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This great quote ran through my head for most of the day this Thursday but I'll get to that later. At this point I was inshore at the very ordinary town of Grand Falls-Windsor. There is definitely one thing going for Grand Falls-Windsor though. It has a McDonald's. I was set for a great day after chowing down on a Sausage 'n' Egg McMuffin, hash browns, and an orange juice. I then headed down to the Mary March Museum.
This museum was named after a Beothuk Indian woman whose real name was Desmasduit. In the early 1800's as her people were dying out she was being arrested by the local police on some trumped up charge. Her husband was killed during the arrest and so was a friend to tried to free her
The Beothuks were a fishing society who didn't get along with the newly arrived Europeans. They moved inland where they failed to adapt to the new environment and European diseases laid waste to their population. The museum itself was rather disappointing. I thought it would focus solely on the life of the Beothuk peoples but while it gave more space to that subject than most other local museums the museum was another general history of the entire island.
I drove along the Trans-Canada for a short piece. The area around Grand Falls reminded me of Northern Ontario with slightly shorter trees. The shallow soil won't support large trees. I noticed along the 430 the previous two days that topsoil is in such short supply that people fence off gardens wherever they can find enough to grow vegetables even if it means driving 20lm out of town.
I headed north on Highway #340
I turned up Highway #342 to check in on the towns of Embree and Little Burnt Bay. I really never tired of wandering through these scenic little villages. I guess I'm just amazed to see these places that haven't been built with systematic efficiency by suburb developers.
Back on the 340 I passed by Baytona. Just think, one little typo and perhaps a whole busload of drunken frat boys end up here some March. I kind of thought that the name Baytona was rather bad but the town used to be called Gay Side and I'm not sure which is worse.
Highway #340 takes you all the way up to Twillingate. The population of Twillingate is listed at just over 3000 people, which would make it a large regional center. Rumour has it that the population has dipped significantly since the closing of the cod fishery, down to below 2000 perhaps
Cecil Stockley has been running his iceberg boat tour each summer since 1985. This makes him a pioneer in eco-tourism in the area. Chances are if you've seen an iceberg photo on a postcard from North shore of Newfoundland, he was the photographer. You could see a huge iceberg right in the mouth of the harbour so the tours were booked solid. The 1pm and 4pm tours were already filled. Cecil offered to phone across to his competition to see if they had spots but I would have rather done it with the Iceberg Man so I took my chances and waited. I wandered about town and took some pictures. Then I had my trouble with the local library's computers that led to my abbreviated posting you all received.
I went back to check in on Cecil's shop in mid-afternoon to see if they had a cancellation
"Humph," shrugged the other without even looking up.
I went back into town and killed time by visiting the Twillingate museum
It's time. It's time. It's iceberg time!
By now the sky and really gotten dark and a wind was whipping up. With no sun in sight Cecil still jokingly called it his sunset tour. Besides Cecil, his first mate and myself we had 8 other hearty souls willing to brave the sea spray for a good look at the iceberg. Inside the harbour we were okay. The water was a bit choppy but not uncomfortable. Then is started to rain but it wasn't too bad. Then we left that harbour and the weather really changed. The boat got quite tossed about and the wind drove the rain into your face. The first time we had a huge dip over a wave most of the other passengers made their way into the cabin (some never to venture out again until we were docked). The iceberg was quickly moving out to sea. We had to go 3 miles offshore to get to it. This particular one had been in the area for 6 weeks and now it was going to be gone for good. Cecil kept lamenting, "This single iceberg has been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to the local economy. Now it'll be gone!"
Cecil is a pretty cool guy
"Then you meet a lady and that all changes," he snickered. The lady in this case is another teacher as well as a playwright and composer. They have four daughters. After giving up this information he then remarked, "And that's really why I need to have two jobs!"
I toughed it out on the foredeck of the boat all the way out. The rain wasn't that bad but then I caught a couple face-fulls of salt water. That will chill you to the bone. Cecil had a good laugh at my bravery/stupidity. I'm surprised my pictures turned out as well as they did considering how much I was being tossed around. Actually a couple of times both my feet left the deck while inside some passengers were thrown from their seats. We did a slow circle around the iceberg. It was a pale blue colour and remarkably smooth in places where the water lapped at it. It looked like polished marble.
During this time a thick fog had rolled inshore so Cecil had to navigate by radar. We had been gone for some time and apparently some people on shore were concerned because they couldn't see us. Cecil's mechanic radioed in to check on us. He and Cecil carried on this conversation that I found mostly unintelligible due to the mechanic's thick accent. While talking Cecil kept looking over at me with a big smile on his face and giggling. After he finished he asked, "Did you understand much of that?"
"No, your side of the conversation for sure but very little of his," I replied.
"I couldn't understand half of what he was saying too," he giggled.
We made it ashore safe and sound. I immediately headed to the bathroom to change my clothes. It was raining even harder now so I decided to wait in out inside the R&J Restaurant who serve an excellent fish 'n' chips. They didn't specify cod so I don't know what fish it was but they had an exquisite light batter and the homemade fries were well seasoned.
Just before the sun set a small piece of blue sky opened up which gave me hope the next day would be better. Of course, I was wrong.


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When I first moved to Vermont I got into them when I was going for Salmon and "steelhead"(lake-run rainbows). I had little luck with those fish at first, but I kept getting bronzebacks. Now I spend most of spring and early summer going for them. People don't realize how quick they are to take a fly. I regularly do better with flies than others throwing hardware/plastic.
I basically have three, very simple patterns - deep minnow, wooly bugger, and a crayfish.
When they get big they really know how to fight, too. They usually get airborne.
Great stuff! I practice spey casting on a river that has a strong bronzeback population, last time out I caught three just swinging or stripping in for the next cast. One of them had me thinking - salmon! It hit it heavy and made a big hard run before going airborne and giving away it's identity, about 3.5 pounds but a tremendous fight.
I love those bronzebacks!
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The little "Handgrenade with a bad haircut" only ran as an antagonist to the elder Bush, which he, if not hated, disliked enough to spend millions on his campaign, not necessarily to win, but to make sure Bush didn't win. Subsequently, we got 4 years of the biggest, if not lier for sure the Prevaricator in Chief. So Perot won...at least in his eyes, because he succeeded in accomplishing what he wanted.
Unlike what the curent crop of 3rd party believers think they will accomplish. They are so angry that NOBODY sees through their prism, they are willing to throw the election to Obama, all the while trying to convince us they are NOT in his deceitful web. What a batch of total FOOLS.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Romney's best chances would be if he would just shut up. He doesn't convey his thoughts very clearly. People can and have interpreted what he has been saying as an elitist that doesn't care about anybody but the upper crust of people. I have given him the benefit of the doubt and realize that what he says is not actually what he means. I do believe he means well and has good intentions. Maybe he should have somebody write his speeches and use a teleprompter. LOL
As 'cheeseheads' go, your as big into class envy as anyone I have heard of. What union do you belong to?
But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Ever consider having somebody else write your posts?
From another Wisconsinite, a slightly different interpretation of what Romney had to say.
Paul Ryan: "Under The Obama Economy, Government Dependency Is Up"Written By:
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While admitting that his running mate Mitt Romney was "obviously inarticulate" in talking about the 47% of voters who don't have an income tax burden, Vice President candidate Paul Ryan points to the larger issue. Under Obama, we have fewer Americans who are self-sufficient and more Americans who are dependent on the government.
Via NBC:"He was obviously inarticulate in making this point," Ryan said in an interview with KRNV. "The point we're trying to make here is under the Obama economy, government dependency is up and economic stagnation is up, and what we're trying to achieve is getting people off of government dependency and back to a job that pays well and gets them onto a path of prosperity." …I don't know how you argue with this. Is there anyone out there who will (publicly, anyway) defend higher levels of government dependence as a positive trend? Cutting through all the nonsense about Romney being a rich, out-of-touch plutocrat, under Obama what we have is fewer people working, and more people depending on the government.
Asked if Romney regrets what he said, Ryan responded: "Oh, I think he would have said it differently, that's for sure, but the point still stands. We have too many people becoming too dependent upon government because of the poor economic policies of the Obama administration."
That's Obama's record, and it needs to change.
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I have told you in private messages and on here about 2 things that you keep repeating. One, I am a transplant from SD to WI. Secondly, I don't belong to a union, I actually work in management. I have stated it before and I will state it again. I was looked down upon growing up by the "more fortunate" kids in my town. My family was not part of the country club crowd, we were just hard working people trying to stay afloat. Never took any govt handouts either. We made due with what we had. I was ridiculed because I wore hand me down clothes and didn't live in a fancy house. I would like to see some of those snooty bastages have to live and grow up the way I did. They would have a different attitude. People talk about entitlement mentality that runs rampant in the Democrat party. what about the rich kids that think they are entitled to the job in the corner office because that's where daddy works, not because they are qualified, but because daddy is the big man on campus. I do not have class envy, I have rich people that think they are better than others because of who their daddy is and how much money daddy makes "Disgust". It appears to me that you were one of those more fortunate kids growing up that looked down their nose at people like me. You continue to look down your nose at people like me. Maybe I am reading you wrong though.
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I couldn't, however, have had it as bad as you did. Going through life as you are must be pure misery. You have my sympathies.
PS This will be my final post answering you, or commenting on anything you have to say. We both know all we need to about each others views, so no need to continue.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Oh yes. We want to return to the America we recognize.
Well, Bill, I can tell you. I don't recognize the America of my youth either, and it started with the the Messiah Reagan.
The republican party has been responsible for almost every woe we have today. ...and no, I'll not cite chapter and verse.
I've not 100% decided to cast a vote for GJ, but I can assure you that if I did, it would not take a single vote away from the smarmy ticket that the R's present.
I know that nothing I post here will change any minds. You and Mike and those like-minded have set their sails and plotted their course. I wish you happy sailing. As I indicated in Ken's poll, I believe Romney will win. $ counts. Plus you have the SCOTUS on your side.
On a side note Murral, Bill has said that he will ignore you. Don't count on it. He also said in a previous post that he would not make personnal attacks. He seems unable or unwillinng.
Secular progessive, SFN, syncophantic, toady regards, JDoggerrrr.
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Great day everyone! I'm Josephine, 26 years of age, single. I am a foster mother to a 2-year old pretty girl named Cielo. She is such an adorable toddler. I am a freelancer. And I am also dedicating my service to the family's small business. I love the journey of being a mother to Cielo. A lot of challenging moments to deal with, in raising a kid. I am looking forward to the best memories and experiences shared in this informative forum that we will be having!
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10th September 2012 01:02 AM #205
Welcome to the forums, Kriziela - it's wonderful to have you here. It sounds like you were indeed blessed with a little miarcle, your precious daughter, Ryden.
I, too, hemorrhaged with during my last birth, but I had a very skilled midwife in attendance who knew just what to do to manage it.
Looking forward to supporting you and answering all your questions.
Warm Regards,
10th September 2012 01:05 AM #206
Hello Josephine,
It's exciting to meet you! A single mum, fostering a precious 2 year old little girl. Cielo is blessed to have such a caring mum.
Looking forward to meeting you in the forums and supporting you as you face the challenging 2's.
Warm Regards,
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I'm Janice, 35 years old and married for 4 years and still trying to conceive. I had a miscarriage last 2010 due to blighted ovum. I underwent IUI procedure but was unsuccessful. I am looking forward to gain information on fertility and conceiving in this forum.
10th September 2012 06:23 AM #208
Janice, welcome to the forums!
Looking forward to getting to know you and sharing some insights with you in your effort to have a child.
Warm Regards,
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Good day, everyone!
My name is Venus and I just turned 26 years old last 7th of September. I am currently working as an English instructor, but I turn into a housewife every weekends. I have 2 tiddlers: a 20-month-old daughter and a 7-month old son. Of course, I have a very loving husband. I am looking forward to learn a lot from this site. Thank you!


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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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|Dble Haul
The pike fishing has definitely picked up on the river....this is from very reliable sources. Those fish are starting to become active again and fatten up for winter.
If I have the time, I'd be down for some pike fishing sometime before the snow flies. But that's if I can tear myself away from the coastal fishing.
Seriously, though....if there's interest, let's try to do it.
I've bee holding off replying to this thread since the thought of a season coming to a close is hard
But yesterday on my drive up to Mass. I noticed two cars with a thin layer of SNOW on their roofs so I figure that with the <32F nightime temps. " the fat lady is getting ready.
Its been a lot of fun this year on the Housie (big smallies) and my newly dicovered local pond. I didn't get to taget Carp as planed - water levels seem to have been consistently high this year - too highy for decent sight fishing.
With the recent cool nights I'm wondering if there's a shot at the Pike on the Conn. river before the season finally ends - what do you think Mark?
|Robert Burton
Well it was good
I got pike, drum, walleye, sauger, channel cats, goldeye and some nice smallies.
Hey yall, another new guy.
My year was one of the best in a long time. Great for numbers and big fish. I fish the New river for smallies right now. Working on my goal for 20 fish at 20" or better for the year, I'm up to 17 so far and still have a couple months left. I may make 25 as the late fall and winter is some of the best times for big bites!
Got some nice muskies, to 25lbs and saw some huge ones while diving in the river to observe the smallmouth. I swear I saw one that was pushing 60. Our state record muskie and smallmouth come from the New weighing in at 45lbs and 8lbs 1oz respectively. There are alot bigger smallies in the river, I've hooked them and seen them. They are smart fish that demand a totally different approach than what little fish dictate.
I have a passion for big fish with a history in guiding in NC for big tarpon and drum. I fished bass tourneys for awhile and have a 13lb moster for my biggest green bass.
I'm headed down to NC to chase False Albecore with 8/9wts to make my year even better!! Looking forward to that agian. Been hitting them for several years now and love their speed.
Here's to a great winter season!!!!
|I have done quite a little research on the process and what it takes to be certified, I agree that it is a long and grueling process. I am interested in becomming certified in hopes of some day teaching lessons. I am active in a lot of recreational areas and do various programming for my area, and would like to get more people involved. But the real root of the issue is my burning desire to be a better caster so I can reach those fish that always seem to be 5 feet further then my fly.:hehe: I am a case manager for a middle school here in Des Moines (grew up in the Anamosa, Maquokata area) and have access to the gym in the mornings to work on my casting. The only downfall is regular maintance of line since the floor is so dirty. I quess I'll just have to do the best with what I can. Thanks for the advise - keep it comming!
Welcome Tim,
A few years back I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time in Iowa, just love it and still have many friends in the Makoqueta (sp?) area.
If you have not done so, loop up the certification requirements on the Federation of Fly Fishers web site and this may help in your decision.
Mark has correctly indicated some of the questions you need to deal with along the path to making your decision.
There is no doubt that taking instruction from a "certified" insructor will greatly help in your casting ability and that path may satisfy your need?
P.S. I have been "certified" by my wife for over 20 years but I still refuse to accept the official document for fear that it may incriminate me!
|Dble Haul
Tim, welcome to the site....my wife is from Iowa, and I have never met an unkind person from that state. Must be something about the way of life over there.
To your question about becoming a certified casting instructor, I guess that there are a few questions you should ask yourself.
Why do want to become certified?
How practical will your certification be (that is, how much and in what way will you be able to apply it)?
What's your timeline for completing this?
And one question I have for you....are you aware of just how difficult this can be to accomplish? Depending on who's certifying you, it can take a great deal of experience, practice, commitment, and time to reach a certifiable level.
I'm not trying to discourage you, only trying to understand what your driving force is for setting out to do this.
I've been told that I'm certifiable, but I don't think it has anything to do with casting.
WW flyfishing in IA
Hello everyone, I am new to this site - all of my is warmwater here in Iowa. I started flyfishing 2 years ago and have not gone a day without my wife shaking her head in amaizement of my obsession. Since we only have warm water here in Iowa I am working on continually searching for a go-to flie when fishing for bass.
I would have to say that the common grasshopper flie has done the best. As with fishing for trout, size does not always matter when tossing a terrestrial. Some of my largest bass have been caught on a #6 streamer hook grasshopper.
Smallies I have had luck with black wollybuggers.
Anyway - I look forward to learning a lot from everyone in the future, I already have one question.
Should I make the envestment of being a certified casting instructor?
Thanks for any input folks.
Tim Lambertsen
|Dble Haul
Pete, thanks for the insightful reply. I think that I know why the flies are sinking quickly....although they have no weight, they are tied on salt water hooks for durability. I'm pretty sure that the rate of descent in the water column would be slowed with a lighter wire fresh water hook.
They worked here too, but I fish in the rivers and except for very early in the season the fish tend to hang out anywhere from 5 to 8 feet. So I really didn't encounter the problems you described.
Good info! Something to think about this winter while I tie...lighter freshwater hooks. Perhaps next year we can try them out together, either here or there. I had the same results with your crease flies that you did....plenty of interest, but no takers.
And to everyone else, it's nice to hear of the ins and outs of your warmwater seasons. We're not done yet, but it's time to start reflecting.
Disappointing because I didn't get out fly fishing nearly as much as I would have liked. When I did get out I usually did pretty well, although I didn't really have any spectacular days but did have several poor days. One positive note is that I had great success with my frog fly. It's fun to fish and the bass and pike absolutely clobbered it. I've even caught a crappie, pickerel and bluegills on it. I'll be tying up several of those over the winter!
All of the flies you sent me worked. The problem I had is related to the depth we fish and the lines we use. Most of the flies you sent were heavier than my usual patterns and got into the weeds very fast. The ones with barbell eyes and rabbit strip worked best, the epoxy heads/bucktail type hair went to deep and did not give the "action" that the furry ones do. I mostly fish water that is 3 to 6 feet deep, still water at that and mostly with a dry line and on occasion with a type 3, 10 foot sink tip, just enough sink rate so that when i strip the fly in i get the fly to swim up & down as it moves forward. I don't get out to rivers that hold pike but the flies remain in "inventory" for when I get to a pike river. I may have to do so in your part of the world - Who knows?
As far as the "experimental pike crease patterns" go, they were a total bust! I had many large pike sweep out of their holes, come take a look but none really attacked the fly as I hoped they would. I tried trolling them fast behind the boat and that did not even rate a look see. Tried more weight and up to a 350 gr. depth cahrge type sink tip but it got to the point that the weight prevented any decent cast with a fly rood or went too deep too fast. More weight would work on a baitcaster but then that would no longer be a "fly"! I don't fish when the pike would be in deeper water (July & August & Sept.), maybe the flies would work at depth over 20 feet?
BUT I have a new one, great "attack" characteristics.
I'll put it in another post
|John Desjardins
|I'd give it a 7, mainly due to a lack of time on the water. For fly fishing highlights I'd say figuring out where the carp feed in a pond near my office and almost getting one. OTFF highlights were some great days out with my son, and my 2 1/2 year old asking to go fishing with daddy.
|Dble Haul
Pete- Have you had a chance to try out any of our pike flies? The curiousity is killing me (and hopefully the pike).
Dewey- Any day with that many big smallies is wonderful. I'm sure you'll remember that for years.
Didn't get out too much, but it was pretty good. I'd say 7.5/8 of ten, but only because I didn't go as much as I'd like. I's say a 9 average for those days I did go.
Highlight - Epic day with 5 smallies in the 3-6lb range all on the fly!
thumbs down - never went out on a trip for Pike only.
I only do Pike as a WW species, I don't consider Trout to fit in this category.
On a scale of 1-10, spring pike was an 8, had much better years before. The water was at a good level this spring compared to previous years and this may have given them more options. Also, I think the increase in Walleys/Pickerel in the lakes I fish may have displaced the Pike. Lastly, the wter wrmed up faster this year than in prior years but this was followed by a rapid cooling off that lasted about 3 weeks. This may also have put them down.
Ask me about Pike over the next 3 weeks and I'll probably rate the fall fishing as a 9.5 on the same waters. The last 2 weeks have yielded many trophy fish, (15 pounds & above, 3 above 20 ponds), tons of average fish (8 to 15 pounds) and a good crop of up & coming bruisers (4 to 8 pounds).
I decided to put the motor boat away fopr the season, before freezing weather hits, so now it's pike from a pontoon boat. Landing & releasing big critters without a proper craddle and without the help of a buddy is real challenging. Fishing in a smallish bay where there are over 20,000 Ducks and over 12,000 Geese and Swans swimming about is real neat except when your back is turned away and they decide to lift off. It's like a 747 in your backyard.
Trout has been a 9.0, I just had to sneak this in....
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Just thought this would be a cool thread. Not sure who's on board with the realities of space aside from the fantastic aspects of it... like Star Wars.
I was inspired to start this thread 'cos I just came in from outside after seeing the International Space Station fly over northern Ohio. The coolest thing was that trailing behind it was the space shuttle! I wasn't expecting to see the shuttle as the news reports only mentioned the ISS. Apparently you could see the Shuttle closer to the ISS on Tuesday evening. I was glad to have this opportunity since I missed it the other night.
I remember seeing Skylab at the end of June many years ago. A couple weeks after that, I was visiting my family in Japan when Skylab came down in the ocean west of Australia. That was really eventful for the young me who was, possibly starting High School that year.
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will visit Princeton's campus Monday through Thursday, April 15-18. As part of his stay here, Heaney will give a public reading and a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
During his visit to Princeton, which is sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies , the Program in Creative Writing and the Council of the Humanities Heaney will meet informally with faculty and students.
He will also deliver the 11th Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture in Hellenic Studies at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in McCosh 50. The title of his address is "'Hellenize It': Poets, Poems, Predicaments in Greece and Ireland."
In addition, an exhibition in the Firestone Library lobby has been organized in connection with Heaney's visit. Titled "Seamus Heaney: An Irish Poet in Greece," it will be on display until April 30.
Heaney is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University and has previously held academic appointments at the universities of Dublin and Oxford.
He has made repeated visits to Greece. His most recent volume of verse, "Electric Light" (2001), includes several poems in which Heaney draws on his observation of the modern Greek society and people, as well as on his knowledge of classical Greek literature.
An abstract of Heaney's talk proposes that "Greece and Ireland have much in common: two nations with ancient mythologies and interrupted histories; two nations that achieved independence through the growth of romantic nationalism, both political and cultural; two nations where a prophetic or at least a public role is always available to the poet." The abstract states that Heaney "will consider the parallel situation of the Greek and Irish poet in modern times and talk about some representative achievements."
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Simon Rutz Calls K-1's Bluff; Wants to Organize a Big It's Showtime Event
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Amidst a lot of new information and hype surrounding the return of K-1, there is at least one man who is steadfast in believing it when he sees it, and that is It's Showtime's head, Simon Rutz. Rutz is one of the few who felt the full force of K-1's silence and not following up on promises earlier this year, when the huge It's Showtime event scheduled for May in the Amsterdam ArenA fell through due to K-1. The event was set to be a co-promotion between the two mega forces when K-1 simply stopped returning phone calls. On top of that, K-1 still owe many fighters managed by Simon Rutz and co. a fair amount of money that has yet to be paid.
So rumors of K-1 transferring copyrights to a real estate company, potential new buyers and big shows coming up haven't phased Rutz, who still is taking the hard stance that until K-1 pays up, this is all smoke and mirrors. He made this statement on his Facebook page today;
This comes with some subtext that there have been rumors for a while now of It's Showtime running the Amsterdam ArenA in the fall (September or November) and going all out on their own, which seems more and more plausible with all of the success they've seen in 2011. In a perfect world, K-1 goes forward as planned and It's Showtime runs a Heavyweight tournament of their own.


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Afghanistan had an election a few weeks ago. Iraq had one Wednesday. But that is about all that these two countries, both invaded by the United States in the last decade, have in common right now. Afghanistan is moving forward just as rapidly as Iraq is moving backward. It is a telling contrast, and one that should inform the looming decision about a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014.
Iraq is being plunged deeper into the abyss of all-out civil war that it barely avoided in 2007 thanks to President George W. Bush's troop "surge." Today, violence is back up to 2008 levels as Al Qaeda in Iraq, now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has returned from its near-death experience.
ISIS once again controls much of Anbar province, and its fighters regularly set off car bombs that kill scores of innocent people across the Shiite Muslim heartland. ISIS fighters are drawing nearer to Baghdad itself, retaking areas they lost in 2007 and 2008. So perilous has the situation become that the government closed the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, for fear that it would fall into insurgent hands.
Al Qaeda's comeback has been enabled by the shortsighted policies of Iraq's sectarian prime minister, Nouri Maliki, who is now unrestrained by a U.S. military presence. He has targeted senior Sunni Muslim politicians, including former Vice President Tariq Hashimi, for prosecution. He has fired on groups of Sunni demonstrators. And, worst of all, he has welcomed the Shiite militia groups Asaib Ahl Haq and Kataib Hezbollah, both supplied by Iran, who are fighting alongside the overmatched Iraqi security forces against Sunni militants. These militias are held responsible for massacres of Sunnis in towns such as Buhriz, north of Baghdad.


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To Sleep Perchance to Dream; To Die Perchance to Wake (11.21.11)
This is another chapter that has a lot of ideas I've covered in previous posts, so I'll try not to be too deathly repetitive.
How do we think about death? One of the reasons it is difficult to think about, is that it is such a concrete fact -- just a big black wall over the subjective horizon. What do we really know about death? What can we say about it that isn't merely an abstract idea or dead metaphor?
At first blush, it seems that death is one of those existential parameters that the mind can never contain, but rather, contains us -- like time or sexuality. Perhaps this is one more reason why those two are closely linked (sex and death, out of which emerges their baby, knowledge).
In fact, if we didn't sexually reproduce, we wouldn't die, at least for any biological reason. Rather, we would live endlessly, except that it would be a horizontal endlessness, which is not to be confused with eternity (which is outside time). And without the boundary of death, we couldn't know nothing, which is the beginning of knowledge. Animals can only know something, but even then, they don't know that they know. Only man can know that he knows nothing, and therefore potentially everything.
UF says that it is this latter form of a purely biological pseudo-eternal life that the serpent promises when he tells Adam and Eve that "you shall not die." Thus, technically he wasn't lying, because a vertical lie may well be a horizontal truth, as our scientistic jester never stops teaching us. Although perhaps he finally has, since he hasn't commented in several days.
In my book, I wrote of the extreme unlikelihood that anything resembling human intelligence could ever have evolved elsewhere, for it is not just a matter of evolving "big brains." Far from it. Look at Noam Chomsky.
Rather, humanness emerges specifically because of the trimorphic situation of an immature and incomplete nervous system in dynamic rapport with an "empathic" mother and "protecting" father (and when I speak of "mother" and "father," I am doing so from the infant's archetypal perspective, wherein early empathy becomes mother, or is directed into that a priori archetype; in this view, mother emerges from baby, and then father from mother -- more on which below).
UF writes of the connection between, on the one hand, sleeping, forgetting, and death; and on the other, waking, remembering, and life. For example, psychoanalysis has long posited the idea that chronic insomnia can result from an inability to die to the day. You live your day, and then must let it go in the death of sleep. So many people cannot "let the day go." Instead, it intrudes upon their peaceful death, persecuting and tormenting them. Then, even worse, they dream -- or more often have nightmares -- by day.
For other people, they cannot die to the unconscious because of the monsters that lie there in in wait. This is a routine result of a traumatic childhood, of things that happened to them -- and more commonly, what didn't happen to them, in the form of a secure and "containing" relationship with the mother. For these individuals, they cannot "rest in peace," because their dream life is like a continuous horror movie, a "living death."
For that is what a monster is, isn't it -- a conflation of the categories of life and death? During Holloween week they showed all of the classic monster movies on TMC, and they all share this feature of living death or death living: Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula, the Mummy. Perhaps this gives us a clue about death, i.e, that it is not so much the opposite of life, but a perverse or depraved form of it. You might say that Christmas celebrates life amidst death, while Halloween "celebrates" death in life. Probably no coincidence that the holiday has become much more popular with the increasing secularization of our culture, i.e., the death culture. It does nothing for me.
In fact, I remember reading a book -- here it is, Vampires, Burial, and Death -- that explains that most funeral rites evolved around concerns about making certain that the dead stayed that way -- that the corpse is not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead. (The book takes an academic and positivistic approach, so it's of limited usefulness except for the historical trivia, which is at times nevertheless fascinating.)
So, to sleep is to forget the day and awaken to the world of the Dreamer: "One forgets, one goes to sleep, and one dies." In turn, "One remembers, one awakes, and one is born."
In a previous post, I have discussed the idea that from a developmental perspective, one may turn Genesis on its head and see the infant-Adam as the creator of God and everything else.
In fact, from a certain perspective, this is how it must be, and to the extent that you fail to understand this distinction, you may well fail to appreciate the difference between God and infantile omnipotence. Not only is this conflation commonplace, but it might even be the norm. Certainly the Islamist god is indistinguishable from an enraged baby, while the infantile dreams of the left are suspiciously similar to those conjured by the omnipotent gods of the nursery.
Looked at in this way, the discovery of Adam and Eve -- or a Mother and Father separate from the baby -- is an insult to the baby's omnipotence. How dare Mommy and Daddy exist separate from my magical wishes! Therefore the baby-god banishes them from the infantile paradise, where the infant restores his "oneness with God." No coincidence therefore that the way back to paradise is blocked by a coterie of babies with flaming swords. (I should acknowledge that this idea was playgiarized from Grotstein. But I think I won't, for he is an insult to my omnipotence.)
To fall asleep is not just to give up everything, but to do so in the faith that everything will somehow be cleansed and transformed when we are reincarnated and reborn in the morning. So sleep has a sort of "digestive" or metabolic property; which must mean that death and forgetting do as well.
And in fact, one doesn't have to comb very far through the esoteric literature to discover this idea, that the initial postmortem state is very much analogous to the metabolic function of dreaming, except that it will range over our entire life, so that whatever was "inessential" is consigned to the flames, while what is essential lives in eternity. In any event, know that your life is being dreamt by forces far greater than yourself, and not just at night.
This could be an extremely lengthy sidetrack, so I think I'll just mention it briefly, but this is the whole point of Finnegans Wake, which is like a dream of all human history within the ultimate Dreamer (wake is a play on words, meaning the wake of death and the a-wake of resurrection and the Dreamer). Here's how Joseph Campbell expressed it:
"Finnegans Wake is a mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind. It is a strange book, a compound of fable, symphony, and nightmare -- a monstrous enigma beckoning imperiously from the shadowy pits of sleep. Its mechanics resemble those of the dream, a dream which has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled him to compress all periods of history, all phases of individual and racial development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle and end.... Joyce presents, develops, amplifies and recondenses nothing more nor less than the eternal dynamic implicit in birth, death, conflict, death, and resurrection."
Well, we didn't get very far into this chapter, did we? Time to die to the dreamer and awaken to the day. To be continued....
O Death, you old mahahasamadhi, show us your secret mannascrypt, your Divine Cosmodeity. Take us before and beyond this womentary maninfestation, reveal not the horizontal but our inmost upmost vertical bigending --The Book of Petey


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Buruma to deliver three lectures on democracy and religion
Posted October 27, 2008; 03:57 p.m.
"No Divine Right: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents" is the title of a series of lectures to be presented at 8 p.m. Mondays, Nov. 3, 10 and 17, in McCosh 10.
Ian Buruma, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, will address not only differences between Europe and America, but also the conflict between Islam and secularism in "Eurabia," a term used to describe a Europe that some believe is being transformed into a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world.
Buruma has been cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong (1983-86) and foreign editor of The Spectator in London (1990-91). He has been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and St. Antony's College at Oxford University, and senior visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University. From 2000 to 2004 he was chair of the Humanities Centre at the Central European University in Budapest.
In 2008 Buruma won the Erasmus Prize, a Dutch award for contributions to European culture, and the Shorenstein Journalism Award. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and The Guardian, among other publications. He also is the author of numerous books including "Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies," with Avishai Margalit (2004), "Conversations With John Schlesinger" (2006) and "Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance" (2006), which won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest Book, and a novel, "The China Lover" (2008). He has taught at Bard College since 2003.
Buruma's lectures are sponsored by the Stafford Little Fund of the University Public Lecture Series and the Princeton University Press.


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10.13: Formation of Earth
What was early Earth like?
Earth was not always the planet it is today. In its earliest days, Earth was scorching hot. It did not have an atmosphere or water. If life originated early on, it was wiped out by the terrible conditions.
Formation of Earth and Moon
Material at a similar distances from the Sun collided together to form each of the planets. Earth grew from material in its part of space. Moon's origin was completely different from Earth's.
Earth Forms
Earth formed like the other planets. Different materials in its region of space collided. Eventually the material made a planet. All of the collisions caused Earth to heat up. Rock and metal melted. The molten material separated into layers. Gravity pulled the denser material into the center. The lighter elements rose to the surface (Figure below). Because the material separated, Earth's core is made mostly of iron. Earth's crust is made mostly of lighter materials. In between the crust and the core is Earth's mantle, made of solid rock.
Earth's layers.
Moon Forms
This model for how the moon formed is the best fit of all of the data scientists have about the moon.
In the early solar system there was a lot of space debris. Asteroids flew around, sometimes striking the planets. An asteroid the size of Mars smashed into Earth. The huge amount of energy from the impact melted most of Earth. The asteroid melted too. Material from both Earth and the asteroid was thrown out into orbit. Over time, this material smashed together to form our Moon. The lunar surface of the Moon is about 4.5 billion years old. This means that the collision happened about 70 million years after Earth formed.
- Earth grew from material that collided in its part of space.
- The material melted and gravity separated it into layers.
- An enormous asteroid struck Earth. The material flew into orbit and came together to form the Moon.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
- What did the impacts to form the early Earth create?
- Why were these impacts important?
- What is caused by the heat?
- How old is Earth?
- What does the heat in the core mean for Earth?
- How did Earth form?
- How did Earth material separate into layers?
- How did the Moon form?
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New Sports Website for Girls
Original post made by Girls Are Champions, Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park, on May 19, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, Athletic Girl Productions launches a new girls'website -- Web Link . Led by Lisa Izzi, former Stanford Gymnastics Coach and NCAA National Champion, this new website targets girls 10-18, inspires, entertains, and addresses health and sport-related issues. Girls -- submit your stories, be creative, and have fun. Come visit! Go to Web Link . Email Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Yeah! Our Website is UP! Big Thanks to all my friends and supporters, Alison, Bob, Kirsten, Jim, Lorie, Rainer, Sheila, Raymond, Elizabeth! I couldn't have done it alone. The inspiring stories and fun features are great for girls to be active and healthy! Go GAC!


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Same old Schiit? Um, no. Welcome to Asgard 2! - Page 24
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If you put your ear close to A2, you gonna fry it. Otherwise, I can also confirm that my A2 has no hum at all (I mean at all, even when you fry your ear).
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Zero hum.
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I've been reading so many replies and reviews how the O2, Magni and Vali sound the same. After weeks of listening to all of them, (yes I have them all) they are all not exactly the same . I've been using the same music and all else in the system is the same and have only changed the amps. Started with O2, then went to Magni. Yes the Magni and O2 sound very close. The Magni does sound a tad processed and thin compared to O2 but the Magni does have more authority as it is more powerful in comparison even though they all seem to struggle reproducing the source.
Then I went to the Vali. The Vali sounds nothing like the others. It's slightly more smoother and warmer, more of a natural sound but ever so slightly, and more realistic sounding. I was enjoying it very much for weeks. Then I decided to get the Asgard 2. Why? I read so much about it I just had to try it. The Vali also seem to struggle reproducing the source which makes sense as it's less powerful.
I have to say the Asgard 2 is is not like any of the others. Why have some said there is no difference? I'm suspecting what is happening is that people are not using high resolution (or not high enough resolution) tracks or headphones to distinguish the difference OR they just don't hear the difference due to their hearing biology. As a side note: I also did an electronic spectrum hearing test to verify my hearing at different frequencies to eliminate that factor, and I passed 100%.
The Asgard 2; is in a whole other class. The Asgard 2 with the same headphones (HE-400) sound way more detailed, realistic, bassier, deeper, smoother and wider is the best way to explain it with all else in the system being the same. The Mids seem more forward and lush. The Asgard 2 does not appear to add any color to the sound, but I may say on a scale from 1-100% if I had to say how much I think it does add coloration, maybe 10-20% which is not relevant to be considered significant, it's a really tiny amount but pleasant. The gain is also contributing to the level of authority also as it does have more gain than all the others even though it's also rated at 32 ohms at 1.0W RMS.
As for noise (hiss); No hiss at any volume level either on High or Low gain either connected or not connected to a source with HE-400, so if you have higher impedance headphones there should be no worries.
As for humming; it's there, but like others have stated, it's barely noticeable to non existent and that is an exaggeration even at least for my model. My findings are this; you have to be in a dead silent room and paste your ear on the chassis right over the transformer to hear it and even then it's so tiny of a sound there is no way anyone can hear this humming unless they are intentionally to try to hear it. Even if you put your ear on top of the amp over the grill area or to the side where the transformer is located, you can't hear it still. If your ear is one inch away from the same location you just can't possibly hear it unless you are super human! Shiit has done an excellent job in resolving this issue as others have stated overall.
As for the volume knob getting warm, it's so minor I can't say it's even an issue. But here is a tip if it really bothers you or yours gets possibly hotter than you like. I have done this with all my Shiit amps but not due to heat issues but just ease of turning the volume knob. Get 3 O-rings that are a tad smaller in diameter than the volume knob and place them over the volume knob. On the Asgard 2 it makes it easier to turn the volume knob also but the added advantage is you won't feel any heat off the knob. Plus it looks nice too!
My serial is 002026 so I would hope all higher models do not have any of these issues or that they don't creep back into production. So for anyone that is thinking about the Asgard 2, YES it's worth it. You WILL hear a difference with respect to what was mentioned above about headphones, music quality rate and biology. This amp just sound like an actual amp, it sounds "real" while the others mentioned sound like they're struggling to making an effort to process the sound, but the Asgard 2 seems to do it effortlessly with authority is another nice way to describe it.
I hope this helps anyone who maybe interested in the Asgard 2.
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Capitol Reef
National Park
A giant, sinuous wrinkle in the Earth's crust stretches for 100 miles across south central Utah. This impressive buckling of rock, created by the same tremendous forces that built the Colorado Plateau 65 million years ago, is called the Waterpocket Fold. Capitol Reef National Park preserves the Fold and its spectacular, eroded jumble of colorful cliffs, massive domes, soaring spires, stark monoliths, twisting canyons, and graceful arches.
The Waterpocket Fold
The Waterpocket Fold defines Capitol Reef National Park. A nearly 100-mile long warp in the Earth's crust, the Waterpocket Fold is a classic monocline: a regional fold with one very steep side in an area of otherwise nearly horizontal layers. A monocline is a "step up" in the rock layers. The Waterpocket Fold has lifted the rock layers on the west side more than 7000 feet higher than the layers on the east. Major folds are almost always associated with underlying faults. The Waterpocket Fold formed between 50 and 70 million years ago when a major mountain building event in western North America, the Laramide Orogeny, reactivated an ancient buried fault. When the fault moved, the overlying rock layers were draped above the fault into the monocline.
As this artist's conceptual drawing shows, the Waterpocket Fold is made up of many layers of sedimentary rock.
Capitol Reef
The most scenic portion of the Waterpocket Fold, found near the Fremont River, is known as Capitol Reef:
- "capitol" for the white domes of Navajo Sandstone that resemble capitol building rotundas, and
- "reef'' for the rocky cliffs which are a barrier to travel, like a coral reef.
Nearly 10,000 feet of sedimentary strata are found in the Capitol Reef area. These rocks range in age from Permian (as old as 270 million years old) to Cretaceous (as young as 80 million years old.) The Waterpocket Fold has tilted this geologic layer cake down to the east. The older rocks are found in the western part of the park, and the younger rocks are found near the east boundary.
This layer upon layer sequence of sedimentary rock records nearly 200 million years of geologic history. Rock layers in Capitol Reef reveal ancient climates as varied as:
- rivers and swamps (Chinle Formation),
- Sahara-like deserts (Navajo Sandstone),
- and shallow ocean (Mancos Shale).
Cathedral Valley
The tilt of the Waterpocket Fold dies out at Thousand Lake Mountain near the northwestern boundary of the park. Rock layers in Cathedral Valley have a gentle inclination of 3 - 5 degrees to the east and appear nearly horizontal.
Deep erosion has carved Cathedral Valley's free-standing monoliths, or temples, out of the soft reddish-orange Entrada Sandstone, which was originally deposited as sandy mud on a tidal flat. Some of the cathedrals are capped by thin, hard beds of a greenish gray marine sandstone, the Curtis Formation.
The scenery of the Entrada Sandstone temples of Cathedral Valley is complemented by evidence of other geologic processes at work. Flowage and dissolution of gypsum, a soluble mineral from the underlying Carmel Formation, created Glass Mountain and the Gypsum Sinkhole. Glass Mountain is an exposed plug of gypsum. The Gypsum Sinkhole formed when a gypsum plug dissolved. Dikes and sills, which are thin bodies of igneous rock and small volcanic plugs, are found in Upper Cathedral Valley. These features formed during volcanic activity 3 to 6 million years ago.
Most of the erosion that carved today's landscape occurred after the uplift of the Colorado Plateau sometime within the last 20 million years. Most of the major canyon cutting probably occurred between one and six million years ago.
Even in this desert climate, water is the erosional agent most responsible for the carving of the landscape. The pull of gravity, in the form of rock falls or rock creep, plays a major role in the shaping of the cliff lines. Wind is a minor agent of erosion here.
The landforms are a result of different responses of the various rock layers to the forces of erosion. Hard sandstone layers, like the red Wingate and the white Navajo Sandstones, form cliffs. Softer shale layers, like the Chinle Formation, form slopes and low hills. The barren slopes found in many areas are due in part to the presence of bentonitic clays in the shale which make an inhospitable environment for plants.
The black boulders, found scattered throughout the Fremont River valley and along other drainages, are recent geologic arrivals to Capitol Reef. These volcanic rocks came from the 20 to 30 million year old lava flows which cap Boulder and Thousand Lake Mountains. The boulders made their way to Capitol Reef during the Ice Ages when the High Plateaus supported small mountain glaciers. Landslides, debris flows, and possibly heavy stream outwash from these glaciers carried the boulders to lower elevations in the park.
Capitol Reef National Park was established because of the scenic rock domes and narrow canyons found along the trace of the Waterpocket Fold. Indeed, the park boundaries were drawn to geologic processes, and also to appreciate the interrelationships between the Earth and all life found in the varied environments within the park - from the forested slopes of Thousand Lake Mountain, to the green oasis of Fruita, to the barren Bentonite Hills.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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"Intelligence and Counter-Radicalization"
Panelists compare and contrast the linkages between law enforcement and intelligence in the United States and the United Kingdom and discuss how violent extremism has changed the business of intelligence.
This session was part of the symposium, UK and U.S. Approaches in Countering Radicalization: Intelligence, Communities, and the Internet, which was cosponsored with Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies and King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. This event was made possible by Georgetown University's George T. Kalaris Intelligence Studies Fund and the generous support of longtime CFR member Rita E. Hauser. Additionally, this event was organized in cooperation with the CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.
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Mucormycosis is a fungal infection of the sinuses, brain, or lungs that occurs in some people with a weakened immune system.
Mucormycosis is caused by a common fungus frequently found in the soil and in dying plants. Most people come in contact with the fungus at some time. However, people with a weakened immune system are more likely to get this infection.
Conditions most commonly associated with mucormycosis include:
Mucormycosis may involve:
Symptoms of rhinocerebral mucormycosis include:
Symptoms of lung (pulmonary) mucormycosis include:
Symptoms of gastrointestinal mucormycosis include:
Symptoms of kidney (renal) mucormycosis include:
Symptoms of skin (cutaneous) mucormycosis include a single, painful, hardened area of skin that may have a blackened center.
The doctor or nurse will examine you. An ear-nose-throat (ENT) doctor should be seen if you are having sinus problems.
Testing depends on your symptoms but may include:
A biopsy must be done to make a definitive diagnosis of mucormycosis.
Surgery should be done immediately to remove all dead and infected tissue. Surgery can lead to disfiguration because it may involve removal of the palate, parts of the nose, or parts of the eye. Without such aggressive surgery, however, chances of survival are greatly decreased.
You will also receive antifungal medicines through a vein, usually amphotericin B.
Mucormycosis has an extremely high death rate even when aggressive surgery is done. Death rates range from 25 - 85% depending on the body area involved and your overall health.
People with weakened immune systems and immune disorders (including diabetes) should seek medical attention if they develop fever, headache, sinus pain, eye swelling, or any of the other symptoms listed above.
Because the fungi that cause mucormycosis are widespread, the most appropriate preventive measures involve improved control of the underlying illnesses associated with mucormycosis.
Kontoyiannis DP. Mucormycosis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 348.
Kontoyiannis DP, Lewis RE. Agents of mucormycosis and entomophthoramycosis.In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 259.
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12.8: Natural Gas Power
What caused the recent earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma?
The process of extracting natural gas, known as fracking, injects liquid waste into deep wells. Coincidentally, locations where seismic activity is virtually unknown have begun to experience earthquakes. Is fracking related to earthquake activity? Many geologists think the link is undeniable.
Natural Gas
Natural gas, often known simply as gas, is composed mostly of the hydrocarbon methane. The amount of natural gas being extracted and used in the Untied States is increasing rapidly.
Natural Gas Formation
Natural gas forms under the same conditions that create oil. Organic material buried in the sediments harden to become a shale formation that is the source of the gas. Although natural gas forms at higher temperatures than crude oil, the two are often found together.
The formation of an oil and gas deposit that can be mined is seen in this animation: http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/oilgas/PETSYS_3.MPG.
The largest natural gas reserves in the United States are in the Appalachian Basin, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico region (Figure below). California also has natural gas, found mostly in the Central Valley. In the northern Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento Delta, a sediment-filled trough formed along a location where crust was pushed together (an ancient convergent margin).
Gas production in the lower 48 United States.
- An animation of global natural gas reserves is seen here: http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/oilgas/GLOBE_3.MPG.
Natural Gas Use
Like crude oil, natural gas must be processed before it can be used as a fuel. Some of the chemicals in unprocessed natural gas are poisonous to humans. Other chemicals, such as water, make the gas less useful as a fuel. Processing natural gas removes almost everything except the methane. Once the gas is processed, it is ready to be delivered and used. Natural gas is delivered to homes for uses such as cooking and heating. Like coal and oil, natural gas is also burned to generate heat for powering turbines. The spinning turbines turn generators, and the generators create electricity.
Consequences of Natural Gas Use
Natural gas burns much cleaner than other fossil fuels, meaning that it causes less air pollution. Natural gas also produces less carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels do for the same amount of energy, so its global warming effects are less (Figure below).
A natural gas drill rig in Texas.
- See the pollution created by a car burning gasoline and a car burning natural gas in this animation: http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/oilgas/GASPOL_3.MPG.
Unfortunately, drilling for natural gas can be environmentally destructive. One technique used is hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, which increases the rate of recovery of natural gas. Fluids are pumped through a borehole to create fractures in the reservoir rock that contains the natural gas. Material is added to the fluid to prevent the fractures from closing. The damage comes primarily from chemicals in the fracturing fluids. Chemicals that have been found in the fluids may be carcinogens (cancer-causing), radioactive materials, or endocrine disruptors, which interrupt hormones in the bodies of humans and animals. The fluids may get into groundwater or may runoff into streams and other surface waters. As noted above, fracking may cause earthquakes.
- Natural gas forms with crude oil but at higher temperatures.
- Natural gas burns more cleanly than petroleum and produces fewer greenhouse gases.
- Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is a relatively new method for extracting natural gas, which may be linked to groundwater contamination and the generation of small earthquakes in non-seismic regions.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is fracking?
2. Explain how natural gas is extracted.
3. What used to cause additional fracking?
4. What is the concern with fracking?
5. What law is the gas company exempted from?
1. You'll be hearing a lot about fracking in the coming years. What is it and how does it work?
2. How is natural gas different from crude oil and how does it form differently?
3. Why is natural gas considered more environmentally sound than other fossil fuels?
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Rich -
I was hoping to get down to the shop to tie a few up with you. Hope the foot is healed, let's plan that again. I ended up meeting with GregD and future president of the Flyfishing Forum BrandonD to tie up a few flies... last I heard Greg has 19,432 flies tied for next season and counting!
I'll have a break coming up during the holidays, let's get together and tie a few then.
Thanks and as always, good to hear from you.
squid fly
JURO, COULD YOU, WOULD YOU, send on to put in the case at the SHOP!!! "GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN"
Rip Squid
Originator: Juro Mukai
Imitation: squid
Hook: 3/0 - 5/0 depending on size of fly
Legs: curly ostrich plumes, marabou hackles
Mantle: nylon tube fly tube tied to hook shaft at bend to extend fly backward, hook is at head of squid. Legs and eyes tied to end of tube, body hackled upward and over bend of hook
Eyes: featherweight aluminum deep sea eyes, large w/ 3-d sticker eyes
Fins: Marabou hackled over and finished at eye
Cut a nylon tube at a shallow oblique angle so it joins with the hook shaft at the bend.
Place the tube in a tube tool and tie the tentacles to the end of the tube.
Tie in the eye above the legs. Make sure the eye will be aligned with the groove in the tube for the hook shaft.
Palmer dyed bunny or marabou feathers (folded) up toward the hook leaving a space to work with. Whip finish in place, put aside.
Mount the hook. Underwrap the bend of the hook with extra stout thread, whip finish, don't cut the thread. Lay the tube so it extends the shaft beyond the bend, wrap securely and whip finish. Secure with zap-a-gap.
Continue palmering the body up the tube and onto the hook shaft.
Finish with multiple shades of marabou or SW hackles for the fins.
This fly is very lightweight and can be cast effectively with a standard striper weight rod and line. I have done very well with it's prototype before losing to a blue. This was developed during the "cephalopod project" which was a mutual interest by a few members to figure out squid flies for stripers.
I will do a sequence of steps this winter and hope to test it further from Bruce Peter's boat this summer
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Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program.