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Joppa FF Report
Just thought I could finally post something on your board....Juro.
After pounding the stripers with soft plastics for a 1/2 hour, including what was most likely my first legal fish of the young season....wandered back to the truck and grabbed the fly rod for the first time this season. Managed three on one of my own flies. That was pretty cool. But man....didn't I butcher the art of fly casting....jeez!
Lots of small herring flipping on the surface....but stripers were closer to the bottom. In thick...but not showing themselves.
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Very Cool! Great to get them on your own stuff, eh? The 325 QD makes it easier by requiring less backcast and also bringing the fly down to the fish. My experience is that if they are active at slack tides you don't need to get down but when the current is turned on it's the only way to get 'em.
Let me know when you're going again, maybe we can hook up.
I accidentally posted this to the North River Spit thread (dOh)...
I heard that PI is lit up at low tide, which in early AM over the next couple of days. There were a couple of 30-35" caught last night along PI up from the bar (reportedly a little slender but gorgeous just the same), and the schoolies are fat and feisty with some over 24" for every batch of 14-18". Bait is tiny sand eels with some 3-4" around. The terns are focused on the larger eels but hordes of small non-diving sea birds hover and dip into the masses of tiny eels coming over the bar on the flood.
Best bet is to work around the charter boats at the bottom of the tide, but there are pods to be found just upstream from the sand bar and also near the base of the south jetty. As one might suspect, sand eel patterns were reportedly producing. I was warned that the fish push upstream quickly at the turn of the tide so be there or be square.
Salisbury should be very good near the pick on the start of the outgoing too. Up river locations should be seeing lot of action through the top of the tide.
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325 qd...how much$$? also...next time you head in my direction...let me know.
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Just picked one up at Blue Northern two weeks ago for $46.
I was thinking about making the two hour drive around 2:30 this morning, but am scared of the weather reports. What do you guys think???
Pete (in Amherst, MA)
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Didn't see your post until this a.m. Joppa was o.k. this morning...lots of small fish. Mouth of river may have been a better choice.
Thanks for the price on the 325 qd.
Doug B.
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Doug -
Between an intermediate and a 325 QD you can cover just about everything on the New England coast with a 9wt. I'd say that big rips off a boat might encourage more grains than 325 to pull grocery flies under the standing waves, and geez when they get on the top I love poppers on a floater - but all in all the intermediate and sinking head lines are the 'meat' and 'potatoes'.
The 325 encourages a different casting style, which is easier for most casters but requires an adjustment period when you go back to a 'real' fly line. This is not a bad thing, the 325 requires less backcast (usually just one and only the head) and throws a respectable distance without a lot of effort. It gets down into the water column or can be stripped quick to excite fish up high.
Get the one with the intermediate running line for better depth penetration and easier use in big waves (outer cape, etc), and the floating running line if you fish in river currents more often than deep water or big waves. The latter is designed for steelhead and salmon in rivers, the floating running line mends easier and won't get a bow pulling the fly oddly downstream in a cross current.
Tom's place is looking pretty awsome, huh Pete?
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It was! http://22.214.171.124/images/flytalk/Wilk.gif
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Gotta say that this morning was definitely worth the trip down from Amherst. We (Mitch and myself) left for PI at 2:30 - right on schedule and were fishing by 4:45. Things started off well, with each of us hooking up on our second casts. Things cooled a bit after that, but there were fish swirling about 10yds out of casting range. We met up with Sully and Mike S. - nice to see them both after about a year. I also had the pleasure of meeting Bob P. And Terry W. - very nice to put a face with a name, also very nice guys. Mitch and I headed down towards the jetty as there were some birds working close in. The birds moved out and we didn't get into any, but there was a guy in a dory that was hooking a few (StriperTom?). We went back to the original area and decided to fish closer to the old sandbar (Thanks for the tip guys :). Mitch and I caught another 8 or 9 between us, most were small, but a couple of 24-25' fish in there.
We had a blast, and Mitch caught his first of the season. The surise was beautiful (got a couple of pictures), we were able to take a couple of fish shots and I got the hang of that new QD325 line - what a rocket. Today certainly get the juices flowing for more fishing. We decided to take off around 11am - good thing - as two tour buses of teenagers arrived to participate in a field trip, plus the wind was blowing and the rain was about to start. For anyone reading this, I was the one in the camo waders with a red ball cap on.
Hot flies were olive and white clousers and for me the chartreuse and white clouser as well - there was one guy really doing well and he seemed to let the fly sink and use a slow retrieve. He was hooking up pretty regularly for a while.
Juro - stopped in to show Mitch Blue Northern. The store looks great and there really is an excellent supply of materials and equipment - and to top it off everyone is very friendly and helpfull.
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Pete -
Sounds like you guys had a good time... wish I was there! I almost did it but that little guy on my shoulder with the halo said "just say no" and I opted for pressing a clean shirt and donning a suit instead of waders. Good thing, I had a productive day at an important time.
Blue Northern seems to be making the right moves. They are doing a great job with their fly shop! I don't get in there enough myself.
On the topic of PI, I noticed the water was quite warm. The activity in the river has got to be related to that. The stripers have been backing down with the ebb and have been sitting in large concentrations by the boat docks at low slack. Although they were swirling way out of reach they were still patrolling around the drop offs even after the turn when I was there. I also slowed the retrieve (shock and stop) and hit several more after the turn. Clearly the birds pushed up with the mass of fish until they were way up at Joppa and soon out of sight. I'd imagine the upper river is getting it's share of activity on the flood too, like last year.
When the water warms up on Joppa and the surrounding area, the end of the refuge gets the fish as does the Crane's and Little Neck areas. My bet is that Hampton is good way up inside near the numerous channels and creek mouths until it warms. The PI River should be good in these conditions, particularly the expansive flats areas before Plum Island sound.
When contrasting the behavior of fish now verses their behavior last summer when the Merrimac was really warm, I'd have to say that it's a strong testament to their temperature sensitivity. They clearly preferred the bright cool water around Ipswich when Joppa was warm and soupy, but now the open water seems sterile in comparison to the brackish river water. The cape exhibits similar conditions.
Anyone happen to take a temp reading out on the beachfront?
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iFixit's recent list ranks the ease of stripping and rebuilding some of the most popular tablets on the market. The results are not arbitrary. iFixit states, "a device with a perfect score will be relatively inexpensive to repair because it is easy to disassemble and has a service manual available. Points are docked based on the difficulty of opening the device, the types of fasteners found inside, and the complexity involved in replacing major components. Points are awarded for upgradability, use of non-proprietary tools for servicing, and component modularity."
iFixit engineers disassembled and analyzed 18 tablets, awarding a repairability score between zero and ten – ten being easiest to repair. No one got a ten. (Engineers can be a prickly bunch).
The Dell XPS 10 was the winner of the bunch with a score of 9. The engineers called it "refreshingly easy to work on, especially compared to the other tablets we've seen recently." The guts of the XPS 10 are modular, designed well, and some cables are even labeled for easy reassembly. The screws on this model are color-coded and large enough to not require tweezers. The only negative is that the rear case is delicate and susceptible to deformation when prying. In layman's terms: it will twist into a potato chip if you pull on it too hard.Kindle Fire also ranked high on the list with a score of 8 out of ten. The engineers found it easy to open with a simple design and standard Phillips screws.
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I came across a post by Liz over at Mom-101 about the myth of "doing it all", and with the demands of all the roles I play: mom, wife, employee, daughter, friend, neighbor, Girl Scout leader, football team mom, I often get the same question as Liz: "How do you do it?" If I've ever given the impression that I have things under control, I apologize! There is no one super mom who can handle everything with 100% thoroughness, and anyone who acts like they do (and makes the rest of us feel like crap) has a scary closet somewhere, I promise.
Here's my liberating list of what I don't do and what I choose to do instead:
| I DON'T | I DO | | Clean up the house every day. Or every other day. Or once a week. Just this weekend I panicked when a friend asked to go inside to use the bathroom. "Be careful in there!!!" I yelled. | Snuggle and read to the kids every night. | | Cook. I take about every kitchen shortcut possible. My favorite cookbook is called Desperation Dinners. Enough said. | Make sure we all eat together and talk about our day. | | Volunteerin the kids' school. | Volunteer once at the beginning of the year to get the lay of the class, and I do attend most school performances. | | Wash my car (or the dog) nearly enough. | Give my dog tons of kisses every day and keep the car's guts safely serviced. | | Wash out my humidifier or the inside of my sonic toothbrush until there's an entire eco system growing. | Brush my teeth every day. | | Snuggle with my husband. | Tell my husband I miss him and plan a monthly date night to reconnect. | | Talk to my friends on the phone. | Text them frequently. | | Attend every doctor's appointment. | Organize them and let my husband know when he needs to cover one. | | Offer to host play dates or sleepovers. | Know who my kids are friends with and why they like them. | | Put away my clean clothes. | Have clean clothes. | | Work out regularly. | Go for family hikes or take the kids swimming. | | Watch TV. | Spend 30 minutes a day reading. | | Wear makeup on most days. | Wash my face. | | Wrap presents nicely or remember to include gift receipts. | Remember birthdays and put thought into the presents I buy. |
I don't do it all, but I do a whole _lot. _ And for me, I'm there for what matters most.
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This struck home to me, because there are three pedestrian refuges that I pass in quick succession on my way home from work each day which have caused me more than a few worrying moments recently. Actually, it's not the pinch points that cause the problem, it's the average motorist's inability to judge speed and distance that causes the problem, and this inability is highlighted at these pinch points.
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The first isn't too bad, but there are often parked cars around making the approach trickier. This is also the point where cars "released" from the throughabout back down the road catch up with me, meaning a nice succession of cars to pass me.
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The second is a bit trickier, as it's on an odd bend just after the top of a slight rise in the road and before a descent. It is not wide enough for a car to get through at the same time as me yet I often have cars desperately trying to get by me here. I often ride down the following hill swearing and gesturing to the car (now) in front of me.
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Then, still swearing, I meet pinch point number three where another car races past.
There's another one just after this, but I turn off here (squeezing past the car-for-sale parked half blocking the pavement, but that's a separate rant).
I'm going to be taking Karl's advice for dealing with these from now on:
I'm trying a modified technique:I. Will. Own. That. Road. (Girlfriend).Never mind this looking over the shoulder and pulling across if it's safe - my moves will be accompanied by the full arm-out hand signal, and I will be riding through these kill zones at about 50-60% of the distance from the road's edge. I will be doing this on every single one, and only IF when I get into one, I find that it's ridiculously wide, will I then pull across to let cars pass safely.It's time to reclaim the streets


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It's been an excellent few years for dividend-oriented investors and for many value-oriented funds. Do higher interest rates mean it's time for growth stocks to shine?
Data this week from Thomson Reuters researcher Sridharan Raman suggests it's already happening. Raman screened for companies in the S&P 500's bottom quintile of dividend payers. The goal was to seek out above-average expected growth, positive cash flows, and quality earnings -- the sort of company suiting growth managers.
Result: Those companies' 90-day return is 11.9%, versus a 0.60% loss for a comparable high-dividend portfolio. The group includes Facebook (FB), Starbucks (SBUX), Red Hat (RHT), and Taser International (TASR).
[O]ver the past 90 days, the market has already rewarded these stocks with 11.9% increase in prices compared to the S&P 500, which lost 0.7% in the same period. You may remember the high dividend yield portfolio we created in January of 2013, (here is the link) which did perform well until April when the Fed first indicated that it may increase interest rates. Since then, however, this portfolio has been a laggard. In the last 90 days, the portfolio has underperformed even the S&P 500.
The negative market implied growth rate indicates that the market is either expecting these companies to shrink earnings, or it is not valuing those dividends. If the market continues to value growth over dividends, expect the group of companies with low dividends but strong financials to continue to outperform the market.
The chart to the above right shows two years' relative strength for iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF) versus iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD). The upswing on the far right shows growth's recent advance is still very new and not very, well, advanced.
Still skittish about growth stocks? Good.
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RCS + gravel + higher light requirement plants?
when i move i think i might do a bare bottom 10g for my shrimp, with some java moss and moss ball. but thats just because i want to plant it with some dwarf tears, clovers, micro swords.... maybe some combo idk. i want to use about 20/25 pounds of eco-complete and root tabs, diy co2 ECT... since im using a 23W clf i belive im in high light for the tank any ways and im sick of just having java moss and moss ball lol....
so any ways the real questions. will my RCS do good with gravel? or should i stick with sand and just root tab... or should i even bother with eco complete?
also since there are NO fish in this tank will my RCS be fine without java moss? ill keep the moss ball for them...KING OF THE GOLD BARBS RAWR!!!!
I wonder if i plant one of my tiger barbs would the demon seed grow to a full tree?
gotta love them bunnies!
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RCS will do good without fish and their own kind, especially in that size. You don't need plants for them to live, but the less hiding places, the more stressed they will be. As long as it is planted they should do fine. Just try to avoid snails.
For gravel, it really doesn't matter, but with the fluval shrimp gravel, babies have a better chance of making it. Gravel doesn't matter much, but some gravel is better for shrimp for others.
Everything should be fine except for one thing. You must make SURE your water is perfect, because these aren't as near hardy as cherry shrimp.
hmmm RCS in my posts refers to red cherry shrimp sorry for the confusion. would i be better with just sand and root tabs then?KING OF THE GOLD BARBS RAWR!!!!
I wonder if i plant one of my tiger barbs would the demon seed grow to a full tree?
gotta love them bunnies!
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I'm guessing this is Bush 43's fault too.........oh....wait.....he's not in office anymore.....
I'm guessing this is Bush 43's fault too.........oh....wait.....he's not in office anymore.....
I, too, am very disappointed with this. What pees me off the most is Steny Hoyer telling reporters that earmarks belonged to congress and basically, it was none of the president's business.
I am very supportive of Obama, but I pray it doesn't turn into business as usual (I have seen a few examples of that already).
I sure hope the folks represented by those 364 electoral votes are praying with us...........
cave canem...beware of the dog
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Clearly, Congress is out of control.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Talk about total BS.
The man is a liar, a cheat , a crook, and may be commiting treason.
At the least he should be impeached.
He should actually be tryed for treason and then pay the penalty.
The pigs are flying now....While Republican opposition in the House focused more on the bill's overall spending, McCain and allies turned the Senate spotlight squarely on earmarks.
"How does anyone justify some of these earmarks: $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa; $2 million 'for the promotion of astronomy' in Hawaii; $6.6 million for termite research in New Orleans; $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York," he said.
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Damn give me 1.7M for pig stink research! I guess the smell in congress, the House, and the White House form all the pork has gotten to be too much for em
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Mary Connealy and Free Books!
Before we visit with today's featured author, I want to announce that the winner of Debbie Fuller Thomas' novel, Raising Rain is:
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Congratulations! I'll contact you today for your snail mail address, and we'll get your book to you right away. I encourage readers to keep commenting and/or subscribe at right in order to participate in future book give-aways!
And now let's talk with novelist Mary Connealy, author of Cowboy Christmas (Barbour Publishing, September 2009).
Mary Connealy writes romantic comedies with cowboys for Barbour Publishing. Cowboy Christmas is in bookstores now.
Montana Rose, Book #1 of the Montana Marriages series, released in July.
Book #2, The Husband Tree, comes in January.
And book #3, Wildflower Bride, comes in May 2010.
Mary is also the author of the Lassoed in Texas series and a cozy mystery collection, Nosy in Nebraska.
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Cowboy Christmas.
Elijah Walker's lost his father at the hands of a deceitful woman. The one thing he can't abide is lies. Citified Annette Talbot is on the run from something, and Eli knows a liar when he sees one.
After a lifetime of being a good girl who does what she's told, Annette's obedient nature has led her straight into danger. She's determined to live more bravely and she's planning to start just as soon as she can hide behind her tough Wyoming rancher father.
Once in Wyoming, she finds her father is missing, possibly dead. Elijah can't ignore a damsel in distress. Walker can't help protecting her, especially since God pretty much dropped Annette straight into his unwilling arms. But helping her isn't the same as trusting her, and that he will never do. As Annette and Walker fight their attraction, danger draws near and Christmas approaches. They'll get one special chance to follow their star to True Love.
Which character in your novel most interested you while you wrote? Why?
Annette was my favorite, though the combination of her and Elijah is what makes the book fun. She's trying to live bravely for God. She's trying to take up her cross and follow the Lord. But she keeps fumbling her cross, and mostly dropping it straight on poor Elijah's head.
Why will readers enjoy your novel?
It's a romantic comedy with cowboys at Christmas. It is impossible not to enjoy that combination.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
I don't like answering this. I like to leave the appearance of my characters to the imagination of my readers. Have you ever noticed there aren't any people on my book covers? I've had to beg for that. I think it works well, though. I mean seriously, once we saw Daniel Radcliff's face, could we ever recapture what Harry Potter really looked like, the real Harry, the one we conjured in our own heads?
Yes, I imagine J.K. Rowling is really miffed about that whole movie enterprise. Okay, Ms. Mary, no movie deal for you!
Seriously, though, I understand what you mean. The book trailer for my most recent novel uses a male model who doesn't look at all like I pictured the hero looking. It was quite a surprise to see how someone else imagined him.
This month we're talking about books on the craft of writing. Of those you've read, which one would you most enthusiastically recommend?
I hate to say this . . . and it might explain why it took me ten years to get published, but I've almost never read a book on the craft of writing. Sorry. I've read The Moral Premise, by Stanley D. Williams, which I liked, good solid advice. And I've read Stephen King's On Writing--A Memoir of the Craft. But that mainly just confirmed what I already know, still, except for the unpleasantness of his abused childhood and the profanity, it's a solid book on writing.
Well, see there, you have read books on the craft. Both of those books were recommended by other authors on this blog recently. I really enjoyed King's book, even though I'm not a big fan of his fiction. And I keep hearing about The Moral Premise. Maybe I should check it out.
Someone has just handed you a box containing exactly what you need at this moment in time. What's in the box? And it's not food (everyone always says food--we writers are a hungry bunch).
Hey, I need food. That's just mean. How about, could my granddaughter be in that box. I mean, it's kind of abusive, Trish, shame on you. But I haven't held her for . . . a week and a half. It's getting pretty serious. I need that baby!!!!!! I heard she might be getting a tooth. She needs her grandma for something that traumatic.
Fine, fine, we'll punch a few air holes in the box. Will that make you happy?
I hear you, though. I don't even want to get started on how fantastic my grandson is, and I completely empathize with your need for a fix.
What is the last book you read that impacted you? How did it affect you?
I read the first book in MaryLu Tyndall's new series recently, Red Siren. I loved it. She really had a fantastic grasp of adventure and high stakes. I love what she's doing. I've got The Blue Enchantress in my hot little hands now and can't wait to get to it.
What are you working on now?
I've got book #2 in the Montana Marriages series releasing in January. We're just doing final edits for that. I love that book. I don't suppose I should pick a book to prefer but I have to say, I think it's the most fun I've ever had writing a book. Belle Tanner, a secondary character in Montana Rose, stars in this book. And if a woman has ever been a hard sell to find true love, it's Belle.
Where else can readers find you or your writing online?
Petticoats & Pistols
My Blog
My Website
Link to purchase Cowboy Christmas: Amazon.com
Thanks, Mary, for visiting with us and telling us about Cowboy Christmas. Readers, Mary has offered to sign a copy of Cowboy Christmas for the winner of our drawing on Monday, October 12. To enter, leave a comment for Mary, below. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com. If you subscribe to my blog, at right (or if you're already subscribed), you'll be entered an additional time to this drawing and all future drawings.
Be sure to check out my interview with Myra Johndon, below. There's time to leave a comment to enter the October 8 drawing for Myra's book, One Imperfect Christmas.
Annoying legal disclaimer: drawings void where prohibited; open only to U.S. residents; the odds of winning depend upon the number of participants.
This Thursday we'll hear from Jenness Walker, author of Double Take.
20 comments:
- Carole said...
Cowboys + Christmas - now that's a winning combination! I love Mary's books and appreciate the chance to win a copy of Cowboy Christmas.
cjarvis [at] bellsouth [dot] net
- October 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM
- Anna W. said...
I'm a huge fan of Mary's books, so I'd love to win a copy of Cowboy Christmas!
I'm also subscribed to your blog.
writer_weaver at yahoo dot com
- October 6, 2009 at 2:00 AM
- Marjorie said...
This is an awesome giveaway, please count me.
cenya2 at hotmail dot com
- October 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Mary Connealy said...
Good morning ladies. Remember books make lovely gifts. I highly recommend you buy a copy of Cowboy Christmas for everyone on your list.
Oh what the hey....buy them each TWO copies. :)
- October 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Sherry K said...
What a fantastic interview. It cracked me up!!!! Mary, your personality comes shining through just like in your books (which I love)!!! Like your granddaughter in a box (ha ha). I'm still trying to deal with kids at home! But I'll send you a couple of mine if you want. They have all their teeth!
Anyway, I would love the opportunity to win Cowboy Christmas. I love Mary's books and I know this one will be great too!
Blessings and Thanks,
Sherry K
- October 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Mary Connealy said...
By the way, yes, I'm sure J.K. Rowling is just SICK about those awful movies. Probably disgusted with all that nasty money, too.
Poor thing.
- October 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Katherine said...
I LOVE Mary's books. I also LOVE anything to do with Cowboys & Christmas (in that order!) So I know that I would love this book!
- October 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Lori (sugarandgrits) said...
Mary's books are the best! I agree with the others...Cowboys & Christmas...it just doesn't get any better!
I can't wait to read Belle's story either ~ Montana Rose just may be my new favorite book of Mary's. *sigh*
Yes, Mary, The Red Siren was a great book! I also have The Blue Enchantress, just waiting to be read. =)
Thank you,
~ Lori
- October 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- Myra Johnson said...
Just finished reading Cowboy Christmas a few days ago--fun read and highly recommended!
However, I have not seen MY granddaughter since last June!!!! Pleasepleaseplease can I have that box????
- October 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM
- Mary Connealy said...
Myra that would be sooooo abusive. Maybe you could pack yourself in a box, a few airholes and off you go. :)
- October 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Trish Perry said...
Ladies, we might sound like a bunch of batty grandmas, but will you look at how young and lovely we all are (if I do say so myself)? I think its from reading all those romance books, like Cowboy Christmas. Keeps us young at heart.
- October 6, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Please enter me for Mary's book.....sounds great. Thanks!
- October 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- Cherie J said...
Ooh! i love Christmas books and Mary is a such a wonderful writer. Please enter me in the drawing. Thank you!
- October 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- cheryl c said...
Christmas + cowboys + laughter = a book that is impossible to resist!
Thanks for the chance to win a copy. :-)
castings at mindspring dot com
- October 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM
- Deborah said...
I have been wanting to read this book, ever since I first heard about it! Please enter me! And I am a subscriber to your blog too Trish! Thanks!
- October 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM
- adge said...
I've read most of Mary Connealy's books and she's a great author. Please include me in the giveaway. Thank you.
- October 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM
- raspberrygirl said...
Would love to win this book. Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks!
ohiobuckeye91 [at] gmail [dot] com
- October 10, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Carman said...
I would love to be entered in this drawing! Thanks for the chance to win!
- October 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Virginia C said...
Elijah is a great name for a cowboy! Please enter my name in the drawing.
gcwhiskas at aol dot com
- October 12, 2009 at 9:15 PM
- Katie said...
Please enter me if it's not to late!!! thanks
- October 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM


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You know they will never see the fact that it is doing nothing to help gun crime. They see it as a victory against an enemy (us).
Joshua T.
And they will justify all their actions and new taxes by spending money for gun buy back programs and mental health funding.
Great post Gooser.
Just for the record I have very fine dogs. Some of the best in the whole country....or at least on my own end of the block.
Gooser that has to be the most sense I have heard anybody make.
Bryan Manning
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HRCH BM's Crank It Up Daisy QAA "Daisy"
Country Boys Locked n Loaded "Trigger"
I don't know much about guns. I don't own one. I don't shoot. I don't hunt. So, I listen carefully to what you fellas have to say because most of you DO know about guns. Here are some of the things I have learned, and maybe what the general public needs to know:
I had did not know what the term "semi-automatic" could mean any weapon that could fire more than one shot without re-loading; thus, making a revolver such a weapon.
The term "AR-15" sounds very intimidating ... to the unlearned ear, it sounds a lot like AK-47; and the difference is a HUGE one.
... all law-abiding citizens registered all their guns ... it sure would be easier to find them if some law were made to confiscate them. This seems like a far-fetched proability, yet it has happened before historically. We already have an inkling that our lawmakers think they are smarter and know better how to protect the "great unwashed masses", so even in our country we are getting closer to a "big brother" mentality.
... nobody in their right mind would put guns (or even sharp objects!) in the hands of the mentally ill; alcoholic; or someone having previously demonstrated violent behaviors (domestic violence, for example). Background checks are reasonable. If they take a week, the law-abiding citizen will wait. Even a couple of weeks would be reasonable. If they take 6 months, who is not doing their job?
... criminals have never, and will never, follow the gun laws.
... the first right listed in our human rights: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". To deprive anyone of the right to defend their own life seems to deny the most basic right. If a thug accosts someone on the street with a knife or brute force that could endanger the victim's life, why shouldn't that victim be able to defend themselves? The weak and defenseless are often chosen over those who appear capable of defending an assault, even when guns are not involved. A 110# woman with a small gun gets a great equalizer if attacked by a 190# man with knife. Just talking about levelling the playing field for the weaker victims ... "giving everyone a fair shot", as our POTUS would say (pun intended!)
... it has been proven, over and over again, that even the most restrictive gun laws do not prevent crimes using guns. I have no doubt that this nutcase in Newtown would have found some way to vent his violence. He was a bright guy, so it might have taken him a little while longer, but he would have vented his violence on another day.
... I think there is some merit in having a teacher (or more than one), who is willing, to carry a weapon or to have access to a weapon stored in a safe place in the school (a vault or safe; which could even be in that teacher's classroom). I don't think you need to arm every teacher in the school. Put a safe in every classroom, let the perp wonder which one has a gun in it.
It occurs to me that these nutcases choose schools that are defenseless ... how often do schools in inner cities have an incident like this (wonder if there is a study for that?) Such a perp wouldn't be afraid of the teachers taking him down; he'd have to worry more about some of the students doing it! Of course, a lot of those inner city schools already have armed guards. I think "armed" is the operative word there.
Extending that thought further, these nutcases tend to choose locations where return fire is highly unlikely. Tells me that these people are insane, but they are not stupid. Even the guy in Norway, where guns are highly restricted, chose a children's camp where resistance would be least likely.
I apologize in advance for my very random thoughts.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Well Mr Clinchy.
It looks like you get it!!
I think you should take advantage of your second ammendment right,, and explore the world of resposible gun ownership.
Its a wonderful hobby,, ties in nicely with your dogs,, and there ARE guns that are truly works of art and craftsmanship.
Those are the jewels that anyone should be proud to own..
The Irresposible,,uneducated, and agendites,, are the ones we need to deal with...
Complacency will destroy those efforts..
Stan b & Elvis


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UTSA supports local at-risk teen parents with business success seminars
By Christi Fish
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(June 8, 2009)--This year, UTSA offered a yearlong series of business success workshops to help teen parents. Providing for a family can be distressing for anyone, given the current state of the economy. But imagine how challenging it is for teen parents working toward high school graduation with these and other questions: How can I stretch my income? How do I make my resume stand out to prospective employers? Do I have what it takes to start my own business?
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- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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Recently, the UTSA Bank of America Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) wrapped up the yearlong Business Success Workshop series for teen parents in San Antonio. Conducted at the UTSA Downtown Campus and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the seminars gave 87 teen parents a crash course in the realities of business.
Most recently offered to students from San Antonio's Edgewood School District, CAPRI's business development seminars featured a variety of speakers from the UTSA network including Jamie Martinez from the UTSA Small Business Development Center, Michael Zucker from the University Career Center, UTSA sociology graduate students David Rodriguez and Anabel Guerra, and Alamo Travel Group president Patricia Pliego Stout.
The workshop agenda covered an array of topics including:
- Access to higher education
- Establishing and growing a small business
- Free services for the community from the UTSA Small Business Development Center
- Resume, cover letter and interview best practices
- Business etiquette and proper workplace attire
- Q&A forum with a successful San Antonio entrepreneur
The teens also were given a tour of the Downtown Campus by ambassadors from the UTSA Visitor Center.
To learn more about the UTSA Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute, contact Professor Harriett Romo at (210) 458-2849.


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IAHS publishes Hydrological Sciences Journal and three book series:
- the Benchmark Papers in Hydrology series that collects together, by theme, the seminal scientific papers that provided the foundation for modern hydrology.
- the "Red Books" or Proceedings and Reports series and the new online open-access proceedings journal, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, PIAHS.
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Author / Editor: Victor R. Baker
Price: £75.00
Palaeohydrology - Victor R. Baker
Palaeohydrology originated with and continues to have a strong focus on palaeofluvial processes, especially palaeoflooding, and this is reflected in eight sections:
An excellent resource for graduate and post-graduate level courses in hydrology and hydro-geomorphology, reproducing many important papers that are otherwise difficult to access.
Victor R. Baker is Regents Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona, USA, and holds joint chairs in the departments of Geosciences and Planetary Sciences there. His research interests broadly concern palaeohydrology and related aspects of geomorphology, with a particular focus on flood processes. He also works in the area of planetary geomorphology and on issues that involve Earth science in relation to public policy, the environment and philosophy of science.
IAHS arranged for copyright permission to reproduce the papers included in this volume as print copy. We are unable to provide digital versions.
Isotope Hydrology
Author / Editor: P. K. Aggarwal, K. O. Fröhlich, J. R. Gat & R. Gonfiantini
Price: £70.00
Isotope Hydrology - P. K. Aggarwal, K. O. Fröhlich, J. R. Gat & R. Gonfiantini
Isotope Hydrology uses stable and radioactive isotopes of water and its dissolved constituents to trace hydrological processes, including the pathways of rainfall and snowmelt to, and interactions between, aquifers, lakes and rivers. The potential of using stable isotopes of water was recognized in the 1930s, but not fully explored until the 1950s, since when the scope and nature of isotope applications in hydrology have blossomed. Improvements in measure¬ment techniques have facilitated use of isotopes in many contexts, and isotope hydrology has become mainstream, as documented in this volume of reprinted papers and accompanying commentaries. Section A. Fundamentals includes the first papers on deuterium, 18O and tritium contents in natural waters (Friedman, 1953; Epstein & Mayeda, 1953; Libby, 1953), and Craigâas (1961) seminal paper which defined the global meteoric water line used to understand the source of natural waters. The papers that shaped our understanding of isotopes in precipitation and global circulation, e.g. Dansgaard (1964) and Craig & Gordon (1965), come in B. Atmospheric Water Cycle. The early interpretation of isotope sequences in rock and ice, including the iconic Greenland ice sheet core (Dansgaard et al., 1969), are included in C. Palaeoclimates. D. River and Lake Hydrology contains influential papers on the use of isotopes to determine the origin of stream and lake waters. E. Groundwater deals with the origin of groundwaters, the earliest use of tritium, 14C, 81Kr and 36Cl to date them, and isotope applications in pollution and groundwater remediation. An excellent resource for graduate and post-graduate level courses in hydrology, reproducing many important papers which are otherwise difficult to access.
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Hydro-Geomorphology, Erosion and Sedimentation
Author / Editor: Michael J. Kirkby
Price: £70.00
Hydro-Geomorphology, Erosion and Sedimentation - Michael J. Kirkby
In the short term, hydrology responds to the topography, soils and vegetation of the landscape, but over longer time spans the entire landscape is moulded by the flow of water. The process scale ranges from the splash erosion by individual raindrops to the accumulation of sediment as alluvial fans, to the evolution of drainage networks. Kirkby presents a systematic analysis of the relationships between hydrology and geomorphology with commentaries on the papers which have been most influential in the development of research at the hydrology/geomorphology interface. Thirty-seven papers are reprinted in full or in part, the majority published pre-1970, including early contributions by Fisher (1866), Davison (1889) and Gilbert (1909), and seminal papers by Hack, Strahler, Wolman & Miller, and Melton, among others. An excellent resource for graduate and post-graduate level courses in geomorphology and hydrology, reproducing many important papers which are otherwise difficult to access.
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Forest Hydrology
Author / Editor: David R. DeWalle
Price: £65.00
Forest Hydrology - David R. DeWalle
Forest Hydrology emphasizes the influence of forests and their management on the regime, quantity and quality of water. The volume provides an overview of the development of the discipline, with the early review by Zon (1927) and seminal contributions such as the Wagon Wheel Gap paired catchment study (Bates & Henry, 1928), and Kittredge (1948) on interception and stem flow, among the 29 Benchmark papers.
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Riparian Zone Hydrology and Geochemistry
Author / Editor: T. P. Burt, G. Pinay and S. Sabater
Price: £65.00
Riparian Zone Hydrology and Geochemistry - T. P. Burt, G. Pinay and S. Sabater
Study specifically of riparian zones is relatively new in hydrology, and while the oldest benchmark paper selected for this volume dates to 1936, several of the others were published in the 1970s and 1980s. Burt, Pinay and Sabater introduce them with a review of the role of the riparian zone. Its services as a buffer for nitrates and other agricultural and industrial pollutants has focused the attention of ecologists and hydrologists. It is an ecological boundary between terrestrial and aquatic environments, but also a distinct ecotone because of the intimate connection between the two. The 36 benchmark papers are grouped under the topics Landscape Ecology, Hydrology of the Riparian Zone, Linking Riparian Zone Hydrology to Solute Transport, Biogeochemical Processes and Methods, Riparian Buffering of Surface and Subsurface Flows, and In-stream Processes. Together, the reprinted papers and the commentaries by the editors chart the breakthroughs in the development of this important.
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Rainfall-Runoff Modelling
Author / Editor: Keith Loague
Price: £65.00
Rainfall-Runoff Modelling - Keith Loague
This volume reprints 30 papers that exemplify the best in rainfall-runoff modelling. It charts developments from Mulvany's (1851) rational method for estimating peak flow, probably the first rainfall-runoff model, up to 1989. Benchmark papers on other empirical approaches, such as Sherman (1932) and Mockus (1949), are reprinted, as are Richards (1931) and Smith & Parlange (1978), the innovative contributions of Alan Freeze, and later Keith Beven, and the seminal papers of Moore & Clarke (1981) and Abbott et al. (1986).
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Author / Editor: Mary P. Anderson
Price: £55.00
Groundwater - Mary P. Anderson
Mary Anderson's selection and the commentaries that she has prepared to accompany the 35 reprinted papers, detail the development of groundwater hydrology during the 20th century. The fundamentals are introduced with a translation of Darcy's (1856) experimental results that led to Darcy's law, as well as classic papers by Meinzer, Theis and Hubbert, among others. The development of pumping test theory and practice, approaches to estimating aquifer parameters in the field, and flow system analysis are dealt with. Papers reflecting early concerns regarding quantification of uncertainty, how recognition of groundwater interaction with surface water grew, and early research on contaminant occurrence and transport, are included. Slichter's (1905) seminal contribution that identified dispersion in the field, and Skibitzke & Robinson's (1963) laboratory findings, are linked with more recent attempts to represent dispersion and heterogeneity with models.
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Author / Editor: John H. C. Gash & W. James Shuttleworth
Price: £40.00
Evaporation - John H. C. Gash & W. James Shuttleworth
The development of evaporation measurement techniques are documented first, commencing with the Wagon Wheel Gap catchment water balance (1921), through mass budget to water transfer methods, and use of scintillometry. Dalton's seminal essay On Evaporation (1802) starts the selection of papers on evaporation estimation, which then covers atmospheric controls on the evaporation process (the original Penman and Thornthwaite papers are reproduced), vegetation controls via transpiration and interception, and finally evaporation as a component of the global climate system. The Commentaries explain the context and significance of each paper.
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Streamflow Generation Processes
Author / Editor: Keith J. Beven
Price: £40.00
Streamflow Generation Processes - Keith J. Beven
Keith Beven's selection of 31 papers on the theme of Streamflow Generation Processes span the period from 1933 to 1984, commencing with Hortons' early papers on infiltration and on maximum groundwater levels. With the aid of the Introduction and Commentaries, they provide a stimulating insight to developments in this part of the field of hydrology.
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Prevention and mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards due to land subsidence
Author / Editor: Editors: K. Daito and D. Galloway
Prevention and mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards due to land subsidence
Ninth International Symposium on Land Subsidence (NISOLS), Nagoya, Japan, 15–19 November 2015
Editors: K. Daito and D. Galloway
Published online open access as PIAHS Vol. 372
Hydrologic Non-Stationarity and Extrapolating Models to Predict the Future
Author / Editor: J. Vaze, F. Chiew, D. Hughes, & V. Andreassian
Hydrologic Non-Stationarity and Extrapolating Models to Predict the Future
IAHS Symposium HS02, 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, 22 June - 2 July 2015
Published online open access as PIAHS Vol. 371
Changes in Flood Risk and Perception in Catchments and Cities
Author / Editor: M. Rogger, H. Aksoy, M. Kooy, A. Schumann, E. Toth, Y. Chen, V. Borrell Estupina, & G. Blö
Changes in Flood Risk and Perception in Catchments and Cities
IAHS Symposium HS01, 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, 22 June - 2 July 2015
Published online open access as PIAHS Vol. 370
Extreme Hydrological Events
Author / Editor: C. Cudennec, A. Eicker, P. Pilon, M. Stoffel, A. Viglione, & Z. Xu
Extreme Hydrological Events
IAHS-IACS-IAG Joint Symposium JH1, 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, 22 June - 2 July 2015
Published open access online as PIAHS Vol, 369
Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrology and Water Resources
Author / Editor: Yangbo Chen, C. Neale, I. Cluckie, Z. Su, J. Zhou, Q. Huang, Z. Xu
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Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrology and Water Resources
Editor: YANGBO CHEN
Co-Editors: CHRISTOPHER NEALE, IAN CLUCKIE, Z. SU, JIANZHONG ZHOU, QIANG HUANG, ZONGXUE XU
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Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea
Author / Editor: Y. Jun Xu et al.
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Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea
Editor: Y. Jun Xu
The contributions selected for this volume from ICCE2014 present the latest progress on research covering topics from hillslope and channel erosion to riverine sediment transport, sediment-associated contamination and pollution, catchment and river basin sediment yield, integrated erosion-sediment modelling, and sediment dynamics in coastal systems.
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Hydrological Sciences and Water Security: Past, Present and Future
Author / Editor: C. Cudennec, S. Demuth, A. Mishra & G. Young
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Hydrological Sciences and Water Security: Past, Present and Future
Water Security is "the capacity of a population to safeguard access to adequate quantities of water of acceptable quality for sustaining human and ecosystem health on a watershed basis, and to ensure efficient protection of life and property against water related hazards – floods, landslides, land subsidence and droughts" (UNESCO-IHP 2012). Thus, Water Security addresses the threats posed by floods, droughts and pollution spills to human societies, and also the impacts of inadequate supplies of water, both in quantity and quality, for food and energy production, for domestic and industrial purposes, and for sustaining ecosystem productivity.
The contributions arise from the 2014 Kovacs Colloquium held at UNESCO in Paris, which addressed the emergence and development of water security concepts. The invited keynote papers are accompanied by extended abstracts summarizing the posters presented.
Print copies of the volume are available here. Abstracts and papers are also available online open access as volume 366 of PIAHS (Proceedings of IAHS) at:
Complex Interfaces Under Change: Sea - River - Groundwater - Lake
Author / Editor: C. Cudennec, M. Kravchishina, J. Lewandowski, D. Rosbjerg & P. Woodworth
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The hydrosphere is dynamic across the major compartments of the Earth system: the atmosphere, the oceans and seas, the land surface water, and the groundwater within the strata below the two last compartments. The global geography of the hydrosphere essentially depends on thermodynamic and mechanical processes that develop within this structure. Water-related processes at the interfaces between the compartments are complex, depending both on the interface itself, and on the characteristics of the interfaced compartments.
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Evolving Water Resources Systems: Understanding, Predicting and Managing Water-Society Interactions
Author / Editor: Attilio Castellarin, Serena Ceola, Elena Toth & Alberto Montanari
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A selection of 89 peer-reviewed papers by research groups active in 31 different countries in five continents addressing topics associated with water resources assessment and management in a changing environment, and particularly the two-way interaction between water and society, the focus of the Panta Rhei IAHS research initiative (http://www.iahs.info/pantarhei). Water resources systems, catchment hydrology, eco-hydrology, groundwater hydrology, water security and socio-hydrology are driving scientific areas, which are covered.
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Hydrology in a Changing World: Environmental and Human Dimensions
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Hydrology in a Changing World: Environmental and Human Dimensions
Editor: TREVOR M. DANIELL
The FRIEND-Water (Flow Regimes from International and Experimental Network Data) programme is an international collaborative research initiative under the umbrella of UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (IHP); it facilitates understanding about how climate, river basin and human factors influence the spatial and temporal distribution of water. This publication is the reviewed proceedings papers of the
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Considering Hydrological Change in Reservoir Planning and Management
Author / Editor: Andreas Schumann et al.
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This book provides an excellent overview of contemporary problems in reservoir management, from planning aspects of large multi-objective reservoirs and regarding small farm dams in Africa, to governmental matters, to sedimentation issues, to climate change impacts. Given the stochastic nature of hydrological conditions, the limited information available to characterize it and the multi-faceted targets of reservoir management, reservoir planning and operation are ambitious challenges for hydrologists and water managers. Reservoir management considers supply and demand. Demand includes the objectives of water management, but also the expectations of society, which develop with time; ecological targets for reservoir operation are now more important, social aspects and requirements are relevant and there are new constraints and objectives for operation of even older dams. The supply side has become more uncertain with increasing awareness of climate change causing growing concern about its impacts on the performance and reliability of existing and planned water management systems.
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Understanding Freshwater Quality Problems in a Changing World
Author / Editor: Berit Arheimer et al.
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Contributions are included from each continent providing a review of water quality problems worldwide, with articles describing present regional/local freshwater quality status and highlighting research needs. How the situation may develop into the future, given on-going changes in environment and society, is discussed. Questions addressed are: How to understand the behaviours of changing hydrological systems and impacts on freshwater quality? How to effectively bring together theoretical and experimental hydrology, and new measurement techniques to advance knowledge of water quality processes for the future? How can the typical timescales of change be identified? How to estimate and predict the behaviours and patterns of freshwater quality with uncertainty assessment to support risk evaluation?
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Cold and Mountain Region Hydrological Systems under Climate Change: Towards Improved Projections
Author / Editor: Alexander Gelfan, Daqing Yang, Yeugeniy Gusev & Harald Kunstmann
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The 25 contributions present new research results obtained from both experimental and modelling studies of river basins, snow cover, permafrost, glaciers and ecosystems in cold regions located in different physiographic and climatic conditions, from the Andes to the Siberian tundra. Collectively, the studies reveal physical mechanisms that control cold region hydrological responses to climate change, and consider the sources and magnitude of uncertainties to improve projections of these responses under different geographical conditions and at various time scales. There are three sections to the volume:
(1) Mountain hydrological systems under changes;
(2) Lowland cold regions: changes in river flow; and
(3) Changes in cryo- and eco-systems.
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Climate and Land Surface Changes in Hydrology
Author / Editor: Eva Boegh, E. Blyth, D.M. Hannah, H. Hisdal, H. Kunstmann, B. Su & Â K. Yilmaz
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Focuses on field-based and modelling studies addressing the sensitivity of hydrological and hydrometeorological fluxes of the coupled land–atmosphere system to climate and land-use change at local, regional and global scales. The volume includes significant model-based studies evaluating methodologies and impacts of using climate and weather prediction data including downscaling and uncertainty analyses. Hydrological sensitivity and impacts due to spatial and temporal land-use and land-cover variability are reported for a wide variety of environmental settings. Observational and model-based investigations assess the significance of land cover and hydrological dynamics for the development of land surface heat fluxes and regional climate. Several empirical hydroclimatological studies, some from remote and data-scarce regions, and others using long-term multi-variable time series data or Earth Observations to evaluate temporal and spatial variability in precipitation, evapotranspiration and hydrological predictions, are included.
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Deltas: Landforms, Ecosystems and Human Activities
Author / Editor: Gordon Young & Gerardo M.E. Perillo
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Deltas are environmental and economic hot spots, occupy about 1% of the global land surface, are home to some 500 million people and often are vibrant ecosystems. Deltas pose great challenges, whether marine or lacustrine as regions of purely natural conditions or regions of intense human activity set in the context of complex and often rapidly changing natural environments. Physically they are complex systems, the end-products of catchment processes involving water supply, sediment delivery and water quality – elements that are fast changing over time as a result both of human influences and change in climatic drivers. Tides, waves, sea level changes, storm surges, tsunamis and littoral currents all impact. The contributions result from a joint symposium of the International Associations of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO).
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Floods - From Risk to Opportunity
Author / Editor: A. Chavoshian, K. Takeuchi, Â X. Cheng, E. Plate, S. Uhlenbrook & N. Wright
Price: £96.00
The number of people exposed to devastating floods is expected to rise due to urbanization and population growth in flood-prone areas, land-use changes, climate change and sea level rise. A paradigm shift from focusing on emergency response and recovery to flood risk management is required to build the capacity necessary to cope with floods. The process should be supported by vulnerability monitoring and development of tools such as standard measures of risk and preparedness in an integrated approach to improve capacity to deal with floods, taking advantage of their benefits while minimizing their social, economic and environmental risks. This volume of papers selected from ICFM5 and by international authors, covers flood risk management, disaster management, forecasting and early warning, and management in different regions, and includes the ICFM5 statement.
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Erosion and Sediment Yields in the Changing Environment
Author / Editor: Adrian L. Collins, Valentin Golosov, Arthur J. Horowitz, Xixi Lu, Mike Stone, Des E. Walli
Price: £90.00
The ICCE-2012 symposium, held in Chengdu, China, continued the highly successful, ongoing series of ICCE symposia and publications, and focused on understanding of the processes of erosion and sediment production in a world that is increasingly affected by anthropogenic activities. Four keynote papers open this volume, and the remaining 50 contributions are grouped by theme: • Dynamic processes of erosion and sediment transport in fluvial systems • Impacts of climate change and human activities on erosion and sediment yield • Modelling erosion and sediment yields • Mountain hazards and debris flows • Monitoring and tracing methodology
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Models - Repositories of Knowledge
Author / Editor: Sascha E. Oswald, Olaf Kolditz & Sabine Attinger
Price: £77.00
Questions of global and climate change, use of energy resources and waste deposition, mean that work with groundwater now needs to include the interfaces to the atmosphere, surface waters and deeper formations that are potentially used for geothermal energy and CO2 storage, and ModelCARE2011 reflected that. More than ever, models are means to integrate information from different and manifold sources, allowing a better conceptual view of systems as a whole and improving understanding of them, i.e. models are repositories of knowledge. This volume considers: Parameter estimation, Uncertainty, Numerical and computational methods, Reactive transport and bioremediation, Stochastic and multi-scale models, Couple processes in the subsurface, and Groundwater flow and climate.
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Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges
Author / Editor: Mike Stone, Adrian Collins & Martin Thoms
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There is increasing global concern over the impacts of landscape disturbance by wildfire on a range of aquatic ecosystem services and drinking water supply. Profound and often irreversible changes in river ecosystem function, geomorphology, water quality and water supply occur due to the severity and magnitude of wildfire-related landscape disturbance. Such impacts have important management implications for source water supply and protection at the catchment scale. Themes addressed in this volume include: (1) impacts of wildfire on hillslope hydrology, (2) effects of wildfire on the physical, chemical and biological composition of soils, (3) changes in sediment transport dynamics and yields resulting from wildfires, (4) methodologies used to evaluate the provenance and fate of wildfire impacted sediments and associated contaminants, (5) prediction of hydrological and sediment transport recovery trajectories at the local and catchment scale, (6) impacts of wildfire on aquatic ecology, (7) post-fire sedimentation and water quality impacts in reservoirs, and (8) management actions to reduce the impact of wildfires on river ecosystems.
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Revisiting Experimental Catchment Studies in Forest Hydrology
Author / Editor: Ashley A. Webb, Mike Bonell, Leon Bren, Patrick N. J. Lane, Don McGuire, Daniel G. Neary,
Price: £56.00
Most of what we know about the hydrological role of forests is based on paired catchment experiments whereby two neighbouring forested catchments are jointly monitored during a calibration period of several years, after which one of the catchments is kept untouched as a reference (control), while the second is submitted to a forest treatment (impact). This volume, generated from a workshop that gathered forest hydrologists from around the world, with the aim of revisiting results and promoting a renewal of international collaboration on this topic, is divided into four sections: Addressing new questions using historical data sets combines papers that provide succinct overviews of past and ongoing work in specific catchments or catchment networks with contributions using innovative modelling approaches and older data to investigate current questions. New techniques for evaluating forest cover and catchment characteristics highlight the importance of experimental catchment studies in furthering our understanding of hydrological processes at a range of scales. Impacts of fires provides papers describing the hydrological impacts of wildfires and prescribed burning, as measured in experimental catchment studies in Australia and the USA, and drought, fire frequency and fire intensity are discussed. Water quality and sediment loads commences with a review that collates paired catchment results from around the world, e.g. the impact of forest harvesting on nitrate-N concentrations and sediment outputs, and provides context for the accompanying papers from the USA and Australia outlining the nature of sediment loads and water quality in forest catchments. Ecosystem services presents two papers that showcase the value and importance of experimental catchment studies for the valuation of forest ecosystem services, and the economic implications of afforestation and other changes in land use.
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With index cards in hand and great comedic timing, Shaquille O'neal addressed the media for the last time as a player. While he did not retire at the top of his game he did retire when it was time. What we saw in his retirement speech was a man who was satisfied with his 19 year career. He was not bitter or saddened. Shaq was joyful, funny, and content. Quite frankly he was marvelous. Shaq is...


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This is a picture (taken with a rickety film camera) of a double I shot with one shot from my trusty Stevens single shot (slung over my left shoulder) in the early-1990's. They came in as a pair and I was holding on the bigger one who was strutting. Just as I dropped the hammer, I saw the second bird run into view. They both went down like bowling pins. I had already killed a good bird a few days before, so the second bird put me over the limit. The landowner tagged the second bird, so I cleaned it for his family to enjoy.
The gobbler I intended to shoot weighed 23 pounds and the smaller bird weighed just over 21. They were at 18 yards when I shot.
I wish I had a picture of my first-ever bird, but the event was not preserved. It has been fun digging through old pictures and thinking about those hunts.


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To fatjim: don't you believe it. I'm 41 (gulp), and I did get Legos for Christmas!
Timj just reminded me that I hadn't posted for a while, which is true, so here goes.
Last week was pretty non-productive. The kids were home all week with school vacation, and I had several appointments that ended up clustered together. Also this is the time of year when winter really starts to become tiresome (epecially when you live in a place like New Hampshire). But enough complaining.
I took on a small contract job for a local company, web stuff with PHP and mySQL, so I'm spending some time on that in between work for my company. The nice thing is that all this work uses the same set of technologies, so it's easy to make transitions back and forth.
I need to do some more work on BEAST soon. It's funny that that this is currently the only thing I'm working on these days that where I'm using a compiled language! :-)
Just sent Tim my first few procedures for BEAST. No big deal, they're very small and simple, but hopefully they're useful steps in adding some functionality to the pattern editor. Have to step back now and think about what other procedures a user would expect/want to have. I have several ides for more exotic ones, but I want to get the basics in place first.
I'm giving a talk on PHP at a meeting of the (New Hampshire) Seacoast Linux Uers Group on Tuesday night. I gave it once before for the local group (MLUG), so I don't need to do much, just tweak it a bit, add a couple more examples, stuff like that.
I had lunch with a former co-worker this week, and then went back with him to the office (NuMega/Compuware) to see what his team (BoundsChecker, which I used to work on) was working on. I hadn't been expecting to go see a bunch of people, but it was kinda fun. Everyone kids me about my beard -- I used to keep it trimmed and pretty short, but now that I work at home, it's getting long and shaggy, for the first time in my life. They tell me I'm starting to look like a Unix guy. :-)
Hey, cool, I'm finally writing some actual code for BEAST. I've written a tiny "delete-note" procedure, and I have several others to do that Tim suggested. I'll send them to him once I've got 2-3 more. It feels a little funny, after 3-4 years of C++ (albeit not always very idiomatic C++) to be back in C, but I actually like it better. C++ can be elegant in the right hands, but it tends to hide a lot of behavior. When it comes down to it, if I have to use a compiled language, I'm more comportable in C (the old "baby duck" syndrome, I guess :-).
But right now, it's back to the salt mines (i.e., cleaning up a bunch of HTML files for CulturePort), then tonight, back to BEAST.
Timj has sent me me all the material I lost (thanks, Tim), so I now have the information I need for two things:
But I can't do that stuff until tonight -- first I need to rewrite the tech section of CulturePort's business plan. (CulturePort is the new company for which I'm the CTO). This will allow me to make it clear that we will be basing the technical side of things on Linux/Apache/PHP/etc. (i.e., as much open source as possible). It's very cool that you no longer have to spend much (if any) energy justifying this, now that open source software is finally out of the closet in the business world. Anyway, there are some important meetings tomorrow in NYC (glad I don't have to go myself) that may finally result in the capital we need to get going....
Time to start using this space for something.
FInally have a little time now to start contributing some code to BEAST. Doing the website was fun and hopefully helpful, but I want to do more. Timj suggested that I work on procedure support. Unfortunately, I just discovered that almost all the emails I saved from him got somehow blown away (ARRRGH!!!), so I have to wait for him to get back to me to tell me what he has in mind. In the meantime, I'm thinking about some things I could implement *using* the procedure interface. Such as, tools to perform various transforms on patterns and note selections: tranposition, inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion (uh-oh, my 12-tone roots are showing :-). Also, I want to write some code to generate note sequences algorithmically, based on things like Brownian motion and 1/f noise.
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By Rob Kelly
Arsène Wenger admits he will never forget Arsenal's 4-0 defeat to Milan - but insists it is important not to dwell on it.
The Frenchman was dismayed by his side's performance at the San Siro, and made his feelings clear in the post-match press conference.
Wenger remains disappointed but he insists it is time to move on and focus on the next challenge against Sunderland in the FA Cup fifth round.
"It never gets out of your system because you take it with you until the last day of your life," Wenger told Arsenal Player.
"But when you love competition you always strive for the next one and prove that you are ready for a new fight. That is what competition is about.
"You can find 100 explanations [why] we had a poor performance and an off day. We lost against a good Milan team, not an exceptional one. Unfortunately we were punished severely.
"I believe it is important not to dwell on that too much, focus on the next performance, respond in a positive way and ensure we have the mental qualities to be at this Club. What has happened we cannot change, but for the rest we have an influence on it."
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By Adam Gore
SALINA, Kan. – The Itawamba Community College women's basketball team saw its season come to an end on Tuesday in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association National Tournament.
The Lady Indians fell 57-46 to No. 5 Northwest Florida State.
Trailing 36-33 at halftime, ICC opened the second half on a 10-minute scoring drought allowing Northwest Florida to climb out to a 10-point advantage before a three-pointer by Ty-Nita Baker trimmed the lead to nine with under three minutes to play, but the overwhelming size advantage of Northwest Florida State helped the Lady Raiders pull away.
"We went into an absolute drought for the first 10 minutes of the second half," said ICC head coach Nanci Gray, whose team finished 19-10. "We didn't have anyone that could score, missed eight lay-ups, didn't have anybody that could hit the 3, but the kids never stopped fighting and I was very proud of the effort they gave all night despite the struggles."
Baker, a sophomore guard from Houston, caught the eye of numerous SEC and other Division I scouts, scoring a game-high 19 points while grabbing four rebounds, blocking two shots and dishing out three assists for the Lady Indians.
ICC shot just 27.4 percent from the floor (17 of 62) and was outrebounded 54-36.
Freshman forward Tia Coleman (Memphis) added 10 points and 12 rebounds for ICC while sophomore forward Tavarsha Scott led the Lady Raiders (25-4) with 18 points and 16 rebounds.
Northwest Florida State advances to play sixth-ranked Walters State (Tenn.) – 29-1 with a 23-game winning streak – in a quarterfinal tonight.
ICC was making its first NJCAA Tournament appearance since 1975.
Gray was a member of the then-Indianettes and earned NJCAA honorable mention All-American honors that season.


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Madison school board candidate forum set for March 21
Operation Fresh Start to host forum
MADISON, Wis. - A Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education candidate forum is set for March 21 at Operation Fresh Start.
The public is encouraged to attend and guests will have an opportunity to ask questions of the candidates. Specific items expected to be discussed will include: drop-out rates and drop-out recovery efforts, goals for the new superintendent, labor relations and the school board budget, according to an Operation Fresh Start news release.
Young people involved in Operation Fresh Start will participate in the forum.
Operation Fresh Start is Dane County's largest employment, education and training program for disconnected youth ages 16-24 who have not succeeded in traditional high school settings.
Through direct programming and collaboration, Fresh Start provides a path forward, including helping young people attain educational goals and employability skills necessary to become productive, self-sufficient members of the community, according to the news release.
In the 2012/2013 school year, Operation Fresh Start and MMSD began a Pathways Partnership though which students completing the Fresh Start program, including academic achievement, will attain a MMSD high school diploma.
The candidate forum will be held from 3:30 p.m. through 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 21 at Operation Fresh Start, 1925 Winnebago St.
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