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Carp fishing at money ponds
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#1 Jun 7, 2009
Anybody on here do any carp fishing for money at any of the local ponds? Anyone have any good baits to share?
#2 Jun 7, 2009
Leftys Carp Balls
More exotic formulas have been devised to catch carp and catfish than any other fish. One of the best carp doughball recipes comes from Lefty Kreh, the latter-20th-centurys "Godfather of Flyfishing," who got it from a local carpmeister. The key is Jell-O, preferably strawberry. The quick recipe is as follows:
Bring a pint of water to a boil, reduce the heat to low and stir in half a pack of strawberry Jell-O. Add two tablespoons of sugar and a tablespoon of vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, dry-mix two cups of cornmeal and one cup of flour. Now sprinkle some of the dry-mix over the setting Jell-O. When a bubble appears, add more dry-mix. Keep doing that until all the dry-mix is used, stir for half a minute and then dump the goo on a sheet of aluminum foil. When it cools, knead it into a ball. Wrap the ball in foil or a big Ziploc bag and store it in the refrigerator, where itll keep for a week or so. On the water, simply break off bait-size pieces, knead into little balls and thread them onto the hook.
This was copied from Jerry Gibbs Fishing column in the February 2000 issue of Outdoor Life.
#4 Jun 7, 2009
Use to use molasses,horse and mule feed and corn starch as a binder.
Need to know temp of pond water. Mix molasses and feed with small amount of corn starch(about half five gallon bucket).Let set for four to seven days in closed bucket, when right will smell like liqour. To test: knead into small ball put in bowl of water about the same temp. as pond. Time it to find out time of break up. Time should be around 1-1and half minute. Add corn starch for more stiffness or less for quicker break up. To bait hook put sugar pops(2 or 3) on hook then form small bait ball around them,.If it falls of hook when cast nedd to add little more molasses.
Use to win with this years ago, might not work now.Cost could also be a factor now.
#5 Jun 7, 2009
sounds like a black pack molasses bait I used to make about ten years ago with chow. Boy are you right about the smell if its right it will knock your head off....
#6 Jun 7, 2009
Have you tried this out gv?
#7 Jun 7, 2009
I know that I have argued with you on some of your posts before and know that your probally not going to listen to me this time but here go's
First the 2 baits these guy's are talking about were out of date in the 80's and are worthless at any pond that I know of (and i've fished them all in this area) the 2nd guy was right about the breakup time though but the ingredients are ancient. To fish now you need to learn how to make an oates bait a rice bait a trout chow bait a grits bait and a millet bait before you ever even get started plus you need the knowledge or dumb luck of deciding which one best suits the lake and time of year and water temp you are fishing.
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#8 Jun 7, 2009
No I am sorry I have not. I should have mentioned that little fact. Thanks for asking... I would hate for you to have mixed that up for nothing.
Maybe go down to the college and buy a couple of science teachers,(Biology & Chemistry), a cup of coffee and see what they think. Take some doughnuts to go with their coffee Get them all high on sugar and caffeine and they will probably come up something.
#9 Jun 7, 2009
if you go to a money pond around here gv...those old men have PHDs in bait making. I can make a sugarpop swim by itself like a little motor boat by putting some oil on it. These men will NOT tell you jack. This is a very competitive sport. I have seen fights and even pistols pulled at some.
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#10 Jun 7, 2009
LOL... I know what you mean... they're not going to tell you anything! Contact the good folks in the science department of NCSU and ask them if they can help.
#11 Jun 8, 2009
Rusty is right, those are the best bait. I know when I use to go to my brother-in-law's carp lake, he would fix me the rice bait. It has been a few years since I have gone, but I would talk to some of the seasoned fishermen and they told me the best flavoring to use would be what was in season, like strawberry season use strawberry flavoring, blackberry, blackberry flavoring, ect, ect. if none in season try different ones like butternut, vanilla, ect.
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#12 Sep 27, 2010
Leftys Carp Balls:
From what little I know,Lefty used this on the upper Potomac river primarily,not in ponds. Carp are not heavily fished there. I was out there last Saturday (with no carp bait) and there were at least 25 5# to 20# fat river carp swimming around (plus 50 14" smaller carp).
They would not bite what I was throwing (2" plastic curly tail bait.
I hope to try the bait out next weekend....
#13 Jun 4, 2012
Get 2 boxes of grits in a bucket pour a can of cream style corn a a can of kernel corn, then mix 1-5 lid fulls of flavoring.
#14 Jun 4, 2012
Or buy a 28oz bottle of ketchup and a 32oz box of minute made rice.
First pour the ketchup in a pot that can be put on the stove. Then fill the bottle back up with water and pour in there.
Next get the ketchup to a boil.
After its at a boil pour the rice in the ketchup.
Next is the most important step take the pot off the stove and put a LID ON FOR 30 MINUTES AND DO NOT TAKE THE LID OFF FOR AT LEAST 30 MINUTES. Hope these helps..
#15 Jun 4, 2012
You can use any flavoring you like this is a pineapple one he also tells about cooking the rice so that you can use it faster. This is a straight up video on the basics of rice baits. BUT REMEMBER each fisherman has his own little special touch that he swears by you will just have to take it and run with it. BTW the hotter it gets outside the better the rice works. It's def a dog day bait.
#16 Jun 5, 2012
I ysed to date a guy whose father used strawberry Slim Fast in his. I'm not sure what all else was in it though.
And you are right, these baits smell horrible!
But maybe there is something up with the strawberry though, since it has been mentioned before.
Good Luck!
#17 Sep 2, 2012
I fish a pond right out of Monroe, NC. and we have some that just catch all night long and then there is me not catching nothing much at all. Using grits, rice trout chow and oats. My flavor is the problem. Don't know what really to use. Any help and I know that is a lot to ask, but it is the only place we can fish. My wife and I are both disabled and we can't go that much. Thanks
#18 Sep 8, 2012
we fish at the local ponds here in central nc and have won alot of money lately and caught some big fish with the simplest bait to make try this larry and let me know how it works for you.
1 bag of chow #2 works best
1 can of creamstyle corn
mello fruity flavoring
put chow in a bucket put half a bottle of mello fruity flavoring in chow and mix well. wait 30 mins stir up chow and add 1/4 can of corn. put something hut in the pop and hold on
#19 Jan 26, 2013
What is Chow #2? Is this a feed store item or grocery? It seems that carp are as picky as people..........
#20 Jan 26, 2013
It's a chow size #2 is small pellet chow I'm assuming that the guy is saying to use it whole not ground. You might want to check with the owner of the lake you are fishing first though as a lot of lakes in this area don't allow you to use whole chow.
#21 Jan 26, 2013
So basically trout chow are fish pellets, from what I can tell.
Where do you buy trout chow? Local feed stores? Thanks for your help.
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So far, the WRX is just perfect. I love the performance (haven't opened it up yet though), love the look (IMHO best looking car in this class), and actually love the interior of the car. I've been offering to run every errand imaginable this weekend to get more time in the car. I have a WRB Premium hatch with the short throw and "popular" package. The only minor complaints are that the SPT short throw doesn't really feel that short and the stock WRX shift knob is pretty disappointing. I like the look of the upgraded STI one, but need to do some research on whether anyone sells it cheaper than the dealer.
I have no solid mod plans yet. I'll probably get a few thousand miles past break-in before I decide anything, but at this point I'm thinking I won't go past a stage 1 tune.
Pics are below. There's a few of the WRX and then my other pride and joy: two cars in a two car garage. Anyone in central Texas can tell you that without basements around here, not using your garage for storage is tough.:


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Could Mike Brown return?
(Cleveland) The Cavaliers are in search mode for a new head coach, and the
search could mean the return of a familiar face. Former Cavs head coach Mike
Brown met with the Cavs Sunday night and it appears he may be the frontrunner
for the job. Brown who was fired by the Lakers just 5 games into the past season
holds many of the qualities, that the Cavs are seeking in their next bench
boss. He has had success as a head coach. He is defensive minded and
considered to be a very good teacher.
Brown is also very fond of Cleveland and had already made plans for his family
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The Cavs may have to act quickly to hire Brown, as he could have several
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Affordability problems for American renters have skyrocketed over the past decade.Eric Belsky, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies(JCHS), discusses housing in the United States and issues for both renters and home owners.
Q: Since signs of the U.S. housing crisis first emerged in 2007, attention has focused on home owners. What has led to the current crisis for renters?
Belsky:Well, there are a number of things that are contributing to the problems that renters are experiencing. Clearly, one of them is the fact that a lot of people have lost their jobs or had hours curtailed. If they had two earners in the household, they now have one earner. So, whatever income they have doesn't stretch as far. And at the same time that incomes for both low and moderate income people have been losing ground to general price inflation, rents have been moving up ahead of inflation, largely because rents are more influenced by increases in things like utility and other operating costs.
Construction costs have also been going up and for the last two or three years so we've seen tightening in rental markets. And in addition to the regular cost-push factors on rents, you have the ability of landlords to be able to pass along larger rent increases because markets are tight. Landlords went through a number of years during which they weren't able to increase rents to cover their costs, so this is a way for them to make up for some lost ground. But it translates into higher rents for renters.
Q: Some analysts are calling this the worst rental housing crisis ever in the United States, but we all remember other boom and bust cycles. What's different this time?
Belsky:I think what's different this time is that the crisis is coming after decades of eroding affordability for renters, and the period since 2000 has seen a dramatic worsening of the problem. So, the shares of people, for example, that spend more than half of their income on housing went from about one-in-10 households in the 1960s to about one-in-five in 2000. Since 2000, they've gone to more than one-in-four households. So, this problem has gotten dramatically worse very quickly.
Q: Urban areas where the rents have been high and stayed high – like New York and Boston – are especially squeezed when it comes to the current rental housing crisis. In those cities' recent mayoral races, we heard a lot about housing issues. What can policy makers do to effectively address the housing challenges their cities face, from homelessness to high rents to unaffordability for potential home owners?
Belsky:Well, first of all, it's great to see housing as a critical topic and issue in big city mayoral races. I think it's a bread-and-butter issue. So, the fact that politicians are starting to pay attention to this issue is, at some level, unsurprising. But often housing has not been an issue in mayoral races because most of the effort to try to address these severe affordability problems have emanated from Washington and have involved federal programs and federal spending.
There's a whole range of things that both state and local governments can do – from regulation making it easier to build at greater densities and smaller units to more traditional subsidies and tax incentive programs. Many cities have been doing a lot in this space in recent years, and they're starting to do more.
One idea is to try to pass some kind of inclusionary zoning ordinance. These ordinances require developers of market-rate rental housing to set aside a certain number of units for more affordable rent levels. Very often this is done not through a mandatory set-aside, but through some kind of incentive zoning, which makes it more attractive to be able to build on a site by allowing more units to be built and in return the developer agrees to provide some affordable housing. Sometimes they do it through a contribution to a trust fund. Cities can also use their own land or repurpose buildings, like schools that are no longer being used, and cycle those into the private sector at some kind of discounted price, again, in return getting some number of affordable rental units. And at the margins, cities that can't generate much from their basic property tax base can use some of the generally appropriated funds to be able to help assist renters, and so some cities have at least some programs that do those kinds of things.
Q: During the housing foreclosure crisis, there was a lot of talk about the advantages of renting over homeownership, especially in light of risky home loans. Now many Americans find themselves in a double bind where home loans are still difficult to obtain while renting requires them to spend a prohibitive percentage of their income. What is the prudent choice now for families and individuals looking for decent, affordable housing in America?
Belsky:When you look at any individual household's set of circumstances, they have to make a number of judgments when they make a decision about whether to buy a home or continue to rent, assuming that that's what they're now doing. They have to determine what they think house prices may do in the future, what they think interest rates may do in the future, and what they think rents may do in the future. What we've seen lately is rents continuing to inflate for three or four years after a period during which there was a stall in rents surrounding the economic crisis.
We're back in an environment now in which rents are moving ahead of inflation, and in that kind of environment, I think a lot of people look around and they say, what would it cost to buy a place that was similar to the one that I want to rent? And when they do that comparison, what they find is, on a monthly cost basis, it may look quite attractive to own. And they have the potential for appreciation. And when they write that mortgage check some portion goes to paying down the principal, which helps them build an asset through home ownership.
They also take a risk, of course, that prices may fall. However, right not it appears prices are more likely to continue climbing for a while. But even if they don't, homeowners will begin to pay off their principal over time. So, I think a lot of people are going to look at that, and they're going to think that this might be an appealing time to buy.
Another challenge for home buyers is a set of some rather restrictive underwriting standards. So, people may have the will to buy a home, but they may not be able to do it due to these mortgage qualification standards. So, home ownership is very often a prudent financial decision. It depends on individual circumstances. It's not a certain bet, but I think the larger issue now is a lot of people may want to avoid paying these escalating rents by buying a home, yet they will not have the ability to do so because of the lending standards.
Q: The Joint Center for Housing Studies recently released a major report about renting in the United States. Are there other highlights from that report that we haven't covered yet that you'd like to mention?
Belsky: Well, I think it's really interesting, of course, to look at the fact that the home ownership rate has been on the decline for a number of years. So it peaked at about 69 percent; it's now down to about 65 percent. That doesn't sound like a lot, but that four percentage points is well over five million households that might, under other circumstances, have been owners and now are renters.
So, we've just seen a real updraft in demand for rental housing, and we see that against a backdrop of a very significant decline in production of rental housing units, largely multi-family apartments. When you get that combination of a surge in demand – in fact rental housing demand is running at a record pace going all the way back to the 1970s, which is when the baby boom generation entered its young adulthood and drove large increases in renter households – we're seeing record growth against this backdrop of very slow growth in production, and that's creating this tightness in the market. It's creating inflationary pressures. It's good for the economy; it moves the number of starts up. It increases the number of jobs, but it makes it difficult for renters.
Another important issue here is the consequences of these very severe affordability problems in the rental market. We looked at how much people who earn $15,000 or less working full-time at the minimum wage spend on a variety of different necessities. It's really dispiriting when you see that they spend $140 less, on average, on food. So, it makes you worry about food security when people are spending this much to make sure that they're not out in the streets. When you look at how much less they spend on savings for retirement – that's $110 less a month – which means that this is a long-term problem that's going to affect financial security of a lot of households for a long time to come.
So, these issues are not just housing issues. They're really issues for the broader society, for the broader economy. For individuals who are shouldering these burdens it's a very, very challenging individual burden, and for families it's very troubling to see them having to make trade-offs between having a decent place to live and how much food they have to eat.
Q: Are there any interesting regional elements to the report that you want to highlight?
Belsky:Well, what's interesting about what's happening right now in terms of how markets are shaking out across the country is that the overwhelming majority are all moving in the same direction on the rental market side, which is tightening of rental vacancy rates. Now, this isn't in every metro, but it's in the overwhelming majority of the 100 largest metro areas. We're starting to see the signs that rent increases may stabilize and slow a little bit, but we are really seeing a very broad-based recovery.
I think one of the significant differences across metropolitan areas is how much of a shift there has been back from owning to renting, and how that shift has been satisfied. What we discovered in the report, when you look at this nationally, just between 2007 and 2011, about 2.7 million single family homes that had been owned moved into the rental market. So, in many markets, what we're seeing is the rental market playing an absolutely critical role in the broader adjustment of housing markets – taking homes off the market for sale so that prices can begin to stabilize in the ownership market while satisfying a critical demand for housing through rentals. And those places that have seen the biggest shifts and also the largest increase in investor demand for single family homes are some of the hardest hit places like Las Vegas and Phoenix, but we've also seen heavy activity in California, Atlanta, even places like Minneapolis.


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Grab the kids and find a comfy place in front of the TV to show them the superheroes that kept you riveted when you were growing up. On Tuesday, January 29, the premiere of Pioneers of Television: Superheroes on PBS turns the spotlight on our favorite heroes and villains who graced television screens in the 1950s to 1980s.
During the show, we'll be treated to interviews from beloved TV personalities like Adam West, Lynda Carter, Lou Ferrigno, and more as they reminisce on what it was like to be a superhero to a generation of television fans. In the video preview, Lynda Carter (who I'm pretty sure doesn't age) describes her iconic role, saying, "Wonder Woman represented a lot of breakthroughs."
Pioneers of Television: Superheroes airs this Tuesday on PBS, so if you spent your childhood watching Wonder Woman or Batman, be sure to check your local listings to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of your favorite television shows.


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Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign video may have spawned a new genre, with the viral hit providing the inspiration for an Irish video highlighting cutbacks to overseas aid. Sean 2012 tells the story of a boy who wants to 'get Kony' after seeing the famous viral, but whose big brother steers him towards a more sober and informed understanding of the situation.
Invisible Children's Kony viral inspires Sean2012
Charity does indeed 'begin at home' – 'Home' is the globalised world in which we live. Aid is an investment in our own future. #Sean2012


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Not sure about everyone else, but I am still recovering from the holidays. Unlike my 20s though, it wasn't the travel or the booze that beat me up. This year it was the obligations, the traditions, the dinners . . . all of which ended up feeling like a full time job! When I returned to the office on Monday, January 3rd, I was actually relieved for a little break from the chaos.
In past years, the holidays represented a break from the tiresome days of late nights, pressure, and deadlines at work. It was a bona fide excuse to put my electronic leash down and just walk away from my job and ignore it for hours, maybe even days! The holidays used to be time to snuggle up with my family, drink hot chocolate in front of a roaring fire, wrap and unwrap gifts, and have some simple fun. For the most part, the holidays still represent all of this to my daughter and my husband, but this time around they felt like a chore to me. It wasn't that everything lost its magic, but it was that keeping the magic alive was harder than my full time job!
The family traditions that grew in my husband's family over the last 20 years are beautiful. But they are not the traditions of a family with small children. They are the traditions of adults -- late dinners, wine, presents late on Christmas Eve, and big roaring fires. Through the eyes of the mother of a toddler they became events certain to stretch the limits of both my daughter and myself. This year I spent the holidays running interference on fire places with no safety screens, stair cases with no gates, piping hot ovens, hors d'oeuvre plates with all manner of choking hazards magnificently arranged, and glass ornaments hanging at exactly 2 feet from the ground. All of us were sleep deprived . . . sometimes because the events started approximately an hour after my daughter's bed time, and sometimes because it simply did not cross aunty's mind that turning on the lights in the spare bedroom and flushing the guest bathroom toilet would wake the baby. By the end of the holiday season, I declared that I was starting a new round of family traditions that were kid friendly and the rest of the family could come see the baby on the baby's terms next year. Meanwhile, my husband declared me the Grinch who was trying to steal his family's Christmas traditions. In just three short days I found myself wanting a vacation from the holidays. It was hard on me, it was hard on my baby, and even my husband found himself incredibly frustrated with the tension between his family's insistence that the baby join the party and their total lack of common sense regarding all things baby. He even said of some of the relatives, "it is hard to believe they are parents."
We are still at an impasse on the future of Christmas. I want to focus on the simple stuff like silly footed PJs with snowmen on them and baking cookies. I want to read Santa Mouse by the fireplace (with a safety screen) and share hot chocolate for dessert. I want to stay in my PJs until noon and play with all the new toys on Christmas morning. And most of all, I want to relax and spend the time working less, not more. My husband cannot imagine Christmas as anything but what he has known for decades, while I continue lobbying for a new rendevous with Santa. I can't help it. I am the one putting together outfits, meals to-go, back-up plans, presents, and all the other things that go into pulling it all off. My husband doesn't even notice how many times he has loaded and unloaded the car or carried everything but the baby down the stairs because he is just focused on the fun. In a way I think he has the Christmas spirit more than I after it all, but no matter how much I try to get on the same page as him I am finding I am simply scrooged. And although I am not the "my way or the highway" type, I think Santa is going to back me up on the idea of reinventing Christmas – at least some of it – so that it is truly our very own to enjoy, not survive.


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One is a piece of pop scholarship that attempted to offer historical perspective on the early foundations of Islam. The other is a volatile hatchet job deliberately designed to insult and inflame opinion. But in the past 48 hours, Channel 4's historical documentary Islam: The Untold Truth and the as yet untitled American-made history of Mohamed have thrust Islam back on to the front pages with reports of protests and threats of violence.
The two films could hardly be more different. Tom Holland's documentary, first broadcast last month, took a revisionist approach towards the birth of Islam and questioned whether there was enough contemporaneous evidence to say for sure what exactly happened in Arabia during the 8th century.
The storm of criticism it provoked was largely academic, centering on allegations that Holland had presented a somewhat discredited school of thought as fact with few caveats. But on Tuesday things appeared to turn nasty, when Channel 4 claimed it had to cancel a private screening of the film after receiving "specific and credible" threats.
That evening protests broke out in Egypt and Libya against a little-known, highly Islamophobic portrayal of the Prophet Mohamed that is believed to have been created by a US-based Israeli filmmaker. The film was released in July but only received attention in the Arab world when excerpts of it complete with Arabic subtitles began to surface last week. By the end of the evening the US embassy in Cairo had been attacked while in Benghazi its ambassador and three other staffers lay dead.
More excitable commentators began comparing the reaction to the two films and raising the spectre of global protests created by the Danish cartoons, or the death threats following Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. But while the biography of Mohamed – a crude attack that portrays Islam's founder as a fraudulent child molester – clearly has the potential to raise anger, the reaction to Channel 4's documentary has been considerably more nuanced.
"It's not anger," says Mohammed Ansar, a Muslim commentator who has been a prominent online critic of Mr Holland's documentary. "Anger is what we're seeing in the Middle East. What we've seen in the UK has been much more measured." Inayat Bunglawala, chair of Muslims4UK, agrees. "I have no time for those who say Channel 4 shouldn't broadcast such a programme," he says. "Every broadcaster and historian has the right to examine the historical origins of any faith. But our objections were more about the quality of the documentary itself and the arguments Tom made." The criticisms of Channel 4's documentary have considerable merit. Both Muslim and non-Muslim academics have poured scorn on some of the major conclusions that the 74-minute documentary tried to make – namely that there is not enough evidence to suggest that Mecca is the birthplace of Islam and that the early Arab invaders who conquered the Middle East following the death of Mohamed would not have described themselves as Muslims.
"Holland's work is based primarily on a lot of research that was published in the 1970s," explains Professor Hugh Kennedy, an expert on Middle Eastern history at the School of Oriental and African Studies. "It's interesting and challenging but in the end unconvincing."
More recent scholarship, he argues, has tended to vindicate the narrative laid down by Muslim tradition. "Just because you cannot definitely prove that something happened doesn't mean it didn't occur," he says. "At the same time the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain were taking place. We don't have a huge amount of contemporaneous evidence but no one doubts it happened."
For Dr Carool Kersten, an Arabist at Kings College London, the documentary was "an oversimplified hypothesis which touches raw nerves". "It is a complicated story of course and if you don't explain it well then you can expect accusations from within the Muslim community," he said.
But he added that Channel 4's decision to cancel the screening would only fuel tensions. "It's a pity they caved in and pulled the documentary due to scaremongering from a small group of idiots", he said. "This in a way tars the whole community with the same brush."
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Romania is seeking to change the procedure for a minority stake sale in Transgaz SA (TGN) and opt for a capital increase instead of a secondary share sale, hotnews.ro reported, citing Economy Minister Daniel Chitoiu.
The eastern European country, which has pledged to the International Monetary Fund to sell 15 percent of Transgaz by the end of this year, reconsidered the sale because of market conditions and the company's funding needs, Chitoiu told the news website in an interview.
The funds from the capital increase will be used by Transgaz for investments in the country's natural-gas grid and for other projects, such as Nabucco gas pipeline, Chitoiu told hotnews, adding that a listing will be at a "fair" price.
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Our organic gardens have been created and cared for by our dedicated team of volunteer gardeners, some of whom have been working here since the museum's opening in 1977. All of the gardens are beautiful spaces that invite contemplation and are full of ideas and inspiration:
Cherry Tree Cottage Garden is a traditional garden with its vegetable patch and herb garden, compost heap, privy, scarecrow and cinder paths.
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In 2012, we officially opened our newly refurbished courtyard garden, close to the Learning Centre, and took the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the Gressenhall Gardening Volunteers.
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Exciting changes have taken place within the Wildlife Garden at Gressenhall.
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In the twentieth film installment, Die Another Day, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) assumes the guise of an arms dealer carrying a suitcase packed with diamonds to exchange for weapons. Under this cover, he infiltrates a demilitarized zone between North and South Korea with orders to kill. But despite the archaic look of the camp, the commando's modern gadgets blow the British assassin's cover and leave him locked up in stone cell for 14 months. Brutally beaten and routinely tortured (though obviously well fed considering the little tummy we see), Bond discovers upon his release that an unknown informant has sullied his name.
Dogged in his desire to restore his honor, he triggers a continent-hopping search for the mole that eventually leads him to a secluded fortress built entirely of ice on a frozen lake. There he finds himself in the company of a sleep-deprived radical, Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) and his right hand man Zao (Rick Yune) who are plotting to establish military control with the use of a gigantic satellite.
In usual Bond fashion, beautiful women seem to ooze from thin air, fully loaded and ready for action leaving plenty of openings for sexual depictions and innuendo. Reminiscent of the white bikini in Dr. No, Jinx (Halle Berry) surfaces in a coral colored swimsuit that does plenty to catch Bond's attention while the frosty Miranda (Rosamund Pike) needs a little applied heat to melt her chilly persona.
With enough fire-generating explosions, lethal lasers and gunfire to thaw a polar ice cap, the plot predicaments never fluster the ever-resourceful agent who manages to keep his oh-so-cool aura in the face of impending disaster. But the chase scenes starring the return of the Aston Martin may be a disappointment, featuring more shooting than stellar steering. However, most Bond buffs will overlook this flaw in a film that has all the action, violence and sex of its forerunners but still misfires in this family entertainment road test.Starring Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry. Running time: 133 minutes. Theatrical release November 21, 2002. Updated September 15, 2015
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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Air Force Thursday launched a "space plane," an unmanned spacecraft designed to fly in low orbit for as long as nine months.
The plane, code-named X-37B, blasted off with a rocket Thursday night from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its mission will be controlled by Air Force Space Command.
The spacecraft's mission remains classified. It will carry out undisclosed tests and release payload into space. It is slated to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The project began in 1999 under NASA, but was later transferred to the Pentagon. Air Force deputy undersecretary Gary Payton said its original purpose was to test the next-generation space shuttle. The military is looking at its potentials to test new equipment, sensors and materials in space.
The X-36B is built by Boeing, and it looks like a space shuttle, albeit much smaller. It is about 9 meters long, and has a 4.5 meter wing span. The spacecraft has a cargo bay, just like the space shuttle. If the flight is successful, another launch is planned for 2011.
The program's secretive nature has media outlets guessing, some have voiced concerns about it's potential to weaponize space. But the Air Force rejects the notion.


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As noted by Facebook's chief product officer Chris Cox to Bloomberg – and re-affirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself in this week's Facebook full-year results announcement – Facebook's 'Reactions' emoji toolbar will be available to all users soon. For those unaware, 'Reactions', which The Social Network announced back in October, is a way to give Facebook users the ability to respond to posts with something other than 'Like'. The typical use-case of Reactions was explained by Zuckerberg at one of his regular Town Hall Q & A events last year:
"Not every moment is a good moment – if you share something that's sad, like a refugee crisis that touches you or a family member passes away, it may not be comfortable to like that post… I do think it's important to give people more options than liking it."
For a long time, Facebook users have called for a 'dislike' option, but Facebook has (rightly) deemed that too negative and a tool that could lead to a lesser user-experience. Their alternative solution was to develop a toolset which utilises the rising trend of emoji, as well as the most common, one-word responses used across Facebook's network, to create a set of emoji-type responses which people will be able to use in place of the traditional 'thumbs up'.
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But initial testing among users in Spain and Ireland found that 'Yay' was often misunderstood – and really, it's largely redundant either way, given users already have 'Like' and 'Love' as options.
In application, when a user clicks/taps and holds on 'Like', a new pop-up will appear from which they'll be able to choose a 'Reaction' that best fits their response.
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Some Facebook Pages already have a graph like the below, ready to track data from Reactions use within their Page Insights:
It's evident from this that Facebook sees analytical and insight value in Reactions, and they're giving Page owners the tools to track them, straight up – though interestingly, Facebook's also made a point of noting that any 'Reaction', at least initially, will be measured as equivalent to a 'Like' in their system. So if someone clicks on your Facebook ad and selects 'angry' in response, that'll actually increase the likelihood of them being shown more of the same content, because any reaction is counted as a 'Like', and within Facebook's algorithm, likes are indicative of preference. While it's understandable that Facebook wouldn't necessarily have a way to measure the true value of Reactions in the early stages of their roll-out, the measurement of a Reaction as a Like does raise an interesting query – if a user tags their response to something as 'Angry', does that mean they want to see more or less of that type of content?
This is where the complexity of Reactions comes into play – what do those responses mean, in terms of audience interest and intent? And then, how will marketers be able to use that insight to better refine and maximize their content? This'll be a big focus for social media marketing types over the next 12 months, and the only definitive way to establish what each Reaction means will come via experience and use. And even then, different Pages are going to see different results – a news service might see better engagement when they post content that generates more 'Angry' responses (as it'll get more people talking about the topic, and thus, generate more reach), but then a brand selling natural soaps might see better website visits and conversion rates with posts which inspire more 'Like' or 'Love' reactions.
The only way to know for sure is through experimentation. The goal of all content is to generate an emotional response – emotion drives the majority of our responses after all (particularly in regards to purchases), so it makes sense, by extension, that having further insight into a users' emotional responses to our content can only help inform our marketing decisions. But exactly what each response means, in a wider context, can only really be ascertained by seeing how it's used across that expanded scope.
This is the same with all of Facebook's data – one person deciding to 'Like' a Page in response to a post has little meaning in itself, but 1,000 people following the same path indicates a trend. When you extrapolate that across Facebook's now 1.59 billion users, you can start to get an idea of how valuable even the simplest action might be, because it's matched up against trillions of other data points and processes, and it's in that wider sample size that genuine insight takes shape.
In this sense, the only way to know how valuable Reactions will be for marketers is to examine the data after they've been implemented and look for usage patterns and correlations. And they will be there. More data – especially more emotional data – can only be beneficial.
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John DavisBPL Member
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I have always worn solid and heavy hiking boots due to many twisted ankles in my youth. Current boots are Zamberlins, Since I have lightened my pack load I was thinking about trying some lighter weight boots. Does anyone have suggestions on boots that have decent lateral support but are lighter weight?Jul 13, 2013 at 6:00 pm #2005640
Roger CaffinModerator
@rcaffinLocale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe
> boots that have decent lateral support
On Backpacking LIGHT???
More seriously, the myth of 'lateral support' is just that: a myth.
CheersJul 13, 2013 at 6:02 pm #2005642
Jennifer MitolBPL Member
@jenmitolLocale: In my dreams....
Yeah, unfortunately Roger is right. It's like those back belts people wear when they lift heavy things…it really does absolutely nothing for you in terms of stability. It may give you a teensy bit of extra proprioception in your ankles, but offers zero extra support.Jul 13, 2013 at 7:59 pm #2005694
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@drusillaLocale: Wild Wild West
John, I too suffered through a youth filled with twisted ankles and for decades my favorite boots were Vasque for hiking, and I did my first thru hike of the CDT in 1980 with them, and although heavy they seemed fine. Then I switched to Ariat for riding endurance rides and ran half the distances to spare the horse in those, but still suffered a twisted ankle every once in a while, those boots are light of course but over the ankle. I thought I needed the support. I will mention that I am not spring chicken now at my mid fifties. Then per many recommendations here I switched to trail runners, first of course trying my precious Vasque brand name but I still had pronation problems. Upon more study on my shoe wear and gait I discovered recently that I am an under pronater and found a brand that works for me tremendously better than any shoe in my life, the Brooks brand which has a model specifically for under pronation. Now my five and ten mile training loops are so much better and my ankles and feet are getting stronger. I also had plantar faciatis and that is gone for good I hope.
You might try to ascertain the exact reason you twist your ankles and look at the wear of your shoes and have your way of moving looked at and go from there. Personally, I don't think I will need my heavy boots except for extreme snow and ice conditions where I have to kick footholds out, and I'm NOT looking forward to using them at all again! I'm pretty sold on the trail runners with dirty girl gaiters.Jul 13, 2013 at 8:43 pm #2005707
Aaron SorensenBPL Member
@awsorensenLocale: South of Forester PassJul 13, 2013 at 9:05 pm #2005712
Max DiltheySpectator
@mdiltheyLocale: MaxTheCyclist.com
I could just yell "Boots Bad!"
Instead, I suggest this:
Buy a pair of "barefoot" shoes for around the house/yard. Vibrams or Vivobarefoot, as little support and cushioning as possible. Wearing these for a few months will strengthen the tendons in your feet that control the movements in your step, which will essentially re-teach your body how to be a conscious, gentle stepper. After a few months, you can hike in trail runners and your smaller, more natural steps will do a lot more in the way of preventing the slips that roll your ankles in the first place.Jul 13, 2013 at 9:34 pm #2005733
Roger WilliamsSpectator
@kaydubLocale: N. Idaho
You don't see them mentioned here much, but there are several types of relatively light ankle braces that will fit inside trail runners, and will give you some extra support. The combo of trail shoe and brace will be lighter, and more adjustable, than most boots. This should be adequate for most trail use.
These braces are commonly used by high school athletes in our area small schools, since the coaches don't always have time to tape everybody before practice. I have sprained my ankles while cruising timber and wearing 10" high custom boots, and have had to borrow a brace from my son to work the rest of the week.
I have also had success using a BOSU to rehab and strengthen my ankles. It takes a while, but it helps you treat the problem, not just the symptom.
Something to try anyway. Braces are pretty cheap, and hopefully they would end up as the back-up plan if you could get some more stability in your ankles.Jul 19, 2013 at 11:18 am #2007646
Zach WallerMember
I like the Salomon XA pro mids… they're not boots but cover the ankle. I dont wear them for support though. I like that they cover the ankle because i seem to always scrape my ankles on rocks when srambling up peaks or climbing rocks when bushwacking. Just a failsafe for my clumsiness.Jul 19, 2013 at 11:55 am #2007655
Dena KelleyBPL Member
@eagleriverdeeLocale: Eagle River, Alaska
I used to think I had "weak" ankles. I badly sprained an ankle hiking – badly, as in it took a full year to heal- and when I saw the ankle doc he said that weak ankles are a myth. That what happens is that our habit of walking on flat surfaces has created a lazy link between the nerves of the brain and the ankle. So your ankle starts to roll- and your brain sends out a signal to the ankle to stiffen up- but the signal doesn't get there in time and bam, you get a sprain. The cure, he told me, was balance exercises. He gave me a couple to do.
Exercise 1- balance on one leg, hold the foot of the other leg out in front of you, and write the alphabet in lower case and then upper case letters, without putting your foot down on the ground.
Exercise 2- balance on one leg, with the other leg tap in front of you, to the right side, behind you, to the left side, over and over.
Yoga balance poses such as the tree pose are also fantastic for building the brain/ankle connection.
If you find any of these balance poses easy, do them with your eyes closed. It's amazing how much harder they are when you don't have a visual reference.Jul 19, 2013 at 12:20 pm #2007659
Dale WambaughBPL Member
@dwambaughLocale: Pacific Northwest
I like a stiff-soled hiking shoe that gives good rock protection and arch support. If your ankles are sore, I would look to arch support. With flat feet, your ankles roll in and that throws everything else out of whack, right on up to your knees.
The only time I turn an ankle is landing wrong, as in not paying attention. Rough trails with loose rocks need more attention. Trekking poles have done as much as anything for not turning an ankle and general stability.
I do like mids in wetter/colder weather for mud and snow. They are warmer, which is not a strength in August!
I like that idea about people being used to walking flat surfaces and losing the sensitivity to walking uneven ground.
My recent experience with Patagonia Drifter A/C shoes has been excellent. They offer low tops in waterproof and non-waterproof versions and there are mid's as well. They have the best forefoot protection of any shoe I have found.Jul 19, 2013 at 1:37 pm #2007684
David ThomasBPL Member
@davidinkenaiLocale: North Woods. Far North.
I sprained my ankle at age 24. It would get a little better, I'd hike more, it would get worse, and I just had to take it easy for over a month to let it heal.
BUT, no normal shoes or boots offer ankle protection. If they did, you couldn't bend your ankles (think downhill ski boots). As Dale mentions, boots can offer protection from rocks, crushing injuries, some arch support, and stiffness in the sole. But a sturdier low-cut hiking shoe offers most of that at a lot less weight and are quicker to dry. For decades, that's all I used unless I use even less (running shoes, barefoot-style shoes, etc) unless I need the height for snow and then I'd go with a very soft and flexible upper.
Those ACE-brand ankle supports would do more to stiffen your ankles (also they are pretty good cushioning from rocks and totally mosquito proof) than wearing boots.
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Doc Rivers said he wanted to learn more about "3-4" guys before he made cuts and today he's taking a look at everyone but Sam Cassell. With four minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Gabe Pruitt, J.R. Giddens, Bill Walker, Darius Miles, and Brian Scalabrine are on the court. This lineup is without a true center so they are pressuring on the perimeter to prevent a mismatch at the hoop. And just in case you thought anything has changed since last season, the fans are still chanting "Scal-a-bri-ne" every 30 seconds.
|Dude, Where's My Bike?
|10.17.08 at 6:20 pm ET
Like Brian Scalabrine last season, Darius Miles is in the habit of riding a stationary bike when he's not on the court. It's critical for him to stay loose during the game because of his long history with knee problems.
So there was confusion when Miles went to went to warm up four minutes into the second quarter and the bike was nowhere to be found.
He first asked Garden security and then hunted down strength and conditioning coach Bryan Doo. The bike was finally dragged next to the stands who two minutes to go in the third quarter.
"Get off the bike!" one fan yelled. "That's reserved for Scal!"
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The middle of the Celtics locker room always seems to be cluttered with a mass of rolling chairs, but rookies J.R. Giddens and Bill Walker have learned there aren't enough to go around.
'Honestly I was looking for my jersey and then they were like, 'Rookies got to share lockers," Giddens said.
Giddens and Walker will be lockermates until the Celtics cut the roster down to 15. For now they share space next to Darius Miles and Rajon Rondo.
'We're considerate of each other,' Walker explained. 'We come in at different times so there's never any congestion at the locker.'
So what will it mean when the rookies finally have their own space?
'It's just a locker, but if I had my own chair that'd be the biggest change," Walker conceded. "I'm sharing the chair with J.R. Five minutes on, five minutes off.'
Not quite.
'Actually we don't even have a chair,' Giddens admitted with a smile. 'This is somebody else chair.'
The Celtics better call fives when they leave the locker room.
|Miles Settling Into Boston
|10.12.08 at 10:19 pm ET
Darius Miles was anxious when he moved to Boston last month. He had played here before on opposing teams but it's a different story when you are representing Beantown. The city's winning tradition was intimidating at first.
'The last time I played there it wasn't really a big deal because the team was losing games,' Miles said. 'Like now just walking into the practice facility, it's like it's scary to a point because of the history that goes back on this team. Seeing all these pictures of Bill Russell and all these great players that used to play here and seeing those big banners, it's different now.'
Through his six-year stint in the NBA, Miles already knew many of the veteran Celtics including Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Sam Cassell. Knowing these players also meant knowing the high expectations of winning another championship this season.
'I'm a basketball fan so I kind of knew a lot about [the Celtics tradition],' Miles said. 'Then once they brought a championship back, that kind of brought it all back to the world and everybody else and it kind of brought it back to my memory too. Like I said it got scary where I just don't want to mess up, don't want to miss a pass, drop the ball, miss a shot.'
After six weeks Miles has become more comfortable in his new digs. Doc Rivers has praised his hustle and he seems at ease in the Celtics locker room. Off the court, he has already staked claim of his new favorite restaurant, Biagio in Waltham.
'I like the family restaurants,' he said. 'They don't have too many name brand restaurants. There are a lot of family-owned restaurants around here, so the food tastes better and the people know how to cook.'
What else does Miles like about Boston?
'My favorite part is I like everybody's accent,' he said, adding, 'My mom came down here when I was sick (tonsillitis) and she was telling me she liked everybody's accents too.'
So will this Belleville, Illinois native be pahkin the cah any time soon?
'No, I don't think I'll pick one up,' Miles said with a laugh. 'I'm too country for that.'
|Miles, Walker Celebrate Birthdays
|10.09.08 at 5:23 pm ET
How does a rookie celebrate his 21st birthday with the world champion Boston Celtics?
Bill Walker's answer may surprise you.
"Oh man, I've got to guard against LeBron James and (Sasha) Pavlovic and all those guys tomorrow," Walker said. "So I'm resting."
Walker will lay low in preparation for Friday's preseason match up against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Providence, Rhode Island.
Darius Miles also celebrated a birthday today, turning 28. Walker and a handful of teammates serenaded him before Thursday's practice.
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