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A one-way trip into Blatter's bonce
Off The Ball never rests in its mission to scratch around the underbelly of professional football to find the most bizarre, humorous and inexplicable stories.
This week, Sepp Blatter ensures FIFA remains a laughing stock, Berti Vogts is bombarded by bog roll in an Azeri "attack", Rio Ferdinand is crowned king of the Twitts, Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez says he hopes never to return to the city and ghost goal that would make England's Frank Lampard proud.
A one-way trip into Blatter's bonce
If Star Trek's Spock were to mind meld with Sepp Blatter - and anything is possible in the imaginary land the FIFA chief appears to inhabit - it is unlikely the steely minded Vulcan would be able to survive the bewildering, unfathomable and befuddling vortex he encountered.
Only Sepp's perplexing psyche would consider crowning a week in which the number of FIFA executives denying corruption charges hit double figures, the controversial awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was again called in question and the man himself dodged bribery allegations to waltz through a farcical presidential election unopposed by appointing a "council of wisdom" to clean up football that consisted of an opera singer, an 88-year-old political scientist and Johan Cruyff.
This unlikely trio have been tasked with cleaning up the mounting mess at FIFA and this is not happening inside Blatter's bonce, but in real life. Cruyff aside, just how Spanish-Mexican tenor Placido Domingo and former USA Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who at least has a tenuous link to football as an honourary member of German club Spielvereinigung Greuther Furth, intend to get the house in order is mystifying.
Diego Maradona's statement earlier this week that "FIFA is a big museum and they are dinosaurs who do not want to give up power - everything will be the same" appears unusually insightful. A motley council of wisdom? Highly illogical.
Tevez still loving life in England
It safe to say that constantly grumbling £250,000-per-week striker Carlos Tevez doesn't like life in Manchester and this week the City star appeared on Argentinian Susana Gimenez TV show to voice his dissatisfaction and vow never to return to the English enclave.
"What's wrong with the city? The weather, everything. It has nothing. There are only two restaurants," Tevez said of a city famous for the Curry Mile restaurant district. "When I finish my contract I will not return to Manchester ever."
The outspoken, and obviously misinformed striker, then hit upon the real problem. "I don't have any new friends. I am always with my family and lifelong friends. I don't even leave my house. I'm the stay-at-home type ... The problem is I'm still speaking very poor English."
Erm, just a few questions Carlos: Why didn't you spend all those years staying at home in Manchester learning English? And why, if you dislike Manchester so much, did you leave Manchester United to join Manchester City?
Berti bombarded in bog roll "attack"
Former Germany international Berti Vogts may have won the World Cup as a player but as far as disgruntled Azerbaijan fans are concerned he's s**t at all that management lark and they've attempted to tell him so through a series of metaphor-laden protests.
Prior to Azerbaijan's Euro 2012 qualifier against Kazakhstan Vogts held his usual pre-match press conference during which a group of men, who may or may not have been journalists, pelted the 64-year-old with toilet rolls to illustrate "the worth of his three years in charge of the national team".
Unfortunately for Vogts Azerbaijan then lost the qualifier to leave the Odlar Yurdu rooted to the foot of the table and so the Azeri journalists presented the manager with a jug of water of the type used in Muslim countries to wash after using the toilet.
Vogts, who vowed he would never manage again after a torrid spell as Scotland boss was brought to an end in January 2007, didn't see the funny side and filed a report of the "attack" with police and said he would discuss the next step with his lawyers.
Rio the biggest Twitt of them all
Rio Ferdinand might be the most preeminent Premier League luminary on Twitter with over 1.1 million followers but his crown as monarch of the Twitts must have rested a soupçon uncomfortably this week after he placed hindmost in a vocabulary study of footballers who recurrently use the site.
A Google language analysis apparatus determined that 88% of Ferdinand's lexicon fell into the "basic" classification while 11% manifested in the "intermediate" category. Other players who were examined proved superior, with Ferdinand's United colleague Wayne Rooney (@WayneRooney) surprisingly articulate, with 43% basic and 56% intermediate.
Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) reciprocated by tweeting: "So if u shorten words to get wot u want in within 140characters it makes u a twit?! I think that's working well within the 140 boundaries!" Later adding: "I swear down, we need more than 140charcters on ere, I want 2 get tings across wivout avin 2 use numbers 4 words!"
Everton captain Phil Neville possessed the most expansive vocabulary among his peers, using 59% intermediate locutions amalgamated with 40% basic ... Phew! I hope that ameliorates my score.
Ipswich star blames Roy Keane for speeding fine
Ipswich Town defender Damien Delaney has blamed ex-manager Roy Keane after being clocked doing 44mph in a 30mph zone and as far as excuses go it's a cracker.
Delaney, 29, told South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court that he put his foot down because Keane would fine him thousands of pounds if he turned up late for training.
In a letter to the court Delany wrote: "I had an unreasonable boss and was worried I'd be docked two weeks' wages."
Although Delaney got four points on his licence for the speeding offence it did work out financially as the he was fined just £235. The overall benefit might not have been so great if the Republic of Ireland international's feisty former boss was still at the club.
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Bacary Sagna has pointed the finger at Norwich's Bradley Johnson after suffering his second leg break in six months.
The French defender is out of Euro 2012 and believes he was the victim of a deliberate foul.
"I think he did it on purpose," Sagna told French newspaper L'Equipe yesterday. "He stepped on my leg right where the plate was. I think the plate pressured (the bone). It's a neat break, just above the plate.
"When I tried to control the ball, I felt a crack, just like the first time at Tottenham."
Arsenal's medical team will wait for a thorough examination of the broken fibula before making a full diagnosis but initial fears are that the 29-year-old will be sidelined for three months.
Sagna now faces a race to be fit for the start of next season but is adamant he will be back.
"That's how it is. It's football. I came back once, I will come back a second time. Even stronger."
Arsenal report for pre-season in the first week of July and Wenger hopes Sagna can recover in time to play some part in the tour to Nigeria and south-east Asia.
Sagna's broken leg tops off an injury hit season for the Frenchman, who spent four months out with a fractured ankle picked up in the defeat at Tottenham in October.
Saturday's disappointing home draw struck a huge blow to Arsenal's hopes of securing a top-three finish.
And yet again if it had not been for Robin van Persie – who scored twice – the Gunners' season at the Emirates Stadium would have finished in an embarrassing defeat.
While the Dutchman continues to step up to the mark on the pitch, it is a completely different story off it.
Arsenal's captain once again ducked a post-match interview, knowing his future would be the hot topic of conversation.
His refusal to shed light on his future has strengthened speculation that next week's visit to West Brom could be his final game for the club.
And Wenger acknowledges the Gunners owe a huge debt to their talismanic striker.
"We were punished against Norwich because Robin had to score.
"Many times this season we have not scored enough goals from elsewhere," he said. "We had so many obvious chances that you would want somebody else to score one. That doesn't happen enough and of course we need to address that."
Yet, while Arsenal's season hangs in the balance, Norwich go into their final game against Aston Villa knowing they cannot finish lower than 14th.
But manager Paul Lambert is refusing to get carried away as he looks to ensure his side do not suffer from second season syndrome.
"You have to approach it as if it is your first time again," said Lambert. "We can't take anything for granted." – Daily Mail

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The Paradise High School varsity girls basketball team had to overcome a halftime deficit on Wednesday night to beat University Prep in Redding, 55-49, in a non-league game.
The win pushes Coach Elwood Hansen's team to 11-8 on the year and was a bounce back outing for the Bobcats who lost on Friday night in Las Plumas.
Hansen said the team started slowly and trailed 25-19 at the intermission, but was on fire in the third quarter.
"We came out and had a very good third quarter," Hansen said in an e-mail to The Post on Thursday. "And we scored 20 points and took the lead for the first time."
Hansen said the big scoring quarter gave the Bobcats a nine-point lead at one stage, but U-Prep (12-7) rallied to within two. Paradise also overcame the loss of Cassidy Burnett with four minutes to go. The Eastern Athletic League's leading scorer (13.3 points per game) fouled out with four minutes to go but scored a team-high 18 points before leaving.
But Coach Hansen said Burnett's backcourt mate, Mary Hansen and sophomore starters Mariah Mundt and Emilee Heinke picked up the load. Hansen would drain three of four free throws in the quarter while Mundt and Heinke would each score four points in a 16-point Bobcat quarter.
Coach Hansen said the Bobcats handled the U-Prep press throughout the game, but especially in the fourth quarter.
"It was a good win for us," he said. "Mary only had four points but had six rebounds and really did a good job running the team under some real good pressure."
Mundt recorded her second double-double of the year scoring 11 points and pulling down 10 rebounds. The sophomore also threw in a team-high four steals to round out the night. Her fellow sophomore Heinke had 10 points and nine rebounds to help the cause.
Hansen said coming in the Bobcats wanted to hold U-Prep star guard Kelsie Jurin under 15 points and were mostly successful in doing that as they held her to 15 points. Jurin came in averaging 17.6 points per game.
However, Panther center Shayla Anderson scored 21 on the night.
The Bobcats will now get ready to host EAL-leading Pleasant Valley on Friday night at Paradise High.
The Vikings, who are 2-0 in league and 13-6 overall, beat Las Plumas 62-41 at Las Plumas on Wednesday night. Friday's meeting will be the first between the two schools this year and the first time the Bobcats have faced PV varsity girls under the stewardship of Tony Carlise who was a longtime JV coach.
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A state Senate committee has approved a measure allowing the University of Minnesota to decide where alcohol is served at the TCF Bank football stadium.
The question has been before lawmakers each of the last three years. Previous legislation forced the U to serve alcohol throughout the stadium, or not at all. U officials want to sell alcohol in premium seating areas to restrict underage students' access to alcohol.
U of M spokesman Dan Wolter says the latest effort returns control of the issue to the school.
"It's really, for the university, a local control issue. The Legislature elects the board of regents to make a policies on budgets and academic issues," Wolter said. "This really is an issue that should be left to the Board of Regents."
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(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 22 August 2014 Release date- 21082014 - New Jersey, USA and Bangalore, India - Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process Services company, today announced the launch of a global Customer Experience Center (CEC) at Wipro's Mountain View office in California, United States.
The lab is designed to demonstrate emerging technologies, test proof of concepts and give customers the opportunity to see the latest data center, enterprise, and cloud solutions in real-world, real-time scenarios.
The Wipro CEC is a best-in-class technology demonstration lab, leveraging Cisco's leading-edge UCS scale out infrastructure for the SAP HANA platform, Common Platform Architecture for Big Data, and Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). It also uses the latest immersive, collaborative, and interactive demonstration technologies available in the industry.
The Wipro CEC aims to give customers the environment they need to drive pilot projects and test new solutions before enterprise deployment. Use-case examples include: Improved end-to-end visibility of business processes, better inventory forecast algorithms, streamlined supply chain processes, real-time analytics for industry-specific solutions based on the SAP HANA platform and built on Cisco UCS Rack Servers.
Machine-to-Machine (M2M), digital marketing, and social media analytics leveraging Cisco's UCS Common Platform Architecture for Big Data.
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'We are delighted to be associated with Cisco to launch the global Customer Experience Center that will serve as an incubation and demonstration platform for our joint customers world-wide,' said Malay Verma, Vice President & Global Head, Media Vertical and Cisco Business Unit, Wipro Ltd. 'In today's dynamic business environment, customers are increasingly looking for complete industry solutions that can provide real-time insights into their core business processes. Wipro and Cisco are working together to develop innovative solutions that can be delivered through flexible consumption models in a hybrid cloud environment. ' Rick Snyder, Vice President, Global & Strategic Partner Organization, Cisco said, 'We are excited to collaborate with Wipro to launch the Customer Experience Center, built exclusively on the Cisco UCS server and Nexus networking platforms. This world-class facility is being used to establish thought leadership and to create innovative solutions that solve customers' major business problems. Together, Cisco and Wipro are demonstrating and driving proof of concepts in the areas of SAP HANA, Big Data, Cloud, and Application-Centric Infrastructure. Customers are increasingly looking for solutions that provide real-time visibility into their business processes along with rapid and secure deployment of applications at scale across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Together, we provide innovative solutions that address this very need.' The global CEC was officially inaugurated by Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro Ltd, and Robert Lloyd, President, Development and Sales, Cisco. The facility is located in Mountain View, California, and is the third Innovation lab to be opened in association with Cisco. It follows the Bangalore CEC, India, which opened in 2012, and an Energy industry-focused CEC opened in 2013 in Houston, Texas. The Wipro CEC is open to customers by appointment. For more information send an email to email@example.com.
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As a veteran journalist, I've interviewed a few celebrities over the years. Willie Nelson on his tour bus. The Godfather of Soul James Brown at a South Carolina funeral home. (He gave the eulogy. Very surreal.) Rosalyn Carter. Andie McDowell, a fellow college alum. In all those encounters, I always acted no differently than if I were talking to the local county administrator. It was a job, and I was a professional.
But that was before I got the chance to interview Anthony Field, the guy in blue in the preschool super group, the Wiggles. I'm told some Mommas call him "the hot one." (Note to husband: Honey, I had no idea of that before the interview.) Here's the real reason I was so excited: He and his bandmates make my son so happy.
Every morning my 2-year-old watches as the Wiggles sing and dance on the Disney Channel. Sometimes we have to watch the same episode over and over. Before school one day, he hugged and kissed his Wiggles DVD cover before putting it away.
I wondered, who are these four middle-aged guys with their bright-colored shirts and silly songs and exaggerated facial expressions? I started doing research and learned three were former preschool teachers who started the band as a project in college. They based their material on what they learned in school.
"I get to talk to a Wiggle," I bragged to the teachers at my son's day care.
Field didn't disappoint. He was as gracious and kind off camera to an adult as he is to the kids on screen. No doubt I was one of many interviews that day, but he acted like I was the only one. I resisted the urge to tell him all my Wiggles stories and say things like, "You know that time, when you ate too much fruit salad? That was awesome."
I did tell him I was the mother of a 2-year-old boy but tried to leave it at that. At the end of our interview, he surprised me by asking for my son's name.
"Is the recorder still running? he asked. Then he left a personal message.
It was for my son, but it might as well have been for me.
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Maldon will feature in episode two of the series, made by Shiver productions, when Adrian joins the crew of Cabby, the last wooden traditional Thames sailing barge to be built.
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by Joe Meloni/CHN Reporter
DETROIT Wisconsin's fans loved everything they saw from their beloved Badgers on Thursday evening. They defeated upstart RIT — the darling of this year's edition of the NCAA Tournament — 8-1 in one of the most lopsided games either side played this season, and they will get a chance to win their seventh national championship.
Questions about RIT's skill level aside, the Badgers used their national semifinal appearance as a chance to make it clear that they are the favorite entering Saturday's national championship game — no matter the result of the second semifinal game.
The Badgers drew praise throughout the season for their depth and balance. In Thursday's win, that's precisely what they chose to display. Six goals. Six different goal scorers. Ten different players recorded a point. And that was before the start of the third period when Wisconsin seemed satisfied with a five-goal win before their victory lap of a third period began. When the game ended, seven different Badgers scored goals and 13 recorded at least one point in the win. (Though Wisconsin defenseman Brendan Smith had five assists, tying a Frozen Four record.)
"It starts with our goaltending and our defensive corps. I think we have one of the top defensive groups in the country," senior winger John Mitchell said. "Their ability to shut teams down in the defensive zone and get us pucks and the depth that all four of our lines have make us as strong as we are. Blake Geoffrion is obviously our standout player, but we don't have too many superstar players. Just through all four lines, everyone is solid and plays like top end guys."
Wisconsin entered the evening with confidence. Twenty-seven wins will do that to team, but the balance and depth that became the Badgers' hallmark throughout the season factored more into their poise than anything else. Scoring eight goals in a national semifinal only made the Badgers more sure of their game.
Some coaches of teams less resilient than this Badger squad may fret over such an easy victory days before a chance at the ultimate prize. Unlike most teams that regularly welcome the nation's premier players, UW coach Mike Eaves hasn't recently lost great players to professional contracts or those leagues up North. So there isn't much of chance that the Badgers will let Thursday's win affect Saturday's game any more than it has to.
"We're going to enjoy for a couple of hours and start preparing for Saturday," Eaves said. "It's just one game, and it doesn't mean anything beyond going to Saturday. That's the game that we're concentrating on now.
"It's good to have an 8-1 victory. We didn't have to go into overtime. We get to keep our legs, and then focus on a national championship."
In fact, Eaves' players, like leading goal scorer Blake Geoffrion, who could be playing for the Nashville Predators if he opted to leave following last season, decided months before they have to that they want nothing more than to finish their careers in Madison. Thirteen of the Badgers in uniform Thursday night were upperclassmen. While the offense came from all four classes, a senior started the barage.
"We just wanted to start the game strong, me and linemate [Jordy Murray] to follow the first two shifts ahead of us," Mitchell said. "Just try to keep going all four lines going. Keep that depth of our team going because that's our strong point."
Mitchell watched as the puck found its way back to junior defenseman Cody Goloufbef and glided toward the low slot. The move was natural. He didn't see the play and then make a decision to go to the net. He just seemed to end up there when the puck drifted back to the blue line. The way a player that's been in that situation a few times before always seems to do.
When Goloubef's shot deflected into the low slot — where Mitchell planted himself — he slipped it past RIT goaltender Jared DeMichiel without much effort. The basics become easier when players understand their job. Mitchell, at six-foot-five, 224 pounds, knows that he belongs in front of the net. Even a goaltender like DeMichiel can't do much when he can't see anything but the back of an opponent's head.
It's a basic strategy — teams talk everyday about getting pucks to the net and getting bodies to the net — but players don't always do those things — especially freshmen and sophomores. Wisconsin has plenty of young players contributing to this race to the season's final and most important 60 minutes; they don't play like kids anymore, though. Of course, they've played dozens of games at this point, but the poise demonstrated by players like sophomore Derek Stepan — two goals on Thursday — and Justin Schultz, who's scored twice in three games in the tournament, is uncommon at such an early stage in their development.
Mike Eaves has turned a few underclassmen into stars before. This group, though, they've had a few other pretty good teachers.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic admitted last spring that he could sense change was on the way.
The Bruins were trailing 4-1 in the third period of what appeared to be a Game 7 disaster in a first-round playoff series. Had they lost that deciding game — the culmination of blowing a 3-1 series lead against the Toronto Maple Leafs — the Bruins no doubt would look different when they reconvened the next season.
"You start thinking to yourself, 'Is this the end of this group here?' Because it probably would have been if we didn't win this game," Lucic said that after that game.
Losing wasn't in the cards, though, as the Bruins stormed back in the third period to tie the score, then won the game in overtime. It was one of the most memorable wins in franchise history and propelled the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final. An incredible win, yes, but also a reminder of how fragile playoff life can be and how dire the potential consequences could be. That's a lesson the Bruins hope they finally can apply this season.
Boston has won two of its last three first-round playoff series, but it certainly hasn't been easy: The Bruins have gone to overtime in Game 7 in each of their last three seasons. Last year and in 2011, the Bruins were able to escape — and eventually reach the Stanley Cup Final. In 2012, Joel Ward potted an overtime goal that silenced TD Garden and marked the final game Tim Thomas ever wore the spoked B.
"It just seems to be the biggest battle for us and the hardest one to get through, and I don't think it's going to be any different coming into this series," Lucic said after practice Wednesday, two days before this year's first-round series against the Detroit Red Wings begins. "We've got to be better prepared to bring our best because you talk about the last three years, the other team hasn't taken us lightly and they've given us their best. Maybe we kind of overlooked the other team a little too much where we've kind of got ourselves in holes."
The most important step in ensuring this year isn't a repeat of the past three might be to start quickly. The Bruins faced 2-0 and 3-1 deficits in 2011 and 2012 and needed comebacks just to force a Game 7 in those series.
"Every round is different," Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask said. "The first one you're trying to get your team going and it might take a couple of games that you can't really afford. So that might be the challenge for everybody."
Then again, that doesn't always guarantee a breeze through the first round. The Bruins jumped to a 3-1 series lead last year against the Maple Leafs before allowing Toronto back into the series in Games 5 and 6.
Whatever the case may be, the Bruins can't afford any sort of first-round letdown.
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Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2006/9/9 17:18
From lancaster county
Posts: 968
Never thought about it but im sure i can do about a mile in an hour easy
Posted on: 2010/2/12 4:09
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/7/29 10:25
Posts: 235
I used to fish Valley with dries and catch an average of about 3-4 per trip, the range was skunkaroo to a dozen. Now I fish for poconos brookies, and catch a range from skunkaroo (new place that didn't work out) to three dozen (stream I know, 4 am departure with fire in eyes, mountain bike to save time). I probably catch three-four times more brookies on an average trip, maybe 15?, than I did at valley, maybe 3-4?
Sometimes I will find a great pool and catch five brookies in a few minutes, but you can't catch five fish in a few minutes at the letort (I haven't caught five there in my life!), so comparing total fish numbers across types of fishing doesn't mean much.
I probably caught a lot of fish last year, but only because I made a lot of brookie trips. I have already had days where I caught a dozen brookies this year, but I don't keep an annual count. I look at fishing days more on "did I do a good job with the conditions?" and "did I learn something today?"
I like to move around when I fish, and I agree with Sal -- the first cast is the most likely one to catch a brookie, so I like long streams with many pools, and it pays to keep moving and fish more of the stream.
While I agree that stealth is important in small stream brookie fishing, sometimes moving faster even with a little less care can work. I have caught a few nice brookies in infertile streams this winter that turned downstream after a fly, so I watched them swim right toward me!
Posted on: 2010/2/12 6:52
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2008/1/31 17:19
From Pretty much everywhere at some point, Thorndale today.
Posts: 2344
yep, moving quick. I think I fall somewhere in between troutberts and sal's estimates of travel speed. Thinkin of a particular stream last summer, where I know the distance well, I fished about 3 miles in 4 hours. I'm sure this varies a little depending on the water, and streamside brush for that matter.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 7:36
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2006/9/9 9:29
From Monessen, PA
Posts: 2366
I would never de-emphasize the importance of stealth on small streams. In addition, I think stealth precludes moving fast unless it is to purposely pass over water that you think will not be productive. I think if you painted a streamside tree bright orange, the trout would "worry about it" for less than an hour. On the other hand, If you, dressed in your best camoflauge, move quickly into their field of view, they will spook, period. If you pause and remain still for ten minutes, they may return to ease and feeding locations. Have you ever tried standing still for ten minutes? Much easier to move slowly in the first place so that when they become aware of you, they do not regard you as a threat. If they didn't see your form enter their field of view, but merely catch a glimpse of you in repositioning themselves, they are unlikely to be alarmed, particularly if at that moment you are still.
Anyhow, just my thoughts on moving quickly.
I think Akid was also asking about moving from river to river or section to section. I am inclined to choose my location to park as Plan A based upon prior knowledge of the stream and go and find the best water I can walk to. If water levels, turbidity, etc. dictate a different stream, I will usually give that one at least an hour before thinking of going with Plan B.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 7:43
"I don't always say what I mean, but I always mean what I say."
-- Jack M.
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/7/29 10:25
Posts: 235
"...3 miles in 4 hours. I'm sure this varies a little depending on the water, and streamside brush for that matter."
yes, also, while the fish are less active in winter, the reduced brush is a big help for covering more distance.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 7:43
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2006/9/9 9:29
From Monessen, PA
Posts: 2366
Pat, my math may be off, but would 3 miles in 4 hours be equal to 66 feet per minute? That seems to be an awfully quick pace unless every 10 minutes or so, you just hightailed it upstream a tenth of a mile or so. I'm not doubting, just wondering if that is a good fishing pace.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 7:48
"I don't always say what I mean, but I always mean what I say."
-- Jack M.
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2007/7/3 16:22
From Downingtown, PA
Posts: 0
PennKev wrote:
Ditto - And the fewer I catch the more accurate the count. ;^) I'm not obsessive about it and don't write it down on the stream or notch my flyrod. I also keep a log of water temp, air temp, weather, flow, hatches & etc for each trip so I can see trends both on and between streams, reminisce during the winter, etc.
I'm a counter by nature, and I'm sure some of you are as well. I know how many seconds it takes to fill the coffee pot, our humidifier, the juice container & etc. Not an intentional thing, I just find myself going " 1.. 2..3.." while doing any task. I know, I know - bring out the restraints...
As far as moving goes, I seldom leave a stream unless I find it high & muddy, until it's been whipped into a frothy foam, or if there are simply too many people there. One day last year I started on Fishing Creek, moved to Spring and ended up on Penn's. BFC was high flow, low temp and completely dead. Spring was in similar shape and everywhere I went some knucklehead would immediately jump in 50' above me. Finally drove to Penn's to get some solitude and was rewarded with a late afternoon sulphur hatch.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 7:56
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/7/29 10:25
Posts: 235
Jack I agree that stealth is important, and too bad an approach will shut a pool of brookies down. But I also agree that the first cast in a pool is the most likely one to produce a strike. Since stealth costs time, and doesn't need to be perfect, at least in small brookie streams, I think it is sometimes better to move faster and give yourself more of those best-chance first
casts in more pools. This also depends on the stream, you can overdo speed on a really small stream and wind up in higher smaller parts that don't fish as well as the bigger lower area you blazed through. But if the stream is big enough and long enough that its upper areas still have good pools, it might be worth trading some stealth for some speed. And if by moving up you are getting away from the nearest road, you might reach bigger fish because even in isolated brookie steams some fish wind up as a fisherman's lunch.
Don't get me wrong, I never fish downstream unless it's the only possibility, often kneel to cast, try to cast from behind trees, and there are branches over the stream, I have to keep low anyhow.
But some of the books I read made it sound like camo and crawling upstream are the only ways to catch brookies, and I have caught some nice fish fishing downstream when I had to, and have had several fish this year swim right in my direction
downstream chasing a fly. Of course I stay still, but I would not have guessed that wild fish would do that it's cold and they saw FOOD! :)
Posted on: 2010/2/12 8:08
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2007/5/10 14:53
From Carlisle
Posts: 0
I count. Always have and probably always will. It's most likely the accountant in me that makes me count. I don't count to brag how many I caught, but rather I use it as a personal reference in my fishing log and nothing more.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 8:20
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2006/9/9 9:29
From Monessen, PA
Posts: 2366
Just to be clear, I am not saying wild trout are hyper-spookie. I am saying they are more frightened of movement of objects ABOVE the surface (hence shadow issues) than they are by objects in their above-surface "vision" that are not moving.
I'n not saying either that I think there are 11 tout to catch in a pool as I described and pictured earlier. I also don't believe there is only one. I would probe the rear of the pool with a couple casts before i drifted the mid section and would drift the head last. If you approach pools this way on large streams, you should do so on the small one's.
Anyway, with my method, you don't have to walk so much. I would prefer to hike 25 minutes or more just to reach the place I put in and then worked slowly and methodically over a smaller stretch. Just a preference, I guess.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 8:43
"I don't always say what I mean, but I always mean what I say."
-- Jack M.
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2006/9/10 7:44
From Enola, Pa.
Posts: 49
Years ago when I was in my prime, I have had over 500 fish a year, I know this because I keep records. Now days in my golden years Im lucky to catch half that but I still love flyfishing for trout. That will never change!
Posted on: 2010/2/12 8:58
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/7/29 10:25
Posts: 235
"I am saying they are more frightened of movement of objects ABOVE the surface (hence shadow issues) than they are by objects in their above-surface "vision" that are not moving."
Yes, and I think that's the only reason that after I approach a pool from downstream, make a cast, and the fly drifts back, a brookie will sometimes turn and swim toward me (cool to see) -- it's because even though I am not small :), I am not moving at that time. If that fish for some reason were pointed downstream
during my cast, he'd be in cover before the fly hit the water. (You can often see fish that spook, so you know you screwed up.)
I fished for brookies during bear season, and was out there in an extremely bright blaze vest to increase the chances of maintaining my "dermal integrity" :). I didn't help, but it was atradeoff I was glad to make. I still caught brookies on dries at close range, some even from the side of pools if that was the only casting lane. But I bet I also worked harder at staying low in orange day-glo.
I agree a lot of this comes down to preference. I love brookie streams that have a lot of good pools over a longer section, and I just view it as a 43-hole golf course. Patience is not my strength.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 9:03
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/7/29 10:25
Posts: 235
jack - here's another thing that suggests you are right, that what really spooks fish is above-water movement: you can sometimes catch multiple brookies, up to five, from the same hole, on dry flies. I try to bring 'em in and let 'em go, which must cause some underwater and surface comotion, and then another one will hit a fly. so it is not just any motion or disturbance, it is above surface movement that seems to send them darting. herons and muskrats everywhere.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 9:13
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2007/10/17 10:49
From florida
Posts: 1573
Sometimes I count:if there are lots of fish I try to keep track of numbers and size.
Numbers don't affect my trips any more.I just enjoy the whole experience from the driving to getting tackle ready,to choosing flies to try ,etc.
Generally have a plan before I get started.Hit X stream and drop over to Y and so on.
Decisions on the evening before or the AM depending on variables such as weather .
I try to carry a camera and take pictures,although posting them is a laugh.
My memory is still pretty good so I can recall times and places and fish numbers.
Salt water is a different animal.With limits and seasons you have to count or get in trouble with the man ,if you get stopped.
Posted on: 2010/2/12 9:25
bragging may not bring happiness,but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. a non a mus
Re: To count or not to count- that is the question.
2009/1/3 13:51
Posts: 5
For what it's worth, I've counted in the past when I kept detailed personal records, but it was more complicated. When I did it, on index cards, I broke the pool down into zones and had a code system.
It was a way of giving myself insight into determining the difference between my perception and reality.
For example, how many sub-legal brookies are part of a 70-some trout outing, and how many were legal-length?
After enough of those, and then seeing from old wounds or other evidence and figuring out how much damage barbed hooks do to all those sub-legal brookies resulted in my making changes to strictly barbless and the smallest hook possible to minimize damage. It also helped alter my striking response. A lot of undersized, eagerly surface-feeding brookies can be avoided the pain of a size 12 hook just by moderating the strike response (to include not striking to set the hook).
Other info I got for myself included how many on a deer hair cricket versus caddis, royal wulffs, beetles, etc.
For friendly one-day comparisons, I've participated and likely will again, depending on the person.
Other than that, the only reason for me to count is if I'm going to kill.
I find no value whatsoever in merely receiving someone else's simple tally.
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Easy finance, fast-money lenders are often condemned as "loan sharks", targeting society's most vulnerable, charging interest of up to 400 per cent, and trapping people in cycles of debt.
But defenders say they provide a valuable and necessary service, lending credit to those deemed too high risk for the banks.
"Third-tier lenders" include finance companies, pawn brokers and mobile lending trucks that provide consumer credit.
To obtain a loan, consumers need to provide very little: a bank statement, sometimes a $20 deposit, and a few details.
Some are available online, or even via text, and loans are usually approved within a matter of hours - sometimes minutes - with money received within the day.
Third-tier lenders say that to offset the high-risk nature of these borrowers and transactions, they charge higher interest rates - ranging from 30 to 400 per cent - and significant fees for payments missed.
The latest legislation, designed to contain exploitative lenders, does not include a cap on interest rates.
New Zealand is one of the last western countries not to implement an interest-rate cap, with Australia, the United States and Britain all implementing caps of 48 per cent or lower within the last year.
Poea Rangi is a single mother, supporting five children aged 7 to 18.
She works fulltime for minimum wage, as a head teacher of te reo Maori at kohanga reo.
Rangi believes she has been a victim of loan sharks - targeted by door-knocking lenders who set her up with loans she had little hope of repaying.
With a combined weekly income of $600 from her wage and Working for Families, she spends $200 each week trying to pay off her debts - which pays interest, but barely dents the loan.
After rent and debt payments, she is left with $140 to pay a power bill, feed her kids, and buy petrol. All too often, she says, it's not enough - and on weeks with unexpected costs, she'll find herself looking again at a loan to make ends meet.
Despite her inability to make good on her existing debts, she is still approached by lenders, and offered further loans or credit.
Today, she's furious with the lenders who she says target poor neighbourhoods, beneficiaries, and single mothers.
"Some can't read, some can't see the small print, some just don't understand. They target the hood side, where it's mostly beneficiaries, and say, 'You want a 50-inch TV? I can give it to you. You want a new iPad, new iPod?'
"They will give it to you there and then. They make it sound so good. They turn around and say, 'Look, you can just pay $20 a week, what's $20 a week?' And we're easy targets."
Living in low socio-economic neighbourhoods in Henderson, Auckland, and Aranui, Christchurch, Rangi says she and her neighbours are constantly approached by vendors looking to lend money.
"There is never a day when someone doesn't knock on your door."
Now, Rangi is determined to pay off all her loans, and leave her children debt free. But even armed with a strict budget, she's worried that she'll never get out of the lending cycle.
"I want to give them their money, but if they keep stinging me with fees, I never can. I took a loan for $500, paid back $200, missed two payments, and found I still owed them $450. It's a no-win game."
Budget services say some door-to-door lenders are targeting the vulnerable and elderly, who may not have capacity to say no to a sales pitch, and incur enormous debts for items they cannot use.
Lyttleton Catholic Diocese pastoral care told the story of Sally (not her real name), a woman with significant developmental delays, and the intellectual capacity of a 9-year-old.
She was sold a vacuum cleaner on credit by a door-to-door lender for $1500 plus interest.
It sat in its packaging, unused, for a year. Neither Sally nor her partner knew how to use a vacuum cleaner.
When Sally was taken to hospital and later died, carers discovered that sums of money were being withdrawn from her account weekly to pay for the debt and its steadily accrued interest.
Furious, they approached the lender and "threatened blue murder" unless the payments were cancelled.
The unused vacuum cleaner was returned, and the agency agreed that payments could stop.
Budgeting agencies say these stories are not uncommon. Vulnerable clients, often on benefits or pensions, who lack capacity to understand the terms of their agreement, are talked into buying items for several times their market value.
A Families Commission report on problem debt included the case of a man who borrowed $9000 for a car, thinking he would repay a total of $11,000 with interest and fees, who found that his total bill was $21,000. In a second case, a man bought a car for $10,000, but faced total repayments of $25,000. Christchurch City Missioner Michael Gorman said it appeared companies were deliberately preying on the vulnerable.
The agency had experienced back-of-truck loan shops sitting outside the City Mission facilities, lending to clients.
"There are people in the community who are really suffering, and because they aren't very financially literate they are sucked into an arrangement that they don't really understand. It has implications for all of us. Not only are we allowing this to happen in our communities, but we are poorer for it because we then have to pick up the pieces," Gorman said.
He called for tougher government regulation, including a cap on interest rates.
"Somebody has to do something to bring this into line, and it is a legislative problem. There are people in our communities that need to be protected from people who don't appear to have any scruples about charging exorbitant interest rates," he said.
"Until you have enough courage to cap interest rates I don't think we're going to get anywhere."
The Credit Contracts and Financial Services Law Reform Bill passed its first reading in September with cross-party support.
The bill puts the onus on lenders to disclose full details of interest or fees and ensure borrowers can meet their repayment requirements.
Critics say, however, that the reforms don't go nearly far enough.
Without an interest rate cap the bill is "toothless".
Associate Professor Louise Signal headed up a study on third tier lenders for Otago University.
Without proper regulation, she says, "they don't have a legitimate role to play in communities".
"They're a menace," Signal says. "Without the regulation, they exploit the communities. They exploit the poorest of our people."
She said the new bill was a step in the right direction.
"But it's been frequently delayed and dropped down the priority list, when it needs to be urgently attended to".
"While the legislation would be an improvement it must have a cap on interest rates.
"It's absolutely outrageous to think people would be paying over 400 per cent a year.
"Without that cap, the current legislation is not strong enough to protect the community."
Instant Finance chief executive Richard de Lautour said the company's interest rates were all "miles below" the 48 per cent interest cap suggested by advocates.
He said the company would have no problem with a cap
He said tightening regulation would primarily impact "payday lenders", who lend short-term, low-value loans, and were more likely to charge sky-high interest rates.


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Moms of 8, 9 or 10 year olds ....
I need your opinions regarding bedtimes ... what time do you put your 8-9-10 year old to bed ?
Here's the deal at my house, 7pm she goes up for her shower, teeth brushing, PJs, brush hair etc 7h30pm to 8pm is free time she can either watch TV, play her DS or do whatever she wants in her room. 8pm is time to say goodnight, it's technically lights out & no more getting up. She usually asks for a book in bed and I oblige my guess is she falls asleep before 8h30 hits. This being said she goes to school, she's cranky if she doesn't get enough sleep. She's up (no matter what time she went to bed) at 6h30am every morning.
Now, I see kids still playing outside at 7h45pm, my neighbour's kids are still in the pool at 8pm which of course makes DD mad. She's arguing with me that her bedtime is too early. I keep telling her THEY are the ones that are out of whack. Am I wrong ?
We send ours to bed around 8:30 on the weeknights and 9:30 on the weekends.
thank you again ladies for all the replies !!
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Lost in Translation? - sience, technology and the state since the 1970s
From the perspective of science and technology the period from the late 1960s marked the dawn of a number of revolutionary discoveries and inventions, such as the microprocessor and the technology of recombinant DNA. These and other developments, which as a rule originated outside Sweden, would with time open up a vast space of opportunities for industry and business as well as for other parts of society, and they would play key roles in the painful process of structural change in the Swedish economy during the decades that were to come.Against this background, Swedish state actors faced tremendous new challenges in their efforts to influence science- and technology-related activities in the country. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Swedish state attempted to respond to these new challenges, and how state actors sought new ways to legitimate their actions – at a time when the myths of neutrality and welfare appeared more and more to be losing much of their attraction and broad acceptance.
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Well, Loopers ... as some of you may have seen on FB, this little runner is back on the DL. Yet another stress fracture ... 4th one in 6 years. This particular one decided to settle at the top of my femur, close to the hip. For those keeping track ... that makes 3 femurs and a tibia.
I could be all ticked off and grumpy ........
But instead I'll stay happy ..........
See the difference?
Sure I had plans for this spring ... plans that will now get pulled off the table. And $145 in race registrations (but who's counting?) will go down the pooper. But as with everything in life, there's a bright side ....
So without further adieu, here is my list of advantages to being on the DL:
- You can pawn off stupid little chores on your kids. If I had a dollar for everytime I've used the line "Hey, kid ... will you go grab (enter item here) for me? I have a broken leg" ... or "Nope, I can't do that, kid. I have a broken leg" ... I'd have a lot of dollars. And we're only on day 3 of the DL, so those dollars would really add up.
- Increasing your donations to the community of poor runners. Or at least those that have already blown their racing budgets for the year by mid-January (you KNOW you've all been there!). As previously mentioned ... there is $145 in race registrations that has already been spent but that I will no longer be running. But why should they go to waste? Instead, 3 lucky runners will get a race bib for free. Well ... except for the small price of letting me keep my race shirt. Because you know I don't have enough race shirts.
- Future race karma! What goes around, come around ... right? So passing out free races should bring me good race karma ... right?
- I'll stop eating all the Oreos. When I'm in high mileage weeks, there is also high risk of an Oreo shortage. Now the Oreos are safe ... at least until Fall 2014. You're welcome.
- I can hibernate through this damn polar vortex. I'll take 20s over 80s any day. But negative wind chills and constant snow and ice ... and more snow. No thanks. I'll pass. Wake me up when winter ends.
- No guilt. To be honest, this couldn't come at a better time. I was pretty much on the highway to funkville anyway (see previous bullet). During the fall months, my mojo was at an all time high. But lately it's been lacking quite a bit. Sure ... I could have always just taken a break for a week or two ... hoping that I'd miss the endorphins and my motivation would come running back to me ... but y'all know that runners don't take breaks willingly without feeling the guilt that come along with it. But unwilling / unplanned / unscheduled break = no guilt.
- I can actually get crap done! I've had a "To Do" list sitting around for a good 6 months. Not your average chores type of "To Do" list ... but the bigger, home repair and remodel type of list. You know how many things got checked off in the last half year? Zero. You know how many got checked off this past weekend? Two. At this pace, I'll have a brand new house by spring.
- Sleep! Did ya'll know that it's possible to sleep past 5am on the weekends? Yeah .. I didn't know that either. But I do now!!!
- You get to buy funny products. Thanks to a tip from our very own Kynan (Santiago of the Sea), I just ordered me a bottle of this:
The good news is they sell this at Amazon, so I didn't have to walk into a store and ask where I can
find the "Bone Up" pills. The bad news ... doing a google search for Bone Up doesn't quite direct you
to a bottle of bone desity supplements. Don't say I didn't warn you.
- You no longer drive your spouse crazy with your running. Hubs is a runner also ... but he's more of a casual, run when he wants to, how ever far he wants to, non-racing, complete Type-B type of runner. So I know sometimes my constant schedule following, "I can't (stay up late, drink, eat certain foods, etc) tonight because I have to run early", "I have to rearrange everyone else's world so I can fit my run in", total Type-A attitude can sometimes drive him nutty. So now, instead, I will drive him crazy with my "To Do" lists ... along with some other things (see next bullet).
- An excuse to dress sloppy. Not completely sloppy, but when you have a crack in your femur, wearing heals is obviously a no-no. And any excuse to ditch those foot torture devices is okay by me. Am I right, ladies?!?! Now, being only 5'1, I wear A LOT of heals ... so I only have a handful of flat shoes and a handful of pants that are the right length for flat shoes. So ... bonus here ... figuring out what to wear on a daily basis just got a whole lot easier. Sure ... having less outfits than days in the week may be a hit to the laundry schedule ... but hubs does the laundry, so it doesn't hurt me any (just another way to drive him crazy - see previous bullet). I couldn't do the laundry anyway ... I have a broken leg, remember (see bullet #1).
- The pressure is off. I recently posted a list of my spring goals, chock full of PRs and what not. Well, I think when I can return to running I will just do so at a leisurely pace. Sure, sure ... I'm the only one putting pressure on myself to reach these goals, but now I won't feel the guilt if I don't reach them (see bullet #6).
See, Loopsters .... when you look at an injury through rose colored glasses, it doesn't seem so bad anymore.
But in all seriousness ... looks like I'm out at least 6 weeks. Doc says 3 weeks on crutches (no real way to put a positive spin there ... they suck ... especially when you spend a lot of time chasing around or carrying a 12 month old), 3 weeks of regular weight bearing (so walking from here to there without crutches), and then 3 weeks slowing easing back into running. Could be worse, I guess. I am allowed to swim ... so that's something!
Also, I will be filling some of that extra free time with more doctor appointments. 4 stress fractures in 6 years is not normal ... especially when we're talking femurs. Doc says a femur crack is like "hitting a nail with a hammer and breaking the hammer" (that anology came right after the 5 minute lecture on why I need to be on the stupid crutches when I argued with him about being on the stupid crutches). I need to get to the bottom of why this keeps happening. My race budget will now be switched over to copays.
In the meantime, there's always beer.
Happy Running, Loopsters! Run some for me too!!


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