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|Bonefish, Tarpon, and other Obsessions Turquoise water, silver demons on the fly
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just received a coupon from NW Airlines and these rates apply to the NE corridor
$188 if we leave on tues or wed and 208 other days with a saturday stayover.
Reservations must be made by 12/31/2004. I will give everyone the number to call when the dates are made or if anyone else finds a better fare let us know.
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Whoops! Sorry Juro. Spoken was meant to be 'responded'. Spent some time doing housing searches and came up ditto for our price range in the Acklins-Crookeds. Not much there and what is available is very pricey. Have you found anything there? Cherokee Sound on Abaco is another option.
Actually, I have not spoken at all, other than to keep the field of view wide enough to avoid tunnel vision. I agree the deadline for deciding on the location coming up quickly, but am not prone to jump to conclusions before all the legwork is done.
Based on others posts and out of consideration for bandwidth, I started a new thread as requested (each time a big thread is read it loads the whole thing including the images I put in there).
Things seem to be reaching a more thought-out approach as time passes, IMHO. Keep the ideas coming they are great!
This thread continues....in the Bonefishing Forums. Juro has spoken!!!
Hi gang,
Just to throw a wrench into your gears...the more popular the DIY destination of choice...the more likely it is that prime rentals will be already booked (or going fast) during the prime months of March, April and May. Perhaps you should start making availability inquiries for some of your possible destinations. The availability or non-availability of rentals may be a determining factor of where you'll go.
I leave for the Yucatan for a two week boneanza this Sunday...trip report when I get back. Gonna give my "Ultimate Shrimp" patterns a workout.
Jim -
You're IN! Glad to hear it too, a fellow Monomoy flats rat is always welcome on a bonefish trip in my book. The similarities are amazing, in fact I would have to say that each has helped the other dramatically for me over the years even though this will only be my 10th bonefish trip which can't compare to the days on Monomoy.
Long Island is not a sure thing yet, the flats in the Deadman's Cay area require a boat to access and the jury is out on the DIY friendliness. We should not rule out Eleuthera for a huge range of options from end to end, lodging options are excellent and DIY friendliness tops. If we can manage a workable Acklins tour that would be the ultimate for fishing the 1,000 square miles of bonefish flats whose shoreward edges are accessible without a boat, not to mention that both Acklins and Crooked are largely unexplored bonefish habitat like Columbus would have seen.
We have been mulling over some very good options, and we need to nail down the destination in December but let's leave the options open for a little longer until we can process the information overload.
Welcome to team bonefish!
I have learned from others that flats fish the Bahamas frequently say to look for the tides following both the new and full moon periods. For instance, the neap tides tend to be slower and offer more favorable water depths. They do not however sweep the large quanties of food off the flats that the bigger tides tend to do. So, in theory, the two to three days after the new and full moon tides tend to be less exagerated yet flow faster than a neap tide thus moving more shrimp and worms off the flats. For the wading angler this is critical for finding tailing fish late afternoon and morning when the sun is not high enough to sight fish or it's too cloudy. Bad tide timing can cause problems for the wading angler. Boats can cover the movement of the tides and provide an advantage. A dead low at dawn at the start of the fishing week has always been my goal a few days after the big tides.It's time to pack the gear for some broodstock salmon fishing tomorrow.
I would be careful about picking the spring tides in some locations. I found that on the big tides during my trip the fish would go so far back into the mangroves that you could only find them exiting on the drop. Just something to think about.
Is there Room?
Juro, I have been reading this thread and have wanted to get involved, but have had reservations because I still have one boy in college and spend so much time on the Cape. I finally asked the boss, and she said ok, as long as the foreseeable oblications are funded. Well, I think I can do that, and since I have never been to the Bahamas, I need to go.
Based on the text, it sounds like Long Island (south) is the location in March. Now, if there is an opening, it is a matter of setting the date, specific location, and logistics.
Have you considered tides for the date. I would think that new or full moon tides with approproiate times for daylight fishing would drive the decision on dates.
Go to keyword AUTEC to find thier site. Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center. Owned by Rathyeon. Located two miles south of opening to Fresh Creek, North Andros.
Happy Thanksgiving fellow forum members!
Dave..........I agree with you 110%!!! Once in a lifetime trip (potentially) and I am IN.
Phil..........you mention Navy. If there is a U.S. Military Installation near by our final destination......I can save us some scratch on boats. Military always has an Outdoor Recreation service. With me being Military.......I can get boats (if they have them) for pretty much dirt cheap. GUARANTEED cheaper than anywhere else for Non-Military. That'll take a little more coordination on my end, but if we decide thats where we are going, and military is near by.......I'll hook us up!
Also, if any of these places we are looking at staying has a Military Discount....I can get that too. A penny saved is a Penny earned.
To answer your three questions:
1. Any price (within reason) I'm not going to let a couple of hundred deter me from the clave of a lifetime. (Swipe now pay later).
2. Bones, Bones, Bones on the fly!!!
3. This has the priority with me for vaca. time. I can't do May but that shouldn't be a problem.
It doesn't matter the numbers, I am 100% in!!
I agree with bonefishmon we need to start a new thread......
Juro. I think it's time to start a new signup thread! This one got our attention and now it's time to start the ball rolling. Anyway, I'm in and can afford $1000+. Week of March 23-30 is out due to wedding anniversary. As far as location goes I personally like a larger area such as Long Island. Less chance of cold fronts to ruin the fishing experience due to it's southern location. If this trip gets popular we are going to need lots of space to roam! Steve Vletas has contacts for housing and says there is no question= Deadmas Cay for DIY fishing, period. Spouses will love Cape Santa Maria or Stella Maris Resort on the northern tip for the next visit. Lots of nice flats up there too but not as big. Or $130 a night in a cottage w/ breakfast and dinner at Chez Pierre. Check it out on www.bahamasflyfishingguide.com Juro, I did ask Steve for sponsorship so I could mention his site and book.
Juro is right as far as doing it dirt cheap when the flights are reasonable. I've tried to keep two trips under $750 but fell prey to eating out and the nickle and dime stuff always piles up fast. Lots of little stuff that goes overseen like arrival fees both ways, taxis, tips, and the usual gifts to bring home. Can't go home without supporting some of the natives in the form of necklaces and baskets!!! They were a big hit back home and made everyone that missed me very happy. My son has been wearing an Andros necklace like a rope bracelet! Won't take it off! Paid one guy $100 to drive me all over North Andros. Best 100 bucks I ever spent and he dove for fresh conch for lunch! He's building a small hotel and resturant and I stay for free when it's done. Last time I went back to Andros I bought ten junior size basketballs and nylon rope b ball nets for the kids in three school systems. They were playing round ball with volley balls on the privious visit with no nets on the rims. Kids were
estatic last I heard. These people are very kind hearted so I give in return. I never had a problem DIY with the guides and never saw one when I was fishing. They usually think you work at the local Naval Base (AUTEC) and leave you alone anyway!
Several of the Base guys have flats boats. I visited the base with a teacher I met at Hank's Place and she gave me a tour. She took me to her house and sat me in a chair near a small oceanside mangrove creek. The small bones arrived first on the incoming and then the 10 lbers. showed. She ran to the house and got some bread for the monsters that showed up after the ten pounders! One of um had to be 16-17 lbs. and swam right up to us for bread!!!!!!!! Came back the next day with a ten weight and got skunked. How do you tie a bread fly?!!!!!! I can go on and on and on! Suffice to say there's more to the Bahamas than the fishing. Oh, by the way! I learned in a hurry that things must slow down when you get there or it makes them nervous! Go slow. Accept whatever life brings on. I'm a changed man. How did I get my handle? It's music to my ears! Bonefishmon! 12 O'clock and coming fast! Cast now mon! Short stripes LONG stripes you're on!!!!!!!
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|Classic Atlantic Salmon No pursuit rivals salmon rivers, flies & legacy
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Here is a rather preliminary and now old 8 page document from 1998 done by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans examining the efficacy of catch and release measures for conservation of Atlantic salmon in eastern Canada. Some of the major conclusions are:
survival rates can be 100% in well handled fish
Temperatures above 20 C (68 F) are very stressful
MSW salmon likely have higher survival rates than grilse owing to the fact that they have more energy reserves
Higher mortality occurs in fish that have recently entered freshwater than those who have had time to adapt to the osmotic stress of going from salt to freshwater
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It was scorching hot on the Matapedia last week: we saw peak air temperatures of 95 degrees F.--enough to make one believe in global warming.
Early morning water temperatures were in the low sixties. With unusually high air temperatures, salmon fishing for me is a 3:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. affair, after which I call it a day. The river has usually not cooled sufficiently to permit evening fishing.
I agree with JR SPEY: catch & release anglers should avoid water temperatures above 65-66 degrees F. Although the salmon of some river systems seem better adapted to warm water (Miramichi), a true conservationist will reel up when the health of the salmon is in any doubt.
|I, personally, would stop fishing. Catch and release is a marginal tool, at best, in temperatures over 65 degrees F. Unless one is willing (and it is legal) to keep your catch, I would say it was time to look for a different spot to fish or time to get caught up on your reading. Incidentally, I guess a day or two later the temperature had come back down to the lower 60's on the York. I see that Lady Amherst has responded to my other post, maybe that's what she'll point out. Luckily, on some waters those type of high temperatures only last for a short time. Someone told me that the air temperatures in that area were approaching 100 degrees F last week. Ouch.
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Water temperature & Catch & Release
In the previous thread JR Spey said,
The bad news is that it has been scorching hot up there. The York River reported a water temperature of 71 degrees F. late last week and the water levels were dropping. Since it's still June there is some concern. They need rain and cooler weather soon.
Do you stop fishing as I understand that the fish get very stressed when the water temperatures start to climb?
The Spey is low and the temperature is creeping up but it is not as bad as that.
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I misspelled the name Yurba, it is actually Yerba; however, the vantage point is actually on Yerba Buena, Treasure Island has a similar view but it is different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena_ Island
BTW: This was taken from Treasure Island, not Yurba Buena.
I've been trying to make an adapter for my Canon 30D but it is always too heavy on the front end.. Is there a photo of your adapter?
you can find the Rig Mod here..... chadpfarr.com
Hi...lovely Pan. Could you upload a snap of 20D/gigapan rig? Thanks!
Very beautiful, congratulations.
the mount that I made is a simple L bracket purchased from HomeDepot ( called a Simpson Tie, used in construction) with another metal plate attached to the L bracket to mount the camera on. The nodal point was visually approximated by viewing paralex movement through the viewfinder on the camera and making adjustments before getting the final measurments. finally a 1/4 hole was drilled in the base plate to secure to the tripod post on the camera. I will try and upload an image tonight ( a picture is worth a thousand words). -chad
Panos like this are what the Gigapan project is all about! You've got me chomping at the bits to try shots like this with my 450D with higher resolution and HDR. Could you please say more about how you mounted the 20D on the Gigapan?


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Last week: 3 days teaching Python at FATEC. Thanks people, that was awesome!
Last weekend: Installed Foresight on my laptop. Great distro. More on that later.
It seems that the Py3k "bytes" will be immutable (just like the Python 2.x "str"), and a "buffer" type will be mutable. Just see the new PEP 3137
Update: Do you know of any other migration initiative? Please, tell me!
At ArsTechnica, in "Open Ended", Ryn Paul talks about Python 3.0 first alpha. He shows an install trouble he had (I'm almost sure he is not using make altinstall), and focuses the rest of his article on Python 3.0 new string formatting features (more about it in the new ReST docs).
I like the way PEP 3101 is now: the formatting language is only complex when you want to do complex things :), and we dont need a complete programming language inside strings.
I hope a 2to3 fixer could translate the most commom uses of %-interpolation to .format(), but I'm not sure that old-style interpolation will be removed from Py3k. For an example, if the string on the left is not a literal, it is not possible to translate with a 2to3 fixer.
As announced by GvR:
The release is available from http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/
I'll send a longer announcement to python-list and python-announce-list. Please blog about this if you have a blog!
Thanks to all who helped out! It's been a great ride.
I will write more about Python 3.0 soon.
In other news: new bug tracker (bye sourceforge!) and new (ReST powered) docs. Awesome times in Python-land!
Hello Advogato! I intent to use this space to talk about Python. See ya!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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This weekend I sat down determined to crank out a blog post, but unfortunately there are those days when, as a writer, you just can't bring it no matter how hard you try. So there I was, completely stuck when the thought hit me, "what would Jesus do?" Actually, it was closer to what would Jesus's Father do? No really—what would He do? What people don't realize is that God is a dad blogger, and so I put together an email asking Him if He'd be willing to do a guest post. Five minutes later He sent a reply saying He'd be "thrilled" for an opportunity to share His thoughts. Apparently, God's wanted to write something for DadCentric for a while, so this ended up being the perfect opportunity. Before turning it over to Him I just want to say thanks for helping me out of another jam, God.
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I guess it's been quite a while since My last post. Things in my world have been just crazy. One day You're trying to keep Satan from getting Obama re-elected, and the next thing You know months have gone by and You haven't written a damn thing. As a blogger this is like the angel of death for your site—stop posting on a regular basis and people pretty much forget you even existed. Oh well. It is what it is, and if you're one of those loyal readers still following Me then this is pleasing, in My eyes.
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here was breaking news yesterday in the lively world of presidential genealogy. Barack Obama–who is regarded as an inauthentic African-American by some because his late mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, was a white woman and his father's ancestry traced to Kenya rather than Kentucky or the Carolinas–was suggested to be descended on his maternal side from John Punch, a black man.
Researchers at Ancestry.com, the online root-seeking company, derived Obama's relationship to Punch using a combination of standard genealogical research and Y-chromosome genetic analysis. (Y-DNA is passed essentially unchanged from fathers to sons to grandsons to great-grandsons, etc.) The timing of this announcement could not be better for the Provo, Utah company that just reported booming fourth quarter profits and is rumored to be seeking a buyer.
An indentured servant in 17th century Virginia, Punch would earn the lamentable designation of "the first documented African enslaved for life in American history" when he was reduced to chattel as punishment for his attempt to escape servitude. Punch, like Obama the elder, was an African; tragically, what makes Punch "African-American" is his slave status. With rebellious, freedom-loving roots firmly planted in the New World, our nation's first president of African descent —Punch's 11th great grandson–may just be "black enough" after all.
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News of POTUS's connection to Punch, reported in The New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere, follows a now established pattern of presidential genealogy exposés that partly rely upon the paradox of opposing political ideology and shared kinship. So, in 2010 we learned, courtesy of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, that then Massachusetts senator-elect Scott Brown was the President's tenth cousin. As a Los Angeles Times reporter put it, "[d]espite the political chasm that separates the two men… Obama and Brown have at least one solid family link."
We have a high threshold for political gossip and, in the digital age, genealogy is a fast fad that shows no sign of passing out of vogue. But the primary reason these ancestry stories entrance us is because they bring us face-to-face with our national fascination with and anxieties about racial miscegenation. Take, for example, the minor controversy over Rachel L. Swarns' recently published American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multicultural Ancestors of Michelle Obama. Megan Smolenyak, the prominent genealogist who conducted the research for Swarns' widely-read 2007 co-authored article that revealed Michelle Obama's white slavery-era ancestors, critiqued it in the Huffington Post. Smolenyak was stunned that:
Smolenyak further complained that "the 'revelation' of the white ancestor via DNA testing" wasn't unexpected; "the only true surprise in the book" she concluded, was "the absence of over a third of Mrs. Obama's known ancestors."
It's hard to know for certain whether a book about FLOTUS's predominantly black ancestors would have warranted the same level of interest as the multiracial narrative that Swarns penned. But Smolenyak's comments certainly gets at the problem of "selection bias" that is characteristic of root-seeking. As computer scientist and genealogist, Mark Humphrys said to The Atlantic in 2002, "genealogies aren't two-dimensional… They aren't three-dimensional… They have hundreds of dimensions." This means that we choose what parts of our genealogies are important to us: a genetic genealogy company called African Ancestry is of interest to those seeking information about their black identity, while a company called Oxford Ancestors may hold the most draw for people looking for European relatives. As sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel contends, genealogy says more about our social values and priorities and than it does about our "real" families: "we manipulate genealogies to accommodate personal and collective agendas of inclusion and exclusion."
In a rare moment of racial forthrightness laced with humor, Obama got right to the heart of the genealogical matter. In fall 2007, following the revelation by the Chicago Sun-Times that Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney were eighth cousins, the democratic candidate quipped to a New Hampshire audience that "everybody has… black sheep in the family." In a nation built on racial slavery, what made Obama and Cheney different was more than politics.
Indeed, if we go back far enough in time just about any two people of any background are related. Science writer Steven Olson provides some genealogical factoids that shed light on the ordinariness of the news we've learned about the Obama's extended family over the past few years:
- "all Europeans alive today have among their ancestors the same man or woman who lived around 1400"
- "almost everyone in the New World must be descended from English royalty—even people of predominantly African or Native American ancestry"
- "the most recent common ancestor of all six billion people on earth today probably lived just a couple of thousand years ago"
- "Confucius, Nefertiti, and just about any other ancient historical figure who was even moderately prolific must today be counted among everyone's ancestors."
The "dense interconnectedness of the human family might seem to take some of the thrill out of genealogical research," Olson surmises. This would be the case if we fully appreciated how similar we all are genetically, how close we all are genealogically. Yet our preoccupation with presidential roots suggests that that we still struggle over the boundaries of our human communities—be these "first" families or our nuclear ones. The fact that the slave ancestry of President Obama's mother is presented as a "surprise" tells us a little something about what drives the genealogical marketplace, but a lot more about how slow we have been to accept the founding truths of American society.


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Went to see Othello tonight, in the Cutler Majestic Theatre in the Boston 'limo district' - aka the theatre district. This performance was part of "Shakespeare in American Communities, the largest tour of Shakespeare in U.S. history". It was excellent.
The playbill proudly mentioned that Mrs. Laura Bush and Jack Valenti - MPAA president and CEO - are honorary co-chairs of the tour.
Curiously enough, the playbill also described how Shakespeare based Othello on a collection of Renaissance 'novellas' dating back to 1565, by Giraldi Cinthio. The collection was entitled Hecatommithi. Shakespeare wrote Othello before 1606 - in other words, at most 50 years after Giraldi Cinthio created his work.
If Hecatommithi were to be written today, a future Shakespeare 50 years from now will not be able to use it - thanks to the latest extension (1998) of copyright duration, works are now locked up for the life of the author plus 70 years. Guess who was a great proponent of that extension, and continues to fight for expansion of copyright most vigorously? Guess who fought hard to deprive future great artists the building blocks for their works?
Of course, MPAA president and CEO, Jack Valenti.
Yet at the same time, still according to the playbill, the members of Mr. Valenti's organization have produced more than a dozen movies based on Othello. Of course, without payment of royalties no works will be allowed based on these movies for a long, long time...
Am I the only one who finds it slightly hypocritical that Mr. Valenti is now 'co-chairing' this tour of Shakespeare's great works?


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Description ADULT Gray-brown overall. Upperparts are marked with pale spots, smallest and densest on head; underparts are barred, as is long, tapering tail. Eyes and bill are yellow and facial disc is pale and rounded with striking white "eyebrows." JUVENILE Similar to adult.
Dimensions Length: 15-17" (38-43 cm); Wngspn: 33" (84 cm)
Habitat Widespread in taiga forest, but never common. Precise distribution and breeding success is dictated by numbers of small mammal prey.
Observation Tips Low density, nomadic habits, and fickle site faithfulness make it tricky to pin down. However, on the plus side, diurnal habits and fondness for perching on treetops allow superb views if you do find one.
Range Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Great Lakes, Plains, Eastern Canada, New England, Western Canada
Voice Male's territorial call comprises a series of trilling, piping notes that rise and fall in pitch throughout delivery.
Discussion Long-tailed appearance is diagnostic. In silhouette, recalls a large falcon, but note large, rounded head and typical owl face. Active during daylight hours, typically perching on prominent lookout, scanning ground for small mammal prey. Nests in tree holes. Sexes are similar.


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screen rocks. It's wonderful having four pine windows open, each on a different mailbox, and not having to worry about shutting them all down and opening them all back up whenever I change locations. It's also great just being able to remotely detach my laptop's session when I happen to log in from somewhere else, and catch my pine session right where I left it.
Now if we can only get this for GUIs. I mean, aside from using VNC. Though I suppose there's no real shame in that. Hmm...
Keep your books up to date. I am now in the middle of the pain of entering two and a half years of back accounting information, so I can catch up on my taxes and turn in some expense reports for a former employer. This would have been so much less pain if amortized over those years.
By the same token, what kept me from doing it as I went was a lack of tools that I considered "up to the task", and a lack of time to invest in seriously writing them. The various proprietary packages had too much baggage (beyond their proprietariness), and I didn't want to wrap myself up in that only to not be able to get my data back out when I was ready to move on or write something.
So, in a way, it's actually good that I'm doing it all at once. Even though it's a lot of work, because I'm doing it over the same few days, it's all going in relatively consistently. If I did it over two and a half years, I can see my ways of dealing with various entry challenges drifting over time.
This would be a good time to give kudos to the GnuCash folks. Even though I have nits to pick on every scale from the trivial to the Colossal with the package and the code (because I'm that kind of asshole :) ), I respect mightily the work they're doing and the size of the task they've undertaken. And, the bottome line is that, for all of my "I would do it this way" and "it doesn't work the way I want it to" blustering, the shit works, which happens to be the single most important goddamned thing to me right now.
I hope that previous paragraph comes out as the compliment I intend it to be :) If not, and you're a GnuCash developer, send me your PayPal info and I'll buy you a beer as a more succinct statement of my appreciation. Hell, even if you did read that as a compliment (and you're a GnuCash developer), send it anyway. Because, hey, free beer. Cold beer. :)
MDF is friggin' heavy. I'll post pics later, but the short version is that I got tired of trying to cobble together shop cabinets out of the random (too small) pieces of OSB I had lying around, so I went out and bought 5 sheets of 3/4" MDF, 1 sheet of 1/2" MDF, some 1/4" Luaun, and some 1/4" Masonite. All of it, piled onto a little Toyota pick-up, made the lee-springs bend entirely opposite of the way they're supposed to at rest. Of course, these springs were already in pretty bad shape. Or were they? And don't get me started about getting it all into the shop. Ugh. And this is supposed to be a relaxing hobby. Whatever.
MDF is doubley-friggin' dusty. I suppose, for the benefit of the non shop-inclined out there, I should recap what MDF is. It stands for Medium Density Fiberboard, and is a manufactured sheet lumber product that has excellent dimensional stability (ie: doesn't warp, swell, etc., with changes in humidity), machines very well (ie: routers and table saws love to chew it up with nice, clean, precise edges), and takes paint very well.
The problem is the very reason it machines so well: it's made up of highly compressed, very small wood particles. This is not that particle board crap that all of the crummy furniture you buy at Wal-mart is made from. This is like cardboard dust (yea, dust) that's been packed together with adhesive. So when you machine it, you get back cardboard dust. And it gets everywhere. I had to go get a special bag and HEPA filter for my Shop-Vac(tm) just to suck it all up without stopping every five minutes to clean the filter.
Plans are helpful. For the aforementioned shop-cabinets, I went all-out exhaustively anal in planning them. I fired up Visio (yeah, I know, I'm a bad person) and laid them out in excruciating detail. I made a sheetgoods cutlist, along with little machining diagrams to tape to each piece as it went through the shop. When it finally came time to run everything through the sharp, fast-spinning things, it went down without a hitch. I was incredibly surprised, because my entire woodworking history to date has been a serious of fuckups :|
No, really. Plans are helpful. Of course, there were a few things that I decided to "free-hand", because I hadn't completely finished the plans in one or two minor places. Want to guess what happened? Yeah. I fucked it up. Sigh. Fortunately, as I mentioned, they were relatively minor details, and I managed to hide them well enough :) But still, it's annoying.
I should start woodvogato.org, for the two people other than me that actually give a shit about free software and woodworking :)
Ah, well. Back to the bookkeeping grind. Soon, I'll be in good with the tax man again, and will be able to focus my energies on software instead of vague, unidentified worrying.


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University submits statement on endowments to Senate committee
Posted October 9, 2007; 09:53 a.m.
Princeton University has submitted a written "statement for the record" to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee describing how it uses its endowment to support financial aid.
The action follows a Sept. 26 committee hearing during which Princeton officials were concerned that witnesses "presented an incomplete and misleading account of the operation and uses of university endowments, particularly with respect to financial aid."
The statement, submitted on Oct. 5, is printed in its entirety here:
Statement for the Record
Hearing on Offshore Tax Issues: Reinsurance and Hedge Funds
September 26, 2007
Submitted by:
Robert K. Durkee
Vice President and Secretary
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Chairman Baucus, Senator Grassley, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit this written statement on behalf of Princeton University. My name is Robert K. Durkee and I am the Vice President and Secretary of the University.
Princeton is concerned that the witnesses at the committee's September 26th hearing on issues surrounding university endowments presented an incomplete and misleading account of the operation and uses of university endowments, particularly with respect to financial aid. While the comments below will focus specifically on Princeton, I believe that the witnesses' broader mischaracterizations of endowments will be addressed in testimony that is being submitted on behalf of several higher education associations of which Princeton is a member.
Financial Aid
Princeton University was founded in 1746 and one of its earliest endowed funds, dating back to the 18th century, was for financial aid. Today, more than half of Princeton's undergraduates and essentially all of its graduate students receive financial aid.
For many decades Princeton's need-based aid program for undergraduates has been among the strongest in the country. Princeton admits all undergraduates on a need-blind basis and meets the full need of each student who qualifies for aid. Beginning in 2001, student loans have been entirely replaced with grant increases for all students on aid. Princeton also has reduced the summer earnings expectation for students from lower- and moderate-income families. It has reduced the amount that students are expected to contribute from their own savings. It has reduced expected parental contributions by removing home equity from consideration (and giving an equivalent renter's allowance to those who don't own homes). Most recently, last year Princeton reduced term-time job requirements in all aid packages and increased the board allowance for juniors and seniors to reflect actual costs.
These enhancements have been made possible by Princeton's commitment to financial aid as a matter of policy and by excellent stewardship of its endowment over many years. Princeton's endowment is made up of more than 3,500 separate accounts, many of which are restricted to specific purposes, such as faculty positions, academic programs, and student aid. The purpose supported by the largest number of accounts is undergraduate financial aid, and funds from unrestricted accounts are also used to cover the costs of our aid program.
Because financial aid is such a high priority for Princeton, it treats its financial aid budget as an entitlement, not an appropriation. Since Princeton places no limit on the number of aid applicants who can be admitted each year under its need-blind admission process and since it meets the full need of every admitted aid applicant (with grants, not loans), its aid budget fluctuates each year to provide whatever is necessary to carry out this policy. Moreover, because financial aid at Princeton is based solely on a family's ability to pay, annual tuition increases do not in any way increase the amount paid by students on financial aid.
The results of these policies have dramatically broadened the economic diversity of Princeton's student body. For example:
- Fifty four (54) percent of this year's entering freshman Class of 2011 is receiving financial aid and their average grant award is $31,187. (Tuition is $33,000 and tuition plus room and a full board contract is $43,980.) In contrast, for the class that graduated in 2001, 38 percent was on financial aid and the average grant award was $15,000.
- This comparison shows a 55 percent increase in the number of students receiving aid over this period of time and a 100-plus percent increase in the average grant. Grants have risen faster than tuition increases, so while the average grant covered 65 percent of tuition for the Class of 2001, it now covers 96 percent of tuition for the Class of 2011. Over this same period, students from low-income families (incomes under $53,500 in 2011) have more than doubled, and they now constitute 15 percent of the freshman class. Eleven (11) percent of the members of this year's freshman class are the first in their families to attend college.
- Princeton's financial aid program also supports middle-income families and even upper-middle income families with multiple obligations. For example, nearly all families with incomes between $100,000 and $140,000 who applied for aid this year qualified and they received average grants of $26,480. Of families with incomes between $140,000 and $200,000 who applied for aid, 90 percent qualified for an average grant of $18,080. Even families whose income levels allow them to pay Princeton's full annual fee are paying only about half of what it costs to provide their children with the kind of education Princeton offers. This is reflected in the fact that more than half of Princeton's $1.2 billion operating budget is supported by spending from the endowment (44 percent) and annual gifts (8 percent). If you exclude funding for sponsored research and net out expenditures for financial aid, the fraction of the budget supported by endowment earnings and gifts is 78 percent. Princeton held tuition level this year (while increasing charges for room and board to reflect actual costs), but it has not believed that families that can afford to help pay for their children's educations should not be asked to do so.
- Because of Princeton's no-required-loan policy, student debt at graduation has plummeted from $13,820 for the Class of 2001 to an expectation of $2,700 for the Class of 2011. This borrowing is entirely voluntary since students are not required to borrow as part of their financial aid package.
To fund its extensive aid program, Princeton relies heavily on its own resources. More than 92 percent of the University's $81 million scholarship budget for 2007-8 is being provided from University endowed and yearly sources, especially annual gifts from alumni, and more than 80 percent—more than $65 million—is from the endowment. By contrast, only about 3 percent (about $2.5 million) of the scholarship budget comes from federal programs. Strikingly, the University's scholarship budget this year is greater than its net tuition revenues; while the scholarship budget is $81 million, its net tuition revenue is only $75 million.
Princeton is able to offer such a generous financial aid program because of the generosity of donors who have contributed to the endowment and donors who make annual gifts for financial aid, and because of the exceptional performance of the endowment over many years. Princeton's endowment income spending policy calls for a stipulated increase in spending each year from each endowment account, with a target spending rate between 4 and 5.75 percent. Under this policy, payout rates vary (up and down) with changes in the value of the endowment. Our current payout rate is well within the range at roughly 4.6 percent.
We have done careful and extensive research that suggests that the range we have adopted will allow us to maximize current spending while also sustaining the purchasing power of the endowment into the future so we can continue to honor our current commitments and meet new needs as knowledge increases and new fields emerge. This research also confirms the wisdom of allowing for fluctuation across the range rather than locking in a specific percentage, especially for institutions, like universities, that require short- and long-term stability so they can make long-term commitments. While grant-making institutions, like foundations, can adjust their allocations downward in lean years, universities need to be able to sustain their commitments even in challenging financial times.
In fact, when endowment spending represents a large share of an operating budget's revenues as it does at Princeton, it is especially critical that there be stability in the dollar amounts spent from year to year. If spending levels are sustained, then spending rates (dollars spent per unit of endowment divided by unit market value of the endowment) will fluctuate with the endowment's unit market value. One consequence is that contrary to what was suggested by one witness, these institutions must spend at higher, not lower, rates during periods of weak investment performance. This need for stability in the dollar spending stream means that spending rates will drift down when investment returns are strong. When investment returns are especially strong over a period of time (as they have been recently), Princeton's policy is to make upward adjustments to remain within its target range, and it has made these adjustments nine times in the past 30 years (including three times in the past 18 months). A major beneficiary of these adjustments has been financial aid.
Other Endowment Spending
Princeton is a major research university that is distinctive in its commitment to undergraduate teaching, and it relies on its endowment to provide an educational program that is based on extensive interaction between students and faculty. The ratio of full-time undergraduates to faculty members is 5:1, and every senior must complete a thesis or similar project based on original research, working directly with a member of the faculty. All faculty members at Princeton teach (including the president), and the teaching program is supported by one of the world's most distinguished research libraries; its holdings include more than 6.5 million books, 6 million microforms, 30,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and distinguished holdings of rare books, prints, archives, and other materials that require special handling. The teaching program is also supported by an excellent art museum, laboratories and other classroom spaces, and information technologies that are now indispensable to teaching and learning. Princeton also offers its students extensive opportunities to develop their talents and leadership skills through extracurricular, athletic, and community service programs.
Princeton takes very seriously its obligations to manage its endowment in a manner that will achieve a sustainable balance between providing as much support as possible for the current generation at Princeton while also building capacity to meet future needs. Spending levels must permit sufficient reinvestment of revenues so that, over time, the per-unit value of the endowment keeps pace with rising costs and the University is able to provide each new generation of students with an education that encompasses both the newest technologies and the newest fields of knowledge.
This country's leading universities rank among the best in the world, and they have achieved this position, in part, through the generosity of their donors and the careful stewarding of their resources. Their investment and spending policies must reflect long-term earnings experience (over lean years as well as favorable ones), although, as already noted, periodic upward adjustments in spending can be made and are made in response to exceptionally strong short-term performance. These policies also must provide long-term stability since universities, unlike foundations, must be able to make long-term commitments to faculty (many of whom are world leaders in their fields), academic programs, and to the facilities (including state-of-the-art laboratories and libraries) that are essential to world class teaching and research.
A Princeton trustee summarized the obligations of the trustees, who are charged with ultimate responsibility for managing the endowment and adopting the annual budget, as follows: "One of the most important responsibilities of the trustees is to try to find the right balance between achieving the highest possible standards of excellence for this generation and ensuring the University's financial capacity to continue to achieve those standards for future generations." Princeton's provost, Christopher Eisgruber, has written: "Our spending policy serves to provide budgetary stability, but even more important, it is designed to ensure intergenerational equity. It would be inappropriate for Princeton to spend so much today that it could not offer comparable opportunities to later generations of students and researchers. And conversely, it would be inappropriate to deny new opportunities to Princetonians today in order to focus exclusively on their successors."
In addition to expenditures on financial aid, Princeton uses its endowment and annual gifts to help meet the significant and expanding human and capital needs of a community devoted to the discovery, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. There are thriving fields at Princeton today, ranging from computer science to nanotechnology and from environmental studies to genomics that could not have been imagined even 25 years ago, and there are emerging fields now, with neuroscience as a prime example, that are poised to make transformative discoveries over the coming years. If we want these discoveries to be made in this country and want our students to be educated by leaders in these fields, our leading universities have to be able to invest not only in the research, but in the faculty, students, and facilities needed to conduct the research. Strong endowments make these investments possible, along with investments that strengthen teaching programs in other ways, such as Princeton's program that requires each undergraduate to participate in specially designed writing seminars to make sure they learn to write clearly, cogently, and persuasively.
In short, many of the needs of a major research university such as Princeton could not have been anticipated years ago. Princeton's careful management of its endowment has allowed it to meet these needs, while also opening the doors to Princeton wider than ever to students from all economic backgrounds. This country has been well served by encouraging taxpayers to make contributions to universities so they can strive for the highest standards of excellence and opportunity, and by expecting that universities will manage and utilize their resources responsibly in pursuit of these objectives.


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Haiti wants greater say in disbursement of Canadian funds
MONTREAL, Canada – Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe wants his government to have a greater say in how aid from Canada is spent.
Lamothe's position comes in the wake of a decision by Ottawa to put a temporary halt on aid to the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
Last week, International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino announced that Ottawa would not fund any new programme in Haiti until it finds a better way of assisting the country help itself.
Fantino said he was disappointed at what he considered the lack of progress in Haiti during his trip to the Caribbean country last November.
Canada has provided C$1billion (one Canadian Dollar =US$1.01 cents) in development assistance to Haiti since 2006 and Fantino warned that Canadian taxpayers cannot take care of Haiti's problems forever.
But in an interview with the Canadian Press, Lamothe said he was now urging Ottawa to allow his government to assume a bigger role in the decisions involved in rebuilding Haiti following the devastating earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 people and left more than a million others homeless.
"For any future co-operation, when it's decided to resume, we will ask the Canadian government to focus on the priorities of the Haitian government.
"Basically, the development assistance, because of the perceived weakness of Haitian institutions, was routed directly to NGOs (non-government organisations) and Canadian firms," he said, noting, "that weakened our institutions".
Lamothe said that the earthquake on January 12, 2010, had destroyed 42 public buildings and caused damage estimated at US$12.5 billion.
In addition, Haiti has had to deal with an outbreak of cholera and natural disasters.
"For any country, that would be a great disaster, for Haiti, it was magnified by 50. So, we are struggling and we are doing our very best to improve the economy, to create jobs."
In a statement posted Tuesday on the website of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Fantino said Canada's goal is to help countries help themselves.
''Canada's assistance will not be a blank cheque,'' he said.
But Lamothe insists his government's hands are tied when it comes to development programmes because it doesn't receive any of CIDA's aid.
He is urging Canada and other donor countries to work together to find a way to involve Haiti's institutions in the process.
"It's very difficult for us to be held accountable for progress or lack thereof...we want the (Haitian) government to be consulted together (with Canada) and we'll do it in a transparent process... so that the Canadian taxpayer dollar is maximised to the best possible way."
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Ansel Adams never made up his mind about color photography. Long before his death in 1984 at age 82, he foresaw that this "beguiling medium" might one day replace his cherished black and white. In notes tentatively dated to 1949, he observed that "color photography is rapidly becoming of major importance."
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Yet he once likened working in color to playing an out-of-tune piano. America's regnant Western landscape photographer tried to control every step of picture-making, but for much of his lifetime too many stages of the color process were out of his hands. Kodachrome—the first mass-market color film, introduced in 1935—was so complicated that even Adams, a darkroom wizard, had to rely on labs to develop it. Color printing was a crapshoot in the 1940s and '50s. Reproductions in magazines and books could be garish or out of register. Before the 1960s, black-and-white film often actually yielded subtler, less exaggerated pictures of reality.
Still, Adams' misgivings did not prevent him from taking hundreds of color transparencies. As he traveled the country on commercial assignments or on Guggenheim Fellowships—a project to celebrate the national parks—he often took pictures in color as well as black and white. A generous selection of these Kodachromes, most created between 1946 and 1948, appears in a new book, Ansel Adams in Color, revised and expanded from the 1993 edition, with laser scans that might have met even his finicky standards.
American motorists of a certain age may have seen some of the images without knowing they were his. The Standard Oil Company (or Esso, a precursor of Exxon) purchased reproduction rights to a number of them to promote driving in America. If you filled up your tank at a Standard Oil gas station in 1947 or 1948, you might have been given an Adams picture—Crater Lake, say, or White Sands—as part of a series the company called "See Your West."
Anyone who walked through Grand Central Terminal in New York City around that time may recall seeing Adams' color work in a more imposing form. His photographs were among those that sparkled in the station's Kodak Coloramas, gigantic transparencies 18 feet high and 60 feet wide that loomed above the commuting throngs in the main concourse. Adams judged these (correctly) to be "aesthetically inconsequential but technically remarkable."
He shot in color because advertisers and corporations liked to present themselves in color, and he liked the money they offered him; by 1935, he had a wife and two children to support. Work in this mode also may have allowed him to keep a sharp psychological distinction between those lucrative jobs and his more personal black-and-white oeuvre, for which he alone was to blame in case of failure.
But almost any technical photographic challenge interested him. He served as a longtime consultant for both Eastman Kodak and Polaroid, and the quest for true and reliable color obsessed both companies for decades. Adams wrote numerous articles for popular magazines on problems with the medium, often touching on philosophical issues. "There is an inevitable conflict between the photometric accuracy of the real color film and the subjective emotional effects of colors in relation to each other," he wrote in a 1949 draft of one article.
The slow speed of early Kodachrome did not allow much beyond portraits, still lifes and landscapes. Stopping action was generally out of the question. To combat the static quality that hobbled photographers who used color during this period, Adams came up with a solution that would become standard: the multimedia slide show. For the journal Photo Notes, he wrote—in 1950!—"possibly one of the most important aspects of the medium would be revealed in the production of 35 mm or 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 slides which would be used in carefully planned projected sequences, using sound track for comment or music."
The images from the '40s and '50s in the new edition reveal how his approach to a subject changed (or didn't) according to the film he loaded in his camera. He had photographed the Ranchos de Taos church in New Mexico many times in austere black and white. (Taos Pueblo was the subject of his 1930 book collaboration with writer Mary Austin.) But his 1948 color photograph of the building at sunset rendered the adobe walls and the sky behind as if in throbbing slabs of pastel crayon.
This expressionist approach to color differs markedly from the nearly monochrome view of Mono Lake in California, from 1947, which is similar to many of his studies of clouds mirrored in water. In a class of its own is his view of Utah's Monument Valley circa 1950, in which he captured the warmth of the sun on the dusty sandstone amid long shadows. The photograph is more about transience, atmosphere and time immemorial than bands of color, and it's one of the finest color pictures he ever made.


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Manic depression, no longer the preferred medical term for this mental illness, neatly describes its effects. Bipolar disorder sends a person's mood seesawing up and down, from euphoric highs (the manic phase) to oppressive lows (the depressive phase), with normal periods in between.
At least two million Americans and perhaps one in one hundred teenagers are afflicted with bipolar disorder or a milder form called cyclothymia. "People with bipolar disorder can be delightful when they're manic," says Dr. Charles Irwin, recalling one patient in particular. "He was incredibly successful: president of his high-school class, attended an Ivy League university, graduated in less than four years. The life of the party. But when he crashed, he crashed very badly." The young man, who never sought treatment, later killed himself. Suicide is a very real concern with adolescents suffering from manic-depressive disorder.
Two other patterns may be seen. In bipolar II disorder, one mood state is dominant: either frequent depression and occasional mania, or vice-versa. Depression and mania occurring together is referred to as a mixed bipolar state.


text: I would like to know which states that designated public retriever training and or test/trial grounds on state property. Also, what are the guidelines in as much as are you limited to the time of year due to waterfowl nesting times? Are they easily accessible? I guess what I want to know are the restrictions and rules/guidelines.


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Day 6 of the healthy bee frame shows that almost all mature larvae have been capped and that new brood are beginning to grow. The capped honey cells are slightly different than before.
On day 5 of the healthy bee frame progression there is less open brood due to the dillegence of the worker bees.
This is day four of the healthy bee frame progression. As you can see, the frame has not changed drastically over the weekend although it does look slightly different than before. Many of the cells filled with pollen in the previous images are no longer and there are higher amounts of uncapped brood cells present.
On day three of the prgression image all the drone cells have hatched. The pollen formation has changed slightly and there is also small difference in the capped honey cell formation.
This is the same healthy frame from USDA Bee Research Lab in Beltsville. Unfortunately, the frame has not progressed very much due to the fact that it was kept in the lab overnight. Although there was some hatched brood it mostly took place on the opposite side of the frame not shown in the image, however if you look a...


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Announced by Dish Network yesterday, the satellite television provider has launched a new feature on the Hopper whole-home HD DVR system that allows customers to skip over all commercials on the four major broadcast networks. When a subscriber plays a recorded television show from ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX, a prompt appears that offers the subscriber the option of stripping out the advertising breaks. Rather than manually fast-forwarding through the commercial break, the viewer will see a momentary black screen or the first frame of the first commercial before the DVR launches into the next segment of the program according to a first-hand account within the Wall Street Journal.
Dish Network management hopes that this new feature will set the company apart from competitors like DirecTV, Time Warner and TiVo. According to Dish Network VP of Product Management Vivek Khemka, he stated "Viewers love to skip commercials. With the Auto Hop capability of the Hopper, watching your favorite shows commercial-free is easier than ever before. It's a revolutionary development that no other company offers and it's something that sets Hopper above the competition."
In order to enable the feature, it's as simple as pushing a single button on the Hopper remote. This feature is exclusive to the Hopper, thus Dish Network charges $10 a month to rent the hardware compared to the standard $6 a month charge with the basic DVR model. The Hopper is specifically geared at consumers that watch a great deal of network television as Dish Network has dedicated one out of the three tuners to constantly record the last eight days of network television coverage on all four major networks. In addition to allowing the subscriber to record two more HD channels at any given time, content recorded on the Hopper can be fed to four, different small set-top boxes, the Joey, that are installed on other televisions around the house.
The Auto Hop feature is currently limited to the major networks though. For instance, a subscriber wouldn't be able to automatically eliminate commercials on a program like The Daily Show on Comedy Central. The new feature also doesn't work for any live broadcast that's been recorded off a major network.
At the time of this article, none of the major networks have released a statement regarding the new feature on the Hopper. In the past, broadcasters have attempted to fight off commercial-skipping technology with some success. During 2001, the major networks filed a lawsuit against SONICblue, the company that sold the ReplayTV DVR device. The ReplayTV had a "Commercial Advance" feature that the networks disliked in addition to including a "Send Show" feature that transmitted copies of shows over the Internet to other ReplayTV owners.
With the launch of the Ad Hop feature, it's possible that major networks will attempt to negotiate higher retransmission fees with Dish Network. Networks like FX, TNT and USA already receive these fees, but broadcast networks mostly rely on advertising to earn revenue. If that's the case, Dish Network subscribers may be put in the position of losing out on broadcast networks during negotiation. This situation would be similar to the ongoing dispute between Dish Network and AMC.


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Wetland & Woodland Garden
A collection highlighting wetland and woodland environments. Marshes, swamps, woodlands and bogs are disappearing in the wild; this garden serves as a demonstration of a natural habitat that attracts birds, fish, and wildlife. Beautiful in all seasons !
Photos: H. David Stein, Shari Romar
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Long-standing questions about the United Nations' relevance and role continue to be issues for the 2012 U.S. presidential candidates. In particular, the UN Security Council response to ongoing violence in Syria since March 2011--with Russia and China declining to join the rest of the council in imposing harsher sanctions on the government of President Bashar-al Assad --has re-focused attention on the UN's efficacy.
President Obama is an advocate for the organization, although he cautions that it often fails to honor its ideals. The administration touts stiff sanctions against Iran and North Korea as "dividends of U.S. leadership at the UN." GOP candidate Mitt Romney, however, has criticized the United Nations sharply, threatening to defund the UN Population Fund and to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council.
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Posted February 17, 2004; 05:25 p.m.
The Australian Academy of Sciences has awarded its 2004 Lemberg Fellowship to Charles Dismukes , professor of chemistry. The fellowship provides funds for traveling to Australia and for giving lectures and visiting scientific institutions.
Dismukes' research interests include the design of catalysts that will permit sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. The designs are based on naturally occurring enzymes that oxidize water during photosynthesis.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about CALEA
Skype has long claimed to be "end-to-end encrypted", an architectural category that suggests conversations over the service would be difficult or impossible to eavesdrop upon, even given control of users' Internet connections. But Skype's 2005 independent security review admits a caveat to this protection: "defeat of the security mechanisms at the Skype Central Server" could facilitate a "man-in-the-middle attack" (see section 3.4.1). Essentially, the Skype service plays the role of a certificate authority for its users and, like other certificate authorities, could facilitate eavesdropping by giving out the wrong keys.
According to the New York Times, President Obama is "on the verge of backing" a proposal by the FBI to introduce legislation dramatically expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. CALEA forces telephone companies to provide backdoors to the government so that it can spy on users after obtaining court approval, and was expanded in 2006 to reach Internet technologies like VoIP.
EFF has long called on companies to publish the number and type of government demands they receive for user data. We think it's important enough to be one of the stars we award in our Who Has Your Back? campaign started in 2010. Users make decisions every day about which companies they entrust with their thoughts, photos, contacts, identities and location data. In order to make informed decisions users -- especially those at risk from repressive governments or engaging in political activism -- need to know how often the government is seeking that information from their providers.
One year ago today, Internet users of all ages, races, and political stripes participated in the largest protest in Internet history, flooding Congress with millions of emails and phone calls to demand they drop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—a dangerous bill that would have allowed corporations and the govenrment to censor larger parts of the Web.
But the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and the fight for Internet freedom continues. Here's a look at the top five issues SOPA activists should focus on next:
ICE Releases Documents Detailing Electronic Surveillance Problems . . . and then Demands Them Back a Year Later
This is a first for us in all of EFF's history of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation—Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has demanded we return records it gave us more than a year ago. The release of these documents doesn't endanger national security or create a risk to an ongoing law enforcement investigation. Instead, it seems that ICE simply wants to stymie further FOIA requests from EFF as we try to get answers about the government's electronic surveillance procedures.
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text: So, there's going to be a new litter at our house this fall - only this litter will have 2 legs each instead of 4. Thank goodness, a small litter of 2!! We had a gender reveal party at our house yesterday. My husband Jimmy (MIDTNGRNHD on here) ran his CLM Maxx on a blind and then I ran my YLF Andi on one. They each brought back a bumper revealing the gender of the twins. It was a super cool way to tell our families and friends. Most of them have no idea about what our dogs do at these HT's, so that was an added bonus. Here's the after picture with Maxx and Andi and the most important bumper they have ever picked up!!


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text: Well, we've started our first journey into Open Source land. A couple of weeks ago I started to write a SCM system on top of CVS in the form of a bunch of Python scripts, and today we decided to develop it as an Open Source project. Check Trug and let me know whether this is going anywhere.


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I'm doing the "Relay for Life" cancer walk in June, also going to a Presbyterian camp in August, otherwise I am working, building bikes, now is the season here in the midwest.
I'm doing the "Relay for Life" cancer walk in June, also going to a Presbyterian camp in August, otherwise I am working, building bikes, now is the season here in the midwest.
2015 RFL Thank You to, TeeEye7 & Slicker, JediTricks, Tycho, El Chuxter, and Darth Jax!!!!
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I have summer vacation slated in July with the family. As of yet, no plans. As usual, no one can agree on where yet.
In September, I have a solo vacation planned to go and meet with the author of my uncle's book at a reunion of the remaining WWII veterans of the 416th Bomb Group of the Ninth Air Force with whom my uncle served. I'm really looking forward to that because two vets knew my uncle well (one was a West Point cadet with my uncle). Actually, today is my uncle's birthday! Happy Birthday, Uncle Bill!
Many here already know what I'm talking about. For those who don't here's a little info:
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Taking my mom and meeting up with my uncle (and possibly other cousins) at the Grand Canyon in July. I've been there before (in February '94, camped down in the canyon for two nights), but mom hasn't yet. Taking the train from Williams, AZ which I've wanted to try for some time.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I requested three days off work after graduation but dont know if I will actually have the money to go somewhere. I'd like to go back down to Florida and see my Great Aunt and Uncle(like grandparents to me) but not sure if gas prices will agree with me.
I have to go somewhere though, even if its just a day hop to some God forsaken southern backwater event
Treat your stepmother with respect Pantera, or you'll be sleeping in the streets!!
I'm heading to Orlando for a conference in 3 weeks then off to Michigan and Indiana with the wife and kids to see family....maybe a 6 Flags trip to Dallas in August....
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
This Monday I've got plans to go with my sister-in-law, niece, and nephew to Sequoia for the day. I'm hoping the kids will be impressed. I haven't been there in years and I'm really looking forward to going!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
10. Everglades
9. Mammoth Cave
8. Meteor Crater
7. Yellowstone
6. Crater Lake
5. Mt. Rushmore
4. Gettysburgh
3. Sequoia
2. Bryce or Arches or Zion
1. Yosemite
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
3 weeks til my vacation to Long Lake in the Adirondacks....
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Here's some photos to whet BCJ's appetite for travel:
1. Mama Bear (with two cubs, although not seen well in the picture).
2. The Deer Family
3. Moments before driving through a tree!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
....and continuing, here's the the General Sherman Sequoia (two shots needed since it's so massive!). Also the Kaweah River in the foothills prior to making the climb into the park.
Next time we plan a tour of Crystal Cave in the park!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!


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|February 23rd, 2008, 08:57 PM
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I actually have no reason for a tent on the trailer either... I have a 24' motorhome I need to finish the interior on, I have a brand new HUGE camping on the ground tent. I want it because I want to do some camping off trails, and I am trying to convince the fiancee to move to Colorado with me after we get married, way better then sleeping on rock with the regular tent.
|March 3rd, 2008, 01:05 PM
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trailer build update
Ok. Here are some updated pics. I added a coat of POR15 chassis coat over the exposed parts to add a UV blocker. I also hit the inside of the bed with 2 coats of Herculiner. I also hit all the nooks and crannys with POR15 because there is no way I can cut the camo accurate enough to fill every crack. I started on the camo last night and should be able to finish it today. The brainacks at Camoclad decided to go to a digital HD version of the Max4HD camo I have on my CJ so the pattern isn't exactly the same - but who cares I guess.....
I will also be mounting the lights and completing the wiring over the next couple days....Oh yeah, I replaced the shocks as well...and figured out the pintle set up to clear my spare on the back of the CJ and get the trailer to ride at about a 5-10 nose down angle so that is will ride level when loaded. I discovered I needed to 'secure' my rear bumper a little better since there was movement when I hooked up the trailer.
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|March 25th, 2008, 11:48 AM
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Ok. Here are the latest pics. I've still got to mount the cooler, water and gas jerry cans, shovel, jack, etc.
Unfortunately, the company changed the camo pattern over the past 2 years, so it doesn't match exactly, but once it's covered in mud you will never be able to tell anyway....
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|May 13th, 2008, 10:44 PM
Hey man....that's a nice trailer!! I've got a custom m416 myself - lots of mods and it rolls on 35 x 14.50 x 15 tires, with over 30 inches of ground clearance under the tub! And....no straight axle hanging down. I've got independent torsion axles (purchased from Ironman) and a custom steel locking top on it too (built by Ironman).
And just a little info for those of you who were asking about the trailer - the m416 is a 1/4 ton ammo trailer. They will actually float with 500 lbs in 'em! And they do come with a 360-degree swivel lunette with a pintle hitch. I've dragged mine over some pretty rough terrain in Canada, and it goes everywhere my Jeep goes!
|May 15th, 2008, 11:24 AM
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|May 16th, 2008, 12:05 AM
Sorry....no pics! However.....when Muddypaws did some of the finish work on it last year (Spring 07), he posted some pics of it. Some of the info in his posts wasn't exactly accurate, but the pics were pretty good.
The trailer isn't "right" as I want it, but it works pretty darn good for now!
|May 16th, 2008, 06:13 AM
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Which part wasn't accurate? The part where he implied that he did the whole project soup to nuts?:tonka:
Tim, not being picky here but I think you left out the work that Victor did on it. He probably deserves a little credit too. I don't have any pics of it but I know they are out there floating around.
|May 16th, 2008, 06:16 AM
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|May 16th, 2008, 10:59 AM
Yeah....my intent in my first post (reference above) wasn't to list all of the work, people involved, etc. And I didn't mean to leave anyone out, either! Just wanted to make a quick post about having the same kind of trailer. You'll notice in my first post that I stated that Ironman built my top, and that I purchased my axles from him!
Victor did almost all of the actual build of my trailer, for which I will always be grateful! I just wish he had been able to finish it, because then it would be right!!!
And because I know someone will ask (and Pat already did) - the part that got messed up was the finish work with the axle and tire install. Simple ACCURATE measuring would have solved the problem, but you can look at the trailer and see that the axles aren't quite lined up properly. As a result, the trailer wags a little bit behind the Jeep! And the huge steel plate that was put on the bottom of the trailer was done so without any regard for the slick quick-connect light wiring harness that Victor installed along the frame rail. Now - it's covered by a massive piece of steel with NO way to access it without cutting a hole in the steel!! STUPID! And - the paint job on my top got trashed when "someone" wasn't careful with it, and then he claimed that he had no knowledge that it was trashed and couldn't understand how it happened? Did he actually think I wouldn't notice????
There's a few other things, but suffice it to say that all of the work that Vic, Bobby, and Pat did to the trailer was top-notch!
|May 16th, 2008, 12:04 PM
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Sorry to hear it wags. Hope not too bad cuz it's always fun to watch you pulling it through the woods.
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Finally got the trailer into the woods to do some fun / work. Hauling the boat to the local fishing spot and setting up for hunting season.....
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I wonder what will be 'rare' then for the Joes. The Cobra commander I saw had an all black suit, despite a blue suit pictured on the cardback. Will there be a variant?
Amazon has Evazan, Kithaba, Luke Hoth, ARC Trooper Commander, 501st Clone Trooper, Blu Ray Luke, Lando Blu Ray, Leia Blu Ray (it says "loose" but I dunno how that could be true), Mon Cal Pilot, Col. Craken, Maul, and Rebel Fleet Trooper available for $13 each or less and they ship from Amazon so orders over $25 are free and if you have Prime, they're even better.
I picked up Evazan, Kithaba, and Luke Hoth. Instead of using Prime, I will take the MP3 credits.
I look at it like this: the figures are $10 everywhere, $11 with tax, and gas is up to $4.22 a gallon.
Now I'm just looking for ANH Vader, Imperial Navy Commander, maybe Darth Malgus and Nom Anor, another Gamorrean, plus Transformers Prime Vehicon.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Thanks, JT! Filled some holes in my collection with that!
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
Thanks JT!
I have the Evazan/Aayla/Nom Amor wave coming from HTS but still need that Mon Cal pilot so I got one of him along with a 501st trooper.
I just kinda figure I don't hunt for toys, and what I find in my normal shopping trips, I get. I only order figures who are unavailable in stores at this point. If I order regular retail figures, it will throw off that rhythm.
Sad to say, it's pretty much gotten that bad over the past couple of years. And, though I really do hate to harp on it, the one-two GIJoe suckerpunch of "the good stuff you've all asked for is only at one discount chain"/"we're recalling the movie toys and to hell with you if you didn't find them in the week leading up to the street date" has disillusioned me even more.
That's my jacket!
It's been so dry in my area lately that I don't have much choice but to resort to eBay, HTS, or Amazon for single figures. I picked up Hoth Luke and lightsaber construction Luke from Amazon over the weekend. I saw the deleted scene Lando, Leia, and Cracken figures at retail once - and not all during the same trip and all on damaged cards - so I know we're getting cases in but it's not worth the cost of gas or getting up at 4:00 am to make a daily trip to Walmart. On the bright side, I'm only buying the figures I truly want this way.
It came up in another thread. Essentially what they did was delay the movie less than a week before the toys came out, tell fans that what was shipped would be sold but there wouldn't be more, then tell stores (a day or so before release date) to ship everything back. Some stores are, some aren't. Like I said, it looks like I live in the one place on Earth where they stuck to the street date and demand to return everything. Except for one TRU, but, thanks to them being the only place who had anything at all and their BOGO sale, only has the incredibly bad motorcycles.
(Admittedly, those motorcycles are only bad at full price. Once Ross gets them for $5, I'll get a few.)
It also looks like they don't have the sense to make it up to retailers and fans by shipping stuff that they should know would sell through, like the HTF 2011 figures and re-released/repainted Cobras; they supposedly don't mind losing the shelf space.
Happy 50th birthday, GIJoe! It may be a couple of years off, but Hasbro's starting early to make sure it thoroughly blows.
That's my jacket!