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Today I bring you some thoughts from Jon Butzon, who has spent years working to improve and reform education in South Carolina. He believes that not only should we have great schools but we can have great schools for every child in South Carolina. Here is what he thinks we should do.
There is no waltzing around it. K-12 public education in South Carolina is not working.
Two weeks ago, the S.C. Senate passed a bill that would lay the groundwork for the governor to appoint the state superintendent of education — making the Department of Education a cabinet agency and fully accountable to the governor. The bill has yet to pass the House, but a similar bill passed the House last session.
Last winter, the Committee to Incorporate Van Wyck, which I chaired, began advocating for the incorporation of Van Wyck as a defense against the involuntary annexation of Van Wyck by the proposed Town of Indian Land.
In 1929, Gaffney native W.J. Cash wrote his seminal book "The Mind of the South."
Every subsequent attempt to understand the mind (and soul) of the South necessarily starts with this book. It has been so since it was written and will probably continue to be so for generations to come. It is that good.
The premise of Cash's book is that there is a distinctive Southern mind, and I believe there is also a "sub-species" native to the Palmetto State that we could call the South Carolina mind.
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The American bureaucracy is an example of post-truth because it has been poisoned with liberal false science, false news and personal beliefs. Universities are not teaching students to think, but what to think.
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God desires to lead and direct his people. He told David, "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye" (Psalm 32:8).
Last month, a state House and Senate panel offered its solutions to fix South Carolina's pension system, which is anywhere from $20 billion to $74 billion in debt, depending on whom you ask. What isn't being discussed much now is how the pension system got this bad, likely because a lot of legislative leaders have overseen its decline.
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Menomonie, Wis., Restaurant Retaliated Against Employee for Complaints About Racially Offensive Drawings, Judge Ruled Following Jury's Findings
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In its lawsuit, the EEOC had charged that Sparx fired Dion Miller because he complained about an offensive display in the restaurant, which included a dollar bill with a noose around George Washington's neck, and drawings of a man on horseback and a hooded figure with "KKK" written on his hood. Miller, who was a cook in the restaurant, was fired three weeks after he complained about the figure.
Following the EEOC initiating this action, Sparx Restaurant (which was incorporated as Northern Star Hospitality) closed, and subsequently, a Denny's franchise, which was incorporated as North Broadway Holdings, began operating in the same space. The EEOC amended its suit to allege that the action was against Northern Star Hospitality, North Broadway Holdings, Inc., and Northern Star Properties, LLC (which owned the property in which the restaurants operated), which were a single employer for purposes of liability and relief in this case. After an evidentiary hearing, the district court ruled for the EEOC on this issue.
A jury found in September 2013 that the defendants fired Miller in retaliation for his complaint, and that his firing had been done with malice or reckless disregard of his federally protected rights. The jury awarded Miller $15,000 in damages for emotional distress.
In an order dated Jan. 27, 2014, Judge Barbara B. Crabb rejected the defendants' motion to set aside the verdict, and awarded back pay and interest of more than $41,000. Under the court's order, the back pay and interest will be increased by 15 percent to account for increased tax liability to Miller by receiving his wage loss in a lump sum. The court also entered a three-year injunction, enjoining the defendants from: discharging employees in retaliation for complaints about racially offensive postings in their workplace; failing to adopt policies that explicitly prohibit actions made unlawful under Title VII; failing to adopt an investigative process with regard to discrimination claims; and failing to provide annual training regarding Title VII to Chris Brekken, who owns all interests in the three corporate defendants, and other managers.
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This post is to some extent a fall-out of the recent discovery of a serious flaw in Debian's openssl and openssh packages. However, as Raghavan will confirm, a weaker version of what is said below was part of our discussion two weeks ago. Moreover, there are earlier posts on this topic in this blog.
There are times when I wonder why I am so involved with computers ... this is clearly one of those times.
कर्मण्यैवाधिकरस्ते मा फलेशु कदाचन
karmaNyaivaadhikaraste maa faleshu kadaachana
This is a phrase from the भगवद गीत (bhagavad giit) which has been stuck in my head for the last 30 odd years. It roughly paraphrases into
Do something because you think it is worth doing not because of what you hope to achieve by doing it.1
The above maxim is a good one but is sometimes a cop-out. Moreover, it provides no basis for actually making ethical choices.
Ethics comes from one's interactions with the communities one is a part of. There are (roughly) two communities that I am a part of in the context of computers:
- the FOSS community; specifically, the Debian community.
- the IMSc computer community
I take these in turn below.
Debian and FOSS communities
By its own standards, the Debian community has suffered a massive failure ... and by these same standards it has reacted extremely well to this failure.
I feel shame and blame. Why have I been ignoring RFH#332498 all these days
when it shows up in the output of
wnpp-alert? Here I
am, a mathematician with some understanding of the issues, not
helping out! Three years ago I even gave a short course of
lectures on implementations of crypto; the source of openssl and
openssh were used as examples. Excuses like, "I don't know
anything about library packaging" and "I need more time!" (who
doesn't) seem too weak now.
At the same time, I feel a sense of solidarity with the Debian (and more widely FOSS) community as it tries to pull out of the resulting mess. The resilience that allows us to laugh wryly at ourselves is IMHO admirable.
As Steve Kemp wrote: "[When we look back we will see that] we did good".
IMSc computer community
The IMSc computer setup was built by volunteers and was genuinely a community when I joined this institute in 1996. It has since then broken into users, system administrators and the computer committee. As Indira Gandhi would have said: "This is a world-wide phenomenon", and as was the case when she said it, my response is: "That doesn't make it a good thing!"
When I speak about this fractured IMSc community below it is in generalities. There are certainly individuals who rise above the shards.
I have been promoting the use of FOSS and more specifically Debian at IMSc ever since I got here. While explaining the pragmatic aspects like cost and security, I have also tried to emphasize the freedom and community aspects of FOSS use. When the latter are not understood or accepted, the former are easily blown away.
This year I made an attempt to get the Computer Committee to invite users to choose2 their own computers and the software that ran on it, but it turned out that no one really wanted this. Users just wanted to buy "fancy toys", the administrators just wanted to make their life simple and CC members just wanted the power to dictate what people bought.3
I also made an attempt to get our users to educate each other on the use of computers for their work --- first through the establishment of a wiki and then through the "No-Excuse" mailing list.4
Unfortunately, the fractured IMSc computer community sees computers and software as expensive commodities --- with some combination of fear, greed and irritation. In any case, there is no feeling of being part of a larger community that is trying to solve (certain types of) problems.
A wise man once said:
With great freedom comes even greater responsibility.
This may explain why we prefer being dictated to by proprietary vendors and computer committees that "buy stuff for us". We are afraid of the responsibility that comes with freedom.
Another much quoted quote is:
If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.
The FOSS community (actively) invites people to join-in in solving problems. This participation (which can be at a level of one's own choosing) is the source of one's freedom in free software. The IMSc community just wants मा-बाप सर्कार (maa-baap sarkaar) to fix their toys.
A decision
The IMSc computer community was tied to Debian and FOSS after the break-ins into our system in the early 2000's. At that point, I was instrumental in installing a security infrastructure based mainly on Debian. This led to my greater involvement with FOSS and Debian and also to the greater "infiltration" of Debian and FOSS into IMSc computers.
From the "commodity" point of view at IMSc we have come a full circle since most users will have to "do a lot" so that the IMSc computer LAN emerges unscathed from the crisis created by the Debian openssl flaw.
From the "community" point of view at Debian we have spiralled out and even this major whirlpool will not drag us back in.
It is no longer possible (for me) to straddle the circle and the spiral in an attempt to widen the former; I'm taking the "outward radial vector"!
To this sentiment I have often added "do it because it's fun". ↩
... and be willing to justify their choices of course.[WGFCEGR] ↩
OK! I'm exaggerating a bit! ↩
No-Excuse is an acronym for Novice and Expert Computer Users. The blurb says:
Now that this list exists there is "no-excuse" for novices to remain in-experienced or for experienced users to claim that something is "too hard to explain to a novice"!


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Mr. Magoo's CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mr. Magoo's CHRISTMAS CAROL was produced by the UPA animation studio and first aired on NBC on December 18, 1962. The look of UPA's modern animation is stylish with an intriguing graphic energy.
Here is the first installment: as usual, digitally re-assembled artwork... including a marvelous pan background of the theatre building where Mr. Magoo is starring.
Here is the theatre marquee:
The terrific pan B/G:
So you can enjoy a look at the details, here's the left side of the pan B/G with "Stanley's" restaurant and a partial view of the theatre marquee:
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Though I enjoyed scuba diving the last time I tried it 19 years ago, when my son and I went on a dive (his first) during our family's trip to Hawaii last week (we tagged along on Todd's work trip to Honolulu), I couldn't get my ear pressure right.
My face mask didn't seal properly, either, so salt water got into my nose and stung my eyes. So annoying. And this time I didn't feel like complying with the instructor's "mind over matter" lecture and trust that the little bit o' air I was getting through my regulator would be enough. Whatever. I guess I just like my deep yoga breathing.
Or, perhaps I'm just showing my age.
Yes, I've finally arrived at that point in my life where I really don't worry too much about what other people might think. I've got nothing to prove. So what if I'm a scuba-flunkie?
If I've learned nothing else during my time on this planet, at least I've learned that if I wanna take a deep breath, by golly, I'm gonna take one. A nice, big, fat, sweet one, thank you very much.
So, when a voice in my head told me to not waste any more of Noah's time with our instructor I happily bailed, waved a hearty good-bye to my firstborn, released the anchor rope we were both tethered to (no metaphors here, of course), ascended to the boat, shed that cumbersome equipment, freed myself from that god-awful wetsuit (ahhhh!) and simply snorkeled, instead.
And, oh, how I love to snorkel!
I encountered several schools of tropical, brightly colored fish of every imaginable stripe; swam alongside a half-dozen regal, mellow sea turtles (my new favorite creatures); and even spotted my son scuba-diving several feet below me.
(He had a ball. Says he even saw a shark. No idea what kind, but I guess it wasn't the hungry kind!) But I was perfectly happy where I was, mere inches from the surface, and I'm not afraid to own it.
Yeah, my age really is showing. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Later that day, not one, but two different salespeople from two different skincare boutiques at our resort felt compelled to stop me in my tracks and save me from myself.
"You have beautiful skin," one commented, "but you don't get enough sleep. Look at those lines around your eyes!" I would, if I could find my new readers. But I digress.
"Do you ever use eye cream?" The other one asked, a few hours later, after she lured me to her chair and applied her magic potion to my sunburned crows feet. (I was too tired to resist. Because, you know, I don't get enough sleep.)
"Um, not really," I replied, recalling the free sample I got many years ago that I dab on my face maybe once a year, that otherwise collects dust on my bathroom windowsill. Hope in a bottle. It's probably expired.
"You're killing me!" she said.
I'm killing her? I liked her, actually, and we had a good laugh, but gee, there's nothing as strong as shame to make a girl part with her cash.
No, I did not go all weak-in-the-knees for her potions or buy her crazy-expensive stuff. Not one drop.
Because I'm showing my age.
Besides, I'm saving up for my next snorkeling adventure.
• Jennifer DuBose lives in Batavia with her husband, Todd, and their two children, Noah and Holly. Contact her at email@example.com.
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Though I enjoyed scuba diving the last time I tried it 19 years ago, when my son and I went on a dive (his first) during our family's trip to Hawaii last week (we tagged along on Todd's work trip to Honolulu), I couldn't get my ear pressure right.


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Background: A Brooklyn resident, Brooks is originally from Clonakilty, Co. Cork. She is currently working in the film industry in New York.
When did you move to the U.S.?
"Before I went into filmmaking I practiced as a barrister in Dublin. In February 2011 I sat the New York State Bar exam and when I passed I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to move out of Ireland for a while.
"So in August 2011 I moved to New York City for two months in search of criminal defense work. At that stage I was still at the bar in Ireland. After a month and a half of vigorous searching, intensive interviews and an almost job offer, I made the difficult and abrupt decision to leave my legal career. I returned home, tied up many loose ends, packed two bags and in January 2012 I moved to New York City to do a one year documentary filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy.
"Really, it looked like I was suffering some sort of quarter life crisis! That said, even during my time as a lawyer, I always took writing classes or acting courses, anything that would allow me some creative release."
Where are you from in Ireland?
"I'm originally from Clonakilty in West Cork. I moved out of there when I was 18 and went to Limerick to study history and politics. I lasted a year before moving to Dublin to study law and stayed there for seven more years before moving to New York."
After passing the New York State Bar exam, how did you end up doing a documentary filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy?
"That's a difficult question! I'm not actually too sure how I ended up doing it. It's honestly all a bit of a blur. One day, I just knew I didn't want to be a lawyer anymore, or at least for a long while. I was living in the East Village and I happened to walk past NYFA. So I went, chatted to the chair of the program and signed up that day."
What are you working on?
"I'm really interested in highlighting stories about the prison system both at home in Ireland and abroad. I'm currently working on a documentary about solitary confinement in the United States. It has been so difficult to gain any access but I feel like I am finally making some progress."
Can you see yourself practicing law again in the future?
"Never say never, but I'm really happy making films and doing what I'm doing. It's evident, even with my prison film, the law hasn't left me, really, it has just taken a different form."
Describe your life in New York in three words.
"Challenging. Rewarding. Exciting."
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My dad, Jim Dickson, passed away early July 30 at age 80. Dad fought a four-year battle with a disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy and, in the end, the disease and old age caught up with him. I�m now trying to write a column that can sum up the love and everything else Dad and I shared throughout the many years.
My dad, Jim Dickson, passed away early July 30 at age 80. Dad fought a four-year battle with a disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy and, in the end, the disease and old age caught up with him.
I�m now trying to write a column that can sum up the love and everything else Dad and I shared throughout the many years.
The fact is I can't write a column that will do our relationship justice. It's impossible to put into words a bond we often had trouble describing ourselves. But I'll give it a try.
In the movie "The Natural" there's a scene where Roy Hobbs and Iris Gaines talk about their teenage son, who Hobbs knows nothing about.
Gaines says, "My boy is getting to that age where he needs his father." Hobbs replies, "Sure � a father makes all the difference."
Dad made all the difference in my life; he taught me how to throw a baseball, swing a baseball bat, play basketball and ride a bicycle. He would wait in the deep water when I went off the high dive � not trusting just any lifeguard to come to my rescue if something were to happen to me.
I always felt secure knowing Dad was waiting in the water below. I was never afraid to get in over my head because I trusted that he was strong enough to keep me from harm.
Dad shared his love for the University of Tennessee Volunteers with me. Dad was a Volunteer fan so it seemed only natural that I too became a Tennessee fan. We only saw four UT games together live and in person, but we watched countless others together on TV.
Even though we lived 400 miles apart, we managed to watch the games together. Dad would be in his favorite recliner at his place and me in my favorite chair at home as we cheered on the Big Orange.
As is the case with most good fathers, Dad took time to not only teach me the basics of sports but the basics of life as well.
He taught me many of those life lessons as we threw an old baseball around the backyard. The most important lesson he taught me during those long ago games of catch is to take time for those you love.
I know Dad might not have always felt like playing catch, but he was making time for me that I'll always treasure. He was forming a bond that remained strong right up until the very end of his life and, I believe, will last forever.
I could tell you of the years he worked for the railroad or the years afterward that he spent as a Baptist preacher. There were years, before he became a preacher, that were spent coaching youth league sports in Gulf Breeze and working with kids at First Baptist Church of Gulf Breeze.
Dad was many things to many people, but I was his only son.
I know when a Tennessee football game is on TV in a few weeks that I'll instinctively reach for the phone to call Dad and discuss the game�s ebb and flow.
When I have a question about spiritual things, I'll miss his wise counsel.
I've been told that most fathers and sons don't connect at the emotional level that Dad and I did. I have friends that have never heard their dad tell them how much they love them.
I never doubted in word or deed the depth of love Dad had for me and will continue to have forever.
There will be no more games of catch and no more phone calls, but Jim Dickson will remain my guiding light for the rest of my life.
Dad was one of a kind � the finest kind.
I will miss my role model, hero and friend until I see him again in Heaven.
Thanks for everything Dad.
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Louisville.com originally published this article in 2011.
For a half-century now, every Christmas Eve the Louisville Courier-Journal runs the same cartoon on its editorial page. Since it first appeared on December 24, 1961, it has become the newspaper's most popular cartoon, and has been published around the world on Christmas cards, in church bulletins and more. It pictures a man surrounded by wrapped presents, with an image of Christ behind him, contemplating his holiday shopping list and asking, "Now, let's see, have I forgotten anyone?" It was drawn by the late Hugh Haynie, one of America's preeminent cartoonists. And he was my friend.
My dad introduced me to Hugh back in 1961, while I was still in high school. My father helped Hugh with his income taxes each year, and they became fast friends. I tried to call him "Mr. Haynie," but he insisted everyone call him "Hugh." With his Old Dominion graciousness and Tidewater accent (he'd say "oot" for "out," and "aboot" for "about"), he made friends easily in his adopted city of Louisville.
Hugh came to Louisville in 1958, when he was hired by Barry Bingham, Sr., to serve as political cartoonist for the Courier-Journal; a job he held for 38 years. He would always hide his wife's name somewhere in his cartoons, and the daily hunt for "Lois" became a major indoor sport for literate Louisvillians. The day after the moon landing, in a rush to get his cartoon to the presses, Hugh inadvertently omitted Lois from his drawing, and the newspaper was deluged with phone calls the next day, with readers inquiring after the health of Mrs. Haynie.
Back in the 1960's—certainly a more innocent time—a fellow could just walk in the front door of the Courier-Journal, past the ten-foot hanging globe and those wonderful WPA-esque Harold Weston murals Adele Brandeis got old Barry to install in the lobby, get on the elevator, and go up to the editorial offices. I soon learned not to drop in on Hugh right before his 3:30 deadline for getting his drawings down to the press room. He was a perfectionist, and was always making little changes to his cartoons, right up to the last minute. Once--pressed for time--he tasked me with running up the street to Rose's Tobacco Shop to fetch him a carton of Lucky Strikes. As I say, it was a more innocent time.
Hugh drew his cartoons on large cardboard mat boards, and the finished product more often than not resembled a collage of pasted-up parts. There were halftone shading strips glued on for emphasis, and much white paint covering the changes of direction Hugh's artistic genius made. One April 15th, he pasted an IRS Form 1040 as a background, and drew a poor little taxpayer, dressed only in a wooden rain-barrel. The autographed original, which he dedicated to my dad, now hangs in my office.
While Haynie originals often looked as if they were assembled in a hurry by a slightly insane dadaist, the photo-reduced version ending up in print usually looked like an Albrecht Durer drypoint engraving. In fact, one of Hugh's most famous works was a rendition of Durer's "praying hands," with appropriate acknowledgment to the great German artist included at the bottom of the cartoon.


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Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France), American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.
Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family. She was educated by private tutors and governesses at home and in Europe, where the family resided for six years after the American Civil War, and she read voraciously. She made her debut in society in 1879 and married Edward Wharton, a wealthy Boston banker, in 1885.
Although she had had a book of her own poems privately printed when she was 16, it was not until after several years of married life that Wharton began to write in earnest. Her major literary model was Henry James, whom she knew, and her work reveals James's concern for artistic form and ethical issues. She contributed a few poems and stories to Harper's, Scribner's, and other magazines in the 1890s, and in 1897, after overseeing the remodeling of a house in Newport, Rhode Island, she collaborated with the architect Ogden Codman, Jr., on The Decoration of Houses. Her next books, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), were collections of stories.
Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902. The House of Mirth (1905) was a novel of manners that analyzed the stratified society in which she had been reared and its reaction to social change. The book won her critical acclaim and a wide audience. In the next two decades—before the quality of her work began to decline under the demands of writing for women's magazines—she wrote such novels as The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917), and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize.
The Age of Innocence presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. In the story, Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, a beautiful but proper fellow member of elite society, but he falls deeply in love with Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has returned to New York to escape her disastrous marriage to a Polish nobleman. Both lovers prove too obedient to conventional taboos to break with their upper-class social surroundings, however, and Newland feels compelled to renounce Ellen and marry May.
Wharton's best-known work is the long tale Ethan Frome (1911), which exploits the grimmer possibilities of the New England farm life she observed from her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The protagonist, the farmer Ethan Frome, is married to a whining hypochondriac but falls in love with her cousin, Mattie. As she is forced to leave his household, Frome tries to end their dilemma by steering their bobsled into a tree, but he ends up only crippling Mattie for life. They spend the rest of their miserable lives together with his wife on the farm.
Wharton's short stories, which appeared in numerous collections, among them Xingu and Other Stories (1916), demonstrate her gifts for social satire and comedy, as do the four novelettes collected in Old New York (1924). Her 1915 reporting for Scribner's Magazine on the Western Front in World War I was collected as Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1918). In her manual The Writing of Fiction (1925) she acknowledged her debt to Henry James. Among her later novels are Twilight Sleep (1927), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and its sequel, The Gods Arrive (1932). Her autobiography, A Backward Glance, appeared in 1934. In all Wharton published more than 50 books, including fiction, short stories, travel books, historical novels, and criticism.
She lived in France after 1907, visiting the United States only at rare intervals. She was divorced from her husband in 1913 and was a close friend of novelist James in his later years.


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Mark your calendar: Free fishing day is July 7
When you think of the Fourth of July holiday, you think of what? Fireworks? Camping? Water recreation? Barbecues?
All of the above certainly apply. But many years ago, the state Legislature authorized the Department of Fish and Game to allow any person in the state to go fishing — two days a year — without a license.
Any angler 16 years or older is required to have a license in possession to fish in California, except on a designated free fishing day. A handful of states offer free fishing days.
The Legislature authorizes the DFG to set the actual dates, and the DFG picked the most prime times when a large number of the population is away from home and in the field: the Fourth of July and Labor Day holiday weekends.
The first free fishing day will be Saturday, July 7, from midnight to midnight.
There are a few restrictions. If you know where you plan to fish, it's strongly advised you acquire a regulations booklet on the DFG's Web site or at a sporting goods outlet.
All regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, hours and stream closures remain in effect.
Additionally, there are report card requirements for abalone, steelhead, sturgeon, spiny lobster and salmon in the Smith and Klamath-Trinity river system.
If you're a novice or just want to stay local and let the kids fish, the DFG sponsors a Fishing in the City program. Many major metropolitan areas offer free fishing day clinics designed to educate novice anglers about ethics, habits, tackle and effective methods for catching fish.
Many ponds in these areas are well stocked to accommodate those wanting to get a line wet. For the first-time angler, it's an absolute thrill to watch the rod tip bobble with their first bite and double over as they fight their first fish to shore.
The clinics also instruct the proper way to clean and prepare that fish for dinner.
Current fishing
It's one of the more dreaded times of the year, though many love summer's blazing heat. Fishing isn't great at midday, but early mornings and late afternoons can be, and there's good rod-bending action once the sun sets.
Delta: When the heat settles in, catfish seem to be the most active. With hundreds of miles of rivers and sloughs throughout the Delta, the water teems with the whiskered fish and generally, once the sun sets, their appetites rage.
Soak a crawler, cut bait such as a chunk of anchovy, sardine or clam, and you can easily load the stringer. It's mostly brown bullheads, but they're still great eating.
The caveat is that the prime fishing time also is prime mosquito time. Be sure to have a good supply of repellant heavy in the ingredient DEET.
Ocean: Salmon fishing up and down the coast continues to be decent. There are some limits but generally one fish per rod and up. Boats are much more effective working for Chinooks when the wind doesn't blow. A good number of kings being caught are in the 20-pound class.
The rock cod fishery is outstanding for boats out of the Bay Area. Expect limits of a mix of bottom fish. Big numbers of nice lings are being caught on every trip as well.
Collins Lake: Shore catches have tapered off considerably, as heat has driven trout to deeper water. Take a boat and troll, though, and you can do well. Some holdover 'bows are running to three pounds. Most productive is the east side and middle of the lake.
Hell Hole Reservoir: Launch the boat and deadhead to the other end of the lake. There's a campground at the upper end. You can beach the boat, sit back and enjoy great shore fishing. Baiting one rig and cast-retrieving spoons or spinners from another should get you limits of rainbows with a brown trout or two thrown in. If you really want to troll, rainbows and kokanee are biting, and if you haul gear deep, you can get into a possible mackinaw bite with some hitting seven pounds.
Rollins Lake: The lake can get busy with recreationists, but the lake is full and if you get an early start, you can have good results. Power Bait will attract 14- to 16-inch 'bows for those trying from shore. Run up to the Bear River inlet and work Rapalas, and you can get into a decent brown trout bite.
Lake Camanche: There will be no more fish planting until the weather cools in the fall. Trout in the lake have gone deeper into the thermocline, and it will take downriggers to reach their depths, from 25-35 feet. Around the dam and river channel should provide plenty of action, though.
Jackson Meadows Reservoir: The lake is fully open only because of such a light winter and snowfall. The lake is full, and trolling along the east side is good for those hauling a set of small flashers or a dodger with a threaded night crawler following.
Eagle Lake: Tim Noxon, a guide at Eagle Lake, reports the marked channel from the boat ramp to open water at Spaulding Tract is about two feet deep. They expect the ramp region to be unusable soon. However, there's a low water ramp at the south end of the lake. If you stay at Spaulding, it's about a 25-minute run to the lower end. Bobber fishing at the south side of Pelican has been hot.
However, you'll have to be in place early, as the bite generally totally tapers off by 6:30 a.m. Shrimp Island and Eagle's Nest also provide decent bobber action.
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I agree completely with you. Pau is too good to trade for an unproven rookie. Only minny-laker trade that should involve Pau, should also involve Love, the 2nd pick, and possibly Flynn.
Unless you can get CP3 or Howard, Pau Gasol is a keeper. This season was a fluke, everybody played worse than expected, except for, well Fish and Artest (both played considerably better than they did in the regular season). Pau and Odom were exceptionally bad, but it must have been a fluke. They probably hit the mental wall after four straight years of playing elite bball.
I also believe a trade is necessary, but no way in hell with Pau involved. He is simply too good.
As for trading with Minnesota, i'm not sure about what Kantor can provide I mean, best case he may be a 15-and-8 guy, who plays a average defense. Pau is a unique talent, top 5 big man in the league, who can play the 4 and the 5, while being a great passer. These guys don't come around too often, and we should hold on to him, unless a blockbuster trade emerges. (Maybe we can ship him to Atlanta for Hinrich and Josh Smith?).
Isn't the Smith/Hinrich deal for Artest/Bynum? I'd consider a a deal with Atlanta if it were Smith/Hinrich for Lamar/and blake or ron. Hinrich isn't young and Smith is the ultimate wildcard-freak-athlete.


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We would like to be the most inclusive, people friendly, "non-clicky" lesbian community building group in Chicago. We want to facilitate lesbians building community activities and bonds around common interests and/or life similarities with other lesbians (PLEASE thoroughly read this group's definition of "lesbian" in the last paragraph below BEFORE attempting to join).
We would like to have many lesbian sub-groups that freely use this as a forum to meet others with similar needs and interests and in building warm, supportive community bonds. All different ages and interests are welcome. As long as the activity follows the guidelines of being legal and ethical - we welcome your participation, and/or input and leadership in building specific lesbian community here.
ALSO, DO NOTE: NO promotional business agendas or marketing of any kind will be tolerated on this group, if you want to SECONDARILY promote something here, you have to have a direct conversation with the organizer first and request approval or you will be banned permanently and reported to meet up.com. THIS IS A NOT FOR PROFIT COMMUNITY BUILDING GROUP, PAID FOR BY THE ORGANIZERS PERSONAL FUNDS. NO ONE HAS ANY RIGHT TO TRY TO EXPLOIT THAT, TO MARKET OR PROMOTE ANYTHING HERE IN ANY WAY. IN NO WAY WILL THIS GROUP BE USED FOR ANYTHING CONNECTED TO PROFITING OR PROFITEERING. IN OTHER WORDS: WE ARE NOT HERE TO HELP YOU, YOU ARE HERE TO HELP, SUPPORT, PARTICIPATE IN AND CONNECT WITH THE GROUP, AND IF BECAUSE OF THAT, CONNECTING WITH THE GROUP HELPS YOU, GREAT! WE ARE NOT HERE FOR YOU TO USE TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS RELATED AGENDA.
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Please join us in building a sincere, genuine community where commonality is enhanced and we develop mutual support among the sub-groups that is enduring and meaningful. It's time our community meetup reaches past just giving us options for attending random events. In lieu of having multiple physical spaces in the community dedicated to lesbians connecting, as there were many years ago - this is an online community space we can call "home".
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Menopause is a stage in life when a woman stops having her monthly period. It is a normal part of aging and marks the end of a woman's reproductive years. Menopause typically occurs in a woman's late 40s to early 50s. However, women who have their ovaries surgically removed undergo "sudden" menopause.
The traditional changes we think of as "menopause" happen when the ovaries no longer produce high levels of hormones. The ovaries are the reproductive glands that store eggs and release them into the fallopian tubes. They also produce the female hormones estrogen and progesterone as well as testosterone. Together, estrogen and progesterone control menstruation. Estrogen also influences how the body uses calcium and maintains cholesterol levels in the blood.
As menopause nears, the ovaries no longer release eggs into the fallopian tubes, and the woman has her last menstrual cycle.
Natural menopause is the permanent ending of menstruation that is not brought on by any type of medical treatment. For women undergoing natural menopause, the process is gradual and is described in three stages:
Perimenopause or "menopause transition." Perimenopause can begin 8 to 10 years before menopause, when the ovaries gradually produce less estrogen. It usually starts in a woman's 40s, but can start in the 30s as well. Perimenopause lasts up until menopause, the point when the ovaries stop releasing eggs. In the last 1-2 years of perimenopause, the drop in estrogen accelerates. At this stage, many women can experience menopause symptoms. Women are still having menstrual cycles during this time, and can get pregnant.
Menopause. Menopause is the point when a woman no longer has menstrual periods. At this stage, the ovaries have stopped releasing eggs and producing most of their estrogen. Menopause is diagnosed when a woman has gone without a period for 12 consecutive months.
Postmenopause. These are the years after menopause. During this stage, menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, can ease for many women. But, as a result of a lower level of estrogen, postmenopausal women are at increased risk for a number of health conditions, such as osteoporosis and heart disease. Medication, such as hormone therapy and/or healthy lifestyle changes, may reduce the risk of some of these conditions. Since every woman's risk is different, talk to your doctor to learn what steps you can take to reduce your individual risk.
The average length of perimenopause is four years, but for some women this stage may last only a few months. Perimenopause ends when a woman has gone 12 months without having her period.
Menopause, when it occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, is considered "natural" and is a normal part of aging. But, some women can experience menopause early, either as a result of a surgical intervention (such as removal of the ovaries) or damage to the ovaries (such as from chemotherapy). Menopause that occurs before the age of 45, regardless of the cause, is called early menopause. Menopause that occurs at 40 or younger is considered premature menopause.
You may be transitioning into menopause if you begin experiencing some or all of the following symptoms:
Women who are still in the menopause transition (perimenopause) may also experience:
Some women might also experience:
These symptoms can be a sign that the ovaries are producing less estrogen. Not all women get all of these symptoms. However, women affected with new symptoms of racing heart, urinary changes, headaches, or other new medical problems should see a doctor to make sure there is no other cause for these symptoms.
A woman is considered to be postmenopausal when she has not had her period for an entire year (assuming she is not on medications that can stop periods). Measuring through a blood test called the follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level is another way to determine if you are postmenopausal. FSH is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland (located at the base of the brain). However, the routine use of the FSH test is not needed to help the vast majority of women. Sometimes, the levels can be misleading since the levels go up and down during the transition into menopause.
The possibility of pregnancy disappears once you have been without your period for an entire year. However, during the menopause transition (perimenopause) you can still become pregnant. If you do not want to become pregnant, you should continue to use some form of birth control until you reach menopause (you have gone 12 months without having your period). For some women, getting pregnant can be difficult once they are in their late 30s to 40s due to a decline in fertility. However, if becoming pregnant is the goal, there are fertility-enhancing treatments and techniques that can help you get pregnant. Make sure to speak with your doctor about when it is appropriate to stop using contraception.
Osteoporosis, a "brittle-bone" disease, occurs when the inside of bones become less dense, making them more fragile and likely to fracture. Estrogen plays an important role in preserving bone mass. Estrogen signals cells in the bones to stop breaking down.
Women lose an average of 25 percent of their bone mass from the time of menopause to age 60, due in large part to the loss of estrogen. Over time, this loss of bone can lead to bone fractures. There are many options, including estrogen therapy, to treat brittle bones.
Coronary artery disease is the narrowing or blockage of arteries that surround the heart muscle. It results when fatty plaque builds up in the artery walls (known as atherosclerosis). This buildup is associated with high levels of cholesterol in the blood. After menopause, a woman's risk for coronary artery disease increases.
A healthy diet, not smoking, and getting regular exercise are your best options to prevent heart disease. Treating elevated blood pressure and diabetes as well as maintaining cholesterol levels with "statin" medications and aspirin therapy for selected at-risk persons are the standards of care. The benefits and risks of hormone therapy vary depending on a woman�s age and her individual history. In general, younger women in their 50s tend to get more benefits from hormone therapy as compared to postmenopausal women in their 60s. Women who undergo premature menopause are often treated with hormone therapy until age 50 to avoid the increased risk that comes from the extra years of estrogen loss.
Irregular periods are common and normal during perimenopause. But other conditions can cause abnormalities in menstrual bleeding. If any of the following situations apply to you, see a doctor to rule out other causes.
Potential causes of abnormal bleeding include hormonal imbalances, hormonal treatments, pregnancy, fibroids, blood-clotting problems or, rarely, cancer.
Most certainly, menopause can be a positive time of life. Too often, myths foster misconceptions about this normal process of aging. Although menopause can cause some noticeable and uncomfortable changes, these can be effectively managed.
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This information is provided by the Cleveland Clinic and is not intended to replace the medical advice of your doctor or healthcare provider. Please consult your healthcare provider for advice about a specific medical condition. This document was last reviewed on: 01/06/2017


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On this, the 70th anniversary of the death of Philip Albert Justis, I wanted to take a minute to write a brief memorial from what we know about his life and death.
Philip Albert Justis was born in Somerville, Massachusetts on 16 February, 1916. The 1920 Federal Census finds him living in Somerville with his parents, Albert Young and Mabel Alberta (Irving) Justis. By 1930, the census shows the family living in Wellesley, Norfolk, MA, where his father worked as a printer. He had no siblings, but Mabel's niece, Lina Irving (age 17) was living with them.
Ten years later, Albert was working as an executive for a drug company, and Philip was a stock clerk in a wholesale drug company. For reasons we can only suppose, Philip enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Private in Boston on 15 March 1941, nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is at this point in the narrative we must mention one of the most tragic events in family history research: The fire at the personnel records center in St. Louis, Missouri in 1973. Millions of service men and women's personnel records were lost. Both the fire and the resulting water damage to records have created a documentary disaster that is still being sorted out over forty years later.
The next document we have been able to locate for Philip is his burial record, listed on the website of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). They list his service number, 31030229, his date of death, 20 July 1944, his rank of Sergeant, and the fact that he had been awarded the Purple Heart. His body lies in the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France in Plot E, Row 14, Grave 36 overlooking Omaha Beach. We also know from the ABMC listing that Philip served with the 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Recently, I was contacted by a findagrave volunteer who was headed to Normandy and volunteered to both photograph and do a rubbing of Philip's headstone. When folks come to photograph the headstones, volunteers provide sand from Omaha beach to rub into the engraved letters to make them stand out for the photograph, and then clean the headstone afterward.
Poignantly, his mother died three years after her only child's death, and their marker in the Needham Cemetery in Needham, MA lists Philip's name and dates of birth with "Lies in France" underneath. His father passed away in 1956.
Because he had no siblings, there are few folks left who knew him at all, but last year, I called his cousin, Ginnie, who lives in Wellesley. She recalls him as a quiet, serious man who was always kind.
I hope one day to know a little more about Phil's last days, but in the meantime, I just want to remember and be grateful for his service and sacrifice.


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Is it possible to sell customers vehicle accessories before they enter the finance and insurance office and still see strong F&I product sales?
In fact, pushing accessories before F&I can boost F&I sales, some dealers say. They say it gets customers excited about their vehicle purchases before they sit down with a finance manager. So customers are often more relaxed and ready to spend money on products to protect their purchase, two dealers recently told me.
Take the Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships, for example.
Initially, managers at Mynatt feared that promoting accessories first would cause buyers to blow their budgets on add-ons and have nothing left to buy F&I products, says Tom Zeffiro, executive manager of Mynatt, which sells Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC vehicles in Concord, N.C.,and Nissans in Salisbury, N.C.
But Zeffiro says that has not been the case.
In January, Zeffiro tweaked his sales process to present customers with available accessory items before they enter the F&I office. Customers sit at a computer kiosk where they can use software to buy accessories in the showroom.
Accessory sales have risen to $200 per vehicle per month from $80 per vehicle per month, Zeffiro says.
And Zeffiro's F&I sales have jumped by about $250 a vehicle from a year earlier, he says.
Fitzgerald Auto Malls have seen similar results, says Larry Branche, Fitzgerald's corporate manager and director of accessories and aftermarket program, in Kensington, Md.
Since Fitzgerald began pitching customers accessories before F&I products five years ago, annual accessory profits have been $1.3 million to $1.4 million a year, up about 25 percent from before Branche put the process in place, he says.
Branche uses a soft-sell approach and software that lets customers use the online calculator to figure their payments if they decide to buy an accessory. Once in the F&I office, the finance manager can roll that accessory purchase into the final deal.
"We definitely did not want to do anything that would impact our F&I business in a negative way," Branche says. "But we didn't have this extra source of revenue from accessories. We were able to capture more of it, without losing other parts of our business."


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Oklahoma Restaurant Won't Serve "F*ggots, N***ers, Muslims"
Gary's Chicaros restaurant outside Oklahoma City is stuck in an atrocious era of tolerated xenophobia but will be dragged out into the 21st century thanks to an increasing number of complaints that has finally pierced the region's conscience.
The abhorrently discriminatory practices of Gary James, who's owned the restaurant for nearly five decades, are the talk of the town after a man in a wheelchair was kicked out of the restaurant. Though James denies he kicked out and banned the customer because of his disability, his resulting interview makes his claim hard to believe.
"I've been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a faggot," James tells a KFOR reporter. "I really don't want gays around. Any man that would compromise his own body would compromise anything."
"Well if you work, you own a business, pay your taxes, you're more than welcome here," he adds. "If you're on welfare, stay at home and spend my money, there. I don't deal with these people walking down the street with no jobs on welfare."
These business practices are certainly not even secret; Chicaros' official t-shirt includes multiple anti-gay derogatory remarks, as well as blatant racism.
Check out the local news report below.
I need to go to his restaurant, let him know im gay, let him refuse me service...so i can sue him in federal court for discrimination and then once I own his little place, I will burn it to the ground just because I could. People like this man are all over society... just cant remember the last time someone invited so much attention, I am sure I am not the only one keenly aware how easy it would be to get him to refuse service based off race, sex, disability, or sexual orientation all of which are against federal law.
While I like your idea of suing for discrimination here's the problem. Since we have no legal protection in the state of Oklahoma against discrimination due to sexual orientation we can't sue him on those grounds! That's why it is so important to get ENDA passed into law nation wide. Unfortunately John Boehner has it held hostage and won't allow it to come for a vote in the House. The Senate has already voted and approved it. So in the mean time this kind of injustice is perpetrated against us and there is nothing we can do about it except get someone else to sue him that already does have legal protection under the law.
This man has every rite to feel and think how ever he would like, but he speaks not from his heart but from uneducated sour teaching from his parents and they way they thought... He is just uneducated in the matter of gays and blacks he was taught to think one way and one way only... So instead of trying to burn shit down and try to harm him, maybe we should try to educate him first... It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks but damn it it sure can be done!!!
Good for him. I surely wouldnt be allowed in his restaurant, but its his business & he should be allowed to operate it how he chooses. Some1 else will open a business and reap all the benefits of his ignorant basic business sense. Free market system. Frankly I thinking infringing on those rights is a heavier crime then certain man-made words, that can be quite subjective in there levels of maliciousness/hatred; from person to person. I say nigga all the time, almost majority of the time out of this "weird, compulsive ticks" corrisponding to mental health issues (like quite of few other words, PC ones). I dont use it to pass hatred. It hurts to suffer or cause others too, regardless if all assesments point to a real jerk. But I'm still quite flawed, an I dont mention such detail to justify myself. I dont need to, I do need to be honest tho & not worry any further about if my "word" is properly invested in.
But as a gay/bi, queer man (whatever label I must have in our silly shallow society), I'm more outraged at the Time wasted & negativity spewed from everybody thats got something to say about this typical exploitation news segment (which is what most "News" collectively really is), this guy or his business.
Step outside ur righteous pose, look within, & maybe try and better urself a bit. Every1 wants to change the world for the better, right? Take 5% of the energy spent being hypocritical & unproductive and try to better ourselves some.
That would make far greater change then any of these "high horses"/collectives we all seem to jump on in unison. Even myself commenting here doesnt make me much better, but shit.... Cant more of us think outside the box a lil. U know?? Use logical deduction over short-sided ignorance. Sure this guys a "bigot" or whatever label he's been deemed, but ya'll are no better. Spitting hatred against hatred. Most of us are a bunch of selfish cunts in this country, just makes me feel sad inside. But even if just 1 person reads this & thinks a lil about, it was all worth. Any1 welcome to debate/disagree w/ me, but plz try to at least have some intelligence behind ur reason. U know, U can ur shit, but at least have your story straight........ An let the ignorance & trolling begin.......
Written like a true idiot. E. Diacumski has so little grip on his own reality that it's no wonder he can post utter nonsense like this about a subject he neither cares about or knows about. Everything that this jackass writes is regurgitated psycho-babble that was given to him during his stay one of many dreg rehab centers. None of which, obviously, did any good.
It may be his business, but he is conducting it illegally. Discrimination against those different from us is against the law. Do you remember the young people sitting at a lunch counter that were refused service because they were black? It took six months, but peaceful protest changed segregation as policy. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/courage-at-the-greensboro-lunch-counter-4507661/
Let's see. Oklahoma proud Red state that sucks up more fereral money than it pays out. Making gary and his regular customers moochers. Oklahoma, where they wait for federal money to build tornado shelters for their kids in schools. And if tornadoes strike before that, oh well, it was an act of God. When those same tornadoes do yearly damage, these good citizens scream for FEMA and private contributions while their elected legislatore block funds to them. I'll bet he didn't throw out the man in the wheelchair, he just invited him to build his own handicapped entrance to get into the greasy spoon. Now he'll become a martyr because he'll be persecuted for his religions beliefs about not serving gays, the poor and the ill. On a positive note, gary loves immigrants. His whole establishement is staffed with Latino waiters, cooks, busboys, cleaners. Course they're not allowed to handle the money, only make $4/hr plus the occasional tip and they certainly can't EAT there or use the bathrooms. Gary also hosts the local prayer breakfast where they pray for more guns, vaginal ultrasounds, cutting Food Stamps, prohibition of abortinos and birth control, layoffs for teachers, police, paramedics and firemen, Obama's impeachment and the repeal of the ACA. Gary's restaurant also takes credit cards. Visa only. You know, Visa, sponsor of the Olympics of Hate in Sochi? What a patriotic and right (extreme right) thinking "merican.
oh please tell me that the people of that community dont share his views, there has to be other places to eat other than at a persons place of business that is openly discriminatory. it was hard to listen to this video, as I am amazed there is someone on this earth that has that simple of a mindset.......and obviously hasnt watched tv, read a book, watched the news, conversed with intelligent people of travel, or anything remotely 2014 in a long long time. I hope his business fails, and if the good people who frequent there continue, then we know where the cult is located. obviously he has offended everyone because a bigot is just that, a bigot about everything. period.
Maybe he'll keep his BIG MOUTH shut when he has 2 SHUT his doors, due 2his judgemental ridiculous commets! After he runs his mouth long enough to run customers off until he has to close, maybe one of the folks on welfare will be kind enough 2 show him2the welfare office. oh me,oh my,what if his case worker or a gay guy? He'll run 4the door,trip&fall on the floor,end up disability...karma's a bich&that is reality!e
He has been in business for 44 years and he did not just wake up this morning and decide he was going to exclude all these people. He must be getting some support from the locals around the area if he has been in business that long. I see several postings of people wanting to burn his restaurant to the ground, but that would just give him the insurance money to open a new one. Just need to park someone out front and start getting names of people going in there and if any of them are business owners let those people know they will be boycotted as well.
I think his parents were brother and sister, or something along those lines. Who in their right mind would want to go to this dump anyway? Did you see this place....HOLLY JESUS!!! He will meet his maker...and he will get his for sure. Now that your face has been seen on tv, I hope your business fails.
Rachel Maddow should show up to interview him, along with several of her inter-racial or non-white staff, all with cameras to record it, and put it on her show the next night. Then the feds and the state law-enforcement agencies should descend the next day, go over his books, check out his political contributions, make sure he's not supporting hate groups, etc.
A little 21-st century America could wake this guy up to how much an idiot he is. Then maybe he'll get really lucky and no one will show up to buy what he's selling for a few weeks, and he'll become as poor as the people he hates most. Better still would be that he has to go to jail after threatening a person of color who tries to enter his establishment. Then maybe 15-20 months in a federal prison for violation of the equal rights act, alongside his fellow inmates, some of whom are people of color. Justice!
Like WTF...Not only gays won't be served but blacks,muslims etc...I predict easily his sh*tty restaurant closing very very soon from the boycott that all kind of people will practice when they get informed about his outrageous beliefs and just won't go there and give him their precious money....There are plenty other OK non homophobic restaurants to choose from anyway so its only his own loss definitely!


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Quincy Quarries Light Trails
A long exposure of the Boston skyline. Quincy Quarries, Quincy, MA.
Boston Blue Hour from Lo Presti Park
Skyline long exposure of Boston's downtown taken from East Boston's Lo Presti Park.
Boston Skyline Pink Hour
Taken from Quincy, MA
Lo Presti Park Skyline
Taken from East Boston's Lo Presti Park.
Boston Winter Sunrise
Sunrise after a snowstorm. Taken at the MIT Boat House in Cambridge, MA
Frozen Charles Sunrise
Taken from Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA.
Frozen Charles Sunrise 2
Sun rising over Boston from the Cambridge side of a frozen Charles River
The light trails of commuter cars driving into and out of Boston. Captured from Quincy Quarries.
Hough's Neck Sunset
Boston's skyline framed by the setting sun from the Hough's Neck neighborhood of Quincy, MA.
Quincy Quarries Sunset
Boston's skyline at sunset. Taken from Quincy Quarries.
Quincy Quarries Light Trails - Portrait
Sunset over Boston and light trails from Quincy Quarries.
Hough's Neck Silhouette
The silhouette of Boston during a sunset. Taken from the Hough's Neck neighborhood of Quincy, MA.
Long Exposure Sunset - Hough's Neck
A long exposure shot of Boston's skyline from Hough's Neck, Quincy, MA.
Marina Bay Sunset
A panoramic shot of the iconic "paint can", Dorchester, Boston, and UMass during a brilliant summer sunset from Squantum Point Park, in Quincy, MA.
Sunset Rays from Squantum Point
Sunset illuminating the Hancock Tower (now called 200 Clarendon Street), from Squantum Point Park in Quincy, MA.
Squantum Point Long Exposure
Sunset from Squantum Point, Quincy, MA.
Winthrop Sunset
Boston's skyline at sunset from Winthrop, MA.
Cleared for Takeoff
Airplanes take off from Boston's Logan Airport at sunset. Taken from Winthrop, MA.
Takeoff Reflection
An airplane leaving Boston's Logan Airport is reflected in a tidal pool in Winthrop, MA.
Graves Light, Boston Harbor
A view of Graves Light and the distant Boston skyline taken during an incredible doors-off helicopter tour with Hover Boston
Financial District Flyover
Courtesy of Hover Boston
The Pru from Above
Views courtesy of Hover Boston
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