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Very well stated. I apologize if I came across as "anti- Catch'n keep".
IMHO, as long as you are legally having fun, that's what we go out there for right.
I agree that the "Table Saumon" should look into tags and yearly quotas, ... we'll wait and see what comes of the document which was sent tothe minister. (and we WON'T speculate on it here )
I love salmon fishing, ... for many different reasons. I'll put back most of the salmon I connect to. I also LOVE seeing another angler fulfill their reason for being there too.
If they want and succeed in getting 2 grisle, heck I'll help 'em bag and tag. A happy ff is a return ff.
Very well said Salmo 52,
Be it Atlantic Salmon or wild Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest we all must make individual decisions on release or to keep a fish once in a great while. Out in the PNW amoung fly fishermen it is almost entirely C&R. We are looked at as kooks by some and fish tormentors by others. I must say it has become a religion of release. But one thing I do know is that most of us would very much love from time to time keep a wild fish when it is allowed. There would be nothing more religious than a wild fish on the Easter table. Your thoughts and feelings on keeping such a fish ring true in most of us. I have never kept a wild Steelhead in 24 years of fishing for them but hope somewhere in the future our river world we live in will be healthy enough to do so, just once would all I ask.
Your world of Atlantic Salmon fishing differs some from that of wild Steelhead fishing in that most of it is done with a fly rod and over here on Americas west coast more is done with conventional gear. Our seasons have been cut way back on most rivers when wild fish start to show up. Fly fishermen and a few gear fishermen push hard for a longer C&R season. I was once for it but realize it should not happen because of catch mortallity. If it were only a selective fishery such as flies and lures with barbless hooks it could be done without much damage because we hook so few fish in winter.
But on many of our rivers there can be on any given day 15 to 20 jet boats and that many drift boats fishing terminal gear. Many of these boats have talented guides or fishermen in them and to hook between 5 and 10 or more fish in a day happens more often than we like to think. This does not work with C&R as mortality even at 5% in too high. If we fished in the Atlantic Salmon tradition we could have our extended C&R season but in the USA it will not happen because it would be discrimination against those that fish with terminal gear.
Keep up all the hard work on C&R around the world on Atlantic Salmon fishing. If there is one fish that it will have a great sucsess rate it is the Atlantic Salmon because you have for many years set the most difficult of standards in fishing for the king of fishes.
C&R is a personal choice and every angler has a right to make that choice. Retention of large salmon in Quebec is permissible (on an individual river and seasonal basis). I do not believe that there will be mandatory release of all large salmon province wide (as is the case in New Brunswick) for a long time, if ever.
You are right that many factors are responsible for putting pressure on populations of wild atlantic salmon. In Gaspe there is a large clear cutting operation between the York and St. Jean rivers that will definately take a toll on both rivers. My understanding is that the new "wisdom" is that clear-cutting is best for the environment and rivers. The "silly notion" of selective cutting is no good anymore. This is the "wisdom" of biologists in Natural Resources who undoubtedly receive pressue from the logging industry.
Then, of course, there are seals, striped bass, changing ocean conditions,, etc. We can try to influence industry and government but that often proves to be a long and uphill battle. We can educate fellow anglers on the positive aspects of C&R but at the end of the day it is an individual choice. At the end of the day, it is we as individual anglers who can directly have an impact.
This impact on an individual basis is not great in and of itself. Whether one retains a single salmon or seven is in itself not critical. However, if all of my clients, for example, killed their salmon last year there would have been over 500 less salmon on the spawning beds last fall. That would be irresponsible in this day and age for a commerical business to have such a large impact. That was the premise of my post; that those who are involved as outfitters or guides or any commercial expolitation on the rivers should make it a policy to return all large salmon back to the rivers.
There are some commercial enterprises that do not necessarily share this view (yes, they, too, have a choice). I am not trying to single any such business out, nor will I. But, I do believe that all of us who do operate commercial enterprises should practice C&R for large salmon. We can and should decide who we accept as clients.
As to individual anglers like yourself the choice is yours. In our case we might disagree on full C&R but we can do so respectfully!
Bill Greiner
Malbaie River Outfitters
Some thoughts about C&R and C&K :
First, I must confess I keep salmon on occasions and release on others. I always try not to see it as a religion but rather analyze the problem as a whole.
What is the impact of releasing a fish if as an individual, I subscribe to a political party or elect politicians who will vote laws dammageable to the environment and subsidize lumber companies who practice clearcutting resulting in erosion, siltation and destruction of the salmon habitat etc.
It may not be easy to acknowledge but we all live in a universe of predation; salmon has to deal with mergansers, otters, man etc. and we, as human must do with the mega-corporations of this world I guess.
The practice of C&R is a very noble cause and has to be promoted, it's a fact that a released fish will probably spawn and will contribute to the continuity of our sport. All the regions who have seen their fish population diminish to the point where it was almost critical have developped C&R practices.
To be a 100% honest in practicing C&R, it's my firm belief that one would have to use CS2003 Hooks (touch & go) created by John Betts and commercialized by Partridge of Redditch, these hooks have an eye at both extremities and allow the fish to free himself without having to suffer à ten minutes fight with all the inconvenients of it (for the fish).
Man is a creature of ambiguïty, while we're fighting a fish and having the best time of our life, we forget or erase of our mind, the fact that the poor creature is not having as much fun as we have on the bank, in reality, the fish is stressed to the point where comes a time he has to surrender, accept his own death, and finally, comply to his torturer.
Am I a better man because I return the fish to his home waters ? Probably not, am I a better sportman ? Maybe, but who can judge ?
If I decide to keep the salmon, there is one thing you can be certain, deep inside, I will not feel so happy, but this dead fish I will eat every ounce I can, I'll open a good bottle of wine and in good company, will celebrate the fight he gave me. One of the reason I kill fish on occasion is because it's a wild creature and you just can't buy wild creatures at the grocery. Farmed salmon are almost lethal when you consider all the antibiotics and other medicinal substances they have to ingurgitate before they arrive on your table.
I will not elaborate on the way Quebec administer its salmon ressource but IMHO, Quebec laws are too permissive in allowing to kill 7 salmon. However, we have to keep in mind that only a low percentage of fishermen will capture the allowed limit ( 2%) if I refer to a FQSA poll. The work in progress at the "table saumon" will probably lower the actual limit and it will be a very positive move.
Sometimes, you will see me with blood on my hands on the river bank, do not panic, it won't be human blood. I just hope you will not consider me as an extraterrestrial but only a human being with all the ambiguities and contradictions it implies.
There has been increased empshasis on C&R on many of the Gaspe rivers over the past couple of years and I believe that it is much easier to make headway now than a few years ago.
The zec Gaspe took proactive measures 2 years ago which increased the C&R seasons on 2 of its rivers and substantially reduced the numbers of salmon being killed since then.
Similarly, the Grande River, which was C&R in 2004 by government mandate had the possibility of being opened in 2005 for killing big salmon. Positive discussions by myself and one other individual convinced that zec to VOLUNTARILY be C&R for 2005.
Further, I hear that there will be a new proposal with widespread appeal and support to alter the tag system in Quebec from what it is now.
It takes time and I, for one, have learned the importance of patience and diplomacy!
In the meantime, it is important to educate people 1 at a time about the enjoyment of fishing for future generations (it is in our hands) as well as the economic value of a salmon which is released back to the river.
Last year I commited that we would not permit clients to kill large salmon and non were killed in 122 of fishing. I know that Dave and Glen feel exactly as I do. I would encourage all outfitters and guides to adopt the same committment to the resource.
Bill Greiner
Malbaie River Outfitters
Bill Greiner
Malbaie River Outfitters
I'm originally from BC, so C&R was "in my blood" from the start. Once i moved to Quebec, boy ... what an eye opener.
In the #18 zone where I fish for brook trout, the limit is 20 per day. Further, the interpretation of the law as to daily versus possession limits were not clear. Lots of anglers were taking 20 trout per day for EVERY day fished. On a long weekend, that means a group of 4 were taking home nearly 240 trout.
C&R of adult salmon has been obligatory on the a few salmon rivers in the Saguenay for 2 years now. The 205 regs just came out (preliminary) and we're still C&R for the Ste-Marguerite. I assume that the other 3 rivers in the region will be too. For sea run brookies, we put in daily limts of 5 with only one over 15 inches.
Even some of the wardens held that C&R was lethal at all times. Recently, we caught spawners (sea run brook trout) on barbless hooks, stored them in PVC tubes, transfered them to holding pens, then transplanted them to another irver in the region (Ste-Marg to Mars Rv). As far as we could tell, NO mortality.
Gave the "doubters" some food for thought.
It is fair to say that a combination of C&R, habitat improvment, hatcheries and buyouts of inshore nets provide excellent safeguard to the future of our salmon stocks. However, in my opinion not enough praise (in general)is given to the successful efforts of the NASF buying out offshore salmon nets(especially from some National fishing magazines).
Without their contribution, I am sure that efforts to save International salmon stocks would be a complete up hill struggle.
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Unfortunately there are still to many who need one for the pot, even if it the only one they catch all week. Things are improving, the Spey returned almost 70% of the fish caught last year, but it required the Spey board to make recommendations. Rivers with no recomendations still return only a small percentage.
Funny, having not fished often in your home waters, I just assumed that C&R was at least as widespread as in North America.
Acceptance here in Quebec is slowly coming along as well. Used to be, many felt that a released fish was condemmed to die anyway.
Let's Hope
Aye, it is a good start. Want to see it become a trend.
|Willie Gunn
|I hope in this case that one swallow does make a summer. There is still a lot of work to do and in Scotland we were just starting to win the C&R arguement which will be more difficult if the runs of fish increase.
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I spent part of my Friday night last week in the balcony of Kaneland High School's auditorium during their opening night performance of West Side Story. As the school's orchestra played the familiar music, I half wanted to just sit back and enjoy the show, instead of taking photos.
I've always loved musicals, and West Side Story is on my list of favorites. It joins The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, Wicked - I could go on forever.
I'll get a chance to test my musical knowledge this Saturday for the annual Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley Trivia Bee at the Q Center in St. Charles. The Kane County Chronicle will have two teams of three competing. Wish us luck!

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Kleefisch pulls child support proposal
Rep. withdrew bill after criticism that he wrote it for former constituent, donor
A controversial bill to change child support and placement in the state is now on hold.
Rep. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, withdrew the bill Tuesday after criticism that he had written it for a former constituent and donor.
Kleefisch said he's been working on the bill for six years, and is adamant he didn't write it for one specific case, but rather concerns over how child support is being awarded in the state.
The bill, which was supposed to get a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Family Law Wednesday, was withdrawn by Kleefisch Tuesday saying that misinformation had become a distraction to the issue.
The legislation itself would have said judges couldn't consider incomes above $150,000 when assigning child support payments and would also have to award equal child custody to both parents. The bill was requested by former constituent and former Columbus Mayor Michael Eisenga, whose 2010 divorce required large child support payments based on his income and assets.
"It was never intended to help one person," Kleefisch said. "In fact, we intended it not to be retroactive whatsoever. In fact we have amendments that say this bill will only affect divorces that happen upon publication of this legislation."
Kleefisch said the bill was not special treatment for a former donor, who has given $2,000 to Kleefisch since 2005, and $7,500 to Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch since 2010.
"If we ignored the constituency we wouldn't be doing our jobs," Kleefisch said. "I can look you in the face and tell you I can swear on my children's lives that no more attention was paid to any constituent who calls this office whether they have ever been a donor or whether they ever haven't."
Drafting files show that Eisenga's attorney did suggest changes that would require the court to modify Eisenga's child support order based on the passage of the bill.
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, is a former family law attorney and is on the family law committee. She said she was glad to see the bill pulled, and felt it wasn't simply serving a constituent.
"This is different because what the (Legislative Reference Bureau) file reveals is this bill was specifically crafted for one man to avoid or reduce his child support obligation," Taylor said. "That's fairly unusual and I have not seen something like that before."
While the bill has been pulled from committee, Kleefisch said he's committed to addressing the issue in future legislation.
"I think it was time to pull it back, re-evaluate it, talk to judges, parents, parents groups, Dads of Wisconsin that I have been working with for six years, and re-evaluate, put a package together that is going to have a lot of the same things in it and forward that in hopes of having a true debate about the legislation," Kleefisch said.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he respected Kleefisch's decision to pull the bill, and that he shares the same concerns that child support may be being used to uphold the lifestyle of a divorced parent and not the child. He said he didn't know if the bill would be back this session.
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I still listen mostly to Music Choice on the cable TV, the Alternative or 70's channels. Actually, I've not listened to a lot of music since we were last on this site, but I did get a few CDs.
Pixies - Complete B Sides
Kinski - Alpine Static
Sleater-Kinney - Entertain (single) I got this for the track "Everything"
The Tragically Hip - Yer Favourites - A 2 CD best of collection
i've been listening to the ramones lately and a lot of 80s stuff - a big change from my usual metal.
toxicity is a great album i revisit regularly.
An excellent album indeed!Originally Posted by basschick
"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
the new Pearl Jam is quite delicious. I can't wait to see them in June in Cincy!!
I also got the "new" Sigur Ros disc (came out last Sept) but that's due to how I caught two of their shows over a week ago, one in Chicago and then one in Detroit, two nights apart. That officially robbed my bank account of funds.
Right now though: Brian eno's "Discreet Music" as it's what lulls me to sleep.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
Queen-stone cold hits
Ashlee Simpson-lip synching 101
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
The new red hot chilli peppers album "stadium arcadium" is great.
Not heard the album, but they put on a great performance on SNL a couple weeks ago.Originally Posted by Maxu3x
Johnny Cash's Personal File. Who knew he could've given us albums like American Recordings twenty years earlier? He just needed Mr Rubin to convince him we needed to hear it.
Wow. Very, very good stuff.
Last night I saw I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, with opening acts The Heavenly States and The Rogers Sisters. I picked up CDs of the latter two while I was there. All three bands were pretty good, but I'm really liking The Rogers Sisters CD.


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In a quest for knowledge about energy and solar power, 17 high school students from the Trenton area are building solar-powered devices and shooting toy rockets at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) .
The hands-on activities are part of Plasma Academy (officially called the Energy, Space and the Environment Institute), which began Aug. 6 and runs through Aug. 17 at the PPPL. Topics covered are solar energy; clouds, weather and storms; and the sun, stars, planets and plasmas (hot, ionized gases). The institute is part of a Mercer County Community College Upward Bound program. The participating students are from Granville Academy, Mercer Junior-Senior High School and Trenton Central High School.
"This is the first time we are offering an academy like this for high school students," said PPPL Science Education Program Lead Scientist Andrew Post-Zwicker, who designed and leads the Plasma Academy with Watchung Hills High School physics teacher Sophia Gershman. "Designing and constructing useful solar-powered devices such as model cars, water heaters and ovens, as well as shooting toy rockets and aircraft, are tasks that show the students how energy is transformed in different ways and where energy comes from."
The academy also includes field trips to a coal-fired plant in Trenton, the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the Peddie School Observatory in Hightstown.
The PPPL, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source. The laboratory is on Princeton's James Forrestal Campus, off U.S. Route 1 in Plainsboro.
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An Immersive Experience
Pros: Fantastic sound, mod-able
Cons: Weight, cable connectors, stock cable, stock pads
The HE500 brings one word to my mind: Immersion. I've never felt closer to the music. Period.
It's the most organic, musical headphone I've heard to date. This implies a preference over the D2k, D5k, RS1i, GS1k, HE400i, ZMF Master, T90, HD600 and HD650. Just a home-run of an effort from Hifiman that, aside from a few aesthetic/comfort issues, makes these an end-game can.
The Breakdown
Test Songs (all ALAC either 16/44 or 24/96):
Someone Like You - Adele - Live from Royal Albert Hall
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon - The Essential Paul Simon
Mahler Symphony 5 - Georg Solti & CSO
What About Me - Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
Prelude from Cello Suite #4 - Yo Yo Ma
Hot for Teacher - 1984 - Van Halen
MacBook Pro > Fidelia > Pan Am Stack
Well, in a word: real. I got my first taste of planar bass early last year with the HE400 and even though it punched more and lower than my flavor of choice, the RS1i, it didn't stick with me. I've got the 500s now and they have the most realistic bass I've ever heard from a headphone. The sub-bass is present, the mid bass is dynamic, and the upper bass/lower mids are nice and clear and textured. The range of Ma's cello can be heard with ease (something not easily done!). Kick drums on the Snarky Puppy and Van Halen tunes don't sound like shapeless blobs. They sound distinct and punchy. This beats any bass I've heard from a dynamic hands down. Sorry D5000 and HD650!
Rich! Neither forward nor recessed. I don't think I'd say that the HE500 is a mid-centric phone, but in my experience the mids are often the defining characteristic for most upper-end headphones. That's where vocals, guitars, and horns predominantly sound. Lots of guys can live with hot treble or sloppy bass, but if the mids aren't palatable, whether they say or it not, they aren't satisfied. The mids are very lifelike in they're portrayal of texture and detail. The horns in the Simon and Snarky Puppy are very clear and textured. Vocals sound excellent in "Hide and Seek." Very organic and rich. Once again, my hat is off to Hifiman. I thought I'd never find electric guitar I liked better than the RS1i. Even though I'd love to have both, the HE500 presents vocals beautifully AND I get the crunch from my favorite guitar riffs. Truly an accomplishment.
Natural and clear. The HE500's upper end is quite special. While not unnaturally-detailed (what I think of when I hear the HD800), the treble range is still very detailed and revealing. It bests anything I've heard from Beyer and certainly Grado. Intricate cymbal work on "Hot for Teacher," violin overtones in Mahler, and air in Imogen Heap's voice all come through clearly and naturally. Probably the only time I've been able to say that about any headphone. A comparison I've often heard is that of the HE500 to the LCD2. The treble has to be the biggest difference. If you want polite, smooth treble, go with the Audeze. However, if you want real treble, go with the Hifiman!
The soundstage is excellent. Once again, just real! Not overly huge a la Denon, or pre-shrunk like a Grado. Studio recorded tracks have excellent space and imaging. Live albums sound live! All instruments from orchestras to jazz bands to duos can be picked out with ease. To me the sound sits just in front of "midway" around the head, but once again, nothing sounds fake or doctored.
*Note: I have the new Focus Pads on my 500s. These are slightly angled in an effort to improve sense of space. I hate the stock velours and pleathers so much that I won't offer an A/B but I will say that the Focus Pads are much more comfortable and certainly don't take away from anything that was already happening. If there is an improvement in sound over the stock velour, it's minimal to these ears.
The only qualms I have with Hifiman's hit are those in the categories of comfort and accessories. First, I have gotten used to it, but when I first gave the HE500s a go, I thought the weight would be a deal-breaker. Remember, I'm a recovering Grado-holic, so I'm quite used to wearing headphones that weigh next to nothing. Luckily the headband fits my head quite well (like a Grado) and I've switched to the Focus pads, which are softer, and distribute weight more evenly. I still am reminded of the heft of these guys from time to time, but it's certainly not unbearable. Second, the stock cable and pads are well, just awful. The stock silver cable is the most microphonic cable I've ever heard. Worse than any of the 75+ IEMs I've tried. Since most of my listening is done at the desktop, this doesn't come into play too much, but for a premium headphone like the 500, this is to me, a ridiculous shortcoming. Also, the pads. Pleather: 2 thumbs down! Velour: 1.5 thumbs down! Neither are comfortable, both are hot, the pleather muddies up the sound, and the velour feels like sandpaper. Once again, silly issues to have for a headphone that is so awesome!
Final Thoughts:
If you couldn't tell already, I'm a huge fan of the HE500, even though for me to really love them I had to buy some new pads and switch up the cable. They offer the best sound I've ever heard. And by best, I mean most lifelike. No overly hyped-treble a la upper-end Senns or Grado. No head-shaking bass a la Audeze. Instead a presentation that is very complete, organic, and most of all fun! These are my thoughts and I'm sticking with 'em!


text: Ah, early season hunt tests. You think your dog is ready and forget you need to get your own head in the game. All I can say is I am glad we had some good judges this weekend that paid more attention to the dog work and not the handler who screwed up! Woulda been a shame to get her dropped for my mistakes. We ran second in the last series and I left for home thinking we had not made it. Checked the results today and they gave her the benefit of the doubt. I think she needs to spend the next two weeks training me!


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Any of these could be symptoms of a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder, sometimes called The Baby Blues, Postpartum Depression or Maternal Mental Health Disorders. Perinatal refers to the time you are pregnant through the baby's first birthday. Perinatal depression is more than just the Baby Blues. If you have perinatal depression you are not alone, and you are not to blame. With support and treatment, you will get better. Reaching out for help is the first step.
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A decade later, Sovet Italia confirmed itself as a leader in shaped contemporary glass furniture, having developed a full range of products that stood out for their originality of form, color and finishes. During the years to follow, the company tested new solutions for the use of bent glass and refined its own project culture. And in 2003, Sovet partnered with Altherr Lievore Molina's studio to develop its Divetro Collection: a true turning point for the company. The collection represents an ambitious research project with strong contents of formal and technologic innovation, marked by the chic minimalism of Altherr Lievore Molina's studio.
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Running With Friends is the latest game from social gaming giant Zynga. And while we don't normally cover their product launches, a key detail caught our attention: it's being developed in collaboration with Eat Sleep Play, the developer of Twisted Metal for PS3.
The company was originally co-founded by outspoken developer David Jaffe, best known for his work on the first God of War game. Before the launch of Twisted Metal, Jaffe left the studio saying that he had "zero plans to make games like FarmVille and Angry Birds." With today's release of Running With Friends, it's clear that Jaffe wasn't going to fit in with the studio's direction.
Running With Friends is yet another entry in the rapidly growing "endless runner" genre. However, ESP planned on differentiating the game by making it more gory, with bulls running over the players and tearing their guts out. However, Zynga had to curb their bloodthirst. "They wanted to move into mobile and partner with us," Zynga's Justin Cooper told VentureBeat. "They shared our vision of mobile gaming. They were a phenomenal partner, though they naturally tended toward a darker game. We shifted them to what we though was cute and funny."
Instead, Eat Sleep Play was tasked with making the game "more fun," and ultimately created the 3D engine for the title while adding polish to the game's level design. And while it's easy to compare Running to the already-popular Temple Run, the game attempts to differentiate by adding destructibles and random objectives into the mix.
The game is available free-to-play app on the App Store.
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Summary. Some confusion exists around the shooting of the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The post speculates about the possibility of a coup or assassination attempt on the basis of a number of rumors about potential motivations and scenarios behind the incident based on the current political environment and does not claim to offer a conclusive judgment. However, it is unlikely that the current situation does not present ambitious men with opportunities to take action and take what they want. Or not.
Whether the official story — that soldiers at a check point 'accidentally' fired on the president's motorcade injuring him slightly — is accurate or not is at this point wholly ambiguous. This situation means that rumors are rampant, mingling with and altering facts. Relatively few Mauritanian or international observers buy that version of events. As things stand now, with Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in France, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mohamed Ghazouani is the man in charge and among opposition types and some closer to the government there is a feeling that Ould Abdel Aziz is a dangerous position, and that remaining abroad too long could invite coup plots, political unrest or attacks from AQIM. Key variables at this point include the political ambitions of Gen. Ghazouani and the loyalty of the armed forces and intelligence service to the president – especially the commando units and BASEP (the republican guards), which Ould Abdel Aziz founded and led until 'leaving' army in 2009.
Mauritanian contacts report that the president was wounded more seriously than reported in the press — having been shot as many as five times or more — and speculate on a wide variety of potential scenarios involving: (1) an attempted coup d'état; (2) an attempted assassination by (2.a.) an officers' cabal or (2.b.) Islamist militants or (2.c.) some other element; and (3) an accidental shooting, more or less following the official version of events.
There appears to be little in the way of solid reporting on the incident itself, though press reports and contacts indicate that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the official explanation – many question whether soldiers would have failed to recognize the president's convoy at a check point he crosses on a regular bases[1], other arguing that conduct at such checkpoints typically indicates a higher level of professionalism among Mauritanian soldiers than would allow for this kind of accident. While this blogger has said in tweets and in conversations with readers that he sees the chances as about even that Ould Abdel Aziz will finish his term (seeing the likelihood of a coup as being between 50/50 and 60/40), the available information leaves the jury open as to whether this was part of a coup attempt, an assassination attempt (part of a coup plot or by Islamist militants) and it is important not to jump to conclusions too rapidly.
In the case of a coup attempt, one would expect to hear of (at the minimum):
(1) Unusual troop movements or maneuvers in the capital especially, before, during or immediately after the shooting, including some effort to take control of critical infrastructure such as radio, television, etc.;
- Unless, of course, the plot was merely to remove the president and trigger a succession which would allow the plotters to influence the direction of the political scene from behind the curtains or to take power under the guise of 'saving the nation' from chaos, collapse, subversion and similar troubles.[2]
(2) The arrest of high ranking officers rather than lower ranking ones after the attempt failed (unless the scheme was hatched a la Guinea or Mali) and sweep activities in Nouakchott and at army bases – of which this blogger has not heard (but these cannot be ruled out) – if a plot did take place Ould Abdel Aziz's statement from the hospital in Nouakchott would have likely made a more direct reference to the event itself (an assumption based on his personality and leadership qualities).
Following the attack the President reportedly ordered the security forces (led by BASEP[3]) to secure the military hospital in Nouakchott, calling on Gen. Ghazouani to convened the country's generals at the hospital. Once there these men had their cell phones confiscated and were made to wait outside the operating room while doctors operated on Ould Abdel Aziz's wounds. Thus far there are not indications that senior officers attempted to eliminate the president and it appears unlikely that Ghazouani seeks to take the president's place based on descriptions of personality and his reputation, some of which have been discussed on Twitter by others and on this blog in the past.[4] While rumors that the Moroccan security services alerted Ould Abdel Aziz to an imminent coup plot on the eve of the Francophonie summit in Kinsasha, which has been seen to explain his absence at the conference, this remains unconfirmed. Still, maneuvers over the past few months that suggest coup proofing[5] indicate that Ould Abdel Aziz is likely concerned about his position within the military and in the country generally.[6] Conversations with Mauritanian contacts and others dealing with the country suggest that over the last year concerns over the stability of the country and the President's leadership style have grown within the military.[7] The coup option cannot be wholly ruled out.
Over the last year, Mauritania's political opposition, especially its youth element, has agitated against the government in protests calling for political change and improvements in the quality of life. These have occasionally become violent, with police beating and detaining demonstrators. Opposition sources tend to stress the narrative of a botched coup, as do sources that are critical of the regime in general. However, the uncertainty regarding the President's status, the extra-constitutional status of the parliament, popular dissatisfaction and the perception that a coup may have been under way last week means that perceptions of opportunities for a seizure of power are also likely to be powerful in the next month or months ahead.
The assassination narrative would seem to have two basic possibilities: (1) someone in the military attempted to eliminate Ould Abdel Aziz or (2) some other opponent, likely Islamist militants, sought to kill him. The first possibility would be significant given that despite its numerous coups, Mauritania has yet to see major political assassinations. It would also require that relations between Ould Abdel Aziz and some element in the military were significantly worse off than previous impressions and estimates suggested – and it must be noted that since his controversial election in 2009 Ould Abdel Aziz has, through his leadership style and personality alienated significant parts of the population and political class.[8] It would also, presumably, require some kind of larger plot to exist (along the lines mentioned above).
If one discounts the coup narrative entirely, he must consider an alternative. The second case, which would involve some Islamist (terrorist) element, appears somewhat more likely if one discounts both the official story and the coup concept.[9] In the first place AQIM has already targeted Ould Abdel Aziz, both in public statements and in assassination plots in 2010 and 2011; Ould Abdel Aziz is thus already a target for his conspicuous role leading the only significant military campaigns against AQIM in its havens in northern Mali. A local cell would likely have made this attempt though given that the official story has soldiers firing the shots (two have been arrested), if the narrative about an Islamist assassination attempt is credible then these arrests might indicate that the government has detained men as part of a cover up or that AQIM or some other Islamist tendency has succeeded in infiltrating the Mauritanian military (an enormously significant development) or at least impersonating its members in a extremely sensitive locations. Another possibility is that the actual events diverge so significantly from those reported that the incident actually involved some kind of armed assault from AQIM or some such.
In any event, if the coup scenario is closer in line with the real situation, Mauritanian politics may grow still more grim or move in new directions. As always, Mauritania demands more attention.
[1] It should be noted that some versions of events have the president's car speeding ahead of the rest of his convoy, making it appear as if he was being chased, which may have created confusion.
[2] There is a version of the incident that has a black vehicle with one or more shooters rolling up to the convoy and opening fire; in any event it does not appear that the attack matches AQIM's MO based on the balance of stories being circulated. One would expect the government to admit to an AQIM plot, unless there is concern this would create demand from inside or outside Mauritania for the government to take a more favorable role posture toward French-led efforts to intervene in Mali (which most agree would have a potentially negative impact on Mauritania and Ould Abdel Aziz).
It has also been reported that Ould Abdel Aziz was with a cousin in the vehicle whose status has not been clarified beyond rumors that he was not actually in the car.
Finally, it should be noted that the 2005 coup engineered by Ould Abdel Aziz relied on former president Maaouyia Ould Tayya leaving the country (he was at King Abdallah's funeral in Saudia Arabia at the time) to open the opportunity for the seizure of power. The plot may have not been to kill the president but instead to wound him beyond the point where he could receive adequate care in Mauritania to allow for a similar maneuver to take place. This seems unlikely, though.
[3] There are some reports that have BASEP moving other individuals from the scene of the attack but this blogger has not been able to corroborate them.
[4] Ghazouani is known as a competent and likeable professional soldier with healthy networks of patronage and comes from the Ideyboussat tribe. He is known for relatively few public expressions of political ambition; he hosted a diner for Yusuf al-Qaradawi in May 2010, likely to show piety and morality in order to help boost the government's image with the public. He will be one to watch as will popular officers whom Ould Abdel Aziz fears or regards as potential competitors — both because they may end up as leaders of officers trends or because they may be subject to punitive coup proofing moves.
[5] This includes the replacement of the head of military intelligence and the commander of the elite para-commando brigade, and the assignment of a number of colonels overseas as defense attaches in September, and the assignment of family members of top officers to positions in embassies overseas in the summer.
[6] The last year saw demonstrations over the conduct of the Mauritanian census, the postponement of parliamentary elections for what has now been over a year (and the expiration of the parliament's mandate), a increasingly severe malnutrition and hunger situation, water access, and a range of single issue and labor-related strikes and protests that put the government in a rough position. (The socio-economic situation has also been aggravated by the crisis in Mali, which drove something like 100,000 refugees over the border in Mauritania.) On top of this, Ould Abdel Aziz's tendency to privilege members of his own (relatively small) tribe, the Ould Bou S'ba'a over others and to rely on narrow networks and his unilateral decision making processes in which virtually no one in consulted or confided in (his closest confidants remain obscure or non-existent) have alienated many in political circles and contributed to the over all climate. Opposition actors remain severely marginalized (due in part to Ould Abdel Aziz's deliberate posturing and the leadership deficiencies of particular actors). The government continues to refuse to negotiate with its opponents and has played factions off one another, which has both weakened specific opposition movements while at the same time weakening the groups he has sought to and succeeding in coopting. Splits in the president's own party have grown over the last year as well resulting from discontent over patronage and corruption among important constituencies.
[7] It is important to look at this in context and with perspective: Ould Abdel Aziz has had the loyalty and support of most senior officers during his time in power and it is easy to risk making too much of relative developments when writing in short hand. Nonetheless, these developments are significant in the context of the country's ongoing economic and political crises.
[8] While Ould Abdel Aziz has managed to survive at the center of Mauritanian politics since 2005 and has been quite adept at playing the opposition and international actors (many of whom remain enamored with him based mainly on his record with regards to AQIM and counterterrorism) off of one another it is worth considering whether this is evidence of a strategic genius on the order of the Arab dictators (including Ould Tayya) or a man who has made many smart tactical moves without a great strategic mind or a man with a strong strategic mind. One can draw either conclusion from Ould Abdel Aziz's record; that conclusion is likely to color perceptions of recent events. Ould Abdel Aziz's opponents have habitually underestimated his political acumen and intelligence.
[9] Unless one supposes an Islamist-oriented scheme would come from within the military and seek to engage some coup scenario by killing the president; this strikes this blogger as unlikely though previous ideologically-driven coup plots have been averted in Mauritania's history largely involving Nasserists, Ba'thists and proto-/semi-Islamists.


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Family: Parulidae, Wood Warblers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mostly olive-yellow upperparts, including nape and crown, with rufous streaks on back and two rather indistinct yellowish wing bars. Face is mostly bright yellow, but note dark eyestripe linked to dark crescent below eye. Throat and underparts are mostly bright yellow (palest and whitest on undertail coverts) with black streaks on flanks and side of neck. ADULT FEMALE Recalls adult male but face is duller and lacks male's striking black pattern. IMMATURE Much duller and paler than respective sex adult.
Dimensions Length: 5" (13 cm)
Habitat Locally common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to overgrown fields and colonizing scrub and woodland; winters in mangroves in Florida and around Caribbean.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range Texas, Eastern Canada, Plains, New England, Southeast, Great Lakes, California, Florida, Mid-Atlantic
Voice Song is an accelerating series of notes, tsu, tsu, tsu, tsi'si'si'si, rising in pitch throughout delivery; call is a sharp tchip.
Discussion Brightly colored warbler with a striking facial pattern. Pumps its tail up and down while foraging for insects. Common name is inappropriate: favors scrub and young secondary growth woodland rather than grassland. Sexes are separable.


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By M. Scott Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
ECRU – Wedding albums and school yearbooks are filled with Floyd Todd's work.
He spent 29 and a half years at Day-Brite, but often put his days off to use, too.
"I hardly ever had a weekend when I didn't shoot a wedding," the 88-year-old Ecru resident said.
He took photography classes in Memphis, but they didn't do him much good.
"I knew more than the instructor who taught me," he said.
Todd learned the bulk of his art courtesy of the U.S. government. During World War II, he served on a U.S. Navy B-24 in the Pacific Theater.
"I was a photographer, third class," he said, "but I moved up to second class after nine months."
He split time with another photographer. When one was shooting pictures, the other manned a 50-caliber waist gun.
"The Japanese sent the Zeros after us," he said. "They shot a phosphorous bomb at us one time. Never forget. It busted in front of us. We flew through it but the bomb missed us."
Todd's plane was affectionately known as "Heavenly Lambchop." A captured Japanese soldier had a different name for it and the other B-24s: "Blue Devils."
Of course, it wasn't Todd's plane. He shared it with a crew of men, and everyone had his job to do.
"We all worked together. It was just like a ball team," he said. "Everybody knew what he was supposed to do. He was trained for a special job."
Photographers weren't just documenting history; they were gathering valuable intelligence.
"The cameras were mounted. They had switches," Todd said. "At the right time, you'd hit the switch."
Heavenly Lambchop's photographers captured images before, during and after invasions. Sometimes, the commanders' interpretations didn't line up with Todd's understanding.
"They took Iwo Jima one month too early. I was there before and after. That's how I know," he said, adding that more bombing might have softened up the resistance.
Heavenly Lambchop usually flew at 20,000 feet, but could get down to 2,000 feet to fly over a battlefield.
Todd had a bird's eye view of death and destruction, but there were moments of grace, too. One time, a pilot went down in the ocean. Heavenly Lambchop circled overhead for four to five hours until help arrived.
"Me and the other photographer kept him spotted," Todd said, making a circle with his hands. "You can't cut a B-24 too quickly. You have to make big circles."
His duty didn't end with the war. Heavenly Lambchop's crew was tasked with mapping Japan.
"We mapped it. I mean we mapped it," he said. "We flew all over."
No one was shooting at them, but it was dangerous work. Another crew helped with the mapping. That plane had survived 30 missions during the war, but the peacetime mission turned deadly.
"Flew into a mountain," Todd said, shaking his head.
After the war, Todd figured he'd make a living as a photographer, and used the G.I. Bill to go to that school, where he didn't learn much at all.
He said there weren't any photography jobs to be had when he got out. He eventually landed at Day-Brite, and turned photography into a weekend pursuit that also provided extra spending money.
The wedding photos he took are scattered about old newspaper clippings and wedding albums, and the yearbooks he shot for are around somewhere.
His combat photography, though, is easy to find. He recently donated a suitcase full of images and other remembrances to the Tupelo Veterans Museum at Ballard Park.
"I don't guess I need it any more," Todd said.


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Focus on Funds
Japan: More Easing 'Inevitable,' Says UBS
Skeptical of the Bank of Japan's massive stimulus efforts on account of weak economic growth, greying demographics and other less-than-favorable trends? You have company at UBS.
The firm's economists nevertheless think we'll be seeing a lot more of it. From a note entitled "Japan: Great News -- It's Not Working" by Duncan Wooldridge and Daiju Aoki:
More aggressive monetary easing is inevitable for Japan, in our view. As we've said before we remain structurally sceptical about how this all works out in the end, but in the short run nearly every Japan-related macro theme depends on the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) willingness to act boldly and we don't think you will be disappointed if you're in that camp. In fact, the BoJ will likely ease monetary policy more aggressively by April.
Why so confident? Deflation still looms:
So far there is little evidence suggesting deflationary pressures are reversing. It's true that consumer prices are rising, but this mostly reflects energy prices or energy related products such as transport fees – oh, and imported handbag prices are up 33% over the past 9 months because of the yen. The principal problem for deflation remains a lack of wage growth, and if anything the growing disconnect between accelerating inflation and no wage growth implies that CPI will come down unless aggressive action is taken.
The firm's prediction is thus for more monetary easing, a weaker yen and a boost to exporter profit margins -- much the same trend as 2013.
If last year repeats, look for a strong performance by WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (DXJ) and a good one by iShares MSCI Japan Index fund (EWJ).
In late Thursday trading, the pair of ETFs are down by 0.6% and 0.4%, respectively.
In currency ETFs, CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) is ahead by 0.3% and leveraged ETF ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS) is down by 0.5%.


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IT is the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord 186—. The violets, like Noah's dove, are poking their noses out of doors, to see what sort of weather it is. They are beginning to quit their wintry lodgment. "Where they together All the hard weather Dead to the world, keep house unknown." White ones—plenty of them—are peeping out modestly, from among freshest green leaves, on the sunny south side of Lestrange churchyard, above the prone heads of the human flowers, to whom the spring time of Resurrection is long in coming. Sir Adrian Lestrange loved them so dearly; every spring he used to come with page: 261 his little daughter Nell to look for them, and smile his friendly welcome to them and the celandines that carpet goldenly the space beneath the old black‐budded ashes.
Sir Adrian does not come this spring; he is 'away' good man! He has travelled to a land where there are better flowers than his pretty violets, and where he and his little Nell can walk about together in peace, without any 'cloaked shadow' coming between to part them, as they have been parted for just a little space—a little bitter minute—here below.
The celandines are spreading their gaudy carpet also beneath the elms and sycamores in Sir Hugh Lancaster's garden at Wentworth. They are flaring and flaunting away with such confident pertness; just for all the world as if they were real garden flowers, and did not deserve to be extirpated every bit as much as the poor daisies that were always being ruthlessly spudded up.
The first breath of spring is blowing about the land; she is raising herself a page: 262 little out of winter's snowy lap, waking up and rubbing her fair eyes. I have been late for prayers again, and have received a mild jobation in consequence.
Breakfast is over now, and Lady Lancaster and I are standing at the Hall door, watching our Hugh mount his hack to ride to a rather distant meet. Hugh looks his best acock horse; one does not see how short he is, and he has the best seat in —shire.
"How well Hugh looks on horseback!" exclaims the Dowager, never weary of admiring her son, though the spectacle is anything but a novel one to her.
The last vestige of my lord's red coat having disappeared round a bend in the page: 263 drive, I turn away and stroll up and down the terrace by myself. The sun is getting a little power; he beats quite warmly on my uncovered head, and I saunter and potter about slowly, and watch the crocuses, yellow, and purple, and striped forcing their way up through the rich red earth. A small fat cock robin is sitting on the stone balustrades, singing his little heart out. I stand pensively listening to him.
"I wish I was as happy as you!" I say to myself; "I do indeed! it would be so pleasant!"
There is a little sound of pebbles being swept along, and looking up, I see Dolly coming along to meet me; Dolly in a tight fitting black dress, which shows every curve and turn of her exquisite figure, and relieved about neck and wrists by the nattiest of white linen collar and cuffs. It is not every one that can blend the afflictive and the becoming as our Dolly can. Dolly looks lovelier in the early morning, in her every day gown, than when dressed, or page: 264 undressed—as the mode now has it—for ball or opera.
"Delicious morning, isn't it?" says my sister stopping beside me, and sniffing the sweet fresh air, with her little Greek nose.
"What a pretty place it is!" surveying admiringly the wide formal gardens, where terraces, gravel walks, Deodaras, urns recur with almost as tedious a monotony as the knops and flowers in the Tabernacle decorations.
"Not particularly, I don't think!"
"If people only knew what was for their own good!" with a gentle sigh, "you ought to be a very happy woman, Nell!"
"You have done your best to make me so, at all events!"
"I did evil that good might come, as I told you yesterday, when that exemplary old tabby interrupted us—by‐the‐by I hope she had not been eaves‐dropping—and good has come," says Dolly steadily; "apropos of that, I have some‐ something page: 265 thing to tell you; Stockport comes to‐day."
"Oh nothing particular, of course; only I thought I had better tell you, so that you might have your weapon ready to stab the poor soul with, as soon as he arrives."
Dolly is not agitated, she never is; "wise men never wonder," and "with the wisdom of the children of this world" none can deny that Dorothea is dowered. Perhaps it is my fancy that there is rather an anxious light in the great dreamy sensuous eyes, that the flush on the oval cheeks is deeper than what the soft south wind has brought there.
"Thanks," I say, very coldly; and then I go and lean my arms on the balustrade—our talking has scared away the robin—and look wistfully off over the landscape, winking in the morning sun, to the East, whither my heart has gone. One would have thought, wouldn't one, that Dolly having told her errand, would straightway have returned again page: 266 whence she came, but such does not seem to be her intention. She comes, on the contrary, and leans on the rough cold stone beside me.
"Let us understand one another, Nell," she says, with some slight hesitation, "are you really bent on exhibiting that unlucky document, or is it only a bogy that you are keeping to frighten me into good behaviour with?"
"I thought we had understood each other perfectly the other night, and that there was no need for fresh explanations," I say icily, "I imagined that I had made my meaning tolerably clear then."
"And about yourself?" she says quickly; "have you considered what awkward inquiries it will entail, inquiries too from a person who has the best right in the world to make them, and who cannot be put off, as you have put off me with, 'it is enough for you that I have got it.' Hugh must be more or less than human if he is not a little curious to know how you came by it. Lords with £80,000 a year don't grow on every hedge; it is page: 267 worth while eating a little dirt for one of them, isn't it?"
I turn round and face her.
"Do you think," I say eagerly, "that if it entailed the loss of my life, I should very much care; thanks to you, I may say, with Agag 'surely the bitterness of death is past.'"
Dolly looks down and draws geometrical patterns with her slender pointed foot.
"I know you won't wont believe me, so it's rather wasting breath asseverating," she says slowly, "but I give you my word of honour I did it for the best; I thought that it was a childish besotment you had for that man; a sort of calf love, that it would be a real kindness to help you out of."
"Without an arrière pensée for your own advantage of course; it would have been truer kindness to have cut my throat for my own good!" I end passionately. My voice shakes and wavers in my intense self‐pity; I am afraid of breaking down into weeping before her, into "howling," page: 268 "blubbering," "snivelling," as she in her dry‐eyed contemptuousness would graphically phrase it; so I rush away, away to the house, and up to my chamber, like Joseph, to weep there. For an hour or more I sit with my two hands holding my head, buried in thought. Woe is me if my mamma‐in‐law catches me; small opinion has she of thought as an employment for the female sex, and then I rise, unlock the drawer of my writing table, take out the 'unlucky document,' as its parent leniently calls it, and go downstairs with it.
I find Dolly sitting by the library fire, her small white left hand on which Lord Stockport's great diamond betrothal ring is flashing and sparkling in the firelight—bitter, bitter will be the parting between Dolly and that jewel of price—is pushed in amongst the black wealth of her scented hair; she is staring with her great dark velvet eyes at the shining bars; her cheeks and small round ears are getting burnt a dull red, but she does not seem to heed that. I go up close to her, and stoop over her.page: 269
"Dolly!" I say with solemnity, "I have thought a great deal about my revenge upon you; I have lain awake at night planning it; it has seemed meat and drink to me for the last week. I have finished planning it out now, look!"
As I speak I toss the letter into the fire's innermost heart, and watch the flames catch hold of it, and then shoot up high; watch it turn brown; then writhe like a thing in pain; then shrivel away utterly. Dolly jumps up and throws her arms about my neck.
"Don't," I say, gently disengaging myself; "keep your blandishments for the lover you have saved; I think he would appreciate them more."
So you see I gave up my revenge; I did not carry the stone in my pocket for seven years; then turn it, and carry it for seven years more. I yielded up my injuries unto Him, who claims the redressing of all the injustices that have been wrought since the world was. I had been clamouring for justice, bare justice. Alas, if bare justice is all I myself get, in that page: 270 day when the world's long tangled accounts are made up, where shall I be? "
"What shall I, frail man be pleading? Who for me be interceding When the Just is Mercy needing?"
"A very worthy young man, my dear, I don't doubt," says Lady Lancaster to me, a morning or two afterwards, apropos of my brother‐in‐law elect, as we sit pecketting at our work in the morning room—Hugh's waistcoat is making rapid strides towards completion—looking at me over the top of her spectacles, "very worthy, indeed! does not seem to have very much to say for himself perhaps, but that is a fault on the right side in these days, when all young people seem to think that they cannot have too much of the sound of their own voices!"
"He is rather silent!" I say, which is certainly putting it in a very mild form, seeing that I could count with ease on the fingers of one hand the remarks he has made since he entered our hospitable portals.page: 271
"Dear me!" pursues the old lady, wandering off into reminiscences, "how well I remember his grandfather's shop to be sure! He was a hosier, you know, my dear, in Bond Street, a very civil old man with a bald head, I recollect—this young man has a look of him now and then—he used to come out to one's carriage door to take orders, and that sort of thing, my dear!"
"It is a very up‐py and down‐y world!" I say sententiously.
"If he had told me then," continues my companion, making her speech more emphatic by uplifted and out‐spread right hand, "that forty years from that time, my son and his grandson would be marrying two sisters, I should have withdrawn my custom from his shop for his impertinence."
I laugh.
"It is a rise, whose suddenness is only paralleled by Dick Whittington's and his cat; in fact, it beats them, for Dick was only Lord Mayor after all, and Stockport is Lord, without the Mayor!"page: 272
Meanwhile, the 'worthy young man' and Dolly are strolling up and down the terrace. Dolly seems to like to keep within view of the windows. I fancy that the young Viscount's amenities become ponderous, when freed from the restraint of the public eye.
So Dolly is to be wed; she is to be made a Viscountess of; to be elevated to a throne among the Gods. King Cophetna has given his hand to the Beggar Maid, and she is tripping daintily up to seat herself beside that august and condescending monarch.
But when is it to be? When are the festive poles to be run up, and the "healths to the houses of Stockport and Lestrange" to float in the breeze?
At first, Dolly stoutly maintained that no earthly power should induce her to allow her marriage to be celebrated till a full year had elapsed, since "poor dear Papa's" death.
"O, impossible! quite out of the question! so disrespectful to his memory! Did he suppose she had no natural affection?" page: 273 &c., &c. When first the subject was hinted, she retreated from the room with her handkerchief to her eyes; not angry, but so hurt.
This I hear from Hugh.
"Completely upset, poor girl!" he says, pulling his thick moustache, and staring at his boots, which are stuck out straight before him; "so Stockport tells me. He thought he had put his foot into it with a vengeance, and that she was not going to speak to him again for a month of Sundays."
The text about polishing the sepulchres of the Righteous occurs to me, but I keep it to myself.
"If ever I have any daughters," says Hugh—I look down—"I hope they'll be as fond of me as you two were of him."
(You two! classing us together! My God! that is hard to bear!)
"I'm sure I wish she would marry him, and have done with it," continues Hugh, yawning. "Great Sawney! I'm getting dog‐tired of seeing his ugly mug about the house; seems to be in every room at once page: 274 too, like a bird; he's a thundering lout, that's what he is!"
"If you will be so Quixotically generous as to bring all your wife's relations, like a hornet's nest, about your ears, you must take the consequences," I say, a little maliciously.
Time does wonders, and time and Lord Stockport succeeded in softening our Dolly's tender scruples.
"One cannot always consult one's own feelings in this world," I overheard her saying one day to Hugh, "else, (with a gentle sigh) things would be very different, but for poor Stockport's sake—he really is getting so miserably unsettled and fretful—ah, I know some one who can feel for him; some one who was not too patient himself once, a hundred years ago—that I am afraid it will tell upon his health; that would not be fair, would it? and so"—(with down dropped eyes and a blush.) And so a judicious compromise has been effected between the bridegroom's eagerness, and the bride's filial devotion. He had clamoured page: 275 for April, and she had stickled for December. June is a happy mean between the two, and June it is to be.
I had begged that the wedding might be a very quiet one; the idea of a great gathering, of all the onerous duties of mistress of a great house coming upon me for the first time, of feasting and merry making in the midst of my deep mourning was utterly repellant to me. But I am overruled by my mamma, as I have been on many other occasions.
"Life is too short to be spent in vain repinings, my dear," she says to me one morning, after we have been indulging in a mild wrangle on the subject; "there are duties owing to the living as well as to the dead, and we should not selfishly neglect the former for the latter."
I make no answer, but bend my head in silence over my work. "It seems to me," pursues the old lady, rather exasperated by my silence, "that there is something unchristian in such exaggerated grief; it is a sure argument of an ill‐regulated mind; you seem to forget that there is such a page: 276 virtue as Resignation, one of the most beautiful of Christian graces, or that our Heavenly Father knows what is best for us!" Lady Lancaster has none of her son's shyness in mentioning the Deity. On the contrary, her Heavenly Father plays a large part in her conversation, particularly when she is angry.
"It's very easy to be resigned to one's Heavenly Father, when he does nothing to vex one," I cry passionately, ignoring the fifth commandment, or perhaps imagining that it does not apply to parents‐in‐law. The Dowager rises very stiffly, and makes her flat back flatter than ever.
"If you are going to be blasphemous, my dear," she says "I have nothing more to say; we must drop the subject, if you please!" and she sweeps out of the room with dignity. Dropping the subject means that I apologize, and that the old lady gets her own way. And so March, and April, and May—blowiest, tearfullest and sweetest of the daughters of the year—steal past us; march quickly page: 277 by to join the other dead months and years; go over to the majority as the Romans have it. And there comes a sultry day in early June—day when my sister's life began to open, and mine, I think, to close.
"'Happy the bride that the sun shines on,' the proverb says, doesn't it?" asks Hugh that morning, lying staring lazily out of window at the pale blue sky, and the Scotch firs, and the rooks cawing and flapping about their windy homes; "if that's the case, I'm afraid you have not a chance of coming in for much luck, have you, Nell? You had not a ha'porth of sun from 'Dearly Beloved,' to 'Amazement.'"
I am up and dressed already.
"Proverbs often tell lies," I say carelessly. "Honesty is the best policy; It is better to be good than pretty; Early birds pick the worm; what can be greater fiction than those three?"
"We shall have the house to ourselves to night, Nell!" says Hugh cheerfully, "that'll be a comfort, won't it?"page: 278
"Ye‐es," I say rather doubtfully, "at least do you know, Hugh, I sometimes wish that somebody would take it into their head to marry your mother; some meek‐minded old gentleman that she could rule with a rod of iron, and make muffetees for, and read 'A Voice from the Pit,' or 'A few plain words about sinners,' to."
Hugh bursts out into a loud haw! haw!
"Oh! I say, Nell! too bad! what's the Mater been doing now? slanging you, or giving you good little books to read?"
"A little of both, perhaps!" I say, laughing.
Wentworth Church is a mile from Wentworth House; just outside the park it stands; ugly, square‐windowed, ivy‐less. Sir Hugh's work people and tenants have been as zealous in doing honour to his sister‐in‐law, as if she were a real Lancaster. There is a big arch at the first gate; a bigger at the second, and a biggest at the church gate.page: 279
June has such a wealth of roses that she can spare a good many to scatter under Dolly's feet, without missing them. The deer raise their slender smoky heads to look surprisedly at these monstrosities that have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and then go leaping lightly away through the deep bracken.
The churchyard is full of people; there is quite a struggle for the vantage ground of the high flat tombstones, that give one always an idea of grim ghastly boxes. The children have had their faces washed as if it were Sunday; the women are bobbing curtseys, and the men pulling shaggy forelocks, as we float and rustle up the scarlet cloth put to the chancel door. There are twelve bridesmaids, six innocents in blue, and six in pink; it has been a work of some labour and thought to get that spinster dozen together.
Female friends Dolly has none, holding—was it Cowper's opinion—that women's friendships were leagues of folly and interest; and it has been difficult to collect, at least in a country neighbourhood, twelve page: 280 young ladies of fit standing, to walk behind Lady Stockport to the altar. It rather a scratch team after all; we have been obliged to eke it out with an old maid and a child.
Little De Laney is best man; not that has any peculiar affection or admiration for the bridegroom, as indeed he told me afterwards that he was 'the biggest fool out,' but because Lord Stockport once shed the radiance of his presence over the corps of which De Laney is a member.
A bishop in very clear lawn sleeves and painfully thin legs, with two High Church rectors, officiate. They all read very fast, and leave out as much as they possibly can, so that whatever else it is, at least the service cannot be said to be tedious. And so the 'august ceremony,' as the county newspapers said next day, is consummated, and Dolly draws a sigh of relief. I think he is glad that the costly brittle cup has reached her red lips in safety at last. And then we all get into our carriages and bowl home, with the 'ugly duck‐ duckling page: 281 ling' transformed within the last quarter of an hour into a swan leading the way.
"This is the room we danced in last year, isn't it?" Lord Capel says to me, at breakfast.
"Yes," I say, "it looks so different without its furniture, doesn't it?"
Lady Lancaster like the fisherman's wife, Ilsabil, has had her own will, and the gathering is as large as even she could wish.
Looking down the long table, on either side of the forest of ferns and flowers and pyramidal fruit, I see happy people—these in Elise‐ian bonnets—those in Poole‐ian coats laughing and talking nonsense.
The bridegroom is doing neither; he is eating 'poulet au truffes' and looking solemnly amorous, and amorously solemn. I fancy that his impending speech is weighing on his mind, and he is wishing that a fellow might be allowed to get married without having to jaw about it. Happiest, noisiest, gorgeousest of apparel, fre‐ frequentest page: 282 quentest of laugh among the guests are the Coxes; all except Mortimer Spencer de Lacy, behind whose barnacles the bitter tear of disappointment keeps swelling.
The Coxes are not presentable certainly, but I insisted on their being asked. I have a kindness for them; they were good to my poor Dick.
"There have been a good many changes since then," says Lord Capel, pleasantly thinking of my marriage.
"Indeed, there have!" I say, with a slight shudder.
"Everyone that was here last year is here now!" he continues, looking round n the assembled faces; "with one exception."
"Who is the exception, Capel?" asks De Laney, who is on the other side of me, "proves the rule, doesn't it, eh?"
"No, nonsense! M'Gregor, don't you recollect poor M'Gregor?"
"Why poor?" I ask, trying to smile; "for not being here?"
"Havn't you heard? oh, I thought you page: 283 were sure to; I'm sorry I mentioned the subject."
"Why?" I ask, hoarsely.
"Oh, because it's a shame to introduce melancholy subjects on an occasion like this; bad omen, you know. Stockport would not thank me."
"You had better go on, now you have begun," says De Laney, "or we shall think it something worse than it is."
"Well then, poor fellow! he is dead! I heard of it a day or two ago, from a man who was quartered on the same station with him; died of fever and ague at Lahore! very sad thing! nobody he cared a straw about near him."
"Dead!" cries Violet Coxe, overhearing, in her hard loud voice; "poor M'Gregor! Lord! how sorry I am!"
The bride suddenly rises from her seat, and comes rushing over to me.
"For God's sake, don't expose yourself!"
I hear her whispering very eagerly, and then there sounds a loud buzzing in my ears; a deadly sickness comes over me, and I faint away, as I fainted away five page: 284 months ago, in those strong arms that will never more embrace any bride but corruption. "The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust, His soul is with the saints, I trust."


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Only a few diary entries ago, I was complaining about the last company meeting. Now a new one is coming up, and I'm really looking forward to meeting all the great people that work at Red Hat.
Dropping by to say hello to the advogato crowd,
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I hate this open source game - it just proves my in(s)anity.
It's 02:01, I can't sleep, and there's a bunch of company meetings today at 08:30 that appear increasingly boring as the time approaches. It sort of rains on my parade of TODO items - I could have finished libGIOP this week. Instead, the game seems to be snoozing through discussions of kernel hacking and attending suffocatingly purposeless cocktail parties. I need to get a potion distilled from the Smurf theme song and inject myself with it.
So I am bothering to write this at all because aaronl is being a total moron and I'm bored enough to respond:
"My biggest gripe about component architecture is that I just don't understand when it would ever be needed." -aaronlSo this essentially means that he has no clue why components are good, but everyone else must be wrong because he hasn't figured out how to use them. A classic example of his Bigger Problem - not understanding use cases beside his own exist.
"Sure, you can write code that will let you browse the web in Emacs (and such code has been writen), but this actually has to be implemented inside Emacs." - aaronlSo this essentially means that he hasn't looked at how w3- mode is actually implemented - it's a set of elisp files, aka... a component.
I must admit, however, that Aaron's perspective is refreshingly free from the burden of experience. In other words, dudes, I want some of that crack that he's smoking, because I seem to be having issues getting this dandelion to produce the pink elephants he's seeing.
Rather than go on a stupid campaign to rip out features which are generally needed, I suppose he could work on adding fine-grained conditional feature & module selection, so he could build his bubble world more conveniently, not adversely impact those in the Big Blue Room, and benefit embedded systems builders in the process.
I'm done with the unprovoked insults and needless griping, so LART me and get back to your regularly scheduled world. I'm sure by lunchtime I'll have gotten enough sleep to regret this all.
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ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE (a LOO mi num hye DROX ide; mag NEE zee um hye DROX ide) is an antacid. It is used to relieve the symptoms of indigestion, heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD), or stomach or duodenal ulcers.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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Take this medicine by mouth. Follow the directions on the label. Shake well before using. Use a specially marked spoon or container to measure your medicine. Ask your pharmacist if you do not have one. Household spoons are not accurate. Antacids are usually taken after meals and at bedtime or as directed by your doctor or health care professional. After taking the medication, drink a full glass of water. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. While this medicine may be used in children for selected conditions, precautions do apply.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
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Fibroadenomas (fy-broe-ad-uh-NO-muhz) are solid, noncancerous breast tumors that occur most often in adolescent girls and women under the age of 30.
You might describe a fibroadenoma as firm, smooth, rubbery or hard with a well-defined shape. Usually painless, a fibroadenoma might feel like a marble in your breast, moving easily under your skin when touched. Fibroadenomas vary in size, and they can get bigger or even shrink on their own.
Fibroadenomas are among the most common breast lumps in young women. Treatment may include monitoring to detect changes in the size or feel of the fibroadenoma, a biopsy to evaluate the lump, or surgery to remove it.
Fibroadenomas are solid breast lumps or masses that usually are:
A fibroadenoma may feel like a marble within your breast when you press on it. You can have one or many fibroadenomas. Fibroadenomas range in size from being too small to be felt — detected only by mammogram or ultrasound — to 3 inches (8 centimeters) or more in diameter.
In healthy women, normal breast tissue often feels lumpy. If you detect a new breast lump or a change in your breasts — or if a breast lump you've had checked before seems to have grown or otherwise changed — make an appointment with your doctor.
Doctors don't know what causes fibroadenomas, but development of fibroadenomas may be related to reproductive hormones. Fibroadenomas occur more often during your reproductive years, can become bigger during pregnancy or use of hormone therapy, and may even shrink after menopause, when hormone levels decrease.
Most fibroadenomas don't affect your risk of breast cancer. However, your breast cancer risk might increase slightly if you have a complex fibroadenoma — which may contain abnormal cysts or dense, opaque tissue called calcifications. A pathologist makes the diagnosis of a complex fibroadenoma after reviewing the tissue from a biopsy of the lump.
You're likely to start by seeing your family doctor or gynecologist. It's a good idea to prepare for your appointment. Here's some information to help you.
For a fibroadenoma, basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Don't hesitate to ask other questions as they occur to you during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions, including:
During the physical exam, your doctor will check both breasts for lumps and other problems. Depending on your age and the characteristics of the lump, your doctor may recommend one or more of the following tests:
Breast ultrasound. If you're younger than age 30, your doctor may recommend breast ultrasound instead of a mammogram to evaluate a breast lump. Dense breast tissue in younger women makes mammograms difficult to interpret.
If you're younger than 30 and have a lump that can be felt, you'll likely start with an ultrasound to evaluate the lump and then have a diagnostic mammogram if needed to further assess the lump. If you're older than 30, you'll likely have a diagnostic mammogram of both breasts followed by an ultrasound to assess the lump.
Breast ultrasound can help your doctor determine whether a breast lump is solid or filled with fluid. A solid mass is more likely a fibroadenoma, and a fluid-filled mass is more likely a cyst.
In many cases, fibroadenomas require no treatment. However, some women choose to have their fibroadenomas surgically removed for their peace of mind.
If your doctor is reasonably certain that your breast lump is a fibroadenoma — based on the results of the clinical breast exam, imaging test and biopsy — you may not need surgery.
You might decide to avoid surgery because:
If you choose not to have surgery, it's important to monitor the fibroadenoma with follow-up visits to your doctor for breast ultrasounds to detect any changes in the appearance or size of the lump. If you later become worried about the fibroadenoma, you can reconsider surgery to remove it.
Your doctor might recommend surgery to remove the fibroadenoma if one of your tests — the clinical breast exam, an imaging test or a biopsy — is abnormal.
Procedures to remove a fibroadenoma include:
After a fibroadenoma is removed, it's possible that one or more new fibroadenomas may develop. New breast lumps need to be assessed with mammograms, ultrasound and possibly biopsy — to determine if the lump is a fibroadenoma or cancer.
Original article: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fibroadenoma/basics/complications/con-20032223
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First, as you can probably see (if it's all working as it should), I've improved the Advogato XML-RPC push a little. Now, the links etc should work fine, and you Advogato people can actually see the caption somehow.
I've overslept today. I woke up at 8:45, and I decided it makes no sense to go to the school anymore (only to P.E. and then one class of English). So I slept on to about 11:00 ;-). I usually attend the school relatively regularily (unless I'm sorta ill/sick), but it's getting worse with me by time.
Then, I released ELinks-0.9.1rc2, because the rc1 release was of course messed up (and besides, some interesting bugfixes appeared during the night). I got surprisingly negative feedback by some people about the compile-time configuration switch from ./configure arguments (except the very major stuff) to feature.h (sorta vim-like). So I opened a thread for it at the mailing list, we'll see how it turns out.
Looks like they've released Linux-2.6.1. I like Linus' jokes. I think the maintainership workload split with Andrew did him very good, at least judging subjectively. I think his mailing list activity raised by few hundred percents (minimally) and his writing seems more relaxed :-).
Otherwise, this was another lazy day. I got some new TODO items from the GTS people, I checked whether Ariadne is still working somehow (it is) and otherwise I was slowly working on BlueCode. It is already basically usable but some vital features are still missing for a public release.
I was looking forward for listening to \"Toulky ceskou minulosti\" in radio (it's very interesting broadcast about Czech history, I've became addicted to it), but they stopped broadcasting it at this time! (I'll have to tune in on Thursday afternoons, which sucks.) I was seriously annoyed and it disrupted me quite a lot. But coding is a very good cure for bad mood, from my experience.


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Of course the possible return rates are estimates. Sales forecasts, profit forecasts, etc. are done in most businesses all the time. All of them are estimates. That doesnt make them wrong.
Because the government or the tax payers have a stake in GM, does that mean GM shouldnt make any business decisions that cost money? They shouldnt advertise, offer incentive programs, or implement any other program to sell cars and improve their business? What about warranties? Shouldnt they eliminate those? Arent they being paid with tax payer dollars? Perhaps they shouldnt introduce any new models. After all, wouldnt they be gambling with tax payer dollars that those new models will be successful and profitable?
The bottom line is if GM is going to become profitable again, it has to run like a business. It has to take the calculated risks necessary to be successful in business.


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In the small-ish world of open-source & embedded graphics, toolkits, and SW / HW rendering implementors, there are few who have been at it as long and have such a breadth / depth of experience in so many areas as yourself.
As someone who has done a fair bit of searching for resources on the theory and practical design of such systems, I must say, that there are few books out there that concisely describe the "how" and "why" in a design-patterns kind of way tie in with immediately relevant topics (e.g. fbdev, widget & drawing libs, scene-graphs). Naturally, implementors often pick up the talent and ensure that trade secret is kept that way, but you are at a bit of an advantage I think, no?
You've been at E for a *long* time and you've done an insane amount of work making SW rendering almost as efficient as HW rendering - I'm sure there is no shortage of material.
Have you ever thought about writing a book - sharing some of your expertise with the world in a less formal language? Not something that's all-encompassing by any means but maybe with references for further reading. What about a techno-biography of E?


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Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome is a rare, inherited disease that causes problems with the skin, sinuses, lungs, bones, and teeth.
Job syndrome; Hyper IgE syndrome
Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome is also called Job syndrome, after the biblical character Job whose faithfulness was tested by an affliction with draining skin sores and pustules. People with this condition have long-term, severe skin infections.
The symptoms are usually present in childhood, but because the disease is so rare, it often takes years before a correct diagnosis is made.
Recent research suggests that the disease is often caused by a genetic change (mutation) -- a change in the STAT3
An eye exam may reveal signs of dry eye syndrome. A physical exam may also show:
A chest x-ray may reveal lung abscesses.
Tests used to confirm the diagnosis include:
Other tests that may be done:
A scoring system that combines the different problems of Job syndrome is used to help make the diagnosis.
There is no known cure for this condition. The goal of treatment is to control the infections. Medications include:
Sometimes, surgery is needed to drain abscesses.
Gamma globulin given through a vein (IV) may help build up the immune system if you have severe infections.
Job syndrome is a lifelong chronic condition. Each new infection requires treatment.
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of Job syndrome.
There is no proven way to prevent Job syndrome. Good general hygiene is helpful.
Some doctors may recommend preventive antibiotics for people who many infections, especially with Staphylococcus aureus. This treatment does not change the condition, but it can lessen its complications.
Genetics Home Reference (GHR). Job Syndrome. Feb 2008. Accessed Nov. 13, 2008.
Immune Deficiency Foundation. Immune Deficiency Foundation Patient & Family Handbook. Chapter 12: Hyper IgE Syndrome. 4th ed. 2007. Accessed Nov. 13, 2008.
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