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Solar cells capture the sunlight and turning it into energy, much like a leaf does with a tree.
That idea makes it more than ironic now that new and efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees are now under development from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers. By fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can end up quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.
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Organic solar cells so far reach a power conversion efficiency of 2.7 percent, an unprecedented figure for cells on substrates derived from renewable raw materials, the researchers said. The CNC substrates on which they fabricate the solar cells are optically transparent, enabling light to pass through them before it ends up absorbed by a very thin layer of an organic semiconductor. During the recycling process, the solar cells simply immerse in water at room temperature. Within only minutes, the CNC substrate dissolves and the solar cell separates easily into its major components.
"The development and performance of organic substrates in solar technology continues to improve, providing engineers with a good indication of future applications," said study leader Georgia Tech College of Engineering Professor Bernard Kippelen, who is also the director of Georgia Tech's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE). "But organic solar cells must be recyclable. Otherwise we are simply solving one problem, less dependence on fossil fuels, while creating another, a technology that produces energy from renewable sources but is not disposable at the end of its lifecycle."
To date, organic solar cells usually end up made on glass or plastic. Neither is easily recyclable, and petroleum-based substrates are not very eco-friendly. For instance, if cells fabricated on glass were to break during manufacturing or installation, the useless materials would be difficult to dispose of. Paper substrates are better for the environment, but have limited performance because of high surface roughness or porosity. However, cellulose nanomaterials made from wood are green, renewable and sustainable. The substrates have a low surface roughness of only about two nanometers.
"Our next steps will be to work toward improving the power conversion efficiency over 10 percent, levels similar to solar cells fabricated on glass or petroleum-based substrates," Kippelen said. The group plans to achieve this by optimizing the optical properties of the solar cell's electrode.
A provisional patent on the technology is on file with the U.S. Patent Office.
There's also another positive impact of using natural products to create cellulose nanomaterials. The nation's forest product industry projects that tens of millions of tons of them could end up produced once large-scale production begins, potentially in the next five years.


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Alberta Ski Holidays
Breathtaking scenery, more terrain than you could possibly ski in one trip and an abundance of winter activities; Alberta combines world-class skiing across multiple resorts with a sensational backdrop.
The skiing in Alberta is focused around its three largest ski resorts: Banff's main ski area of Sunshine Village, Canada's third largest ski resort Lake Louise and one of the world's friendliest ski resorts, Marmot Basin in Jasper National Park. There are other mountains in the region, mostly small, local ski hills such as Mt Norquay. Between Banff and Jasper's resorts you have access to 9,423 acres of terrain - so there really is something for everyone.
An easy 1 hour 30 minute drive from Calgary airport, we recommend staying in the lively skier's town of Banff, where you can get the free shuttle bus or drive to the different ski areas. Mt Norquay is only 10 minutes away, Sunshine Village is 20 minutes and Lake Louise is 45 minutes away. The three resorts are covered on the Tri-Area lift pass and also offer interchangeable ski hire. Don't be put off by the lack of on-mountain accommodation - the shuttle bus is free, convenient and the spectacular scenery en route is part of the experience.
With a bit more time, drive along the awe-inspiring Icefields Parkway to Jasper - Canada's northernmost (and friendliest) ski town - on an Alberta Rockies Ski Safari.
We've been skiing in Alberta for over 20 years, read about our team's most memorable moments over the years on our blog.
The centre of Alberta skiing, Banff town is a fantastic base with a thriving local population and a relaxed and easy going atmosphere. A free ski shuttle operates to the three nearby resorts of Mt Norquay, Sunshine Village and Lake Louise, while off the slopes you'll find good value accommodation and a bustling main street lined with shops and vibrant après bars.
The best value accommodation in Banff is centred around Banff Avenue close to the bars, restaurants and shops, while the out of town Fairmont Banff Springs and Rimrock Resort offer unrivalled luxury. Wherever you stay, you're surrounded by some of the most stunning scenery in North America and you'll have the opportunity to spot the local wildlife.
Mt Norquay is the nearest ski area to Banff and is the locals' favourite. With 31 runs spread over one mountain, it's perfect to get your legs moving on your first day and also makes a great bad weather option thanks to the tree lined slopes. It's worth spending a day here for the views of Banff town alone, but expert skiers will also find some super-fast steep groomed runs. Mt Norquay also offers night skiing, with one free session included on the Tri-Area lift ticket along with a free tubing session.
Sunshine Village
Sunshine Village is probably where you will spend most of your time when you're staying in Banff. While not as large as Lake Louise, it's a lot closer and still has three mountains with skiing for all abilities, from easy beginner slopes to some of the most challenging runs in North America. Sunshine also receives the most snow in Alberta - up to 30 ft per year of dry, fluffy powder - and has a season that starts early in November and lasts long into May. After huge early snowfall in October, Sunshine Village recorded its earliest opening in over 30 years this season.
Sunshine Mountain Lodge is the only true ski-in ski-out property in Alberta, accessed by gondola or in a specially adapted snow vehicle. Fantastic if you want to be right on the slopes, and while you won't be able to access Banff's bustling nightlife and range of restaurants from here, you will have the buzz of fresh tracks every day - we recommend staying for a couple of nights during your visit.
Lake Louise
The furthest resort from Banff town in Banff National Park, Lake Louise resides in a remote location with an unforgettable backdrop. Canada's third largest ski area, there are 139 runs spread over 4,200 acres. Each of the nine lifts offers at least one easy run down, while strong skiers have lots of alpine bowls to choose from with some very challenging steeps.
Lake Louise has its own small ski village five minutes from the resort base, so you can choose to base yourself here and still ski Mt Norquay and Sunshine Village (plus enjoy a drink or two in Banff). For the ultimate secluded, luxury getaway, stay in the imposing Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. This superb hotel sits on the edge of Lake Louise with impressive views of the frozen lake and Victoria Glacier on one side and the ski resort on the other.
Best experienced as part of an Alberta Rockies Ski Safari, Jasper is a three and a half hour drive from Lake Louise along the stunning Icefields Parkway and has plenty of great value accommodation options (as well as the exclusive Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge). The ski area of Marmot Basin may be small but the skiing is fantastic and advanced skiers can have an epic few days exploring the bowls and tree-lined gullies. Known as 'The Big Friendly', you can expect a warm welcome and cheery service in Marmot Basin, and the atmosphere is similar in Jasper town!
Multi-Resort Road Trip
Experience everything that Alberta has to offer with our Alberta Rockies Ski Safari. The itinerary below is just one suggestion of how to combine Alberta's resorts. Our ski safaris are entirely flexible, call us on 01273 224060 for a tailor-made quote with your choice of resorts, activities and accommodation.
Fly to Calgary and pick up your hire vehicle for the two and a half hour drive to Lake Louise. Stay at the majestic 5* Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise for absolute luxury and enjoy the huge variety of skiing over two mountains. The Fairmont lounge is the perfect place to relax with a cocktail or a hot chocolate after a spot of ice skating on the lake.
Your next stop is Jasper, and you'll want to take your time getting there. The drive along the Icefields Parkway will take your breath away and you'll find it hard not to stop frequently to take photos. Spend a few days enjoying the quiet slopes and pristine surrounding wilderness.
Drive back to Banff where you'll end your trip skiing the two nearby resorts of Sunshine Village and Mt Norquay. Stay in the centre of town at the 3*+ Elk + Avenue Hotel for easy access to Banff's 100+ bars, restaurants and shops or stay in style at the 5* Fairmont Banff Springs, taking time out to relax at Banff Hot Springs (complimentary pass with a 3+ day Tri-Area lift ticket).
A 14 day Alberta Rockies Ski Safari costs from £1,849pp based on two sharing at the 3* Lake Louise Inn, 3* Sawridge Inn in Jasper and the 3*+ Elk + Avenue Hotel in Banff, including flights and car hire.
We can help organise activities and excursions in each of the resorts, find out what's on offer below.
Activities & Excursions
Banff and Jasper National Parks offer a huge range of winter activities to add to your ski holiday. We've highlighted some of our team's favourites below, plus a selection of activities which operate out of all the resorts.
Banff Hot Springs - Included on the Tri-Area lift ticket, rest your legs in this splendid, historic spa and bathhouse with Banff's spectacular alpine scenery in the background. Relax in the comfort of soothing hot springs where travelers have come to "take the waters" for more than a century. Banff's premier attraction features an outdoor source-fed pool, children's area, gift shop, indoor and outdoor cafeteria, spacious changing rooms and day spa.
Johnston Canyon Icewalk - Banff's most popular ice walk for a reason, traverse a series of steel catwalks above Johnston Canyon. Expect natural caves, gigantic pillars of ice and lots of wildlife. In Jasper, Maligne Canyon Ice Walks offer a similar experience.
Ice Skating on Lake Louise - Possibly the most spectacular ice rink in the world, the frozen glacial lake is cleared and maintained daily by the Fairmont Chateau. The perfect romantic or family activity, you can even try your hand at ice hockey. During the Ice Magic Festival, ice carvers create a giant ice castle on the lake to add to the magical experience. Afterwards, warm up at the Fairmont with a hot chocolate.
Banff Gondola - Banff town's gondola has been re-imagined for the ultimate mountaintop experience in 2017. There are new restaurants, interactive exhibits, a multi-sensory theatre and a 360-degree rooftop observation deck. Spend time strolling along the ridgetop boardwalk with some of the best views in the world.
Backcountry Skiing - More advanced skiers have the opportunity to add an adventure in the backcountry to their trip, from heli-skiing to ski touring. If you're new to the backcountry, we've teamed up with Yamnuska Mountain Adventures who provide a selection of introductory packages including one in Lake Louise.
Snowshoeing - Available from Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper, snowshoeing is a fantastic way to discover the National Parks. Hire your own or take a guided tour deep into the wilderness.
Other Activities
These activities are available from any of the resort bases. Call our Ski Extras team on 01273 224064 to find out more.
- Snowmobiling
- Dog sledding
- Sleigh rides
- Ice fishing
- Spas and hot springs
- Scenic tours and nature hikes
- Ice climbing
- Waterslides
- Bowling
- Curling
- Tobogganing
- Museums
- Art galleries

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You heard
You heard someone.
Don't argue. You heard your instructions from someone. (The someone can be a person's name, a title, or a pronoun.) Andy: You heard the man. Get moving. Henry: Don't rush me! Bill: What makes her think she can tell me what to do? Bob: She's the boss. Do it! You heard her!
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People Born in Ashwani Nakshatra
Ashwani – People born between April 13- April 26
Ashwani (Horse Woman)
Lord: Ketu (South lunar node)
Symbol : Horse's head
Deity : Ashwini Kumaras, the horse-headed twins who are physicians to the gods
Indian zodiac: 0° – 13°20′ Mesha ;
Western zodiac: 26° Aries – 9°20′ Taurus
The moon in Ashvini indicates a person who is a pioneer, innovator and explorer, who is heroic, courageous, restless, impatient, with a zest for life. They have a strong desire to be of service to others. They are energetic, magnetic and attractive, and are quick in speech and actions. However, they can also be inconsiderate and irresponsible.
Ahwani ( April13 – April 26)
Ashwani is the first nakshatra of the zodiac having a spread from 0°-0′-0″ to 13°-20′ and is ruled by the node Ketu. Ashwini is governed by the Ashwins, the twin horsemen. The Sun is Exalted here and the horse is the preferred transport of the Sun God. Sun's exaltation in Ashwini is a reminder to the soul of their eternal connection.
In the zodiac at 0° in Mesha there is a reddish star which the western astronomers call Arietis. The Indians named it Aswini. The deity for Aswini Nakshatra is Aswi or the Duality known as Aswini Kumar Twins, the physician of the Gods. The Puranas relate that the two Aswini Kumaras were born of mother Sanga and father Ravi. Ashwini nakshatra falls in the zodiac sign of Mesha, which is ruled by the aggressive and fiery planet Mars.
A person born in this Nakshatra is inclined towards serving others, is humble by nature, is truthful, has a contented family life. Ashwini Nakshatra brings about quick aid and energization. People born in Ashwini are very active, always busy doing something and they will spend their time keeping their house neat and clean.
Nakshatra are grouped on the basis of their nature, type of their face, degree of their beneficence, their quarters in different signs, with reference to the Nakshatra occupied by the Sun, with reference to the birth constellation (Janma Nakshatra), their caste, etc. The current Nakashatra occupied by the Moon, and its nature forms the fundamental of Vedic system of electional astrology (Muhurta). Some of the activities and works which are associated with the Nakshatras are given below based on their fundamental nature:
Small (Laghu & Kshipra) Knakshatra – Hasta, Abhijit, Pushya, and Ashvani.
Selling, medical knowledge, using & handling of medicines, literature-music-art, the 64 Kala Shilpa (various arts, sculpture etc.) jewellery making & wearing, sexual deeds. And the works prescribed for Movable (Char) constellations. Though Abhijit is included in Small group of asterisms, but is rarely referred in the Muhurt prescriptions.
Ashwini rules all forms of transportation and fast travel.This represents a person with a happy, carefree disposition, very intelligent, infact rather an above-average person in this respect. Vast learning, well developed brain power, faith in religion, sacrificing tendency, ambitions, philosophical and social are the traits of those born under this nakshatra.


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Caught in a "Web" of Confusion
I have a confession to make. I love Halloween. I love dressing up in silly costumes -- yes, I still do that (last year, I was "woman covered in spiders"). I love looking through my kids' candy scores. I love carving jack-o-lanterns. I love haunted houses. I love those CDs with scary laughter and music. I love pretend ghosts and bats and witches and vampires.
It's the one day of the year when I can just be goofy and no one questions my sanity.
I don't know much about the reason for Halloween. Why it exists. What it symbolizes. How it came to be. Sure, I could Google it, but I'm afraid I may read something that will make me feel guilty for enjoying it. So, I free myself from inaccurate resolution by choosing to remain unstudied in this area.
Besides, sure enough, if I find something incriminating on one "Web" page, I will find something acquitting on the next. Then I have to determine which "Web" sites are credible and which are unreliable. And by then, I'm really confused, I have a searing headache, and I'm dwelling on my guilty feelings over the really bad thing I read even though I have no idea if it's true or not.
Are you "Caught in a 'Web' of Confusion," too?
Last year, I went with my son's first-grade class to the book fair at his school. My son loves Pokemon, so as we were looking through the Pokemon books, one of the girls in his class came up to us and said, "I love Pokemon, but my mom won't let me have Pokemon stuff."
I said, "why?"
She said, "Because she says it's of the devil."
It wasn't the response I was expecting, and all I could squeak out was, "Oh."
After watching lots and lots and lots of Pokemon, "of the devil" is not something I would have used to describe the show.
Good versus bad - yes.
Dark versus light - yes.
Happy versus angry - yes.
"Of the devil" - NEVER crossed my mind.
And the puzzling thing is, on Pokemon, the good guys always win. Similar to superhero programs, there is usually a lesson in the battles portrayed. Sometimes, Pokemon can be so shiny and happy, it almost makes me gag just a little.
So, what was up with this mom? My guess -- she Googled it.
Then, she believed only the incriminating stuff she read without actually viewing the program and forming her own opinion.
She allowed the poorly-researched, incriminating stuff to weave itself into her judgement-making capabilities and then viewed the program through the tunnel of someone else's bad opinions.
I never Googled Pokemon and never will. I would rather form my own opinions of the show. There are many many cartoons I do not let my kids watch due to content I have observed. So far, Pokemon has not raised a red flag in my head.
NOTE: While searching for appropriate Pokemon videos on YouTube for my kids to watch, I encountered some Pokemon videos that individuals turned into ugly things that children should not be viewing. PARENTS - ALWAYS BE AWARE OF WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE VIEWING IF THEY BROWSE YOUTUBE or any other site that individuals can add their own creations to.
"Web" confusion doesn't just happen with things that are supposedly evil, it happens in the Christian world, too. Probably especially in the Christian world. Have you all seen this video that is going around that asks "Did Jesus give us the name of the antichrist?" It claims that Luke 10:18 which states "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan falling as lightning from the heavens" when spoken by Jesus in His language actually said the antichrist's name. According to the videomaker, in Jesus' language, "lightning from the heavens" is translated as "Baraq U Bam Maw."
Okay, you see where the video is going with this right?
Because I recalled something in the Bible saying something about not knowing who the antichrist is until the time of tribulation, I had to Google this one -- not to form my own opinion (I already had that), but to see what others thought. Of course, I found arguments on both sides. Although I see signs in this world that "Baraq U Bam Maw" is playing a key role in Biblical prophecy, I seriously doubted that Jesus would flat-out name the antichrist. So, I have to say, I'm not buying the video (which is why I'm not posting it here - but I'm sure you can find it if you - you guessed it - Google it). It doesn't mean I believe "U Bam Maw" is, and it doesn't mean I believe he isn't. It just means, as a pre-trib Christian, I do not believe I will know who the antichrist is while I'm here on this earth.
So here are my questions:
1. Is it okay for a Christian to enjoy Halloween?
2. Pokemon (if you've seen it) -- innocent fun or evil intentions?
3. The antichrist video (if you've seen it) -- bold reporting or baloney?
4. "Web" searching -- fact finder, entertainment tool, or simply a "Web" of confusion?


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Andy Shallal refused to shutter his restaurants as the snow storm barreled down on the District last night -- even when a handful of Metro stops were closed and the federal government shut down.
"We are community spaces, and these are the times that people really look to us to connect to people," said Shallal, owner of Busboys & Poets and Eatonville.
"It's a great opportunity for people to get to know their neighbors, get to discover things about themselves and the places they frequent."
The restaurateur, who said all but three tables were full at Busboys last night, rented nearby hotel rooms for his staff at all four locations -- three in Washington, D.C., and one in Northern Virginia -- so the business could remain open.
"That made it easy for them," he said.
The effort has also strengthened his resolve for the future. "If we can make it through this we can make it through anything," he said.


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Doping in War gaming, could it be a problem?
So there are a lot of wargames out there to play. I'm assuming by the fact youre reading this that you yourself play or even know about wargames to a certain extent.
My question is thus, how stable is your opponent?
|This gentleman, if not photo shopped is probably on some kind of drugs.
Do you ever have those days where your opponent does not seem "normal"?
A lot of people would say this is due to that person just perhaps being a "little odd" a "crazy guy" or they are "A character" (i hate that phrase!)
|Doping in 2013 a problem?
But have you ever considered that your opponent is on drugs? I'm not into drugs myself but wondered what sort of an effect they could have on the game.
In sports "Doping" is considered VERY bad. Just ask Lance Armstrong..
|Lance Armstrong, Currently In the news for Doping
In sports its considered bad because the Drugs themselves can give the person an "unnatural" advantage, thus being unfair. However in wargaming is this the case? If someone was on the sport Doping drugs, i am not sure they would have any effect, something like Steroids is more of a supplement and you might not even notice a difference apart from from maybe some over grumpy testosterone effects!
The sort of drugs you could expect to see your average (or not average if they are drug users) taking are more recreational. Cannabis, Cocaine, LSD perhaps... you know the sort of things.
Anyway, would the use of any of these drugs aid a player in any way? imagine if you lost a tournament toi a player then heard he was on drugs at the time. Should that player be disqualified?
|A Fictional Drug User
Is there a place for Drug tests in the high profile tournaments? Have you ever played anybody you KNEW was on drugs at the time? how did that go?
what are your views?
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Preparing for Marriage (Free eBook)
Preparing well for marriage means asking hard questions.
Getting to know that special someone includes learning about family and friends and schooling and athletics, favorite pastimes, books, movies, life's best moments and worst, the brightest places in our background and the darkest.
But what about theology? Ever think to ask about that?
We hope our free Preparing for Marriage ebook can be of some assistance.
With Help from Piper
At Desiring God, one of our most accessed pages online is a set of questions John Piper put together for couples preparing for marriage (chapter 1 in our new free ebook). There is some of the typical stuff — like friends and entertainment and lifestyle and children — but many have found that Piper's way of putting the questions help get right at some pretty deep stuff.
And then there's the questions about theology, worship and devotion, and the roles of husband and wife — questions that far too many couples don't think to ask. When preparing for marriage, or even in just beginning to consider it, it is of immense help to have the perspective not only of a seasoned husband of over 40 years, but also a seasoned pastor and theologian.
Free eBook
Preparing for Marriage: Help for Christian Couples is a short, free ebook. Our vision for it is humble. Our hope is that a few couples, whether dating and considering marriage, or engaged and preparing for marriage, would find some benefit here, get to know each other better in some of life's most significant matters, and be more fit to discern God's leading for their lives.
We packaged three additional resources with the marriage questions hoping to enrich your preparation.
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My good friend Adrian Cortes had hatched a plan to visit a famous eastern Oregon steelhead river after driving by it's lower section with our mutual friend Steve Turner this past August. Adrian was taken by the beauty of the place and vowed to put a plan into place to make a fall trip a reality.
I had previously visited this river in October 2008 and fished it's lower section with my father in law Jim Jones, his brother Mel and his friend Toby. Reportedly, the fishing had been good before our arrival, which happened to coincide with a sudden cold snap, which of course put off the fishing. None of us landed a single steelhead that trip and I only manged to raise one steelhead to the surface. Not even Mel and Toby dredging with Teeny lines did the trick.
Adrian's and my plan came together in early October with Adrain showing up a day before me. I used Google directions and got put on a long gravel road. I'm surprised that the Steelhead Taxi's suspension didn't fall off going through the wash boards, but I managed to make it to the bottom of the grade in one piece and met up with Adrian by 8am. I was running about an hour behind schedule due to the unexpected gravel delay. I figured I'd find Adrian to be on the river fishing when I arrived and in fact Adrian was near the top of a nice run when I pulled in. I waved over to Adrian and he quickly came over to greet me.
Adrian had actually been waiting in his rig since daylight in anticipation of my arrival and while waiting, he got some tying done. He tied a beautiful Thompson river caddis in hand which he gifted to me shortly after I arrived. Adrian had only stepped into the run a few minutes before I pulled in when it became apparent that I was delayed longer than expected.
When we greeted each other I told him that I felt badly for rushing him, but he mentioned that he was happy to wait for my arrival until seriously hitting the water. After our greetings, Adrian calmly told me about the incredible evening session he had the day before. The events that unfolded involved 7 to 8 rises, 3 hookups, and two nice wild steelhead landed! I was tired, but ready to fish!! Adrian tells the story in words and pictures below:
"First fish on this particular river. Spent all day skating dries with nary a rise. After a beer, I find a run that is tough to wade in...and then it becomes magical...numerically magical."
"The second steelhead on this river was memorable. Big surface crash...and nothing. Dangle...recast...nothing. Shortened up, recast progressively to the zone...Kaboosh! Then nothing. #@$%&*! That fish missed the fly again! Dangle...single spey...in the zone...Kaboosh! ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz......I put the glass to it in a spectacular battle of jumps and runs. Beautifully wild, big, and full of vinegar and piss. Bent out my dryfly hook"
|Lemire's Thompson River Caddis tied in hand by Adrian Cortes. Adrian Cortes photo
|Greaselined. Adrian Cortes photo
|Wild and Free. A hefty buck that ate Adrian's Greaseliner. Adrian Cortes photo
|The result of Adrian's battle with a wild and hefty buck. Adrian Cortes photo
|Wild and Free of another type. Four legged critters seem drawn to Adrian's presence on rivers. Adrian Cortes photo
After getting the skinny on Adrian's encounter with the loaded run, I quickly wadered up and we fished the nearby water. This was a big run and we spread out as I re-fished the choppy head and Adrian went to the lower section of the run. A couple gear guys ended up between us so I ended up moving towards Adrian in the tailout. We examined the fish holding possibilities of this water, but with sun directly on it, we decided to move on after fishing it just briefly.
We then headed to camp where I quickly set up my tent so I wouldn't have to worry about it after our day's fishing. We then hurriedly packed into Adrian's Land Rover and hit some water that Adrian fished the day before.
Adrian and I were blessed to have gotten some intel on spots to fish from our good friend and steelheading icon Bill McMillan. Bill had lived on and fished this river a good deal back in the early 90's. Bill was excited to hear of our trip to this special place, a location that has much spiritual meaning to him. As we drove along we sought out some of the spots Bill described for us.
We hit a spot with three distinct runs strung together. The short run directly out from the trail called out to me so I waded to mid river to hit the slot on the far side. In the meantime, Adrian walked upstream to the uppermost of the three runs, leaving the middle one for me to hit after I got through with run I was fishing first.
I quickly fished through this short riffly run with no result and looked upstream to see Adrian fishing the upper run, but with a raft and three guys right by him also fishing the run. I figured that the raft must have been carrying a guide and two clients and Adrian gave them water to fish.
Rather than heading up towards Adrian, I decided to just re-fish the little run again to kill time. With all the October Caddis fluttering about, I figured to change to an October Caddis version of my foam skater. As I got into the lower section, I made a cross stream cast in front of an exposed bankside boulder. The main current caught my line and leader, causing a belly and pulling my skater briskly down and across the face of boulder. A small steelhead of maybe 24" launched across the top after my skater. This little fella missed his target, but I was pleasantly surprised by it's sudden and aggressive response to the surface. Of course I went through my comeback dance, but no followup rise came about.
I ended up fishing the middle run and it swung my skater really nicely, but no foam eating steelhead appeared. Adrian and I caught up with each other shortly thereafter and Adrian reported that indeed, the folks in the raft was a well known PNW steelhead guide with a couple sports. Apparently said guide liked the run Adrian was fishing well enough to have been willing to park and wait until Adrian fished through. Rather than looking over his shoulder while the guide and sports waited on him, Adrian let them have the water and then fished through behind them.
Adrian then took me to another spot he fished the day before. This was one of the spots that Bill had described to us. Adrian reported that he had raised a steelhead low in this run but did not hookup. I started at the head of the run and Adrian walked further up and fished the run above me. As I got about a third of the way down, a steelhead came up with an aggressive rise to my skater. Again, this steelhead responded to a fast swing facilitated by a cross stream cast bellied by the main current. I made the same cast and this steelie actually came up a second time but the hook point didn't find purchase in steelhead matter.
At the next run, I started at the riffly top end and worked my skater along the broadening seam as I got into the heart of this fishy looking piece of water. About a third of the way down, a steelhead came up and charged up after my skater as it came out of the chop into the seam. I shorted up and started back in with my foam skater hoping for a come back and just then, the famous guide we saw earlier came through the top of the run with his two sports and politely rowed his raft quietly behind me as Adrian had been able to alert him that I had just raised a fish.
As I went back with my October Caddis Wang, the guide and sports also watched the bright "indicator post" of my skater as it came through the choppy main flow. After a couple casts, no return appearance of steel appeared. As the guide and sports were getting past my position, the guide remarked to Adrian with a wink "steelhead on this river think foam is gay".
I changed over to a riffle hitched greaseliner and gave it a go. On the first cast with the greaseliner, the steelhead returned with a bulge at the fly as it came into the soft seam. Unfortunately, further comeback attempts were unsuccessful. I continued down the remainder of this beautiful run with no other feedback to my surface presentations.
We concluded our day at Adrian's "loaded run". Being the gracious friend that he is, Adrian insisted that I go through first. Adrian grabbed an IPA and took a seat on an exposed boulder as I started up high in the run. I decided to give my Fenwick 8.5' 6wt glass rod and 6wt Ambush line some air time. I was getting back into the rhythm of single hand spey casting as I chatted with Adrian about the potential of this juicy run. We noted current seams created by the bouldery structure and commented on how all that structure provides great cover for steelhead while also providing for the difficult wading I was experiencing. These characteristics probably attributed to Adrian finding multiple steelhead holding in it the evening before.
The upper section of the run called for short, controlled casts in the conflicting currents. I was casting the Ambush head with maybe six strips of running line and was just starting to step down the run. Adrian and I were both watching my baby blue foam skater coming across the current when a steelhead made a broadside launch across the surface and solidly grabbed the skater. I simply did nothing and the steelhead came tight on the line and began making some short powerful bursts on runs that made my cheapo ebay special (battered Shakespeare Beaulite 3.5") create a joyful blue collar racket.
|Fish on! Adrian Cortes photo
|Taking a load off while Ms. Surface Steelhead bores down stream. Adrian Cortes photo
The hook held and I eventually got this beautiful little hen to shore. Adrian and I high fived and Adrian got some photos of a happy Asian holding a steelhead. We were delighted that both of us had the blessing of witnessing a beautiful surface steelhead grab and I thanked Adrian for his generosity in putting me through his new found loaded run.
|Chunky hatchery hen that obliged to a "baby blue" wang. Adrian Cortes photo
|Baby Blue Wang does the trick. My angry hen chewed hard enough to open up the stinger hook a bit. Adrian Cortes photo
I was quite surprised to find that this perfect steelhead was of hatchery origin. It just happened that an ODFW creel checker was driving by when I had the fish on so she stopped to check in. I decided to harvest this steelhead so she took down data that she needed and returned my fish in a tidy plastic bag. When Adrian and I commented that we were impressed with this steelhead even considering it was a hatchery steelhead the creel checker responded "of course, they're all from native stock", reminding me that the hatchery program there comes from wild brood stock.
|ODFW creel checker taking stats on my steelhead. Adrian Cortes photo.
We went through the remainder of the loaded run and we were surprised to find no one home as we fished in to evening's darkness. We then headed back to camp where stories were shared and a few more foam skaters tied as two crazed surface steelheaders ruminated over the wonder of steelhead that come to the surface for our chosen patterns. Gourmet dinners that came out of cans and packages were prepared and eaten before we turned in for the evening.
We spent the next morning fishing some of the same runs and we also walked into another run described to us by Bill McMillan. We had an enjoyable morning expoloring new water and I bid Adrian farwell by mid day. I fished the evening session and a quick morning session the following day and continued to find surface steelhead elusive. Such is the surface steelheading game, you may not get into topwater steel on every outing, but the journey is always satisfying.
|Unwinding after a memorable day of surface steelheading. Adrian Cortes photo
|The Steelhead Taxi parked along a morning steelhead run


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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo last week, countless people across the country were (understandably) outraged. The Cole Memo, which helped to protect legal marijuana states from federal prosecution, kept the government out of cracking down on these states with federal law, gave medical and recreational states some security when choosing to allow legal marijuana.
Members of Colorado Congress recently sent a letter to Sessions, urging the Attorney General to reinstate the Cole Memo by reconsidering his decision. The letter, signed by four Colorado Representatives (3 Democrat, 1 Republican), "strongly" urged the Department of Justice to reestablish the Cole Memo, ensuring that they are "acting to uphold the will of Colorado voters and the rights of the states to regulate intrastate commerce."
In their letter, the Colorado Representatives state that Sessions' decision is at odds with President Trump's policy about legalized marijuana. At a political rally in October 2015, Trump said he believed that legalized marijuana "should be a state issue, state-by-state."
Representatives added to the letter that the regulation of marijuana should be a states' rights concern.
"The president has previously identified marijuana use within a state as an issue for the state to decide, not the federal government. Reinstating the Cole Memo and related guidance will help ensure the federal government is not unduly interfering in state policy," the letter reads.
They also mentioned that voters in the state had voted for the legalization of marijuana not once, but twice in the state of Colorado.
"Voters first approved the use of medical marijuana and subsequently, our constituents approved its use for adult recreational use," they wrote. "The citizens of Colorado have spoken on this issue. We believe we are obliged to heed their decision. Further, all the laws and regulations put in place governing the use of marijuana in our state clearly restrict it to a matter internal to the state of Colorado."
Colorado representatives are prepared to stand behind their people. State Senator Cory Gardner tweeted that "We discussed a path forward to respect the will of the people and defend states' rights."
The latest move by Sessions to keep marijuana criminalized isn't being taken lightly, with the powers-that-be prepared to fight for the rights of the people and keep legal marijuana running smoothly for the states that stand behind it.


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We're all taught during our initial training that water filters out light. Conveniently we all learnt the colors of the rainbow which is the same order in which color disappears from the light which we are trying to capture with our cameras: Red, orange, yellow etc. You have to go pretty deep to start losing the greens and blues.
Adding a GoPro Dive Filter will cut out some of the unwanted color:
- A Red Filter will cut the blues.
- A Magenta Filter cuts the greens.
They come with a string lanyard that attaches the filter to the mount. Handy for the moments when you don't need the filter, such as when you are filming on the surface or at depths above 10 feet.
Personally I find that the simplicity of the filter is a good thing. You set it and forget it. Some of the other filter systems on the market have moving parts, small screws, hinges etc.
Keeping it simple adds an element of safety by reducing task loading and potential distractions.
If you are doing macro videography then you might want to go another way, but for everything else, the GoPro filters are well priced and do the job.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Halloween Mummy Dogs
I also made jack o'lantern tangerines/clementines for the goody bags. I just drew on tangerines with a Sharpie. They were simple and cute (and tasty). More on the rest of the party in the weekend update. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of pictures, but I do have a few at least.
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Cute Tidbit
I drop Little Miss off at school every morning where I have some - though limited, contact with her classmates. One little boy comes up to Little Miss every day. She finds him utterly amusing. He's been talking to me more and more. He always calls me "Little Miss's Mom" which is kind of cute (and he's not the first kid to do so). Earlier in the week, we had a conversation that went like this:
Little boy: Little Miss's Mom!
Me: Yes?
Little boy: You look a lot like Little Miss.
I don't know what prompted him to say it that day versus others. Maybe it's because I was wearing flats so we weren't so difference in height. Or maybe it's because I wasn't wearing make up. Either way, I'm taking it as a compliment.
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I like Pina Coladas...
Mom and I were talking about Escape (the Pina Colada song) earlier this month. I said I liked it, but the couple bothers me. I mean, they are basically a bunch of cheaters. So, she wanted to know what I meant. I explained the song and then played the song to her. Still, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that she only liked the catchy chorus and had no idea what the song is about at all.
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Sexy Friday
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Weekend Update - Cleaning House
It was a nice weekend. On Friday, we caught up on some television on the DVR. On Saturday, soccer was cancelled because the storms needed to recover after the storms through the night. So, I slept late and hoped Little Miss didn't burn the house down. She didn't. In the afternoon, we walked to Clarendon for Little Miss's school fair. She had fun. We then had a mother-daughter lunch at The Silver Diner. Then, we hit the library and walked back home. I took a nap later that evening, and it was glorious. Then, I rented a movie and went back to bed.
On Sunday, it was my goal to clean house. I admit that I wanted to do it before last Sunday, but we're down to the wire before Little Miss's birthday party. So, Sunday, I slept a little late, but then I set to work. I started in our walk-in closet and just started tossing. I played my iPod and just got down to work. Husband came in to tell me that Little Miss took a CD out and put it in her CD player and actually cleaned her room. I guess it does help to lead by example! I cleaned our entire bedroom not including Husband's stuff. Tomorrow, I plan on doing the kitchen and the odds and ends that I've been collecting from the other rooms. I'm on good pace to leave cooking and goody bag assembly for Friday evening. Then, Saturday is the controlled chaos called a 5th birthday.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Where the Wild Things Are
It is not news that I love Where the Wild Things Are. Last night, I read the classic to Little Miss. She gets to pick a book and I get to pick a book at bedtime. She usually picks old favorites. She doesn't read the same book all the time, but they are the same handful. So, I try to sneak in a new one every so often - at the very least for my own sanity. She noticed that this copy was from Nanny and Papa (because my mom writes the date in every book she gives), and I said it was my book from when I turned 5. Well. That just made it the perfect book according to Little Miss who is going to be 5 - just like I was.
Also, when we got to the last page, she asked me to read it again because it really made her laugh for some reason. "And it was still hot."
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Weekend Update - Pumpkin Time!
Last week was our 13th wedding anniversary so we celebrated by going to Atlantic City Wednesday through Friday. We did not win big if that's what you're wondering. When we got back, we ran a bunch of errands and had a nice evening with Little Miss.
On Saturday, we went to soccer practice and then met Brother-in-Law, Sister-in-Law and Nephew at the pumpkin patch. Little Miss had a lot of fun sliding and playing and climbing and riding a pony. Then, we picked out pumpkins, went to dinner and went straight to bed - it was a long day! That didn't even count the what seemed like hours we spent in the corn maze. We ate all our snacks and drank all our water. Truth is, we probably spent 15 minutes or so, but it's so frustrating! Never again. *g*
On Sunday, I took Little Miss to book club brunch at Cheff Geoff's. She was very good and really liked being with all the grown-ups. Afterwards, we both took a little nap. That evening, I met friends in the city for dinner. We got so carried away that we barely caught the last Metro train back to Virginia! It was a lot of fun, but I was very tired this morning. Good friends, great food and wine will do that to a person, I guess! It was well worth the loss of sleep.
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Weekend Update - Whistle While You Work
Last week, on Friday, I met a friend for dinner and drinks.
On Saturday, we did a lot of cleaning. I straightened up the front hall closets and Little Miss's room as well as my book cases. It wasn't as far as I wanted to go, but it was a good start. It went a long way to unclutter the small apartment. Basically, I wanted small woodland creatures to do all my cleaning, but there weren't any.
On Sunday, I met friends at the Taste of DC. Lots of yummy foods. While I was with friends, Husband and Little Miss went to a birthday party of one of her school friends. The weather was horrendous, but it sounded like the kids had a blast.
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Weekend Update - Soccer & Fall into Fairfax
After soccer, we walked to the planetarium. Little Miss made her own star chart and had a blast. For 3 weeks, she begged to go back. I knew she'd enjoy it, and I'm glad she did.
On Sunday, Little Miss and I met my parents and then my sister and nephew at the Fall into Fairfax fair. Little Miss had a blast - junk food, rides, photos with people in furry costumes. It was everything she's ever wanted all in one place.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
The Final Frontier
Little Miss has been obsessed with space for a little over a year. It's not an unwavering obsession, but it hasn't lessened. Last year, she got two books on space for Christmas and they are in frequent rotation. She usually specifically loves Miss Moon. Even this morning, she gave Miss Moon a loud greeting and wave on the way to school. She loves it when you can see Miss Moon during the day. She's expanded her knowledge to planets and stars. She had a blast at the planetarium last weekend and has been asking to go again. She asks to be quizzed daily on some factoid. I've now started to Google things to ask her because she's smarter than we are.
The other morning, I asked her what galazy includes the Earth. I ended up telling her it was the Milky Way galaxy. She turned up her nose.
"I don't like the Milky Way," she declared.
I had tuned her out by then and ended up responding, "The candy bar?"
She had the nerve to tsk me and shake her head. She's getting very big and very smart. I don't know if I like it.
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More Fall TV
Last week, I caught Elementary and Last Resort.
I thought both had strong enough pilots. Elementary had some accurate reviews. The show is mostly a procedural. Yes, Sherlock is a familiar character - both the actual Sherlock character and by being represented by characters who have been inspired by him. Still, I liked Johnny Lee Miller's Sherlock enough. I wish Dr. Watson wasn't so dull. I realize she's the straight man, but I didn't feel Lucy Liu gave was as captivating.
The Husband and I also caught Last Resort. I liked the pilot. It was very interesting and full of intrigue. It had a lot of actors I like in it. I do worry because the ratings weren't, and continued to not be, strong.
The Husband watched on his own Vegas and liked it quite a bit. The series is still on our DVR so I may try to catch up, but we'll see. Line has to be drawn somewhere.
The last remaining show I have on the DVR is Nashville. I've heard nothing but good things, but I'm still wary because it's not my usual type of show. I haven't cut many, just a comedy here and there, but it is a definite fact that not all of the Fall shows will last - either by my choice or the networks.
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Tesla Model S electric car is a very safe vehicle. It scored five stars for safety during testing, the highest possible, and also drove away as the safest car they had ever tested. So why do they keep catching fire?
In the past six weeks, three of the cars have set on fire. With around 19,000 on the road, that's a high rate, but you have to look at the circumstances surrounding the fires before jumping to any conclusions.
The Model S carries by far the largest amount of energy stored under its hood, with that energy being stored at the front of the car. In all three fire incidents, severe damage has been done to the front of the car.
In the first fire the Model S drove over a large metallic object at speed. That object pierced the underside of the car and battery units inside. The second fire saw the driver smash through a concrete wall and then hit a tree, again causing significant damage to the front of the car. And finally in the third fire, a tow hitch was run over, again damaging the underside front of the car and allowing a fire to start in the damaged batteries compartment. You can see the damage caused in the image above.
In all three cases the driver wasn't injured and the fire looks to have been contained in the front of the car. So while these fires are happening, they aren't injuring people, and in fact, the car is definitely doing a good job if you can walk away after hitting a concrete wall and a tree. In the fire involving the tow hitch, the driver believes the car actually saved his life.
With three fires so close together then NHTSA is investigating the vehicle and will determine if this is actually a vehicle safety issue or just some serious bad luck on the part of Tesla S owners. Even if it is deemed to be a vehicle safety issue, it sounds like additional reinforcing on the front underside of the car may solve the problem. The downside to that, however, is additional weight.


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The 11th annual Alton College Foundation Scholarships Awards Ceremony took place in the Berkoff Performing Arts Centre last week to an auditorium filled with students, parents, sponsors, staff, Governors and Foundation Directors. During the reception Chris Butler and the Inside Indigo band entertained the guests.
Trevor Heley, Managing Director of the Foundation, said that since 1999 the Foundation had raised over £300,000, awarded 192 scholarships and provided grants and donations to the students and the College. He thanked the people and organisations who had made this possible, in particular the generous sponsors who continue to fund the scheme, College staff who had been incredibly supportive, his fellow Foundation Directors, and parents, families and friends who encouraged and supported Scholars.
Sam Clifford, a second year Scholar in Medicine, described his experience in visiting a hospital in the USA and being present in an operating theatre for a liver transplant. This amazing opportunity was funded from the money received as part of his Scholarship.
David Lynch, the Head of Maths at the College, gave a very amusing presentation about the series of mathematics competitions a group of our students had entered, culminating in an international event in Italy. Having won the regional and national events in the UK the team came a very credible 5th in the event in Italy, the highest placed non-Italian team. David thanked the Alton College Foundation for their support for travelling costs and said without that funding the trip to Italy would not have taken place.
The following awards were then presented:
• The Alton Chamber of Commerce and Industry Scholarship for Business was presented to Kate Jobson by Andy Goodall, President of the Chamber
• The Alton Decorative and Fine Arts Society Scholarships for Art were presented to Argiel Del Mundo, Chloe Goode and Sophie Bellchambers by Niven Baird, Vice Chairman of the Society.
• The Alton Lions Scholarship was presented to Julia Moulton by Nicholas Branch, representing the Alton Lions.
• The Chairman's Scholarship for Business was presented to Christopher Veal by Nicholas Branch, Chairman of the Alton College Foundation.
• The Dischma Trust Scholarships were presented to Natalie Jones (English), Christopher Butler (Music) and Anna Oakes-Monger (Art) by Lady Robertson.
• The Craven Brothers Scholarships for Engineering were presented to Alex Pipe and Clara Skuse by Jamie Campbell of the Ellis Campbell Foundation.
• The Richard Frankel Memorial Scholarship for Medicine was presented to Sarah Cameron by Merula Frankel
• The Peter Gaffney Scholarships for History was presented to Hannah Bristow by Trevor Heley on behalf of Mr. Gaffney
• The Gaffney Cline Associates Scholarships for Science were presented to Erin Douglas and George Smetana by Sue Ford of Gaffney Cline Associates
• The Rotary Club of Alton Scholarship for Mathematics was presented to Edward Kirkby by Rosemary Arrowsmith-Oliver, President of the Rotary Club of Alton
• The Alistair Graham Scholarship for Modern Foreign Languages was presented to Benjamin Gregory by Sir James Scott.
The evening was bought to a close by Jane Machell, our Principal, who thanked the Foundation and the Sponsors on behalf of the College. She also thanked her staff for their support in the selection process, and congratulated the students and their families for their success.


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Tuscan Food - Livorno Part III The Best Dishes and Restaurants in Livorno As a port city, Livorno's dishes are heavily influenced by the sea, with techniques that are working class rather than refined. They reflect the city's cosmopolitan yet populist history -- a mélange of Tuscan food as well as Italian and international offerings, with a strong influence from Sephardic Jews who immigrated ... Read Full Article
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Port Livorno - Part II Unexpected treasures in an undervalued port Ask an Italian about Livorno and the reply may include the words "port city" or "industrial area" – evoking dirty streets, smoke-billowing factories, ugly grey buildings. Read part I of our Livorno mini-series here, and part II here. Go to Port Livorno and you will find an elegant town of 160,000 with wide clean streets ... Read Full Article
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Livorno Italy, Part I: Classy Italian city with a clumsy English name Livorno is a lovely Italian city with an ugly English name – Leghorn (an English-language garbling of the city's Italian moniker). Who wants to stop and see "Leghorn"? Almost none of the 3.5 million tourists who pass through Livorno every year while boarding ferry boats and cruise ships bound for somewhere else. ... Read Full Article


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The day a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., was the "worst day of my presidency," President Obama said on NBC News's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, reaffirming his intention to address the issues of gun control in his second term.
"Anybody who was up in Newtown, who talked to the parents, who talked to the families understands that something fundamental in America has to change," Obama said. "And all of us have to do some soul searching, including me as president, that we allow a situation in which 20 precious small children are getting gunned down in a classroom."
Obama, who established a task force led by Vice President Biden to offer recommendations for how to best curb gun violence, said he would like to move something through Congress within a year.
While the task force recommendations have yet to be issued, Obama has supported and continues to support background checks and bans on assault rifles and high-capacity clips.
He acknowledged the political difficulty of efforts that are likely to meet opposition from gun rights groups. But he suggested that the horror of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary could unite a majority in action.
"Will there be resistance? Absolutely there will be resistance," Obama said. "And the question then becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened here that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away. It certainly won't feel like that to me. This is something that . . . that was the worst day of my presidency. And it's not something that I want to see repeated."
Likewise, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, asked about how gun-control measures might be viewed in rural America, said that the shooting leaves the national debate on gun control in a "different situation" from the past.
Vilsack said the debate must recognize that people "do hunt and that that's important to them — 38 percent of America either hunts or fishes. So you know, it's a big part of the population."
But with the Connecticut shooting, the dynamics of the debate may have changed, he said.
"It's a much deeper conversation," Vilsack said on CNN's "State of the Union." "And it's a good one to have for this country. . . . It's potentially a unifying conversation. The problem is that these conversations are always couched in the terms of dividing us. This could be a unifying conversation, and Lord knows we need to be unified."
Obama also pushed back against a proposal the National Rifle Association put forth after the mass shooting — that armed guards be placed in schools.
"I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem," Obama said.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
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Flyspray contains 283 open bugs:
0 days old: Nano2G "PANIC Stkov dircache" message during database auto update
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7 days old: Rockbox software USB doesn't connect with OS X 10.4
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17 days old: Random freeze on Ipod video 5g - 30gb
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21 days old: Scrolling Lines Keep Displaying on gigabeat S
23 days old: Deleting files in USB mode can confuse resume playback/bookmark functionality.
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59 days old: Metronome doesn't work on H120 and RockBox ver 3.3 and r22411
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84 days old: Manual doesn't list all options for Source recording setting
91 days old: "Play Next" erases the Dynamic playlist without giving out a warning
91 days old: Audio adapters through the bottom connector cause system freeze in 3.3 on 5G iPod
92 days old: USB transfer as Rockbox USB corrupts flac files
93 days old: Build failure the uisimulator using MinGW.
98 days old: MR-100 requires reset if the hold switch is engaged after turn-on but before rockboot loads
98 days old: Wrong sort when title has a number
98 days old: iriver H10 freezes up with scroll pad stuck up and back light flashing then shuts off
101 days old: Playe plays loud static noise after resuming play after it was in stop mode
105 days old: Random crash during playback
105 days old: FM Radio Tuner quality compared to OF
109 days old: volume controls broken in FM radio mode
109 days old: Track change de-selects the song I'm trying to move in the Playlist
110 days old: Recording: After 3 mins - "Warning 000001" - then "Disk full" - Recording not saved (5 GB free)
111 days old: Playlist control file error? (Re-done)
113 days old: Re-connecting USB without player restart
115 days old: Tagnavi conditionals
116 days old: Performing 'View Catalog' 3 times in a row crashes with StkOv
116 days old: Setting Recording directory copies and renames the directory
117 days old: Chessbox playing errors and crashing
117 days old: Flickering backlight when removing hold with backlight fading
117 days old: Recording settings aren't saved when changed on the recording screen
118 days old: Data abort with Auto-Change Directory
119 days old: I found in Two Bugs by my iPod 3rd Gen.
123 days old: bad voicing in the chinese language
126 days old: bugs with pitch screen
126 days old: File corruption on USB writes when using the HID driver at the same time
126 days old: Wavview refuses to open a wav
127 days old: PictureFlow does not find album art in .rockbox/albumart
127 days old: ipod doesn't show connecting to PC
131 days old: Icons in the playlist viewer are not shown if the filetype icons are set to 'off'
132 days old: Resume after "Insert Shuffled" incorrect.
144 days old: HID input not working for me on ipod nano
144 days old: ovarlay loader for Lua is made while lua.ovl is not made.
144 days old: Rockbox not handling MP3s with large ID3 frames
151 days old: WPS track tags dont scroll in conditioal vp when progess bar is displayed
157 days old: Acessibility issues in rbutil
175 days old: Cannot charge iPod from Rockbox on low battery
176 days old: wierd behaviour when changing folder name while plaing music in it
177 days old: LCD sleep can theoretically happen after the backlight turns on again
181 days old: License of firmware/export/usb_ch9.h is unclear
185 days old: Buggy selection of list items using keyboard
190 days old: Rockbox abort: search of title when the database is created by illegal codepage.
190 days old: Directory skip hangs iaudio x5
191 days old: iPod sometimes needs menu + select reset to turn on
191 days old: Clicking noise on Gigabeat S only when battery is fully charged and DC is connected
193 days old: Backlight on Hold
194 days old: Sometimes keys do not work after exiting plugins
197 days old: Scrolling doesn't pause at the top or bottom of a list on 2nd Gen iPod
198 days old: Pop noise via headphones when starting up
199 days old: crash in text editor
199 days old: Prefetch_abort at 43494C20(0) while initializing DB
204 days old: album art fails to display
205 days old: some folders are not shown after scrolling down in a sub-directory
206 days old: crashing pictureflow with certain podcasts on Sansa E280v1
209 days old: fast changing time indicators when pausing with fading on
210 days old: database_changelog corrupted/wrecked
213 days old: latest nat sort fix still sorts wrong
214 days old: wma decoder cannot work when the bitrate of audio file is 20kbps
217 days old: v1 tag not read if v2 tag present regardless of content
223 days old: Does not sort by disc number then by track number
225 days old: H120 hangs on battery low if power adapter is connected
231 days old: H10 5G MTP bootloader can't be built from configure
232 days old: USB connection not made when action_userabort() is used
233 days old: iAudio X5L remote erratic starting with build from 20090211
233 days old: H300 status bar shows empty battery when charging
234 days old: Ipod Accessory bug reports
235 days old: fade on pause/playback in plugins is ignored
236 days old: "First Keypress Enables Backlight Only" broken on 5G and probably other clickweel iPods
239 days old: context menu delete does not work as expected
240 days old: "Most Played" and "Recently Played" display "dir buffer full!" in the database
242 days old: keyclick doesn't work when playback is paused
244 days old: 15-Adobe-Helvetica.bdf: invalid SWIDTH, DWIDTH for ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE NO
245 days old: iAudio M3 does not charge *ever* using Rockbox
246 days old: Can't format a bdf file to fnt
255 days old: For a setting screen, if the cursor does not move, the selected item's value is invalid.
255 days old: make voiceing of "d" and "p"
255 days old: Release scripts are broken on many machines (/tools/release/*.pl)
256 days old: When cutting and pasting, overwriting doesn't work
258 days old: Playback is borked after attempting (and failing) to play a certain file.
258 days old: Text viewer plugin is not displayed to the last line for the large size text file.
259 days old: settings not saved when disk is not spinning
259 days old: Playback stutters, crashes player on certain mp3 files
263 days old: WinPod misdetected as MacPod in rbutilqt
266 days old: RB sometimes forgets where it is in a playlist and that shuffle is on
266 days old: IPOD 20GB Problems with Edifier IPod SPK-EF-IF200 Dock
267 days old: Rapid skipping causes next track info to stop updating
271 days old: RockBOX freezes on X5L when changing between songs while RockBOX is accessing HDD.
272 days old: battery measurement "hangs" at 9%
273 days old: No header info in the .Scrobbler log
273 days old: m4a metadata read or stored incorrectly
274 days old: Conflict between Car Adapter Mode and First Buttonpress Enables Backlight Only
276 days old: Manual installion section of Rockbox Manual refers to outdated error message
276 days old: USB Connection to FreeBSD machine causes FreeBSD machine to freeze
277 days old: log-today doesn't load in Google Chrome
277 days old: browsing through playlist interrupts playback
278 days old: Broken wav file playback
278 days old: Intermittent glacially slow system (deleting, moving between audio tracks, etc)
279 days old: Single Mode Bootloader fails reboot on updated Gigabeat S.
279 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files with example
279 days old: Premature and multiple storage_sleep() in buffering.c
283 days old: "Beep" sounds very distorted and fuzzy.
285 days old: Sleep timer causing premature shutdown (3.0 and 3.1), codec failure (3.1)
286 days old: No Voice on Archos Recorder 20GB with RB 3.1
286 days old: iRiver ihp140 LCD remote disappears again
287 days old: add missing sw tone control parameter on gigabeat s
288 days old: *PANIC* and unable to shut down/reboot Ipod 30/vid
289 days old: Car Adapter Mode isnt working anymore
292 days old: No error check after writes in ata.c
292 days old: splash screen shows wrong Wake up alarm time
293 days old: Playback skips and hangs badly on iPod Video 80GB on start up
295 days old: iPod 3G: contrast setting misses limit
296 days old: some further bugs in chessclock
299 days old: NODO-list is incomplete, changelog is empty.
300 days old: Resumes incorrect file after deletion from directory
301 days old: button queue should be cleared after some splashes
303 days old: Database selections trigger the dynamic playlist warning
304 days old: A song that is played the 1st time cannot be rated.
305 days old: Bootloader USB Diskmode fails to exit gracefully on CFModded H100.
306 days old: WPS comments "eat" line-endings
307 days old: Sound sometimes doesn't work on mr100 if booted without headphones plugged in
313 days old: no display visible on 2nd generation ipod
322 days old: Report all flyspray bugs here
325 days old: SNES player missing tracks on certain SPCs
329 days old: rockbox.ipod not found
333 days old: Next Song Title Wrong after |<< {Back}
336 days old: PLAY and STOP buttons should be universal (where possible)
337 days old: UTF-8 BOM "visible" in viewer
338 days old: Voice disappear when stopping playback.
338 days old: FLAC+CUE hang on "Loading..." under some circumstances
342 days old: wma.codec does not decode low bitrate files correctly
345 days old: Remote Control Delete Function
353 days old: Idle Poweroff doesn't exactly poweroff X5
360 days old: Freeze when playing multi-track OGG files
360 days old: severe screen corruption on H300
1 years 6 days old: Start screen option 'database' fails
1 years 12 days old: Bad meta-data cause momentary freeze when playing
1 years 14 days old: Database Error - Multiple Albums with same name
1 years 15 days old: Crash when creating a bookmark
1 years 17 days old: Pictureflow segfaults with a particular image
1 years 18 days old: Playback from cuesheet not scrobbled
1 years 21 days old: FM tuner reception fades over time
1 years 24 days old: Rockbox (and bootloader) mistakes battery for USB.
1 years 26 days old: cut/paste between volumes
1 years 35 days old: reopen task 9048 -- ipod 5.5g freezes upon usb connection
1 years 37 days old: playback engine gets confused by multiple simultaneous button presses
1 years 37 days old: jittering(?) when leaving "lcd mode" without changes
1 years 38 days old: spacerocks shows funny rocks
1 years 45 days old: fm-presets file is full: error voice message
1 years 45 days old: JPEG Viewer on iPod
1 years 57 days old: resume for m4a isn't consistent
1 years 59 days old: BBC dowload ID3v2.3 tags not read reliably
1 years 61 days old: Rockbox hardlocks while recording
1 years 67 days old: r18234 - core + plugins shouldnt be calling opendir() directly...
1 years 69 days old: "Recently Added" always Empty
1 years 89 days old: The number of characters included in the Sazanami-Mincho-Regular font are few.
1 years 89 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files (Gaps/Skipping) - Example included
1 years 93 days old: inconsistency with delete option for bookmarks
1 years 94 days old: iPod Nano & Video have microphone recording source option when it's not possible
1 years 96 days old: Switching APE tracks no longer works on H120
1 years 96 days old: Changing shuffle settings using LCD remote causes main unit LCD to light up
1 years 97 days old: flac decoder doesn't handle truncated files nicely
1 years 99 days old: RBUtil reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn't
1 years 104 days old: No sound after seeking or dir skip
1 years 109 days old: Freeze in Database
1 years 110 days old: Fast forwarding during the first second of a song does not work
1 years 122 days old: Database initialization hangs if there's no music file on the player
1 years 135 days old: Threads hanging if force track switching near buffer emptyness
1 years 136 days old: iRiver H340 skips when battery low
1 years 139 days old: AC3 playback does not work for single ripped songs
1 years 149 days old: AC3 Playback on iRiver H140
1 years 158 days old: Database update progress stuck to -1%
1 years 163 days old: Database - negative autoscore
1 years 174 days old: iPod 80gb: unbeatable lockup while in shuffle mode
1 years 175 days old: Sansa e280 stuck after swtich the playlist
1 years 178 days old: m4a playback bugs
1 years 179 days old: compilation error due to GNU core utils BLOCK_SIZE value (and suggested fix)
1 years 189 days old: Equalizer is adding high noises
1 years 189 days old: *PANIC* stkov main showed at boot. & language choosing.
1 years 202 days old: Broken Manuals are Poorly Handled
1 years 202 days old: problems playing mp2 on ipods
1 years 202 days old: Extra button press required to continue browsing menus
1 years 205 days old: iPod does not charge via an AC -> USB adapter
1 years 206 days old: Freeze/Long duration when auto-creating bookmark if there's no free disk space left
1 years 210 days old: Audio response to seeking happens slowly with big files
1 years 210 days old: Half downloaded files, playback problems
1 years 220 days old: "Gather Runtime Data" creates problems if "Load to RAM" is disabled
1 years 223 days old: ALAC converted from dbPowerAmp is not recognized (RB r16536)
1 years 230 days old: MP4/AAC Playback problems
1 years 231 days old: Sansa c250 - bug in the metronome application (won't play!)
1 years 232 days old: Error saving non-current playlist file
1 years 234 days old: Backlight does not turn off when hold switch is on
1 years 241 days old: Sansa C240 Dock Line Level Audio disabled
1 years 247 days old: FM Recording disk thrashing
1 years 255 days old: Rockbox hangs on boot if disk full
1 years 257 days old: Queued songs reappear after resuming playback
1 years 264 days old: SPC codec failure rusuming playback on boot
1 years 269 days old: Hindi dependent Vowel signs are not rendering properly
1 years 279 days old: Text viewer crashes when jumping to end of file
1 years 284 days old: Duplicate entries in database (not caused by trash folders)
1 years 294 days old: power button does not exit the recording menu on a Sansa c240
1 years 295 days old: Idle Poweroff only reboots my 1G iPod
1 years 312 days old: Bugs in Rockbox SIDplay
1 years 316 days old: Mpegplayer artifacts since few month
1 years 330 days old: Distortion on some tracks
1 years 330 days old: Resuming playback from end of song after power on confuses playback
1 years 338 days old: Slow scrolling in file view without CPU boost
1 years 350 days old: End of voice clips are cut off when playback stopped
1 years 351 days old: Save playlist defaults should be adjusted to match standards, should use /playlist directory...
1 years 356 days old: Selecting a buffered track in the current playlist forces a rebuffer
1 years 357 days old: scrolling freezes when you scroll as a new screen is loading
2 years 1 days old: Simulator crashes entering recording screen
2 years 2 days old: Shows Ata Error instead of charging screen.
2 years 9 days old: Disable shut down on Rockpaint for iPod & Suggestions
2 years 16 days old: Anti-skip buffer doesn't work correctly on read errors
2 years 18 days old: Poor performance until database is initialised
2 years 34 days old: Sudoku: "Solve" Crash
2 years 41 days old: Strange behaviour after Disk Full error while recording
2 years 49 days old: Volume gets louder then power cut. Battery shows no charge, but is ok.
2 years 58 days old: Charging screen broken on V2 Recorder
2 years 68 days old: The radio scan forward and backward actions don't stop
2 years 70 days old: FM Radio Quality
2 years 76 days old: Radio disappears from menu!
2 years 83 days old: WMA - freeze instead of playback - with example files
2 years 88 days old: Small weaknesses in FM-radio on iAudio X5
2 years 99 days old: Playlist insert doesn't work after skipping directory.
2 years 112 days old: Inconsistent operation of insert / insert-next, queue / queue-next
2 years 119 days old: First keypress sometimes gets eaten (but configured not to do so)
2 years 127 days old: Bookmark feature doesn't work on user created playlists.
2 years 130 days old: remote volume up keypress sometimes causes directory skip (iriver h140)
2 years 185 days old: Background noise present with LCD remote
2 years 190 days old: Dynamic data tags aren't refreshed properly on scrolling lines
2 years 193 days old: Recording on iPods have weird noise
2 years 223 days old: Database progress reads above 100%
3 years 22 days old: main vs. remote vkeyboard inconsistency
3 years 22 days old: Functionless buttons on remote when FM radio is on
3 years 45 days old: Battery display incorrect when H120 is plugged in
3 years 54 days old: "Fade on stop/pause" via Line-out does not work.
3 years 162 days old: mp3_encoder improperly encodes mono .wav files
3 years 169 days old: can't turn on iriver with the h300 non-lcd remote
3 years 192 days old: Bookmarking does not work in connection with Database
3 years 217 days old: Change web server mime type for .diff
3 years 231 days old: H300 USB Bootloader Mode not working properly
4 years 45 days old: No radio on FM recorder
Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012" The Rockbox Crew


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Baltimore Orioles – The Orioles finished strong and really aren't that far from being back in postseason play, but they need to make several tweaks in the offseason.
17. Los angeles Angels – The Angels are pinning their hopes on a healthy Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton getting more comfortable with his new surroundings, but those guys aren't getting any younger.
For Chicago, the sale jerseys are going to need Paul Konerko to rebound from a subpar year in 2008, in which he hit only .240 with 22 home runs and 65 RBIs, his lowest offensive output since 2003.
Acquired from the Rockies in 2009 for Jose Contreras, Hynick will be 26 March 7 and had a 5.79 FIP in Charlotte last season. He's a non-roster invitee, making him just about as much a longshot as 40-man roster members Cofield and Jones.
The question is where do the White Sox turn? What does the future hold? The truth is there really is no light at the end of the tunnel. Unless the team can collect talent via trades and clean house, the South Side struggles could be around for awhile.
Boston has only managed to win five of its last 10 games but it remains just a half a game in back of New york in the most heated division race in the Majors. The Red Sox are 77-49 overall; 38-24 at home and 39-25 on the road.
American League Cy Young Award – Jon Lester, Boston Red Sox. I may have been one year too early in predicting John Lester would win this award last year. Then again, if Lester hadn't gotten off to such a bad start last year (1-2, 4.71 ERA in April), his stats would've looked even better than his impressive final stat line of 19-9, 3.20 ERA. If Lester can get off to a fast start for a change (4.58 career ERA in April), anywhere between 20-23 wins is a possibility considering the revamped Red Sox lineup, the speedy outfield, and the improved (at least on paper) bullpen.
Sluggers such as Paul Konerko and A.J Pierzynski have helped guide the Chicago offense batting .313 and .297 respectively. Alexei Ramirez and Juan Pierre have also been key catalysts.


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The three-hour event was attended by BIDA executive chairman, Kazi M. Aminul Islam, Bangladeshi Ambassador to Korea Abida Islam, and senior officials from Bangladesh's Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources as well as the Bangladesh Special Economic Zones Authority.
Also present were Kim Jun-dong, executive vice chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Kim Hyun-myoung, vice chairman of the Korean Importers Association; and representatives from Korean business organizations.
In their introductory remarks, Kazi M. Aminul Islam and Abida Islam highlighted Bangladesh's social and economic development, untapped investment opportunities and government incentives.
|Bangladesh Ambassador to Korea Abida Islam speaks at the Bangladesh Investment Seminar in Seoul on Friday. (Bangladesh Embassy)
Their remarks were followed by three presentations on investment opportunities in the country's gas and power sector. Business representatives from both sides also held one-on-one meetings and participated in a question-and-answer session.
"We are looking forward to creating an additional 12.9 million jobs by 2020, including 1.3 million professionals and 10,000 entrepreneurs in the information and communication technology sector for our $600 million ICT market," according to the envoy.
Bangladesh's economy is the 44th largest in the world at $273 billion, and it experienced 7.3 percent growth last year, according to Trading Economics. It aims to become the 23rd-largest economy by 2050 as envisioned in the "Vision 2041" national development plan.
Bangladesh is the world's fourth-largest rice producer and fifth-largest producer of fish. It is the second-largest exporter of readymade garments in the world after China. Its pharmaceutical products are exported to more than 100 destinations worldwide, including the United States and European Union. It also produces and exports large quantities of leather products, frozen fish, ocean-going vessels, bicycles and ceramic products.
According to the ambassador, the country is playing an active role in curbing global warming, as it faces rising sea levels.
"Bangladesh has successfully implemented the Millennium Development Goals and is progressing rapidly toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals," she said in April.
Kim Jun-dong expressed keen interest in investing in Bangladesh, adding the Korea Chamber of Commerce would send a trade delegation to Bangladesh in the near future.
By Bak Se-hwan (email@example.com)


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|Wed 23 Jan 2013, 6:00pm–11:00pm
Join us for a glamorous gala dinner banquet with Andre Agassi - the man considered by his critics and fellow players to be "one of the greatest tennis players of all times."
Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in primary school, Agassi went on to have a professional tennis career that spanned 20 years.
Don't miss your chance to hear live one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court!
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Gear and Holiday Gift Ideas
Date: Sunday, December 4, 2016
In time for the upcoming holiday season, we will be chatting about Hiking Gear and Holiday Gift Ideas on the upcoming #BCHikeChat. Join us on Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 9pm PST and follow the hashtag #BCHikeChat on Twitter.
- 9:06 Q1. What's the number one item of hiking gear on your holiday wish-list?
- 9:11 Q2. Where's your favourite place to shop for outdoor gear?
- 9:16 Q3. What's your favourite piece of hiking gear?
- 9:21 Q4. Did you score any Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals on gear?
- 9:26 Q5. What's a cool gift you'd get for a fellow hiker this holiday?
- 9:31 Q6. What outdoor gear have you received as a present that you never use?
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The Weekend to End Breast Cancer benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation
Fighting all women's cancers, step by step.
August 15-16, 2009 - The Weekend is no easy feat, but your generous donation and continual support along with the dedicated effort of our Walkers, Crew Members, and Volunteers have raised over $2.9 million to further innovative cancer research, screening initiatives and patient programs that will not only benefit those suffering from breast cancer, but all women's cancers. On behalf of BC Cancer Foundation, thank you for supporting The 2009 Weekend to End Breast Cancer. You have made a bigger impact than ever before since this year's event was expanded to include funding for breast cancer and gynecological cancers as well. We are so grateful to you for being part of this success story. But The Weekend to End Breast Cancer would also like to acknowledge our sponsors, Global, FM 104, The Run Inn, Dole Sparklers, Lipton Sparkling Green Tea, SunChips, Yellowtail, ZipCar, and Red Truck Beer for their support in this amazing journey. The fight against breast cancer and other women's cancers does not end here. Help us carry the momentum, energy and excitement into 2010! If you haven't been able to participate in the past, this is the year to step up and join us as a walker or crew member. Invite your friends and register together for 2010. For a limited time, everyone can register just $25, visit our 2010 Weekend website and register now!
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