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Zoologist and nature documentary director Keith Scholey set out to make a real-life version of The Lion King with the Disneynature documentary African Cats. The movie follows the true stories of the families of lions and cheetahs that live along a river in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. The protected park, established in 1961, is one of the wildest places on Earth.
Through the film, audiences will meet the River Pride, a family of lions led by a fierce king named Fang; a rival lion across the river named Kali and his four brothers; and a fearless mother cheetah named Sita and her cubs. The documentary, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, opens in theaters on April 22. Disneynature will donate a portion of the proceeds from the opening week's ticket sales to the "Save the Savanna" campaign. TFK chatted with Scholey, who codirected African Cats with Alastair Fothergill, about filming the big cats.
What was your goal when you set out to make this film, and how did you get involved?
I've been making wildlife films for many years, especially in Africa. I sort of specialize there, and I've always had this long-term idea ever since I saw The Lion King. I thought, "Could we make a real one?" Having filmed all these animals over the years, I've learned that they are all strong characters, they have incredible stories to tell, and in a way The Lion King kind of touched on that.
How did you decide to film in the Masai Mara?
That was quite an easy one because over the years I've filmed in many different places around Africa, and many locations have the big cats and lots of wildlife. But there's nowhere quite like the Masai Mara for the actual density of cats. It's not only the numbers; they are all so jam-packed together that they actually interact with each other. So you see cheetahs encountering lions, lions encountering other lions and so on. You see so much more behavior in the Masai Mara than anywhere else. I doubt we could have made African Cats anywhere else with the same level of drama.
Can you describe the process of filming and how you chose the characters?
The first rule of any screenplay is to find big, strong characters, and we did spend quite a long time on that. Well, Sita the cheetah kind of fell into our laps as soon as we turned up in the Mara. She had just given birth to five cubs. From having followed many cheetahs before—when you've got a [single] mom and cubs like that—things are going to happen. [With the lions] we were looking for a pride where there was going to be trouble. When we came across this pride that just had this one male, Fang, with a broken tooth, looking beaten up, and then next door there's this guy Kali with these four brothers—you know that Fang's not going to last. And then we found within this pride, there was this injured lioness, Leila, with just one cub. We knew something was going to happen, but we didn't know what. From then on, we just let the story play.
How close were you to the animals from day to day?
All the animals in somewhere like the Mara are very used to tourist vehicles, so the rule is don't get anywhere closer than 20 meters [about 66 feet], which is a very good rule. We often film with very long lenses and can be a long way away. [Our strategy was to] go out and look and, once you find them, follow, follow, follow, and record what happens.
What was your favorite moment that you captured?
There are some things that are incredibly rare, and I don't think anyone's ever seen before, like the two lions crossing the river and actually getting pulled down by a crocodile. That's an amazing thing to have filmed. There are some moments that are just amazing pieces of drama, like when Sita was facing off against that big lion or the hyenas. You just don't know what's going to happen. Then there are moments of huge tenderness, like the cheetah cubs in the rain. You can actually see the cubs shivering. You just feel for them.
Was there anything you were surprised to learn about cheetahs or lions while filming?
I think what always happens every time you follow these animals—I've done it for a lot of my life—each time just the reinforcement of "Wow, this life is tough." What we're showing is just the tip of the iceberg. This is going on day in and day out. Part of what I hope African Cats does is I hope people really start to understand that these wild animals are just quite incredible.
If you could ask the big cats that you filmed one thing, what would it be?
I would ask, "Does it ever get you down?" [Laughs] But I guess one thing about an animal is that they don't introspect. They can't see into the future or ask questions like, "Why am I doing this?"—which is, of course, what we would do. In a way, that would be my first question: "Does it ever exhaust you? Do you ever get depressed?" Even getting dinner isn't exactly easy for them. It's a danger in itself, and that's just the routine every other day.
The movie had many amazing sounds, like the lion's great roar. What was it like to hear it in person?
If you are sitting in a car quite close to a lion roaring, it's so deep that the car shakes. I've actually been in a tent once with a lion roaring outside, and I've never felt so small in all my life. You just feel you've just shrunk to this insignificant little blob. I think we've done a reasonably good job on recreating the sound, but it's probably still not as big as the real thing.
What sort of human or environmental risks did you see affecting the lives of these cats?
The actual Masai Mara National Reserve itself is a protected area. In terms of poaching and things like that, I think they have that very well under control. [As for the] boundary area of all these national parks in Africa . . . [human] populations are growing. In places like Kenya, they are growing very rapidly. The fate of these animals outside the protected areas is becoming increasingly constricted. That's the biggest danger for them. These are big animals, and they need huge space. Even an area like the Masai Mara, which is 1,500 square kilometers [about 930 square miles], is still a bit too small. One thing that's great about the film is that Disney has done this "Save the Savanna" campaign, which is about trying to buy extra corridor space to link up the different areas of the national parks. That's the big issue really for all these wonderful creatures in Africa: the big, huge spaces and keeping the non-protected space free for them, too.
What do you hope that kids take away from this film?
I think that there is a really interesting kind of chain reaction with conservation, with keeping anything really: step one, you have to be aware of animals like lions and cheetahs. Once you're aware of them, you can start to learn to value them. So what I hope the film is going to do is by people seeing it, especially kids, they'll really start to value these animals. Once people have a sense of value, then action often follows, and with action comes hope for the future. I think we're the start of that chain, of value-action hope. And then you know these animals have a future. I can't imagine a world without lions and cheetahs living in the wild.


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Memorandum of Understanding between Western History Association and Utah State University:
"Since the WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION seeks to establish a learned quarterly journal in the field of western American history and UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY desires to make a contribution toward the advancement of scholarship in the field of western American history, the WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION and UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY hereby mutually agree on the publication of a learned journal to be called The Western Historical Quarterly (hereafter referred to as WHQ). WHQ is to be the official organ of Western History Association and will reflect the interests and research of serious scholars of the history of Western North America (i.e., the United States frontier and regional West, the borderlands of Mexico, and the frontier and western regions of Canada and Alaska)." --15 May 1969
Founded in 1969, the Western Historical Quarterly, official journal of the Western History Association, presents original articles dealing with the North American West—expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories. Each issue contains reviews and notices of significant books, as well as recent articles, in the field.
For a discussion of how Utah State University supported establishment of the Western Historical Quarterly and a description of the journal's five decades at USU, see:
S. George Ellsworth, "Ten Years: An Editor's Report," WHQ 10 no. 4 (October 1979): 421-436.
David Rich Lewis, "Forty Years of the Western Historical Quarterly," WHA Newsletter Spring 2009.
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Washington The Energy Department said Tuesday it will auction off its outstanding $168 million loan to the now-closed electric vehicle manufacturer Fisker Automotive Inc., a move that will likely mean significant losses to taxpayers. It would be the second automaker to fail after receiving loans that were later sold by the government at a loss.
Peter W. Davidson, executive director of the Energy Departments loan program office, said in a blog posting Tuesday that the department will exit Fisker, whose Karma luxury sedan was driven by celebrities such as Al Gore, Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Fisker was initially was awarded $528 million from the $25 billion Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing loan program, but received only $192 million. The Energy Department said it has already recouped more than $28 million from Fiskers accounts.
After exhausting any realistic possibility for a sale that might have protected our entire investment, the department announced today that we are auctioning the remainder of Fiskers loan obligation, offering the best possible recovery for the taxpayer, Davidson said Tuesday.
The auction will be Oct. 11. The winner of the auction would be in the drivers seat to take control of the company. But the Energy Department wants a buyer to keep jobs in the U.S.
The department will require all bids to include a commitment and business plan that promotes domestic manufacturing capabilities and related engineering for advanced technology vehicles here in the United States, Davidson said.
The Anaheim, Calif.-based company said in November it was considering Michigan for a new technical center. It previously had a center in Pontiac and had considered buying a shuttered GM assembly plant in Pontiac in 2009 to build cars, but opted for a Delaware plant instead.
Fisker had planned to create 2,000 factory jobs in Delaware and start production by late 2012. It never opened.
Fisker sold about 2,000 plug-in hybrids worldwide, but hasnt built a car in more than a year. In April, it did not make a $10 million loan payment to the Energy Department as it sought to find a buyer or new investor. Fisker laid off 75 percent of its staff that month.
Fisker has drawn scorn from House Republicans and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of South Dakota expressed concern in February that Fisker would be sold to a Chinese buyer after reports suggested Geely Automotive and Dongfeng Motor Corp. were in the running to acquire a majority stake.
When the federal government picks winners & losers, the American people are left on the hook, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the Houses No. 3 Republican, said Tuesday in a Twitter posting.
Earlier this month, the Energy Department sold its unpaid $50 million loan to Allen Park-based VPG to AM General for $3 million, which agreed to acquire VPGs MV-1 wheelchair-accessible vehicles. Taxpayers lost about $42 million on that sale.
The Energy Department on Tuesday cited successes like Ford Motor Co.s $5.9 billion loan, which helped support thousands of jobs, and Teslas $465 million loan that was repaid early.
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American Physical Society names three Princeton fellows
Posted December 23, 2002; 10:24 a.m.
Two Princeton faculty members and a research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have been named fellows by the American Physical Society.
The new fellows are Antoine Kahn , professor of electrical engineering; Stanley Kaye, principal research physicist at the plasma physics laboratory; and Peter Meyers, professor of physics .
The society's fellowship program was created to recognize original research and publication, contributions in the application of physics to science and technology, contributions to the teaching of physics, or service and participation in the society. The honor is a lifetime appointment.
Kahn, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton, was recognized "for pioneering work on the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces of organic and inorganic semiconductors."
The society cited Kaye "for pioneering investigation of confinement characteristics of strongly heated tokamak plasmas that serves as a foundation for predictions of confinement trends of modern tokamak and spherical torus plasmas."
Meyers was honored "for contributions to rare kaon decay experiments, service and leadership in the particle physics community, and for communicating the excitement of the field to expert and non-expert alike."
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As for the regular game, this game was intended to be personal and they made it so. Dumped 20 hours in, only hit a few of the main quest(been hitting the side quests, how screwy is the disk system?!?) but the level of depth is amazing. I couldnt imagine playing this game without the first 2.
Edit: Krogans are so unbelievably overpowered. Damage bonuses, extra health(alot), and oh yeah, 1 shot melee kills on just about anything. Absolutely insane.


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The Rolling Stones: The Main Attraction
Originally published in Guitar World, June 2010
Critics snubbed it upon its release in 1972, but Exile in Main Street has become one of rock's greatest landmarks. Keith Richards recalls the making of the Rolling Stones' masterpiece and how the album's new reissue project became a walk down memory lane.
"To me, Exile on Main Street was probably the best Rolling Stones album as far as the connection between the band members," Keith Richards says. "We were coming up with song ideas like crazy. And the ideas were catching on. Everybody was going flat-out."
The anniversary reissue of the Rolling Stones' landmark double album this May will provide a heavy blast of nostalgia to those who were around when Exile was first released, in 1972. The newly remastered tracks, as well as the session outtakes, will also be a revelation even to those who know the album inside and out.
But perhaps no one feels the nostalgia, or the revelations, as profoundly as Keith Richards. There's no denying that the album is quintessentially Keef in its swagger and the cocky sprawling grandeur of its musical scope. Hedged all about by rough edges, Exile's elegantly wasted, slightly messy nonchalance is what imparts a frisson of raw truth to the overall beauty of the thing. Perhaps it's not coincidence that Exile was recorded, amid scenes of legendary rock star decadence, in the vast, dank cellars beneath Richards' home at the time, a palatial villa called Nellcôte, on the sunny French Riviera.
"I'm listening to these tracks, and suddenly I'm back in that old basement in the south of France," marvels Richards, phoning in from another tropical paradise, a small island in the West Indies. "It's amazing, especially for me, that ability to transport myself back in time."
The Stones guitarist played a key role in preparing the Exile reissue, which will be released in three formats. The basic package is a CD containing newly remastered versions of the 18 tracks from the original album. The Deluxe version includes a bonus disc with 10 previously unreleased tracks from the album's era, while the Super Deluxe release adds on two 30-gram vinyl albums containing the original album and bonus tracks, a DVD on the making of Exile and a 50-page collector's book with photos.
The Exile reissue project reunited Richards and his lifelong Glimmer Twin Mick Jagger with Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones' late-Sixties/early Seventies producer who recorded and mixed the original album and many other great Stones records. A rock-solid drummer in his own right, Miller has always had some kind of primordial connection with the Stones' profoundly rhythmic essence. Richards says, "I look back on it all, and I've got to say Jimmy Miller was the perfect producer for the Rolling Stones."
Also onboard for the reissue project was the band's present-day producer, Don Was, who sorted through hours of tapes to resurrect the bonus tracks. These include alternate takes of "Loving Cup" and "Soul Survivor," plus an early version of "Tumbling Dice" titled "Good Time Women." There's also a cache of previously unreleased tracks, including "Dancing in the Light," "Plundered My Soul," "Following the River," "Aladdin's Story" and "Pass the Wine," which has appeared on bootlegs under the working title "Sophia Loren." For the Exile reissue, every effort was made to unearth fresh material from the vaults. In some cases, Jagger wrote and recorded brand-new vocals for what had previously been instrumental tracks. Richards overdubbed some guitar on a few tracks, but he stresses that he did as little as possible to the original recordings.
"I brushed a little acoustic guitar," he says. "I can't even remember on which song now. The original guitar track sort of stuttered and fell apart halfway through, so Don said, 'Well, we better replace that.' But that's all I did really. As I said to Don, these tracks already are Exile, because they come out of that dusty basement. You can't really screw around with them that much. Just tack them on. They are what they are, right from the same place."
For Richards, the project triggered fond memories of those who have since departed the Stones, including original bassist Bill Wyman, and those who have since departed this life, such as session piano great Nicky Hopkins. "To hear Nicky Hopkins' piano on 'Sophia Loren' was a treasure," he says quietly. "And Bill's solid as a rock, man. What a bass player! I'm actually more and more impressed with him, listening to this. You can get used to a guy, but listening back, going over this stuff to make this record, I'd say, 'Jesus Christ, he's better than I thought!' "


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EJ has not won a playoff football game since he was there...
A nice write-up, but one of your key points is incorrect. LSU did not install the Veer for the 73 season, but planned to do so for 74.
LSU had switched to more of an option-type offense this same year to counter the success of the wishbone, and to take advantage of Miley's running. But in big games, LSU would be plagued by mistakes and fumbles. To complicate matters, McClendon had an automatic substitution system, instead of substituting on a need-basis.
Under Mac in those years, LSU ran a power I and always had an option component to his offense and always played two QB's. Even Bert Jones ran the option. Fast forward to 4:12 of this Youtube LINK and you will see him run the option against ND for a TD.
What Mac did was no surprise to Miley as it was the same offense and substitutions prior to his arrival.
That was the year the Tigers lost to Tulane for the first time in 25 years. That year was the beginning of the end for Charlie Mac
Steve Foley (Greenie QB from Jesuit) beat us every way imaginable. Went on to play Strong Safety for Denver for an eternity.
Terry Looney was the greenie QB
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|Jamey McLeod
"In regards to the "arctic fox wing". I love arctic fox but always had a problem getting a arctic fox wing to lay down over anything but a floss & rib body. Do you have that trouble ?"
How tight are you wanting it to lay? When I use it it comes out looking somewhat like that yellow fly above in this post, kinda. The stuff I have been getting lately has quite a few really coarse hairs in it, along with the really fluffy stuff. When it gets wet it really sucks down. Wish I had a digital camera, I'd send you a pic. I have also found if I wax the thread and make almost a dubbing loop, I can spin the hair around the body also, comes out pretty cool.
I tie a few Thunder creek style streamers with it also, I put eyes on them and an epoxy head. yellow bottom, orange mid section, olive on top, black K-flash wing over that, with yellow grizz. hackle run down each side. Looke like a small brookie. The brookies in this pond I fish love the thing.
Hey Jamie,
In regards to the "arctic fox wing". I love arctic fox but always had a problem getting a arctic fox wing to lay down over anything but a floss & rib body. Do you have that trouble ? Any tricks ? If it is over a palmered body or in front of peacock herl as you described it wants to flair up on me and not lay back. Maybe your using the tail ? I am using the body fur and I do clean it out.
By the way.............you want to see / use a neat looking fish catching machine of a Trout / Steelhead streamer ..................tie up some Thunder Creek style streamers using Arctic Fox (body) rather than bucktail. I also like it for tailing on a Boss along with a schlappen collar.
I also got some nice patches of Icelantic Sheep but so far I have only added it in for long tails on my top water Pike / Muskie fly's. Nice movement...........just can't seem to find other area's of use...............yet. Any thoughts out there.
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Undertaker tags and body, palmer the peacock with a whiting farms spey hackle(black) collar another one in front of the body, dyed black mallard flank collar black arctic fox wing.
Or, purple ice dub body, palmered with the same hackle as above, collar a purple spey marabou(only 1 or 2 wraps), then another black spey hackle, collar a dyed purple pheasant rump feather, final collar of dyed purple guinea.
also add a bit of purple K-flash on each, two strands.
Numerous takes over the past two weeks.
I was going to post the same thing you did about tyers needing to keep flies in the proper style category instead of tossing fly style terms around so loosely, as it seems is happening more and more these days. Before I get jumped on by loads of people about this, I need to let you knoe that it is perfectly OK to tie a spey fly with a hair wing or even a piece of tanned rabbit; however, such a fly still needs to have the long, mobile "spey hackle" palmered over at least the front 1/2 or the body to fit the style of a spey fly. But this does not make it OK to call a spider style fly such as Alec Jackson's Pseudo Spey (a fly that Alec freely acknowledges is not a spey, but a spider with extra long hackle) a spey fly. Likewise, it is not OK to call a marabou spider a marabou spey because a marabou spey such as John Farrar's Skagit Spey series of flies has the marabou palmered over the body and the marabou spider does not.
This loose use of fly style terminology is bad because it "fuzzies" up things to the point where the distinctions of fly style become irrelevant. Therefore, it means that any fly is any other fly so we could have a Hendrickson Spey simply because someone put a long hackle collar on a wet fly version of it. Or we can have a Black-nosed Dace Spey because someone put a long hackle collar on it. As this shows, pretty soon we have chaos and people cannot figure out what each other are talking about.
This is why fly style categories exist and why they need to exclude flies that do not have the requisite characteristics.
I also feel the need to state the obvious regarding taking a half hour to tie a spey fly like the Orange Heron. I disagree because with practice and good, quality materials it is not difficult at all to tie 6 per hour and it is entirely possible to tie a full dozen in about 1 hour. And have all of them be durable flies of proper proportions with nice small heads. By practice I mean tying 300-400 hundred Orange Heron or other speys with hackle tip wings and 300-400 mallard winged ones in the space of a six months to a year. If you tie this many of each, you will find the time it takes to tie them is far less than 30 minutes per fly.
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One more thing before I go tie.
I really enjoy and respect this board and all of you and your coments etc. on here.
I am not trying to ruffle any feathers it's just oppions, comments, talk & B.S. on a snowy (here anyways) day. I am sure I would enjoy fishing Steelhead with all of you.
Have a good day ! I will check back later................
Morning Gillie,
I hope you were not offended by the spey fly comment, I did not mean it as such. And I like the patterns you posted.
You comments in regards to the materials used in modern speys, have less to do with my thoughts in regards to speys, than does the way they are tied.
Long flowing hackles, fall in to the realm and fit the description of soft hackles and spiders be it wet or streamer style. Speys are a bit more complex in basic style.
Spey's regardless of the materials selected have some charecteristics, besides flowing hackle, that well................classify them into the spey family. Two distinct charecteristics in tying style are palmered hackle usually over a rib through the front half or third of the fly and a feather wing, small head. It's also common to see tags & butts, etc. on full dresser's. Again to me it's not so much the material selection as in the tie style. If speys were classified simply as long flowing hackle, what would happen to soft hackles & spiders ? Spey's, Soft Hackles & Spiders are some of the oldest most traditional styles around. For centurys they have all had a distinct style that has little to do with the exact material used and more to do with the way it's tied. Personally, as a very avid tyer , I would hate to see it lumped together.
I really don't care either way from a fishing frame of mind. Just.........so much is being called spey these days. I use schlappen hackle and guinea collars on my larger size 2 buggers. Some would call these "spey buggers" to me ............there just buggers. The tying style is bugger...............all the way, regardless of the hackle or adding a guinea soft hackle collar.
Again.................your flies look nice.
Off to the tying bench on this snowy cold day................
|These days, if the fly has something that looks like a spey hackle and is tied on something that looks like a spey hook, then it's a spey fly as far as most of us are concerned. Like you, I don't want to invest half-an-hour in a fly only to lose it to the bottom on the first cast.
h2o mentioned earlier in this thread that he is surprised by the number of flies being called "speys". It has also been mentioned in a few other threads.
I will grant that it does sometimes get used lightly, and I will quickly acknowledge that almost none of the flies I have posted are spey flies in the most traditional sense. I have posted more easily tied patterns that do not make me want to cry when I leave them on the bottom of the river.
However, this is a common problem in fly fishing. We sometimes overdefine what tradition is. That happens all too often on this forum with rod action. People will talk about "traditional spey action ros", and this one os too fast or this one is too slow. Somebody on this forum (I think it was Dana but I'm not sure) has responded that the only way to find a "traditional" rod is to go to auction and find an old greenheart qand slap a DT silk line on it.
The same principle holds true for fly design. If you read Sheweys book on spey flies the traditional spey "were adorned with wools, tinsel, heron and cock hackles, widgeon and teal flank, and of course the charecteristic strip wings of bronze mallard".
In the same sense that no modern graphite rod can be a traditional spey rod, many of the greatest tiers out there would not be tying true spey flies. Hackle tip wings perfected by Syd Glasso and full feather wings tied by Shewey would not meet the criteria if we held it strictly. Marc Leblanc's Green Spey is tied with a hair wing and his Picasse has a swannudaze body and hair wing. Yet Leblanc ties some of the nicest flies in a spey tradition.
Alec Jackson created what he dubbed the pseudo-spey. Perhaps this is a better term for flies that venture further and further away from the traditional patterns (this does not include Glasso patterns as these are certainly some of the finest speys designed). I use the term loosely for wet flies that usually have long flowing hackle that extend beyond the hook followed by a collar of a different material.
As with many of the topics discussed here a lot of it comes down to semantics.
Homemade sinktips : I purchase Scientific Anglers Wet Cel type 6 shooting tapers, these are mono core (nice). The heads are 30' long there will be a slight taper on each end. Disgard this or save for making reverse taper sink tips (Iuse to do this but don't bother anymore). Take a level section, cut to length, 5' & 7' are best for small tribs, attach a braided mono loop to one end by simply using 2 nail knots of 15 # test. On the other end build a 4 1/2' leader. Start with approx. 18" ,16 # test nail knot to the tip, coat knot with loon knot sence (a must), then step leader down in 18" sections to the tippet class you want. I usually go 12 # then 10 or 8 #. The reason for the "knotted taper"...............if you severly hang up it will break at the knot and not pull off the tip. I have never had a Steelhead strip the leader off the tip.
Notes : You can use a rio sinking leader, however, they sink butt first and are costly compared to making your own.
P.S. Like Peter I to cut the tip back in my case about 3' of a WF-F line for the above. I like a S.A. GPX or simular type line for this.
We're about -8C right now -- warmer than your area -- but the wind is up so I'm staying in. Yesterday was perfect with about +4C and low winds but of course, I decided not to go fishing and wait for today . . . . duh!
I have two Loop Blues that I find perfect for the job, a 7116 and an 8124. They both have light, quick tips that load very easily for these short casting situations. The 7116 is really light so it's almost a single-hander in feel when fishing it. But it doesn't quite have the guts of the 8124 so I wouldn't use it in a snag infested spot as you won't be able to horse a fish out of it. The 7116 with a WC 7/8/9 with just the belly, or plus tip 2 only, is a perfect dead drifter. I sold my 10' - 7 wt. Scott Arc and replaced it with the 7116 for use both for short range high-sticking and long line nymphing (I also use it as my bass spey/overhead rod).
I find the 8124 is actually a bit better in tight despite (or because of) the extra length as the tip has a bit more power so you can lever a decent cast out of very little D-Loop plus it does the continuous/water loading business very well. I can get up to 90' out of the 8124 but I top out around 70' with the 7116 on the spey, so that influences where I use them. The 7116 will do about 100' overhead with a WC 7/8/9 plus tip 1 only, so if you have the room . . .
Both of them are very versatile little rods -- about the only thing they don't like are lines much longer that 55' (my 8124 is a dog with a DL) but shooting heads go like stink. Blunt tapered shooting heads like the Loop Adapted, Airflos, or the Rio SSHs are perfect for the short game. The Airflo heads are not spey rated but if you want to use them, the 35' - 10 wt. works on the 7116 and the 35' - 12 wt. works on the 8124, both overhead and spey casting. Like the others I mentioned, they have a bassbug-like front taper so they'll turn over pretty well anything.
I've been using a soft 10'7wt and a DT line with the mono. I'd like to try the double handed rod for these smaller tribs because I do have trouble sometimes getting enough distance with a roll cast when there are alot of overhanging limbs. What length and size rod for these smaller tribs? I see T&T makes 10' and 11' in 6 and 7 wts.
I know you've mentioned fishing today, but in Mich today the temps are single digit so I'll wait until abit warmer.
When the chutes are short and deep, I give up on sinktips altogether and instead, attach a fairly long mono leader right to the belly of the line plus a few BB splitshot above the tippet knot. I'm still swinging, not dead-drifting (well, 'steering' is a better description) but I have no trouble getting down as the mono can penetrate the current better than a fatter tip, plus the BBs get down fast. Normally, I'm using an unweighted fly for better action.
My 'swing' really consists of a quartering upsteam casts, stack mend, rod tip back, then drop and steer the fly down the chute with the rod tip, followed by swinging out at the end. This presentation looks like a struggling minnow, insect, whatever, failing to hold its position in the current.
It's a tight-in approach with casts no more than 30' or so -- the reason why I attach the mono directly to the WC belly, reversed WC belly, or SSH head. The thick belly turns the rig over very well and doesn't sink very much so it lets you steer the fly around boulders etc. with less risk of hanging up as the leader drops off the belly. Plus the heavy belly loads the rod tip very quickly. I've used this rig on my faster Daiwas with no difficulty but the softer tipped Blues work a bit better.
I double-spey this as it minimizes tangles, problems plus it lays out the leader & fly very nicely as long as I maintain a wider loop. Since the BBs tend to really anchor the 'anchor', you can cast in really tight situations with minimum backcast room, using the water load of the anchor to add to the D-Loop loading.
|I, too, have found it hard to use a sink tip in smaller GL tribs. The chute or gut is fairly deep but short and the sink lines don't get down fast enough to dredge, given the overhanging limbs and such. Weighted leaders with dead-drifted buggers seem to work for me in those situations. But, as I work my way down the stream, deeper longer pools do allow a more traditional swing. How did you make your homemade tip? How much leader do you attach to the tip?
I tie a series of "S.T.S." (Steelhead,Trout & Salmon) Buggers all with guinea collars and I use schlappen for hackle on larger sizes. It covers most all conditions. Brown with dyed orange guinea collar, White / Natural / red thread head, Black / Blue, Purple / red, red thread head.
In winter the white & natural or purple & red usually work best. I was out yesterday on a small local trib in the snow & cold and white/natural is what they wanted.
I also tie/carry a series of soft hackle wets for Steelhead.
If "frog water swinging streamers" in winter ice water conditions. There are 3 materials I like to see at least one of on a fly. A) marabou B) Zonker strip C) Schlappen.
For streamer fishing smaller tribs, working the ledges and chutes etc. I go two ways. Clouser minnows for the ledges mostly in emerald shinner patterns. Sculpin patterns or brown/orange s.t.s. bugger bottom bounced in chutes / pockets. I mostly use my sink tips on larger water only. For smaller tribs (like yesterday) I drop down to a 9 1/2' 6 wt. and tie up a heavy butt mono leader, add weight if needed. For couple of larger swing holes a small trib may offer I then loop on a 5' - 7' homemade sink tip made out of a type six, mono core shooting head.
I like Guinea for it's contrast and profile but, it does not have near the movement of other "soft hackles" such as schlappen.
I am surpriseed by how many reg. wet fly's, soft hackles. zonkers, etc. are being called and classified as "spey's" these days.
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It had green rubber bands on it that basically disintegrated so there are some green marks here and there that can be picked off. Condition looks pretty good and makes a nice sound.
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1.6: Observations and Experiments
How do you test a hypothesis?
When you test a hypothesis, you must make observations or perform experiments. We could test the two hypotheses in the concept "Correlation and Causation" using the scientific literature because scientists who came before us collected that data using scientific method. If the question was new we would need to do the testing ourselves. How might you do the testing yourself?
Testing Hypotheses
If we were doing a scientific investigation we need to gather the information to test the hypotheses ourselves. We would do this by making observations or running experiments.
Observations of Earth's surface may be made from the land surface or from space. Many important observations are made by orbiting satellites, which have a bird's eye view of how the planet is changing.
This satellite image shows how the extent of glaciers in Glacier National Park has changed in recent years.
Often, observation is used to collect data when it is not possible for practical or ethical reasons to perform experiments. Scientists may send devices to make observations for them when it is too dangerous or impractical for them to make the observations directly. They may use microscopes to explore tiny objects or telescopes to learn about the universe.
Artist's concept of the Juno orbiter circling Jupiter. The mission is ongoing.
Answering some questions requires experiments. An experiment is a test that may be performed in the field or in a laboratory. An experiment must always done under controlled conditions. The goal of an experiment is to verify or falsify a hypothesis.
In an experiment, it is important to change only one factor. All other factors must be kept the same.
- Independent variable: The factor that will be manipulated.
- Dependent variable: The factors that depend on the independent variable.
An experiment must have a control group. The control group is not subjected to the independent variable. For example, if you want to test if Vitamin C prevents colds, you must divide your sample group up so that some receive Vitamin C and some do not. Those who do not receive the Vitamin C are the control group.
Experimental Error
Scientists often make many measurements during experiments. As in just about every human endeavor, errors are unavoidable. In a scientific experiment, this is called experimental error. Systematic errors are part of the experimental setup, so that the numbers are always skewed in one direction. For example, a scale may always measure one-half of an ounce high. Random errors occur because a measurement is not made precisely. For example, a stopwatch may be stopped too soon or too late. To correct for this, many measurements are taken and then averaged. Experiments always have a margin of error associated with them.
In an experiment, if a result is inconsistent with the results from other samples and many tests have been done, it is likely that a mistake was made in that experiment. The inconsistent data point can be thrown out.
- Testing a hypothesis requires data. Data can be gathered by observations or by experiments.
- Observations can be done simply by looking at and measuring a phenomenon, or by using advanced technology.
- Experiments must be well-designed. They must be done under controlled conditions and with the manipulation of only one variable.
- Guidelines must be followed when dealing with possible experimental errors.
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Use these resources to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is an observation?
2. What is an inference?
3. For each slideshow picture, list an observation. Now, for each picture list an inference. How can you tell the difference?
Go to the following website: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/rockssoils.html
Conduct the experiments to find the following answers:
4. Which rock floats?
5. Which rocks are permeable?
6. Which rocks can be split?
7. Which rocks wear well?
8. How did you do experiments to find the answers to the questions?
1. Under what circumstances would a scientist test a hypothesis using observations?
2. Under what circumstances would a scientist test a hypothesis using experiments?
3. What is the difference between an independent and a dependent variable in an experiment?
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All the silliness in this thread.
Hartlune is a good receiver. He excels at the sideline routes, has better than average size and a little speed. He runs great routes, has good hands, and dependably produces yards and first downs. He blocks well, he does just about everything well. If he were 5'8, had his own reality TV show, or a personality disorder I'm guessing many on this board would love him.
He isn't Calvin Johnson, but at 6M per year there are many higher paid WR's that are less productive. The whole argument that if you take out the Arizona game he is average puzzles me. It was the highest yardage game by a WR in MIAMI DOLPHIN HISTORY. D'ya think a day like that might pad a WR's stats a bit?
I'm guessing that if you take a day like that away from any receiver his stats would go down dramatically, even great receivers like Andre Johnson, Roddy White, or Mike Wallace. So of course it is going to have an impact on a good but not great WR like Hartline.
Get over the delusions of grandeur people. Wallace will be 13M to 14M per year, and Jennings probably 9.5 To 11.5M per year. Nothing about this deal suggests that anyone thinks Hartline is in that tier of legitimate #1 receivers.


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|The Enteprise follows an Earth-style planetary distress call and finds itself at a planet which is geographically identical to Earth, something amazing to everybody on board. There is no response to their hails so Kirk leads a landing party to the surface in the vicinity of the transmitter. They find themselves amongst architecture very similar to Earth in the 1960s, another remarkable parallel, but the entire area seems to be long deserted.
As they explore a man appears, attacking the group before collapsing and dying. He is horribly disfigured by some strange disease. The security officers with the landing party see another figure running into a building. They chase the figure down, finding a terrified teenage girl who calls herself Miri. She calls the landing party "Grups", a contraction of "grown ups", and states that Grups are dangerous and violent. Apparently almost the adults on the planet are dead and long gone, but Miri reveals that there are still some youngsters alive and in hiding. The grown ups died of the same affliction as the man they encountered earlier, becoming angry and violent, leaving the children terrified of any adult.
As they continue to investigate the planet the members of the landing party begin to develop the same purple sores on their own bodies - they are all infected with whatever killed the adults on the planet. The lone exception is Spock, whose Vulcan physiology apparently makes him immune. They search an old hospital for clues to the illness, and gradually the truth emerges - the population of the planet engaged in an experiment to prolong their lives almost indefinitely. However, something went wrong. In adults, the project created the illness which led to disfigurement, violence and death. They realise that all this happened some three centuries ago - the children survive because in them the life prolongation project works perfectly, slowing their ageing to a crawl. But despite this the children do still age, and as each one reaches puberty the effect turns into the deadly condition which killed all the other adults on the planet.
As the landing party works to devise a cure, the children discuss what to do about the "Grups" and the threat they represent. They steal their communicators, cutting them off from the support of the medical staff on the ship and so making the search for a cure far more difficult. Miri at first remains with them, developing a crush on Kirk. But when she sees Kirk comforting a distraught Janice Rand, Miri becomes jealous and sneaks away to talk with her friends. She convinces them to kidnap Rand in order to get rid of the woman she sees as competition.
Miri goes back to the landing party and is confronted by Kirk. He pressures her to help them further, revealing the truth that the children are all doomed to die as they turn into the Grups that they so fear. To emphasise the point he shows Miri that she is already starting to develop the purple scabs herself.
Miri takes Kirk to see the other children. He tries to explain the situation to them, though they at first refuse to listen and even attack him. Eventually Kirk manages to convince them that their way of life cannot last much longer, pointing out that the attack on him proves that the older children are already starting to become violent as they hit puberty. They finally agree and surrender to Kirk.
Back at the hospital McCoy manages to create a cure for the disease. Without the computer assistance from the Enterprise he has little choice but to test it on himself. Fortunately it works, and the children and landing party are all restored to normal. Back on the ship Kirk requests that Starfleet send some support to help the children so that they can finally grow up and begin the long process of reclaiming their planet.
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Baris admits that he ordered the emergency code because the station is currently holding a large stock of Quadrotriticale, a genetically engineered grain to be used on Sherman's Planet. He is worried that the Klingons will attempt to sabotage the grain, as this would seriously hamper the Federation's attempts to develop the planet - and under the terms of the Organian peace treaty, the planet will belong to whomever can best use it. Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the use of the emergency code for what he sees as such a trivial reason, but is forced to concede that Baris has the authority to issue it and to order Kirk to provide security. He reluctantly assigns two guards to the storage compartments and returns to the ship.
As the Enterprise orbits the station a Klingon cruiser arrives, prompting Kirk to go to battle stations. However the ship's commander beams over to the station and merely requests shore leave for his crew there; under the treaty Mr, Lurry must agree, but Kirk is deeply suspicious of the Klingon Captain, Koloth, and places limits on the number of crew who can come aboard at any given time. He also informs Koloth that he will assign a security guard to follow each and every Klingon on the station. Baris is extremely unhappy with this development, and wastes no time in venting his anger on an increasingly frustrated Kirk.
On K-7 Uhura and Chekov are enjoying some time in the station bar where an independent trader named Cyrano Jones is trying to sell his wares. These include a Tribble - a small creature which looks like a spherical ball of fur with no visible limbs or features. Tribbles emit a soft purring sound when stroked, and Uhura finds it adorable. Jones gives her one as a free sample and agrees a deal with the bar owner to supply some more.
Uhura's tribble quickly reproduces, giving birth to a whole litter of small Tribbles which she distributes them to the crew as gifts. The Tribbles in the bar also reproduce, making it impossible for Jones to sell more. He tries to sell them to the Klingons, but the Tribbles react to proximity to a Klingon with a distressed shrieking sound - and the Klingons seem to like Tribbles no better than the Tribbles like them.
The Klingons begin needling Enterprise personnel in the bar about what a terrible person Kirk is. Scotty, as the senior officer present, restrains Chekov from starting a fight - but when the Klingons begin to mock the Enterprise Scotty himself throws the first punch and a large bar brawl breaks out. Kirk logs the incident as a 'small disturbance' and confines Scotty to his quarters, which delights the Engineer as he will have time to read up on his technical journals.
Meanwhile the Tribbles are reproducing at a fantastic rate, every one of them giving birth to large litters of offspring every twelve hours. Soon thousands of them are overrunning the ship, and much to Kirk's annoyance there seems to be no way to stop them. When he tries to order a meal he finds that the Tribbles have gotten into all the ship's machinery, including the food system, and are consuming their supplies rapidly. Spock notes that the Quadrotriticale is being stored under similar conditions on K-7, which is also being overrun by the furry menace.
Kirk beams to K-7 and hurries to the storage compartments to check on the grain - only to find that the compartments are stuffed with almost two million Tribbles who have eaten all the grain in the process of reproducing. However, a scan reveals that many of the Tribbles are dead, and the rest are rapidly dying - victims of the grain, which had been poisoned.
A furious Baris blames Kirk for the fiasco, threatening to have his career in ruins. Koloth also demands an apology for the brawl, which he blames purely on Kirk's men. Koloth also demands the removal of the Tribbles which are crowding the room, as he suffers from the same dislike of them as other Klingons. As Kirk moves to take them away he passes Baris's aide, Arne Darvin - and the Tribbles shriek as soon as they get close to him. A quick examination by McCoy shows that Darvin is a Klingon, a spy working to sabotage the Sherman's Planet project - it was he who poisoned the grain with a virus which prevented the food being absorbed into the body.
With his own aide shown to be the cause of all the trouble Baris's threats against Kirk are rendered moot, and with the Klingons shown to be behind the sabotage Kirk is able to brush off Koloth's complaints and order him out of Federation space. A new shipment of grain is ordered for Sherman's Planet, which now should fall quite easily under Federation control. Kirk orders Cyrano Jones to clear up all the Tribbles on the station, a task Spock estimates will take him 17.9 years - his alternative being to be charged with disrupting a space station, a crime which carries a 20 year sentence.
A victorious Kirk returns to the Enterprise to find it wholly Tribble free. After some prevaricating, his officers admit to the method they used - they beamed the entire population of Tribbles into the engine room of the Klingon ship just before it went to warp. Where, as Scotty puts it, 'they'll be no Tribble at all'. Imagining the chaos that must be going on aboard the Klingon ship, the officers share a laugh as the episode ends.
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Grant Recipients
Grant Recipients of White Sox Charities and The White Sox Community Fund, a McCormick Foundation Fund
List as of 4/1/2015
Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities
Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities (CBCC) supports cancer research, education and patient care programs at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Children's Memorial Hospital, with more than $12.4 million being donated since the organization's founding in 1970.
Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University School of Medicine
Grant supports the annual Survivor's Walk and Celebration, which provides a unique opportunity to celebrate survivorship among cancer survivors, their families and friends and all those who have been touched by cancer.
Advocate Charitable Foundation Pediatric Oncology Survivorship in Transition Program (POST)
Oak Lawn, Ill.
Chicago White Sox Charities supports the POST (Pediatric Oncology Survivorship in Transition) program for survivors of childhood cancers to identify the late-effects of pediatric cancer and its treatment, and to enable survivors to lead healthy lives.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
Grant supports the site based program at Valentine Boys and Girls Club, which provides Chicagoland at-risk youth with quality, high impact one-on-one mentoring relationships.
Gilda's Club
Grant supports the club's Underserved Outreach Program in its commitment to reach medically underserved communities free of charge. This has included outreach activities in Chicago hospitals and medical centers, their Transportation Assistance Program, free supervised child play and bilingual materials.
Holy Cross-Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish
Grant supports the expansion of youth programs, which increase awareness, understanding and practice of good nutrition habits, fitness and positive thinking and leadership among youth in the Back of the Yards community.
Grant supports the Personal Effectiveness Program, which addresses the behavioral needs of residents through the use of visual support and schedules as well as a lower census to increase opportunities of learning. PEP participants gain valuable coping skills and learn positive replacement behaviors to improve their quality of life.
The Jackie Robinson Foundation
New York
Grant to underwrite a scholarship awarded to a Chicago-area college student. JRF's hands-on, four-year scholarship program includes peer and professional mentoring, internship placement, extensive leadership training, international travel and community service options, the conveyance of practical life skills and a myriad of networking opportunities.
Shore Community Services
Grant supports the Early Intervention program, which serves at-risk infants with drug or alcohol exposure to children with mild to serve delays through therapy and other services.
Special Children's Charities
Grant is used to purchase uniforms for more than 3,400 Special Olympic athletes and coaches for the 2014 Chicago Special Olympics Spring Games.
Working In The Schools (WITS)
Grant is used to promote literacy and the love of reading among Chicago's youth by providing one-on-one tutoring and mentoring in Chicago Public Schools.
After School Matters, Inc.
Grant supports the school-year and summer apprenticeships in science, technology, literacy, health, and arts to over 13,000 teens from Chicago public high schools.
Beacon Therapeutic
Grant supports the Family Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Project. The project's focus is to mitigate the impact of homelessness on child development by improving the housing, health and well-being of homeless and at-risk young mothers and children.
Grant supports the BUILDing Futures program, which provides academic tutoring, study skills seminars, individual counseling, parental engagement, and college preparation workshops.
Center for Companies that Care
Grant supports the AIM High program, which provides academic support, college preparation, tutoring, internships and mentoring to students, ninth grade through college graduation.
Center on Halsted
Grant supports the Youth Mental Health program, which provides individual therapy, art therapy and group counseling to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth to help provide them with the tools needed to surmount the effects of the homelessness, poverty, homophobia and domestic violence they may face.
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
Grant supports the Mental Health program, which provides crisis intervention and therapeutic services to children and family members traumatized by sexual abuse.
Chicago Parks Foundation
Grant supports the Inner City Youth Baseball program, which provides structured sports programing to youth in the Chicago housing authority's developments and low income neighborhoods.
Children's Home + Aid Society of Illinois
Grant supports the Excellence Academies program, which provides educational, mental health, and independent living support to foster care youth with special needs.
City Year Chicago
Grant supports the City Year program at Tilden Career Community Academy, which places City Year Corps members in classrooms to provide in-school academic support and mentoring, in addition to after school programming for students most at risk of dropping out of school.
Erie Family Health Center
Grant supports the Westside H3: Healthy Minds, Healthy Children, Healthy Chicago program, an integrated model of care for providing behavioral health screening and treatment in the primary care setting to children, ages 0-17, primarily living in Humboldt Park and West Town.
Gad's Hill Center
Grant supports the Teen Connection program, an academically rigorous program that provides tutoring, mentors, college tours, retreats, financial aid assistance and college counseling for students that have the potential to achieve higher education but lack the support and resources needed to do so.
Girls in the Game
Grant supports the After-School and Sports and Leadership Summer Camp programs, which provide girls with sports and fitness activities, nutrition and health education and leadership development.
Greater Chicago Food Depository
Grant supports Children's program, which provides nutritionally balanced meals for children participating in after-school programs for 250,000 youth.
Juvenile Protective Association
Grant supports the Treatment and Counseling program, which offers mental health services for families at risk for child abuse and/or neglect.
La Rabida Children's Hospital
Grant supports the Premier Kids program, which provides medical care, case coordination, development assessments, education planning, nutrition counseling and community referrals for more than 300 developmentally-delayed children with complex medical issues.
Ladder Up
Grant supports the Higher Education Access Initiative, which guides Chicago public school seniors and parents through the college financial aid process.
Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
Grant supports the Academy program, which is an after school initiative that tutors youth in math and reading, prepares them for post-graduation and offers life skills classes including financial literacy.
Metropolitan Family Services
Grant supports the organization's Healthy Families program, which provides home visits, parenting training and child abuse prevention education for low income parents ages 15-32.
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
Grant supports the Children's Therapy program, which provides culturally sensitive group counseling to children, ages 5-12, who have witnessed family violence and/or experienced physical abuse.
Near West Side Community Development Corp
Grant supports the Youth Zone Chicago program, which provides physical activities for 700 low income youth promoting positive body image, nutrition, and healthy living.
Noble Networks Charter Schools
Grant supports the College Access and Persistence program, which provides mentorship, guidance on financial aid and scholarships, and social and emotional support to all alumni enrolled in post-secondary education to ensure college matriculation.
One Hope United Northern Region
Grant supports the Wings Home Visiting program, which works with pregnant and parenting teen moms who are at risk for child abuse/neglect due to stressors such as poverty and alcohol/substance abuse.
Posse Foundation
Grant supports the Posse Chicago program, which provides low-income youth with intensive college preparation workshops, full-tuition college scholarships, on-campus mentors, and career development activities.
Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Center
Grant supports the Childhood Awareness of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity programs, providing an 8-week health education program to Latino and African-American students, grades 5-9, at Chicago public schools on the near west side.
Sarah's Inn
Oak Park, Ill.
Grant supports the Children's Counseling program, providing art therapy and therapeutic counseling services to children and teens whose lives have been impacted by domestic violence.
Spectrios Institute
Wheaton, Ill.
Grant supports the Seeing is Believing program, which provides low-vision services and prescriptive optical devices to visually impaired children in Chicago Public Schools.
Teen Living Programs
Grant supports the Whole Health program, which provides primary and mental health care, health education and culinary-nutrition services to homeless youth ages 13-24.
Grant supports the Mothers Project program, which provides individual and group therapy, parent education and day care services to women with severe mental illness, ages 17-21, with young children or who are pregnant.
Umoja Student Development Corporation
Grant supports the College and Career Readiness program, which provides college preparation, application, financial aid workshops, ACT preparation classes and college trips to low income students.
University of Chicago
Grant supports the Network for College Success program, which provides intensive supports for CPS counselors by delivering coaching, training on best practices and interaction with peer networks toward developing a cohesive culture of graduation and college enrollment among chronically low performing high schools.
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amantadine HCl
What should I know regarding pregnancy, nursing and administering amantadine HCl to children or the elderly?
If you are:
Only When Necessary
Precaution: NOT RECOMMENDED BY MFR; MAY DECREASE PROLACTIN LEVELS.
An adult over 60:
Precaution: (SOM)ADJ. DOSE IN RENAL IMPAIR.;HYPOTENSION,POSS.ANTICHOLINERGIC EFX
Giving amantadine HCl to a child under 12:
Warning: SAFETY AND EFFICACY NOT ESTABLISHED AGE <1 YEAR.


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Theresa I. "Terry" Bartels-Harris
Theresa I. "Terry" Bartels-Harris, 44, of Sterling, Illinois, died on Friday, September 13, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital, Peoria, Illinois.
A Celebration of Life will be from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Saturday, October 12, 2013 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, where a time of sharing will begin at 7:00 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Theresa I. Bartels-Harris Memorial Fund.
Terry was born on June 19, 1969 in Platteville, Wisconsin, the daughter of Patricia Henry-Harris. She attended Platteville High School and attended Capri College in Dubuque. After graduating from Capri, Terry worked many years as a hairdresser. Recently she has been attending classes to pursue her degree in Psychology. She was very passionate about her animals and enjoyed etching glass, making candles and doing crafts.
She is survived by her two children, Terry James Bartels and Toni (Noah) Voelker all of Rice Lake, WI; sisters, Sheila Dunnam and Christine Harris of Platteville; Dave (Niana) Dunnam of Belmont, WI' and William "Liam" (Brenda) Harris of Lancaster, WI; fiancé, Ron Rodriguez of Sterling; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother and sister, Catherine Dunnam.


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Marjorie M. Sugden
Marjorie Sugden, age 92, died on Friday, February 22, 2013 at Our House in Richland Center. Marjorie was born January 25, 1921 on a farm just beyond Richland Center in the area known as Brush Creek, the daughter of Fred and Christine (Miller) Johnson. Marjorie graduated from Richland Center High School and from the Richland County Normal School. She began her teaching in one room schools, including Fish School, Soules Creek School, Hillside and Neptune Schools. She was united in marriage with Roy E. Sugden on June 1, 1944. While farming and raising their family together, Marjorie enjoyed tending a large vegetable garden, and preserving the harvest. She was a talented artist, which is evident in her carvings and paintings. She returned to teaching and was the first grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary and later at Lincoln Elementary, where she also served as Principal. Roy preceded her in death in 1979.
Survivors include her children: Roy G. Sugden of Holmen, WI, Connie Sugden of Stillwater, MN, Three grandchildren: Lisa (Dan) Altreuter of Holmen, WI, Tanya (Chad) La Fleur of Holmen, WI, Rob (Lynette) Sugden of Cedar Falls, IA, Six great grandchildren:
Michael and Matthew Altreuter, Janae and Jayda La Fleur, Caden and Ella Sugden, One sister: Alice Sudgen, Many nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.
Marjorie was further preceded in death by her daughter Maryl, and her brothers Blaine and Vivian Johnson.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM at the Pratt Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Gary Norman will officiate and burial will be in the Richland Center Cemetery. Friends may call at the PRATT MEMORIAL CHAPEL on Monday, March 4, 2013 from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM and on Tuesday morning from 9:00 AM until service time at 11:00 AM.
The Pratt Funeral and Cremation Service is assisting the family of Marjorie M. Sugden.


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Centuries have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace...and fear. A terrible secret was closely guarded for centuries: every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity.
Nine years have gone by since an unlikely hero named Rom Sebastian first discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life in Forbidden. Surviving against impossible odds, Rom has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood - the first Mortals in a world that is dead.
On the heels of Forbidden comes Mortal, the second novel in The Books of Mortals saga penned by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee. Set in a terrifying, medieval future, where grim pageantry masks death, this tale of dark desires and staggering stakes peels back the layers of the heart for all who dare take the journey.
The Books of Mortals are three novels, each of which stands on its own, yet all are seamlessly woven into one epic thriller.
©2012 Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee (P)2012 Hachette Audio
"Another Solid Hit for Dekker & Lee"
Obviously, this is a continuation in the BoM series. If you liked the first one, you'll like this one. Ted sticks with his tried-and-true blood/life-corpse/death formula (goes back to his original trilogy) and it still works for me. On the critical side, I felt the writing was just a bit sloppy in places (although they were little things I would have expected an editor to pick up on, rather than the author). And I find Henry Leyva a bit of a disappointment as a narrator. He's both overly-precise and a bit mushy, if that's possible. And there were a number of noticeable mispronunciations (for example, the word "inauguration" is used extensively in both books and he just never gets it right). I prefer my narrators to either be a big plus (George Guidall, Will Patton or in the case of someone who has done several of Ted's other books...Tim Gregory), but I find Leyva to be a bit of a distraction. Still, enjoyed it tremendously, and will certainly be listening to the third in the series when it's available.
"Thought provoking book"
An abstract book that is a great though-provoking book. Easy book to get lost in. The previous book in the series is not necessary, but I would recommend "reading" that before "reading" this one.
"Really belongs in the fantasy section"
Mortal picks up 9 years after Forbidden ended. Jonathan has now reached the age to claim his title as Sovereign. With only a few more days to wait, all the best laid plans crumble. Saric has been busy and manages to find the cyroperserved Feyn. Saric then uses his blood to transfuse Feyn, restore her to the living, and her assuming the role of Sovereign. Jonathan meanwhile has spent his last 9 years serving as a blood donor to hundreds of nomads. At the same time, Saric has been doing the same and creating his own special army with global dominance hanging in the balance.
Any science fiction elements have gone by the wayside with this sequel. There is the constant juxtaposition of technology capable of cyroperservation with a Medieval aspect to living conditions. 500 hundred years in the future means never having to type and match blood either. A transfusion from Jonathan provides for superhuman strength, speed, senses and immortality as well. Also, all walking corpses have a distinct odor. Saric's blood is qualitatively similar, but not as good, but it does offer the added benefit that recipients become dog-like loyal and regard Saric as their "maker." Rom continues his quest of trying to put Jonathan on the throne, but never develops a clear sense of what that means or what happens after. None of the characters possess endearing qualities and are mostly one-dimensional.
As the tale evolves, it becomes clear that the biblical metaphor is calling the shots. Jonathan plays a Messiah figure (with drink my blood replaced by inject my blood). At the end, there is little resolution, much confusion, and greater dissension within the ranks. At the same time, the blood thing evolves into something even stranger. It will be interesting to see how this trilogy will resolve what appears to be complete collapse of the thrust of the first 2 books.
The narration is well executed with good pacing and an enjoyable delivery.
"Slow and loopy"
I like Dekker books, but this one was off. some of it was the performance, but some of it was the writing.
At points the story felt forced, and at others like a different person was writing it.
"good story, bad writing/dialog"
i'm sure i couldn't do any better, but it sure seemed like the writing and dialog was written for young kids at times. the characters don't seem to have a lot of depth and somethings just flat out didn't make sense to me. i won't be listening to book 3.
"Powerful !"
The story and analogy and spiritual implication. I pray I never forget this revelation of our maker.
Ram. - because I related to him.
yes, absolutely fantastic.
When ram drank jonathans blood after he died.
"Best Read in a Year!"
Among the top 10
That it had a rang of truth about it and how cold the world has become.
Avra because she represented a strength and devotion young women lack today.
Avra's death was moving
The first book (Forbidden) as well as this one are well written and draws one into the tale. I felt I was a part of the story not just reading it.
I love a good murder mystery or any novel where good overcomes evil. Two of my favorite authors are Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker.
"Surprisingly good sequel to Forbidden."
Although this sequel takes place nine years after Forbidden, Dekker & Lee write a smooth transition with well-placed reminders. They introduce several new characters that interact with the old ones and further develop the ideas in the the first book. The story is somewhat of an allegory of the gospel but doesn't parallel it. It reminds me of the Circle Trilogy. If you enjoyed those books, you'll probably enjoy these as well.
"good book to listen too - good story line"
It was interesting to listen too. Did not end the way I expected. But I guess that's the way it should be. It wasn't one of those books you couldn't put down - it didn't give me that "oh my goodness" what's going to happen next - feeling at the turn of every chapter.
Nevertheless, it was a good listen. I would recommend it. I'm actually checking to see if the next book in the series is available yet.
Didn't really like that its a series, was hoping to see how it all truly ends.
Yep - sounded good to me. He even hits a different pitch when doing a woman's voice so I didn't get lost.
"Not as engaging as Forbiden but it makes up for it"
Mortal had a lot of storyline setup in it which made the first half of the book seem a little drawn out, however it was well worth the patience as we got to the latter half of the book and things come to a boil. I am definitely impatient for the 3rd book in the series now!
This book is similar in storytelling, character development, and progression to Red from Ted Dekker's Circle series.
The voice acting in this book does a good job of differentiating the characters, their personalities, and attitude throughout the story. Henry keeps things going at a smooth natural pace.
I'll try to address this without actualy ruining the story. In the final conflict in this book, Jonathan shows a side of himself that is contradictory to what most readers will expect him to. Considering that he's an anology of the messiah, this shows a side that we often choose to ignore or forget. Seeing how Jonathan responds to those in the conflict realy opens your eyes to the power and authority he actualy has.
Not as good as the first, but definitly worth the listen. I'm excited about where this series is going!
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Why would it be reprehensible when the enemy does it? In fact we train to be interrogated b/c we know that if captured that's likely to happen.
If someone dies as a result or in the process, oh well, Wars Hell! and I'd salute that person b/c he/she obviously held out and died with honor not giving up. Assuming of course the interrogators were not amateurs and there was no foul play. Either way dying as a POW is 2nd only to being rescued. Living is the ultimate pain.


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*What are Florida's new electronic discovery rules, why was each rule adopted, and how do the rules fit in the framework of existing law and civil procedure rules?
*How and why has electronically stored information changed the way information exchanges must be handled in discovery and litigation?
*How has electronically stored information changed the relationship between counsel and the courts and between opposing counsel? What old habits must practitioners change and modify? What are the new expectations that counsel must meet?
*What basic strategies and practices that can be adopted to keep litigators from running afoul of the new rules and expectations?
*How can I make sure I know enough now and in the future about e-discovery to meet my professional responsibilities and to be a zealous advocate for my client?
This course will explain and provide examples of the application of the new electronic discovery rules and the new terms and language of electronic discovery, including such principal concepts as proportionality, accessibility, cooperation, cost-shifting, staging, tiering, production format, active data, undue burden, meet and confer, and search and review.
Additionally, this course will also cover the Rules of Professional Conduct that require lawyers to effectively protect the client's confidential, privileged, and trade secret information.
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Family: Lycaenidae, Gossamer-wing Butterflies view all from this family
Description The Hessel's Hairstreak (Callophrys hesseli) is the only similar species in the Juniper Hairstreak's range. The Hessel's Hairstreak is similar to the gryneus and sweadneri races. It is often more of a blue-green color, the postmedian line is edged with brown on both sides, and it has a white spot near the fore wing costa.
The Juniper Hairstreak has many subspecies or races, some of which may even be separate species. The upper side of the "Olive" Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus gryneus) is tawny orange or a bronzy color in males, and blackish brown in females. The underside of the wings is bright green with a variable amount of brown scaling. There are two white postbasal spots and a white zigzag postmedian line edged inward with brown on the hind wing.
Dimensions 7/8-1" (22-25 mm).
Habitat Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Meadows & fields.
Range Florida, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Southeast.


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Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
July 15, 2002
Dear Reader,
It was right there in front of me and I still couldn't believe it. Watching TV last weekend I saw an advertisement for a new product from Dannon: bottled water for kids called "Fluoride to Go."
The pitch? "Why give your child soda full of sugar? Instead offer them Dannon Fluoride to Go - a convenient, satisfying way to help your child build strong teeth." So now Dannon offers you a choice: you can give the kids sodas with all the added sugar, or you can give them water with all the added toxins.
Well, in case you didn't know it, fluoride is highly toxic. In fact, before fluoride was deemed a "cavity fighter," it was used as insecticide and rat poison. It's true. Even more surprising is that when it comes to dental hygiene, fluoride actually does more harm than good.
Everything you always DIDN'T want to know about fluoride
For decades the message that fluoride safely prevents tooth decay has been considered sacrosanct. This idea came from the same "chemicals for better living" era that also told us that smoking cigarettes soothed the throat.
Now for a brief history lesson: please switch off the lights and turn on the projector...
Fluoride is a pollutant - a by-product of copper, iron and aluminum manufacturing. The problem of how to legally dispose of fluoride was solved in the 1930's when a study (funded by one of the country's largest aluminum companies) concluded that fluoride prevented tooth decay. A successful public relations effort, helped along with some cooperative government cronies, resulted in the good news going out: this miracle chemical, when added to water supplies, will give everyone healthy teeth and brighter smiles.
Got fluoride?
But does fluoride actually prevent tooth decay? Not according to the largest study ever conducted on fluoridation and oral health. 39,000 school children in 84 areas around the U.S. were studied in the mid-80's, and the results showed no statistical difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated cities.
Meanwhile, tooth decay trends tracked by the World Health Organization from 1970 to the present show that the incidence of decayed, missing or filled teeth has been steadily in decline with each passing year in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Iceland and Greece. And why are the numbers of decayed teeth on the decline? Better oral hygiene and improved dental practice is the most obvious answer. It's certainly not the fluoride. Because of all of those countries, only one adds fluoride to the public water supply: the United States.
A few of the countries listed above used to put fluoride in some of their water, but they eventually wised up to the dangers of this aluminum by-product. And here's some truly radical thinking for you: many of those countries simply refuse to run fluoride through every citizen's faucets based on the idea that health treatments should be a personal choice and not mandated by the government. What a concept!
Downside takes a down turn
So how is fluoride bad for you? To start with, the irony is that when you consume too much fluoride, your teeth can become discolored and crumble. But that's nothing compared to the other ways that fluoride attacks your mind and body.
In tests on laboratory animals, fluoride has been shown to enhance the brain's absorption of aluminum - the substance that's found in the brains of most Alzheimer's patients. Three different osteoporosis studies have associated hip fractures with fluoridation. And excessive fluoride has been shown to damage the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, leading to limited joint mobility, ligament calcification, muscular degeneration and neurological deficits.
And finally (I saved the worst till last), a number of different studies have linked fluoride to as many as 10,000 cancer deaths per year, with a high incidence of bone cancer among men exposed to fluoridated water.
In the meantime, local, state and federal government agencies across the U.S. do their best to simply dismiss all this bad news. Unlike their European counterparts, they're sticking to their outdated and baseless claims that the stuff is good for you. Why? If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they're terrified that if they admit that fluoride is poison, the deluge of resulting civil law suits just might wash them away.


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Melaleuca alternifolia is a species of tree that goes by many names. Two of the most common names used to describe melaleuca alternifolia are narrow-leaved tea tree and narrow-leaved paperbark. This native Australian shrub grows best in swampy or damp conditions. Melaleuca alternifolia is most often used to make essential oil. Sometimes called melaleuca oil, it is better known by the name tea tree oil. Melaleuca oil is used topically in its pure form and also appears as an ingredient in a number of skincare, hair care, and beauty products. In its pure form, melaleuca oil is pale yellow in color.
Melaleuca oil has anti-fungal and antibiotic properties, making it a popular ingredient in various products. This simple but powerful ingredient can be used to treat various skin issues and can work to improve the overall health of skin. Though tea tree oil can be found in a wide range of formulas, it is particularly common in natural and herbal products. Some brands base their entire collection on products containing melaleuca oil as it can be beneficial in many different ways and can be applied to different types of skincare needs.
As an antiseptic, tea tree oil can help to fend off infection and kill germs. It can be applied to minor cuts and burns to keep them clean as they heal. Natural athlete's foot and insect bite treatments often include tea tree oil to reduce the likelihood of infection and to kill germs. Its antiseptic properties make melaleuca oil a common ingredient in treatments for various other skin irritations such as bacterial infections, gum infections, acne, eczema, and more.
Many natural deodorants include tea tree oil as an ingredient. The melaleuca oil offers a fresh scent but also can help to prevent odor from developing. Sweat and other toxins released through the pores can cause odor when mixed with bacteria on the skin. Tea tree oil's antibacterial and antimicrobial properties work to kill odor-causing bacteria, making it a popular choice for natural deodorant products.
Similarly, tea tree oil is an excellent ingredient in soaps and cleansers. When used as a natural hand wash, melaleuca oil soap helps to kill germs that may be on the skin. Likewise, facial cleansers that list tea tree oil as an ingredient help to keep skin clear and healthy by fighting off harmful bacteria and toxins that can cause breakouts, inflammation, and other skin irritations. Tea tree oil is also slightly astringent, which can help to cleanse and tighten pores. With regular use, tea tree oil cleansers are thought to improve one's complexion, reduce redness, and prevent future breakouts.
Many lotions include tea tree oil as an ingredient to refresh and invigorate skin. The scent is one that many people find pleasant and crisp. When used in lotions, melaleuca oil is often combined with moisturizing ingredients to provide a rejuvenating effect. The tea tree oil helps to reduce inflammation and other issues related to bacteria while other ingredients work to hydrate the skin.
Shampoos often include tea tree oil to cleanse the hair. Beyond its antibacterial and antimicrobial benefits, it provides a natural solution to dandruff. Studies have shown that tea tree oil shampoo formulas help to reduce dandruff symptoms with regular use. For this reason, tea tree oil is included in many natural hair care products. Due to its success in fighting dandruff, melaleuca oil has also been used in product lines that do not use strictly natural ingredients.
Aside from its topical applications, tea tree oil can be found in many cleaning products. There is a growing movement surrounding natural and safe alternatives to traditional household cleansers. Tea tree oil provides cleansing properties without the potentially harmful ingredients found in other cleaning products. Further, melaleuca naturally helps to prevent and kill mold. Many users also enjoy the smell of tea tree oil.
In its pure extract form, tea tree oil can be diluted with water or used at full strength. The oil can be applied directly to skin to skin to treat various skin conditions or infections. Tea tree oil can be toxic when ingested in large quantities and is not recommended for internal use. However, adding tea tree oil to a vaporizer when sick can help to soothe irritated nasal passages.


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recently I have been trying to port over the OpenGL interface due to some problems with Intel Graphic chips which have a bad OpenGL driver in Windows. I need help to port a Quad in OpenGL to DirectX. Heres what i have done in OpenGL:
GL.Begin(BeginMode.Quads); GL.TexCoord2(x1, y1); GL.Vertex3(rx1, ry1, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset); GL.TexCoord2(x1, y2); GL.Vertex3(rx1, ry2, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset); GL.TexCoord2(x2, y2); GL.Vertex3(rx2, ry2, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset); GL.TexCoord2(x2, y1); GL.Vertex3(rx2, ry1, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset); GL.End();
And here is what I am doing for DirectX
rx1 = ((rx1 * 2) / ClientSize.Width) -1f; rx2 = ((rx2 * 2) / ClientSize.Width) - 1f; ry1 = ((ry1 * 2) / ClientSize.Height) - 1f; ry2 = ((ry2 * 2) / ClientSize.Height) - 1f; DataStream stream = _VertexBuffer.Lock(0, 0, LockFlags.None); stream.WriteRange(new[] { new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry1, 0), new Vector2(x1, y1)), new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry2, 0), new Vector2(x1, y2)), new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry2, 0), new Vector2(x2, y2)), new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry1, 0), new Vector2(x2, y1)), }); _VertexBuffer.Unlock(); m_Device.SetTexture(0, _D3DTextures[Texture.index]); m_Device.SetStreamSource(0, _VertexBuffer, 0, Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(TexturedVertex))); m_Device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleFan, 0, 2);
Unfortunetely the Textures are mirrored and the alpha Channel is displayed in black. I hope you can help me, I have been trying to get this working for 2 days now =/
Best regards xDarkice