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I watched this guy play through it for around 10 hours over the course of 2 days all in the same dungeon, and he skipped a lot of the content. It had several completely different environments within the same dungeon, even a massive lake that probably contained underwater content, but the guy playing didn't explore it at all. It was gorgeously designed.
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HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS: Saxon crypt built by St Wilfrid
I came around a corner in the road, not thinking of anything other than reaching my destination, miles to the north, in the Yorkshire Dales. Rising up ahead of me like an unexpected guest who jumps out from behind a door and shouts 'surprise!' was a gorgeous church, practically towering over me. I craned my neck as I drove past, and caught a glimpse of beautifully carved west front with statues decorating small niches above a wide door. My destination forgotten, I pulled into the nearest side street, grabbed my camera, and hurried back to explore this unknown treasure.
That was my first glimpse of Ripon Cathedral. I didn't even realise it was a cathedral, nor had I any notion of its historical significance, I just knew that it was an amazingly beautiful historic building and I was drawn to it like a honey bee to a flower.
The foundation of Ripon Cathedral is a mix of myth and history, and it is sometimes hard to separate the two. A minster church was founded here by Celtic monks from Melrose Abbey around 660 AD, on land granted by Alchfrith, a sub-king of Deira. But Alchfrith must have changed his mind about the style of worship he wanted to encourage, for he granted the monastery to St Wilfrid a short time later. The monks from Melrose packed up and left, leaving the field to Wilfrid.
Wilfrid formed a Benedictine monastery on the site and built a large stone church. He hired craftsmen from Europe to build the church, starting around 672 AD. When Wilfrid died in 709 AD his body was brought to Ripon for burial. The crypt of Wilfrid's church still survives and can be visited; its quite an experience, too. Descending into trhe dim depths of the earth it feels like you are going back through time and will start to hear monks chanting at any moment. The crypt was supposed to be built in imitation of Christ's tomb, and is very simple, with whitewashed walls with small niches for candles, and a simple altar table. The large niche on the east wall may have been made to hold the relics of saints brought back by Wilfrid from Rome. Now it houses a 14th century alabaster carving depicting the resurrection of Christ. The carving was part of a hidden stash found beneath the Dean's stall in the choir during Victorian restoration work. It was probably hidden to protect it from damage during the Reformation, when many works of religious art were destroyed.
St Cuthbert served for a time as guest master at Ripon, and is said to have entertained an angel, not realising who his guest was.
In 1604 James I refounded Ripon. but it was dissolved under Cromwell's Commmonwealth, only to refounded again under Charles II in 1660. It served as a parish church until Ripon Diocese was formed in 1836, when the church was raised to the status of a cathedral. The minster church was heavily restored when it was made a cathedral, so at Ripon you really have three churches in one; the ancient monastery of St Wilfrid, the Victorian improvements and restoration, and making up the bulk of the building, the medieval college.
I've mentioned the Saxon crypt, but there are numerous other Saxon remains in the church, including a late 9th century cross head, an 8th century grave marker, a 7th century altar pillar and cross base in the crypt, late 8th century string courses in a corner of the north transept, and a 7th century carved capital in the Chapel of the Ressurection.
The chapter house is probably 13th century, though it could perhaps be Norman. Most of the remainder of the church is in glorious early Gothic style from the period 1154-1255. Theere is an exquisite 14th century sedilia, a 14th century library above the chapter house, and 15th century pulpit. The library was originally a chapel, but now houses the cathedral Treasury. Among the Treasury items on display is The Ripon Jewel, a Saxon roundel discovered near the cathedral in 1976. This lovely circular ornament is made of gold inlaid with garnet and amber. Among the memorials inside the church is a table tomb to Sir Thomas Markenfield (d. 1398) with a beautifully carved effigy, somewhat marred by Reformation iconoclasts.
As you can tell, I loved Ripon Cathedral. It deserves more public notoriety, if that's the right word, as the wonderful historic building that it is.
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|Male Wellington tree weta
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Weta (plural weta) is the common name for a group of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. The word is from the Māori wētā, where singular and plural have the same form.
General characteristics[edit]
Many weta are large by insect standards and some species are among the largest and heaviest in the world. Their physical appearance is like a katydid, long-horned grasshopper, or cricket, but the hind legs are enlarged and usually very spiny. Many are wingless. Because they can cope with variations in temperature, weta are found in a variety of environments, including alpine, forests, grasslands, caves, shrub lands and urban gardens. They are nocturnal, and all New Zealand species are flightless. Different species have different diets. Most weta are predators or omnivores preying on other invertebrates, but the tree and giant weta eat mostly lichens, leaves, flowers, seed-heads, and fruit.
Weta can bite with powerful mandibles. Tree weta bites are painful but not particularly common. Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large and spiky, and they will retreat if given a chance. Tree weta arc their hind legs into the air in warning to foes, and then strike downwards, so the spines could scratch the eyes of a predator. Pegs or ridges at the base of the abdomen are struck by a patch of fine pegs at the base (inner surface) of the legs and this action makes a distinctive sound. These actions are also used in defence of a gallery by competing males. The female weta looks as if she has a stinger, but it is an ovipositor, which enables her to lay eggs inside rotting wood or mossy wood[1] or soil. Some species of Hemiandrus have very short ovipositors, related perhaps to their burrowing into soil and laying their eggs in a special chamber at the end of the burrow.
Taxonomy and evolution[edit]
Fossilized orthopterans have been found in Russia, China, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, but the relationships are open to different interpretations by scientists. Most weta of both families are found in the Southern Hemisphere. Weta were probably present in ancient Gondwanaland before Zealandia separated from it,[2] although this does not explain their presence in New Zealand. Rhaphidophoridae dispersed over sea to colonize the Chatham Islands. Although they are of an ancient lineage, the present species are quite young, which conflicts with those earlier ideas about dispersal of weta forebears around the Southern Hemisphere (Wallis et al. 2000).
Giant, tree, ground, and tusked weta are all members of the family Anostostomatidae (formerly in the Stenopelmatidae, but recently separated (Johns, 1997)). Cave weta are better called tokoriro, and are members of the family Rhaphidophoridae called cave crickets or camel crickets elsewhere, in a different ensiferan superfamily.
There are other genera in the same superfamily (Stenopelmatoidea) in the southwest of America. These are Jerusalem cricket belonging to the family Stenopelmatidae.
Tree weta eggs are laid over the autumn and winter months and hatch the following spring. A tree weta takes between one and two years to reach adulthood, and over this time will have to shed its skin around ten times as it grows.[3]
Giant weta[edit]
The 11 species of giant weta (Deinacrida spp.), most significantly larger than other weta, are themselves large by insect standards. They are heavy insects with a body length of up to 100 mm (3.9 in) excluding their lengthy legs and antennae, and weigh about 20–30 g. A captive giant weta (Deinacrida heteracantha) filled with eggs reached a record 70 g, making it one of the heaviest documented insects in the world [4] and heavier than a sparrow. The largest species of giant weta is the Little Barrier Island weta, also known as the wetapunga. Giant weta tend to be less social and more passive than other weta. They are classified in the genus Deinacrida, which is Greek for "terrible grasshopper". They are found primarily on small islands off the coast of the main islands, and are examples of island gigantism.
Tree weta[edit]
Tree weta (Hemideina) are those most commonly encountered in suburban settings in the North Island. They are up to 40 mm long and most commonly live in holes in trees formed by beetle and moth larvae or where rot has set in after a twig has broken off. The hole, called a gallery, is maintained by the weta and any growth of the bark surrounding the opening is chewed away. They readily occupy a preformed gallery in a piece of wood (a weta motel) and can be kept in a suburban garden as pets. A gallery might house a harem of up to 10 juveniles of both sexes, females and one male. Tree weta are nocturnal. Their diet consists of plants and small insects. The males have much larger jaws than the females, though both sexes will hiss and bite when threatened.
The seven species of tree weta are:
- The Auckland tree weta Hemideina thoracica (also called tokoriro) can be found throughout the North Island apart from the Wellington-Wairarapa region.
- The Wellington tree weta H. crassidens occupies Wellington, the Wairarapa, the northern parts of South Island, and the West Coast.
- H. trewicki is found in Hawke's Bay.
- H. femorata is found in Marlborough and Canterbury.
- The rare H. ricta species occurs in Banks Peninsula.
- The West Coast bush weta H. broughi largely overlaps with the Wellington tree weta in Nelson and the northern portion of the West Coast.
- H. maori, the mountain stone weta, lives in the drier areas of the South Island high country from the Kaikoura Ranges south to Rock and Pillar Range near Dunedin. At most sites, it lives on the ground, under stones or in crevices, but in at least two island (within lakes) sites which have not been modified greatly, it readily lives both in trees and on the ground.
Mountain stone weta can survive being frozen for months in a state of suspended animation down to temperatures of about -10 °C. At temperatures below -10 °C approximately 85% of their body water is crystallised, which is one of the highest ice contents known for any animal.[5][6] During winter their haemolymph (the insect equivalent of blood) contains low molecular weight cryoprotectants such as amino acids especially proline (up to about 100 mM) and the disaccharide trehalose. These substances are synthesized during autumn and their concentration decreases again during spring and summer (Proline concentration decreases to about 10 mM during summer). The amino acids and sugars presumably help to decrease the ice content colligatively. However, they probably also have a direct protective effect on membranes and proteins via direct interaction or by modifying the water layer with the closest proximity to the molecules. It also displays the defensive behaviour of "playing dead", by lying still for a short time on its back with legs splayed and claws exposed and jaws wide open ready to scratch and bite, this behavior is often accompanied with regurgitation.
When the territories of species overlap, as with the related species H. femorata and H. ricta on Banks Peninsula, they may interbreed, although offspring are sterile.
Tusked weta[edit]
Tusked weta are characterised by long, curved tusks projecting forward from the male's mandibles. The tusks are used in male-to-male combat, not for biting. Female tusked weta look similar to ground weta. Tusked weta are mainly carnivorous, eating worms and insects. There are three known species in two different subfamilies: the Northland tusked weta Anisoura nicobarica (originally described as a ground weta, Hemiandrus monstrosus), in the subfamily Deinacridinae; the Mercury Islands tusked weta Motuweta isolata; and the most recently discovered, the Raukumara tusked weta Motuweta riparia. Motuweta is in the same subfamily as ground weta, Anostostomatinae.
The Northland tusked weta lives in tree holes, similar to tree weta. The Mercury Islands or Middle Island tusked weta was discovered in 1970. It is a ground-dwelling weta, entombing itself in shallow burrows during the day, and is critically endangered: a Department of Conservation breeding programme has established new colonies on other islands in the Mercury group. The Raukumara tusked weta was discovered in 1996, in the Raukumara Range near the Bay of Plenty. It has the unusual habit of diving into streams and hiding underwater for up to three minutes if threatened. There are probably other tusked weta species still to be discovered.
Ground weta[edit]
Ground weta are classified in the genus Hemiandrus. About 40 species of ground weta occur in New Zealand, and several very similar ones are found in Australia. They are also very like the Californian Cnemotettix—a similarity perhaps due to their very similar habits and habitat. Most of the Hemiandrus have not been described. They hide in burrows in the ground during the day, and those that live in open ground (e.g., H. focalis) conceal their exit holes with a specially made perforated door. During the night, ground weta hunt invertebrate prey and eat fruit.
Cave weta[edit]
The 60 species of cave weta are only very distant relatives of the other types of weta - being classified in several genera of subfamily Macropathinae in family Rhaphidophoridae.
They have extra-long antennae, and may have long, slender legs and a passive demeanour. Although they have no hearing organs on their front legs like species of Hemideina and Deinacrida, some (e.g., Talitropsis spp.) are very sensitive to ground vibrations sensed through pads on their feet. Specialised hairs on the cerci and organs on the antennae are also sensitive to low-frequency vibrations in the air.
Although some do live in caves, most species live in the forest among leaf litter, logs, tree holes and amongst broken rocks.[7][8] Cave-dwelling species may be active within the confines of their caves during the daytime, and those individuals close to cave entrances venture outside at night.
Although the weta had native predators in the form of birds (especially the weka and kiwi), reptiles, and bats before the arrival of humans, introduced species such as cats, hedgehogs, rats (including kiore) and mustelids have caused a sharp increase in the rate of predation. They are also vulnerable to habitat destruction caused by humans and modification of their habitat caused by introduced browsers. New Zealand's Department of Conservation considers 16 of the 70 species at risk. Programmes to prevent extinctions have been implemented since the 1970s.
Some examples of especially endangered species are tracked by radio beacons.[9]
In popular culture[edit]
- New Zealand visual effects houses Weta Workshop and Weta Digital are named after the insect, and included a giant version in their 2005 film King Kong.
- New Zealand band Weta were named after the insect.
- 2ZB talk-show host Lindsay Yeo had a character named Wally Weta who was a sidekick of the popular Buzz O'Bumble children's character.
- The trimaran Weta 4.4, initiated by Roger and (son) Chris Kitchen and designed by Tim Clissold of TC designs in 2006 is named after the insect, as the shape of the 4 kinked beams to the sidefloats resemble the legs of the insect.
- ^ Kleinpaste, Ruud (1997). Scratching for a living.
- ^ Renae C Pratt, Mary Morgan-Richards, Steve A Trewick: Diversification of New Zealand weta (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Anostostomatidae) and their relationships in Australasia Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 27 October 2008, retrieved 6 March 2017. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0112
- ^ George Gibbs (24 Sep 2007). "Story: Wētā, Tree wētā". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ^ "Book of Insect Records".
- ^ Wharton, D. A (1997 July). J Insect Physiol. PMID 12769972. Check date values in:
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- ^ Toki, Nicola (2012-08-31). "Cryogenic creepy crawlies". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "Cave weta - Ecology and biodiversity". Weta Geta. Massey University. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "Some Observations on New Zealand Cave-Wetas". Tuatara. 09 (2): 80. November 1961.
- ^ "Eel's costly snack". The New Zealand Herald. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Johns, P. M. (1997). "The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species". Journal of Orthoptera Research. Orthopterists' Society. 6 (6): 125–138. JSTOR 3503546. doi:10.2307/3503546.
- Steve Trewick; Mary Morgan-Richards. "New Zealand Invertebrate Speciation". Archived from the original on 2006-02-03. Retrieved 2006-05-08.
- Greg H Sherley (1998). "Threatened Weta Recovery Plan" (PDF). Department of Conservation. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
- Wallis, G. P.; Morgan-Richards, M.; Trewick, S.A. (2000). "Phylogeographical pattern correlates with Pliocene mountain building in the alpine scree weta (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae)". Molecular Ecology. 9 (6): 657–666. PMID 10849282. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00905.x.
- Bleakley, Craig; Ian Stringer; Alastair Robertson; Duncan Hedderley (2006). Design and use of artificial refuges for monitoring adult tree weta, Hemideina crassidens and H. thoracica. Wellington, N.Z.: Science & Technical Pub., Dept. of Conservation. ISBN 9780478140620.
- Salmon, J. T. (January 1956). "A Key to the Tree and Ground Wetas of New Zealand". Tuatara. 6 (1).
- Field, L.H. (Ed.) (2001) The biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. CABI Publishing, NY. ISBN 0 85199 408 3
- Ramløv, H. (2000) Aspects of cold tolerance in ectothermic animals. Journal of Human reproduction. 15 (Suppl. 5): 26-46.
External links[edit]
- Weta at the New Zealand Department of Conservation
- Wētā in Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Bug identification - Orthoptera at Landcare Research
- Weta at the Forest and Bird Kiwi Conservation Club
- The Secret Life of Wetas - with insect expert George Gibbs


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Over the past few decades, the occurrence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) has increased both in frequency and in geographic distribution in many regions of the world. This has resulted in adverse impacts on public health and the economy, and has become a global concern [
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Saxitoxin is the most toxic and also the most well studied among the PSP associated toxins. In mice, its LD50 peritoneal is 3–10 μg/kg body weight and orally is 263 μg/kg body weight. The lethal oral dose in humans is 1 to 4 mg (5,000 to 20,000 mouse units), depending on the gender and physiological condition of the patient. It is rapidly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and excreted in the urine. The symptoms of PSP include a tickling sensation of the lips, mouth and tongue, numbness of the extremities, gastrointestinal problems, difficulty in breathing, and a sense of dissociation followed by complete paralysis [
PSP toxins are the most well known potent neurotoxins that specifically and selectively bind the sodium channels on excitable cells [
NSP is caused by the ingestion of shellfish exposed to blooms of the dinoflagellate
As with many of the known marine toxins, the brevetoxins are tasteless, odorless, and heat and acid stable (they survive heat up to 300°C). The mouse LD50 is 170 μg/kg body weight (0.15–0.27) intraperitoneally, 94 μg/kg body weight intravenously and 520 μg/kg body weight orally [
The mechanism of action of brevetoxins has been extensively studied, and brevetoxins are regarded as depolarizing substances that open voltage gated sodium ion channels in cell walls, leading to uncontrolled Na+ influx into the cell [
CFP, which is the most commonly reported marine toxin disease in the world, is caused by consumption of contaminated coral reef fishes such as barracuda, grouper, and snapper [
The biological activities of ciguatoxins have been studied extensively and they are regarded as the most potent activators of sodium and/or calcium fluxes in the cytoplasm in various cells. They produce more than 175 ciguateric symptoms, classified into four categories: gastrointestinal, neurological, cardiovascular and general symptoms [
Ciguatoxins exert the same action mode as brevetoxins, which selectively target the common binding site 5 on the α-subunit of neuronal sodium channels. However, the affinity of ciguatoxins is higher than that of brevetoxins and, thus, the affinity of CTX-1 for voltage dependent sodium channels is around 30 times higher than that of brevetoxin. Ciguatoxins open sodium channels along the peripheral nerves, particularly at the nodes of Ranvier [
Studies on cardiovascular effects of ciguatoxins reveal that ciguatoxin affects voltage-dependent Na+ channels causing Na+ to move intracellularly, and normal cellular mechanisms begin to extrude sodium and take up calcium. Calcium is the intracellular trigger for muscle contraction. Although much of the increased calcium is buffered by the sarcoplasmic reticulum, it is likely that locally increased calcium concentrations increase the force of cardiac muscle contraction as is observed in ciguatoxin poisoning. A similar mechanism of ciguatoxin-induced intracellular transport of calcium occurs in intestinal epithelial cells. The increased concentration of intracellular calcium induced by ciguatoxin acts as a second messenger in the cell, which disrupts important ion-exchange systems, resulting in fluid secretion and symptoms of diarrhea [
Maitotoxin, another important neurotoxin involved in CFP, is a water soluble, ladder-shaped polycyclic molecule with numerous hydroxyl groups and sulfate groups (
Azaspiracid poisoning (AZP), first reported from the Netherlands but later becoming a continuing problem in Europe [
The symptoms of AZP include nausea, vomiting, severe diarrhea and stomach cramps. Neurotoxic symptoms were also observed [
YTX and it analogues, which are disulphated polyether compounds of increasing occurrence in seafood, were originally isolated from the scallop
YTX and its derivatives, 45-hydroxy YTX (45-OH-YTX), 45,46,47-trinor YTX, homo YTX, and 45-hydroxyhomo YTX [
Originally, YTXs were classified among the toxins responsible for DSP, mainly because they appear and are extracted together with the DSP toxins, OA and the dinophysistoxins (DTXs) [
Recently it was demonstrated that YTX is a potent neurotoxin to neuronal cells. However, the action site and the mechanism are unknown [
PTX is a polyhydroxylated compound that shows remarkable biological activity at an extremely low concentration [
PTX is a large, very complex molecule with both lipophilic and hydrophilic regions, and has the longest chain of continuous carbon atoms in any known natural product (
Over the past few decades much effort has been devoted to define the action mechanisms of PTXs, however these have not been identified. Pharmacological and electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that PTXs act as a haemolysin and alter the function of excitable cells. PTX selectively binds to the Na+, K+-ATPase with a Kd of 20 pM [
This paper briefly outlines the origin, structure, symptoms and molecular action mechanisms of neurotoxins produced by marine dinoflagellates. These toxins vary in chemical structure and mechanism of action, and produce very distinct biological effects, which provides a potential application of these toxins in pharmacology and toxicology. However, some of them have not been well studied due to the limited supply of pure toxins and their molecular action mechanisms are unknown. Moreover, novel species of neurotoxins produced by dinoflagellates have been found and identified, which provide a challenge for the characterization of their toxin mechanisms and their effects on marine organisms and humans. Further work using the cell-based approach is needed to determine the precise mode of action of these novel neurotoxins from marine dinoflagellates.
The authors thank Prof. John Hodgkiss for helping to revise the manuscript. This work was partially supported by research grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Project No. 2005DFA20430), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40376032 and 40476053), Fujian Provincial Department or Science and Technology, the Excellent Group and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Xiamen University to Prof. D.-Z. Wang.
The voltage-gated channels: The different members of the ion channel family structurally related to the voltage-gated ion channels are illustrated as transmembrane folding diagrams in which cylinders represent probable transmembrane alpha helices. Green, S5–S6 pore forming segments; red, S4 voltage sensor; and gray, S1–S3 tansemembrane segments [
Structure and species of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins from marine dinoflagellates [
Structure and species of neurotoxic shellfish poisoning toxins from marine dinoflagellates [
Structure and species of ciguatoxins from the dinoflagellate
Structure of maitotoxin from the dinoflagellate
Structure and species of azaspiracid poisoning toxins from marine dinoflagellates [
Structure and species of yessotoxins from marine dinoflagellates [
Structure of palytoxin from marine dinoflagellates [123].
Seafood poisonings caused by neurotoxins identified from marine dinoflagellate species.
|Type of poisoning
|Sources of toxins
|Primary vector
|Action target
|Saxitoxins and gonyautoxins
|Voltage-gated sodium channel 1
|Voltage-gated sodium channel 5
|Voltage-gated calcium/sodium channel?
|Coral reef fish
|Voltage-gated sodium channel 5
|Coral reef fish
|Voltage-gated calcium channel
|Voltage-gated calcium channel
|Palytoxin poisoning
|Na+-K+ ATPase
Notes: PSP, paralytic shellfish poisoning; NSP, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning; CFP, ciguatera fish poisoning, AZP, azaspiracid poisoning.


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More than half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy as a part of their treatment. With the increasing number of long-term cancer survivors, there is a growing concern about the risk of radiation induced second malignant neoplasm [SMN]. This risk appears to be highest for survivors of childhood cancers. The exact mechanism and dose-response relationship for radiation induced malignancy is not well understood, however, there have been growing efforts to develop strategies for the prevention and mitigation of radiation induced cancers. This review article focuses on the incidence, etiology, and risk factors for SMN in various organs after radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy is an integral part of cancer management, with more than 50% of all the patients undergoing radiation treatment [
Although radiation exposure is a well-established risk factor for developing SMN, estimating the true incidence of radiation-induced SMN is difficult. This is due to the fact that, in addition to radiation exposure, the genetic abnormalities (e.g., Li-Fraumeni syndrome) and risk factors associated with primary tumors (e.g., smoking) could predispose the individuals to develop a second cancer [
Cancer is a multi-step process which involves multiple genetic changes and results in the transformation of normal cells into malignant cells. These genetic alterations are a result of various environmental and endogenous DNA-damaging agents [
Evidence of the long-term effects of radiation, including SMN in humans has been well documented in atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki [
Time course of SMN development following A-bomb explosion in 1945. Leukemia appeared first followed by solid cancers several years later. There was also an excess of non-cancer deaths from stroke and heart disease by the late 1980s (courtesy of Kiyohitko Mabuchi, National Institutes of Health, USA).
Multiple epidemiological studies have confirmed the importance of age in predicting SMN risk at the time radiation exposure. For the same dose, patients exposed to radiation during childhood are at a significantly higher risk for developing SMN compared to those exposed at older age [
Radiation-induced SMN may occur in organs within the treatment field (high dose region) or distant organs well outside the radiation field (low dose region). These out-of-field cancers are thought to be due to the low dose of scatter radiation reaching the patient [
Cancer incidence as a function of age for males and females based on A-bomb data as calculated by BEIR VII committee (reproduced with permission from reference [
Lifetime probability of developing a fatal second cancer by organ site from NCRP report 116 (Reprinted with permission of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements).
|Probability of fatal malignancy (%/Sv)
|Bone marrow
|Bone surface
|Remainder of the body
For a given dose, females have a higher incidence of radiation-induced SMN compared to men (
The risk of SMN following exposure to low and intermediate doses of radiation is well understood based on the data derived from A-bomb survivors. The data derived is limited to exposures of up to 2 Sv, and the dose-response curve is found to be a linear function of dose (
Radiotherapy techniques have evolved over the past 50 years from using superficial X-ray units to megavoltage linear accelerators. More recently, highly conformal radiation techniques, such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and charged particle therapy (proton radiation therapy), are being used more frequently. There is also an increasing use of imaging technologies such as cone beam CT for daily verification.
Excess relative risk of solid cancers derived from the Life Span Study cohort of A-bomb survivors over the dose range 0 to 2 Sv, to which a straight line is fitted. The solid straight line is the linear slope estimate, the points are dose category-specific ERR estimates, the dashed curve is a smoothed estimate derived from the points. The dotted curves indicate upper and lower one-standard-error bounds on the smoothed estimate (reproduced with permission from [
Excess relative risk for radiation-induced breast cancer. The low-dose data points are from A-bomb survivors (<4 Gy). The data points at high doses are from studies of SMN after radiotherapy of Hodgkin disease patient. The excess relative risk does not fall at high doses as predicted by the standard (Gray) model (reproduced with permission from [
Use of older and earlier era treatment techniques has been shown to increase the risk of subsequent SMN [
The majority of the clinical experience in clinical radiotherapy has been with the use of photons, which are considered to have a low linear energy transfer (LET), as they cause sparse ionization along the DNA tract. More recently, particle therapy utilizing high energy protons and carbon ions are being used in the treatment of solid tumors (hadrontherapy). The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of these particles varies as a function of LET, charge, and dose. Current evidence suggests that the basic mechanisms underlying carcinogenesis following high-LET radiation is similar to that of low-LET radiation [
SMNs have been reported after radiation therapy for prostate cancer [
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women worldwide. Most of the time radiation is included as a part of breast cancer management. In one of the largest meta-analyses, which included 42,000 patients undergoing breast cancer treatment from 78 randomized trials, a 20% increase in the incidence of SMN, especially in contra-lateral breast cancer and lung cancer, was found in women undergoing radiation therapy compared to patients who received no additional radiation treatment [
SMN has been reported following radiotherapy for endometrial and cervical cancer [
Until recently, the use of EBRT as adjuvant treatment after radical orchiectomy has been the standard of care for patients with early stage seminoma. Long-term survivors of testicular cancer have a statistically higher risk of SMN, even 35 years after radiation treatment, compared to the general population [
Many studies have reported an increase in the incidence of SMN in patients receiving radiation therapy for both Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The risk is especially concerning in patients with HL because most of the cases occur in young adults and are highly curable, and death from SMN can lead to a decrease in overall survival. For survivors of HL, there is an increased risk of multiple SMNs compared to the general population. These include breast, lung, colorectal, thyroid, sarcoma, and stomach cancers [
Numerous studies have documented an increased risk of SMN after radiotherapy and chemotherapy in pediatric cancer patients compared to the general population [
Invasive second malignant neoplasms (SMNs) according to the latest Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (adapted from Reference [
|Invasive SMNs
|Median time to SMN occurrence in years, (range)
|All invasive second malignancies
|17.8 (5.0–35.2)
|8.9 (5.0–31.1)
|11.5 (6.1–26.5)
|7.4 (5.0–25.0)
|CNS tumor
|13.2 (6.0–32.7)
|11.7 (6.0–25.5)
|Medulloblastoma or PNET
|11.6 (8.0–14.6)
|Malignant Meningioma
|22.9 (15.8–32.7)
|Breast cancer
|21.3 (6.7–33.5)
|18.9 (5.6–35.2)
|Thyroid cancer
|18.6 (6.3–34.0)
|Bone cancer
|9.8 (5.3–26.7)
|9.3 (5.3–24.0)
|Ewing sarcoma
|9.3 (5.3–24.0)
|18.5 (6.9–31.5)
|Hodgkin lymphoma
|18.5 (7.2–29.1)
|Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
|21.6 (6.9–31.5)
|Soft tissue sarcoma
|15.2 (5.3–31.3)
|Kidney cancer
|19.6 (6.3–28.4)
|Head and neck cancer
|15.6 (5.3–30.9)
|Small intestine and colorectal cancer
|23.1 (7.0–29.4)
|Lung and bronchus
|20.3 (14.0–25.6)
|Female genital cancers
|19.5 (10.4–32.9)
|Other cancers
|21.0 (8.2–35.0)
According to the latest CCSS report, risk for developing subsequent SMN includes the female sex, younger age at diagnosis, radiation therapy, older treatment techniques, and primary diagnosis of HL [
Radiotherapy is a double edged sword. It has a well-established role in the curative treatment of various solid tumors. Unfortunately, radiation has the potential to induce cancer decades after the treatment. This is concerning as there is an increase in the number of long-term cancer survivors. There is an uncertainty in estimating the exact incidence of radiation induced SMN because of the confounding factors such as patient lifestyle and genetic susceptibility.
In the meantime, every effort should be made to minimize the influence of factors that could potentially increase the risk of SMN after radiotherapy. A lower total dose of radiation or non-radiation approach could be chosen for treatment whenever evidence supports the benefit without compromising tumor cure. The replacement of prophylactic cranial radiotherapy in children with leukemia by intrathecal chemotherapy is an example of this approach. The goal of radiation treatment planning should be to keep the normal tissue exposures to a minimum, more so in pediatric and younger patients. Daily image guidance should be used judiciously to minimize additional cumulative dose at the end of the treatment course. Novel treatment techniques such as the scanned beam proton radiation might decrease normal tissue exposure to leakage neutrons and it also might reduce SMN development.
Integrated research involving clinical studies, radiobiology, and physics is required for the estimation and reduction in the risk of radiation induced SMN. Prospective cohort studies for risk estimation should be designed (a) to include a large number of patients with sufficient statistical power (b) have a comparison group, where the same cancer was treated by means other than radiation, and (c) allow sufficiently long follow-up for radiation induced SMN to manifest. Radiobiological studies should be aimed at elucidating genetic mechanisms that might predispose individuals to develop SMN following radiotherapy, and to identify potential biomarkers in patients who are at risk for developing SMN. Efforts should also be made to develop mitigation strategies for patients at high risk for developing SMN following radiotherapy. Recent modeling studies have predicted a decrease in the risk of SMN following particle therapies compared to photon therapies. Long-term outcome data is awaited to firmly establish this to be the case.
I thank Stephen Brown, Department of Radiation Oncology, for reading the manuscript and providing valuable suggestions.


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American officials say they have agreed with China on how to repatriate the US spy plane which has been stranded on Hainan Island since a collision with a Chinese jet fighter almost two months ago.
Full details and the timing are yet to be decided, but the officials suggested the EP-3 spy plane will be partly dismantled and flown out on a giant Antonov transport aircraft.
In China, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao as confirming a deal had been reached to "take home the EP-3 in parts".
The AN-124, the world's largest cargo plane, which first flew under the Soviet flag in 1982, is made both in the Ukraine and Russia and used commercially.
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China detained the 24 members of the US crew for 11 tense days after the collision, which killed the pilot of the Chinese fighter.
US technicians who inspected the plane earlier this month said it could be made air worthy, and Washington officials pushed Beijing to let the aircraft be repaired and they flown out of China.
Beijing had said that allowing the plane to be repaired and flown out would have been a national humiliation.
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Grenada Carnival, also known as 'Spice Mas' - 'Mas' the shortened form of masquerade - brings together a collage of traditional, elaborate masquerade costumes, parade of the bands, Children's Carnival Frolic, Rainbow City Festival, National queen show, J'Ouvert, beautiful steel pan music and Monday Night Mas competition. Monday Night Mas is the peak of Carnival Monday's events where several bands sporting festive colours and bright lights parade through the streets. This is an event to remember whether you play with the band or watch on the sidelines. You can feel the energy reverberating through the air. The Gem's very own Fantazia 2001 Night Club has captured the winning title in 2004, 2005 and 2006. All of these activities reinforce the synergy of Carnival but not without the sensational rhythms of 'Soca' and Calypso music whose intricate renditions are sung by Calypso bards who compete on the big stage at the National Soca Monarch and Dimanache Gras finals. In this competition the winner takes all and earns the right to reign supreme for one year as having won and also being crowned as king and queen. In whatever way you decide to quench your visit appetite, just remember that there are loads of fun & frolicking for all age groups. Before the reveling begins in Grenada, our sister isle Carriacou fires away at her carnival celebrations and boat regatta. You can immerse yourself in fun filled activities such as the Children Carnival frolic, J'Ouvert, queen show, boat regatta etc. These exciting events are sure ways of setting yourself free and simply enjoying life at it best!
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There is an important difference between female nudes and sirens, Steve Meacham learns.
Don't mention Sirens, the Hugh Grant movie, to Lin Bloomfield. Especially Sam Neill's portrayal of Norman Lindsay. Or the naked Elle Macpherson and Kate Fischer as his voluptuous muses.
"Please!" says the 72-year-old author and art dealer. "I hated the film. It was incredibly trite - nothing like the Norman Lindsay I knew.
"As if Norman would have had models living in his house attired in flimsy frocks! In those days, Rita Lee, his favourite model apart from his wife, Rose, used to go up to his house to pose. But it was nothing like the way it was shown in the film. That was just too absurd for words.
"I suppose the only good thing about the film was that it made a new generation more aware of Lindsay and his work.
"But he wasn't a bohemian. One has to remember that he was born in 1879. By the time he was at his most controversial, in the 1920s and '30s, he was no chicken.
"He wasn't a heavy drinker. He didn't hold wild parties. This myth has grown up about Lindsay which is completely untrue. Yes, he was considered salacious. And yes, there were court cases and controversies. He was always an anti-wowser, always against the strict moral and religious teachings of his time.
"But he was nothing like the way he was depicted in Sirens."
Bloomfield knows what she's talking about since she is an authority on Lindsay's life and works. As a young woman she became friends with the artist's daughter, Jane, and, through her, Lindsay himself. She bought and sold Lindsay's works as a gallery owner (first in Paddington, now in Canberra). For years she chaired the National Trust's advisory committee which helps to run the artist's former home in the Blue Mountains, now the Norman Lindsay Gallery.
And now she is the author of a monograph on Lindsay's watercolours - the first major retrospective of its kind since 1939. Lavishly illustrated, it sells for $330, or $440 for the deluxe version. Bloomfield's tome, featuring 135 works from private collections and 16 public galleries around the country, follows her similar study of the artist's etchings in 1999 and will be followed by a review of Lindsay's oil paintings.
To mark the publication of Norman Lindsay: Watercolours 1897-1969, the gallery is mounting its largest exhibition of his watercolours, 25 in all, representing most periods of his career.
Bloomfield readily accepts that Lindsay is an artist whose reputation has nosedived over the years. The art establishment, traditionally, has not held him in high regard. And yet, she says, "There are more books written by Lindsay and on Lindsay than any other Australian artist."
She concedes much of Lindsay's public renown depends on his authorship of The Magic Pudding. Plus, of course, a schoolboy fascination: his pneumatic nudes. Nevertheless, she insists there is a renewal of interest in Lindsay, pointing to the Art Gallery of NSW's exhibition on The Legendary Lindsays a decade ago and the $333,900 the National Gallery of Victoria paid in 2002 for his Spring's Innocence, a record price for a Lindsay.
"We know, from what we sell, that there is a big interest in Lindsay in America," says Bloomfield. "Strangely, there is little interest in him in Britain."
His popularity in the US is ironic given the fact that so many of Lindsay's finest works were destroyed there in 1941. By that stage of his career he was considered passe in Australia. His greatest watercolours had been painted in the 1920s and early 1930s.
"His wife, Rose, took what she thought to be his finest watercolours to America with a view to publishing a book and having exhibitions in California, Chicago and New York," says Bloomfield. There were 16 crates in all. Most were loaded onto a freight train bound for New York. In Pennsylvania the train caught fire.
"It was a great tragedy. When they got the crates onto the platform, the local people saw the paintings and thought they were pretty obscene. So they didn't bother putting the fire out. No one knows how many of his works were destroyed. Only a few of his watercolours survived the fire."
One of the survivors, The Pillars of Crete, painted in 1925 and owned by the Norman Lindsay Gallery, is a favourite of Bloomfield's. "It's an example of the quality of the lost watercolours," she says. "A composition with over 30 figures on four different levels, dominated by a bull in the centre. I like it because it embodies all the elements of Norman's interest in Greek mythology."
Classical mythology was a recurrent theme in Lindsay's watercolours - along with pirates, the Bible, and his abhorrence of war.
"I've tried to make the book a historical record of his work in the medium, starting off in 1897 when he was 18 to 1969 when he died at the age of 90," she says. "You can see the changes. His best work, in the 1920s, was more ethereal, more delicate. As the years went by, his watercolours became more colourful."
And the constant? His fascination with female nudes. Just don't call them sirens.
Norman Lindsay: Watercolours 1897-1969 is published by Odana Editions. The accompanying exhibition is at the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, 14 Norman Lindsay Crescent, Faulconbridge, until March 12.
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WILLOW BAST (continued)
You're left with a tough, leathery strip that can be used as is for binding and this is the condition I usually use it. But it can be taken a step or two further to make a much finer cordage. Dumping it into a stream (weighed down with rocks so it doesn't join the stream on its journey) and leaving it for up to a month or so rots away the material that binds the fibers together. At this stage, it feels like entrails and stinks to high heaven. It's then often boiled with charcoal in the water (though what purpose the charcoal serves, I don't know) and hung to dry. The resulting fibers are soft and pliable and make good rope or string (or even a wig if you're very weird).
It's good for making shelters and binding poles or logs together and I've even used it to make a replacement for a broken rucksack strap but I don't know if it would hold indefinitely. What's your view? Have you used willow bast for permanent structures?
I'd surely like to have a go at a chair so I might try it. But I'd welcome a word from the voice of experience.
Good stuff is willow; it gives us baskets, straps, aspirin and cricket bats, if you're into cricket ... despite being English, I'm not.
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I have seen willow bast used as a chair seat. The example was from Mississippi and the bast was particularly thick, rough and brittle. Not so good. But there are many types of willow, so getting smooth, thin willow bast should be possible. How long it will hold up as chair seating is another question.
The soaking technique is similar to the preparation of kudzu vines for their fiber, once common in Japan. The vines are buried in the ground to initiate decomposition. Then they are also weighted down in a stream to separate the binding stuff from the fibers. The final step is dividing and sub-dividing the strands with a needle until you have thread that is comparable to silk.
We often get inquiries that begin with something like what if or can I? In many cases the best answer is Go ahead and try for yourself. Find out what happens. This is especially true with a material that is as variable as wood (even within a species) and when there are so many other variables, such as local climate.
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Eye guy
This is total bs. Last laugh is on us docs wasting more time doing everything but taking care of pts. The govt wonks putting this together were all having a good laugh at the extra time we will need to spend dealing with.
lawrence han
I have to wonder how many Fall categories there are
 Fall from Airplane
 Fall from Bed
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 Fall from Building(higher than 2 stories)
 Fall from moving car
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 Fall from Stadium.
 Fall from Building being constructed.
 Fall from chair
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 Can the amount of minutia be scintillating and made even more positively tedious than it already is?.
lawrence hyde
They should have additional codes for whether the fall was head first or down and under. Number of steps?..etc..Ha Just kidding.
ey, RN
Falls begin with: W00 Fall Due to Ice and Snow Ends with W19 Unspecified Fall It takes 4 pages of the code book to list all of the ways you can fall. Yes, I'm learning ICD-10....
ey, RN
Falls begin with: W00 Fall Due to Ice and Snow Ends with W19 Unspecified Fall It takes 4 pages of the code book to list all of the ways you can fall. Yes, I'm learning ICD-10....
Raymond Zakhari
Gotta love healthcare reform.
robert osborne
Four pages of codes listing all the ways you can fall (not to mention the inevitable updates)--to what purpose??? This is clearly going to be a time consuming mess!.
cathy h
And the database in the sky gets ever more populated with the minute details of our lives. . ..
Is "fall by tripping over cat" listed??!?.
While it's obviously cumbersome and seemingly hair-splitting,I think the new codes will be helpful from an epidemiology standpoint by providing very specific data for future studies re: accident prevention..
CAV mentioned cat-what about toddler? I almost fall and have once falling when my 2 year old granddaughter was right behind me and I didn't know it. grandchildren can be infinitely more dangerous than cats. what about falling on ice when going to the mailbox and it is raining (happened a friend last month when we actually had a 40+ day)..
No wonder my doctor sent told me stay off of step ladders, which must be a different code than a ladder. I wonder if there is a sub code for an extension ladder. 5 years ago my toe caught in a sidewalk crack, while I was jogging my coonhounds and talking to a friend on my cell. I straight armed it, and rammed my arm in my rotator cuff. Would there be a different landing code for arm and knees, compared to a face plant? Would the breed of dog count more than cell phone use? After that, the hounds and I sat down, when I had to answer a call. By the way, the phone and hounds didn't get hurt at all..


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Franco, 23, was waiting for the bus when the money fell out. It was in a clear plastic bag and, to be safe, he poked through trash canisters for a dark garbage bag to conceal the loot.
"I won't deny I needed the money, that I thought about it," Franco said.
But if he did take the money, would anyone back home really believe he had found it? Maybe Franco would become the subject of another kind of corrido, a narco-corrido, the kind that extols the deeds of drug dealers.
The next morning Franco called the police and agreed to meet them at a nearby park. He stuffed the money into his laundry bag. Sergeant Rick Sanchez wanted to tell the media but Franco didn't want trouble with the immigration authorities. The policeman persisted. He said Franco could get some job offers. Franco reluctantly relented.
Glowing newspaper stories about Franco appeared across the country, as well as in Latin America, Asia and Europe. When the news reached Tepeapulco, his hometown of 45,000, strangers approached his family to congratulate them on his honesty.
"I cried of joy," said his mother Paula Gonzales, 47, when she saw her son on television. "I thought it was a miracle from God, that God illuminated the path for him. We're very proud of our son. Honesty is something we inculcated in him."
When Franco was about eight he noticed how hard his mother worked cleaning houses. "He would tell me, 'Mama, sit down a little,"' she said. "He would say, 'When I'm big, I'm going to make you a really big house so you could have your own house to preoccupy yourself with and you won't have to go to work."'
Two years ago he came to California to raise money for his mother's house. He worked 10 hours a day, six days a week at a Chinese restaurant for about $1300 a month and sent $600 to $800 a month home.
The armoured car company gave him a $US25,000 reward. After taxes and a $700 fee to cash the cheque, he netted $17,000.
He gave a couple of hundred dollars here, a thousand there to people who had helped him when he first went to the United States. He sent most of it to Tepeapulco, where his parents raised the shell of the house he had promised as a little boy.
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Onboard Adventurous we have three guest staterooms with double bunks in each. Two restrooms, one with a full shower for your comfort. The Adventurous is capable of providing up to 1,500 gallons of fresh water daily. Our galley includes all household sized appliances. With a full washer and dryer onboard, and complete full stereo system, our clients will feel like home while underway. Should the need for an emergency phone call arise, Adventurous has a satellite telephone onboard.
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Packing for a trip to Southeast Alaska can vary greatly pending the time of year and type of fishing. We have put together a couple of basic packing suggestions depending on the time of year and type of fishing you will be doing. Remember that we have an onboard washer and dryer and have the ability to do a couple of loads a day so you won't need a lot of extra clothing for the week
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If you are early season steelhead fishing inclined, plan on cold to cool mornings and cool afternoons., lows below freezing and highs in the mid 40's during the months of April and May. We do see some rain and snow this time of year so you need to be ready to fish in the rain, (we don't stop fishing just because we're a little wet!) We do a lot of hiking on steelhead trips, loose fitting fleece clothing and a willingness to walk will equate to a better experience! Here is a short list of items you may want to bring along for your steelhead adventure in Southeast Alaska:
- GoreTex chest waders. We do a lot of walking and a lot of wading during steelhead season your best bet is a pair of Gore Tex chest waders.
- Poly Pro long underwear tops & bottoms - it can be pretty chilly during steelhead trips.
- Fleece or wool gloves, two pair preferably and a warm hat.
- Polarized glasses - because you'll be sight casting at times - Gotta see the fish!
- Fleece Outerwear - Pants and top. Stay away from cotton.
- Some relaxing clothes to wear on the boat.
- Digital camera. This always applies!
- We will provide you with all the terminal gear (flies, leader etc), but please feel free to bring your own rod. We generally fish 7 and 8 weight fly rods rigged with floating line. Our personal preference is Rio Steelhead line. My personal favorite steelhead rod is the Sage Z-Axis 11' 8wt switch rod.
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Trip weather and conditions can vary greatly during this time of year. Temperatures are generally cool during the summer expect day time highs of 60 degrees although we do occasionally see 70 degrees. Nights are cool, but not cold (around 45 degrees). Rain? Yes, Southeast Alaska is considered a rainforest and averages over 100 inches a year, plan on seeing some rain. As for the rest of expectations; Southeast Alaska is a wildly diverse place were the ocean meets the mountains you will be aboard the number one charter boat in Alaska anything interesting can happen. That said, there are some basic items we recommend that bring along to make your trip more pleasurable:
- Onboard laundry facilities are available and we do a couple of loads a day so you don't have to bring your whole closet of clothes for the week!
- Tee shirts and long sleeve fleeces work great! You will also need some type of outer shell to cut wind and light rain.
- Footwear: tennis shoes and leather shoes are fine, but when we are fishing from the Adventurous we're cleaning the deck constantly, so rubber boots are recommended.
- Rain gear is not a necessity as you can always step in out of the rain when fishing from the Adventurous, but it will keep you dry while reeling in a fish and whale watching. If you have rain gear bring it, if you don't you might invest in a a light waterproof shell you can use elsewhere.
- Throw in a pair of shorts and swim suit; we will hope to see warm weather and maybe even have a chance to take a dip in a natural hot spring.
- Pack the Digital camera and plenty of memory card space, We have 120 volt power to charge camera batteries, (don't forget the charger).
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We respect the law. We really do. Almost always. But sometimes — sometimes we know better than the law. We are smart people, and we can responsibly decide when to be irresponsible. It feels good, on occasion, to not abide. To think, Ah, what the hell. To think, Screw it. To think, I am an obedient citizen for most of my life, and damned if I don't deserve a gimme now and then.
Nothing big. A minor transgression against the law and, sometimes, against good conduct. A gimme. A joint enjoyed on a park bench in the sunshine. A few miles of liberation from the speed limit. A red light run when no one's around. A blip, then it's back to orderly subservience that binds our society together, keeps it functioning. But that blip — it's thrilling, we have to admit. And when you transgress, you learn about yourself. Is it worth it? The fine, the night in the slammer, the embarrassment? Well, yes. As long as nobody gets hurt. Yes it is.
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