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ARP Solus
The ARP Solus is a light and portable synth that lies somewhere between the Axxe and the Odyssey. The Solus is monophonic with 2 oscillators that include pulse-width-modulation and a digital ring modulator. An FM slider allows for an external sound source to be ring modulated through VCO #1 which gives this synth added function as an analog ring modulator perfect for creating wacky sounds. A great sounding ARP VCF (filter) adds a nice touch. Pitch bending is accomplished using a simple knob. Designed for portability this synth comes packaged in a very nicely built road case. It has been used by Tangerine Dream.
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Family: Phasianidae, Pheasants and Grouse view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Warm buffish gray overall with extensive dark barring, including on belly. When not displaying, note pale throat, dark stripe through eye, and dark elongated feathers on side of neck'the "hare's ears" feathers that are raised in display. ADULT FEMALE Similar to male, but paler with less distinct dark barring. JUVENILE Similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 16-18" (41-46 cm)
Endangered Status Attwater's Prairie-Chicken, a subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Texas. Once found from the Atlantic Coast west to Wyoming, the Greater Prairie-Chicken has been exterminated from much of this vast range, thanks to the destruction of the undisturbed prairies on which it breeds. The East Coast subspecies, known as the Heath Hen, is extinct. Attwater's, the form inhabiting the prairies along the Texas Gulf coast, may follow its eastern relative into extinction in a few years. The Attwater National Wildlife Refuge, in Eagle Lake, Texas, has been established to protect this rare bird.
Habitat Local and generally uncommon. Restricted to native prairies, typically in wetter sites, with lusher grass growth, than Lesser prefers. Range and numbers have declined catastrophically over last 200 years due to hunting and prairie habitat destruction (for agriculture). Some pinnatus populations are stable at local level, but habitat degradation (e.g. by grazing farm animals) and fragmentation continue to pose threats, given species' essentially sedentary nature. Population of pinnatus exceeds 600,000; attwateri numbers around 60 at two sites in southeastern Texas.
Observation Tips Easiest to see in spring when males display at communal leks; typically these are on raised hillocks. At other times of year, leads a rather unobtrusive life.
Range Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, Texas, New England
Voice All birds utter clucking calls. Displaying male's deep, far-carrying booming note recalls sound made by blowing across the top of empty bottle.
Discussion Plump-bodied bird. Male's rather understated plumage (for much of the time) is transformed in display by inflated orange neck sacs, yellow wattles above eyes, and raised head feathers that look almost like a hare's ears. In spring, birds gather at communal leks where males perform foot-stamping and booming displays, accompanied by tail fanning at start and end of performance. Comprises three subspecies: pinnatus is still widespread; attwateri (Attwater's Prairie-chicken) is close to extinction; cupido (Heath Hen) is now extinct. Following descriptions relate to pinnatus; attwateri is similar, but smaller and darker.


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The Most BadAss Witches of All Time!
As pointy hats and broomsticks emerge in preparation for another Halloween, it's important to take a few moments to honor the terrifying/evil/spell-binding witches who inspire us every October.
Below, the most badass witches in movies and TV:
13. Aunt Zelda, "Sabrina The Teenage Witch"
12. Endora, "Bewitched"
11. Alexandra Medford, "The Witches Of Eastwick"
10. Aunt Frances, "Practical Magic"
9. The White Witch, "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe"
8. Regina Mills, "Once Upon A Time"
7. Nancy Downs, "The Craft"
6. The Grand High Witch, "The Witches"
5. Ursula, "The Little Mermaid"
4. Fiona Goode, "American Horror Story"
3. Winifred, "Hocus Pocus"
2. Professor McGonagall, "Harry Potter"
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In the style of the "What next?" thread, dealing with what you collected after SW ended in the 1980s, I propose a timeline. Unless your collecting has always been since the same time, when did you collect what you collected? For me, by my age:
2-5: Tonka trucks
3-11: Die-cast cars
5-12, 15-present: Star Wars
8-12: Stickers
9-13: Hats, pins, buttons, posters, erasers
10-14: G.I.Joe
11-15: Transformers
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15-19: Sports trading cards
16-present: Orange soda/juice cans
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The injection works, but another ripple causes the good doctor to fall on his hypospray, giving himself a massive overdose of the drug. Bones immediately becomes hysterical and rushes from the bridge. He manages to make his way to the transporter room and beams down to the planet below, closely followed by a landing party led by Kirk.
Once on the planet the landing party discovers ruins of an ancient city - and in the centre of them stands a large, irregular ring structure. The crew fan out and are quickly successful in capturing Bones, who is raving with paranoia as a result of his overdose. Spock scans the ring and declares that it is the source of the time distortion. The ring speaks to the crew, announcing itself as "The Guardian of Forever". It claims to have been there for billions of years - greatly predating the ruins around it - and says it is a doorway that can take them to any time or place. Images appear in the middle of the ring, showing Earths past flowing by at the rate of decades every second.
McCoy breaks free of his guards and dashes through the ring. Instantly the Enterprise vanishes from orbit - all trace of the Federation has been wiped out except for the landing party who are protected by their proximity to the Guardian. Spock deduces that McCoy must have caused some change in the past which has prevented the formation of the Federation. The only way to restore history is to go through the Guardian after him. Kirk decides to go, ordering the others to make further attempts if he fails. Spock attempts to judge the exact moment to jump through, and the pair vanish.
Emerging on 1930's Earth, the pair steal some clothes to blend in with the locals - including a hat to cover Spock's ears. They find a local mission run by a woman named Edith Keeler where they can get some lodgings and work. Kirk is fascinated by Edith, who confidently predicts a future free of poverty in which man will travel the stars. While Spock spends his time attempting to build a computer capable of accessing his tricorder to view the images he recorded from the Guardian, Kirk and Edith fall in love.
Eventually, Bones appears in the city, still delusion. He collapses and is taken to the same mission, where Keeler cares for him. Gradually he recovers, although he is naturally reluctant to accept that he is really in the 1930's! Meanwhile Spock makes progress, and discovers the change McCoy introduced - in the original timeline Keeler was killed in a traffic accident. In the alternate timeline McCoy saved her, and she went on to become an important figure in American politics. Her avocation of peace delayed the entry of the USA into World War II, allowing the Nazis to develop the atom bomb first and so win the war. In order to restore time, Kirk must allow the woman he loves to die.
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Former teacher to be arraigned for sexual misconduct with student
SPOKANE, Wash. - A former Shadle Park High School teacher is set to be arraigned Wednesday on a charge he engaged in a sexual relationship with one of his underage students.
Prosecutors filed a felony charge of first degree sexual misconduct in Spokane Superior Court last week against Murphy, who was an English teacher and track coach at Shadle Park up until his resignation from the Spokane school district before the end of the last school year.
Investigators report the alleged sexual misconduct was not just some momentary lapse of the teacher's judgment. Instead, they said Murphy groomed the victim for his sexual advances for more than a year and used his own home for the sexual encounters on days when his wife wasn't home.
Murphy had taught at Shadle Park for 11 years when, last May, a student complained about Murphy sending her inappropriate text messages.Ryan Murphy arraignment
In a 500-page report given to KXLY last spring, the school district laid out numerous interviews with students, teachers and Murphy himself which showed a pattern of questionable behavior toward female students over a period of several years while he was a teacher at Shadle Park.
On one occasion, he asked a cheerleader to ride alone with him to a state wrestling meet, saying that she was his favorite. He told another cheerleader that she was his favorite. On several occasions he made comments to female students about their clothes, telling one she looked "super hot" and another that, "[if] i were in high school, you'd have a crush on me."
The investigation further revealed Murphy told inappropriate stories in class about fraternity parties and girls he had been with, pictures of him posted to Facebook with his arms wrapped around girls in their prom dresses, valentine's cards from students to Murphy often filled with suggestive or vulgar messages, and a pattern of inappropriate touching of female athletes on the shoulders and legs that made them feel uncomfortable. Over numerous interviews with female student athletes an investigator determined their complaints were credible.
Murphy was once suspended without pay for 10 days for shoving a student in class and shouting profanities. In another incident in 2005, he allowed two students drive his truck. When they rear ended another car, police found liquor in the glove box and the students didn't have driver's licenses. All Murphy received from that incident was a written warning.
When confronted by the district with the investigator's findings, Murphy resigned before the end of the school year.
However last summer, when Murphy started driving by the original complainant's home, she decided to tell police the full extent of her relationship with Murphy. She detailed that Murphy had taken her to the MAC, where he told her about his unhappy marriage and his feelings for the teen. When she was 16, the girl said Murphy lured her to Cliff Park and touched her private parts.
The student said that led to multiple sexual encounters over nearly three years at Murphy's home on Thursdays when his wife was away. He also sent the teen text messages, gifts and letters, many of which she kept and subsequently turned over to investigators.
According to court documents, the victim initially declined to tell investigators about having sex with Murphy because she didn't want his life ruined, she just wanted him to stop.
Murphy is charged with a Class C Felony which, if convicted, would prevent him from ever teaching again.
He is scheduled to be arraigned in Spokane Superior Court Wednesday.
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Smeg 30-Inch Classic Design Double Electric Multifunction Wall Oven - Stainless Steel
With plenty of room, and independent settings, the Smeg 30-Inch Classic Design Double Electric Multifunction Wall Oven (DOU330X) gives you the power to cook any number of foods at the same time. The unit uses 3,535 watts of heating power per oven to effectively broil, bake, or convection cook delicious meals in quick fashion. This double electric oven has a surprisingly fast preheat cycle as short as 8 minutes and can reach temperatures anywhere in a very wide range between 86°F and 554°F. Use the ergonomic controls knobs, touch control panel, and digital LED display to select from 11 operation modes including top and bottom heat, European convection, European convection with top and bottom heat, European convection with top heat, intensive broil, pizza, defrost, bread proving, pyrolitic/self-cleaning as well as useful warming and dehydrate modes. When cooking with convection, each oven uses two (2) powerful 1.3 kW fans to circulate air to create the most even heat distribution possible and cooks food 10% faster than traditional ovens.
This Italian-designed double electric wall oven has a classic appearance and features a fingerprint-proof stainless steel front, so you don't have to worry about it looking good. Each oven's interior cavity has more than enough room with 4.34 cu. ft. of space, and has six (6) rack positions. The door automatically activates the interior light and also turns the oven off when it is opened, and is easily done by use of the professional-style bar handle. When cooking meat, you can use the included meat probe to your advantage so you always know the exact internal temperatures of whatever you're cooking. Additional accessories included with this professional-style oven are one (1) telescopic guide, one (1) grid insert, one (1) enameled tray, and three (3) grid tops.
Maximum Cooking Versatility:The double oven layout gives you the power to simultaneously cook at completely different settings no matter what the demands are
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- 11 operation modes including warming & dehydrateOne (1) telescopic guide
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- Fast preheat cycle (8 to 12 minutes)Input Voltage: 240/208 V/60 Hz
- Automated door-activated oven switch-offPower: 3535 W/16.9 - 17.5 A per oven
- Concealed bake elementWeight: 156.2 lbs each
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Fair Trade Roundup: What Was Cosi's Response to Fair Trade Action?
Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Fair Trade Roundups on 13th July, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week Change.org called on fans of restaurant chain Cosi to tell the company that "life should be delicious" for cocoa farmers who currently live in poverty. So they did. And then guess what Cosi did. Find out what and more in our Fair Trade Roundup.
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Blackberry CEO Rips The iPhone, Calls it "Outdated"
On the eve of the U.S. launch of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, Heins told the AP that he thinks the iPhone's user interface is outdated, forcing users to exit one app before opening another. His comments reflect what he said of the iPhone last week: "The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for this invention was all about is now five years old."
He has a point; although Apple has rolled out plenty of solid features in the last few years, there does seem to be something rather static about the iPhone in an industry where Apple's competitors are trying out every idea they can come up with to innovate and out-maneuver the other guy.
Even so, the iPhone remains popular, and users are far more satisfied with the device than other smartphone users. Heins is no doubt hoping that will all change if BlackBerry can peel users away from iOS and Android.


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Japanese Kit Kats – Kyoto Yatsuhashi
February 8th, 2013 by Rosa
This week's review items come courtesy of Nana and Justin, a couple of college friends of mine who are living, teaching, and blogging in Japan and who are kind enough to mail me Japanese goodies from time to time. I'm closing out the week with a review of a Japanese Kit Kat that is a Kyoto speciality – it's Yatsuhashi flavored!
What is Yatsuhashi, you ask? Wikipedia to the rescue! Apparently, it's a famous regional dessert of Kyoto that's made of glutinous rice flour, sugar, and cinnamon.
The Yatsuhashi Kit Kat had classic Kit Kat's flaky, crisp wafers but was covered with a crumbling white coating. Alas, the coating was falling to pieces by the time the Kit Kats got to me, so I wasn't able to get a good glamour shot.
Nana and Justin and others have sent me Japanese Kit Kats for review that all arrived in pristine shape, so I think the disintegration was due to the fact that the coating was frosting-like, whereas other coatings have been chocolate-based. Still, though it didn't look that great, it tasted awesome!
The white coating melted mostly smoothly on my tongue and tasted like vanilla frosting made from fresh cream. Every once in a while, I hit a crunch from a grain of granulated sugar. The whole thing was topped off by a sweet cinnamon kiss that floated above the sweet and crunchy confection.
It sorted of reminded me of Cinnamon Toast Crunch or a crunchy Snickerdoodle, except that the vanilla frosting coating had a dairy freshness to it that made it even better. Yet again, I must lament that the Kit Kat flavors available to us in the U.S. are pretty lamely tame in comparison to what's available in Japan. An OM.
For alternative takes, check out Eataku's review (which clued me in on the proper name for this treat) or Jim's Chocolate Mission (which helped confirm that I had the right name for these guys).
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History of FOIA
The Freedom of Information Act (5 USC § 552) (FOIA) is one of the most important legal tools citizens and reporters have for furthering government transparency in the United States. And yet, history shows that empowering the citizenry as a check on the government has worried many members of the executive branch, including presidents of both parties, and reminds us that citizens must be constantly vigilant to protect hard-earned transparency rights.
FOIA was originally championed by Democratic Congressman John Moss from California in 1955 after a series of proposals during the Cold War led to a steep a rise in government secrecy. Moss found support from newspaper editors and journalists, but he could not find Republican co-sponsors until years later. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, he received support from a young Representative named Donald Rumsfeld.
Unfortunately, President Lyndon B. Johnson, a fellow Democrat, opposed the bill—in fact, every federal agency and department at the time opposed it. However, when the Senate passed its version of the bill, it became clear that government transparency was going to win out in the end. Moss issued one final report that clarified rules and exemptions for the government agencies, and the House passed the bill soon after (with a vote of 307-0).
With the finalized FOIA bill now on his desk, President Johnson still had his own concerns. On the 4th of July, 1966, Johnson decided not to hold a public event for the signing—which he did for other major bills. Instead, he issued a signing statement when making the bill a law, in which he attempted to undercut the law by focusing on exemptions for national security and FOIA's room for interpretation. Yet the last sentence of his signing statement is the one that endures: "I sign this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society."
Though the 1966 bill was a huge step towards government transparency, FOIA lacked the teeth necessary to force government agencies to comply. It wasn't until 1974, after the Watergate scandal and the tight-lipped Nixon administration, that Congress amended FOIA to become the bill it is today. The Senate and the House introduced many new requirements, timeframes, sanctions for wrongly withheld information, and necessary language waiving fees for journalists and public interest groups.
President Gerald Ford's chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, an early supporter of the original FOIA, and the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Antonin Scalia, pushed the president to veto the FOIA amendments. Ultimately, Ford agreed. In his veto message, Ford called the bill unconstitutional, felt that national secrets were at risk, and thought the ten-day deadline was too burdensome.
The House and Senate would have nothing of this, however, and overrode his veto.
FOIA was further amended in 1976 through the Government in the Sunshine Act to clarify terms and exemptions, and again in 1986 through the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12356, which created new classification rules that made withholding potentially sensitive government information as a response to FOIA requests much easier. A few years later, Reagan's attorney general, Edwin Meese, wrote a memorandum asserting that the government could deny the existence of requested memos, though thankfully, this measure was never adopted.
Many of Reagan's tight restrictions were reversed, or at least loosened, the following decade when President Bill Clinton released many classified documents from the Cold War era for historical and archival purposes.
In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments. In his signing statement, Clinton acknowledged how new technologies, including the Internet, would allow for greater transparency: the amendments required agencies to make documents available in electronic formats and digitally distributed. The response timeframe was also extended from ten to twenty days, though in practice this change had little effect.
But after September 11, 2001, government transparency saw a number of restrictions. President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233, which limited access to former presidential records, drawing ire especially from archivists and librarians. Soon after, FOIA was amended to limit access to governmental records from foreign governments through the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2002.
In 2007, President Bush did sign the OPEN Government Act of 2007, lauded the law, which extended crucial services to alternative journalists and bloggers, defining them as members of the news media. (Journalists get cheaper access to records.) It also established the Office of Government Information Services, which oversees government compliance with FOIA. However, the Bush administration's compliance with FOIA was sharply criticized by open government groups, and was widely regarded as the most secretive administration in history.
On President Obama's first day in office in 2009, he issued a memorandum on FOIA reform and promised to lead "the most transparent administration in history." The reforms were commendable: streamlining agency responses, refusing to use many FOIA exemptions that had been abused in the past, and promising a presumption of declassification.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration has fallen far short of the goals stated in the January 2009 memo, and in many ways has made the government more secretive. Agencies have either been slow to implement changes, and in some cases, they've been outright ignored. The exemptions the President vowed to curtail have been used more than the Bush administration. Classification is also at an all-time high.
In 2012, in a test of the Obama administration's FOIA practices, 19 out of 20 agencies failed to respond in time to a FOIA request sent by Bloomberg News as they were required to by law. This is just the latest reminder that citizens must continue to demand transparency and hold governments accountable when they do not deliver.
For an in-depth legislative history of FOIA with congressional records, check out GWU's National Security Archive page.


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I agree that it is pointless. MHXX would show ONLY that said dog has passed X amount of Master tests. I am putting a MH on my male and once he gets it he will not be running any more Master tests. After I graduated high school I didn't return to take the exit exam every year thereafter.
HRC has the 500 point club, the 1000, the 1500, etc. I need a couple more passes to have 500 points on my male. I'm doing this ONLY because I have never owned a jacket that costs $5,000!
However, to each his own, some individuals just like travelling all over the country and running hunt tests.
Although not a participant, I do agree with the others that if someone wants real bragging rights there is a venue just for that.
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BOONEVILLE – A New Site man was charged with making crystal meth early Sunday morning.
Michael Paul Pounds, 33, of New Site, was charged with possession of meth and manufacturing a controlled substance and his bond was set at $25,000.
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Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel (Yuanjiajie)
- Yuanjiajie Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel is located in the heart of the world's natural heritage Zhangjiajie Forest Park, altitude 1000 meters, surrounded by steep cliffs. It's near the famous spot 'Greatest Natural Bridge (天下第一桥)'.
-If you don't get out of the park you can live there many days with one ticket, so live in Yuanjiajie Youth Hostel is very convenient for your travelling^^. What's more, it is very clean and tidy.We have twin rooms, double rooms and beds dorm(wooden or TaTaMi). We provide delicious local food.
-Exposure to the beautiful landscape you can relax and enjoy everything around. Enjoy nature and experience a return to spiritual journey.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Please note:we are in ZhangJiaJie Forest Park,it's difficult to reach if you arrive ZhangJiaJie city after 2 pm .
【Mina Line】:Airport/Railway stationcity's Bus Stationthe entrance of Zhangjiajie Forest Parkup to the mountainWangqiaotai:Yuanjiajie Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel
【The whole time】:4-5hours
【Suggestion】:First day live in Zhangjiajie Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel (get travel information),the next day to Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel (Yuanjiajie).
一、To city's bus station
Bus prices:RMB1 (RMB2 with air-conditiong in summer)
Bus stop:Citys Bus Station
1、From HeHua Airport(5km): Bus:No.4 /20mins or Taxi:RMB 20-40(not the same as during the day and night)/10mins
2、From Railway-station(4km): Bus: No.5 /15mins or Taxi:RMB10 /3-5mins
3、From Zhangjiajie Zhongtian Int'l Youth Hostel(4km): Bus:No.3or4 /15mins or Taxi:RMB6 /3-5mins
二、To the entrance of Zhangjiajie Forest Park
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2、or Taxi:from Airport/ Railway-station/ city's Bus Station,RMB 80-120 /30-50mins
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1、EntranceGolden Whip Stream(walk 1hour)Lovers from Afar(walk up to the mountain /2hours)Back GardenGreatest Natural Bridge(take free bus /5mins)Wangqiaotai
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Lovers from Afar千里相会
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Wulong Village 乌龙寨
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Yellow Dragon Cave黄龙洞
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Rapha Randonnée
A Randonnée is the cycling holiday of a lifetime. Challenge and inspire yourself on days averaging 150km with 2,500m of climbing, fuelling your passion for the sport on point-to-point adventures through cycling's classic territories across the world. During these Rapha Travel signature departures, team cars and experienced guides will be on hand with local knowledge, a morale-boosting chat or a full bidon every pedal-stroke of the way. And, at the end of the day, you'll simply hand your bike over to our mechanics, who will return them in top condition the next morning. In the evenings all you have to do is enjoy your appointment with our pro-level soigneur, sample the regional wines and cuisine, and relax in our carefully chosen accommodation – Alpine chateaux or luxury Italian guesthouses are the norm.
Later that afternoon, as the rain finally stopped, and I hastened to make it to the next hotel before sunset, I noted a group of Chinese tourists, not far from Hearst Castle, contentedly watching a huge pod of elephant seals massed in an enclosure near the road. Hunched over the bars, I made eye contact with one of the huge beasts, who lay slouched like Jabba the Hut. Why can't I be you? I thought, staring into his baleful gaze. Or why, I further reasoned, couldn't I just be a casual sightseer, gently taking it all in? There is something bizarre, yet intoxicating, in the way cycling juxtaposes these little dramas of pain and suffering amid landscapes of sublime beauty. As Nietzsche wrote in "The Gay Science", "what if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other?"
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Thanks for sharing this, Immersion. Sometimes reading about other people's gear purchases and setups satisfies my desire to buy and explore my own new gear!Keep us posted. Pictures, too.
Very sweet selection of equipment Immersion.I did not know Trident made monitors but why not. 3 way is an excellent choice. Lynx are great converts from what Ive readInteresting that you went for the Dangerous controller and external AD/DA as opposed to an all in one box solution like Metric Halo or a Prism Orpheus. I think you have gone the right way. I use my Metric Halo ULN2 for DAW connectivity and their Pre amps and use external Lavry AD/DA conversion.Mogami is the way to go!Desk is very nice......low profile on the gear racks like a mastering desks.I use an Eventide Eclipse so I have and idea of what your going to be hearing although with much more programming and sonic possibilities .What pre amp will you use or mixing system?Your signal chain is phenomenal, now all you need to do is acoustically treat your studio so that your beautiful gear can be heard accurately.My Matrix 12 is very deep in programming and can be challenging mostly because of its age and depending on the day is a Matrix 9 or better a Matrix 11. The voices can be switch off so its not that much of an issue when a voice chip is cranky. The Matrix 12 / Xpander work best for me when I just dive in deep with no real sound in mind and start patching away......it does help having used a modular synth before because programming The Matrix 12 / Xpander is modular minded under the hood.Excited for you new sounding sonic explorations.....Look forward to hearing them.
Nice gear.
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Lecture focuses on service, Nov. 28
Posted November 15, 2007; 04:52 p.m.
Robert Gordon III, a Princeton graduate alumnus and an executive of the City Year community service organization, will speak on "National Service in the 21st Century: Exploring New Opportunities for Positive Change" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in 16 Robertson Hall.
City Year offers opportunities for 17- to 24-year-olds to engage in yearlong community service activities in cities around the country. Gordon serves as senior vice president for civic leadership, overseeing the recruitment, selection and training of City Year's corps of young leaders.
A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Gordon spent 27 years in the Army before retiring as a full colonel in 2006. He was a co-founder and executive director of Service America, a program that brought together cadets at West Point and AmeriCorps members to address needs in troubled communities and to share ideas on public service, leadership, team building and conflict resolution.
Gordon earned a master's in public affairs in 1989 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is sponsoring his lecture.


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OC asked for some input from BC guys. It seemed we didn't read closely enough and I posted a bunch of stuff there rather than here. Check out that board as there are a couple of links to research and reports that are pertinent to this excellent discussion.
Thanks for the info on the cost of doing inland fish farming. I still think this is the future of fish farming, although I'm very aware that until the far cheaper bay pen operations are regulated and made to quit poluting theinland farms will have a tough time competing. Glad to hear there is at least one being looked at as a possibility is Eastern Washington. Sure hope it can become a reality.
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Sounds like the aquatic verson of "Soilen Green meets Frakenfish"! First line of defense, Hit them in the pocketbook. Tell all your friends and relitives to ask if its "farm raised" at the market, if it is, do not buy, unless from a responseable farmer. There must be some out there, anyone here know of any?, lets here what there doing!
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Scott K, boy that site you posted was really great. You have sportsmen from the left as well as the right posting on the internet in Canada. Down here all of our fishing sites have only strange land rights, right wingers that only fish in camo fatiges.
Gardener, as always with any enviro movement the emotions have to come first. Let us hope that your movement in Scotland will now have the time, funding and political power to help find alternative work for the peoples of the coast.
Many of us hope that the Salmon Farms will be able to be moved inland and into safe holding areas with proper treatment of effluent waste. Not sure that this will work untill the coastal net pen farms have been eliminated and total restrictions on imports are put on over seas farms. That would be hard with WTO policies now the mainstream. Reason we will not see inland fish farming untill the net pen farming is gone is cost.
I did some cost research for just polution control for a starting up farm on lets say one of our rivers in Eastern Washington.
First off one can not treat fish farm effluent with just UV disinfection as the organisms are to large and too many and the amount of UV light banks would be imense to get proper kill rate.
One would have to use chlorine gas disinfection with So2 de-chlor to nuteralize any Cl2 residual going into the river.
If the farms were required to meet pollution standards that city and counties are required to meet to treat thier sewage wastes on a river that has an ESA listing then there would have to be primary, secondary and a polishing treatment before disinfection.
This would have to be done as the farms waste is every bit as organic in content as a wastewater treatment plant. If the fish farm used 1 million gallons of water a day which seems likely for a small to average size farm and used the needed controls that a city wastewater plant does. The cost would be about 5 to 6 million dollars to start with the simplest facilities. The chemical and process control cost yearly not including labor and utilities would run about .5 million dollars a year.
Added cost for a fish farm would come from the amount of hazardous chemicals they use in disease control. These chemicals would not be removed from conventional treatment and would need to be stripped out by air towers or by chemical stripping. This cost would be an added 2 to 3 million dollars to build.
As we can see it will be hard for an inland farm to compete with a net pen farm with virtually no restrictions on it. But I want to point out that inland farms are happening, just this week got a call from Scotland about some pollution control equipment for an inland salmon farm in Eastern Washington that the Scottish company owns. I am looking forward to working with this company and seeing if we can make it cost effective and enviromentally safe.
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OC and Flytier, the trouble is that the fish farms were originally welcomed by many, including angling interests. The places where they are mostly found, notably the West coasts of Scotland and Ireland, are very poor areas where there is little industry and unemployment is a serious problem. Traditionally, crofting/subsistence farming was the principal occupation, but with changes in farming (and specifically the collapse in the wool market worldwide), it is increasingly hard to make any sort of living thereby, let alone one that you might regard as meeting 21st Century standards. There is a serious problem of depopulation, with communities dropping below the critical mass required to maintain schools and services, consequent loss of cultural heritage etc. So fish farming was (and is) regarded by many as a positive development in these areas.
Furthermore many people believed that aquaculture would relieve some pressure on wild fish stocks. As you are no doubt aware, there are efforts being made to stop the netting of salmon round the coasts of the British Isles, as well as on the high seas. It stands to reason that a ready supply of cheap, farmed fish would help to lower the price of wild salmon and make netting operations less attractive. It would have the further effect of reducing large-scale poaching, which remains a problem in some places.
So there were good reasons to welcome the fish farms initially. The problem is now that they do provide a source of income to poor areas; one which, even given the prices we have to pay for our fishing here, would probably never be supplanted by revenue from increases in fishing-related tourism. The actual job figures may be open to debate, but its hard to argue for the total cessation of an industry that is now perceived as one of the economic lynchpins of these areas. One concern, for me, about the anti-farm protests is that they dont yet seem able to offer a viable alternative to the existing system, and without that any campaign seems rather hollow. This, I guess, is why Bruce Sandison is currently concentrating on trying to persuade consumers to buy alternatives to farmed salmon (eg Alaskan wild salmon); at the same time conservation bodies are working with the fish farmers to see if a less damaging system of aquaculture can be worked out.
Thanks for the info and the perspective from your part of the world. Maybe, just maybe we fishermen who care about the resource will be able to get the policians to see and acknowldge that their is a problem. After which they will do something, resulting in improved fisheries and the removal of these threats.
I wholeheartedly agree that they only safe way to farm fish is in inland tanks or lined ponds with all waste water treated before being allowed into a waterway.
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Thanks Gardener,
The info is great and the links are perfect.
Do you have any idea how fish farms are even able to get their foot in the door in places such as Scotland? I believe you have limited amounts of money your politicians can recieve to campian their bid for office so how does it happen?
Gardener: One heck of a read!
Keep your eye's posted for more of this kind of information. The web connect really added some additional perspective.
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This issue is certainly a hot topic in UK circles, and one I feel very strongly about - apologies for not picking it up here earlier, but I don't normally look at this section. Apologies too for what will be a long post.
Perhaps the main issue currently is the question of sea lice and their effect on sea trout (sea-run browns), although there are other worrying consequences of this industry also.
Sea lice occur naturally in coastal waters, and attach themselves to salmon returning from their open-ocean feeding grounds. The concentration of salmon in an inshore farm leads to huge numbers of lice and their eggs. A few lice on an adult salmon aren't a problem. However, the lice also attack salmon and sea trout smolts after they decend the rivers to go to sea. These small fish are very vulnerable, and it is at this stage that the damage is caused. Smolts have been found, severely emaciated and infested in some cases with hundreds of lice which quite literally eat them away. It is sea trout in particular that are vulnerable because they feed in coastal waters and so the lice persist on them. By contrast, once salmon have 'run the gauntlet' they go to the open sea where lice are not a problem, although this is not to say that there is not significant mortality of salmon smolts as well as they pass through. Once famous sea trout fisheries like Loch Maree in Scotland and Delphi in Ireland have seen their numbers reduced to a fraction of their former catches. There appears to be a direct link between the placing of salmon cages near a river mouth and fall-off of sea trout numbers - and when cages are 'fallowed', numbers improve again. Fishermen have seen this correlation for years, although the fish farmers have only just acknowledged that a link exists at all.
Sea lice are controlled in salmon farms using chemicals such as 'Nuvan'. This is highly toxic to other marine life (as well as carcinogenic to humans), and has been linked to severe fall-offs in invertebrate life around salmon cages.
Because salmon cages are generally located in areas of low tidal activity and little current, waste products (principally excrement and uneaten food) accumulate on the sea bed under the cages. This leads to areas of the sea bed being poisoned, and can cause the blooms of toxic algae which affect, for example, shellfish. In extreme cases it results in 'red tides' which kill all marine animal life across a wide area.
There are other diseases and parasites associated with farmed salmon. Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) and Gyrodactylus salaris are two. These can be transferred into rivers. A number of Norwegian rivers have been treated for Gyrodactylus - this basically involves pouring poison into the headstreams to kill every fish in the river. The rivers can then be restocked with healthy fish. This, so far as I am aware, is the only way of eradicating this parasite once it is present in a system.
Occasionally large numbers of fish escape from farms. They will run up the nearest river and attempt to spawn. We are coming to understand more about the genetic integrity of individual populations of fish, adapted by natural selection over many generations to best suit their particular home river. And it is clear that a large number of 'alien' spawners in a river with already reduced numbers of native fish could dilute the genetic integrity of a population. These escaped fish can also carry the diseases mentioned above into the rivers.
There are a few deep water, open sea farms that get round some of the problems, but they all dump chemicals and waste into the sea in a way that would cause an outcry if it occurred on land. The only responsible way to farm fish is in inland tanks or ponds, with all waste water treated before being returned to its source. I'm afraid it's very much a case of 'out of sight, out of mind' as far as what happens in the sea is concerned.
There is a small campaign running currently to bring the problem of salmon farms to peoples' attention, led by well-known Scottish fisherman and writer Bruce Sandison. For more information, have a look at http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org/
Thanks Inland,
I guess you can run but you can't hide for long. I wonder if they have a Salmon run in the rivers of N. Korea.
With the history of salmon farms, and the destruction they are still causing, it seems logical that they are a contributing factor in this recent decline. Possibly more so than we know.
But, just to leave you in a good mood- Russia is not exempt from the problem. Fishing the Kola's E. Litza this past year, my partner landed a bright escapee of about 18#'s. Probably from the Norwegian farms.
I think Ed Ward may have it right about Puget Sound Steelhead smolts migrating north up the coast and by all those wonderful Salmon farms. Last couple of years have been asking marine scientists if this could be so. Answer I get is not enough study done on smolt migration but what has been done shows that Puget Sound smolts go directly and quickley out the strait. That sounds fishy to me. How can we have 3 good years of ocean conditions with more than enough forage fish for food supply and not be getting our steelhead back?
Norway is not the only place where fish farms have killed off a large population of native fish. One of Ireland's coasts lost it's run of fish due to sea lice infestation from fish farms. On our east coast we had wild Alantic Salmon coming back quite well for years but have crashed in the last 5 years or so. Could that have anything to do with Maine and New Brunswick increasing their fish farming opportunities?
Fish farming should be an international crime and those very wealthy investors from Norway, Japan and the rest of the world should be brought to justice. They know exactly what fish farms are doing to the worlds oceans and its native peoples who have to live by these farms and can no longer feed their families due to the polution, removal of habitat and the disease of native fish. What do you want to bet that a lot of these investors no longer fish their home rivers in Norway because fishing sucks but spend many of fine day fishing Alantic Salmon now in Russia far away from the devistation their wealth and political power have created.
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last winter Ed Ward mentioned the thought that puget sound steelhead smolts migrate up th coast past those B.C. fish farms. one theory on the low returns for the "inside" rivers is the sea lice problem as they migrate out to sea. thanks for that very well done all inclusive piece on the problems. i used to be encouraged that we could stop chasing fish allover the seas and eliminate all the bycatch problems. now i am a firm believer in raising these fish where there are no resident wild populations.too much bad evidence from Norway. reminds me of how we were all seduced by fish ladders and hatcheries that suposedly would solve our problems.
Bob,i have not read that book yet.dont need that depression at present.however, i presently see our rivers as healthier than in times past.i see it as rivers without fish. lots of prime redd gravel without redds.the fish cant make it back.
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According to Brian Peckford himself, Frank Moores called him "Pecky."
What Peckford may not know is that some media types had a nickname for him as well: we casually referred to him as "The Pecker."
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Whatever he was called — Pecky, The Pecker, Premier Peckford, A. Brian Peckford, or just plain old Brian — he had the impact of a heavyweight on the affairs of Newfoundland.
And I sensed after reading his recently released memoir that Peckford believes his contribution to the province has not been adequately recognized.
Obviously, that's what you'd expect from any politician trying to polish his reputation.
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The book "Some Day The Sun Will Shine and Have Not Will Be No More" is a look back at a substantial chunk of Peckford's life: his childhood and early adulthood, including his relatively brief careers as a teacher and welfare officer (long enough, though, to accumulate a wealth of entertaining yarns).
There are his days as a neophyte politician and election as an MHA; his time as a cabinet minister under Moores; his dramatic win at the 1979 Tory leadership convention; and most of his 10 years in power, a decade of ups and downs, punctuated big time by the signing of the Atlantic Accord, the federal-provincial agreement that laid the groundwork for Newfoundland's lucrative take from offshore development and production.
But Peckford seemed to lose his way at some point in his tenure as premier (cigars and limos might refresh some memories), and, unfortunately for the province and for his reputation, the lack of common and political sense was accentuated by the financial and public relations disaster that was Sprung. (If you're looking for Peckford's take in his book on the fiasco, you're out of luck; but Peckford is the consummate politician, guided first and foremost by a fairly large ego, so I'm sure if and when he writes about Sprung, it'll be with a spin to end all spins).
There's much more to Peckford than being brainwashed and hoodwinked, as many saw it, by Sprung the Father and Sprung the Daughter.
As a newspaper and radio reporter in the '70s and '80s, I got to know Peckford fairly well and found him to be fascinating and engaging at times, but also overbearing at other times — and, like the bulk of politicians, sensitive to a fault to criticism.
But I'd be dishonest if I didn't admit that when he first started to give speeches in the mid '70s as mines and energy minister and later as premier, I had to occasionally fight the urge to let go a mild cheer from the press gallery (a definite no-no, especially for a purist like me who felt all journalists should maintain a healthy distance from the politicians they were covering) when he launched into one of his evangelical speeches telling Ottawa that Newfoundland was sick to death of being viewed as the poor second cousin of Confederation.
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Peckford worked diligently to make some sense of the perpetually troubled fishery, he created the province's own oil and gas regulations and tried to correct the disgustingly inequitable Upper Churchill Contract and develop the Lower Churchill.
Most significantly, no one can deny the work he and his administration put into ensuring Newfoundland obtained its justifiable fair share of benefits from the offshore (through bitter negotiations, the courts and even a "day of mourning").
Along the way, there were people he came to respect and admire: Cabot Martin, Bill Marshall, Gerry Ottenheimer and Brian Mulroney (you have to hold your nose to read the sections on the Tory PM). And there were those he reviled: Pierre Trudeau, Marc Lalonde and even fellow Newfoundlander John Crosbie.
(An aside here, if I could be permitted to drift back to the thought process of a television producer: wouldn't it just be a grand piece of television journalism to get Peckford and Crosbie isolated in a cabin on the Gander River, loosened up with a few drinks, and get them debating recent Newfoundland history while the cameras rolled into the wee morning hours? Then, to add some colour, the two political warhorses could be videotaped catching salmon for a day or two, still arguing as they fished.)
But back to the point at hand: there's no doubting the fact that Peckford ate, drank and slept Newfoundland and its well-being for nearly 20 years.
And what may be almost as important as his attempts to get the "sun to shine" was the fact that he played a role in the renaissance of the proud psyche of Newfoundland that took place in the '70s and '80s, one that allowed the province to stand up and tell mainland Canadians treating this place in a patronizing and condescending way to go to hell.
There was, of course, the artistic and cultural army, the likes of Codco, Gerry Squires, Figgy Duff, Rising Tide Theatre, and many more. But Peckford was the general of the political army.
I always found it passing strange that Danny Williams received so much credit for revitalizing Newfoundland pride; he certainly personified the elimination of subservience to mainland Canada, but he was hardly its creator.
When Figgy Duff was singing the best of original Newfoundland's songs, and Codco was mocking and destroying in gut-busting fashion the archaic mainland view of this place, Peckford was ordering Pierre Trudeau: "do not put words in my mouth, sir. I am quite capable of speaking for myself."
He wants his due.
And, notwithstanding the foolish and enormously expensive Sprung, a fair argument could perhaps be made that many more cheers than boos should be directed his way.
One thing's for certain: our present premier could learn a lesson or two from The Pecker.
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