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Students at Bureau Valley High School prepare for another night of celebration as the date for the school's annual Foreign Language Fair approaches. On Feb. 28, the Spanish and German language clubs host the annual event, promising great ethnic food, crafts and entertainment for the whole family. On the buffet tables, Spanish Club offers tacos, chicken fajitas and cinnamon pastries. German Club cooks brats and hot dogs, goulash and typical side dishes like hot German potato salad and red cabbage. "We will be baking Black Forest torte cake again this year. It has three layers, with cream filling and cherries in between the layers. The top has little pieces of dark German chocolate," says Daniel Trone, German Club president. "The food is a lot of work, but I think some people come to the fair just for the food," he added. Meals cost between $4 and $7. The evening's performances include vocal solos, instrumental pieces and group folk dances. Students prepare selections from traditional Latin American and German folk music and a more contemporary song from the musical "Evita." The German Club choreographs and performs a new dance each year, so 12 students meet before school to learn the steps. Three of Bureau Valley's high school students are from other countries this year. Federico Papa lives in Italy, and he looks forward to performing some Italian piano pieces. "They asked me to play for the night. I have Italian songs that are good. I am not singing. That is good," said Papa. The other two students, Kim Hanke and Luci Reisberger, hail from Germany. Kids of all ages can practice their creativity at the craft tables. Spanish Club students teach fairgoers to weave "God's Eyes," a Mexican yarn craft. The German Club tables hold plates of gingerbread cookies that need frosting. "The cookies are really popular. People always tell me that they have never decorated a gingerbread cookie before. It's fun to watch them give it a try," says Renee Hartz, a paraprofessional at the high school. The crafts are available free of charge. Spanish Club plans a scavenger hunt which runs throughout the evening. Doors open at 5 p.m. and food service and entertainment begin at 5:30 p.m. The evening includes a raffle, including club T-shirts, chocolates, suckers and pizza gift certificates. Admission is $1; but children get in free.
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THE 101 DALMATIANS MUSICAL | Rachel York stars as Cruella De Vil alongside "15 talented Dalmatians" in this live stage musical version of the animated Disney film. Styx's Dennis DeYoung composed the score; BT McNicholl did the book and lyrics; Jerry Zaks directs. | Wang Theatre, 279 Tremont St, Boston | 866.345.9738 | December 23-27 | Curtain 1 + 7:30 pm Wed | 1 pm Thurs | 2 + 7:30 pm Sat | 1 + 6:30 pm Sun | $28-$75
ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS EVE | Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans pin some tinsel on the Oscar-winning 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film All About Eve, with Landry hamming it up as Bette Davis's Margo Channing, her coiffure a shoulder-length halo of auburn curls, her painted lips a permanent twist approximating the actress's signature sneer. The show is set in Boston, and Channing is appearing not in an ante-bellum melodrama but in a holiday travesty titled Party on the Pole that enables both Landry and Penny Champayne (as Eve Harrington) to appear in fur bikinis accessorized by reindeer antlers. Apart from the disco-choreographed sacrilege that is the award-winning Harrington vehicle No, No, Nativity (itself worth the price of admission), there are few surprises in this gaily bedecked parody, most of which is lifted straight from the movie and sent to winter camp. But the show is as puerile and lively as most Orphans fare, and Landry, in pushing Davis's Channing over the top, proves this is territory in which measurement is exponential. | Machine, 1254 Boylston St, Boston |www.brownpapertickets.com| Through December 27 | Curtain 8 pm Fri-Sat | 5 pm Sun | $35-$45
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS | The American Repertory Theater makes its first Loeb Drama Center appearance of the season with this holiday musical with book and lyrics by Randy Weiner and music by Obie winner Diedre Murray. Part of new ART artistic director Diane Paulus's "Shakespeare" season, it got a thumbs-up from the New York Times— "This rousing musical has taken the plot from The Winter's Tale, tossed out anything resembling Shakespearean language, and achieved a hypnotic effect with musical numbers that leave the audience whooping" — so never mind that the language is the best part of any Shakespeare play and just enjoy the R&B and gospel treats, which are legion. The cast includes Gregg Baker, Mary Bond Davis, and Jeanette Bayardelle; Paulus herself directs. | Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | 617.547.8300 | Through January 3 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues-Wed | 2 pm [December 31] + 7:30 pm [no Christmas Eve] Thurs | 8 pm [no Christmas Day] Fri | 2 + 8 pm Sat | 2 + 7:30 pm [no evening January 3] Sun | $25-$75; $15-$65 seniors; $20 student rush
A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES | Boston Playwrights' Theatre and Boston Children's Theatre team up to present Dylan Thomas's holiday classic in a new adaptation by Burgess Clark, with Margaret Ann Brady, Mary Callanan, Adam Freeman, Steven Gagliastro, Anne Gardiner, Meagan Hawkes, Coleman Hirschberg, Stephen Libby, Allan Mayo, Robert D. Murphy, and Linnea Schulz. | Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont St, Boston | 617.933.8600 | Through December 23 | Curtain 7:30 pm Thurs | 8 pm Fri-Sat | 2 pm Sun | 3 + 7 pm Tues-Wed | $35; $28 students
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Jools Oliver, wife of celebrity chef, Jamie has revealed that she snoops on her husband's communications to see if he's being unfaithful. Evidently, she checks his emails, phones and Twitter. (Mind you, over 2.4-million followers also keep up with Jamie via Twitter so she shouldn't beat herself up about keeping tabs on him through that particular medium.)
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The approval, of course, was not universal. Jools "obsessively stalks him via every conceivable communication stream" wrote a blogger for The Guardian in Jools Oliver, here's why you shouldn't check Jamie's emails and tweets.
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Besides, if he was truly hell-bent on illicit communications, surely he'd have the good sense to manage them via a separate and secret mobile device. I'll be hiring a private investigator if I ever need any dirt on him.
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06-22-2013, 06:30 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Why are my cichilds growing so slow and will they be stunted?
There's a lady with a home business that sold me some cichlids last winter. She kept a few of them in her show tank that I had ordered through her because she liked them and she had ordered extra. Well I haven't been there since but I went back yesterday and those same fish are huge...like twice the size of mine! I thought mine were doing good because they reproduce like crazy but wow something's wrong. The only difference I could see is that she has a 150 gallon and I have a 120 gallon. I have about 25 fish in mine (5 groups of 5) and she has about 15 (1 of every kind). I only do a once a week change so I don't know how often she cleans hers...also I know she keeps her ph high and mine's only at about 6.5-7. My water is really hard too so I'm not sure what cichlids like but I do keep my nitrates under 20. What's going on with my tank? Is it the low ph and lack of water changes? If I fix this now will they grow? Should I get rid of some?
Nutrition will also play a role.
Is there a reason why you're not posting species information? Water that's only ph 6.5 but rock hard is so unusual, it's intriguing.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
agree with TD. what are you feeding them? how much and how often?
did you ask the lady you bought them from what she feeds hers?
FWIW, some fish grow at a different rate. I have 2 severums - a gold and a green. They started out the same size. The green is now almost double the size of the gold. but the gold is a picky eater. he'll only eat frozen blood worms and brine shrimp which I only feed 1 time a week. no flakes or pellets. I used to worry about him but after almost a year he seems perfectly healthy and active and has great color - just particular about his food. The green sev on the other hand eats anything that goes in the tank. He's a pig! :o) fish are like humans. not all come in the same size or grow to the same size.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
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The fish that we have the same are white tail acei, zebra obliquidens , jewels and yellow labs...only our labs are the same size. We both feed the same food...it's flake food that's for all cichlids (I'm not sure if that's ok or not) she does give hers cubes of frozen blood worms twice a week but I was afraid this would give my acei bloat. It's just weird that out of all of mine, none have grown nearly as large as hers. I'm just assuming this is my water quality.
Weekly water changes should be fine as long as they are large enough. 50 - 75% in a well stocked tank would be beneficial.
I don't think you want to get rid of any fish as more fish = less aggression toward any one fish.
someone else may be able to comment on your hard water and ph issues but rather than start attempting to adjust (it's difficult to adjust and maintain a stable PH and stable PH is key) I'd try weekly or twice weekly frozen blood worm feedings and see if you notice any difference.
again - someone else is sure to comment on the ph and hardness.
good luck!30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
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Just a thought I'm throwing out there - what temperatures do you each keep your tank at? Cooler temperatures slow down fish metabolisms, perhaps a couple degrees difference may contribute to slower growth?
I also agree that food is likely a contributing factor. Bloodworms would round out the nutrition that may be lacking in flake - I'm not a fan of flake food when it comes to bigger fish, seems to me they need more substantial food like pellet or fresh/frozen.
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ok I'll try raising my temp to hers (80) I'm at 78...and I'll try the bloodworms. Thanks guys!
One other factor that has not been mentioned yet is breeding. When fish start breeding, much of their energy is used on that and growth rate slows as a result. That is another probability, unless hers are breeding too.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:08 PM GMT on May 26, 2008
The 2008 Memorial Day Weekend tornado outbreak will continue to hammer the U.S. today, even as residents from Iowa and Minnesota clean up from the devastating tornadoes that killed eight people Sunday afternoon. A mile-wide tornado plowed through Parkersburg, Iowa between 5pm and 6pm CDT yesterday, killing five people in that city, and two in nearby New Hartford. It was the deadliest tornado in Iowa in more than 40 years. The tornado passed just north of the airport in Waterloo, Iowa, which recorded sustained winds of 64mph, gusting to 94 mph at 5:37pm CDT. Damage appeared to be at least EF-4 in photos I saw, and possibly EF-5 (over 200 mph). In Minnesota, another powerful twister killed at least one person and injured 9 in the Minneapolis suburb of Hugo.
Figure 1. Satellite image of the supercell thunderstorms that spawned the Parkerburg, Iowa and Hugo, Minnesota tornadoes on May 25, 2008.
The slow-moving low pressure system responsible for all the mayhem began in Colorado on Thursday, when the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) recorded 48 reports of tornadoes, including the EF-3 mile-wide twister that killed one person in Windsor, Colorado. On Friday, an additional 63 tornado reports occurred, mostly in Kansas. The tornado that hit Quinter, Kansas on Friday was the eighth violent EF-4 tornado of the year. Also on Friday, two people were killed in Cairo, Kansas when a tornado smashed a car trying to flee the storm. If you want to see why one should not try to escape a tornado in a car, take a look at what the tornado did to the car. Saturday was relatively quiet, with only 13 tornado reports, but Sunday's tally of 43 brought the 4-day total from the 2008 Memorial Day weekend outbreak to a remarkable 157 tornado reports. Some of these tornado reports are undoubtedly of the same tornado, so the actual number of tornadoes for the 4-day outbreak may be less than 150. BBC has some awesome aerial footage of the weekend tornadoes.
Figure 2. Radar reflectivity image (top) of the May 25, 2008 Parkersburg, Iowa tornado. The position of Parkersburg is marked by a circle with a cross in the middle. Bottom: Doppler velocity image of the tornado, showing a small core of red and blue colors right next to each other, denoting strong winds towards and away from the radar, the classic signature of a tornado vortex.
Figure 3. Radar reflectivity image (top) of the May 25, 2008 Hugo, Minnesota tornado. The position of Hugo is marked by a circle with a cross in the middle. Bottom: Doppler velocity image of the tornado, showing a small core of red and blue colors right next to each other, denoting strong winds towards and away from the radar, the classic signature of a tornado vortex. We've also saved a 12-frame radar animation of the Hugo cell, thanks to wunderground member Todd S.
Tallying up the numbers
The death toll from Sunday pushes this year's tornado deaths to 111, the most since 1998, when 130 were recorded. Assuming that the Parkersburg, Iowa tornado was an EF-4 or EF-5, there have been nine violent EF-4 or EF-5 tornadoes this year. This is the most since 1999, when 13 such twisters were recorded. The total number of tornadoes this year is approaching 1100, and we may challenge the all time record for tornadoes in a year of 1817, set in 2004. Could this be a sign of climate change? No, I don't think so, and I'll explain why in a blog later this week.
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Severe weather will pound the U.S. again this Memorial Day, with the main action expected to stretch more than halfway across the country--from Texas to New York. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed much of Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle under its "Moderate Risk" category for severe weather, one step below its highest level of concern, "High Risk". Yesterday was also a "Moderate Risk" day in Iowa and Minnesota. The Weather Underground Severe Weather page and Tornado page are good places to go to follow the severe weather. Also, tune in to the chase accounts and awesome storm photos from Wunderblogger Mike Theiss. After today, it appears the severe weather outbreak will finally diminish, with only a slight risk of severe weather expected Tuesday, and no severe weather expected Wednesday.
Possible development in the Western Caribbean or Eastern Pacific late this week
For the past 3-6 days, our most reliable global computer weather forecast models have been predicting the development of a low pressure system near or over Central America by Friday of this week. Given the persistence in the models in developing this low, we need to be alert to the possibility of a tropical depression forming in either the Western Caribbean or Eastern Pacific, on either side of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. It is uncertain which ocean basin such a storm might form in, and whether or not there will be a tropical wave around to help kick off development. It may be that the low pressure region will stay anchored over land south of the Yucatan Peninsula, preventing any development. This is the solution preferred by the ECMWF model in its last few runs. However, the GFS, NOGAPS, and Canadian models all predict a tropical depression might form in the Western Caribbean near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. In contrast, the UKMET shows development in the Eastern Pacific, on the Pacific side of Central America. Climatologically, May tropical storms are much more common in the Eastern Pacific than the Western Caribbean, so we should not discount the UKMET solution, even though it is an outlier. All five models predict that the Central American low pressure area will move northward towards the Gulf of Mexico, and wind shear may fall enough to allow a tropical depression to form should the low's center emerge over water. I'll be posting daily updates on the situation this week.
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I'd love to, but with work, new baby & other responsibilities I can't make it unless I win the lotto & we all know the answer to that one.Originally Posted by SirSteve
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I've got to say no. The main reason being I can't make it to Celebration 3. If I were able to make it I'd strongly consider going to a SSG party. And if did show up at one of these parties I'd have go by my real name and let folks guess who I was or make up a different name for added confession.
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Bumpin this one back up from a few years back....
This is my fly for the current warmwater swap. The only difference is that I have dubbed the body instead of using the closed cell foam, so the fly will need to be treated for flotation prior to use.
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Dave, I hear ya about the coldwater applications with this fly. I've used it as a stonefly imitation/indicator while trailing a stonefly nymph underneath, and it's driven some rainbows crazy. I've also used the same fly in the pic with shorter legs as a hopper imitation.
I'll give your suggestion about the zonker-style tie down a try. I suppose that having the foam on top of the hook shank lets the fly sit lower in the surface film.
Nice tie, Mark.
Don't know how much you fish coldwater, but that pattern's a deadly stonefly/hopper imitation for trout. I tie them with orange bellies for the june stonefly hatches on the Deerfield.
Nice use of the foam - god's gift to fly tiers. For even more floatation, you can wind the hook with the thread/yarn of your choice, lay a strip of foam flat over the back of the hook, and lash down zonker-style. Lots of the new western stone patterns are tied this way.
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|Thats a nice fly Mark. I'll have to give winding foam on the hook a try.
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I absolutely love this fly. If I could only use one fly on top for smallmouth (excluding poppers and hair bugs), this would be it.
Hook: 6-12 (here, a size 8 3XL)
Thread: To match (here, light orange)
Tail: Deer hair (here, natural)
Body: Yellow closed cell foam
Head/wing: Deer hair (here, yellow), tied in bullet style
Legs: Round rubber
The original recipe calls for yellow thread for the body, but I've found that relying on the deer hair alone can lead to poor flotation after only a few fish. I cut a thin strip of closed cell foam as seen in the picture and wrap it along the hook shank. Don't wrap too tightly, or the cells will collapse and defeat the purpose. With the foam, it floats forever and is even a great indicator fly to drift a nymph underneath.
The silhouette from the fish's perspective is pretty tough to beat.
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Adam Loughran, Compliance and Security Management Principal, describes the certified and integrated technologies that we and SAP deliver to help you mitigate risk, simplify business governance and ensure continuous compliance enterprise wide.
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Train hits car, Citra man hospitalized, FHP reports
Published: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 4:21 p.m.
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ANTHONY — A 25-year-old Citra man was critically injured when he drove around a railroad crossing gate and was struck by a train early Sunday morning, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
The accident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. at the railroad crossing on State Road 326, just east of Northeast 36th Avenue north of Ocala, said sheriff's Capt. Grady Grimes.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the train was traveling south with its horn activated. The gates on SR 326 were down and the red light signal was activated.
Jedrek Tyrell Turner went around the gate in a 2001 Hyundai and was struck by the train, the FHP reported.
Turner was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car. He was taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center's new Level II Trauma Center, which opened Saturday.
"Most people can't say they were in a vehicle hit by a train and survived," Grimes said Sunday.
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As noted in this morning's roundup, this has a boom year for corporate bonds as huge supplies of new issues have been met with strong demand. That's despite historic low yields and tight spreads over benchmark Treasuries, which have investors hunting for values in bond land.
While that's had traditional investment-grade corporate-bond buyers venturing into high-yield issues or mortgage-backed securities, Mark Grant, the managing director for taxable fixed income at Southwest Securities suggests a less-familiar alternative: taxable municipal bonds. As noted here on numerous times, the muni market has been staggered by the negative headlines from Detroit and Puerto Rico along with the seemingly never-ending outflows from municipal funds.
For those who can take advantage of tax-free income (such as most individual investors' taxable accounts but not institutions such as pension funds), Grant says traditional munis are attractive now, adding "I would be stepping up my purchases before year end."
For investors who don't need tax-exemption, Grant calls taxable munis "the best value in fixed income at the moment." As an example, he cites a long-term New Orleans general-obligation taxable bond (rated A3 by Moody's and triple-B-plus by Standard & Poor's), which traded at a yield of 6.12%–a spread of 2.35 percentage points over the Treasury long bond versus 1.12 percentage points for a comparable corporate. "That is a significant spread differential in my opinion and points out exactly why I like this segment of the market," he writes in his "Out of the Box" daily missive distributed to the institutional elite of bond land.
Grant says there aren't a lot of Build America Bonds (the taxable muni program backed by Treasury subsidies that ended a few years ago) or other taxable municipals around for institutional buyers. Individuals, meanwhile, have funds available to them to tap the sector relatively easily.
The PowerShares Build America Bond ETF (BAB) trades a few percent above its 52-week low and yields 5.10%, well above the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF's (LQD) yield of 3.87%.
For the more adventurous, there are several closed-end funds specializing in taxable munis that have yields over 8% in some cases. To be sure, those yields are augmented by leverage, which has exacerbated their share-price declines in this year's muni-market sell-off. The flip side is that the taxable-muni CEFs trade at double-digit discounts to their net-asset value.
For instance, the Guggenheim Build America Bonds Managed Duration Trust (GBAB) yields 8.68% at Friday's share price, which represented an 11.73% discount from NAV, according to CEFConnect.com. That yawning discount is the result of an 8% decline in the share price, much steeper than the 1% drop in its NAV.
The BlackRock Build America Bond Trust (BBN) sports an even wider 12.46% discount and an 8.66% yield (although its monthly distribution of 13.18 cents includes a 0.41-cent return of capital.) The Nuveen Build America Bond Fund (NBB) and the Nuveen Build America Bond Opportunity Fund (NBD) offer slightly lower yields of 7.77% and 7.25%, respectively, with equally compelling discounts in the 12% range, based on Friday's close.


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I might have been wrong about this Ludwig fellow.
I might have been wrong about this Ludwig fellow.
Hopefully Broxton finishes this game off and we get a win. Looking at the amount of hits versus runs, they should have scored a lot more but given how little offense the Reds have provided lately, they've made quite an improvement today
Get the ball over thye plate!
Good old Stubby.
really lucky that wasnt a walkoff
I take back half of what I've said about Stubbs
Baseball in the age of SeliG: This ump has been out there for 5 hours, I'm sure he has a plane to catch, Broxton throws a great pitch over the plate at 2-2, and he calls it a ball. Would have served him right if the game had gone another 10 innings.
Sweep this.
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Red's pen- Sam, Ondrusek, Marshall and Broxton. Nice effort boys.
They definitely should have been able to get more runs off of 17 hits, but the way this offense have been I think 5 runs and 17 hits earns them a big
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|One other manufacturer to check out would be Cortland. I've had a Cortland 5/6 weight 8 foot rod that I've used for bass fishing for almost 20 years and I still love it (and the same line too!). I have no idea how much it cost since it was a gift, but I can't imagine it was more than $100.
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Hey Jeff,
I have a 13-year old who I started fly fishing when he was about 6 or 7. I find that an 8 - 81/2 foot rod suits him quite well at his age, not that a 9 foot rod would not be good, but it all depends on the strength and leverage.
A good place to start would be with a 5 or 6wt rod. The wt refers to the Line weight. You can fish trout and panfish with a 5 or 6 wt easily. I would probably go with a 6 wt as it will give you a bit more latitude when fishing different species and will help when you cast larger flies and plugs.
As for the cost of a set-up like this you can probably get a nice little outfit for under 200$ for a rod and a reel. No need to spend a ton of money right away. Give yourselves a bit of time to get into the sport and then the sky is the limit in terms of pricing and doo dads you can buy.
You may want to consider a good pair of waders to go along with the rod and reel as comfort is key when fishing. If you can wet wade (no waders - just wading in the water in jeans) then that is fine too, although you want to make sure that your footwear is proper for the task. This means that you want to get some footwear with FELT soles on them to prevent you and your Son from falling into the river!
Cabella's, Bass Pro shops and any other retail chain have decent gear for a good price, although I am the sort of guy who likes to support smaller shops that will give me good advice and ongoing service. That is not to say that the bigger guys cannot offer that, it is just my preference to do business with locals.
Once you and your son get geared up, drop me a private message and I will send you down some flies from Quebec. I have TONS and TONS of flies that I will never use and knowing they will go to two new anglers, I will be happy to send you a selection to get you started if you want.
Fathers and sons who fish together often form a very special bond that cannot be duplicated with other activities. I wish you both the best and many years of angling together.
Happy Holidays!
I've been shooting target rifles for years and the rifle is just the tip of the iceburg (very large iceburg by the way with a very expensive tip, but just the tip all the same).
I'm guessing fly fishing is a similar iceburg.
I'm not aware of any fly shops in the Cincinnati Ohio / Northern Kentucky area.
There's definitely some decent equipment in that price range. I'd go with a 5 weight 9 foot rod. That will work well for the local bass, plus for trout out west.
A couple of manufacturers to check out are:
1) St Croix
2) TFO (Temple Fork Outfitters)
3) Bass Pro Shops (normally I wouldn't recommend them since most people don't have a store close, their equipment is good quality.)
See if there's any local fly shops in your area too and go there and try out a few rods. You're likely to get much better advice than at BPS.
Are you looking to spend $150-200 on just the rod and reel? Or on flies, tippet, nippers, etc?
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Hi guys and gals,
I've been fishing for about 40 years now, but am very new to fly fishing. I tried it when I was a kid popping for bluegill and bass around farmponds. I haven't done it for years and my flyrod is long gone.
My son and I were out in Yellowstone last summer and thought we'd like to take up fly fishing. He's going to be 12.
I'm searching opinions on equipment, rods, reels, tips on getting started, etc.
We live in Kentucky and bass, crappie, bluegill are the major fish around here. Some of the streams have small mouth bass but most are largemouth.
I'd like to get something that would handle the bluegill and crappie and some of the bass (not trophy hunting here). We are dreaming of another trip out west in a couple years. Is there such a thing as a fly fishing setup that can double duty for the local fish and also be used to try our hand with Trout?
We're also about 5 or 6 hours from the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee and some trout streams in Eastern Kentucky and Western Virginia.
However, the vast majority of our fishing is going to be local for the bluegill etc.
Where can I buy the needed equipment? There is a big Bass Pro Shop about an hour from where I live. Would they have quality stuff? Are there on-line places that have good stuff.
I'd like to keep the initial investment in the $150 - $200 range for each of us (total 300-400 for both). Is that a realistic price point for getting decent equipment? I learned a long time ago with guitars and muzzle loading target firearms (my other two passions) that cheap equipment is a sure path to frustration.
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The first 10 figures came in poorly wrapped and in a box barely big enough for them. I called and complained and they sent me some replacements for the ones that were damaged. No big problem. They also had the 3rd figure available when I called about the replacements, so I ordered 5 of them. They came in a couple of days ago and the bill said R3-D3, but the box was full of G2-4T. Called and complained again. They said they would Fed-Ex 5 more figures and I had to return the other ones to my local Disney store. Well, today the new ones came in while I was gone and guess what? That's right, crammed into a box barely big enough for 5 figures without the packing material. Well, after they crammed that packing material in on top of them, that's right, they got damaged. Not all of them, I managed to save 2 of them. Since I am opening my set, I only need 2 replaced this time. So, now I have to call again today.
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Today we're launching the Google Font API. I've been working over the past couple of months with highly talented font designers to get a great collection of fonts released as open source. Almost all the fonts are under the Open Font License, and in our discussions I've been sensing a huge amount of momentum behind this license.
Obviously, the main reason we're doing this is to have a richer set of fonts for the web. But since the fonts are all open source, they can be used for lots of other things. I'm confident this collection will shortly show up in Linux distribution. We've created a Google Code project to host the fonts in the Google Font Directory, many of which contain FontForge or FontLab source. I want to run that in open source style, and invite people working on packaging fonts for Linux and other open source projects to help curate the project.
I'm also looking forward to hearing from more font designers. We've been working directly with designers to get the fonts for the initial launch, but we want to add many more, including both existing open-source fonts (possibly with a little work to meet quality and glyph coverage goals). If you're working on a font you'd like to see in the Google Font Directory, you can use this spreadsheet form, or get in touch with me directly. Please bear with me if I don't respond immediately, though - I'm expecting to be swamped.
It's hugely exciting to be working on fonts full time now, with a great team. I'm looking forward to some great collaboration with the open source and font worlds now that we're out in the world.


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Hey guys, I have a couple questions for yall.
I have an 11month old BLM that I am currently going through land T with. He has been through OB, FF, FTP, etc.. We spent a month or more on pile work getting it thoroughly engrained. After teaching and extending the pile, I forced to the back pile using low continuous for a few seconds and then switched to higher nicks at various distances from the pile. That all went great. We then went through mini T ( from front sit) with the back pile around 30-40 ft away for several days, then from heel for several more (all without pressure). That too went great. We are now on day 8 of the full land T with the back pile at 100yards and the 2 over piles around 40 yards from the line, 30yards off to the sides. Had to do a pretty good amount of teaching and simplifying at first because he was driving through to the back pile when I gave overs(im guessing because I CC'd the right and left backs during 3 handed casting, leaving out the overs).
Around day 5 I started getting a loopy sit and a little flaring. We worked through the flaring pretty easy and with help from a member here we are doing an 8 day drill to correct the loopy sit. Both yesterday and the day before we ran a 14 bumper (10 back, 2 on each overs) T almost flawlessly. Both days he took all casts correctly, only thing was the sit being a little loopy and slow (but getting better by the day). I have not used any direct pressure at this point on the full T, just indirect if he needed it. I was thinking that since we got the teaching part down I could start to add pressure and reinforce my backs enroute just to clean up the drill and pressure condition him to the commands again now that the overs piles are out and playing there part.
Question is, after I run a couple days with direct pressure to the back pile, when do I start teaching the other two over piles and start the double T? How clean should my lines and casts be before adding the double T? How proficient is your dog on the T before progressing?
I have been taking my time and on several occasions stepped back and redid some things I did not have down as well as I thought. I dont want to move on to the double T too soon, but I do want to keep it interesting for the dog.
Along with the yard work, we have been marking about 2 days a week. Still just simple singles on low cut grass, but I have been working in some factors and adding distance. Friday Scotch nailed his longest mark to date at 190yards across a terrace in the field and did it 4 times from different angles!!!...I was pretty pumped. Anyway sorry for the book, but wanted to give yall some background. thanks for your help!


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Aid Worker Diary: Saving lives as life begins
"Help! Help! Evariste, Evariste, please open the door!"
Early on the morning of 17 December 2011, Evariste Dindaye was woken by a man's hysterical shouting. When Evariste opened his door, the panic-stricken man blurted out: "My wife is about to have a baby and she's in excruciating pain! Please come quickly!"
Evariste Dindaye is the Deputy Chief of Koum Bam 1 health post in the north western prefecture of Ouham Pende in the Central African Republic (CAR). Some 430,000 people live in Ouham Pende and their access to healthcare is very limited. In the CAR as a whole, there is only one health worker for every 7,000 people and less than 30% of people have access to health facilities. In most villages, health workers and community leaders need basic medical training
When Evariste arrived at the health post, 34 year old Jacqueline* was about to deliver her thirteenth child.
"She was lying on the veranda in obvious pain. I immediately brought her in for examination," recalls Evariste. "The matron's office was closed and the head of the health post had gone to Bocaranga to get medical supplies. She was losing blood, and I was afraid because the reference criteria for bleeding during pregnancy indicated that she needed to be referred urgently to the Bocaranga hospital. Unfortunately, all the people who provide transport had gone to a local market with their motorcycles, and we had no way to contact them.
"We did our best to control the bleeding, and at around 10:00 am, Jacqueline gave birth to a boy weighing nearly 3.5 kg, alive and well. After the placenta was removed, the bleeding worsened. This was very frightening as I had never experienced this situation before.
"I feared that she was dying in front of me. Her blood pressure was already very low and I knew that if she was not taken to the hospital in Bocaranga, she had little chance of survival."
According to recent statistics, the maternal mortality rate in the CAR has deteriorated from 850 to 890 deaths per 100,000 compared to an average of 500 in Sub Saharan Africa as a whole. Infant mortality is also ranked at 112 deaths per 1,000 births compared to the regional average of 77.
"At 11:15 am, an International Rescue Committee (IRC) vehicle arrived, bringing a midwife," says Evariste.
"After examining Jacqueline, she said the bleeding was caused by a tear during delivery. She controlled the bleeding and with Jacqueline in a state of severe shock, but partially stabilized, we made the one-hour trip to Bocaranga on very dirty and rough roads. When she arrived, Jacqueline immediately had surgery to stop the bleeding. This prompt and effective medical assistance saved her life.
"Because of the training I received from the IRC over the past year, I was able to remain calm and help the mother during the delivery," Evariste concluded. "Otherwise, I believe I would have panicked in that situation. By God's grace the mother and child are alive and well today."
This life-saving intervention took place at a remote health post where training is limited and mothers routinely die in childbirth. The training Evariste received was basic and appropriate for a small health facility with very limited resources; but it was enough on this occasion to stabilize the patient long enough to reach a better-equipped facility where better care was available. The midwife at the health post had also received IRC training, funded by the United Nations Common Humanitarian Fund, which provides flexible and targeted help to vulnerable people affected by conflict. IRC trained nineteen health staff working with 15 clinics in Ouham Pende prefecture.
"None of this training would have been possible without the funding provided by the CHF," says Leland Montell, IRC Country Director in the CAR.
"Unfortunately this funding has now ended and the training programme closed in May. Health care in the CAR is truly a crisis, and we hope very much that we will be able to start a new training programme later this year when funds become available. The lives of mothers and their newborn children depend on our help."
Reporting by Laura Fultang, Information Officer, OCHA CAR
* Name has been changed to preserve anonymity.
Journal d'un travailleur humanitaire: sauver des vies lorsque la vie commence


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Scheppele to deliver Constitution Day lecture
Posted September 10, 2009; 10:34 p.m.
Kim Lane Scheppele, director of the University's Program in Law and Public Affairs, will deliver the annual Constitution Day lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in 101 Friend Center.
Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and an authority on comparative constitutional law, will discuss "How Small Emergencies Undermine Big Constitutional Principles.
Deborah Pearlstein, an associate research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and George Kateb, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics Emeritus, will serve as commentators.
The lecture is sponsored by the Program in American Studies, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Office of the Provost and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
According to a 2004 federal law, educational institutions that receive federal funds are required to hold programs about the U.S. Constitution on the anniversary of the document's signing, Sept. 17, or in the preceding or following week. A copy of the Constitution and further information regarding its creation are available on the National Archives website.


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The AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE TOUR 2008 will rupture and burst all over the DCU Center this Saturday, August 9. Take that information and do what you will. . . . If you'd rather have a pleasant musical experience that night, you could catch DISAPPEARER at O'Brien's, where they'll be joined by BRAIN BANGER, FURNACE, and (God help us) COCTOPUS. . . . The rest of the week sports a philanthropic streak. This Saturday, August 10, ZuZu will host ACTION PARK, a sweaty dance-party benefit for the Kirsten A. Malone Scholarship Fund (geared toward young artists and named after "Lady K," the beloved and departed local arts heroine) featuring DJs MARK E. MOON, MAC SWELL, DJ PROTECTION (from UV Protection), and DAN "THE COYOTE" SHEA. . . . In a more rocking take on do-gooding, Great Scott hosts a benefit for SPARE CHANGE on Monday with VIVA VIVA, STEPHEN BRODSKY, and DOOMSTAR. . . . Last but not least, a two-night benefit for local Little League players at Church thrown (and headlined) by JASON BENNETT & THE RESISTANCE. JB will be joined by the SCARS and SUPER POWER on August 14 and (God help us) VAGIANT on August 15. See? Three ways to feel good about going out at night — or three ways to feel like utter shit in the morning. Whichever.
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We didn't create the planet and we don't have the power to destroy it with our cars and deodorant. That's just earth day pap. I don't buy into any of that nonsense.
For some reason libs that want to save the earth measure time in terms of their own lives. The earth has been here and doing fine much longer and will be here much longer than all of us. The century (or less) that most of us are here is not even a drop in the bucket.


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- User Name: Meilin1
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- Profile: Truth be told, as far as the AMV's go, there are 3 of us here at MeilinII Productions. We are the Hiwatari sisters!!! Not all of us work on every vid, but we ALWAYS force each other to watch a vid 100 times+ before we post it!!!
Meilin - Eldest (24 years)
Sakura-Chan - Middle (19 years)
Yuki - Youngest (17 years)
Meilin: I'm the specialist at editing techniques. I edit the videos of all three of us. All opinions left, unless otherwise noted, are by me. I have to find source material for the girls creative ideas! Trust me, that's hard!! I also am the one who goes over a video a thousand times to check for flashes or images we don't want in the vids.
Sakura-Chan: I'm the practical applicator. I come up with matches between lyrics and the images, and pick songs for character tributes.
Yuki: I'm the one who comes up with most concept ideas!
About our vids, we do try to beat sync, but we think lyric sync is more important, so no flaming us 'cause we don't beat sync excessively!!!!
WE LOVE ANIME! Send us any downloads you like! We wanna see them all!
Our absolute FAVORTIE Creators thus far are Icepuppet, Ally AKA Izumi and Che Yang. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!
If you're still reading, you either must really like our vids, or be really bored, like me (Meilin) at the moment. HOORAY FOR BORED TEENAGERS!! Summer: Almost enough to make you miss school. ALMOST.
The three of us are totally different personality-wise; people rarely believe we're sisters. We look really different to.
Meilin: I'm short. I'll admit it. I make Edward Elric look like Michael Jordan. I'm 5 foot and a quarter. T_T I'm also hyperactive, volunteer more time than I have available, and karaoke way to much. I have brown hair (REALLY LONG brown hair) that is ALWAYS in a braid, because Edward and Duo Maxwell own your souls. No really, see? *Points to Duo holding a jar of souls* I write fanfiction with my friend Schweppes, and its on fanfiction.net under the names Schweppes and MeilinII, though some are down for editing. I rely on my friends for source footage a lot. I am what the teachers hate most: an intelligent but lazy student. I point out when they are wrong, but do homework on a bi-weekly basis or less, then get 100's on every test and quiz. I'm a Junior in Grad School. I go to EVERY con possible.
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The NSVRC wants to learn about innovations happening in your community regarding SART development and sustainability. We are accepting submissions from around the country. We are highlighting practices that strengthen advocacy, law enforcement, healthcare, prosecution, forensic science and build capacity for teams. Read more about how to submit your innovation [1].
Submissions are reviewed quarterly and may be highlighted by the NSVRC in print and electronic form.
Links:[1] http://www.nsvrc.org/sart/innovations
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Winter Fishing in the Florida Keys is some of the best anywhere in the world. Sailfish patrol both deep water and close to the reef, Mahi Mahi are abundant around any floating wreckage or weed lines, and the reefs are full migratory and local species. Blackfin and the ocasional yellowfin Tuna have been caught offshore where the shark fishing is also fantastic, and big game charters are having almost 100% success in finding marlin, swordfish and sailfish. Cobia have also been abundant, both at the reefs and following around rays, regular catches of 40+ pounders happen weekly. In the flats barracuda are hitting flies consistently, a fishery many swear is among the most exciting. For anyone adverse to wind and light jacket weather this may not be the season for you, but for anyone brave enough (68 degree average temp in january) we highly recommend this time of year for fishing.


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The Inspector General (2011)
Act I
The Mayor of a small provincial town in Russia announces to a gathering of officials that a government inspector is on his way, and will likely arrive in disguise. The announcement sparks a panic as the corrupt officials devise plans to disguise their corruption and quickly clean up the town. Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, two local landowners, announce the presence of a mysterious stranger staying at the local inn – he must be the inspector, already arrived. The Mayor sets off to greet the new arrival as his wife (Anna) and daughter (Marya) are left to speculate what the inspector will be like. Meanwhile, Khlestakov, a low-ranking civil servant from St. Petersburg, has lost his money gambling. His servant Osip hasn't eaten in two days, and the innkeeper refuses to serve them until Khlestakov pays his bill. The Mayor arrives with Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky in tow, and assuming Khlestakov to be the inspector, insists on taking him home and feeding him. A confused Khlestakov, making the most of the mix-up, follows the Mayor home. Anna and Marya grill Dobchinsky for details about the inspector's age and appearance, then argue about what to wear. Osip arrives and heads straight for the kitchen as the Mayor, Khlestakov, and several town officials come in. The locals (including the Mayor's wife) flatter Khlestakov outrageously, and he invents increasingly extravagant tales of his own importance.
Act II
The next morning, the town officials all take turns offering Khlestakov bribes in the form of loans. Khlestakov then pens a letter to a friend in Petersburg, in which he describes the situation and ridicules the town. Osip takes the letter to the post office as a series of shopkeepers and townspeople enter and beg the inspector to punish the corrupt and abusive Mayor. Khlestakov accepts more money, promising vaguely to fix the problem. Khlestakov attempts to seduce Marya, then Anna, then Marya once more, pleading for her hand in marriage, which is granted upon the Mayor's arrival. Meanwhile, Osip suspects the game may be up and procures a horse and carriage. Khlestakov declares his intent to gain permission for the marriage from his own father and leaves town with Osip (and another "loan" from the Mayor). Anna and Marya fantasize about the wedding and life in St. Petersburg as the officials and their wives arrive to congratulate them on their good fortune. The Postmaster arrives with Khlestakov's letter, he is revealed as an impostor, and the officials angrily berate and blame one another for the perilous misunderstanding. In the midst of this melée, a gendarme arrives to announce that the real government inspector has arrived. The corrupt officials are left frozen in terror.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (or THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR)
By Nikolai Gogol
Translated and Adapted by Alistair Beaton
Directed by Efim Zvenyatsky
A collaboration with the Maxim Gorky Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia
First performed at Chichester Festival Theatre on 30th June 2005
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR © Alistair Beaton
Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd.
Director Efim Zvenyatsky
Assistant Director Rand Harmon
Scenic Designer Vladimir Koltunov
Costume Designer Vladimir Koltunov
Lighting Designer Trefoni Rizzi^
Sound Designer TBD
Dramaturg Heidi Schmidt
Stage Manager Matthew Compton*
Assistant Stage Manager Cheryl Hanson*
(In alphabetical order)
Dobchinsky Ian Anderson
Waiter Benjamin Bonenfant
Doctor Tom Coiner
Anna Lanna Joffrey*
(Karen Slack+, understudy)
Police Superintendent Chris Kendall
Postmaster Geoffrey Kent*+
Wife Leslie O'Carroll*
Bobchinsky Timothy Orr*
Marya Jamie Ann Romero+
Director of Education Mark Rubald*
Magistrate Sam Sandoe+
Health Commissioner Erik Sandvold*
Mishka Tony Vo
Osip Jake Walker
Khlestakov Stephen Weitz*+
Mayor Gary Wright*
RUSSIAN ENSEMBLE (July 15 and 16 only)
Health Commissioner Volodya Sergiakov
Khlestakov Alexandr Slavski
Postmaster Kolya Timoshenko
Mayor Evgeny Weigel
The Government Inspector: The Start of a New Tradition
The Government Inspector (also translated as The Inspector General or simply The Inspector) is one of Russia's most produced plays, and has been called the greatest Russian play ever written. It was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1836 in a production that emphasized the broad comedy in the play, minimizing (or ignoring) the elements of satire and social commentary. The production's social critique was sufficiently softened that Tsar Nicholas I saw and recommended the play. Conservative critics, however, were not pleased. Gogol was disappointed in the production, later deriding the characterization of Khlestakov as a conventional vaudeville stereotype, who appeared, unchanged, on the Russian stage for two hundred years. The actors, perhaps, are not to be blamed. The Russian theatre of the early nineteenth century was not known for its nuance. It relied heavily on sentimentality, bombast, and stock characters. Social relevance was not part of its vocabulary, and comedy generally fit into the classical mold, ending happily with a marriage. Gogol's frustrations with the production and its reception prompted him to leave the country and subject his script to extensive rewrites, heightening the satire. He later commented, "In The Government Inspector I decided to gather into one heap everything rotten in Russia as I then saw it . . . I decided to hold up everything to ridicule at once." The new version of the script was published in 1842, but not performed until 1870.
Acclaimed director Vsevelod Meyerhold took on The Government Inspector in 1926, in a production often called his masterwork. Inspired by some of Gogol's published critiques of the original production, Meyerhold took the play in a notably different direction. He focused his attention on the darker elements, instructing his cast to reject buffoonery and steer a course for tragedy. Meyerhold's production is more accurately named an adaptation; he re-structured the play into fifteen episodes, added characters, and incorporated elements from other Gogol works, including the novel Dead Souls. The farce of the first production took on a nightmarish quality, especially in the final moments of the play.
The fact that The Government Inspector can support such vastly different interpretations is part of its brilliance and historical significance. Meyerhold described the play's position in Russian theatrical history as a pivot point:
What is most amazing about The Inspector General is that although it contains all the elements of those plays written before it, although it was constructed according to various established dramatic premises, there can be no doubt – at least for me – that far from being the culmination of a tradition, it is the start of a new one.
The Government Inspector does not belong entirely to what came before or after. The play represents a significant break from comic tradition, specifically in its use of the age-old comic device of mistaken identity. The revelation of a character's true identity conventionally sparks the resolution and reconciliation characteristic of classic comedy. In The Government Inspector, however, the revelation of Khlestakov's identity marks a significant shift to a much darker tone. In this comedy, no one is redeemed, no one gets married, and no one gets the expected happy ending. Gogol transcends genre to create a masterpiece that lives simultaneously in two worlds – comedy and tragedy. With this innovation, he established himself as the link between the nineteenth century Russian stage and the twentieth century innovators who followed in his footsteps.
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Technically, Pink Floyd had it wrong. The space-facing side of the moon isn't dark (except at full moon when the Earth is between the sun and the moon). Not that you'd know that, given we always see the same side of our nearest neighbour.
To understand why we only see that one side, we need to explore the relationship between the moon and Earth, and the forces that will slowly, but inexorably, sling the moon from our orbit into space.
As the moon orbits Earth, its gravitational pull raises "tidal bulges" on our planet. Both solid ground and oceans respond to this pull, causing the moon to raise land and ocean tides.
At the same time, the sun also raises tides on Earth which, while noticeably weaker than those caused by the moon, adds a level of complexity to the tides we experience.
When the moon and sun are aligned correctly (either at new moon - when the moon is approximately between Earth and the sun - or at full moon, when Earth is approximately between the moon and the sun), the tides induced by the moon and sun add together, and we get extra-high and extra-low tides.
These are commonly known as spring tides.
Equally, when the moon and sun are pulling at right angles to one another, their influence cancels out, to some extent, and we get neap tides - high tides are at their lowest, and low tides their highest.
Slow spin-down - the long-term influence of tides
Beyond just causing the daily ingress and egress of the ocean on to land, tides raised by the moon on Earth have another interesting effect - they are slowly causing Earth's rotation to slow.
As we all know, Earth spins on its axis once a day, but the moon takes almost a whole month to orbit our planet. As a result, the location of the tidal bulges from the moon move around our planet significantly more slowly than Earth's surface spins.
Friction causes the bulges to be pulled along with Earth's motion, to some degree, and they end up slightly ahead of the location directly beneath the moon.
We're slowly growing apart - the moon's recession
The rate at which the moon is receding from Earth is relatively small, but easily measured (using the retroreflectors left on the Moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts, among other techniques).
Currently, the recession is only around 22 millimetres a year, causing one Earth day to lengthen by about 23 microseconds a year.
Synchronous rotation
Earth exerts tides on the moon, just as the moon exerts tides on Earth. Since Earth is comparatively massive, the tides it raises on the moon are much greater than those raised by the moon on Earth.
And those tides long ago slowed the moon's rotation so that it spins on its axis exactly once in the time it takes to orbit our planet once.
As the moon recedes from Earth, its orbital period will increase, but the strength of Earth's tides will ensure its spin slows, so it will continue to show the same face to our planet.
Jonti Horner is an astronomer and astrobiologist based at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney.


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Program to feature panel of former Supreme Court clerks, Nov. 18
Posted November 14, 2003; 02:44 p.m.
Five former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks will participate in a panel discussion at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in 16 Robertson Hall.
"The Legacy of Justice Harlan: A Conversation With His Clerks," is being hosted by the Program in Law and Public Affairs in conjunction with the first John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will deliver the lecture on Monday, Nov. 17. A lottery for tickets to the O'Connor lecture has been held, and winners have been notified. The Nov. 18 panel is free and open to the public.
Four former Harlan clerks, including two Princeton alumni, and a former clerk of O'Connor will participate in the panel. The former Harlan clerks are: Norman Dorsen, the Stokes Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Marvin Gray Jr., a 1966 Princeton graduate and a partner at Davis Wright Termaine; Kent Greenwalt, a professor at Columbia Law School; and Thomas Stoel Jr., a 1962 Princeton graduate and an environmental attorney and consultant who cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council. Also participating will be Marci Hamilton, the Paul Verkuil Chair in Public Law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Cardozo Law School, who clerked for O'Connor and is now a Supreme Court litigator.
The John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication honors the 1920 Princeton graduate who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1955 until 1971. Harlan was the eighth and most recent Princetonian to serve on the court.
Contact:Tom Bartus (609) 258-3601