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Patience is a virtue, and certainly a virtue well used by Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto. The renowned artist recently completed a seven day artist residency at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art where he created a wall-to-wall installation composed entirely of intricately laid loops of table salt. The end result is absolutely breathtaking, and the exhibition is one of the featured presentations of Spoleto Festival USA.
The exhibition has certainly generated a lot of buzz around town, and art lovers, creatives, and curious Charlestonians of all ages packed into the Halsey to view the piece and catch a glimpse of the artist himself. The party kicked off with traditional Taiko drumming, which featured a number of very small women making a lot of beautiful noise on very, very large drums. The music reverberated throughout the hall, washing over the crowd as everyone pushed in close to catch a glimpse of the performance.
"It's so much fun," one of the Taiko drummers confessed to a friend. "It's a great outlet, and really great exercise!"
Partygoers mingled outside the gallery over wine and beer before squeezing into the main space to enjoy Yamamoto's exquisite installation. The piece spans almost the entire length of the main gallery, and a temporary platform has been installed to allow viewers to step out over the greater part of the salt work. Attendees lingered both atop the platform, taking in the overall scope and form of the work, and along the edges of the exhibit, where one could get an up-close look at the small loops of salt laid by Yamamoto.
The adjoining gallery spaces feature Yamamoto's drawings, photographs, and two separate films about the artist and his process. The exhibit will be on display through July 7, when there will be a public dismantling of the installation.
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is administered by the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston and exists to advocate, exhibit and interpret visual art, with an emphasis on contemporary art.


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Just 25 minutes is all it takes to make these cinnamony mini coffee cake bites. Perfect for families on the go.
Serve these mini coffee cake bites for brunch or school lunch—they look beautiful on a plate of china and tote well in a plastic container. How's that for versatile?
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Internet FraudOn first glance, many unsolicited commercial offers may seem both legitimate and compelling. Unfortunately, these offers lead to deceptive Web sites, set up to capture credit card information for the purposes of online fraud. According to a study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 66 percent of all spam e-mail they collected contained false "From" lines, "Subject" lines, and message text.**
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Static code analysis with Clang
The Clang Static Analyzer is a program that uses the llvm compiler to perform static code analysis in C and objective-C programs.
A very nice feature of this analyzer is that it is not intrusive with the development procedures of our packages. It does not require the maintainer to implement any extra logic in the build system. A provided 'scan-build' script is able to "intercept" the calls to the GNU compiler on source files, and internally invokes the analyzer.
For example:
$ scan-build -o DIR gcc -o foo foo.c
executes the compilation command to build 'foo' and then runs the static analyzer in the foo.c source file. An html report containing the results of the analysis is created in the directory 'DIR'. The report is generated only if some bug is detected. The generated html report is quite readable, clearly marking the execution paths leading to errors.
The parameter to 'scan-build' can be any command, so in order to analyze the code of a typical GNU package we could launch:
$ scan-build -o DIR ./autogen.sh $ scan-build -o DIR ./configure $ scan-build -o DIR make
Regarding the supported static analysis checks, they include the detection of dereference of null pointers, identification of dead code, detection of useless assignments, unused return values, etc.
As an example you can take a look to the report generated from the analysis of the GNU PDF library here. The report is automatically generated in a daily period as part of our effort in continuous integration (there are pointers to more generated reports in the "Quality" section of the library development page if you are interested).
You can find another example of a generated report, this time for libxml2, here.
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Hog industry key to environmental win
RALEIGH -- Who would have thought two decades ago that North Carolina hog farmers would prove pivotal in preserving an environmental law?
It hasn't been that long ago that the state's hog barons were portrayed as polluters and despoilers of the state's waters, as headline-grabbing waste spills accompanied a burgeoning contract hog farming industry that helped fill a void left by the decline of tobacco.
Over the last few weeks, though, it was the hog barons standing beside environmental groups to oppose the repeal of requirements that North Carolina's electric utilities generate a portion of their power supply from alternative energy sources.
Kraig Westerbeek, a vice president at Murphy-Brown, told legislators that the bill would send the wrong message to investors supporting livestock waste-to-energy projects being developed around the state.
Summer Lanier, a spokeswoman for Prestage Farms, told a House committee that the legislation would put an end to a $35 million poultry litter gasification facility planned for Bladen County.
Harnett County hog farmer Tom Butler said a project on his farm to convert hog waste to methane gas would be undone by the legislation.
The hog industry's opposition may not have been the only thing that doomed Rep. Mike Hager's bill to drop the renewable requirements.
Executives from solar energy firms, touting their businesses' growth and job creation since the requirements were approved in 2007, made an impression too.
Still, it might have been easy for some Republican and eastern Democrats to dismiss those folks as newfangled greenies. No one was going to think of names like Murphy and Prestage in that way.
The result was that Hager and his legislation received a stinging defeat before a committee that he chaired. Three powerful Republican lawmakers -- Reps. Ruth Sameulson of Mecklenburg, Tim Moore of Cleveland County, and Nelson Dollar of Wake County -- were among the GOP lawmakers who joined with Democrats to vote against the measure.
Hager had argued that the alternative energy requirements, which will reach 12.5 percent of the energy supplied by the state's big utility companies by 2021, amount to a subsidy that has been put on ratepayers.
Maybe so.
But another key argument from conservative pundits and think tanks who want the requirements to go away is that those ratepayers really are not getting much for their dollar, that the renewable requirements' contribution to clean air is negligible.
Even if that were true, what about the contributions to clean water in a future where vast amounts of livestock waste are turned into energy? How much is that worth?
The hog industry has been working for years to find alternatives to waste lagoons and spray fields.
For at least one moment, it stood beside the same people it used fight about what to do with the waste.
With the chance to be cast a very different light than it was two decades ago, the industry didn't let the moment slip away.


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Legislation establishing a collaborative program to increase the number of early childhood classes statewide while maintaining flexibility to fit the needs of individual communities creates an unprecedented opportunity for progress against the absence of state-funded support for pre-kindergarten education.
Mississippi is the only state in the South without it.
Endorsed by Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn in a Wednesday news conference, the $8 million program would partner and collaborate with existing pre-kindergarten programs in public schools where they are funded from other sources, private day-cares, parochial day-cares and Head Start facilities to improve the quality of early childhood education.
The plan is supported by the Mississippi Economic Council, the statewide business leadership organization, and many early childhood education advocates like Cathy Grace of Tupelo, a nationally recognized expert in pre-kindergarten learning now working for the Gilmore Foundation in Monroe County.
The plan is on a legislative track in both the Senate and House.
The program sensibly and logically would be implemented and have oversight by the Mississippi Department of Education, whose reach extends to every public school in the state, and whose connective assets are in place.
In addition to Gunn and Reeves, the program is endorsed by Gov. Phil Bryant.
The program would not usurp or displace other efforts working for pre-kindergarten education. The Mississippi Building Blocks program, for example, seeks $5 million from the state in the 2014 budget to carry on its goal "to improve the school readiness of young children. To achieve that goal, MBB works within existing licensed child care centers to enhance the quality of care they provide. The Mississippi Building Blocks approach, working with day care centers in the private sector, is designed to serve as a model for how Mississippi can work within the existing infrastructure of licensed child care centers to improve the school readiness of young children."
Many Mississippians have worked for years to develop and ultimately fund a state-supported early childhood education program. The program endorsed by the legislative leadership and Building Blocks both push toward that goal.
Good opportunities sometimes develop quickly, and when the best minds agree about those opportunities it is time to act.


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Glory's additions to their management team keeps growing and growing as we are being hit by a deluge of announcements about their management team over the past few days. Today they announced that former WWE executive Andrew Whitaker has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of Glory Sports International. Whitaker is the Managing Partner of Kings Highway Media and will help Glory with strategic decisions as well as international issues.
His experience with WWE has afforded him a wealth of knowledge about WWE's international business, including television, digital, live events, licensing, PPV/VOD, marketing, promotion and much more.


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Healthcare District's website deceiving
Original post made by Jack Hickey, Woodside: Emerald Hills, on Oct 10, 2012
For 2012-13FY, The Sequoia Healthcare District website states the following:
Sequoia Healthcare District 2012-13 FY
Total Community Support - $10.6 million
Property Tax - $8.6 million
"One dollar and twenty–seven cents returned for every tax dollar collected"
What they don't tell you:
Taking 2012/2013 budgeted expenses of $11,607,766 and subtracting Total Community Support of $10.6 million we find $1,007,766 in expenses not going to the Community.
Come to Wednesday's meeting and see what a big fat raise the CEO is getting! (current salary is $159,500)
525 Veterans Blvd. Redwood City 4:30 P.M. 10 October 2012.
Please visit my website www.xshcd.com for supporting information linked to the District website.
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Oct 18, 2012 at 9:14 am
The Sequoia Healthcare District website Web Link claims a Total Community Support of $10.6 million for FY 2012-2013. That figure assumes that the $1,000,000 spent on Nursing Education will result in 100% of the graduate nurses working in the District. That is no where close to reality. See: Web Link A 50% figure would be an overestimate. Of more than 300 graduate nurses, only 64 are currently employed at Sequoia Hospital.
The District also claims that 100% of the expenditures for the Heartsafe and Healthy Schools Initiative are supporting the community. That is simply not the case. Payroll costs for Program Directors and a dietician total more than $200,000/year. Membership in RWC 2020 costs another $20,000. Health insurance adds another $20,000. Seminars, conference attendance, program PR expenses, cell phones, gym subsisies, etc. add 10's of thousands more. I have asked the District to provide me with a copy of the General Ledger covering the past two years so that I might provide the public with more accurate figures. Their stonewalling has forced me to resort to a Public Records Act request again. My last request was made in 2011. The District's response to that request can be found at Web Link
The Districts claim of Total Community Support of $10.6 million for FY 2012-2013 is overstated by ~$1,000,000.
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Oct 28, 2012 at 3:15 pm
The District complied with my PRA request. A link to the General Ledger for the past two years can be accessed from my website. Web Link
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Dec 11, 2012 at 9:36 am
I ask those of you reading this topic to send a message to the Directors of the Sequoia Healthcare District Web Link asking that they put more financial information on their website. It would only take a few keystrokes to post the General Ledger information for the past two years, and update it once a month. They will not listen to this Director. Perhaps they will listen to you.
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Dec 11, 2012 at 9:38 am
You might also ask that the audio recording of meetings also be put on the website.
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Mar 29, 2013 at 11:43 am
The Sequoia Healthcare District website Web Link states the following:
"Located in the Belle Haven area of Menlo Park, the Ravenswood Family Health Center offers medical and dental services to hundreds of lower income residents from that community. The Sequoia Healthcare District provides $250,000 in annual support."
On that page they have a link to the Ravenswood Family Health Center: Web Link A look at ABOUT/Who We Serve shows their contact information,
Ravenswood Family Health Center
1798A Bay Road
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel: 650.330.7400
Fax: 650.321.1156
and states that "RFHC serves a culturally diverse area with a growing population of immigrants. Most of our patients live in southeast San Mateo County.
Not only is the RFHC located in East Palo Alto (not Menlo Park as shown on the SHCD website), but a major portion of their patients reside in East Palo Alto and a large portion of eastern Menlo Park. These areas are not in the Sequoia Healthcare District, yet District taxpayers are subsidizing their care.


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Rotini, zucchini, carrot and smoked whitefish or salmon are tossed with creamy dill dressing. It's just right for a casual lunch or supper get-together.
Prep and refrigerate all the ingredients the night before you plan to serve. The next day or eve, toss the pasta and remaining ingredients with the creamy dill dressing as directed.
A loaf of caraway rye bread, torn into chunks, or crusty hard rolls would go great with this dilly of a salad.
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Mm, more length.
I finally graduated, degree in hand and fancy square hat on head.
I continue to be employed. Fancy that.
Mm, more length.
I finally graduated, degree in hand and fancy square hat on head.
I continue to be employed. Fancy that.
Ah, it has been a long time since posting here. Good thing nobody cares.
I had to forsake the DVORAK bit again, since I started a job, and it just wouldn't do to sit down at a QWERTY keyboard and type really slowly. So, as the message below suggests, I am actually employed now, at an Edmonton company called YottaYotta. We make storage system. Big Storage. I think I pass a couple terabytes of disk on the way to my desk, internal test systems. Heh.
So now, I am a 'Hardware Designer' which in practice means I get to write VHDL and think Big Thoughts about Big Storage.
Debian's BTS is killing our servers, and we lost a few more machines for various reasons that are still in the process of being recovered.. Debian Elections draw nearer, I think I might interview the candidates again, like all the past years!
I can almost type at a reasonable pace on a DVORAK layout, but still no touch typing action.
I had my first ever job interview today (at a local company called YottaYotta). My poor expectations were shattered, I was expecting to find an interesting but generally failing company, but instead they actually seem fairly reasonable. So now I may actually have to make some sort of choice and I'm not entirely sure how you go about doing that..
Finding a place to work always seemed so abstract, but now confronted with the brutal reality that there is a choice things seem rather dire. .
Being very indesicive sucks.
My forsaking the world continues at a good pace.
For no particular reason I thought I'd achieve something by learning the DVORAK keyboard layout. Several days into the madness and I aw still trudging along. This makes communication difficult which explains the forsaking
Perhaps eventually I can rejoin the world of the typing - it took several mins just to enter this diary entry!
It has been another month so I guess it is time to post something.
Debian had another disk crash and got a new box (klecker.debian.org) in order to replace the failed one. Lots of data was lost but nothing irreplacable. We still have two boxes that won't stay up more than a month, watchdog works good on one so the downtime is only about a half hour, the other nothing seems to work for. Sigh.
I never got to start my document, apathy rains supreme around here. Plus I'm feeling a major amount of aprehnsion about the future. How odd.
When did the diary entries turn into a chat line?
It has been brought to my attention that people have written processors to convert docbook reference pages into nroff suitable for man. I am overjoyed.
Years ago I sought this exact thing and came up empty so I decided to use yodl. Now I'm converting 1600 lines of yodl into docbook SGML - and overall the output result is much nicer but there are still problems - I will have to adjust the stylesheets and things.
I think I will also tank debiandoc-sgml and put those texts into a docbook format as well. Wee, unified documentation, I only need to remember one markup! What could be better?
So, I'm really doing all this so I can sit down and write an absolutely huge guide on how to use libapt. I'm doing that because I wrote some Python bidings (and bod is writing perl ones..). I can expect C++ programmers to grok the source, but not Ptyhon folks - so a big ole doc is the only answer.
I love writing documents, I expect this will take a good week to finish, have copious diagrams and things. I'm targeting something between 50 and 100 printed pages so we will see how that goes.
Xfree 4 won't stay up on my box. It hangs hard occasionaly, usually during screen bitmap copies. I guess the Matrox Mysitque support is slightly untested. That said, X4 is ungodly fast on this card. It is easially faster than some fast PIII's at pure graphic ops and it is just a P166!
Still have to add some framework for abstracting the things Conectiva added, the differences are quite small, but I'm going to clean some crap up in the process. rpm has some weird notions, like versioning order differs for depends and 'newness' , but otherwise it is an amazingly clean fit - one new dependency type, Obsoletes, which is really just Conflicts+Replaces rolled into one. The fact that APT can represent both systems fully (it actually will represent RPM more fully that most RPM tools!) is fairly interesting. I wonder what other packaging systems out there have the required structure. If RPM wasn't so ungodly expensive to generate all the meta data it might be fairly nice.
So, I think I fount out what is causes saens to die, it isn't OOM as I thought, but it seems the process table is full. I installed watchdog+softdog and the machine sucessfully crashed and rebooted with log messages from watchdog indicating that it was unable to fork due to EAGAIN which kernel source seems to indicate no more task entries.
The question is why - which is why I wrote this single process pid logger thingy jiggy to watch out. Some buggy daemon is creating excessive processes, bets are its proftpd. I had forgotten that I ulimited the hell out of proftpd ever so long ago, so OOM it aint.
Why do we use this? Why do all FTPd suck? All I want is a bullet proof, fast anon-only ftpd that meets the DFSG. Sigh.
Of course with my luck it will be apache or some weird ass kernel bug. At least it reboots itself now.
Debian got a /48 of IPv6 addresses yesterday and I used them to create a couple tunnels and bring more of our machines onto the 6bone. For those that are not familliar with IPv6.. a /48 is large enough to hold about 64000 subnets if you use the usual configuration scheme. Each of those subnets can contain the largest switched ethernet network you can build (> 10000 hosts).
Debian Potato will have quasi usful IPv6 support in many packages, woody should be even better. The problem is getting upstream to accept patches. I wish more people writing socket/network applications would look at RFC2553 and visit the Man Page viewer at OpenBSD.org and look up getaddrinfo - that will enable their App for IPv6 pretty much right off. glibc since 2.1 has supported the functions, but there are no man pages since it is GNU.
At work today we got a new Printer/Copier/Fax. A Canon imageRunner 210. Apparently it costs quite a large amount of money new, something like 10k$ CDN or more. Really nice device, it has a built in 3G disk, postscript, 11" paper path and all digital copying with the usual bells and whistles. We even got the 12 tray finisher+duplexer with the stapler :> It is completely self supporting, you don't need a server to baby sit print jobs too it or anything!
Trouble is the Windows Drivers SUCK, the printer has so many capabilities they simply don't cover because they are stuck in the model of uni-directional communication with the printer :<
What I thought was kind of remarkable, they included a program that would download PDFs to the printer, it was supposed to take them internally as PDFs and rasterize them with the built in PostScript engine and the internal fonts. The docs say it is faster than printing from Windows and gave better results than the PCL driver.
Trouble is, Linux and this printer is worse :> Sure it speaks protocols that linux handles like SMB and LPR, but the totally balkanized way printing is handled on unix makes using the finisher exceedingly difficult. For TeX I need to add an arcane set of options to get duplexing and stapling, Netscape/Mozilla just doesn't have any hope and I imagine a2ps and enscript need another nasty set of options.
So I read the linux printing articles that have been floating around after the summit and it sounds very interesting, particularly the PPD programs - which will take care of the finisher, but it is still just as bad as the windows drivers WRT to font handling, programs pretty much have to download vector fonts with every job, even though I have 3G of storage that is quite capable of persistantly caching fonts! (only thing it is good for :P)
I hope the people involved with linux printing can get really good support for these expensive buisness class printers, it would make the MS office replacment' idea feasable...
It seems I did attend OLS and just got back. I think I saw everyone there that I knew, certainly a fair number of people.
The HP guys were especially nice, I think we will soon see a nice PA-RISC port for Linux.
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The official site now has their write-up about Chopper or, more formally, C1-10P (note how the "1-1" looks like an "H") plus the same video and images, in addition to a shot of the Saga Legends Chopper figure. The figure looks pretty simple without any dirty paint wash, and hopefully the arms can at least fold out, even though this is a simple figure.
The article mentions that the show takes place four years prior to ANH, which is a little different than the five years mentioned at NYCC well, I believe Hidalgo said it was 14 years after ROTS, so maybe they truncated the timeline or something? It was probably just a ballpark estimate anyway.


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When I execute a script with a while loop in it locally, it causes a 500 Internal Server Error and crashes php4ts.dll. I am running Apache on WinME (::shudders:: I know)...is there some way of correcting this? Thanks...
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I'm not that dumb. It actually adjusts itself based on the number of files I have in a particular directory, and, as it stands, the loop only goes around six times. Anyone else?
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Princeton Laptop Orchestra premieres, April 4
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The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Special guest performers will be the New York City-based quartet So Percussion, accordion legend Pauline Oliveros and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain.
Directed by Dan Trueman, assistant professor of music, and Perry Cook, associate professor of computer science, PLOrk is a new ensemble of 15 musicians, each using a laptop computer and a variety of control devices to produce music through a six-channel hemispherical speaker. PLOrk, which is featured in the April issue of Wired Magazine, has been the basis for a freshman seminar last fall and a senior/graduate seminar this semester.
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Esohe Irabor is a native of Washington, D.C. When asked why she chose Rhode Island College, she says, "I like to call it a happy accident."
A life of travel and a career as a doctor has always been on the 19-year-old's wish list. Opting for an out-of-state college with a premed program fulfilled both ambitions. Moreover, she said, RIC has an agreement with Brown University's medical school wherein RIC students may be recommended as early decision candidates for Brown's medical program. It seemed like a perfect plan of action. Yet, even the best-laid plans can go awry.
Toward the end of her first semester, Irabor faced a financial crisis. She had run out of funds to pay for her second semester. She contemplated moving back to D.C. to attend a cheaper in-state school, but Lloyd Matsumoto, professor of biology, gave her a reason to stay.
"First he checked my academic profile to make sure I was worth fighting for," she said. Irabor entered RIC as an honors student, having graduated third in her class in high school with a GPA of 3.98. As a freshman at RIC, she was inducted into the 3.50 Society for academic excellence and was made a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She also became a member of the Gold Key Society, serving as a host and ambassador for the college. Irabor was worth fighting for.
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Irabor's plans for medical school at Brown have also changed. She said she'd now like to complete her biology degree at RIC and apply to Johns Hopkins University when she graduates. There are times, she said, when she gets lonely for her parents, who are natives of Nigeria: "My parents are the greatest influences in my life," she said. "Though they are far away, I find that I conduct myself as if they were only a block away." Home, she has discovered, is something you carry with you.
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Andy Souwer returned to the ring today in Japan at the shootboxing event "Road to S.Cup" act.2. It was Souwer's first "real" fight of the year, as he was supposed to fight at the Fighterzone show on February 25 that got completely messed up at the last minute. Souwer ended up just fighting in an exhibition match.
His opponent, Satoru Suzuki, was fresh off a win over Bovy Sor Udomson back in February. Souwer ended up winning in the second round after knocking Suzuki down three times. Souwer said that there was one "moment of weakness" in the fight where he was met with a right hand from Suzuki but after he stepped on the gas at the end of the first round. In the second round, Souwer said that his only goal was to make Suzuki leave the ring early. He used different techniques to force the knockdowns but said that his most effective techniques "once again" were his low kicks.
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|Thanks, jfbasser. I thought that it might be difficult when I saw the dimensions of it, but I bought it anyways. Oh well, it's a good excuse to buy another line
|I own the Teeny Tip Taper in 175 Grain. It is a modified chuck & duck line with added weight in the tip section and extremely difficult to cast. I have few spots that I fish that line in the salt that feature strong current through narrow passageways. I gets down faster than any other line and is excellent for its intended use and probably outfishes any other line in those conditions. It fishes well only with a short leader (4 feet). For general salt use, I would get another line. If it was easy to cast it would be longer than 82 feet :-)
|Thanks Jim, I'll try slowing down my stroke some. i did try it for a bit with my brother's rod, a St. Croix Pro-Graphite 9 wt., which is a softer rod, and that helped a bit. I'll also try slowing down my stroke a bit.
A couple of thoughts on your problem:
1. 275 grain is a bit light for a 9wt, but you indicatged it loaded the rod ok. I use a minimum of a 300, but generally a 350gr on a 9wt.
2. Short heads tend to dump, which gives you the "L" or the rubbish pile at the end. Try slowing down your forward cast. Heads generate a lot of line speed and shorter ones plain run out of unfurling with a kick at the end.
I find that using 26ft Rio Striper heads, I need to slow down the forward stroke to fully turnover and extend the head in a straight line.
Bjoth Rio and SA have debuted heads with T-14 that can be cut to length/grains based on the size of rod. I use 30ft on a 10wt, which translates into 420 grains.
Teeny TT-275?
I recently purchased a Teeny 275 grain Tip Taper line with a 22' head and 60' running line, and am having some difficulty casting it. I am using a 9x9 Orvis Clearwater rod, and a 6' 30 lb. Ande leader with a piece of yarn on it. While the line is loading the rod fine, only about 1 in 5 casts lands straight 60' out. 2 in five land in a mess at various distances, and 2 in five land in a very large L, hinging near where the head and running line join. I have triend throwing open and closed loops, sidearm casts, belgian/oval casts, and overhead casts. I have triend having 1-2 feet of overhang, as well as stripping the head into the rod and shooting it out on the back cast. The last fast sinking integrated shooting head that I used was a 300 grain Orvis Wonderline depthcharge, and that was a pleasure to cast, both on my orvis Clearwater and my 9x10 Loomis Crosscurrent, so I'm wondering if I'm screwing up, or if the line just sucks?
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Why? because you wouldn't try it?
If you have a good pattern at 70 yards, why not?
Face it - Hevi-Shot and the other HTL shot (Hevi-Shot isn't exactly new) is as different from Pb as Pb is from steel shot.
The ranges increase dramatically and the energy delivered at 60 ~ 70 yards with HTL shot is better than lead delivers at 40 yards.


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This has been a topic on a regional board for the past few days. The state no longer has use for a dog and offered the dog and all supplies at public auction. The auction ended early and it seems that the trainer, who was not initially aware of the auction, exercised an option to reclaim the dog. All that I know for certain is what is on the auction website and the reason for the auction ending early is hearsay.
I assume that the state, any state, has a responsibility and a process to rid itself of surplus property but this just rubs me the wrong way. I think at the very least the dog should have been offered separate from the equipment. I hope for the best for the dog.


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City to consider a proposed trial installation of a shark exclusion net for Fish Hoek Beach
The South Peninsula Subcouncil (19) will shortly be considering a proposal to take the first steps to begin a trial of shark exclusion nets in the southern section of Fish Hoek beach. If the South Peninsula Subcouncil approves the proposals the City will then make an application to the National Department of Environmental Affairs for a research permit, allowing the trial to go ahead.
If the approvals application and the trial is successful, the exclusion net will offer a potential long term option for increased bather safety, at limited or no risk to the marine environment.
In considering the use of the exclusion nets the City needs to balance the impact on the local Fish Hoek community:
- of the perception of it as an unsafe swimming area due to regular shark sightings resulting in bathers being kept out of the water;
- the impact that this has on local businesses, especially the tourism industry;
- the need to protect the natural environment which is a unique marine asset; and
- the need to be aware of and respectful of the current trek net rights at Fish Hoek Beach and the importance of these rights to the livelihoods of a number of people. As such the City will work with the rights holders to ensure minimal impact on those rights should the exclusion net proceed.
Since 2004, Fish Hoek Beach has had two fatal shark attacks as well as a third which resulted in severe injuries and the loss of a limb. As a result of the high presence of white sharks within the inshore area of this bay, recreational and social use of Fish Hoek Beach, as well as social perceptions of Fish Hoek Beach, have been negatively impacted.
In 2006, the City contracted the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board to assess the potential of deploying an exclusion net at Fish Hoek Beach as a safety measure.
"At the time, it was recommended not to deploy an exclusion net. The potential for deployment of an exclusion net as additional bather safety measure now needs to be reconsidered," said Alderman Belinda Walker, Mayoral Committee Member for Economic, Environmental & Spatial Planning.
An exclusion net is not the same as shark nets currently used in KwaZulu-Natal.
Exclusion nets are small meshed nets designed to act as a barrier to sharks preventing them from entering an enclosed area. In the proposed trial the area that would be protected would be kept to a minimum, but large enough to provide a recreational space and training area for the life-saving club. As such the area would be less than the size of two rugby fields and would run from just off Jaggers Walk on the south of the beach diagonally across to the Law Enforcement offices on the beach. The small mesh of the nets prevents capture or entanglement of marine species and the net acts only as a barrier.
Shark nets on the other hand are used along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline and are essentially fishing devices known as large meshed gill nets that entangle and catch sharks, reducing the local shark population and, by fishing for sharks within the vicinity of a protected beach, reducing the risk of shark attack. They cover large geographic areas and are further out at sea than exclusion nets. These nets are not species selective and hence also result in a range of other marine species becoming entangled.
"We will be proposing to the Subcouncil and ultimately Council that the exclusion net be deployed under a research permit, as this will provide the only realistic means of assessing the potential success of the net as a long term safety device. If it proves successful, bathers will be safer and the local economy would benefit," said Ald Walker.
On completion of the trial, long term implementation would require prior Environmental Authorization in terms of the National Environmental Management Act.
The trial installation of an exclusion net within the confines of a research permit does not require public consultation. A public process will nonetheless be conducted for Interested and Affected Parties to raise issues for consideration in order that the City can get the best sense of the public's needs.
The deployment of an exclusion net, both as a trial research project as well as a potentially permanent feature, will have capital and operational costs for the City. As part of the trial the City will be investigating possible funding options.
The concept of installing an exclusion net at Fish Hoek Beach is not without risk. But based on intensive research, the City believes that this course of action is possible and practical.
With the appropriate resources, training and daily management, the exclusion net would have minimal ecological impacts, would detract little from the sense of place of Fish Hoek Beach, would in relative terms be a cost effective option, and be in the public interest.
"It is likely to have significant social and economic benefits for the Fish Hoek area, and would meet the needs of the City's perspective of implementing safety measures that meet the needs of our communities while not negatively impacting on our rich marine environment," said Ald Walker.
If the proposal meets all of the necessary requirements the project is anticipated to be implemented on a trial basis in October 2012.
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Good way of describing, and pleasant paragraph to obtain facts about my presentation subject matter,
which i am going to deliver in college.
The nets will disrupt the balance of marine
life. When people step into the ocean they
know they are taking a risk of encountering
a wild animal. When human life is lost it is very
tragic and I feel for the family's that have lost
loved ones. However that does not give us the
right to harm marine life especially great white
sharks who's number have dramatically decreased.
Rather you love sharks or hate sharks they play
an important role and maintain a healthy
balance in our ocean. The ocean is not a
swimming pool for humans. If you choose
to enter this wild environment it's at your own
Jessica you seem to make rather bold statements above, obviously without researching the application or having access to real facts. The net is a fully enclosed net (ref to websites – Hong Kong experience over a perriod of more than 15 years). The mesh sizes vary between 75 and 100mm. There is no way that it will cause any disruption to marine life. The design is not diamond shaped but rather squares. The net will cover 3,5% of the Bay area – how can it possibly damage the "balance" in the Bay. Humans live with far less Oxygen in gauteng than we down here in Cape Town. Species do adapt. There is more proof of growth in GW population than decrease along our coastline since the GW became a protected specie more than 20 years ago. The initial installation installation of the net is an expeerimental phase and should actually be seen as the practical side of an impact study.
Whilst i am against shark nets for a host of reasons, i would like to comment on your response to Erol Erikkson's posting that the tourists from the busses have no idea of what the flag system means.
This simply highlights once more, the need for education and responsible tourism. Surely, in a country where the White Shark is becoming something of an attraction and a money making business, the tour operators could in some way both explain the flag system, and highlight how much safer our waters are if one adheres to the measures that shark spotters have put in place.
If the city do get the go ahead for netting Fish Hoek, i hope that they do not stop the spotting program. Historically, more sharks as well as other marine life are found on the inside of the nets, often trapped in them. It would be a pity to discover Southern Rights, which come very close inshore in the Fish Hoek bay, entangled in the mesh.
The spotting program would certainly help in seeing when an animal has swum through/around/under/into a net, as well as still providing the safety measure of someone having 'eyes' on the water at all times.
As a surfer and frequent ocean user, I have certainly felt 100% safer since the spotting program has been implemented.
Thank you for your constructive input. We agree 100%. The Boards should be positioned where they are more visible – or more Boards installed. May be in two or three international languages. We as locals would and could never get rid of the Shark Spotters. The major problem is that the concept (if one base it on when the black flag), then the system is 30% effective. This is caused by the roughness of the sea (wind), glare, clouds, rain, etc. However, they are always on duty at Fish Hoek Bay and because of their experience could sometimes pick up sharks close to the shoreline under these conditions. Therefore the system is not foolproof.
You state that you are against netting. We are certainly against the killer Gill nets used at KZN and NSW beaches – they unfortunately have no choice because of the wave mechanics at their beaches – but we have studied the Hong Kong netting programme and 100% effective results now for many years with no effect on sea life, and therefore realise that it is the only solution for the protection of bathers at this stage.
I would like to highlight one point. Of those three attacks, two occured when the shark present flag was flying.
This shows that the current measures are working only that people (regular swimmers in both cases, who where familiar with the flags) are choosing to ignore them. That is their progative, but in no way an indication that the shark spotter are failing.
What you state is technically correct. However, if you ask the people at the beach or those getting off the tourist busses at the Galley exactly what the various flags mean, they have no idea and think that the black flag means – SHARKS are present! Secondly, the Shark Spotters do a wonderfull job but conditions during the summer months is of such a nature that the black flag is waving 60 to 70% of the time? Thirdly, the concept of swimming at your own risk is a difficult one. You will for ever get someone that makes the wrong decision and this will continue giving Fish Hoek and other beaches on the False Bay coastline a bad name.
nets should not be used. When u go into the ocean, you are stepping into the wild. You enter the wilderness at your own risk. Oceans are not a play ground or swimming pool for humans. The oceans are the sharks habitat not ours. Also, nets do not keep all sharks out and they also kill sharks, turtles, rays, dolphins, seals and many more marine life. #SaveSharks keep oceans healthy.
This approach is rather outdated and does not solve any of problems.
Outdated because it "doesn't solve a problem" or doesn't fit a budget? Come on, wake to reality where natural resources is destroyd because it doesn't fit a budget" !!! If budget and money is the drive, think of alternatives…Entice tourist by having a opportunity to view apex predators in their natural habitat(Gansbay is makeing a killing on this), swim next door at Long Beach and view at Vishoek.
Let's look the stats:
November 2004 – 77-year-old woman taken by shark while out on one of her daily swims.
January 2010 – Zimbabwean tourist killed by a great white.(Main cause: Blood loss)
September 2011 – British tourist attacked by a shark and suffered severe injuries and loss of limb.
February 2012 – Proposal of exclusion net for Fish Hoek Bay
…..Think about it…4 people over a 8 year period… wow, I can only hope for similar stats on car accidents and guess what, we're not closing down roads are we??
Not safe.. let me think about this…uhmm,…duhhh!!
Context is required when analysing anything based on nature and economics and if any attention is given to lessons learned, economics might win short term ,but what exactly is the price we pay…?? THINK about it!!
Another outburst by a person that do not understand progress or problem solving? No, in short, we love to swim every morning without breaking our arms in shallow waist deep water and why should we swim at Long Beach anyway if we can walk to our own beach? I can't see that 3% of the Bay for bathers will affect you and your mates in the sea. Tell us more about the damage to natural resources? I suggest you study the proposal and research it on the internet. Maybe you see the light one day…? Otherwise lets go for a BIG tiddle pool like Monwabisi and really spoil it?
Also, these are not Gill netting as used at the Natal shores and have a much smaller meshing – no entanglement or getting stuck of any sea life such as sharks, dolphins, etc.
I agree with the proposal and trial.
Is there more information about the type of net that is going to be used?
Some data and/or photos.
Yes, various articles, concept and design drawings are available on the internet. Check "Hong Kong full enclosure shark nets" on the Internet. Basically the net is designed for spring tide, floats on the water surface and is well anchored on the sea bed. Normally the meshing is 35mm square for the first 2m and 100mm square mesh there after (depth). It is quite suitable where spilling type waves are the norm – such as Fish Hoek (shallow beach gradient). The strength is much stronger (2300kNewton) than the Gill netting used at our Natal shores which have diamond meshing of 510mm.
I think that this is something that is definitely worth a try.
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Treat yourself to the spoils of this week's Escape for a one-night ($239 for Sundays through Thursdays; $259 for Fridays and Saturdays) or two-night ($349 for Sundays through Thursdays; $369 for Fridays and Saturdays) Escape, which includes a deluxe room stocked with thoughtful amenities for up to two adults and two kids, a bottle of champagne, one 50-minute Swedish massage or European facial (not including $30 or 20-percent of the $125-retail-rate gratuity), valet parking, and the resort fee.
You'll feel like an important general stealing away to your stately country manor at this expansive 500-acre resort. Keep your physical training current by taking a swim in the indoor/outdoor aquatic complex, shooting a round of golf on 45 holes designed by Robert Trent Jones, II and Greg Norman, and hiking the miles of outdoor paths along the scenic Potomac River.
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Leave the wooden teeth, apple tree axe, and powdered wig behind—this week's Escape is all about unscheduled liberty.
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CALISTOGA, Calif. -- Timing is everything. Standup comedians know it. Counter-punching boxers know it. And, I suspect, Acura's chief engineers now also have a better appreciation of the perfectly timed punch. Or punchline.
The specification list for Acura's current RL reads like the perfect Canadian luxury sedan. It's powered by a high-tech V6 that boasts its frugality as much as its performance, just like the rest of the luxury market where six-, and even four-cylinder engines now reign supreme. It also features an incredibly sophisticated all-wheel-drive system, important since well more than 80 per cent of the upper luxury sedan segments leave Canadian dealerships driving all four wheels.
The only problem is that Acura launched its high-tech marvel in 2005 and, in those pre-Great Recession days, fuel economy didn't matter a whit, at least not to those shopping luxury automobiles. Eight cylinders were what was needed to impress the fashionably well-to-do back then.
All-wheel-drive was also just something quirky little Audi was trying to foist on the market as its differentiator from BMW and Mercedes. Real luxury cars drove the rear wheels because sporty performance was more important than all-wheel-drive safety.
So, in 2005, the RL, which today would have been greeted with significant interest, landed with a thud. RLs are a rarity on the road (the carmaker didn't help by insisting on pricing the out-of-step sedan at $70,000, about the same as an eight-cylinder 2005 BMW 545i) with Acura selling fewer than 200 units per year.
So, this year sees a new, equally high-tech RL being launched as the RLX, and Acura hoping the new version has the timing of a Jay Leno punchline or a Floyd Mayweather counter left hook. And, just as in 2005, it will be Acura's timing and reading of the market that will determine whether the RLX is a success or not.
The first bit of good news is that Acura isn't making the same pricing mistake. Jerry Chenkin, Honda Canada's executive vice-president, promises a base model that will start at "under $50,000" and even if that means $49,999, it's $20,000 less than the car's base price in 2005.
The second bit of good news is that the new RLX is festooned with neat trinkets. Acura introduced something called Lane Keeping Assist system, which gently guides the RL back into a lane should you drift across the painted lines. It's especially appreciated if you hate those infernal Lane Departure Warnings (which the RLX also has) that beep incessantly every time you get even remotely close to a lane divider.
Acura is also proud of its Adaptive Cruise Control system, which, it says, not only maintains a safe distance to the car in front, but also can navigate traffic jams by itself since it continues to operate after the RLX has come to a complete stop.
Other interior detail touches impress, my favourite being the steering wheel-mounted rotary knob that controls the audio system's volume but also the radio's scanning function by sliding sideways.
It's also worth noting that the RLX's interior is huge. Acura boasts that while its exterior dimensions mimic a BMW 5 Series, the RLX's rear seat legroom is akin to the larger 750i and, for once, marketing bumf is more than just an idle boast.
The company is most proud, however, of its new AcuraLink cloud-based connected car system, which uses an embedded cellphone to allow owners to activate certain functions -- door closings, sound the horn and flash the lights when you've lost your car in a parking lot and even create a virtual dashboard so you can check your fuel range remotely -- via a smartphone. AcuraLink also offers thousands of news and entertainment feeds as well as airbag deployment notification to emergency services and a 24-hour personalized concierge service a la GM's OnStar.
The RLX's engine, yet another evolution of Honda's 3.5-litre V6 gains direct fuel injection. Maximum power is up to 310 hp, yet the overall fuel economy is increased to what Acura says is a class-leading 8.6 L/100 km. The result is a smooth, quiet engine with exemplary manners if not quite class-leading speed. If that sounds like faint praise, it's because the powertrain is the one aspect of the RL that doesn't stand out.
The RLX's driving dynamics, with the one not-quite-easily-dismissed caveat that the RL is only currently available with front-wheel-drive, is exemplary. The firmish suspension greatly enhances handling, but it is the big Acura's steering system that really shines.
The company has revamped its four-wheel-steering system (called Precision All Wheel Steer or P-AWS) to allow independent control of the rear wheels.
P-AWS can steer both wheels in the same direction as the front (for a quicker reaction time in lane-change manoeuvres), in the opposite direction to the front tires (for shorter turning radius at parking lot speeds) or even toe both wheels in toward the centre of the car (to improve stability when braking in a straight line).
Whatever the case, the 2014 RLX almost completely disguises its FWD roots -- especially in Sport mode (which stiffens the steering and quickens the response of the P-AWS system) -- and rails through California switchbacks like a much smaller car. If one is a fan of front-wheel-drive sedans, the new Acura is among the best.
This brings us back to the one caveat mentioned earlier. Currently, the RLX will be sold in three guises, all front-wheel-drive: Base, Technology and Elite. And while the base version will start at below $50,000, the Elite is likely to command upwards of $70,000, seriously testing what affluent Canadians will be willing to pay for a front-wheel-drive luxury sedan, no matter how fine-handling.
While I think the base model may have legs, Acura might have trouble moving the top-of-the-line trims -- $70,000 is a lot of money for a Japanese front-wheel-drive sedan.
Salvation is at hand, however. Later in the year, Acura will offer the awkwardly named but technically enticing Sport Hybrid Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive RLX. Two electric motors in the rear wheels (along with another, centrally mounted unit) add AWD to the RL's portfolio as well as more power (370 hp in all) and better fuel economy (as yet unstated).
I suspect that, if priced competitively with other AWD models in the segment, the Sport Hybrid may be the technology that gives the RLX lasting credibility. Priced wrong, however, and this RLX may be relegated to the backwaters of the luxury market, just like its predecessor. At the very least it will tell us if Acura's timing and reading of the market has got any better.
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What are the services that LifeCell offers?
Before I joined the company, LifeCell was a single product company offering only cord blood banking, a service which allows parents to store stem cells extracted from their baby's cord blood at the time of birth. These stem cells are collected immediately after birth and transported to LifeCell's lab within 48-72 hours. The cells are then processed and stored in minus 200 degrees Centigrade in liquid Nitrogen.
Once I was on board, we were able to expand the number of service offerings. We launched add-on services such as umbilical cord tissue banking.
Human blood is extremely rich in hematopoietic stem cells, which play an important role in the regeneration of blood and immune systems for the treatment of blood-related ailments such as leukemia and myeloma. The mesenchyme stem cells extracted from the umbilical cord tissue can be used for muscle and organ regeneration, including that of heart muscles, cartilages, and pancreas among others.
Although the real life use of mesenchyme cells for the treatment of diseases is currently more in its experimental stage, as compared to the use of hematopoietic cells, umbilical cord banking holds massive potential and we are looking into it. LifeCell is also the only company to offer menstrual blood stem cell banking, a service which was introduced in India in 2011.
We have recently launched BabyShield, our new born genetic screening service. Apart from this, we are also working on R&D programs to develop dendritic cell cancer vaccines. The lab work regarding for this is ongoing and we are in the process of building an in-house program for this. We hope to initiate human clinical trials starting next year.
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Last week I wrote about the inability of Europe and China to come to an agreement that would avoid tariffs on Chinese module producers. Well, the trade war continues this week, as China has hit the U.S. and South Korea with duties of its own.
Reuters has the details:
…last October, the United States leveled steep final duties on Chinese-made solar products, a move Beijing warned would provoke greater trade frictions in the new energy sector.
Thursday's decision slapped hefty duties of 53.3 to 57 percent on U.S. polysilicon and duties on South Korean exports ranging from 2.4 percent to 48.7 percent.
A response to Europe's tariffs, however, has been delayed.
China's solar stocks have reacted positively to the news. LDK Solar (LDK) has gained 5.9% to $1.79, while JA Solar (JASO) has jumped 2.5% to $9.02 and Trina Solar (TSL) has climbed 1.3% to $7.30.
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Since I've had a bit of time over the holidays, Ive started construction on a GL spey fishing site devoted to the use of the long rod in the GL basin. This site has to have a purpose so to fill that I need, Ive been kicking around the idea of a specialised GL approach. While Scotland, Scandinavia, and the PNW have their traditions, we have nothing that approximates a GL tradition or approach. Something like this doesnt get started from scratch, neither can it be dreamt up by an individual its an outgrowth of the accumulated, shared experiences of numerous anglers. So, since we havent yet created our own, perhaps we can pinch the best of others and meld them together into a useful synergy that can serve us well.
For this website, Im working on a 1-2-2-2 concept one rod, two lines, two casts, and two variations -- but before I go to the bother of building this into the site, I want to run it past the folks here to get your opinions. Im banking on this being an approach that should appeal to a first time long rodder as it simplifies this business down to into something manageable. It should work for the experienced long rodder as it provides a basis for the building of an efficient technique and it should work for that tweener who has been down the long rod road for a while but for whom things have yet to gel.
This approach is based on the idea that it should be applicable to the broadest range of GL waters while using the minimum amount of gear and technique. It does not preclude the use of other casts, methods, or gear rather, it answers the simple question, What is the minimum I need to have and know in the way of rods, lines and casts, to fish these waters with reasonable efficiency?
For rods, Im suggesting something in the 13 to 136 lengths in the 7/8/9 weight ranges, as rods in these classes seem to be suitable for the widest spectrum of our waters. Some rivers might need smaller rods while others need larger, but if you had to make do on these rivers, a rod in this range would suffice. For the rest of the majority of rivers, a rod in this range is ideal.
As for lines, we sometimes have the need to cast short and sometimes we need to cast long. Sometimes we want to strip line and other times we dont. Sometimes we need to get real deep and other times we dont. Sometimes we want to dead drift and other times we want to swing. To find a single line that does everything on this list is pretty tough so Im suggesting two, a Skagit set up and a mid-belly tips line. If the purchase is well planned, one needs only a mid-belly tips and then uses those tips on a Skagit belly to complete the set.
As for casts, the more you can do the better, but if you had to live with two, what would they be? These casts have to handle wind, large changes of direction, be easy to perform especially off the wrong shoulder, and be able to lift tips with ease. Ive found the combination of Double and Circle to be the best. First off, theyre mirror images of each other so if you can learn one, the other is easy. They cover upstream and downstream winds, right and left banks. The high lift and broad sweep is ideal for tips, and they can handle all sorts of directions.
Finally, we dont always have the luxury of lots of room so the ability to perform both of these casts with either regular D-Loops or continuous/water loading loops, gives us the flexibility to move between situations with lots of room and limited room.
So, my intention is to build a site with this 1-2-2-2 method at it's core, plus include river essays and articles from GL anglers who would like to describe their successful technique (agreement with 1-2-2-2 is not required. ). The site would also have space for gear and technique descriptions beyond the 1-2-2-2 as obviously, I'm not promoting this as some be all and end all. It wouldn't include a forum or a chat so it wouldn't compete with this forum in any way.
Any thoughts?
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I would focus on the flies which work in the Great Lakes system and the techniques which make those flies successful, not try to come up with a new technique with the goal of naming a GL technique. Some environmental factors could come second, size of most waters, weather throught the winter months, and so far. One of the demanding factors of our winter fishing is the fact that our winters tend to be much harsher than the PNW and our water sources have less springs and are more dam oriented, at least in NY. If you ook at the skagit style or the tip systems they use in the PNW you will find, if the flies they are throwing that way didn't work, they would be using different flies in a different technique that works. Any thoughts?
Ya, I can drop that part -- going by the underwhelming response it received, it's probably a smart idea. Probably flies and technique should be high on the list, followed by lines, and lastly rods since we're usually, "dancin' whit what brung us."
Actually, I cut to the chase with that description of the approach, but much of what is implict in it, involves dealing with winter -- specifically casting mid-belly tips lines that don't need to be stripped, etc.
I'm hoping that peole who contribute, will provide info on their waters along the lines you've mentioned.
I'm heading up to the Salmon, this week. I'll let you know how what where, Supposed to be in the forties on Thursday.
Thanks, we're heading off to the Grand tomorrow for one more round before she closes till April.
I'll be saving any info people send me on rivers and such, then roll them into the site, (with the appropriate credits of course).
i would be happy to contribute to the stew, but i'm not really sure what you are asking for. if it's just a went here caught this then no thanks. but, if you want technical details and notes on technique for certain waters or flies for the like i think it may be very useful. imho your first post was difficult for me to understand exactly what you wanted out of us. definitly interested and willing, just need some direction.
I like the idea, this sharing of information can be very handy.
We could tailor it to I fish river x using this rod in the winter with the following lines, using these casts(some rod/line combos to me anyway have certain cast/casts that light them up). We could get down to what fly is used whether it is swung or dead drifted etc...
We don't need fishing reports per se, maybe more like a river condition report. When on the Mo' with water at xyz cfs with this clarity and H2O temp fish turned on for me.
This sharing of fishing related information would surpass tss and the other fishing hotspot sites. IMHO we don't need to know if the fish are stacked below an area, half the fun is the hunt of these chrome babies.
If I have been reading Peter's notes right for the half year I have been conected to the site, I know he doesn't need to know where and when. I think he is interested in coming up with a distintcly Great Lakes way to use the spey rods. One of the things that I have noticed from reading about the Lakes is that my fishery in the eastern part of Lake Ontario is vastly different form the upper Penninsylia of Michigan so coming up with a way to use all throughout the Lakes may be difficult. In my neck of the woods the rivers are littered with shale boulders and bedrock creating jagged ledges and long smooth flats. Some hold fish, others do not. The way I have seen most people use speys on the Salmon river is with a straight line on 10lb mono, a swivel with 1,2, or 3 #7 splits and then a four foot piece of whatever tippet. Peter's continueous load system works well for casting this rig up to a certain point. This is a good system to fish nymphs and eggs and probably grew out of an extention of the running line system which is the most popular and most productive. I have been fooling around with cut sections of type 6-8 tips with my windcutter with some success and popsicle type flies. One of the advantages of both of these is that on cold days we needn't strip line in, and our guides don't freeze.
Yup, the enthusiasm for an idea gets the better of me sometimes and I blither on. Basically, I wasn't trying to invent a tradition (that can't be done) but I was trying to take a minimalist approach to detemine what rig will fish the widest spectrum of GL rivers.
As far as info was concerned, exactly guys, I'm not interested in, "The weather was such 'n' such and we caught three fish." rather, I'm interested in collecting technique and river info like Shaq mentioned. "On such 'n' such a river, we have to use this sort of rig to get down between the boulders. We've found the xyz line works great, etc. etc." The idea being that if one of us wants to fish a GL river that we've never been to before, by reading the stuff on the site we'll have an idea of what we'll face in the way of river conditions and some idea of gear and technique that'll be needed to catch fish. Think of it as a collection of river experiences.
BTW, I was out today on the Grand getting one last fling in before the season closes. I had only one pull but Dave hooked up and lost two.
I agree with nixing the show and tell type site, which already exists and is abit nauseating sometimes. I'm an experienced flyfisher, but a rank amateur 2-hander. I enjoy learning from this site and its contributors. Today I cast a spey rod for the first time. Not sure what type of cast I was doing but got it to work and was amazed at how easily 60 or 70 ft of line flies. No fish, but I'm hooked.
Hey, the angler has to be hooked before the fish can . . . .
I bought a Sage 14' 9wt and rio lines/tips on ebay. The tips weren't identified. How do I tell what each tip is?
The tip with the yellow loop is type 3, the grey loop tip is type 6, and green loop tip is type 8.
Quick hookset, I see.
Peter, great idea on the site. I really think the GL long rodders get overlooked on other local websites. That, and I am sick and tired of some of aft said web site.
I like MJYP's input above. Mo was flowing at "XXX" cfs, clarity was"XXXX", I was fishing a long/short, deep/shallow, run/riffle/pool, using "XXXX" tip, on "XXX" line, with"XXX" rod. "while fishing "XXX" run, an "XXX" cast was needed due to "XXXX" conditions. Get what I'm saying? No need for pictures of garbage bags full of kings, or king roe, but an occasional pic wouldn't hurt.
Rather than another website have you considered talking to Dana about a seperate section under the speyclave that would deal with this issue. Perhaps you would able to moderate it.
I think the concept is a good one but I wonder if it wouldn't be better to keep the conversation focused here where people like Simon, Dana, Bob Meiser, Juro, and countless other reps are frequently on line and can answer technical questions.
Perhaps instead of just having a "Great Lakes Steelhead & Salmon" section on the fly fishing forum we look at adding a GL section to the spey clave to do what you are talking about.
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