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Primary Election Guide 2012
Vote on Tuesday, June 5!
If you're registered to vote, you can do it at any one of the 69 centers throughout the city. Pick the place that's easiest for you and show up between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5. For updates and an interactive map, visit bernco.gov/clerk. You can also call the County Clerk's Office for additional information at 243-VOTE (8683).
* Early voting sites
Northeast Albuquerque
Albuquerque High School, main gym (800 Odelia NE)
Alice K. Hoppes African-American Pavilion, Expo N.M. (310 San Pedro NE)
Arroyo del Oso Elementary School, main gym (6504 Harper NE)
Bellehaven Elementary School, gym (8701 Princess Jeanne NE)
* Caracol Plaza (125000 Montgomery NE, Suite B5)
* Conejos Office Park (6700 Jefferson NE, Building A)
* Daskalos Center (5339 Menaul NE)
Del Norte High School, auxiliary gym (5323 Montgomery NE)
Double Eagle Elementary School, gym (8901 Lowell NE)
Eisenhower Middle School, gym (11001 Camero NE)
Eldorado High School, auxiliary gym (11300 Montgomery NE)
Hayes Middle School, main gym (1100 Texas NE)
Hoover Middle School, main gym (12015 Tivoli NE)
Hubert Humphrey Elementary School, multipurpose room (9801 Academy Hills NE)
Jackson Middle School, gym (10600 Indian School NE)
Jefferson Middle School, old gym (712 Girard NE)
Kennedy Middle School, main gym (721 Tomasita NE)
La Cueva High School, gym (7801 Wilshire NE)
Madison Middle School, gym (3501 Moon NE)
Manzano High School, auxiliary gym (12200 Lomas NE)
McKinley Middle School, gym (4500 Comanche NE)
Montezuma Elementary School, gym (3100 Indian School NE)
* Montgomery Crossing (8510 Montgomery NE, Suite A3B)
Oñate Elementary School, gym (12415 Brentwood Hills NE)
* Paseo Crossing (8000 Paseo del Norte NE, Suite A2)
Sandia High School, gym (7801 Candelaria NE)
* University of New Mexico S.U.B. (Cochiti and Isleta rooms, second floor)
Zuni Elementary School, multipurpose room (6300 Claremont NE)
Northwest Albuquerque
* 98th and Central (120 98th Street NW, Suite A5)
Chaparral Elementary School, main gym (6325 Milne NW)
Cibola High School, auxiliary gym (1510 Ellison NW)
* Clerk's Annex, west section (620 Lomas NW)
* Coors Plaza (3200 Coors NW, Suites A and G)
Duranes Elementary School, main gym (2436 Zickert NW)
Garfield Middle School, main gym (3501 Sixth Street NW)
* Guadalupe Plaza (6125 Fourth Street NW, Suite 40)
LBJ Middle School, gym (6811 Taylor Ranch NW)
Paseo del Norte Shopping Center (8521 Golf Course NW, Suite 112)
Raymond G. Sanchez Community Center, gym (9800 Fourth Street NW)
* Sun Country Plaza (9421 Coors NW, Suites G and H)
Taylor Middle School, gym (8200 Guadalupe NW)
Valley High School, gym (1505 Candelaria NW)
Ventana Ranch Elementary School, gym (6801 Ventana Village NW)
Volcano Vista High School, gym (8100 Rainbow NW)
West Mesa High School, old gym (6701 Fortuna NW)
Southeast Albuquerque
* Central and Juan Tabo (11816 Central SE, Suite C)
Bandelier Elementary, main gym (3309 Pershing SE)
East San Jose Elementary School, gym (415 Thaxton SE)
Highland High School, main gym (4700 Coal SE)
Manzano Mesa Elementary School (801 Elizabeth SE)
* Siesta Hills (5405 Gibson SE)
Van Buren Middle School, gym (700 Louisiana SE)
Southwest Albuquerque
Adobe Acres Elementary School, main gym (1724 Camino del Valle SW)
Atrisco Heritage High School, auxiliary gym (10800 Dennis Chavez SW)
* Goff Plaza (1720 Bridge SW, Suite G1)
Mountain View Elementary, gym (5317 Second Street SW)
Pajarito Elementary School (2701 Don Felipe SW)
Polk Middle School, gym (2220 Raymac SW)
* Rio Bravo Meal Site (3912 Isleta SW)
Rio Grande High School, gym (2300 Arenal SW)
Truman Middle School, gym (9400 Benavides SW)
Valle Vista Elementary School, gym (1700 Mae SW)
Washington Middle School, auxiliary gym (1101 Park SW)
Isleta Recreation Center, multipurpose room (Tribal Road 40, Building 60)
Sandia Park
Vista Grande Community Center, multipurpose room (15 La Madera)
A. Montoya Elementary School, main gym (24 Public School Road)
* Tijeras City Hall, Village Council Chambers (12 Camino Municipal)
Forest Meadow Baptist Church, fellowship hall (54 Hwy. 217)
Desiderio Community Center, chapter meeting room (Navajo Rt. 56)
Want to Vote Early?
Early voting started May 8 at the Clerk's Annex (620 Lomas NW). This location will stay open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., through June 2.
Beginning May 19, 16 additional My Vote Centers will be open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., through June 2.
Early voting locations are starred in the above list.
... Or Is Absentee More Your Style?
First you need to request a ballot. Call the County Clerk at 243-VOTE (8683) and provide the following info:
• Your name, as stated on your voter registration card
• Your full address where you're registered to vote
• Your date of birth or voter registration number
• The address you want your ballot mailed to (if it's different than the address where you're registered to vote)
You can also use snail-mail for your ballot request. Visit bernco.gov/clerk for an application to print and complete. You'll need to mail or hand-deliver the request within 48 hours of signing and dating the application.
The County Clerk's Office recommends you request an application no later than Wednesday, May 31. The deadline to turn in the completed application is Friday, June 1, at 7 p.m. You can-hand deliver it to the Clerk's Office (sixth floor of One Civic Plaza NW) on Election Day if you forget to mail it out.
* Early voting site
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Title: LaSalle Hotel
Description: Distant frontal and side view.
Date: 1929-09-10
Item Type: Photograph, b/w
Collection: General Collection (P1), Hotels--LaSalle, Number 2
Notes: Part of the glass negative project funded by the Friends of the Library, 1994.
Local Subject: LaSalle Hotel; Hotels
Digital Format: JPEG
Barcode: 10003842
Repository: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
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Investors poured less money into hedge funds in March, as the industry continued to trail the market.
Hedge funds logged net inflows of $817 million in March, down from $11.4 billion in the prior month, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research.
The firms, which surveyed more than 3,400 funds, called the inflows 'meager,' but noted that it's not surprising, given that the industry's 1.1% gain for March was less than one-third of the S&P 500's return of 3.6% during the month.
The survey found that stock-picking hedge fund managers were at the head of the pack during March, much like the first two months of the year, with equity long only funds rising 3.3%. However, fixed income and multi-strategy funds were the only fund categories that have consistently posted inflows in the past year. Funds of hedge funds continued their decline, and have lost more than $53 billion in assets in the last 12 months.
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Japanese acts attempting to interface with Western audiences often do so from behind a veil of inscrutability. Never mind that Japanese artists emerge from an alternate J-rock history that seldom intersects with ours — getting gaijin listeners on board is a process rife with potential misunderstandings. Tokyo's enduring Polysics have bridged this gap by expressing themselves as plainly as possible: with screaming, bouncing, eyeball-popping pogo pop so spastic and ceaseless that it breaks the language barrier, as songs veer from Japanese into English into plain old gibberish. If this sounds like a headache-inducing sugar rush, it is. If it sounds like a mind-blowing rock explosion . . . well, it's that, too.
I "spoke" with lead Polysic Hiro Hayashi through e-mail via his translator, as the band cruised through the Southwest (on a US tour that hits the Middle East on Valentine's Day). And if occasionally the Turing Test that spit out answers to my questions lost something in the translation, that may offer some clues as to how Polysics perceive their own relentless enthusiasm. When I ask how they stay upbeat through countless tours and mishaps (as they put it, "There is no place for gloom at a Polysics concert"), Hiro explains the Polysics process thus: "We cannot play music in calmness. Also, we don't like to have dark humid mental illness in our songs. We prefer making dry, rational, and exciting music."
You could attempt to parse that humid/dry dichotomy, or you could give a quick listen to the Polysics discography — in which case you'd discover that the crisp clean lines of their guitar/synth attack coupled with the clipped pace of their breakneck herk-and-jerk truly is a more arid approach to synth-driven electronic music than the drowned-in-reverb æsthetic of their wetter contemporaries. Although Polysics foreground the synths — in both sound and visual panache (even the band's name is a take-off of Hiro's very first Korg Polysix) — they use them to produce not luxuriant washes of sound but rather stuttering glitch fugues that often conjure a Donkey Kong console gone haywire. Yet all the sonic insanity is tethered by a martially taut rhythm section and a strict adherence to get-in-get-out song lengths. The result is not unlike sticking your finger into an electric socket: initially jolting, and over before you really know what happened.
"We love techno and rock, avant-garde, dark, pop, crazy, and happy things," Hiro tells me — it's clear the Polysics have their template down pat. Their newest long-player, Absolute Polysics (Myspace Records), distills their lengthy international discography. From the Gyruss-on-acid funhouse swirl of opener "P!" and "Fire Bison" to the Human Leaguey swoon-punk of "Cleaning" and "Eye Contact," Polysics have perfected a balance of J-rock, digital insanity, and sweet-toothed pop-punk melodicism.
"Sometimes, compared to other bands, we do feel a lot that we are too pop — even in Japan!" With this, Hiro puts their sugary pop jones in the context of the punk tumult the band usually find themselves in. "But to us, rock is rock when you do something different from others."
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We are currently having one of the most powerful storms I've seen. It's out of the north, very unusual for us. Most of our weather comes from the west.
Trees are really blowing and rain is coming in huge sheets. We're also having a lot of lightening and thunder. We're under a severe thunderstorm warning, so we'll keep our eyes open.
Our television reception is out, we have Dish, so no real news on what's happening.
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Known as "La Ville Blanche" (the White City), La Rochelle is a delicate concoction of pale limestone, warm light and sea air. The city was one of the most important ports in France during the Renaissance, and its rich past is visible in the city's grand arcades, turrets and timber-framed houses. Due to the foresight of mayor Michel Crépeau, the city's historic centre and waterfront were wrested from developers, and its streets freed of traffic in the 1970s. Controversial at the time, the policy has since been adopted across the country – even surpassing Crépeau's successful yellow bicycle plan, imitated in Paris and London.
Eleanor of Aquitaine gave La Rochelle a charter in 1199, releasing it from feudal obligations. This spurred rapid growth through salt and wine trade. The Wars of Religion devastated the town, which turned Protestant, and was ruthlessly besieged by Cardinal Richelieu in 1627. The English dispatched the Duke of Buckingham to their aid, but he was caught napping on the Île de Ré and suffered defeat. By the end of 1628 Richelieu had starved the city into submission. Out of the pre-siege population of 28,000, only 5000 survived. The walls were demolished and the city's privileges revoked. La Rochelle later became the principal port for trade with the French colonies in the Caribbean Antilles and Canada. Many of the settlers, especially in Canada, came from this part of France.
The Vieux Port, where pleasure boats are moored, is the heart of the town. You can stroll very pleasantly for an hour or more along the seafront in either direction from the harbour: down to the Port des Minimes, a vast marina development 2km south of the centre, or west, along a promenade and strip of parkland, towards Port Neuf. Dominating the inner harbour, the heavy Gothic gateway of the Porte de la Grosse Horloge touches the entrance to the old town to the north, and to the south reaches towards the tree-lined pedestrianized cours des Dames, where sailors' wives used to await their husbands' return. Leading north from the Porte de la Grosse Horloge, rue du Palais runs towards the cathedral and museums on rue Thiers.
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lately, though, i have been getting heavily involved in anti-spamming and postmastering (is there such a word as "postmastering"? if not, i've just made it...heh!). this means i've been involved in the race between those finding holes in email delivery and detection of those intrusions. so, i may just spend some time creating my own DNSbl and seeing where that takes me.


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Journal Journal: The War on Drugs 3
This is your country.
This is your country warring on drugs.
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This is your country.
This is your country warring on drugs.
Any questions?
Could we get the new message notification put back on the front page, please?
That notification is - well, was - a major value-add to induce me to look at the front page. Removing the notification has lowered the value of the front page below my tipping point, and now I'm not likely to bother with it.
Dude. I had no idea. All this time I assumed it was politics that did you in.
(This entry will be meaningful to very few of you, and it's aimed at only one - who probably isn't listening anyway. The rest of y'all, don't sweat it.)
I'm sorry for your loss. Yet I think already your devotion has earned you the chance to see your Beloved when - in good time - you leave this world.
Godspeed to you both.
I need a technical reality check here.
I am currently under direction to set up some interation with a service that provides automated appointment reminders by phone. The information I'm to share with these people is HIPAA-protected information.
The setup process has been rocky: first the technician I'm working on didn't seem to understand the difference between FTP and SFTP, then he - after giving me my login information to their SFTP server by phone - did me the courtesy of e-mailing the password to me. Great.
So today I'm getting into their management interface website for the first time. It's IE-only, but whatever. It needs an ActiveX control to display properly. Okay, fine. The ActiveX auto-downloader doesn't work, so the technician directs me to a downladable EXE that installs the necessary components. My hackles go up, but it's a secure site so I fetch it. I ran the thing and it's unsigned, but again it came from a https site and that's not so uncommon, so I continue.
But the damn thing is trying to change some DLLs and/or OCX files in use by my Practice Management application... something far more critical than this reminder service. And what the hell is a website doing messing with DLL and OCX files, anyway?
So questions:
When's the last time y'all interacted with a website that requires messing around on the DLL/OCX level of your windows system?
I do not trust these people. Every It instinct I have tells me that if I use this service, I am going to end up reading abbout my own HIPAA data loss in the paper. Am I just being too paranoid, or does it seem like there's really something wrong here?
Any volunteers to have their brains picked about VMWare deployments and/or iSCSI disk enclosures?
Looking to move to iSCSI network storage, something in the neighborhood of 1.5TB of RAID 5. (Max of 3TB within five years.) EqualLogic looks good to me, except that Dell just bought them, sigh. Anyone know anything awful about them? Anything wonderful about someone else?
After that, I'll be looking to roll all my servers - including an MSSQL 2003 server and some applications on it - up into VMWare. Anyone have some lessons learned they'd like to share?
"Professor Gert Holstege and colleagues asked 13 heterosexual couples aged 19-49 to take part in an experiment. One half of the couple was asked to lie down, with their head inside a scanner, while their partner stimulated them manually to achieve orgasm. To aid the mood, the room lighting was dimmed and all noise distractions shut out. The couples then switched positions and the experiment was repeated. [...] The women were also asked to fake an orgasm so that these scan results could be compared with those taken during genuine orgasms. There were obvious differences. Professor Holstege said: 'Women can imitate orgasm quite well.'" More at the BBC.
It has just come to my attention that something I thought was a US-wide tradition maybe isn't. Who else out there gives out chocolate-covered cherries for Washington's Birthday?
One nice thing about Slashdot is that - so far as I know - user accounts are not subject to being administratively banned. I had taken that liberty for granted.
Recently, I am sad to say, I have come to appreciate* that as a truly excellent feature of this site. I hope I will not take it for granted again.
[*: No, I'm not going to elaborate; it's not my story to tell. Besides, there's a long and distinguished tradition of
If any of you would be so kind as to go vote up a story of mine in the firehose I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
A friend of mine* is starting to write again after a loooong hiatus. She's looking for a place to post her writings online, and is considering MySpace.**
Anyone have any suggestions for writer-focused sites or online writing circles?
[*: No really.]
[**: And Multiply, but she's leaning MySpace.]
Relationship Change
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Red Warrior (637634) has ceased their relationship with you.
Oh, wait. Strike that.
When the local paper carried a story about some folks being arrested for public indecency, I didn't spare it a glance. That's not really news I can use, thanks.
But some folks at work read it, and one of them pointed out that one of the fellas pictured is a former co-worker of ours. Even that wouldn't be any sort of big deal at all to me, had his mugshot not shown him wearing one of our company t-shirts... with our logo prominently displayed.
I guess it's a right handy thing that we recently changed our logo, and he was wearing the old one.
A spokesman for Pontius Pilate informed the Jerusalem News that the accused threatened to overthrow the government and replace it with his own kingdom. "We took a strong stand, because the threat was both broad and deep," said Marcus Spartacus, from Pilate's office. "The sedition laws are clear and will be enforced vigorously."
Well, not really. Or not lately, anyway. It's a lovely bit of wordsmithing from Groklaw all the same. PJ wasn't talking about terrorists, just SCO and their press relations. But it's a great example of the importance of knowing the bias of an information source.
U.S. Army leaders warned members of Congress that, unless the 2007 supplemental spending bill is passed, the service is heading toward financial crisis.
Without the supplemental, "it will be dire straights for the Army," Gen. Richard Cody, U.S. Army vice chief of staff, said at an April 17 hearing of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee. [...]
"I am also frustrated we don't get our appropriations on time," Cody told lawmakers. "Our troops deserve better. We're throttle-back, and the last place we want to scale back is Afghanistan and Iraq." [...]
The $124 billion 2007 emergency supplemental bill is currently stalled by a disagreement between Congress and the White House. The Democrat-controlled Congress has attached a troop withdrawal deadline for U.S. forces fighting in Iraq to the legislation, a measure President George W. Bush has said he will veto.
It's a crisis. If the Democratic Congress doesn't appropriate some more money for the war - doesn't give the President a bill he can sign - then by June the DoD will run out of money with which to continue the war. Here's the Democratic party failing the troops, just like so many people expected they would.
But... there's something odd. Didn't the last, Republican-controlled Congress pass a budget for fiscal year 2007? By, gum, they did:
In Congress' last week in session, the House and Senate passed a final version of the fiscal 2007 Defense Appropriations bill, totaling $436.5 billion, according to the conference report.
The bill, which sets spending limits for the military, includes a $70 billion bridge fund for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Bridge fund? Oh, right. This war is not on the budget. It's being paid for thorough a series of supplemental appropriations. Of course, the President, not wanting to leave the troops at the mercy of Congressional politics, he must have asked for enough for a whole year of warfighting, right?
* Provides $439.3 billion for the Department of Defense's base budget--a 7-percent increase over 2006 and a 48-percent increase over 2001--to maintain a high level of military readiness, develop and procure new weapon systems to ensure U.S. battlefield superiority, and support our servicemembers and their families;
* Requests $50 billion in 2007 bridge funding to support the military's Global War on Terror efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq into 2007; [...]
Wait... what?
Gosh, it looks like that Republican Congress gave the President even more money to fight the war than he asked for... 140% of his request.
So why is it that the warfighters are almost out of money? Why do we have this crisis? Didn't someone see this expense coming? Why didn't anyone ask that money for the war be placed in the regular DoD budget? Didn't anyone complain about the off-budget method of financing the war?
How about the New York Times, May 8 2006:
President George W. Bush is trying to score unearned points for fiscal rectitude by railing against the Senate's outsize $109 billion supplemental spending package, which includes money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as hurricane relief. But the real scandal is Bush's own preference for financing much of the cost of the Iraq war outside the normal budget process. That is convenient for the administration, which does not have to count the money when it is pretending to balance the budget. But Iraq is not some kind of unexpected emergency, like Hurricane Katrina. It is a highly predictable cost, now amounting to about $100 billion a year, or just under 20 percent of total military spending.
How about John Kerry in 2004:
Despite all we are asking of the men and women in uniform, the bill we now debate appropriates $87 billion simply by increasing the Federal deficit. It asks no sacrifice of anybody in the United States today who can afford it. This is an off-budget, deficit-spending free ride.
Heck, even the BBC got in on it:
The Bush administration has chosen to finance the war by off-budget emergency supplemental appropriations, rather than include Iraq spending in the budget sent to Congress.
It was only after the war began, on 25 March 2003, that President Bush asked for $75bn extra to pay for the initial costs of the war.
And it was more than six months later before the next supplemental appropriation, for another $87bn, was made.
That has reduced the political flack over appropriations for the war - and has also meant that the war spending does not formally count as part of the budget deficit in the future.
And that deficit is predicted to exceed $500bn this year.
According to economics professor William Nordhaus of Yale University, these costs are "a significant burden on the federal budget, another straw on the camel's back".
"The major problem is the Bush administration's unwillingness to face up to the need to finance any of the additional costs, whether the war in Iraq, homeland security, or most important of all the new Medicare provisions," he says.
"Like a teenager who gets further in debt on a credit card, the Bush administration is racking up costs that will have to be paid in the future in higher taxes or lower government programs.
"The fiscal irresponsibility is really awesome."
You know what, Mr. President? I don't want to hear about what you're willing to sign any more. You got us into this mess. And by mess I don't mean the war... I mean the shoddy and, to be blunt, the deceptive way you have chosen to ask for funds for this war. There's a funding crisis now not because the Democrats are recalcitrant, but because you chose to finance the war using off-budget supplemental spending requests. If we were talking about a supplemental just for the surge, that'd be one thing - the surge was not really expected. But you're financing the whole damn war this way, and in the main the costs for this war have been reasonably predictable.
You're the one who has made the funding for this war more of a political football. If you'd budgeted for this war properly, honestly, there would be money to pay through October already... and you could have got it from a Congress controlled by your own party.
You screwed up, Mr. President, and now your screwup has placed your ability to run the war as you please at the mercy of an unfriendly Congress. It's your own damn fault, so stop whining.
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River Spey 2002 Opening Day
Well for all you traditionalists the River Spey salmon season got under way today. The weather was less than perfect with a strong westerly wind and snow and rain showers forcast. As it turned out the rain held off till about 4:30 in the evening. There was an unconfirmed report of a fresh fish taken from Kinermony, just above Aberlour. The river was full of kelts and I had five which kept the day interesting. All the kelts were well mended with only a little sign of disease.
Fred I had a go with my Bruce & Walker 17'6" not an 18' but close, it handled a sunk tip well but with the strong winds and big water (4ft above summer level) made comparisons difficult. It nice to play with ones new toys. I hope for better weather at the weekend.
"Willie," great report.
Grand to get "fishing reports" from where it all started. Interesting on the use of a 17+ footer; sink tip I understand but is the River Spey fairly wide where you fish?
The Spey was very wide today as it was too deep and fast to wade. Usually by wading deep, above my waist, and throwing a long line 100ft+ I can cover the whole river.
With the spate the fish lie in at the edge so a long cast is not necesssary in fact too long a cast swings the fly too fast and is counter produtive. I was going to give one of your "possicles" a swim but the ghillie suggested I would frighten the fish back to the sea.:hehe:
Fishing River Spey
Hello Willy Gunn!
I see that You are familiar with the River Spey. I have for a long time wanted to fish these classical waters but know very little about it. Could You recomend some nice beats and perhaps tell me how to go about booking, tackle choice, prices, peak of season etc?
Best regards
Petter Wikören
Salmonfishing in Southern Norway
Fishing on Speyside The River Spey runs for over 100 miles from source to sea. It is the fastest flowing river in Europe and falls 1100 feet over it's course. It is perfectly suited to fly fishing for salmon. Fish can be taken anywhere along it's course but the serious fishing begins as the river reaches Aviemore. Not only does the main river offer a great variety of fishing but a number of tributaries, in particular the Rivers Avon and Dulnain, are excellent salmon rivers in their own right.The cost of fishing varies tremendously according to the beat you are fishing and the time of year. The river has some of the best Association water fishing available in Scotland. This is very reasonably priced and you are always in with a chance of a fish right from the first day of the season. In contrast some of the cream of the fishing, say Arndilly in May or Tulchan in July, can be expensive. There is something for everyone.The Spey has a massive catchment, draining huge areas of the Monadhliath and Cairngorm mountains. It's level, therefore, is influenced by steady snowmelt through to the summer months and low water is rarely a problem. Even when the river runs low in mid summer there will always be a steady run of summer salmon, grilse and sea trout. The Spey takes a while to respond to rainfall and days lost to big spates are few. All this means there is a lot of fishing available, fish are always running and few days are lost to the elements. Check the weather forecast below: The season opens on 11th February and closes on 30th September. Fresh salmon will be spread throughout the system for the opening day of the season. There is always fishing available for those willing to enquire. Please note that access to some middle and lower river beats is limited due to regular tenancy and timeshare ownership. It is, however, always worth enquiring at the local tackle shop to check on last minute availability.The following are always very helpful with advice and information on available Speyside fishing and they hold an excellent selection of salmon fishing gear:
Mortimers, 3 High St, Grantown on Spey Tel 01479 872684JAJ
Munro, 93-95 High St, Aberlour Tel 01340 871428JAJ Munro, 63 South St, Elgin Tel 01343 552653
The Spey can be divided into 3 sections for the benefit of orientation with respect to it's fishing beats.UPPER SPEY (Source to Boat of Garten)Aviemore Angling Association3½ miles single bank fishingMust be resident in Aviemore
Speyside sports64 Grampian RdAviemoreTel 01479 810656
Kincardine and Kinchurdy beats2½ miles double bank fishing in rotation - 5 rods (Kincardine now in private ownership) Strathspey estatesHeathfieldGrantown on SpeyTel 01479 872529
Seafield Lodge HotelGrantown on SpeyTel 01479 872152
Abernethy Angling Association6 miles double bank fishing AllensDeshar Rd Boat of GartenTel 01479 831372
MIDDLE SPEY (Grantown to Aberlour)Grantown on Spey Association Water5½ miles double bank fishing12 miles on River Dulnainplus 1¼ miles Upper Castle Grant on Thur, Fri, Sat. Mortimers3 High StGrantown on SpeyTel 01479 872684
Castle Grant and Upper Castle Grant5½ miles double bank fishing split into 3 beatsprivate use of Upper Castle Grant Mon, Tue, Wed.Accommodation available at Kinveachy Lodgeor Inverallan house. Strathspey estatesHeathfieldGrantown on SpeyTel 01479 872529
Tulchan fishings8 miles double bank fishing split into 4 beatsAccommodation at Tulchan Lodge or estate cottages Tulchan Sporting EstatesEstate officeTulchan LodgeAdvieGrantown on SpeyTel 01807 510200
Ballindalloch3 miles double bank fishing let with Marionburgh house Ballindalloch EstateBallindallochTel 01807 500205
Pitchroy3 miles double bank fishing
Knockando5 miles double bank fishing R&R Urquhart Solicitors117-121 High St, ForresMorayshire, IV36 OABTel 01309 672216
Carron and LagganDouble bank fishing in delightful scenery(Laggan now timeshared) Bidwells, Etive House,Beechwood ParkInverness IV2 3BWTel 01463 715585
DelagyleSingle bank fishing 1½ miles Savills, 12 Clerk St,Brechin, Angus, DD9 6AE Tel 01356 622187
Wester Elchies Timeshare ownership
LOWER SPEY (Aberlour to Spey bay)Aberlour Association WaterExcellent value mid-river fishing.A good high water beat JAJ Munro, 93-95 High St,Aberlour, Banffshire, AB38 9PB.Tel 01340 871428
The Dowans Hotel, Aberlour, BanffshireTel 01340 871488
Craigellachie Timeshare ownership
Easter Elchies Bidwells, Etive House, Beechwood ParkInverness IV2 3BWTel 01463 715585
Rothes and Aikenway Bidwells, Etive House, Beechwood ParkInverness IV2 3BWTel 01463 715585
Arndilly Bidwells, Etive House, Beechwood ParkInverness IV2 3BWTel 01463 715585
Delfur Bidwells, Etive House, Beechwood ParkInverness IV2 3BWTel 01463 715585
Brae Water and Gordon CastleThis water is excellent in summer and gets fresh fish throughout the season. The Gordon Lennox EstateEstate officeGordon CastleFochabersMoray, IV32 7PQTel 01343 820244
Fochabers AssociationAlmost 3 miles of fishing on daily or weekly basis Tackle and Guns91 High St, FochabersMoray IV32 7DHTel 01343 820327
RIVER AVONThe River Avon is the Spey's main tributary. It rises in Loch Avon in the lee of Cairngorm mountain and flows some 40 miles to join the Spey at Ballindalloch. The Avon water runs cool and clear and attracts a good run of Salmon and Seatrout from April onward.Inchrory estatesAbout 20 miles of water on the upper Avon under private ownership. This is an important spawning area for Spey and Avon salmon.
Crown EstatesTomintoul Angling AssociationOne and a half miles of right bank fishing The Post OfficeTomintoul
Crown EstatesStrathavon Farmers Angling AssociationTwo miles of double bank fishing Rods available to B+B or self catering guests of farmer members.
Crown EstatesDeskie beatA 2 rod fly only beat leased by the hotel Minmore House HotelGlenlivetBanffshireTel 01807 590 378
Ballindalloch Estate WaterExcellent double bank fishing on the lower 6 miles to the junction with the Spey and 1½ miles single bank day ticket fishing above this. Ballindalloch EstateBallindallochTel 01807 500205
The prime time is late April/ Early May for Salmon July for grilse.
personally I would fish early May. If I had unlimited money I would fish Tulcan but it is expensive. I'm fishing there end of March when it's cheaper.
The association water at Grantown is good value as is the Town water at Aberlour if you have any questions send me a [private message and I'll see what I can set up.
What is the average price in pounds for a day of fishing on the Spey during peak and non peak times ? Do they take American Express also ?
P.S. I can't find the Partridge Carp hooks, but I know they are somewheres here in fly storage area or tying area. I will find them.
Malcom -
Thanks for the information, it's one of my biggest dreams to fish the Spey. Maybe we can hook up then.
A privilige like that is worthwhile at any price.
For those intrested in seeing some great pictures and reading some great articles regarding fishing the Spey, check out www.speycaster.net
Ryan S. Petzold
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by pmflyfisher
What is the average price in pounds for a day of fishing on the Spey during peak and non peak times ? Do they take American Express also ?
Off peak, just now £30/day ie $45 US
Peak £200/day ie $300 US
Which is why I do most of my fishing early or late, clear of peak season
Do those prices include the cost of the ghillie (aka guide) ?
My understanding is that you must also have a ghillie to fish on most or all salmon rivers in UK ?
Beat + Ghillie = Total Daily Fishing Cost
Hal, et. al. -
The real thing is well worth it for some people. The exclusivity is part of the allure for me. In fact if one looks deeply into situation this is what has preserved their fishery for so long; where in our young country we have trashed atlantic salmon already and had to supplement what we destroyed with artificial fish populations. What there was of a legacy died with the indigenous fish, and a put-and-take mentality has taken over in the name of plentiful and free fishing not just for salmon but virtually every species.
What was once a huge population of wild US atlantic salmon now tethers on the edge of extinction in the last stand streams of Maine. It's pitiful really, salmon rivers that have been dammed and exploited to the point of bursting into flames or running in bright colors from the raw dyes dumped into them. All in the name of "free" enterprise and capitalism. Child laborers filled the factories along these rivers, some without fingers and hands from the textile mills that shaped the banks of these rivers into stone walled corridors of putrid water truncated by dams. It's money that killed these rivers and it's salmon - and ironically it's money that has kept the Spey alive.
Of course the best fishing to me is free fishing practiced in a fishery whose legacy is so rich and deep it permeates every rock and riffle. Second best is one that humans have protected with currency. If beat fees and ghillies are the cost of sustaining the legacy, then so be it - I'd pay to play no problem.
Maybe here in New England (where the only atlantic salmon runs in the union occurred) we should've adopted paid fishing for salmon a long time ago. Maybe then they'd still be around!
I agree 100%, it is sickening what has happened to the atlantic salmon in Maine and the PNW wild steelhead situation continues look depressing. Thought they were going to fix the salmon issue in Maine 20 years ago. Beleive it is not salvageable now.
Greed and politics are the greatest threat to our fisheries, maybe also technology making information now so available on the fisheries.
We do not have inexhaustible fishery resources as so many Americans believe.
I myself am ready for more controlled fishing to protect important wild fisheries as Europe has. I will pay for that.
Unfortunately, I donot see it happening in America in my life time due to our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Lets pray for the best.
Dear Willie Gunn,
Have you heard anything about the first weeks on the Brora? I am to fish the lower river/south bank early next week (Mon 11-Wed 13).
It will be my first go this year so both me and the rods are starting to rattle.....:eyecrazy:
"Tight loops"
As far as I know there has been only one fish taken from the Brora, South Bank Rallan Pool on a 3" Willie Gunn ( What Else)
The fish was caught on Feb. 13th by Brian Stubbs and was covered in sealice. To be fair the river has not been fished much as the lets have just started this week.
Last edited by Willie Gunn; 03-02-2002 at 01:31 PM.
Spey Ghillies
Yes most of the beats have a resident ghillie who watches over the anglers, puts the fires on in the hut, cuts the grass as well as netting the fish for you. It is traditional to give these gentlemen a gratuity, £10 / day + £10 for each fish. I also leave a bottle of Glen Deveron.
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Exhibition commemorates Sinai expeditions
Posted April 15, 2006; 06:46 p.m.
An exhibition titled "The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount
Sinai," is on view through Friday, July 28, in the first floor lounge
of the Department of Art and Archaeology in McCormick Hall.
The exhibition of 24 photographs was organized to commemorate Kurt Weitzmann (1904-93) and the Princeton-Michigan expeditions to Mount Sinai. Weitzmann, a professor of art and archaeology at Princeton from 1945 to 1972, and his colleague George Howard Forsyth Jr., a member of Princeton's class of 1923 and a professor at the University of Michigan, organized a series of expeditions between 1956 and 1965 to Egypt, with the aim of studying the Monastery of St. Catherine and its treasures.
The monastery, which dates to 548-65, is thought by some Biblical scholars to be the location of the "burning bush" where Moses first encountered God. The well-preserved church is decorated with some of the finest sixth-century mosaics. Constructed of local stone, the church also incorporates other building materials, such as wood and marble, which were imported from afar with great difficulty.
The exhibition includes a selection of images from Weitzman's collection that provides insights into various aspects of the monastery, its environment, its history, its architecture and its perception by early travelers. Some of the photographs are more than a century old and reveal the conditions within the monastery complex that have changed significantly over time.
The photographs, some of which were taken by Weitzman when he was at the monastery, are preserved in the Research Photograph Collection of the Department of Art and Archaeology. The exhibition was conceived in conjunction with a graduate seminar titled "Juncture of Heaven and Earth: The Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai" taught this spring by Slobodan Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology. It was organized and designed by Ćurčić and Shari Kenfield, curator of the Research Photograph Collection.
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Release Date October 2012
Price $35.00 hardcover
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Following the death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea has entered a period of profound transformation laden with uncertainty. This authoritative book brings together the world's leading North Korea experts to analyze both the challenges and prospects the country is facing. Drawing on the contributors' expertise across a range of disciplines, the book examines North Korea's political, economic, social, and foreign policy concerns. Considering the implications for Pyongyang's transition, it focuses especially on the transformation of ideology, the Worker's Party of Korea, the military, effects of the Arab Spring, the emerging merchant class, cultural infiltration from the south, Western aid, and global economic integration. The contributors also assess the impact of North Korea's new policies on China, South Korea, the United States, and the rest of the world. Comprehensive and deeply knowledgeable, their analysis is especially crucial given the power consolidation efforts of the new leadership under way in Pyongyang and the implications for both domestic and international politics.
Part I: North Korea's Political System in the Transition Era
Chapter 1: The Role and Influence of Ideology
by Charles Armstrong
Chapter 2: The Role and Influence of the Party Apparatus
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Chapter 3: The Role and Influence of the North Korean Military
by Terence Roehrig
Chapter 4: The Kims' Three Bodies: Toward Understanding Dynastic Succession in North Korea
by Bruce Cumings
Chapter 5: North Korea after Kim Jong Il
by Victor Cha and Nicholas Anderson
Part II: Prospects for the North Korean Economy
Chapter 6: Western Aid: The Missing Link for North Korea's Economic Revival?
by Nicholas Eberstadt
Chapter 7: Future Strategies for Global Economic Integration
by Bradley Babson
Part III: North Korean Society and Culture in Transition
Chapter 8: Low-Profile Capitalism: The Emergence of the New Merchant/Entrepreneurial Class in Post-Famine North Korea
by Andrei Lankov
Chapter 9: "Cultural Pollution" From the South?
by Woo Young Lee and Jungmin Seo
Part IV: Foreign Relations in the Transition Era
Chapter 10: Changes and Continuities in Pyongyang's China Policy
by Liu Ming
Chapter 11: Changes and Continuities in Inter-Korean Relations
by Haksoon Paik
Chapter 12: North Korea's Relations with the United States and the Rest of the World
by David Kang
Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 13: North Korea in Transition: Evolution or Revolution?
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The mononucleosis spot test looks for two antibodies in the blood that appear during or after an infection with the virus that causes mono or mononucleosis.
Monospot test; Heterophile antibody test; Heterophile agglutination test; Paul-Bunnell test; Forssman antibody test
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture
No special preparation is necessary.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, you may feel moderate pain, or only a prick or stinging sensation. You may feel throbbing at the site of the needle stick for a few minutes after the blood is taken.
The mononucleosis spot test is done when symptoms of mononucleosis are present. Common symptoms include:
This test looks for antibodies that form in the body during the infection, called heterophile antibodies.
A negative test means there were no heterophile antibodies detected. Most of the time this means you do not have infectious mononucleosis.
Sometimes, the test may be negative because it was done too soon (within 1 to 2 weeks) after the illness started. Your health care provider may repeat the test to make sure you do not have mono.
A small number of people with mononucleosis may never have a positive test.
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Schooley RT. Epstein-Barr virus infection. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 385.
Weber R. Pharyngitis. In: Bope ET, Kellerman RD, eds. Conn's Current Therapy 2012. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 1.
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Dawson's doctor is aware he uses marijuana medicinally.
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Dawson will need about two ounces for a 60-day supply. He doesn't know how to grow it, so — as allowed under the new law — he'll probably have a caretaker grow it for him.
The Massachusetts Medical Society thinks a bit differently about medical marijuana than Dawson: "Despite the vote, the Massachusetts Medical Society continues to assert that marijuana has not been proven to be medicine," according to a statement from its president, Richard Aghababian, MD.
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Here in Massachusetts and around the country, it's been a celebratory few weeks as marijuana prohibitions have gone up in smoke. Washington State and Colorado voters legalized the weed outright. And Massachusetts's "An Initiative Petition for a Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana," better known as Question 3, passed with 63 percent of the vote, making us the 18th state in the nation with medical marijuana.
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con-man-dan wrote:i recently crossed a PF and GM and got nothing but grey juvi's! i had moved most of them to a seperate tank, the culls were eaten, and 3 somehow were left in the parents tank. I'm thinking about crossing what appears to be a lovely male with his momma to see what happens now that he'll have the pink gene, and the fry would have 2x pink gene, right?
You got all grey because your "GM" was homozygous for the "grey" gene. We'll call that AA. You're pink female is homozygous for the pink gene. aa for short. So all your fry would be grey, but carry the recessive pink trait (100% Aa).
If you were to then cross the "new" grey male (Aa) with his pink (aa) mother you'd get 50% pink (aa) and 50% grey (Aa) but carrying the recessive trait (heterozygous).
ohcustoms, I don't think it will be possible to get 100% marble cons, because with the "marble" cons you're not just looking at one allele and, using probability, there is a pretty high chance in a spawn of hundred to get "marbles" that are all grey or all pink.
We've been selecting animals for certain colors for hundreds, if not thousands of years. If you just search around you'll find lots of articles on coat coloration. Here a a couple that deal with cats. Just imagine it's a fish instead.
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Description Largest native tree squirrel along the Pacific coast, this gray squirrel has a long pepper-gray tail with white edging. Silver-gray back contrasts with pure white belly. A patch behind the ears is pale reddish brown. Feet are dusky. Pelage is more silvery and ears are relatively larger than in the Eastern Gray Squirrel..
Dimensions 51-77cm, 24-38cm, 500-950g
Breeding Stick nests, called dreys, are used for rearing young, and tree holes are used as sleeping chambers.
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Alpine & subalpine habitats, Cities, suburbs & towns
Range California, Northwest
Discussion Forages extensively on the ground for acorns, maple seeds, catkins, green vegetation, and fungi, as well as for pine nuts in the canopy. They scatter-hoard acorns in the fall by making many small holes in the ground. Maximum longevity in the wild is 8-10 years. Shy and intolerant of humans, making it difficult to see even though it is diurnal. Threatened in the north of its range. Uses oak-conifer woodlands


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|Ocean Flyfishing for Salmon Perhaps the most under-rated fishery in the world
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Hey Matt-
I think, with a little tinkering, you just might be able to find that 12' #4 you are looking for.
I know of a rod builder (designed Sage's finishes) that is in his late 80's that does wonders with rods.
You buy a 4100 XP blank (which is softer more progessive XP) and have him splice in a butt from some other blank...he then buiolds up the rod and voila!...you have your 12' #4 two-handed rod!
I refuse to exit. About my 9 footers, if my kids don't use 'em, then I'll lose 'em. I might keep the 5 wt for a few 10 foot wide streams, but that's it.
I've been using the spey rod for steelhead and salmon exclusively the last year and may have forgotten how to false cast the single hander.
Perhaps there is No Exit for me from the spey now ?
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I think what you're doing is awesome and you are not alone by any means - people all around the world are in a mode of spey discovery. People with single "handled" rods are spey casting more and more. People with double "handled" rods are applying the long rods to more situations and having fun with it. What I suspect will come out of it all are a few, highly-tuned new designs and a lot more people who know how to use the other hand for something besides line management and hauling.
Great stuff! BTW - come on out anytime! Forum folks take care of each other, especially when it gives us an excuse to go fishing...
Hi Juro,
Last 30 days I've been playing with the 5120 and chasing trout. The Yakima river, Dry Falls Lake and Puget Sound Cutthroat. I refer to that as two handing for trout. On the Yak, I might use a spey line or a few spey casts with the SA steelhead taper, but the majority is still just two handing with shooting heads. I'm going for those light little casts that Goran demonstrated at Kauffmanns spey days. Since there are no specific rods for this purpose, I just use what I can get. So far the 5120 fits the bill even though the rod can handle up to an 8wt. What I really want is an overhead 4wt 12 foot where the bottom two thirds would be fast action and the tip would be a wet noodle. Actually, I don't know what will work. I'm just trying everything two handed. My goal is one cast fly fishing with the ability to spey on small streams. I am the only fruitcake, as far as I can tell, that is even trying this. I'm either wasting my money or an innovator. Frankly, I don't care either way. I'm having a whole lot of fun doing something nobody else has. Sure would like to check out that east coast two handed surf casting one of these days.
Malcom -
I agree, "night and day". A great spey rod does not perform overhand necessarily well, nor the converse. Although an incidental few do both well, this dual-purpose is not a criteria I see people seeking out since they are looking to either spey cast or overhand cast with two-hands.
I think it's a misnomer that the folks who use two-handed overhand rods and casting here in the northeastern US saltwater scene generalize all rods with the extended lower handles of longer length as spey rods. They are generally not concerned with a rod's spey casting ability, looking specifically for rods with overhand tapers and rarely if ever utilize any spey casts thus IMHO are incorrectly referring to 2-handed rods as spey rods.
I am working on a two-handed overhand rod with Nobuo, it is not a Spey rod... but when completed will be a heck of a two-handed rod for the northeast coastal fishery and perhaps other similar fisheries around the world.
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I was lost reading this post till I realised when you talk of Spey rods you mean double handed rods. I feel there is a big differance between double handed rods for overhead casting and double handed rods for Spey casting.
Dana, Juro, and other casting experts do you agree? or do you think the term is to entrenched to change an entire nation.
Malcolm (from almost the banks of the Spey)
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I'll agree,He is spoiled on fishing with a spey rod. I think that he has them for all operations now. From salmon to trout with that 5wt sage.
Sorry about not responding quicker Sean. I didn't see your post until now. Might have been quicker to email me through the site. I don't care about distance on the salt. I'm just spoiled rotten by Spey casting and only keep my nine footers for the kids. It's all about spending more time with my fly on or in the water, rather that 9 feet off the water. I have caught very few fish nine feet above the water. Also, since I'm not spending all my time false casting, I can fish twice as long. The only time I need distance is when a seal pops his head up. They are too used to nine foot rods and when I shoot a fly in front of their face, they haul ass. Other than that, all my catches have been within 50 feet. I understand also about the big rod on the salt thing. I think I have erradicated the problem with my 5120 from Sage. That 5 wt allows me to fish for trout and the Cutts a lot better. If I ever get out of Puget Sound and fish the surf off the coast, I'd probably use my 12 foot loop 8wt for distance.
I hope you dont mind me jumping in and giving my answer sean but there is nothing you can do about it:hehe:
I have used spey rods on the salt but do not prefer them over a good 9' 6 or 7 wt. spey rods as you know can be roll cast very easily and are nice for getting a quick shot out to rising fish but other than that I dont see a big advantage for cutts. A lot of the guys that fish around Point no Point and some of the other similar type beaches use the spey rods but mainly for the silvers.
There is one time that i like having the spey and that is when I am fishing oyster beds and the depth is very constant over a large area. This lets me cast a long distance and stay away from the fish as they can be very spooky when they are on the oyster beds.
I also do not like having such a large rod when I am fighting the fish. I much prefer the feel of the single handed rod when fighting the cutts.
question for mattzoid
I spey cast rivers for steel and saw your post about fishing the sound with overhand spey casting.
My question is what are the benefits you are seeing with fishing these rods? The east coat guys use them for heavy surf where I can see the advantage of being able to cast over the waves but in the sound we do not have that problem.
The reason I ask is that I have thought about trying them but seeing that I catch the majority of the cutts and silvers within 50 feet down to 1 foot from the shore it seems the long rods adavantage for distance is not necessary. Also getting a fly out quickly to cover a rising fish seems out of the question with a long rod (I could very well be wrong on this one).
Hope you do not take this post the wrong way. I am really interested in hearing about the benefits you are seeing and possibly giving it a try myself.
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Family: Poecilidae, Livebearers view all from this family
Description 2" (5 cm). Generally pale and silvery, largely unmarked, with faint lateral stripe. Dorsal fin far back on body; tail fin rounded.
Endangered Status The Big Bend Gambusia is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered throughout its range in Texas. This little fish was known to live in freshwater springs in only two locations: one near Boquillas Crossing, Texas, and the other in Rio Grande Village in Big Bend National Park. The Boquillas Spring stopped flowing in 1954, and the population died off. The spring flow in the Big Bend location was diverted in 1954 to form a fishing pool, and by 1960 the gambusia population was all but wiped out. Surviving populations at Big Bend, which live in a single, protected pool, descend from three gambusias rescued from the declining population in 1956.
Habitat Pools fed by warm springs.
Range Big Bend National Park, Texas.


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A 95-year-old Montana man is proving that you're never too old to clown around.
Floyd Creekmore — also known affectionately as Creeky the Clown — has nabbed a Guinness World Record for being the oldest performing clown on the planet. He's been entertaining people at fairs and rodeos since the age of 10, and he insists he has no plans to turn in his red rubber nose any time soon.Story: 101-year-old grandmother sets paragliding record
"Right now I feel good enough to clown so I'll just keep it up until I can't!" Creekmore said.
Creekmore has been a clown with the Al Bedoo Shrine Circus in Billings, Mont., since 1981. The circus raises money to help disabled and burned kids receive free treatment at Shriners Hospitals for Children.Story: Grandma, 100, will help carry Olympic flame in London
The last person to hold the title of "oldest performing clown" was Andrew Beyer, or "Bumbo the Clown," who set the record in 2004 at age 86 and retired three years ago at 91.
Creeky lives in Billings with his wife of 70 years, Betty. Before retiring from his jobs in the non-clown world, he worked as a rector and then as a construction worker. He and his wife have three children, five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.Slideshow: Guinness World Records 2012 (on this page)
The eternally young clown owns about a dozen clown costumes, some of which were sewn by his wife and his niece. He says his favorite get-up is a yellow and orange costume with matching orange hair and a yellow bowler hat.Story: Accomplishing amazing athletic feats — in their 80s and 90s
Creeky's grandson, Tom McCraw, talked with The Associated Press about how gratifying the clown role has been for his grandfather.
"Creeky understands that to make a child laugh, to make a child smile, that's what life's about," McCraw said.
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