has exported to America.
No. 5: Irish actors
Where would Hollywood be without the likes of Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell or relative newcomers Michael Fassbender ("Inglorious Basterds" and "X-Men: First Class") and Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement" and "The Lovely Bones")?
A lot less entertaining, that's what.
Without Ireland's Pierce Brosnan, who would have bridged the Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig eras of James Bond? Without Northern Ireland's Neeson, who would have calmly but menacingly described of his "particular set of skills" in "Taken"? Heck, without Ireland we wouldn't have had "Lawrence of Arabia" (thanks, Peter O'Toole).
OK, so we would have had those movies, likely with somebody else filling the roles. But Hollywood and its audiences would have been worse off for it.
And don't even get us started on Roma Downey. We don't even want to imagine a world without "Touched by an Angel."
No. 4: Claddagh rings
The Claddagh: It's not just for the Irish any more.
That might as well be the motto for the symbol consisting of a crowned heart grasped between two hands. Walk into any Irish gift shop in any mall in America, and it'll be hard to miss.
More than 300 years after the ring's origins in a small Irish fishing village just outside of Galway, it's worn far and wide as a symbol of love, friendship and loyalty.
But the ring is more than just a history-rich beautiful piece of jewelry, it's also functional. Worn on the right hand with the heart facing out means you're looking for love. Wear it on the same hand but facing inward, and your heart has been "captured."
How romantic is that?
No wonder Hollywood has latched onto the ring as shorthand for romance, with the Claddagh popping up in movies such as "Leap Year" and TV shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
No. 3: Irish musicians
Everybody knows about U2, and rightfully so.
Although only two members (Bono and drummer Larry Mullen Jr.) of the quintessential Irish rock group actually hale from the Emerald Isle, the band will forever be associated with Ireland.
But the country has given the world many other great musical acts.
Whether you're a fan of Enya, Sinéad O'Connor, Damien Rice, The Cranberries, Thin Lizzy or Van Morrison, you owe Ireland a debt of gratitude the next time you rock out ... or whatever it is people do while listening to Enya's music.
And that's not even considering the phenomenon that is Celtic Woman. Those angel-voiced Irish lasses could sign the phone book on PBS and we would give it a listen.
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Tue, 4 Feb 2014 1:00 PM - 2:30 PMFestival Conference and Student Center, Highlands Room
Facilitators from The Madison Collaborative: Ethical Reasoning in Action will engage participants in an experience that illustrates the complexities of making decisions in difficult ethical situations. Drawing from scenarios in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, participants will apply Eight Key Questions for ethical reasoning to complicated situations and also see how the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the situation are often inextricably connected. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com to register for the event. Space is limited.
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Milwaukee Film Festival picks: Day Eleven
One regrettable, if inevitable, occurrence during a film festival is that films you want to see often play opposite each other. That occurs Sunday at the Milwaukee Film Festival with parallel screenings of "The Act of Killing" (Downer Theatre) and "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me" (Fox-Bay Cinema Grill), both at 8 p.m.
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Crumrine was commenting on a rumor that was spreading that claimed the city had only a 40-day supply of water available.
"They're releasing water so that we can continue to draw it" at the city's raw water intake structure at Swinney Switch, Crumrine assured city residents.
"I'm not concerned," he said. "I am very concerned that we're not going to have enough water in the future," Crumrine continued. But he said the city is not facing a dire shortage of water at this time.
"Is it an emergency?" Crumrine asked. "Yeah, it's getting close."
However, the board president said he feels certain that Beeville is not facing an eminent threat of running out of water in the next month.
Crumrine said there is enough water in the Choke Canyon Reservoir to fill up Lake Corpus Christi several times.
City has ample supply
George P. Morrill, I Water Treatment Plant Superintendent Hector Salinas also did not express concern about the city's water supply.
He said Urban Engineering is working on making sure that the city has ample supplies from Corpus Christi's reservoirs, Lake Corpus Christi and the Choke Canyon Reservoir.
Engineer Jim Urban, one of the principals of the Urban firm, repeated what Salinas said.
"The City of Corpus Christi is in complete control of releasing water," Urban said.
BWSD's intake structure can continue to take water out of the Nueces River when the level of Lake Corpus Christi is at 77 feet above sea level.
"It's at 77.9 feet right now," Urban said. Corpus Christi has every intention of maintaining the 77-foot level of the lake for the time being.
Citizens get nervous
Urban expressed concern that apparently Beeville residents get "whipped up" about a possible water emergency every now and then. He said some type of mechanical failure in a pump or in some equipment at the treatment plant at Swinney Switch is more likely to interrupt Beeville's flow of water than a drop in lake levels.
The falling level of Lake Corpus Christi is part of Corpus Christi's water management plan. But Urban said there is probably enough water in Choke Canyon to last two years.
The level of Lake Corpus Christi is allowed to fall during periods of drought, because when rainfall comes to the Coastal Bend, that lake needs to catch water.
If Choke Canyon fills up and overflows, the water going down the Nueces River is caught in Lake Corpus Christi.
But if Lake Corpus Christi fills up and overflows, that water is lost downstream.
"You can't pump it back up to Choke Canyon," Urban said.
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Also, because Lake Corpus Christi has silted up over the years and is no longer a deep lake, water evaporates much faster there than in Choke Canyon.
The latest lake level report proves that. It revealed that the level at Lake Corpus Christi had dropped by .07 feet from the previous day, while the level at Choke Canyon had not fallen any in the same period.
The City of Corpus Christi's web site shows that Lake Corpus Christi is considered full when the level of water is at 94 feet above sea level. At that point the lake holds 257,260 acre-feet of water. The bottom of that lake is at 55 feet above sea level.
Choke Canyon Reservoir is full when its water level is at 220.5 feet above sea level and the lake holds 695,271 acre-feet of water. The bottom of that lake is at 132 feet above sea level.
At its current 77.94 feet, Lake Corpus Christi is down by 16.6 feet and now is at only 17.7 percent of capacity. At this time last year, the lake was at 53.1 percent of capacity.
This week the level at Choke Canyon is at 206.12 feet and it is holding 54.4 percent of its capacity.
Choke could refill lake several times
Urban echoed Crumrine's statement that there is enough water in Choke Canyon to fill Lake Corpus Christi several times.
Urban said Corpus Christi continuously seeks new sources of water for that city. Recent efforts include the construction of the Mary Rhodes Pipeline from Lake Texana and an agreement with the Garwood Irrigation Company for the purchase of 35,000 acre-feet of water a year.
But there are several communities that depend on Lake Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon Reservoir for their water supplies and Urban said the City of Corpus Christi will honor those commitments.
Corpus Christi does intend eventually to allow the level of the lower lake to draw down to 74 feet above sea level. But that cannot be done now, because it would leave cities like Beeville and Alice without water. State agencies will not allow that to happen.
Corpus Christi will give those cities the opportunity to rearrange their intake structures so that they can continue to take water at that depth.
Need alternate sources
Urban said Beeville needs to arrange for alternate water supplies in the event of a problem with the surface water system. That means depending on ground water (wells) for backup.
The city had agreed to maintain several of the wells that were no longer used after Beeville built the current surface water system. In fact, in previous droughts, Beeville has used its wells to blend with surface water supplies to maintain a steady flow of water. But only two or three of those original five wells are operational now, Crumrine said.
Urban said Beeville would still have to use surface water in the future in the event that it has to pump water from the aquifers again. The quality of the water in the aquifers is marginal and would have to be blended with surface water.
"I don't want to say it's a rosy situation," Urban opined. However, with the recent installation of new pumps at the intake structure and other improvements expected in the months ahead, the engineer believes Beeville is on the right track to correct its problems.
For example, the city has hired HDR Engineering to prepare a report on the location and quality of the water in aquifers that could be tapped for emergencies.
Oil field increases water usage
One of the concerns is that water usage for the city has increased by about a million gallons a day. Urban believes the increase in oil field activities in the Beeville area is responsible for much of that. He said oil field operations could use other sources of water, such as wastewater treatment plant effluent.
Another fix Beeville needs to address is the leaky pipeline between Swinney Switch and the city's storage tanks. That has been a significant problem for years. That situation is being studied, and, hopefully, a solution can be found before long.
Corpus Christi has already been paid for water leaking from that 18-mile line, and Beeville has already treated it.
Also, when it comes to the volume of lake water used in the Coastal Bend, Beeville's portion is not that significant. Beeville is using about 5 million gallons a day (mgd). But Corpus Christi uses 100 million-plus gallons of water a day, Urban said.
"If it were 4 percent or 5 percent, I'd be surprised," Urban said.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A priest who led St. Lawrence Seminary High School in Mount Calvary has been removed from public ministry over allegations of sexual abuse more than 25 years ago in Montana.
The Rev. Dennis Druggan had been on administrative leave since the first complaint in July. The Capuchin Province of St. Joseph said a second complainant later came forward.
The order said it found sufficient evidence to sustain the allegations, so it removed Druggan as rector and president of St. Lawrence Seminary, and barred him from public ministry. The order said he'll be encouraged to live a life of prayer and penance in a suitable friary.
The Fond du Lac Reporter said no allegations have surfaced involving his time at the Wisconsin school.
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Recently SquareTrade has begun resending out the same codes from Tuesday on different days of the week, this is good and bad as it allows for people to receive 30% on more then just Tuesday but there is a chance of re sharing a used code. the safest bet to get a code is to check on Tuesday, as those will all be fresh codes.
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If you are attempting to purchase a warranty for a television. consider buying one through Costco. **** EDIT See this Post Before you do that. https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
Their plans are cheaper for TVs more than $700 when compared to warranty purchases directly through ST with a 30% off code.
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Example: For a TV with a one-warranty, you will effectively have a two-year warranty if the TV is bought at Costco(A manufacturer's one-year warranty and a one-year Costco Concierge Service Warranty that will kick in when the manufacturer's warranty expires);
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After these two one-year warranties expire, the ST warranty will be in effect. A 3-year ST extended warranty purchased at Costco is equal to a regular 5-year ST warrantty(The cost of my Costco ST warranty for a sub-$500 TV was only $30, much cheaper than any regular ST warranty with any discount!)
An additional benefit for buying any TV at Costco, even without any extended warranty: Costco will help with any technical Q's and help facilitate a repair at any time. Of course, if there is no warranty in effect, repair costs are paid by you.
Summary: I doubt any retailer has the warranty or customer service that Costco provides. Let me know if you find one!
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For laptops over $800, you should consider checking out St warranties through amazon
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They are already discounted and the price points are divided differently i.e. 700-800 as opposed to the ST website who only offers a plan for 700-999. you will be able to get a more tailored price for your laptop.
So if an item has a 90 day warranty many cards will double that to 180days.
A 1 year warranty becomes ~ 2 Years with the CC company.
Not all processes are easy or painless. MUST keep your receipt or pre-submit it to CC company for them to keep on file in case of a problem AMEX is considered the easiest and best to deal with. Certain Discover Card's added this service formally in 2012.
(CALL & CHECK IF YOUR CARD(s) do this
Many VISA's also offer an extended warranty plan for purchase of some Electronics like TVs, Laptops...) (NOT ALL VISA's offer this so you need to call and ask if they do)
Depending on the cost of the item (TVs 3 or 5 year plans, Laptops 4 year plans) determines what the cost of the warranty will be. Some of the tiers around $1000 TVS drop to 9% so it can be quite competitive or better in some cases than S.T.
(CALL & CHECK IF YOUR CARD(s) do this
Can I repurchase my warranty if a larger discount amount comes up?
As of now, ST will only allow a warranty to be purchased 30 Days from the date of purchase - the option for 90 days since purchase has been drastically shortened.
IF another SquareTrade promotion comes along that gives a greater discount then the 30%, you should be able to cancel the 30% code plan and repurchase the warranty with the greater discount IF AND ONLY IF it is still within the first month of the items purchase date.
DO NOT cancel your warranty to try to repurchase with a greater discount if 30 days have passed since you purchased your item or you might end up with no viable means of purchasing a warranty for your item again.
S.T. Code Terms TERMS:
Coupon Code is valid for 30% off, up to a maximum of $30 through 23:59 PT Month Day, 2013. After that, Coupon Code is valid for 20% off, up to a maximum of $30 through 23:59 PT Month Day, 2013. Coupon is not valid for any Kindle products. Coupon is only applicable to non-eBay warranties purchased at www.squaretrade.com [squaretrade.com] by U.S. residents. Coupon offer is not available on Amazon.com, QVC, Costco, Buy.com, Crutchfield, Abt Electronics, Vanns Inc, Woot.com, TigerDirect, CompUSA, circuitcity.com, Global computers, InfoTel and Purchasing Power, as well as government and businesses. Warranties must be purc hased within 30 days. Coupon may not be combined with any other offer. Coupon cannot be applied retroactively to past purchases. Unauthorized reproduction, resale, modification or trade of coupon and/or coupon code is strictly prohibited. Coupon offer is not available for warranty orders in large quantity for education purposes
30 percent off over phone (YMMV)
I just called them , and they gave me a 30 percent off without any code .
So , people who dont have any code can try this. YMMV
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So I was thinking to make a general Tuesday code thread to keep it organized so people don't have to search high and low and necro older threads in an attempt to get a code
If I am overstepping please fell free to tell me so and I won't assert for this to last more then just this week
So without further Adieu
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So what do you think when it's June? June brides? Flag Day? Juneteenth?
Don't forget: June is Adopt A Cat Month!
Visit your local shelter. Go to Petfinder.org and look at cats up for adoption. Or adopt a kitten or cat that you know someone needs to find a forever home.
And remember, if you have a new cat or kitten that just loves to be admired, loves people and isn't shy, why not try showing him or her at a TICA show in Household Pet Cat or Kitten? It's fun!
If you can't adopt a cat or kitten, help out your local shelter or rescue group with donations of beds, blankets, newspapers, food, toys or money!


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This seaside garden in Connecticut is an oasis for birds and butterflies.
"I choose plants to feed the birds or attract the butterflies," says Bunny O'Callahan, explaining the composition of her seaside garden in Connecticut. "Sunflowers really draw the goldfinches in. I like to float on my back in the pool and listen to them and watch butterflies and hummingbirds on the Buddleia. It's paradise." Bunny also has a soft spot for bees, which congregate on her billowy blue catmint and Russian sage.
Bunny and her husband Juan's mansard-roofed, circa-1860s house sits on a breathtaking promontory at the southeastern tip of the state. Inside, visitors immediately gravitate to one spot: a living room bay with floor-to-ceiling windows and magnificent views to three sides.
To the right, there's the historic village of Stonington, still looking as though a whaleship might come into port. To the left, there's the curving shore of Rhode Island. Straight ahead lies a flat, sandy barrier island, and beyond, Long Island Sound and open ocean.
Complementing the expansive vistas, a sweep of garden extends from the house down to a protective seawall at the water's edge. In the foreground, a tiny garden pool guarded by St. Francis echoes the saltwater in the distance. Bunny laughingly shares the fact that a pair of wild ducks likes to frequent this tiny reflection of the larger environment.
Since 1992, when the O'Callahans moved here, their goal has been to create a peaceful oasis for friends and family, especially their 12 grandchildren. "The children sense a freedom here that they don't have at home because they live on busy streets," Bunny explains. "They can get out of the car and run. They play soccer and football and fly planes and kites. They go check the chickens to see if there are any eggs, and visit the vegetable garden to see what we're going to pick for supper. They run down to the beach searching for little treasures, like sea glass and shells. It's a magical kingdom for them."
The heart and soul of this realm is the sunken garden (also called the "secret" garden because it's not visible from the house). When the O'Callahans bought the property, they knew they wanted to develop this area first. A 10-foot-tall retaining wall and stone steps were discovered under overgrown Boston ivy and Euonymus. Now the grandchildren take special pleasure in this restored space, playing hide-and-seek amidst its tall grasses and ledge outcroppings.
Another major landscape feature is a large cutting and vegetable garden ringed by a tall yew hedge. Juan, whose father was a professional artist, is a passionate painter himself. Juan designed the layout of the hedge to protect the plants within from wind and to create the feeling of a walled English garden.
If there's one challenge to gardening in an exposed coastal location, it's wind. At one time the O'Callahans grew tea roses, but many of them succumbed during one particularly bitter winter. Since then, Bunny and Juan have focused on growing tougher customers, although they do make an exceptional effort to preserve a fruiting fig by wrapping it in foam and tarpaulins every November.
But sometimes the wind can work in a gardener's favor: It knocks down slender twigs of a favorite corkscrew willow, which Bunny then gathers to display in vases throughout the house. Fog, too, is a cloud with a silver lining. It can promote fungal problems, especially on susceptible plants such as tall phlox and tomatoes, but the water that condenses out of it can help keep sandy soil moist. Mulching with a generous layer of straw also conserves moisture. At the end of the season, Bunny turns the straw into the soil to decompose.
Finally, the sea itself can be both boon and bane. Fierce storms sometimes blow waves over the access road, leaving behind dripping piles of seaweed. But rather than return it all to the sea, Bunny fertilizes her garden with it and shares it with other gardeners, too.
The circle of people whom the O'Callahans have touched with their garden is wide — and growing wider. A number of artists — many of them members of Stonington's "Monday Morning Painting Group," which Juan co-founded — have painted en plein air there. "At any art show around here," Bunny says, "you can probably find one work painted in our garden." And now Juan hopes to run a fitness retreat for people 60 and over on the property (p-sarp.com). "I'm over 70," he notes, "and I want to keep fit and help others keep fit."
Taking care of others comes naturally to this couple — as the birds, the butterflies, the bees, and the grandchildren can all attest.


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Charles in Charge: By Design of the Master
Both of Charles' parents labored hard in the rice paddies all day long but brought home little money. When Charles mother got sick, they did not have money to take her to the hospital.
Charles never found out why she was sick. She just grew weaker by the day, until finally she died. He still wonders if the disease his mother succumbed to was curable.Continue Reading ›


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Could this be caused by fore/hindmilk imbalance?
I am hoping you can help me with a somewhat confusing situation. I have two children - one who just turned 2 and the other who is 3 months old. For the last two years, give or take a few months, we have been consumed with figuring out what has been causing stomach troubles in our 2 year old. It started off as gas, then when he was about 4 months old, he would have a BM every week or so. The older he got, the more difficult it became for him to pass stools. There would be times we would both sit on the floor crying because he was in so much pain. Sometimes suppositories worked, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes karo syrup worked, sometimes it didn't. Up until he was about 6 months old, his diet was 90% breast milk, 10% formula (cow's milk then eventually soy). After realizing that our pediatrician wasn't helpful at all we decided to assign a naturopathic doctor as his primary care doctor. She advised us to put him on a dairy-free diet, which we did (at this point he was off breast milk and formula and was drinking coconut milk). After several months, we realized that a dairy-intolerance was not the culprit as his bm's were still very irregular and he was always constipated. (He drinks a ton of fluid throughout the day.) So, we stopped the dairy-free diet, kept him on coconut milk (he won't drink cow's milk or eat cheese or anything like that....) and used Miralax, as needed. (He has also been given high quality cod liver oil and probiotics every night.) Right around this time his doctor ran a stool sample (I think it was the CDSA 2.0) which showed a PH imbalance and dysbiosis. She recommended using Grapefruit seed extract. Today, things seem to be working themselves out for him. I wouldn't say that he's regular but he is not dealing with constipation or anything like that anymore.
Now, onto our 3 month old. Just like our 2 year old, his diet is almost all breast milk with the exception of maybe 4oz a day of formula while he is at daycare - I've not been able to pump enough of a supply to keep him exclusively breastfed. When he was a newborn he was constantly looking to eat so he was always fed on demand. It never seemed like he was satisfied so when he was ~4 weeks old, I tried giving him 2 oz of formula after I breast fed him. He seemed full and satisfied. We rarely gave him formula unless he seemed unsatisfied. He wasn't getting formula daily until about 3 weeks ago when he started at daycare. Anyway, his awful gas started BEFORE the formula was introduced so my guess is that the formula has nothing to do with it. The other trouble is that for the last 5 weeks or so, he has only had 3 bm's - all of which were helped along from using a suppository. If his diet was all breast milk (and he wasn't so gassy) I wouldn't be as concerned but he is also drinking formula.
I've been working with the same naturopath and she has suggested dairy avoidance for both of us along with a high quality probiotic. I haven't tried it just yet - and I'm wondering if dairy is even the issue.
My reason for writing today is to ask if you think that, given the history of both children, do you think that this could be a problem with my breast milk? Meaning - could I be producing too much foremilk and not enough hind milk? Could this have caused long-term effects in our 2 year old after we had stopped breast feeding (constipation, dysbiosis)? Could this be what is causing the awful gas in our 3 month old? (Is it the formula that is keeping him from having a BM more regularly?)
I look forward to your response. I have done so much research on my own but I really need the thoughts from someone who has more experience.
Thank you