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As to your 1st question. Can't say exactly the sources since it was about 4-5 years ago. I do know I first went to the PSU site to see how the accusations were handled. I remember for sure that the committee was composed exclusively of PSU professors. Can't say for sure but I do believe that it also gave the names of the scientists who were not allowed to testify concerning the allegations made against Dr. Mann. I may have found that at a different site. I do know that not only did those scientists disagree with the findings, they also considered his violations of protocol but also his attempt to delay the publishing of true data and his attempt to delete that data which was contrary to his findings, to be grounds for not only censure but dismissal from the university. The tenor of their response to the committee conveyed a high level of anger.
The findings of the committee was that the errors were attributed to modeling. The committee never address nor commented on the charges of deliberately deleting pertinent data nor his refusal to provide data. Those who were not allowed to testify considered the committee of PSU professors a stacked committee and considered the refusal of the committee to allow them to testify, to be nothing but a whitewash. Personally I suspect that the gov. is at the least the provider of by far the greatest if not all money for research. I will talk about this later.
As to Dr. Jones, when he resigned, his statement did convey an admission of impriortity,and that the data did not justify the conclusions. As I said, he did admit given the data, that the global temperature was as great or greater during medieval times than the present, something the conclusions drawn by Dr. Mann knowingly left out. I do have more resspect for Dr. jones since he admitted his conduct, but little for Dr. Mann who continues to make excuses for his actions.
As to your last question, I think you and I would agree that by far the greatest amount of money provided for the research is provided by the government. Many times on this very thread, it has been stated that HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of scientists have come to the conclusion that man made global warming is the significant cause. I gave you the example of Mt St Helens which pales in complexity to global warming and the scientists were wrong. Would not LOGIC tell you that if the gov. provided HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of scientists with grants to study global warming that AT LEAST ONE would come up with a different conclusion given its complexity?? Don't you think that AT LEAST ONE SCIENTIST given a grant would screw up and come to the wrong conclusion? Or would you think that only those scientists who had already formed an opinion concerning global warming, would be those who got the grants?
As to the O J Simpson remark, I watched most of the trial. Two things I thought interesting. His attorneys would have you believe that the police imediately substituted OJ's blood for that found on the gate. I guess the jury thought the police immediately wanted to charge OJ and let the murderer get away. Another interesting thing I saw was the charade of the gloves. If you were to look closely you would have seen that he first put on latex gloves only part way on so that the fingers of the latex gloves only went partially to the hand. If the leather gloves had been the size of a footbal, there still would be no way that he could have put them on properly. I guess the jury bought all of that. By the same token, anyone who buys significant man made global wareming or denies it absolutely, is in actuallity just guessing.


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Charlie Elk: I came to appreciate turkeys are birds with little to no thought process or memory and a lot of their days are spent wandering around on a trial and error basis.
I did not want to hijack the other thread, but I wanted to comment on this. Charlie, that is a profound statement. I am not sure I wholly agree, or agree with your other premise; that being that turkeys mostly random in their activities. On the other hand, I have stopped believing that there is a great intelligence lurking between a turkey's eyes. Let me throw out my opinions on the subject, and perhaps we can start a dialogue.
First off: Do turkeys have a memory? I would venture to say they do, but it is not a good one. My strongest example of how poor it can be is that I can sit on the back of camp and see the same gobblers come down the same road at sundown. They get down to a particular spot and see me out sipping my cocktail and run back the way they came. Every instance seems to be a wholly new experience for them. If they spy me on Monday, they are not wary on Tuesday or Wednesday. This was a Eureka moment for me. It took a couple of seasons for me to realize what I was seeing. Charlie, you seem to be right.
On the other hand, I can tell you that turkeys do get shy to a blind. If you miss a gob, you probably will not see him anywhere near that blind for the rest of season. Go figure.
Second: Are turkey's movements governed by anything beyond randomness? Yes, but I am not sure exactly what that is. I have been hunting the same property since 2002. During that time, I have seen several generations of birds come and go. There are definite patterns to their movements that span generations. I do not believe that is a sign of culture-- they are not imparting turkey wisdom to each other. However, I do see a sameness to it. A gobbler that struts in a certain pasture in early afternoon can be hunted pretty much the same as his grandfather who strutted the same pasture 5 years ago.
Now, I can see that the random idea does explain this up to a point. Turkeys respond to the immediate environment, and certain landforms seem to funnel them into remarkably similar behavior-- day to day as well as generation to generation. However, I see things that I cannot explain. Why this pasture and not that? Why do I never see turkeys here vs. there? Why do gobblers to the east of a certain blind always circle to the south before coming in and never come straight in?
Third: Can turkeys become call shy? I would say yes, but I do not think it is purely from over-exposure to calls. I am a hunter that spends 100% of his time hunting the same 200 acres all season. My experience has been that I must frequently change out my calls over the season in order to be successful. It is not a for-sure thing. In fact, I did very little to change my calls after the first week this past season, but there were fewer times this past year that I actually had gobblers respond to me. In most years, I find that I have to change the physical call as well as the method in order to get a positive response from gobblers. In a lot of circumstances, I know I am calling to the same gobbler. At some point in the season what got him hot the first week ceases to be effective. It may be a lot of things, but I believe that part of it is the gobbler has come to the call previously and been frustrated that a hen did not present herself for breeding.
Now, how can a reconcile all this into a cohesive view? On the one hand, gobblers can't seem to remember that I sit out back every evening, but on the other hand, they can remember that some hen calls lead to grief and frustration while others don't, or that if they stray to close to a certain spot in a fence line they'll get a loud noise and the sting of a stray pellet? Look, after 30-some years, I still see myself as a beginner. I don't have as many answers as questions. I'm just saying.

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Because of my interest in family history, a lot of old family photos have come into my possession. Some have identifications written on them, but there are many with no clue at all. About some, I have my suspicions. I study them, searching for clues or family resemblances. I ask around, but most of the people who would know for sure are gone now. Once in awhile I get lucky.
I hope to get lucky with the posting of The Unidentified!, a slideshow of old family photos I haven't been able to identify. It's possible someone else has pictures of these same people or places, and maybe theirs are identified. I'll add more images to this slideshow as time permits.
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Track Even this relatively large shrew seldom leaves recognizable tracks. Typical track is a series of tiny dots in mud at the edge of streamside rocks.
Sign Tracks and other signs are of limited usefulness in identifying shrews, both elements are tiny and not distinctive. Burrows are often so small they might be mistaken for tunnels of large earthworms, and prints are often blurred dots. Those interested in identifying the whereabouts of shrews should look for tiny burrow openings in the ground, in a bank, or in moss, or for runways of freshly disturbed soil under a log or under the lip of a bank.


text: Just a late night vent. For those of you who order from the little catalogs that arrive in the mail or you order online from them watch out. I am being charged $3.99 per month for some 'plan' which I did not okay. Needless to say I got ugly with the man today. Seems they would rather charge me the $3.99 per month for this 'plan' than they would to sell clothing to me. I will not mention a name for fear of being sued but I will tell you that there are 4 of these ladies wear catalog companies which appear to be connected. They call you on the phone shortly after you get your order and offer this 'plan'. They all so far have sounded like people from the USA.


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I can give a funny example from past a few days. I was doing an research on Voice Over recording options here and there, quoting companies and people for the project we do. Some of them had give me their price, some not, some asked for more details etc... I've made my choice and machine started to go on... And after a couple of days one of the companies I quoted but not selected started to... renegotiate the price. They were asking for 'my preferred price' and some other things. They finished on "we will overbid anyone with 30%". Quite interesting, somewhat funny, spoken a bit idly... but my point is that the process of fixing the price is dynamic and when people starts to bid each other it can end far below a real value of their work.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission has certified the first case resolved in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), a pilot program initiated in early October to offer respondents another option for settling complaints that come before the Commission. The programs goal is to expedite resolution of some enforcement matters, reduce the cost of processing complaints, and enhance overall FEC enforcement.
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It was time to take it up a notch. Two sold out cruises last year gave ease and comfort to a third sell out on Jam Cruise 3. This year, we headed to the Caribbean from January 6-10, 2005 aboard Carnival's Celebration...what a perfect name for an ideal event! 20 bands and 5 DJ's plus 1800 passengers marveled for days on end, dancing, playing, sitting in, enjoying every second. It was our biggest to date, but the fun had only begun.
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Imagine taking a vacation and snapping a picture of a unique rock formation by the side of a hiking trail. Now, it's five years later, and the photo brings back memories of that day, the feel of the rocks underfoot, the clarity of the sky.
That might be the experience of the traveler who took the photograph, but how would the same picture affect someone who wasn't on the trail that fine day?
"It's a rare moment when a piece of art can convey that," Sylvain Chamberlain said.
He's a full-time artist, who spends his time on a fine line. On the one hand, he's after a personal vision, something that calls to and challenges him.
On the other sits the viewer, who eventually looks at the work and, in the best of cases, feels something.
"It's not about someone looking at a painting and saying, 'You're so cool,' the 55-year-old said, while sitting on the back porch of his home on 15 acres in Old Union Community in southern Lee County. "It's about saying, 'This makes me feel so cool.' That's everything to me."
His is a push-and-pull process, where thinking gives way to intuition, only to be replaced by thinking again. But those dual frames of mind are geared toward the same goal, a creation that isn't confined to a canvas.
"He's very passionate about it. For him, it's personal," said Kim Caron, who represents Chamberlain's work at Caron Gallery in downtown Tupelo. "His art is part of him. It's always been."
Actually, chemistry is integral to the Montreal native, too.
"Chemistry was the thing that fell out of my head," he said. "I didn't have to think about it."
That's how he found himself working for oil companies in the late 1970s and early '80s. Even after the bottom fell out of the oil market, he indulged his high-tech and – let's be honest – money-making side.
Things changed when his sister, Diane, developed leukemia.
"During one of the moments I had alone with her, she basically kicked my butt," Chamberlain said. "She woke me. In her words, she couldn't do what I did by accident after four years of training. She asked why I wasn't painting? Why I wasn't focused on art?"
Diane didn't survive the cancer, but her influence took hold.
"At that time, I quit everything else and threw myself into art and drawing," said Chamberlain, who was 30 and living in Southern California. "A lot of crap came out at first. I guess you have to do that."
He took low-stress, pay-the-rent jobs, so he could focus on his new vocation. He eventually developed a following, and held Bohemian parties that drew doctors and lawyers and such to see his art.
But it wasn't a perfect picture.
"In 1999, I had been suffering for several years from nerve damage and had what turned out to be two herniated discs in my neck. My arm was shaking and I had sleep apnea," he said. "I didn't think I would survive the surgery. I really expected to die."
He awoke from anesthesia with what he called "an odd feeling, the absence of pain."
"My very next thought was, What do I do now? I'd wiped my slate clean," he said. "I felt I could start again."
He was ready to escape crowded Southern California, and followed a waitress to Cincinnati, then to Tupelo. The relationship with the waitress didn't last, but he's spent nearly 13 years in Tupelo.
"I was pretty uptight. I needed a break," he said, "and it's so calming here. There's space."
At work, at home
Relaxing music from the Near and Far East plays when he paints in a den that's been converted into a studio. He's often barefoot on a splattered drop cloth. Sometimes it sounds as though he's scratching acrylic paint into place. Other times, his brush strokes can't be heard over the soft music.
The home overflows with art, and most of it is his own. A cheeseburger painting hangs near the kitchen, over the TV there's a painting of a Diet Coke can, and another wall features an image of crumpled-up paper. Ten finished paintings of clowns and other subjects sit on the floor and lean against a wall.
But it's doubtful a new visitor would notice any of those paintings at first because of the 4-feet-by-5-feet portraits that currently dominate Chamberlain's home and attention.
"I don't consider it portraiture because I'm always trying to convey a story or implied narrative in my work," he said. "It stays a painting. I have no desire to take the role of a camera."
Still, each of the large faces with piercing, confrontational eyes starts with a photograph.
"I'll draw a layout then put the photograph away and work on that," he said. "I might go back to the photo if I have a problem. 'What is it about the eyes that I'm not getting?' Then I'll throw it away. I like to paint things the way I think they are, not necessarily the way they are."
An up-close look reveals the depth of Chamberlain's brush strokes. To step back is to bring the painting into a different focus.
"I've always been a fan of his work, but this series is so engaging," said Kit Stafford, executive director of the GumTree Museum of Art. "It's internal, almost, the relationship with the viewer."
Chamberlain has 30 faces to complete by the end of 2013 for an exhibition at the GumTree. Stafford's excited about seeing the finished pieces on display, even though she's among the models.
"I love the other pieces he's done," she said, "but my face is hard to take in. That's kind of uncomfortable."
Among the faces is a rendition of Chamberlain's own, complete with hair coming off the ears. It's not 100 percent flattering, but there's no doubt that's Sylvain Chamberlain, or a version of him, staring back at the viewer.
"I'm looking at you like a big What? Or Who? Why? When?" he said.
He understands people might find the pieces challenging. As his girlfriend, Sandra Hendrix, said, "Who would want to put that on their wall?"
He understands the comment, and also does more accessible work. A series of dog portraits have been successful at the Caron Gallery. They're bread-and-butter paintings meant to appeal to a large audience, but Chamberlain takes them seriously.
"I'm going to picture that dog with something of that question of the universe," he said. "If you notice, the dogs all have direct gazes. All of those dogs are looking at you straight in the eye and giving you that dog look. I see something life-affirming there."
Chamberlain's dog, Chloe, is unable to offer up a critique. But judging by the way he pets her and she kisses him, she couldn't be upset.
The hope with the dog paintings is the same with the others: To touch something in the viewer.
An experience in California made that idea clear. A girlfriend was selling her condo and there'd been an open house. She and Chamberlain returned to find one man hadn't left. They decided to let him look, and after dinner realized, "Oh, he's still here."
Chamberlain found the man in front of a painting that depicted a nude man with his head down, one hand in his lap and the other hanging.
"He was balling his eyes out. He said, 'I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.' Basically, he said it was time travel. He went back to his homeland. He said that was a daily scene in India. People with their hands that way, they had given up," Chamberlain said. "He couldn't get over that emotional grab it had on him. It ended up knocking him for a loop. He was visually shaken.
"I don't take responsibility for having done that to him. But just knowing I had created something from utter despair inside myself and it touched him on a deeply personal level … It had nothing to do with me, but …"
For Chamberlain, it was a truth conveyed, a moment felt – by him and the viewer.
"That's what cemented my relationship with art," he said.


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Incorporating melodies by Tschaikovsky, Stravinsky's divertimento is the passionate yet mysteriously foreboding groundwork for Balanchine's ephemeral choreography.
In 1937 Balanchine choreographed the full-length ballet for his American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House entitled The Fairy's Kiss (also known as Le Baiser de la Fée), and set to Stravinsky's score. For the 1972 Stravinsky Festival Balanchine created an entirely new work that used excerpts from the concert suite Stravinsky created in 1934. In 1974 Balanchine added a final movement to the ballet which is the version performed today as Divertimento from 'Le Baiser de la Fée.'


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Bart Hoebel, a Princeton professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute who became internationally known for his research on food addiction, died of cancer Saturday, June 11, in Princeton. He was 76.
A member of the Princeton faculty since 1963, Hoebel's interest in understanding how the brain rewards behavior encompassed a breadth of research and led to discoveries in the areas of eating disorders and obesity, addiction, alcohol consumption and depression. He pioneered studies into the mental rewards of eating, and his research on sugar addiction in rats generated worldwide attention for its possible public health applications.


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Especially Knut Frostad, CEO of the Volvo Ocean Race, who had some very pithy observations on offer. Quite clearly – and, fair enough, quite unashamedly – Frostad draws a clear line between the VOR as an adrenalin-fuelled race for super-tough sailors driving even tougher boats, and the VOR as a vehicle for corporate sponsors to showcase their brands and their image to the consumer-driven economies of the world.
'The VOR is presently very much driven out of Europe. That's where the visibility and understanding of sailing as a competitive sport lies. The economics have been very bad in Europe lately, so we have sponsors who are running marketing programmes who want to exposure in emerging markets – and right now that especially means China.'
It's not a cheap exercise to fund an entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, and VOR have been at pains of late to try to cap the costs in order to attract more sponsors. Very recently, it's not been a question of whether it costs €10m or €5m to run an entry – it's just the fact that it costs anything at all. Frostad says, 'Ideally, we'd like 8 or 10 boats in the race. If the numbers get bigger than that then it would start to become unmanageable. The truth is that there are is a limited number of people (sailors) who are qualified to do this race, and we also have to make room for the younger newcomers. Yes, we'd like to see more countries, and more teams entered, and we have looked at lots of different ways to keep the 'entry fee' down – from one design boats to re-using 'second hand' boats.
Cost reduction
Frostad explains that in the recent past there has been a huge difference between the 'cost of participating' and the 'cost of winning'. 'The last VOR, the cost of winning was very, very high. Eventually that kills the fleet – so we re-wrote the rules to stop two-boat campaigns, we limited the number of training days permitted on the water (to stop the setting up of long-term 45-man training camps), and we capped the number of sails a team can build at 15. Last time, the winning team built more than 100 sails… with the changes you can't buy a win this time round. Five out of the six teams could reasonably start this edition of the VOR and be in with a chance of winning'. (ie. all those with a new boat – Team Sanya has a second-hand boat).
Some sponsors have discovered that multi-race programmes are cost effective – imagine how much gets thrown away at the end of a race in terms of knowledge, of 'intellectual assets'… not to mention the staff and human assets, and all the material assets. Recycle that just once, and a second crack at an entry starts to make a lot of sense. Among this race's competitors, Groupama and Abu Dhabi have committed to a two-race programme, and we have received expressions of interest from other parties already.'
Stopovers are expensive, but they assist in generating the return that justifies the corporate expenditure in the first place. They are where the sponsors get to showcase their products and services. Once upon a time there were just four stops – start/finish in the UK, then Cape Town (South Africa), Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, and then back to England. This edition of the race involves no less than 10 ports – the start in Alicante (Spain), Cape Town, Abu Dhabi (UAE), Sanya (China), Auckland (NZ), Itajai (Brazil), Miami (USA), Lisbon (Portugal), Lorient (France) and finish at Galway (Ireland).
'Different sponsors have different markets, but Sanya is the one place where every single sponsor is bringing in corporate guests, more than 10,000 of them in total. China seems to tick all the boxes.' [Remarkably, fully half the sponsors will have no more than a token presence in Auckland when the race fleet gets to New Zealand at the end of the next leg]. Camper, name sponsors of the Emirates Team New Zealand entry, will have brought over 2,000 visitors, staff and clients to Sanya, and run a corporate conference on the back of their presence in China.
Volvo – we're talking trucks and diggers, here, not cars (and certainly not boats!) – themselves as title sponsor are making their presence felt with something like 6,500 visitors. The Pro/Am and Inport Racing weekend in Sanya will be attended by double the numbers of visitors of any other stopover, ever, and double the number that went through the proverbial turnstiles in Alicante before the start of the race.
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The last VOR was the first race to move away from the 'traditional' Great Capes to port format, and move up. Literally, into new sailing (and marketing) territory. 'India, Singapore and Qingdao were all completely new stops for a global sailing event. But it's not only about chasing the marketing opportunities, its also about growing the global sailing audience. Some places are just ready for takeoff – maybe not India quite yet, but certainly China. It is very noticeable that the media in Sanya are much more knowledgeable than they were in Qingdao just a couple of years ago. China hasn't quite got the 'sponsorship thing' yet, but that's probably because there are no internationally-recognised Chinese brands yet, but that'll come. The Middle East countries understand it – look at Emirates Airlines sponsoring ETNZ, Qatar bidding for the World Cup, and so on…'
Right now, 174 ports have filed 'Expression of Interest' for the next Volvo Ocean Race. 'Realistically, that will come down to about 80 locations by May next year.' But deciding where to send the race is not just a matter of calling for bids and then handing the stopover to the place with the biggest wallet. 'There are plenty of places we'd like to go to, but they have to tick all the boxes – marinas capable of handling 70' deep-keel race boats, with good hardstanding facilities, space for a race village, and don't forget geography – it was a fairly negative experience getting the fleet up north to Qingdao during the last race, it's more than a bumpy ride to get through the Luzon Strait at the beginning of the Sanya-Auckland leg. So who wants to go even further north to Shanghai, Korea, or Japan – which has to happen in the winter if boats are going to do the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn leg in the southern hemisphere summer? If the fleet went to Shanghai ('We'd love to take the race to Shanghai') where would they moor and where would they conduct their in-port racing? In front of The Bund? Probably not.
'So all in all we are very happy to be in Sanya! When we looked at the location originally, there was nothing here, which was a bit alarming. But the Serenity Marina has turned out well – it was all built in less than 24 months. We had some input with the designers, Camper & Nicholson, and the result is first class. It's not right in the middle of town, so we were concerned that attendance at the race village would be reduced, but there have been an average of 10,000+ people here on a weekday and a max of 26,000 one day last weekend.' Frostad reminds us, 'people in China actually like coming to Sanya in the middle of the winter – it's cold in Beijing, and tropical here right now!'
The Singapore experience
It doesn't always work out as well. 'Singapore was not as good a location as we had hoped,' remembers Frostad. 'It was inside a private club, so it was perceived as 'closed' to the general public. And it was 'miles away' from the centre of town. Actually, it's not very far at all, but Singaporeans are quite spoiled for events – they've got an FI race right on their doorstep - so walking across a bridge to get to Sentosa was a real hurdle! And the area for the inport races was less than ideal. And there wasn't much wind. Yes, we learnt a lot about location that time.'
Frostad would very much like to take the VOR to Hong Kong. 'As a location, it has everything going for it. It is in China, and it has a mature sailing population.' VOR has already had preliminary discussions with Hong Kong, and one suggestion was to put place the event on one of the outlying islands. 'That wouldn't work – it has to happen in Victoria Harbour, out of Central or Tsim Sha Tsui. We'd need the backdrop of Hong Kong.' And what is needed first of all is a champion for the cause. 'We need someone new and fresh, to wear the hat and drive the programme' as Frostad puts it. 'Hong Kong is attractive to foreign companies, and it is an international city. It has an established image as one of the homes of luxury brands.' (Think of the fashion ads you see in airports – 'London. New York. Paris. Hong Kong'). Prior to the last Volvo race, there were three Chinese cities beating down the doors to be included in the schedule. And Hong Kong. 'The other locations were begging us to visit – they promised to lay on anything we wanted. At the same time, Hong Kong was looking at hosting a regatta in the Louis Vuitton Series, but we felt that they weren't trying too hard to attract both events. By the time the LV event had fizzed out, the VOR had already made stopover decisions.'
A 'very narrow niche sport,'
Frostad concedes that sailing is a 'very narrow niche sport,' but goes on to point out that the VOR has consciously cultivated a 'high end visual impact image. The best photography, the best tv presentation – we now have tv channels running our programmes just because they think the material looks good. There are plenty of sailing races which involve boats that you would not put on the front cover of a magazine… they are white, and they have logos splashed all over them. That's not good enough for the VOR – we work hard on our identity, and require the competitors and teams to do so as well.'
Right now all six boats in the Volvo fleet are approaching the southern tip of Taiwan, preparing to exit the Luzon Strait and start the long 'drop' to the south east that will take them past the Philippines and Papua New Guinea and eventually between Honiara and Fiji and down to New Zealand. Probably not one of the racing sailors is thinking too much about anything except how to make the boat go faster, and when the next freeze-dry curry is due. Or maybe how not to be seasick.
But for every one of those members of what is undoubtedly one of the most exclusive offshore sailing clubs in the world, the decisions about where they race their spectacularly fast boats, and when, is driven as much by the swirling breeze of commerce as it is by the vagaries of meteorology.


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JACKSON — Charlotte Conner woke up Friday morning feeling like she'd been "run over by an elephant," but she thanked God for it, glad to be alive after a tornado demolished the building she was in a day earlier.
Conner, 47, and her 69-year-old mother were among those injured by a twister that tore through at least two counties Thursday in eastern Mississippi, killing one and injuring at least nine.
The tornado killed 28-year-old Carlos Madrigal of Blue Mountain when it ripped apart a business north of DeKalb in Kemper County, Coroner Terry Bostick said.
The National Weather Service said Friday that that tornado was at least an EF3, a category with winds of 136 to 156 mph, though the agency is still studying damage patterns and its findings are preliminary.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Thursday's storms caused damage in at least seven Mississippi counties, but some was relatively minor, including downed trees and damaged roofs.
MEMA said in a news release Friday that at least 128 homes were damaged in Kemper and Noxubee counties, with half of these destroyed having major damage. Twelve businesses were damaged or destroyed.
"We're through with all the search and rescue. Everybody's accounted for. Now we have to do the damage assessments and people will begin the cleanup process," Rent said.
April is the most active month for tornadoes in Mississippi, Rent said.
Conner and her mother were in a small, concrete block apartment on her family's property in Shuqualak in Noxubee County when the twister mowed it to the ground.
"The roof lifted off and the walls came down on top of us. I was pinned down, but I reached over and grabbed Momma's hand. It was trying to suck her out of the front of the house," Conner recalled Friday in a telephone interview.
The building, an old country store converted to an apartment, was reduced to a heap of broken concrete blocks and boards.
"I feel like I've been run over by an elephant and a train, but we're alive," Conner said. "It was just the hand of God that kept us safe."
Conner and her mother had injured knees, scratches and bruises. Conner had five stitches in her chin. They were treated at a hospital and released.
Conner's aunt, Cindy Moore, was in a house nearby when the storm hit. She thought she'd lost her sister and her niece until she watched them stand up from the rubble.
The family sifted through the debris in search of family keepsakes but were told not disturb the wreckage too much until an insurance adjuster can look at it.
The stretch of Mississippi Highway 21 in Shuqualak was hit hard with trees uprooted or broken in half. Downed powers lines snaked through yards.
"It's just kind of sickening, but we're OK," Moore said. "We're going to get through it. We're going to just take it one day at a time."
Noxubee County Emergency Management Agency Director Bobby Mann said Thursday that the tornado plowed across his entire county, but much of it is rural. He said storm assessments would be done Friday because some roads had been flooded after the storm.
The storms were part of a powerful system that heaped snow and ice on the Midwest and battered the Deep South with powerful winds and heavy rain and killed at least three people. It left thousands without power as it moved up the East Coast on Friday.
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I havent' even commented on the housing debacle, so how do you ascribe my feelings one way or another??
Just to entertain you two for a moment, I think that WAS one of Clinton and the democrat's failures!
Okay, if you've had time to put your eyes back in their sockets, let me say as a homeowner, who mortgaged a house WELL within my means (less than my annual salary) I am sick as $#it hearing of poor poor Americans losing their homes to forclosures! I blame in the following order of responsibility:
1) the f-ing morons who bought homes they HAD NO BUSINESS BUYING!
(my wife and I are BOTH physicians, and we drive a toyota minivan and a Chevy Silverado.....yet I see nurses and nurses aides driving BMWs and Benz's)
2) The banks who knowingly floated very risky loans to people for amounts three times their annual salary, (or more) on hopes of home values increasing over their already inflated values. People with new jobs who haven't demonstrated the ability to save even a 10% downpayment.
3) the gov't Clinton, Bush, FAnnie and YES, even the VA! For enabling BOTH of the above idiotic groups to carry out their greedy, irresponsible home buying practices.
Now, that was a fun rant. Not only did it release pent up frustration at having to pay for idiots to keep their homes.....but it proves YOU and UB wrong once again in your prejudices!
Have a great day.....I am!
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irriadin wrote:Here are all the books I have yet to read. Well, actually not true. I'm probably not going to finish ... the Belgariad (heard it's really generic).
The Belgariad/Mallorean books are pretty generic, but they were among the first books I ever read (along with Terry Brook's Shannara books which are also pretty generic, the Chronicles of Narnia, and LotR) and I think they're great books to read when you're young. I haven't read them in something like 10 years, though, so I'm interested in reading them again to see what I think now.


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Bariatric surgery - gastric bypass - discharge; Roux-en-Y gastric bypass - discharge; Gastric bypass- Roux-en-Y - discharge
You had gastric bypass surgery to help you lose weight. Your surgeon used staples to divide your stomach into a small upper section, called a pouch, and a larger bottom section. Then your surgeon sewed a section of your small intestine to a small opening in this small stomach pouch. The food you eat will now go into your small stomach pouch, then into your small intestine.
You probably spent 1 to 3 days in the hospital. When you go home you will be eating liquids or puréed foods. You should be able to move around without too much problem.
You may have a catheter (tube) coming from the larger part of your stomach that was bypassed. It will come out of your side and will drain fluids that build up in your belly. This will be taken out in about 4 to 6 weeks.
You will lose weight quickly over the first 3 to 6 months. During this time, you may have body aches, feel tired and cold, have dry skin, mood changes, and hair loss or hair thinning. These problems should go away as your body gets used to your weight loss and your weight becomes stable. Because of this quick weight loss, you will need to be careful that you get all of the nutrition and vitamins you need as you recover.
Weight loss slows down after 12 to 18 months.
You will remain on liquid or puréed food for 2 or 3 weeks after surgery. You will slowly add soft foods and then regular food, as your nutritionist told you to do. Remember to eat small portions and chew each bite very slowly and completely.
Do not eat and drink at the same time. Drink fluids 30 minutes after you eat food. Drink slowly. Sip when you are drinking. Do not gulp. Your doctor may tell you not to use a straw, as it may bring air into your stomach.
Your doctor, nurse, or dietitian will teach you about foods that you should eat and foods you should stay away from.
Being active soon after surgery will help you recover more quickly. During the first week:
If you have laparoscopic surgery, you should be able to do most of your regular activities in 2 to 4 weeks. It may take up to 12 weeks if you have open surgery.
Before this time, do NOT:
Make sure your home is set up for your recovery, to
If your doctor says it is okay, you may start an exercise program 2 to 4 weeks after surgery.
You do not need to join a gym to exercise. If you have not exercised or been active in a long time, be sure to start off slowly to prevent injuries. Taking a 5- to 10-minute walk every day is a good start. Increase this amount until you are walking 15 minutes twice a day.
You may change the dressing every day if your surgeon tells you to do so. Be sure to change your dressing if it gets dirty or wet.
You may have bruising around your wounds. This is normal. It will go away on its own. The skin around your incisions may be a little red. This is normal, too.
Do not wear tight clothing that rubs against your incisions while they heal.
Keep your dressing (bandage) on your wound clean and dry. If there are sutures (stitches) or staples, they will be removed about 7 to 10 days after surgery. Some stitches can dissolve on their own. Your doctor will tell you if you have them.
Unless you are told otherwise, do not shower until after your follow-up appointment with your health care provider. When you can shower, let water run over your incision, but do not scrub or let the water beat down on it.
Do not soak in a bathtub, swimming pool, or hot tub until your doctor tells you it is okay.
Press a pillow over your incision when you need to cough or sneeze.
You may need to take some medicines when you go home.
Aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and some other drugs may harm the lining of your stomach or even cause ulcers. Talk with your doctor before you take these drugs.
To help you recover from surgery and manage all the changes in your lifestyle, you will see your surgeon and many other health professionals.
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Alexis Ponce, national spokesperson and executive director of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights in Ecuador, will present a lecture on Thursday, Dec. 5. He will discuss "Ecuador and the Andean Region: The Effects of a Silent War" at 4:30 p.m. in 016 Robertson Hall.
Ponce is an expert in all areas of human rights in Ecuador, focusing on the impact of militarization of Ecuador under Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative. He is an outspoken critic of these initiatives, the U.S. military base in Manta, Columbia, and the U.S. fumigation program along the Colombia-Ecuador border.
Plan Colombia is a $1.3 billion military aid package passed under the Clinton Administration that President George W. Bush has furthered as the Andean Regional Initiative. The initiative seeks to combat drug production and trafficking from Central and South America while strengthening democracy, creating regional stability and assisting economic development.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
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The glucose tolerance test is a lab test to check how your body breaks down sugar.
Oral glucose tolerance test
The most common glucose tolerance test is the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
Before the test begins, a sample of blood will be taken.
You will then be asked to drink a liquid containing a certain amount of glucose (usually 75 grams). Your blood will be taken again every 30 to 60 minutes after you drink the solution.
The test takes up to 3 hours.
A similar test is the IV glucose tolerance test (IGTT). It is rarely used, and never used to diagnose diabetes. In this test, glucose is injected into your vein for 3 minutes. Blood insulin levels are measured before the injection, and again at 1 and 3 minutes after the injection. The timing may vary.
Make sure you eat normally for several days before the test.
Do not eat or drink anything for at least 8 hours before the test. You cannot eat during the test.
Ask your health care provider if any of the medicines you take can affect the test results.
Some people feel nauseated, sweaty, light-headed, or may even feel short of breath or faint after drinking the glucose. Tell your doctor if you have a history of these symptoms related to eating sugar. Serious side effects of this test are very uncommon.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
Glucose is the sugar the body uses for energy. Patients with untreated diabetes have high blood glucose levels. Glucose tolerance tests are one of the tools used to diagnose diabetes.
A blood glucose level that is higher than normal can be used to diagnose
The oral glucose tolerance test is used to screen pregnant women for gestational diabetes between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. It may also be used when the disease is suspected, even though fasting blood glucose level is normal.
Normal blood values for a 75-gram oral glucose tolerance test used to check for type 2 diabetes in those who are not pregnant:
Note: mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter
The examples above are common measurements for results of these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
A glucose level than is higher than normal may mean you have prediabetes, diabetes, or gestational diabetes.
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Thank you to Charlie for making this fly possible.
Very nice Shaq!
Your flies get better and better every time we see them.
Next week should be good. Water is up across the state and I have been hearing allot about new fish coming in.
Let us know how you do.
Thanks Charlie, I still owe you one
Ah, a well tied Dee fly tied in the tradition way!
The Gardener a very interesting fly that is often tied incorrectly !
I have seen it with a bright orange hackle tied in at the throat, rather than the correct way of tying in the topping from the yellow in the body - I think that this error creeps in from Price Tannants interpretation of the dressing.
I'm interested in what you have used in the hackle - I think Black heron with a drooping Jungle cock is the way it was originaly designed.
Kelson states the correct dressing but wrongly states that it is "one of Garden of Aberdeens best Dee Flies", everyone now thinks it was invented by William Garden (Aberdeen tackle maker). It was actually invented by the Uncle of James Harper who was the owner of William Browns of Aberdeen from the early 1900s. I have good evidence of this from some research I am doing on the history of William Brown and other Aberdeen Tackle makers - eventually this will be a book.....
Some very interesting info scottishtrout,
Please let us all know when your book comes out. It sounds like it should also be very interesting.
Scottish trout, I thank you for the info, all I had to work with was some grey heron and I have since acquired some JC. I used a long topping for the body hackle. Unfortunately no steelhead molested this fly in 3 likely runs. In fact no steelhead molested any of my flies in 2 straight trips. I am due...
Like Scottishtrout, I agree, it is nice seeing someone tying a fly in the traditional way. I also never cared for P-T's orange body hackle on this fly and find the topping used as a hackle much more pleasing and harmonious.
Nicely done Shaq.
As there does seem to be interest in the history of Salmon flies on this forum, I thought I would share a bit more information and take the opportunity to ask a couple of questions.
Firstly on the question of the invention of the Gardener, I have had access to quite a lot of original material relating to the William Brown business from the late 1800s to early 1900s (including one of the original catalogues). In amongst it all I found various letters, the first a letter from James Harper (uncle of James Harper owner of Browns), this is from around 1905
Your letter arrived about Gardener Fly the pattern is the very same as I made at Monaltrie House and not Garden. Blacklaw will testify to this also John Harper Dess. First I made three, sent one to John, gave one to Mr Wilkinson tenant at Monaltrie and then one for myself. The three flies in one day landed 4 fish for John. Gentleman sent an order to me for 18 flies the same pattern, being scarce of feathers, I sent the order to Blacklaws of Kincardine ONeil.
Mr Wilkinson was much disappointed giving it away, he offered me 20 pounds to take out a patent for same, I wish I had done so and stopped the Garden work.
The second a letter from James Harper (owner of Browns) to R B Marston the then editor of the Fishing Gazette on the 19th Feb 1908 - I quote from it :
I have not the personal acquaintance of G.M.K. and would shy of it, but am familiar with his identity from my old Bernard days in the early eighties. He has not left kindly impressions here (on the river Dee) nor on Spey. I marvel at the anxiety of some angling writers for the credit of invention. (Pennel seems another in case). The obvious shallowness of much of the quibbling must undermine any real claim they could establish for respect from future generations.
G.M.K.s Salmon Fly and his long list of fearfully overdressed inventions is not to my liking, I recall to mind one error by him. He ascribes the Gardener to Garden. This fly was invented - to repeat his, in such case, ridiculous term - by my uncle James Harper while Gardener at Monaltrie, Ballater. There was, I believe, a real novelty here in the use of Golden Pheasant Topping as a hackle. Well do I remember my boyish difficulty to get this to lie smoothly. This uncle is still alive but this winter has been hard on him
And just to wrap this up a quote from the obituary of Francis Harper (James Juniors dad) published in The Fishing Gazette 24th December 1898, written by Marston.
His favourite flies were the Heron (with red wing). the Gardener (invented by his brother James), Jock Scott, Popham, Eagle (with mottled turkey wing), Gordon, Akroyd, Silver Doctor, Black Doctor, and Thunderer, and almost invariably the White Eagle was the fly with which he closed the day.
The Browns catalogue lists over 560 different salmon flies - I wonder if this is the longest list ever produced - unfortunately the actual dressings are not listed. There once existed a typed notebook called "Mr Browns receipt book" which contained the salmon fly patterns, this was loaned by the owner to a famous tackle shop in London in the 1990s who have subsequently lost it (thrown out during refurbishment) ! I wonder if any of the forum readers have ever heard of it ?
So my question is, I have discovered a hand written note book of instructions on dying feathers from the 1880s - would this be of interest to the modern tier of salmon flies and should I include it in the book ?
When I publish the book - it will cover the history of Browns business (a lot of this will be about the Phantom Minnow that he invented) and short histories of the other Aberdeen tackle makers (you will be surprised how many there are), it will have some focus on salmon flies and hopefully some nice illustrations of vintage and modern tyings. Im guessing Ill produce about 200 copies, with perhaps 20 deluxe with a real fly. What do you think ?
as a beginner, but fascinated with spey and dee flies, and starting to learn full dress, I am interested in "light" reading on how to dye feathers and all that other stuff, I read Michael R's section on hook making with interest but I am not there yet. I think a nice chapter on how they used to dye, couple that with modern methods to create the same effect would be very interesting reading. Since your book seems to be taking on a historical flair, you should include those. Would be interesting because many of the "Newer" books on the shelves are "Modern techniques" type books.
Sorry for the ramblings, just thinking while writing
I had heard of the Brown's recipe notebook and had been originally told it was being looked at by a tackle shop in London to evaluate it for possible publishing. I think it was in 1997 I heard of this, and I haven't heard anything about it since. It appears you have cleared up the mystery of why with your info on said tackle shop having lost it. Bummer to way the least.
I dye my materials with natural dyes so I would be very interested in any historical information concerning dyes and salmon flies. Bill
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The dangerous U.S. heat wave of July 2011 will continue to bring another day of exceptionally humid heat to over 100 million Americans today, with 33 states plus the District of Columbia currently under heat advisories. The heat index--how hot the air feels when factoring in both the temperature and the humidity--exceeded 100° in twenty states in the Central and Eastern U.S. on Wednesday, peaking at 123° in Council Bluffs, Iowa. At least 22 deaths are being blamed on the heat in the Midwest. The extreme humidity that has accompanied this heat has made it a very dangerous one, since the body is much less able to cool itself when the humidity is high. The high humidities are due, in great part, to the record rains and flooding in the Midwest over the past few months that have saturated soils and left farmlands flooded. Accompanying the heat has been high levels of air pollution, which also contributes to mortality. Air pollution is expected exceed federal standards and reach code orange, "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups", in at least 22 states today, according to the latest forecasts from EPA.
The extreme heat peaked in Chicago yesterday, where the temperature hit 100° at Midway Airport and the Chicago Lakefront station. Rockford, Illinois hit 100°, the first time in 22 years that city had seen 100° temperatures. Detroit is expected to hit 100° for the first time in sixteen years today, and I think I'm going to skip the Ann Arbor Art Fair! New York City and the mid-Atlantic states are expected to be near 100° on Friday. The forecast high of 103° in Washington D.C. for Friday is just 3° below the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city, 106°. The heat will continue in the mid-Atlantic states through Sunday, then ease on Monday when a cold front is expected to pass through. Wunderground's climate change blogger Dr. Ricky Rood has some good insights on the current heat wave in his latest post. A few notable highlights from this week:
Omaha, Nebraska has been above 80° for a four-day period beginning on July 17. This is the 2nd longest such stretch on record, next to the 8-day period that ended July 25, 1934. Multi-day periods when the low temperatures do not cool off below 75° are associated with high heat wave death rates.
Amarillo, Texas recorded its 26th day of 100° temperatures yesterday, tying the city's record for most 100° days in a year, last set in 1953. Record keeping in the city goes back to 1892.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, recorded its highest dew point ever, 82°, on Tuesday. The heat index hit a remarkable 118° in the city, which tied July 11, 1966 for the highest heat index on record in the city. Minnesota's all-time highest dew point temperature of 86° was tied on Sunday, in Madison. The previous record was in St. James and Pipestone in July of 2005.
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Figure 1. On Wednesday, heat advisories for this dangerous heat wave covered portions of 33 states plus the District of Columbia, an area with 141 million people--about half the population of the U.S.
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Tropical Storm Bret continues to struggle with high wind shear of 20 - 30 knots, and high shear is expected to affect the storm the remainder of the week. The combination of high wind shear and dry air nearby should act to destroy Bret by Sunday, and the storm is not a threat to any land areas.
Tropical Storm Cindy forms
Tropical Storm Cindy formed yesterday 600 miles to the east of Bermuda. Cindy's formation was 24 days ahead of the usual formation date for the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which is August 13. This year has the most early season activity since 2008, when Hurricane Dolly got named on July 20. Wind shear is a moderate 10 - 20 knots, and is expected to remain moderate for several days. However, Cindy has moved over cool ocean waters of 25°C this morning, and this temperature is 1.5°C below the threshold of 26.5°C that tropical storms typically need in order to maintain their strength. With Cindy predicted to move over waters of just 21°C by Friday morning, the storm doesn't have long to live. Cindy is not a threat to any land areas.
An African wave worth watching
An African wave near 12N 50W, 700 miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands, is moving west to west-northwest at about 15 mph, and is generating a limited amount of heavy thunderstorms due to the presence of a large amount of dust and dry air from the Sahara. This wave will spread heavy rain showers and strong gusty winds to the northern Lesser Antilles beginning on Saturday. The wave has a modest degree of spin to it, and is under low wind shear, 5 - 10 knots. Once it finds a moister environment near the Bahama Islands early next week, it could develop. Of the latest 00Z and 06Z runs of the four reliable models for predicting formation of a tropical depression, only the NOGAPS model shows development of the wave. The NOGAPS predicts the wave could attain tropical depression status on Wednesday, just off the coast of South Carolina. The other models generally depict too much wind shear over the Bahamas for the wave to develop. The eventual track of the wave once it reaches the Bahamas early next week is uncertain; there will be a trough of low pressure located off the U.S. East Coast that will be capable of turning the wave to the north, along the East Coast. However, it is also quite possible that the wave would be too weak and to far south to feel the influence of this trough, and instead would enter the Gulf of Mexico.
Figure 2. Morning satellite image of Hurricane Dora.
Hurricane Dora in the Eastern Pacific close to Category 5
Hurricane Dora in the Eastern Pacific put on an impressive burst of intensification over the past 24 hours, and is now a very impressive Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, just 1 mph short of Category 5 status. Dora is expected to move parallel to the coast of Mexico, and should not cause any major trouble in that country. Dora is the second major hurricane in the East Pacific this year; Hurricane Adrian topped out as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds in early June.
Think cold. Way cold!
Those of us sweltering in today's heat would do well to consider that on this date in 1983, Vostok, Antarctica shivered at -128°F--the coldest temperature ever measured on Earth. The low tonight in Vostok is expected to be a relatively balmy -80°F.
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CASCAPEDIA AREA UPDATE June 27
Hello All!
Here is a little update since my last post.
Fishing has picked up immensly on the Petite Cascapedia, the Bonaventure is getting better and the main river of the Cascapedia remains good to very good depending on the day and sector. The main river is fishing best, followed by the Lake and Salmon branches. All in all the season is starting to get better and better.
Water levels are dropping but are not critical. We could, however, really use some rain! Reports tell us that rain is on its way for Thurs and Fri of this week.
Water temps are between 50-59 on the Bonnie and Grande and about 48-54 on the Petite.
Trout fishing is just starting in the branches.
Nouvelle River has been a bit slow but should pick up soon.
Look forward to hearing about all the other rivers.
Rusty, thanks for the extra input (we gotta get out and fish soon),and Ann, thanks for the updates on the Gaspe Rivers and best to you this summer as well!
Best to you all,
David, Thanx for the report.
I'll be out with the family starting the 23-24th and we'll give y'all a heads up on how the Ste-Marguerite is starting.
High tides are running 16-18 feet in the Bay and will be less over the weekend. Here's hoping ...
Judging by the radar at work last night,looks like Gaspe (except for up near Ann's territory) really got hammered with rain ! Heavy precip. from Perce to Sept isles then down to just east of Montreal !
Hi wrke,
Guess that moon is moving them in........ fresh fish (large fish) were seen entering numerous pools this evening....
Go Catch'em!!
Headed up there tomorrow, first fishing day on the 23rd . . . right after the full moon. As always, I look forward to many dance partners.
Cascapedia Fishing
Just a quick note from the Cascapedia River. Out clients have been fishing the main branch of the Cacscapedia since June 1 and the fishing hasn't been all that bad. We have landed 24 fish as of this morning and their sizes ranged from 15 - 45 lbs. Last season we were at 18 fish for the same timeframe. The water is at a perfect level, though the water is somewhat colored.
We have caught most of our fish on the A and C Sectors and the most productive flies have been the Magog Smelt, the Picasse, the Green Highlander, the Green Pearl and the Black Stone Fly is now starting to work its magic. All of the fish have been taken on #2/0, #3 and #2 flys.
Much to my delight MacGregor Pool has been producing fish for us again this year. The pool had changed alot last year after the flooding, but she is ounce again holding "taking" fish. Two days ago we took a 29 lb and 19 lb fish at MacGregor and there were at least 3-4 other fish jumping in the tail of the pool.
The weather has been pretty crappy as far as temperature and rain is concerned, but the camp only got shut out for two days. I suppose that it could have been worse.
So far today, we have three fish in camp, still waiting for the other guests to come in. We got a 41 lb male at Lower Jam on the A Sector last night.......Boy, I can't wait to get on the river myself and try out my new Bogdan - I must baptize it with a Cascapedia fish.
The guides are seeing more and more fish in the system and more fish are starting to hold in the pools - let's hope that this trend holds.
Tight Lines,
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Hi Dave,
great report!!
I must say the situation is pretty well the same here in Gaspe.
They are coming in slowly and are not holding very long in the pools.
Some say the water temp is too cold ? Your Thoughts?
Some say since we are seeing seagulls diving for "capelin" at sea, they are feeding and not in a hurry to enter the rivers. (??)
Like you, I think the next moon will give the answer.
Were we too spoiled 2 years ago???
have a great season Dave.
(Fishing is not only the catching. it's all what comes with it!!)
(Trout pool this morning..Mother and Son, first time Fly Fishing!!)
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CASCAPEDIA / BONAVENTURE / Petite Cascapedia UPDATES JUNE 19 '05
Greetings anglers!
I thought that I would try to bring you all up to speed about how are season here has progressed. I have seen a lot of updates and info from the Gaspe area but nothing from this area. (Juro- I hope that this is o.k. to post this sort of info here, if not, tell me and I will refrain in the future).
Well the season started off very promising with some decent fish caught on the main river of the Cascapedia followed quickly with a few fish up in the Salmon and Lake branches. Unfortunately, the fishing has been fair to poor in the upper reaches since the 12th or 13th with only a very few fish released. Why? Heck if I know, but I can tell you what has happened since June 1. RAIN, followed by one week of 80+ temps, then back to rain and rain and rain and clouds and rain... Get the picture? Today things have changed and I think this will tell us the real story on the Cascapedia, Petite and Bonaventure. Moving from a low to a high pressure system and vice versa, usually stimulates the fish. Couple this with the influence of an oncoming full moon and if it is going to "happen" it will be this week and next!
Runs have been disapointing at best on the Bonaventure to date, with real spotty fish here and there on the upper stretches. Most of this fish have been in the 10-14 range. We did manage to get into 3-fish day before yesterday but saw only 5 all day. Yesterday we saw two and released one. That is not what I would consider awesome fishing but that is our reality to date. I floated the Petite on opening day from Big Eddy to Melancon and saw a total of 2-fish at McGregor pool which is way up. Both fish were under 15 pounds. One of my friends is floating it today again.
As I said, the Bonaventure has realatively few fish but we should see a big whack of them coming in on this next moon. If not, we are screwed. Let's hope that the fish will come flushing into the rivers!
Reports out of Gaspe are varied. Some say there are a ton of fish, and some say it is ho-hum and spotty. I am not really sure what the deal is there... the general rule around here, at least with local anglers is when the fishing is good everyone gets tight lipped. The reason I am posting this is to try to give you all a sense of what is really going on.
The only bright spot seem to be the main river on the Cascapedia, which unfortunately, is a bit difficult to get on these days. It would seem that some days it is really hot and others it is a bit slow but there seems to be a lot of fish around although not a lot of big fish, most in the 15 pound range. My guess is that a lot of the bigger fish ran straight up on the May moon. I can back this up by telling you that we caught and saw fish in the upper branches very early this year. As a matter of fact, Alder Island is alreay producing some fish. That is the stretch just before the lake.
Here are your water levels and ave temps.
Cascapedia River: Perfect level, water is a bit dark but not muddy. Temps are ranging between 48 and 54 F.
Bonaventure: Perfect level for canoes, a bit tough to wade some spots, water is 95% clear and the temps 46-52 F.
Petite Cascapedia: Perfect canoe level, tricky wading, especially where the river has changed, which is almost everywhere. Water is 90% clear and very cold 44-48 F.
Will report back as soon as the fish start coming in a bit more. I will also give you news about the Nouvelle River soon.
Hope that this report will help all of you out!
Best to you all,
David B
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Medicine and surgery before 1800
Early medicine and folklore
Unwritten history is not easy to interpret, and, although much may be learned from a study of the drawings, bony remains, and surgical tools of early human beings, it is difficult to reconstruct their mental attitude toward the problems of disease and death. It seems probable that humans, as soon as they reached the stage of reasoning, discovered by the process of trial and error which plants might be used as ... (100 of 22,614 words)